stuff & things

I'm going to pick up my diet gourmet meals in just a few minutes, but I thought I'd throw in a quick update before I go.

The weekend was good...I got almost everything accomplished that I intended. We made it to Champions Fit, but we were late so ended up walking around the YMCA track for about 20 minutes until the walkers came back and my knee started complaining. After the walk, we came home and (as previously agreed), I banished the boys to the movies so that I could clean and de-clutter. When anyone else is home, I have a tendency to lose focus on the cleaning, or to procrastinate until it's too late to do anything. When I'm by myself, I can turn off all the TVs, eliminate all distractions, and just clean. It took all day in fits and starts, but the house is cleaner than it's been in a looooong time.

As a reward to myself for actually doing it instead of just talking about it and then feeling guilty for not doing anything, I redecorated the mantel. The new design works better with the rest of the room, I think...and I got to buy stuff. :) I also bought a wall frame for some of the wedding pictures and mounted it next to the computer desk. With the wall decorations and the stuff not strewn all over every flat surface, it actually looks like we have our shit together or something. I think we may just have graduated from 3rd degree to 1st degree squalor (and it's really only 1st degree because I still am embarrassed to let people into the bedrooms). I might have pictures later, but since I never took pictures of the old room, you can't really get the full trading-spaces sort of impact.

I didn't get the wedding thank yous done like I had planned, but I bought cards! So that's progress. Now that the house is clean, I can work on, say, 10 at a time without getting overwhelmed.

I've been sort of slacking on the exercise lately, what with the newness of my gym membership wearing off. I managed to talk myself out of the gym on Thursday AND Friday, and it was all I could do to make myself get out of bed and go do the Champions fit thing. I finally got my ass to the gym this morning, and felt so much better. It didn't hurt that their scale was kind to me, showing me a full pound lighter than it did the last time I stepped on it. And I was wearing more clothes this time! I'm anxious to see what our scale at home is going to say on Sunday.

Food has been good to fair, with some bad choices every once in a while. I don't really have any regrets, and today starts a new week with new resolutions. This week I want to do 6 things:

1. Work out 6 times. With CF on Saturday and the workout this morning, I've got two down.

2. Work the weight watchers food plan every day. I already kind of blew that one over the weekend, but I can only start from where I am. I'm going to try to stay in the low to mid-20s in daily points for the rest of the week.

3. Let my knee heal. PLEASE GOD, let my knee heal. I want to RUN, dammit.

4. Get the laundry done before Wednesday. If I don't get it all done by then, I may as well just start over.

5. Unpack/throw away two boxes of stuff from the garage. All my stuff from the other house has been sitting out there since I moved in May, and I should really just push it out to the curb. I mean, if I haven't needed it by now, I'm probably not going to, right? But I still have that compulsive need to go through all of it and make sure I won't need it.

6. Write the damned wedding thank-yous.