[When You Were Young, The Killers]

To start, I am uber grateful that Clinton figured this out.  Either no one else did, or they didn't try.  Tsk tsk.

In other news, I am sorry for not updating since Monday.  I didn't have time while Brody was napping like I do some weeks.  Plus, when I got home each evening I simply didn't want to sit at the computer.  Part of it is that I wanted to write an entry about some stuff I was figuring out but it proposed itself to be deep and long and I just felt overwhelmed so I wrote nothing at all.  Kinda lame, but I'm all or nothing like that.

Truth be told, I had a really good week.  My eating was much better than the week before and I never binged.  I didn't do the calorie counting because of the advice from the gym dude about not doing something that's overwhelming and not working.  When I feel burdened and weighed down by rules that's when I tend to  give up on everything, so better than I stay on track and don't bother with cumbersome rules for a time, methinks.  Oh, and I'm sick of gaining weight even though I'm not overeating so I'm instituting a "no food(e) after 8 pm" lockdown for a few weeks to see if that helps.  Plus, I always feel sluggish and gross when I eat dinner at 10:45 pm... it just means I can't eat with Jason, which sucks, being as he doesn't get home until 10:30 most nights, but it's just a price we need to pay right now to get me healthy.

On the exercise front, things are a bit better.  I tried something out this week- I packed the Brodster up in his awesome stroller and took him for a walk on Wednesday and Thursday.  The thing is that my back starts screaming after about 6 minutes and it takes me about 8 or 9 minutes to circle the block, so what I would do is one lap around the block, come back and sit on the steps in front of the house for 4 or so minutes, and then do another lap.  That logs almost 20 minutes of actual walking, which is a good start.  I realized that if I don't miss any water aerobics classes then I'd be getting some sort of exercise every day except Sunday, which is a vast improvement over no exercise ever.  Plus, I want to try and walk every day I work (typically T-Th, though sometimes they need me a bit extra) and build up endurance.  I really tried to focus on my posture, pulling my abs in and shoulders back, in order to take some pressure off of my back.  It didn't seem to help a whole heck ton but it's a start.

The one annoyance in all of this is that I overslept this morning and missed water aerobics.  The thing is, some mornings I just get lazy about getting up.  This morning I was set on getting up, and even hit snooze at like 8:01 thinking "two more snoozes and then I'll get dressed quickly and go"... and then my alarm never went off again.  Upon waking up at 9:21 I realized that my alarm only snoozes for an hour and it started going off at 7:12.  Whoops.  I started out decently pissed for about 5 minutes when I woke up, but then I realized it was pointless to get upset about something I could do nothing about.  I will, however, make sure I am up tomorrow!  Plus, I just have to trust that there's a reason I fell into such a deep sleep, though I have to admit that the reason the sleep was so deep was that I was having this weird dream that I can't really explain well, other than that it culminated with a house burning down and people trapped inside and the moment I realized they were going to die I woke up with a start, disoriented and then realizing it was just a horrible dream... then that it was 9:21, and you know the rest from there.

So now you all know that I didn't have a terrible week :)  This is meant for the pending "long and deep post" but I'm working on reliance upon God to develop steadfastness in me and less of a roller coaster of exhilarating highs with nauseating drops to perilous lows.

And there you have it!  Have a fantastic weekend, all!