Things

It's been rather warm here in Chicagoland, which can only mean one thing. BOOB SWEAT! Which is lovely.

But this is summer in Chicagoland which is much different then summer in Seattle and much more humid then summer in California. Seattle was muggy and somewhat hot, but the lack of sunshine nine months out of the year made you appreciate the heat. California summers are hot and long and while miserable is more of a dry heat.

In other news I seen to be re-energized with picture taking. A sweet woman named Lorraine bought me a pro-account on flickr which was unexpected and so entirely sweet. I am still using my fujifilm point and shoot which takes good pictures, for a point and shoot but I am looking forward to in the next ten months getting a DSLR. I have one in mind but it will take me awhile to save up, but in the end so worth it!

On Saturday night, I did my normal thing where I call into the Annie and Burl show and blither on for awhile and I mentioned I wanted to basically pull a Prince and make everyone call me a different name. I have been thinking for awhile to switch over from Kim to my first given name, Rheana. Being called Kim all kind of started back when I was a little girl and my grandfather couldn't pronounce Rheana and he was just about done with the whole weird name thing so he started calling me by my second middle name. Thus being called Kim was born.

Now, I can't request everyone just up and stop calling what some of you have been calling me for two years, one dear friend has already said she won't stop calling me Kim, which I understand, she knows me as Kim. I mean, I'm not Prince, not even close, but I can't let you know that you can either call me Rheana or Kim, I will respond to either.

As always around my birthday I go into a bit of an introspective mood. I try to realign the person I am with the person I want to be. I think it's good to start making minor changes, or adjustments to who we are and how we react to things. I'm not perfect, never claimed to be but I do see where I need improvements, so I am working on those. I've stopped communicating with a few real life friends, mostly because they just suck the life out of me and we both deserve better.  I hope that doesn't make me sound like a bitch, but oh well, when I am constantly frustrated/annoyed/name-your-grievance I need a break.

I've also started eating better and exercising more. I got the Pandora app on my Droid and also a distance tracker app that tells me how long I've walked/at what speed and so forth.  It's no lie that I need to lose some weight but it's more about being healthy than it is about being skinny. I will never be super skinny, it's just not in the cards for me but I can be healthy. I already know I have a bad knee (snowboarding accident, torn ACL) and an ankle with pins and a rod in it (car accident) so the extra weight doesn't help with the already chronic discomfort of those things.

Time to get in shape, yo.

That's about all I got.