Thursday Fun Day

No, it's not really a fun day but I liked the title.  How'd yesterday go?

Breakfast: Bagel and Starbucks
Lunch: Salad with turkey.
Appetizers: Chips with Cheese Dip.
Dinner: Steak and mashed potatoes.
Stress Relievers: 2 glasses of wine, 1/4 pint of Ben & Jerry's and a 10.8 mile bike ride

I'm sure you see the areas for improvement.  LOL.  Working on it...working on it.

Today, I have managed to skip breakfast somehow.  Not really sure how that happened.  I have left over steak and mashed potatoes for lunch.  Burgers and chips for dinner.  I might have a salad instead.  That would be the smart thing to do.  We shall see.

I'm planning a walk tonight as opposed to a bike ride as my bum is a bit sore from the ride last night.  These aren't races people...

If you ride a bike to the store to pick up ice cream and then eat ice cream, does it cancel out?  Hmmm....

Work Sucks

First, my knee.  It was a bit sore yesterday so instead of walking, I rode my bike down to the grocery store to pick up Hubby's prescription and cookies.  I had 2 cookies.  Sue me.  The knee doesn't hurt on the bike so figured that was safest bet.  It's 5 miles round trip so I feel good about that and may do it more often.

Outside of the cookies and sweet tea, food was good yesterday.  I had 2 salads and cookies.  Nothing too wrong with that.

So why does work suck?  Cue the phone ringing at 1 am this morning with an issue.  Seriously?  Understand that I am usually in bed by 9 so this is the middle of the night to me.  The protocol is to try my boss FIRST and if she doesn't pick up THEN call me.  So I join the conference call and they tell me that our third party actually called me out specifically in the help desk ticket.  UGh.  So I'm sitting there waiting to hear what the issue is...and waiting...and waiting.  I finally decide this is redonk since it's only 10 pm in AZ.  So I text my boss to see if she was awake and much to my surprise she actually dialed in and told me to go back to bed.  First time I've ever gotten real support from her.  Alas!  The damage was already done.  I had a very difficult time falling back to sleep and poor Hubby NEVER fell back to sleep last night.  Poor guy!   This particular third party feels it necessary to call my cell over every little issue they have and I am getting pretty sick of it.  Ugh.

So I'm tired today but it's another pretty day so there's a walk and/or bike ride somewhere in my future today.  We'll see how the knee behaves as to which I do.  Special thanks to Ascha2L.  I had actually found that possibility on Dr. Google but I'm choosing to be in denial at the moment.  :)

I'm feeling pretty good about where I'm at right now as far as this healthy stuff goes.  I feel that motivation kicking in again and that commitment rebuilding.  I have a salad all ready to go for lunch today.  Some clarification on the salad thing.  No, I'm not resorting to old "eat like a rabbit" diet to lose weight.  For some reason, they just sound really good lately so I'm indulging in salads.  Ha!

It is Wednesday...already Hump Day so I give you a Hump Day Happy Thought.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

Golda Meir

Stupid Knee

I don't know what my knee's problem is.  I went for a walk last night and I started to feel it tug.  I turned around and headed up.  I made it 1.77 miles at about a 17 minute/mile pace.  Not too bad but it was pretty sore by the time I got home.  I'm walking again tonight come hell or high water.  I'm throwing the brace on my knee and telling it to suck it up.  I'm thinking it's trying to rebel against exercise but I will reign victorious!!!

I'm feeling good about the walking.  I like being able to put my ear buds in and just go.  Takes my mind off things for a little bit.  I'm starting to get my mojo back at work a little bit.  The last few weeks have not been impressive.  I've been finding it hard to focus and get motivated.  While I'm still struggling, I'm at least getting things done again.

Short post today but I want to hold myself accountable to my walking.  One of the bloggers is doing 30 days of taking a picture of everything she eats.  I like this idea.  I'm not sure that I'm committed enough to do it but I think I'd like that more than tracking in a calorie counter.  Hmmm....Will have to consider this...maybe in June when all the birthdays hit.  Good way to count how many pieces of cake I eat.

I'll leave you with a random pic of my girls I took a couple weeks ago.  Don't they look so grown up?