victoriagirl's Journal

How I spent Canada Day
Jul 02 2009 09:39

Here is my essay on How I Spent My Canada Day.

Joel is on a road trip to do a gig for Canada Day, so I was aaalll alone, by myself, at home. It's very sad.

The night before I stayed up late and watched GI Jane. I felt inspired to be TOUGH. So in the morning, I got up and had a good breakfast, did some chores, and donned my new lululemon workout pants, a tank top and my gym shoes and hopped on my bike to go to the gym. I worked out hard, sweated, played my hardcore workout tunes and scowled my way to a 700 calorie burn on the elliptical, plus doing some weights and ab excercises. Woo hoo!! Okay partly scowling and partly grinning, anyone watching me would have thought I was bipolar or something...I could not help grinning some of the time because I felt so liberated in my new workout pants. No long tshirt over saggy leggings...it's the first time I have been outside the house with no long shirt over my belly-area, just a thin layer of lycra between me and the world! I would not walk around the street like that, but at the gym it's appropriate, and you know what? No one raised an eybrow or looked at me funny. No looks of disgust, no one telegraphing thoughts of yikes that girl should NOT be wearing that. And trust me, I was looking for it. I actually thought there would be much fewer people there, being a holiday and all, but it was pretty busy for a holiday...and not one person gave me anything but a passing glance or the usual gym-blank-stare in the mirror. I must have looked normal. In my lululemon pants. Wow. How cool is that!! They are so much more comfy and cool than being swathed in a loose cotton t over a tank top and leggings, I feel like I've shed a layer (I have!) and want to know a secret, I also felt kind of sleek and sexy, despite my non-flat stomach and bulgy butt. I am not hideous, just...normal. Ecstasy.

Afterwards, I biked over to the grocery store and filled my backpack and basket with veggies galore. I biked home, weighed down with like 30 lbs of veggies which was not much fun after that workout! But I had plans...I made 4 batches of soups for lunches. I made red lentil-quinoa (jut realized i forgot the cumin, darn it, but it's still good), vegetable-dill with dumplings, split pea with ham, and chicken vegetable, the latter is not yet complete as I had to let the stock refrigerate overnight to separate the fat. Might end up as chicken noodle. I was a soup-making maniac! I love to have a cup of soup with my lunch, and have been buying sub-par soup at $5 a pop from Soupworks lately so figured I better get it together and make some. Only trouble is, I only had big yogurt containers to store it in, so i will have to defrost 3C at a time. I'd rather have single servings but oh well.

I had also planned to do laundry but that just didn't happen. I am wearing the last pair of undies in the drawer, pooooor last-picked undies. So I HAVE to do laundry tonight! I hate laundry. And by the looks of my are rug, I also hate vaccuuming. Yikes.

Work has not eased up, I am just feeling less crunched because I am tired of feeling crunched, if that makes any sense. We create our own reality. So I am now choosing to not feel all squinchy about the work situation. Well trying anyway. Things continue to pile up. THe office bully is on a rampage and our buffer, my boss, is not here to shield us. Some stuff definately won't get done by deadline, but hey, i made those deadlines myself so tough luck. La la la.

Is it lunchtime yet? I want some soup!

PS I only lost one stinkin pound in all of June. At this rate i won't reach goal until 2020. Sigh.