Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go."
~Maya Angelou

Notable: I'm a Maya Angelou groupie. I've read everything she's ever written and think she's AMAZING. The planet is a better place with Maya Angelou's presence.

(try not to sing that song in your head now...)

Oh Mondays, how I love you! I work the weekend just so I can take Mondays off to have some 'me' time. I especially love the Mondays that the housekeepers come (every other Monday.) It gives me an excuse to get out and goof off, and then come home to a clean house.

If rain is in the forecast, Einstein goes to doggy day camp and then gets an "exit bath". Clean house, clean (and tired) pup. Gotta love that.

If it's sunny out, 'Steiners and I go for a walk somewhere. I try to find new and different places to walk so it doesn't get boring.

It's going to be a stressful few months, making my Mondays off even more important.

Hang on, BJ, we're in for a bumpy ride. It's all in the name of early retirement.

I'm starting up two new businesses soon. I've purchased the domain names and just need to get the sites built and then I'll be ready to rock and roll. I'm not going to share the details until everything is live.

The best part is that I won't have any start up costs (except 24.00 to purchase the domain names.) I have all the equipment I need (including a credit card machine! I can accept all major credit cards dontchaknow...), and I have the resources (that'd be me to start, but I see other people doing the work after I get it up and running.) Even better, I won't need to store inventory and I'll be paid before doing the work. There's really nothing to lose. Even if this doesn't fly, I'll only be out 24.00 and the time investment in creating the sites and marketing the business,

The two businesses are sort of related. Same service basically, but one business is geared toward job searches and the other is geared toward friendship/relationships.

Intrigued? Yeah, me too!

I'm keeping the link.... You never know if you'll need a custom eye patch at one of my parties...
A reply to one of my friends 28 minutes ago on FB

I mentioned yesterday that I purchased a heart monitor that sends information via bluetooth to my phone when I exercise. The whole setup is pretty neat. When I go for a walk, I get a report showing a map of where I walked (btw, I tend to walk in circles! Ha ha ha), how fast I went, how long I walked, altitude climb, and all kinds of nifty stuff.

I think I’ve mentioned this before, but I have monitors on my treadmill and the elliptical that will tell me what my heart rate is when I touch the heart rate monitor. I thought the elliptical was broken because my heart rate would be 180 then the next time I’d check it’d be at 60, up to 150 down to 50, up and down, up and down all while exercising at the same pace. My treadmill does the same thing. I told BJ about it, but he’s told me it’s just a glitch. I shrugged it off.

My cardiologist told me that I had an arrhythmia after wearing that heart monitor for a week a couple of years ago. I had no idea how much of one I had until I saw the report of my heart activity from the heart monitor I just bought. I didn't do any physical activity when I was wearing the heart monitor from the cardiologist (I couldn't because I had a broken foot), so I suppose I need to report this. My heart goes up and down in huge drops and climbs. It’s so frequent, that it almost looks like a heart beat on a monitor (but it’s not. The report I get shows spans of 5 minutes.) I showed it to BJ and he said, “Wow- that is really happening.” Duh.. I already told him that.

The idea of resuming this cardiologist stuff again makes me a crabby. I've been ignoring their calls for follow-up appointments because I can only mentally handle one physical issue at a time. I know this is probably irresponsible, but I'm going to wait until all my new dental work is done (yes, more backlash from when I fell on my face... the dentist said it could go on for five years after a crash like that.)

It's always something..... bleh.