Shall We Shrink??

There I am, on the treadmill getting my running in, feeling so good and relaxed and strong, when suddenly I get the feeling something is wrong. I look over and the turd which is my youngest son is nowhere to be seen. I yell for him and he tells me he’s in the bahroom. Good for him! Right? WRONG! He totally flooded the bathroom by shoving all of the tp down the hole. OMG, was I MAD! I resisted my urge to beat him for interrupting me (haha) and laid him on the couch, resisted my obsessive compulsive nature, and finished up my treadmill time without cleaning it up. It was hard, and I was distracted, but I didn’t want to lose all of my stats! Oh lord. ANyway, all is well again, the floor got an unscheduled cleaning, and lil man is finally now down for his nap (he was too afraid to move after I got back on the treadmill! hahah poor guy!). All is well that ends well, I suppose… as long as his Dad doesn’t find out. I guess I should mention our lil napper is a repeat offender. What would I do without this craziness?!?

and I love that he FINALLY is being more romantic and planning surprises for me, but tonight makes me nervous. The hubbs has procured a baby sitter and tonight will be our first time alone since February when his Mom was here. I am so freaking excited! However, he made me promise not to eat salad… Hmmm… He wants us to have kind of a treat night and he doesn’t want me to worry about what I eat. And, he won’t tell me where we are going, as it is a surprise, so I can’t look over their menu to see what a reasonable choice might be. grrrrrr He means well, but I want to lose this chub. It’s just hard for him because he thinks I am just fine the way I am. But, he does tell me how proud he is of me for sticking to this and working so hard to break bad habits. How can you not love him?! Hopefully tonight isn’t a total loss. Needless to say lunch was a 3 point huge salad… Let’s just hope we go for a LONG walk on the beach after dinner!

I love Fridays. I am off work and can leisurely start my day with the boys. It’s so crazy; I was absolutely going MAD staying home with them, and they LOVE their Miss Nikki who watches them, but part of me still feels guilty for working. Being a Mom is a crazy hard job. My oldest son is coming home from a 5 week jaunt with his Daddy, and I haven’t been so excited to go to an airport in my entire life! I miss him so badly it hurts. Before this, the longest we had been seperated was 4 days, and that was a long time to me. Oh well, at least I get him to myself til next summer!

I have been doing well with the eating, still. I NEVER last this long… I am on day 10 and I haven’t gone off the deep end yet. I think WW may be good for me. I even ate McDonald’s yesterday (not by choice… my men love that place though and I need to grocery shop something fierce so there wasn’t much alternative) and didn’t go over my points. Yay! I have been making things like pudding and jello to keep when I need a low point sweet fix, and that has bailed me out a couple times. I really think the key to this is planning. Just like I read on another page (though I can’t remember who’s… sorry!), you wouldn’t buy a shoe without knowing the price or if it would fit in your budget, so why would you do that with food?! I’m an accountant (and a shoe addict!!!), so that totally works for me!!!

I ran yesterday, but not as long as I could have. I want to start slow and build up so I can make sure I can do it at least 4 times a week. I really, really, REALLY want to be a runner! So yesterday I warmed up, ran 15 minutes at 4.8/5.0 then walked 10 minutes at 4.2 and finished up with a cool down. The plan is to add a minute of running every other day until I am running 3 miles straight. I think yesterday I made it just a smidge over a mile. I can usually do between 1.5 and 2 miles, but I wanted to start slow since I’ve been outta the game for a while. My job does a 5K together (this California… this would NEVER have happened where I was before as only about 2 people in the whole office were not overweight) which I think is crazy but AWESOME and I am pretty much the youngest person there (I am affectionately referred to as “kid”) so I don’t want to be the slowest or have to walk! How embarrasing that would be! I CAN do this!!!

Hmmmm… what else? I love my job but HATE the LOUDLY annoying HR person next to me. OMG, she talks ALL day! And it is always about random BS that no one cares about. I asked the boss to keep me in mind when some upcoming renovations take place because I was developing a twitch. Thankfully he said he would, and also that it was not the first time someone had said that about her. He too has to close his door to block her out, and even that doesn’t work. Is it wrong to pray for a complete voicebox failure?! Other than that this is my dream job. I am so BUSY all the time and I love that. I want to stay here I think, but I am just afraid we wouldn’t be able to afford it. We’re looking at buying a house, but they are all over half a million dollars for a decent one. I guess we’ll see…

Have a good Friday!!!