I'm sick :-( I was feeling okay when I woke up today, but over the course of the day, it got worse, and I know I had a fever for the better part of the afternoon and evening. I'm really hoping it won't last too long, since I need to be better and ready to go when my parents arrive for their visit next weekend!
I intended to sleep in later than I did today, but I woke up around 10:15 and never went back to sleep. We went over to Dunwoody Gables to look at the 2-bedroom apartment that we like, to see one with the fireplace. I'm still not 100% sure how I feel about it, but we're going to wait until after next weekend to decide anything anyway, so that we can talk to my parents about it and see what they think before we decide.
Then we headed over to Joel and Shosh's house. Eli was napping when we got there, so we hung out and played cards until he woke up. Then we all headed over to the mall to get work clothes and shoes for Joel and to look in the Disney store for Eli. We ended up going to an early dinner at the Cheesecake Factory at the mall, too. By the time we got done with all that, I really wasn't feeling well, so Marcus and I went home. Since then I've been sitting on the couch, we have the Braves game on, but I'm not really watching. I took some Advil, which seems to be kicking in a little bit now, so I'm feeling slightly better, but still not great.
I'm going to go to bed early (like, in a few minutes) and hopefully I'll feel better tomorrow...especially since I have to do laundry tomorrow and go grocery shopping (and Marcus has a meeting in the afternoon, so I can't just send him out grocery shopping, either). He was also planning a date night for tomorrow night - it was originally supposed to be tonight, but he realized that all the coupons he has for the places he wants us to go aren't valid on Saturday nights :-P So now it's supposed to be tomorrow night...but we'll see how I feel tomorrow.
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Saturday, August 13, 2011
Monday, August 8, 2011
Just Another Manic Monday
I didn't sleep very well last night. Just when I was going to sleep, I found a bug crawling in the bed (just a silverfish, but still, IT TOUCHED ME!), and after Marcus got rid of it for me, it took me a while to get rid of that creepy-crawly feeling and actually fall asleep. So this morning, I had a hard time getting up. I did manage to drag myself out of bed around 8:30 though.
It took me a while to get going even after I got up, and as a result, I didn't even get dressed or anything until around 10:30. I didn't do much during the day - job searched some (and started working on applications for a few jobs, but I didn't find those until around 4:30, so had to save to return later when Marcus got home), did a few tasks on Amazon Turk, and that's about it. I also emailed the leasing agent from the apartment complex we've been looking at, and she got back to me within a couple of hours, letting me know that there would be a unit for us to come look at on Saturday. I also managed to actually walk down to get the mail today, which I hadn't done in a while.
After Marcus got home, it was a typical Monday evening. We went to the gym, then ate dinner, and then I watched Secret Life while he was watching the Braves game. And after my show was over, I came out and watched the rest of the game with him. Also, because we went to the gym AND I ate a relatively small dinner for a gym day (usually I splurge on tacos or Chipotle or something on gym days, but today I just ate easy mac and salad), I hit a new low weight! I've been trying to lose some weight, with the help of a great free online food log I found (that also lets you log your exercise and weight among other things). My goal is to eventually get back down to 120...I haven't weighed 120 since high school, haha, but I don't have a specific timetable in mind, it's just an eventual goal. For right now, my more immediate goal is to get my BMI back down into "normal" range (it's currently in "overweight" range), and I'm getting really close! My BMI as of tonight is down to 25.3, and I think 25 is the upper edge of "normal" range! I started tracking my food and exercise (and weight) about 2 months ago, and in that time, I've lost about 8 pounds! It's a really slow process for me (slower than it should be based solely on my net calories, but that's not surprising, since one of the potential effects of PCOS is difficulty losing weight - it could be MUCH worse, though, I'm lucky that that's not one of the effects that's particularly bad in my case), but I'm clearly making progress, which is exciting. I was SO excited when I had my first sub-140 weight a few weeks ago, and now I am down to 137.7! Granted, it fluctuates, but a few weeks ago, it was bouncing between 140-142.5, and now it's been between 138.5-140.5 (until today!), with the 140s getting rarer all the time. So I'm very pleased with that :-)
Also, the Braves won again tonight, so yay! And we've been firming up more plans for my parents' upcoming visit, it's starting to shape into what will be a very busy weekend. Mostly fun stuff though, so I'm actually getting excited about it.
I have a long list of stuff I need to do tomorrow, so hopefully I'll have another interesting entry to post tomorrow night! Until then, goodnight all!
It took me a while to get going even after I got up, and as a result, I didn't even get dressed or anything until around 10:30. I didn't do much during the day - job searched some (and started working on applications for a few jobs, but I didn't find those until around 4:30, so had to save to return later when Marcus got home), did a few tasks on Amazon Turk, and that's about it. I also emailed the leasing agent from the apartment complex we've been looking at, and she got back to me within a couple of hours, letting me know that there would be a unit for us to come look at on Saturday. I also managed to actually walk down to get the mail today, which I hadn't done in a while.
After Marcus got home, it was a typical Monday evening. We went to the gym, then ate dinner, and then I watched Secret Life while he was watching the Braves game. And after my show was over, I came out and watched the rest of the game with him. Also, because we went to the gym AND I ate a relatively small dinner for a gym day (usually I splurge on tacos or Chipotle or something on gym days, but today I just ate easy mac and salad), I hit a new low weight! I've been trying to lose some weight, with the help of a great free online food log I found (that also lets you log your exercise and weight among other things). My goal is to eventually get back down to 120...I haven't weighed 120 since high school, haha, but I don't have a specific timetable in mind, it's just an eventual goal. For right now, my more immediate goal is to get my BMI back down into "normal" range (it's currently in "overweight" range), and I'm getting really close! My BMI as of tonight is down to 25.3, and I think 25 is the upper edge of "normal" range! I started tracking my food and exercise (and weight) about 2 months ago, and in that time, I've lost about 8 pounds! It's a really slow process for me (slower than it should be based solely on my net calories, but that's not surprising, since one of the potential effects of PCOS is difficulty losing weight - it could be MUCH worse, though, I'm lucky that that's not one of the effects that's particularly bad in my case), but I'm clearly making progress, which is exciting. I was SO excited when I had my first sub-140 weight a few weeks ago, and now I am down to 137.7! Granted, it fluctuates, but a few weeks ago, it was bouncing between 140-142.5, and now it's been between 138.5-140.5 (until today!), with the 140s getting rarer all the time. So I'm very pleased with that :-)
Also, the Braves won again tonight, so yay! And we've been firming up more plans for my parents' upcoming visit, it's starting to shape into what will be a very busy weekend. Mostly fun stuff though, so I'm actually getting excited about it.
I have a long list of stuff I need to do tomorrow, so hopefully I'll have another interesting entry to post tomorrow night! Until then, goodnight all!
Saturday, August 6, 2011
Empty Weekends are Weird
As I think I mentioned yesterday, we have NOTHING on the calendar for this weekend. This is such a rare occurrence that when it does happen, we don't know what to do with ourselves!
Marcus got home REALLY late last night from his RPG. I was long since asleep when he got home, but he told me today that he didn't get home until around 3:30 am! Even though I had gone to bed earlier, we both slept in really late today. I got up around 12:30, and Marcus slept until 1:30 pm. This set the tone for a really weird day. I ate breakfast when I got up, so by the time I started getting hungry again, it was late enough that I decided to just skip lunch entirely and wait for dinner.
By the time we got ourselves together and got dressed and everything, it was around 3:30 pm. I really wanted to get out and go somewhere. I hadn't left the apartment since Thursday, so I was starting to get cabin fever! We eventually decided to drive out to Dunwoody and drive through a neighborhood where there are several houses for sale that would be in our price range if we decide to buy a house anytime soon. We had never been over there, although it's close to an area that we know fairly well, so we wanted to just drive through, see what the houses looked like in person (as opposed to pictures online), and try to get a sense of what the neighborhood is like. It was definitely interesting...the subdivision is all these cookie cutter houses, with varying colors, and the houses are very close together. It's a small subdivision, just one street, but the street sort of curves around so it's almost like two or three streets instead of one. It's a cute little subdivision! It's weird though, because these houses are fairly new (built around 2000), but on the other side of the main street from the subdivision, there are older ranch-style homes lining the street, and it doesn't look like the greatest part of town, if you know what I mean. But the subdivision itself seems fairly nice...so who knows. I figure if we start looking more seriously, that's something we could ask a realtor about. We also have friends who live on that side of town, so they might know more about the different neighborhoods over there.
While we were out that way, we decided to stop by the apartment complex we've been looking at to try to get a business card for the leasing agent we had talked to the last time we were there. I've been meaning to email her and follow up, but we didn't get her card, so didn't have her contact info. Luckily, we were able to get one even though she wasn't working today, so now I can email her on Monday and try to move forward a little in the process of finding our next home.
After our little excursion, we got stuck in a downpour on the drive home. About 5 minutes after we made it home, there was a pretty intense storm going on, with lightning and a lot of wind. We waited it out for a little while, then Marcus decided he wanted to go out for dinner, so we went to Ruby Tuesday! I hadn't been there in a while, since the one we used to go to closed, and we didn't know where there was another one nearby. But when I went to lunch with Marsha the other day, we walked right past one in downtown Decatur, and I texted Marcus to let him know there was one there. So we got to go there, and it was good. They have a new thing on the menu - Veggie Trio + Salad Bar. Basically, you get the salad bar and three sides of your choice, and it only costs $1 more than the salad bar by itself! Since I always used to get the salad bar and a baked potato, I was all over this one - I got to get the salad bar and a baked potato PLUS two more sides! I picked broccoli and sugar snap peas. And it also came with a garlic cheese biscuit. YUM :-)
After dinner, we came back home. Marcus went out to run an errand for a friend, so I am sitting here watching the Braves game and playing Facebook Scrabble. I'm hoping to get to bed at a decent hour tonight (by which I mean around midnight) so that we can get a little bit of an earlier start tomorrow. I'd like to be up by 11 am tomorrow so that we'll have plenty of time to run errands and such, but we'll see. I'm not going to force it - if we need sleep, we need sleep! And our weekends get busy again starting next weekend, so this is an unusual chance to actually sleep in and relax both days of a weekend. I'm definitely taking full advantage of that!
Marcus got home REALLY late last night from his RPG. I was long since asleep when he got home, but he told me today that he didn't get home until around 3:30 am! Even though I had gone to bed earlier, we both slept in really late today. I got up around 12:30, and Marcus slept until 1:30 pm. This set the tone for a really weird day. I ate breakfast when I got up, so by the time I started getting hungry again, it was late enough that I decided to just skip lunch entirely and wait for dinner.
By the time we got ourselves together and got dressed and everything, it was around 3:30 pm. I really wanted to get out and go somewhere. I hadn't left the apartment since Thursday, so I was starting to get cabin fever! We eventually decided to drive out to Dunwoody and drive through a neighborhood where there are several houses for sale that would be in our price range if we decide to buy a house anytime soon. We had never been over there, although it's close to an area that we know fairly well, so we wanted to just drive through, see what the houses looked like in person (as opposed to pictures online), and try to get a sense of what the neighborhood is like. It was definitely interesting...the subdivision is all these cookie cutter houses, with varying colors, and the houses are very close together. It's a small subdivision, just one street, but the street sort of curves around so it's almost like two or three streets instead of one. It's a cute little subdivision! It's weird though, because these houses are fairly new (built around 2000), but on the other side of the main street from the subdivision, there are older ranch-style homes lining the street, and it doesn't look like the greatest part of town, if you know what I mean. But the subdivision itself seems fairly nice...so who knows. I figure if we start looking more seriously, that's something we could ask a realtor about. We also have friends who live on that side of town, so they might know more about the different neighborhoods over there.
While we were out that way, we decided to stop by the apartment complex we've been looking at to try to get a business card for the leasing agent we had talked to the last time we were there. I've been meaning to email her and follow up, but we didn't get her card, so didn't have her contact info. Luckily, we were able to get one even though she wasn't working today, so now I can email her on Monday and try to move forward a little in the process of finding our next home.
After our little excursion, we got stuck in a downpour on the drive home. About 5 minutes after we made it home, there was a pretty intense storm going on, with lightning and a lot of wind. We waited it out for a little while, then Marcus decided he wanted to go out for dinner, so we went to Ruby Tuesday! I hadn't been there in a while, since the one we used to go to closed, and we didn't know where there was another one nearby. But when I went to lunch with Marsha the other day, we walked right past one in downtown Decatur, and I texted Marcus to let him know there was one there. So we got to go there, and it was good. They have a new thing on the menu - Veggie Trio + Salad Bar. Basically, you get the salad bar and three sides of your choice, and it only costs $1 more than the salad bar by itself! Since I always used to get the salad bar and a baked potato, I was all over this one - I got to get the salad bar and a baked potato PLUS two more sides! I picked broccoli and sugar snap peas. And it also came with a garlic cheese biscuit. YUM :-)
After dinner, we came back home. Marcus went out to run an errand for a friend, so I am sitting here watching the Braves game and playing Facebook Scrabble. I'm hoping to get to bed at a decent hour tonight (by which I mean around midnight) so that we can get a little bit of an earlier start tomorrow. I'd like to be up by 11 am tomorrow so that we'll have plenty of time to run errands and such, but we'll see. I'm not going to force it - if we need sleep, we need sleep! And our weekends get busy again starting next weekend, so this is an unusual chance to actually sleep in and relax both days of a weekend. I'm definitely taking full advantage of that!
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