The house didn't close today. It was really just as well, because it took me all day to clean it. It's amazing to me how dirty a house can get even when no one's living in it. After seeing it for the first time in months, I think it's a small miracle that it sold at all...I didn't realize that it was about 3 half-hearted broom-swipes away from filthy. Good God. Kind of makes me wish that I had checked on it more often--maybe I could have gotten a better price if I had come by to clean it regularly.

Oh well, bygones. It's now as clean as it's ever been, and the sale closes at 2 pm tomorrow. All that's left is a trip to the bank, and I'm out of the real estate business for good. Or until we decide to sell the house we're in now, anyway.

Work continues to be busy, so I'm enjoying this day off even if I did spend 6 hours of it cleaning. I thought about going to the gym today, but I'm pretty well exhausted. I had to return yesterday's U-Haul by 7:00 this morning, so I was up at the crack of dawn. Once I got there, I realized the flaw in yesterday's decision to leave my car at the house instead of the U-Haul parking lot. Thankfully, the U-Haul place is only 2-3 miles away from my old house, but that distance totally seems shorter by car than on foot. I got lost walking through another part of the subdivision, since I didn't normally go through there at all when I lived in Copperfield. I made it to the house in less than an hour, though, so it wasn't so bad. However, add that to a cleaning marathon and I'm all in. I think I'll do an upper body Kathy tonight so I can have a week with 2 strength workouts at least once this month, but I'm going to scrap the 3rd interval workout this week. I's tired.

My calories have been really well under control this week. I'm not completely sure about yesterday, but I think that it came in under 1600. The day before was in the 1800s, 1600s on Monday. I'm doing it without even really trying, too, which is really the only way I ever can do it. Being busy has helped...a lot of my overeating comes from not having anything better to do.

And finally, I stepped on the scale this afternoon, because I forgot this morning and I wanted to get an idea what tomorrow's going to be like. The scale has been stingy the last few days, even with the unintentionally good eating. I was seeing low 180s every day. Today, in the afternoon, with a shirt on, I was at 178.5! I think it might be a good weigh-in after all--provided I don't do anything stupid tonight, of course. Maybe I should just go to bed now.

Posted by Joy at June 23, 2005 04:38 PM