Money, Day 12: Spa Day!

This has less to do with money than it does with following up on something from awhile back.  (But there is money stuff at the end, so it’s not a total wash of a post.)

Cleaning, Day 15: Pushing Through…

I’m walking, but I don’t want to be.  :/   This past weekend was so crazy, it’s left me feeling anxious and exhausted.  All I want to do is crawl in bed and pray the world goes away.

Crawl into my made bed.  I’m still being good about that, at least.

Weight Check, Week 2

Last week: 178.5 (Wii Fit), 180.2 (Bathroom Scale)

This week: 172.1 (Wii Fit), 173.8 (Bathroom Scale)

Okay, that’s not good.  That’s nearly a seven-pound drop over the course of one week.   I think it’s mostly dehydration, to tell you the truth.  In addition to not really eating much, I haven’t had much to drink either.    I mean, there’s busting a plateau, and then there’s going a little crazy.  This is a little crazy.

Weight Check, Week 1 of Sleep Failure. ;)

Last week: 182.1 (Wii Fit), 183.6 (Bathroom Scale)

This week: 180.5 (Wii Fit), 182.2 (Bathroom Scale)

Gah… I feel teased!  So close on both to that elusive 180 mark!  I mean, technically the Wii Fit has me right there, but I tend to feel it’s not ‘official’ until I hit it on the Bathroom Scale.

Next week for sure.  I swear it.

Sleep, Day 1: Back to the 21-Day Thing

Okay, so… it’s Monday and I’m back to the usual grind.  It’s a Down Day for me and an Up Day for Andy, so we’ll be serving Spaghetti tonight.

Lent, Day 45: One Day Left…

Wow, I can’t wait until tomorrow!  I feel kind of silly about being THAT excited about the end of Lent, but still…   I think this is the first time I have ever ‘given up’ anything for Lent that had an actual impact on my daily-life the way this turned out to have, so I guess at the very least I feel I’ve done the thing right.   When I was younger it was always giving up things like ‘candy’ or ’soda’, which in my case isn’t that much of a sacrifice.   I still boggle that I didn’t think giving up meat would be all that much of a sacrifice either; I was wrong about that.

Lent, Day 44: Good Friday

Almost there now.  I can almost smell the sausage cooking…

Good Friday has always been one of my favorite services of the year.   As a rule I’m not a very emotionally-affected person, so the fact that a church service actually depresses me is kind of novel and interesting.  I actually find that sort of nice.

But it seemed fitting that today was a Down Day, so I went in to our Good Friday service feeling subdued anyway.

Lent, Day 42: Narrow Garage

Yet another reminder of the fact that losing weight also means losing actual size and girth.   Andy cleaned out the garage this past weekend, which meant a lot of the stuff that had been piled up on ‘my side’ (or at least, the side where we park the van, which is the car I usually drive) was moved out and disposed of.

Lent, Day 41: Goodbye Qs!

I meant to mention this earlier, because it came up while I was shopping last week… But tonight I was going through my closet again to weed out oversized clothes I knew I wouldn’t wear again, and in the process I was reminded of this.

Lent, Day 40: Did I say 40?

I meant 46.    I mean, technically this is Holy Week, but Lent technically runs through Saturday, so… okay.  46 days, then.

I’m still bummed about yesterday.  I know I shouldn’t be.  I mean, I was correct in my assessment of the timing and all, so odds are it means nothing.  Just bad timing.   Fact is, it’s entirely possible that if I’d been doing daily weight checks instead of weekly ones, I’d have run into this every month.  Hard to say for sure, though.