hgielrehtaeh's Journal

Happy + Busy + Worry + Health
Nov 04 2009 13:05

All righty all righty!

I'm happy.

• Ziggy has now adjusted to being out of her crate alone during the day. We have found the calming effects of leaving NPR playing quietly is all we need for her to
  • Not poop
  • Not pee
  • Not chew up my new Colts hat
  • Not push the cushions off the couch.
• I found a dog friendly park where Ziggy can go run run run with dogs in the neighborhood. She comes home completely exhausted and totally happy. Now when we leave our building, she starts pulling that way like "Hurry up! Hurry up! My friends are all waiting on me!" And it's so cute I sometimes forgot to say "No pull!" and make her sit until she's calm again. Hahahah. And everyone at the park is amazed by how fast she runs. She outruns all the dogs. It's insane! And she was wrestling with our neighbor the other day, and the dog would sit on the ground, and she would run concentric circles, closing in on him until she was right next to him, and they'd hop up and wrestle again. Hilarious!
• Things are okay with Miguel. This weekend is his birthday. We are going to Texas de Brazil. I'm calling it "meat fest 09".

I'm busy.

• Work is insane. I'm working on analysis, design, and development for three different curriculums.
• My resource council work is insane. I'm one of the few functioning people on our eboard. So I'm doing everything that Communications should do, along with my job, and on top of other things that just wouldn't get done if I didn't do them. Frustration!
• Networking has hit a standstill b/c I'm too busy to meet with people. Shit, I'm taking my non-existent lunch to type this out.

I'm worried.

• We are spending almost twice what we used to spend in rent and it's hitting my budget the hardest. Miguel convinced me that if we lived downtown, we'd use parks, museums, libraries, shared spaces, and other free - low cost things more often. While it's true we have had more "nights in" with friends at our place, that's where the promise ends. Instead, parks and museums have been replaced with beer at the pub to watch the game, and the library has been replaced with tickets to some production. It just frustrates me more than anything.
• Winter is coming and I have had two Raynaud's incidents all ready.
• It's dark when I leave work, so instead of walking I take the shuttle to state street and take a bus south. It takes just as long as walking, but I don't have to walk in the dark alone. Which is nice.

Health.

• I'm wearing this Actiwatch and Actical waist thingy. It slides off my hips up my waist and drives me batty. I have to track everything I eat - which isn't bad, I usually do that, but because I have to do it on paper and legibly, it is frustrating. Last night I input the last two days of food. 2002 cals on Monday and 1770 on Tuesday. My Calorie coach goal is like 1775, but since I can't "follow any organized weight loss effort" I've been eating closer to 2000 (or so I thought) Well last night I got the shocker - I've probably been under eating. Awesome. NOT.
• My tests are next week. I'm worried, but I'm not. I'm excited, but I'm not. I'm relieved but I'm not. I'm ambivalent.
• My whole body feels drained.