Running with whatever life throws my way
possibly dangerous change in plans…
I’m going to go eat and read before the gym. I’m way too hungry to run right now (I forgot my banana–that usually holds me until I’m done running). If I plan to get to the gym around 2:30 I should still have plenty of time to pump out 3 miles and get showered and changed and to my meeting by 4 (as I’ll actually be starting out a little closer to it, just 2 exits up the highway instead of 4).
Yeah. That’s the ticket.
Feeling better about life. Finally. My boss is due back sometime tomorrow and I’m finally at a point I can have a rational conversation with him and tell him what I feel, why I feel that way and ask for him to not leave without proper notice again (unless it is an emergency).
I also realized that a lot of the reason I was so upset with him is that I really respect and admire him, and in doing this I was quickly and harshly reminded that he is human. And that was hard because it took him off the pedestal I’ve had him on. He’s still a great guy and (typically) a great boss but I have to remember that he’s human, and he’ll make mistakes, and he’ll piss me off sometimes. And I have to be honest with him about that much (though I’ll leave the pedestal bit out of it, he doesn’t need to know that part).
A little nervous about getting it all done today–there’s a lot I need to do (outside the office) and I’m not sure I’ll be able to pull it off in the time frame I’m working with. I have a committee meeting at 4 and a grant proposal I still need to read for that. I have a 3 miler that needs to happen today (for my sanity if no other reason) and I’d really like it to happen this afternoon (between work and the aforementioned meeting) because I don’t want to have to go tonight. And my house is a WRECK because this week has been go-go-go and STRESS central. Ugh. But my plan is to work until about 1, then head to the gym, then go home for lunch, cleaning myself up & reading that last grant proposal, meeting at 4, and then tackling the rest of my life (cleaning up the apartment, working on bills/checkbooks, planning for youth group, etc.).
Seriously, 2 more days until my birthday. And I’m not doing ANYTHING that day that I don’t absolutely want to do. (Fortunately I’m really looking forward to my scheduled 4-miler!)
GPOYW: New Hairstyle Edition
Love it–and my new stylist! 🙂
‘K. I think that about does it. Let’s get this show on the road. Go Team! 🙂
Letting the negativity of yesterday go and bringing the positive into today. Good things will happen, and I’m expecting a fun evening when all is said and done. Hanging in there.
Happy WIW for those who do that. 🙂
I’m having a week, ladies and gents.
I hit my 10% on Saturday, but have been eating like a crazy person since then. I mean, really it’s not awful, but I feel like it’s bad. I can’t seem to get myself on track. It’s not like I was celebrating my 10% by eating, but just a few days of less-than-smart decisions are derailing me. And that isn’t what I want. I hate that I do this, I make progress and then I just do stupid things to sabotage myself. I’m calling bullshit. I’m done, it ends here. I’m almost 29 and there is absolutely NO REASON to continue this self-destructive bullshit.
Adding to that is the fact I’m wicked stressed about work. I love my job. But my boss sprung on me yesterday that he’d be out of town this week. He’s reachable by cell which is somewhat helpful, but it left me responsible for things that I wasn’t expecting, and seriously messes with my schedule. I have other things that I can’t get out of or move that impede me being able to take care of these other things directly. Fortunately, it seems I’m finding a way around this as I put together more pieces and realize there are other parties involved that I can have help me, but I’m frustrated that I’m in this position to begin with. If I’d known last week I could’ve planned this week a little differently, but I can’t just drop everything to be in the office more to compensate for the fact he’s not here. And I really don’t have too much that I need to be doing in the office, so my actual work could be done in about an hour a day and yet I need to be here for more than that, so I feel like I’m wasting time. Which I hate. I have other things I could/should be doing that I’m not doing because I, technically, need to be in the office.
I didn’t get my run yesterday because of the aforementioned crap, but I’m really, REALLY looking forward to it today. (TMI: It’s almost shark week, which I think is not helping my perturbedness and my seemingly uncontrollable cravings for crap food). I can still turn this week around. I don’t have to give up because I had a couple of bad days. And I know working out is going to help me tremendously.
At 12:30 I’m going to eat my pre-run banana. Then at 1, I’m going straight from the office to the gym for a 2 mile run and spin on the stationary bike. Then I will stop home, get myself cleaned up, set up the DVD player to record Loser tonight (since I’m working the other job), eat something healthy, and head back to the office to make sure things are being taken care of (since the odds of me having the conversations I need to earlier in the day are slim to none). If I can avoid coming back to the office today, I’ll spend the afternoon time working on reading grant proposals, if not I’ll plow through at least one before I go to bed tonight. Then I’ll worry about planning my Wednesday (which will include reading the rest of the grant proposals I need to read before my meeting on Thursday). *sigh*
My birthday is Saturday. I think I’m taking it off. I’m not going to get up early and to go my meeting. I’m going to sleep in, then go for a run. Then do whatever the hell else I feel like doing as a reward for getting through this week.
Thanks for listening Tumblr friends.
So just found out my boss is going to be out of town for the rest of the week, so my week isn’t going to go at all as I had originally planned. Shoot. That’s how life goes though, I suppose. Guess I’ll just have to re-evaluate. Unfortunately, it makes my to-do list longer instead of shorter this week. *sigh*
So I’m going to eat lunch, do some stuff around the house (cleaning, phone calls, juggling my schedule, reading grant proposals, etc.) then heading to the gym for a run and perhaps a bit on the bike (my scheduled run is only 2 miles today). After that I’ll come back and clean myself up for dinner with my sweetie and small group at church tonight (yes, on Valentine’s Day).
So I’m thinking I want to do the Hundred Push-ups and 200 Sit-ups challenges in my next circle around the sun.
I’ll be starting with ‘girl’ push-ups, to be sure, but the whole program only takes 6 weeks, so I figure if I start when I’m 29 I should be able to do actual push-ups by the time I’m 30.
Thoughts?
…started way too early. I woke up on my own at 6:30 which was a full hour before I needed to be functioning. But it is what it is. So I got up, bummed around a bit, made some coffee, put on clothes and went to my meeting…
…where I got my 10%! Yay! So excited. Stacey asked me what the symbols on it mean, and top down, and they represent the major milestones people hit at WW.
at each of those (and a few other times) you get charms to put on your keychain. Kinda cool to have the tangible reminders of your success.
From there we went grocery shopping, no big whoop. Then we came home and I changed clothes and we went into town, browsed at the bookstore, went to lunch at Molly’s (one of my favorite places), visited an art exhibit that the director of our summer camp has up, and most importantly, bought my new computer!!
I love it! It’s so shiny and new. And it’s so much fun to start fresh. Matt was worrying about how we were going to transfer files. Pretty simple answer–as I find I need things, I’ll move them over, but I’m not doing a bulk transfer because I like that I’m starting completely clean. I love that my iTunes has exactly 2 podcasts in it. That’s it, and that’s just because I subscribed to them this afternoon. And I’m already loving Office 2011 for Mac. It will take some getting used to, but there are options and templates (excel has a pro/con list! OMG!) that are mind boggling to someone as geeky as I am. Can’t wait to play with it some more.
Oh, and I ran four miles. And saw the one act play at the high school. And now I’m tired (because it is bedtime and I got up early), hanging out with the cat and playing with my new computer. <3
First post from my new MacBook Pro! Huzzah! I’m in love with it already. 🙂
More later…headed out for a run soon. 🙂