A New Year

Wow, what a crazy week it has been! I haven’t had time to update my blog, but I’ll work a little bit on it all day to keep things going.

Work has been insane with the end of quarter, lots of budget issues, getting invoices in, etc. Plus the rebranding work, of course, trying to get that through.

NYE was a crazy night of too much alcohol, extremely sexy men and hot women! Susan arranged a Pajama Party and those men (yes, only some of the men didn’t “dress up”) who didn’t wear pajamas were seized and we attempted to strip them to put them into other pajamas. But, I think we were too drunk by the time we attempted that, so we only got a few shirts half off. Way too much alcohol that night left me extremely hungover, enough so that I plan on avoiding any alcohol for a while.

My goal for today: Get in at least a 15 minute workout.

My goal for at least the next 2 weeks, if not longer: No alcohol!!!!

WI: 183.8
I didn’t make my short-term goal by New Year’s Day, due to way too much eating out the week between Christmas and New Years, but I at least maintained that week.

3 Days Until Christmas

3 Days until Christmas and all my shopping has NOT been finished. I still have wine to buy the co-workers, and a little something for Dustin and Lu, plus a White Elephant gift for the Christmas dinner I’m planning. This is definitely going to be a hectic week. Other than Christmas shopping, I still have tons of cleaning, shopping and other errands to run. It’s also looking to be another crazy week at work, we’re still in the middle of Rebranding and I haven’t gotten all projects in to be sent on to Creative.

This past weekend was crazy and fun, both. Friday was pretty quiet, but Saturday was a Yelp Elite event at Travese in Los Gatos. It was supposed to be appetizers and a few wines to try, instead it was very few appetizers and lot of wine, poured in full servings, instead of 1oz tastings. Can we say toasted by 3pm? To fix this Susan drove us back, with a stop at Taqueria La Bamba for a Super Burrito with Carnitas. I just wish they had a smaller version of the Super Burrito, since I never can eat more than half of it, the other half goes to waste. So, half of a super burrito, followed by an hour long nap, sobered me up enough to go home and finish the scarf I was making for Susan’s Christmas gift. Thank goodness I could get it done, since I’d just found out that morning that our group of girls were doing our gift exchange Saturday night, instead of later in the week! Susan seemed to love the scarf (orange, her favorite color), Judy seemed to be excited at the Borders gift card, and Lucy seemed to love the necklace I had made for her (see earlier blog post). As for me, I was extremely excited over getting “Lust, Caution” from Judy, it’s one of my favorite movies, and I didn’t have a copy. Lucy gave me a great overnight makeup bag set (she got one for herself, too, lol0 and Susan bought the four of us matching pajamas! The pajamas are cute and very soft, but Susan wanted us to all wear them to the New Year’s Eve Pajama Party! I don’t think so, especially since Susan and Lucy will look so much better in them than I will! So, after the exchange, we went out for sushi and to see “7 Pounds” the new Will Smith movie, it was good, but I wouldn’t say great, although sad and thought provoking. All in all, a good night. Sunday was much less busy, although I should have been cleaning for Christmas, I more vegged the day away, after a quick 15 minute workout. Then, joined some friends for dinner, followed by a few games of pool, in which I didn’t completely suck, thanks to my friend Dustin’s instructions.

Workout: (8:00am) 15 Minutes Core

Meals:
9:00am: Oatmeal with dried fruit and almonds, 1/2 fresh berries, multi-vitamin
11:30am: Eating Right Pinapple Black Bean Chicken and Brown Cow Apricot Mango Nonfat Yogurt
2:00pm: 1 mini macaroon, 1 small slice of lemon-berry cake, plus 1 cup of strawberries (2-3 in the afternoon is one of my greatest times of weakness when it comes to sweets. My energy level takes a dive and I need something to perk me up)

This work day is turning into the day from Budget hell, and I’m really craving chocolate, but trying to avoid it.

Turning Into a Good Day

Well, working from home again today, I have so much to do and the deadlines are looming. I can get so much more done at home, without the constant interruptions of people stopping by my cube. I just have to learn not to check every email that comes in, as soon as it comes in. I’m making pretty good progress on my major project, so that’s helping to put me in a good mood.

This working out first thing in the morning is also improving my mood, so Harrison was definitely right about that!

Breakfast: Kashi oatmeal with 1tsp each of brown sugar, dried blueberries, dried cherries and golden raisins
Lunch: A chocolate cupcake
Dinner: Red Lobster’s seafood fondue in a bread bowl, tossed salad (balsamic on the side), 1lb of snow crab legs (never got around to the baked potato) with drawn butter and lemon, half of a cheddar bay biscuit, and another cupcake.

Craving for cupcakes hit at about 2pm, out of nowhere. A while back I’d heard about a great cupcake shop that opened at Santana Row, but I’d never been. Since I needed to go to the bank, I decided to take my lunch hour, drive over, make a deposit and pick up a cupcake or two. By the time I got into the area, over 30 frustrating minutes later, it became apparent that my quick errands were going to take longer than expected. But, while I was out I decided to do a bit of Christmas shopping. I got another third of my shopping done and figured out what to get everyone else and picked up 3 cupcakes, since I couldn’t decide between them. But, I was planning on giving at least one away to a friend who had called and was going to be in the area. Instead of heading home and working some more, I picked up a friend at the train station and took him on a few of his errands, followed by dinner, followed by a return to the train station. And, he forgot to take his cupcake. Maybe I’ll give it to Susan tomorrow. But for now, my tummy is upset, it was already getting that way before the second cupcake, but I think dinner was just too rich for me, since I’m not used to eating such heavy food anymore.

Workout: core – 15 minutes in the morning

WI: 185.4 (after a quick workout AND breakfast!)

I’m starting to get used to going to bed by 11pm, in order to get up early enough to workout in the morning.

8 Days Until Christmas

Only 8 days left until Christmas, I just can’t believe how fast the last couple of months have gone by! Still haven’t finished my shopping or the scarf I’m knitting for a friend, although I should finish that at my knitting group tomorrow night.

Breakfast: Brown Cow Nonfat Blueberry Yogurt
Lunch: Organic Bistro Chicken Citron Whole Life Meal
Afternoon Snack: Total raisin bran with nonfat milk and a Kashi cereal bar, plus 2 Godiva truffles (hormones, but at least I don’t get PMS)
Dinner: 1 cup of Trader Joe’s frozen brown rice with 2/3 cup of Green Giant Healthy Weight vegetable mix

I’ve been super frustrated all day, too much to do at work and not enough focus or time to get it done. The new Aprimo system first got blocked by our security system, then once I was finally able to get in, the entries were done incorrectly and I couldn’t access them. I now have to wait for a co-worker to get home from dinner with his mother and unlock each of them, so I’ll be at this all night. But, at least my frustration was a good push. Finally got around to calling a psychologist about determining if I have ADHD or not. Since I’ve already taken some tests online that indicate I’m ADHD she said the next step was trying medication to see if it helps. So, I’m to call my General Practitioner to see if I can get a short-term prescription and see if it helps, then set up an appointment with the psychologist. Since it’s too late to call Dr. Katie’s office tonight, I’ve marked on my calendar to call first thing in the morning.

Tomorrow’s Goal: My friend Harrison has challenged me to get in at least 15 minutes of working out before work in the morning, so that is my goal!

Head Space

Hmm, in an odd mood today, don’t know the reason. I’m still feeling pretty positive about getting my health and lifestyle together, but still my emotional state feels a bit odd, but I can’t put my finger on it. My stomach was pretty upset in the middle of the night, so I overslept this morning, so I’m now working from home. Working from home is usually more productive, so that’s a positive, and I always eat better since I don’t have to worry about finding lunch, which I usually forget to take, or even worse I eat whatever food is catered in, which is never really healthy.

Have 3 conference calls today, so it’ll be pretty busy, but I’d rather be busy than have nothing to do. (Well 3 con calls turned into 6, somehow)

WI: 187.8
Breakfast: Brown Cow Apricot Mango Nonfat Yogurt
Morning Snack: Kashi Go Lean Oatmeal with added brown sugar, dried fruit, almonds and walnuts
Lunch: 1c potato salad
Dinner: Subway 6″ turkey sandwich on honey oat bread, no cheese, with lettuce, carrots, pickles and oil & vinegar; baked lays sour cream & onion

Workout: went to workout with Jung at the gym around 8:30, got a good start into getting back in the habit. (actual workout will be it’s own post to more easily follow)

Skin is going nuts, went with my friend Lucy to get Mary Kay facials, even though I knew better! I washed my face as soon as I got home, but my skin is so irritated that it’s itchy, flaky and rough in even more places than before the facial. Even tried the microdermabrasion, and even though I was really gentle, it really scraped up my face. The cheek I used it on was tender for hours afterwards, although when I washed my face when I got home, the skin there was very smooth and I wondered if it would actually be a good thing. Apparently not, when I woke up the next morning the skin that was so smooth the night before had become rougher than the skin that I didn’t use the stuff on and is really dry and slightly irritated now. No way will I ever use that stuff again.

Personal Goals for tomorrow: Go to the gym with Jung again and get in a lower body workout plus cardio; work on my knitting for Christmas; unpack another box

A pic from my birthday…

Birthday boy and girl