Five for Friday

Wow. Doing this on time for a change!

Things that make me happy:

1. Strong, black coffee.
   
2. Freshly cleaned litter boxes.
3. Seeing Mom, E, R, and K over the weekend.
4. Losing weight little by little.
   
5. Firefly. I think. We'll see.
   

Things that make me less than happy:

1. Headaches from the lack of caffeine.
2. Prickly legs.
   
3. Worrying about money.
4. Not getting 40 hours a week at the store (see #3).
5. Cats eating plants and then throwing up. And then, they do it all over again.
   

Oh, Nuts

I'm going to miss Kathie Lee Gifford, Joe Scarbrough, and Nicholas Sparks at BEA. I might just stay in bed for the rest of the day and cry.

(no wonder the publishing industry has gone down the tubes)

Office

I can't stand to go in there.

One of the few criteria that I had for selecting a house was that I wanted an office on the first floor. I thought that I was going to be working at home for the indefinite future, and I wanted the office downstairs so that I had easy access to the kitchen and to outside. We were lucky enough to find a model that had a "sunroom" on the first floor that we turned into an office for me. It is lined with bookshelves and has a lovely comfortable desk and chair.

I haven't worked in there since October, and I haven't spent more than 10 minutes in there at a time at all. But, it has become an easy dumping ground for books, papers, bills, and anything that needs organizations. It is a disaster area, and it makes my blood pressure shoot up just looking in there. I just went in to use the printer and I was uneasy sitting at the desk.

It desperately needs to be cleaned out, but I can't stand it. It's embarrassing to look at, but it makes me so sad to be in there. I could probably throw out half of the stuff that is in there. It's such a shame, because it is a beautiful room, but I'm not ready for that yet.

I've spent a fair amount of time trying to understand why it upsets me so much to go in there. I think that perhaps it's the only physical manifestation that I have of how much my life has changed. When you leave a job in an office, you walk away and never go back. I can't do that in this case... in fact, I have to look at it every day.

I did think that we should convert the room into something else. But, that would mean spending some kind of money on furniture and we certainly can't do that right now. What else would we do with it? Maybe the best idea would be to get a curtain for the door (it has glass panels) so that I can't see in there easily.

Or, does that mean that I'm just hiding from the problem?

It's All Good

I got up before 9 today.

I showered before Noon.

I went to Krogzilla, the much hated destination, and had lunch with my husband before 2.

Lunch and snacks for the week were prepared before 4.

I even did some house cleaning!

I'm ready for bed now. But, I feel like a real person for a change.

Five for Friday

Late again. As usual.

Things that make me happy:

1. Snow in Tennessee. Heh. Watch everyone freak out!
2. Drinks after work with wonderful friends.
3. Did I mention snow? For two weekends in a row?
4. Snuggly kittens keeping watch when I'm not well.
   
5. Puffs with Vicks. Mmmmmmm.
   

Things that make me less than happy:

1. Coughing up globs of icky stuff.
   
2. The enormous pile of ironing that is lurking in the corner of my bedroom.
3. Religious intolerance.
4. Endless laundry.
5. Chapped lips.
   

I'm not very interesting this week. Sorry.

Still

I'm sick AGAIN. The bad cold is back. This is getting ridiculous.

Nut

Not sure why I haven't talked about the trip to the Nutritionist last week. I guess that it's because I've been really busy and it wasn't as traumatic as I had expected.

It turns out that I'm not as inept as I had expected. I'm not eating the wrong things at all, but I am eating them at the wrong times and with not enough frequency. I need to eat 5-6 small meals or snacks every day. And, I need to stick to as low residue of a diet as I can. The funny thing about that is a low-res diet rules out so many things that are considered healthier... like whole grain bread and broccoli. But, I've always had problems with things like that. So be it.

The most important thing, besides giving my body lots and lots of wonderful nutrients, is to get my metabolism fired up.

I've been working hard to drink lots and lots of water and to bring nutritious snacks with me wherever I go. I've also been putting snacks in tiny snack bags so that I don't eat tons of stuff all at once. We'll see what happens.