Knocked Flat on my A$$

This week has been a bust of epic proportions. 
I went home for the long weekend to see my mom.  We hung out, ran errands, stayed up late drinking wine, went out to see my grandpa at the place where he was recuperating from his last hospital stay.  (Um.  Not in that order, although that might have [...]

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A Saturday Post! This NEVER Happens!

I was thinking about what I wrote yesterday about not dealing with my behaviors: with the eating and the drinking and the spending.  And the stressing. 
For a while now I’ve had the feeling that last year was the year I dug out a bunch of my emotional shit, and that this year is the year [...]

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Back and Forth, Back and Forth

I love finding random song quotes for post titles, but I couldn’t find one about mood swings.  Go figure. 
Wednesday was a great day.  I went to the gym, but didn’t go in; instead I ended up power-walking the neighborhood, listening to the birds and breathing deeply to burn off stress.  Thursday was slightly less great: WAY [...]

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I Can Do This

 I’ve been slowly but surely falling off the wagon.  It’s hard to create new habits when I’m not sleeping more than 5 hours a night, and stress is giving me stomachaches so severe that I have trouble keeping food down.  And frankly, I’m too damn tired and stressed to care.  So my mood has been [...]

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Stress and the Single Girl

WARNING: I got all done writing this and it wasn’t AT ALL what I intended to write about.  It’s long and it’s rambly, and it doesn’t end up AT ALL where I thought it would.  You’ve been warned. 
Holy crap.  Do you ever feel like you’ve been shot from a cannon and you’re flying [...]

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House Hunting and Energy Woo-Woo

Sometimes I just know things.  Actually I think we all just know some things.  Sometimes you get that feeling of certainty in the pit of your stomach, and you just know.  It’s like your whole spirit goes, “Yes. This.” I put a lot of store in that feeling of just knowing.  I make a lot [...]

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Stress – Oh, and the Pendulum, too

I have been in a funk for a couple of days.  A funk basically brought on by stress: my apt. had roaches, I’m not sleeping well (because of nightmares about roaches), I’m looking for a condo to buy, I’m stressing over the MONEY involved in buying a condo, I’m looking at going to law school [...]

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One More Reason to Move

The windows in my apartment are old wooden windows with wooden casings.  The A/C in my apartment is a window unit that doesn’t QUITE sit flush with the wall.  The heat OUTSIDE my apartment has driven the palmetto bugs/American roaches INTO my apartment via said window space. 
Did I mention that said window is IN MY [...]

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Ow Ow Ow

I (re-)started my exercise program last week: 3 days of weights (as prescribed by the New Rules of Lifting for Women) and 2, sometimes 3 days of running on the treadmill (hey, I’ve got to get my Lost fix somewhere!).
But this week?  No treadmill for me.  See, I went out with a friend on Sunday.  [...]

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All Laid Out, In Black and White

Sometimes I should be more careful what I wish for.  I started keeping a journal – actually I started keeping TWO food/exercise journals.  One is basically a mock-up of a WW journal, with spaces for points (I’m just couning 50 calories as a point, and ignoring the other WW rules) and protein (because I’m supposed [...]

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