Filed under: Cleaning | Tags: Cleaning, Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5, Day 6, Day 7, Other
Week 1 went fairly well. Unfortunately I am not yet at the “maintenance” stage. So far I have gone through a lot of stuff to clean it out, and I got rid of a lot of stuff, which always feels awesome. The closet in the guest room is starting to empty out, finally. I only did two loads of dishes, which is kind of silly, but it’s better than nothing.
My bathroom is currently a disaster area. I’m trying to clean out things I won’t use. It’s much harder than it seems like it should be! I may need to have someone come over and help me go through each item and say “Yes I use this” or “No I will never use this” to get this figured out! My goal for this week is to get the bathroom done, then clean it top to bottom, and clean the kitchen top to bottom. Wish me luck!
Filed under: Girly Pushups, Running, Situps | Tags: Day 5, Exercise, Girly Pushups, Running, Situps
I realize this is only the second time I’m doing the situps and girly pushups, but I feel like I can already feel a difference. Not much else to post, other than I fell down the stairs (I’m OK, my foot just slipped off a few steps from the bottom. Ouch.) so on to the numbers.
Running: 30 minutes of medium effort walking.
Situps: 5 sets with 60 seconds resting between each set. The sets were 15, 18, 15, 15, and as many as I can do but at least 18. I ended with 30 on the last one for a total of 93. Already an improvement!
Girly Pushups: 5 sets with 90 seconds resting between each set. The sets were 6, 8, 6, 6, and as many as I can do but at least 7. I ended with 15 on the last one for a total of 41. I am impressed.
Today was rough, but in an entirely different way than yesterday. I started the day off well with oatmeal and juice, I had some lemonade mid-morning, and then for lunch I had a cup of herbal tea, a very tasty frozen veggie dish recommended by Jen – the Green Giant Immunity blend, and the 14-bean soup I made over Christmas break. I had the hardest time eating the soup. At one point I turned to the lady next to me and said, “This soup kinda sucks.” I don’t really know what it was about it, but I just could not eat the darn thing. I ended up choking it down and then washed it down with the tea and veggie dish that I did want to eat. I had a few peas within the next hour or so, but I mostly just felt miserable for the rest of the day. I got home intending to make some quinoa, among other things, and found myself scared to eat. I felt like crap, and I didn’t want to eat anything and make that mental link between that feeling and any of the food I had. I’ll spare you the gruesome details, but I’ll just say that I did end up vomiting and finally just went to bed.
Here’s hoping that’s short-lived. I’m thinking either it was the soup or I got the same little stomach bug that Mandee had. Either way, I never want to eat that soup again. 
Biking has continued on the stationary, flossing is continuing every evening, and waking has continued at 7:00AM every morning.
Filed under: Flossing, Nails, Sleep | Tags: Day 5, Flossing, Nails, Other, Sleep
Nails: I got some very thin gloves specifically so they wouldn’t hinder my typing and such too much. They really do work well at work where I use a full-sized keyboard and an external mouse. I’ve noticed some probles at home, though, when I try to use my laptop keyboard and touch-pad mouse. It’s not that it doesn’t work, it’s just that it doesn’t work all that well. It makes me not want to wear the at home which then, of course, leads to nail biting at home. Maybe what it should lead to is decreased computer usage at home. 
Actually, I have the same problem with my iPod as I do with my touch-pad mouse which is a problem at work, too. It’s just that it’s less frequent of a problem since I don’t need to adjust volume all that often. I should maybe make volume-level playlists, haha.
Flossing: Morning flossing again.
Sleep: NO NAPS TODAY!!!! I am so proud of myself. I woke up at 7:00AM and took no naps.
Biking: Stationary, yay!
I didn’t bike very far, maybe about a mile total, but I biked to the grocery store which is about half of my path to work. It’s a path where I have to bike on the street the whole way, so that was conquering a new fear! It wasn’t as scary as it seemed, of course. (I know, Mel, I know. 
) I decided once I got there that I could get WHATEVER I wanted! I got some candy and some sugar-snap peas along with what I initially needed. Yummy! It all fit very well in my little basket, so I didn’t need to use the backpack I brought, which was good. Up next will be biking to work!
