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My Life Thus Far
2006-11-18 07:47:06 (UTC)

All The Bases

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You have no idea how glad I am it's Friday. I have every
intention of sleeping in good and late tomorrow morning.
I'm going to stay in bed as long as the girls will let me.
Then I'll get up and clean, do laundry and the like. I
hate that about the weekend. Doing chores I didn't have
time to do during the week. This has been the first week
I've worked 5 days in a very long time. As much as I love
my job, not having a weekday off does make the week seem a
little more full. But I can handle it! I like how quickly
time flew by.

I had a good morning at the gym. I did cardio for the
first time in almost a month. I've been slacking off on
the weight loss front, but I'm just not feeling like
losing weight right now. Especially with the holidays
coming up. It would probably be stupid to restrict myself
now when all the temptation is around. Not that much of it
is threateningly tempting to me, considering I'm vegan and
all. I thought about that today. How glad I am to have
that monkey off my back. The desire to eat everything in
sight, because I can. Now I can't and it helps take the
edge off the urge. I considered doing the diet pill thing,
but I rejected that idea for two reasons. 1) I can't take
them, because all the labels say I can't combine them with
my antidepressants and 2) I like being able to say I lost
weight with no help, all naturally. That's a great source
of pride for me. I did it all by myself. No surgeries, no
pills, no fancy diets. Just good old fashioned WORK and
DETERMINATION. Contrary to popular belief, exercise and
diet do work.

Work was good. Speaking of anitdepressants, I forgot to
take mine last night and because of that, I kind of hit an
invisible wall around 2pm. I started feeling the effects
of not taking it. I got very warm, light headed, developed
a headache and felt very sad. Just gloomy, not really
upset about anything. I did my best to pull myself
together and just the act of trying to be happy helped
make me happy for real. So, I had a good rest of the
workday, but I still had to do $80.90 worth of retail
therapy anyway! I only did 3 cards today, but it's more
than I'm expected to do and as long as I meet VS's goal
for me every day, I'll consider my day good. I'm only
supposed to do 1 per 4 hour shift, so I did 3x my goal!
Gotta look for that silver lining in everything...

After work, Gen, Sam, the girls and I went to dinner at
the Chinese Buffet. I needed my Americanized Chinese food
fix. I know I had Chinese food last night, but it wasn't
the same. The stuff I had last night was actual Chinese
food. Not the Americanized stuff you can only get at a
buffet. I've already taken my pill, I've engaged in
emotional eating and retail therapy. I think I've covered
all the bases. Now I'm retiring to my bed for the next 8
hours. I don't think the girls will allow for more.

Before I forget to mention, I got my second child support
check today. Ken missed last month, but he sent $50 this
month. He's only supposed to pay $25, although all of that
will change this time next year. He'll have to have his
income evaluated again and then pay more. He still owes me
$225 in back child support, but it doesn't really matter
to me. It's just being put away for Annie when she's
older.

Okay, I'm really going to bed now. My brain isn't working
right anymore. Ciao and goodnight, before I fall asleep on
the keyboard.




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