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Aug. 17th, 2006 03:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
escritoireazulJust over an hour until I get to leave. I've only clocked a little overtime, but it's still been a long week. I'm glad tomorrow is Friday; it feels like the end of the week today, and tomorrow may drag because of it.
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Saturday my youngest sister, K., and I are going to Columbia to see some bands, one local out of St. Louis, one local to Columbia, and two others. I don't recognize any of them, but she put together a mix CD for me, and I'll try to listen to it tonight and tomorrow. I like Columbia, and I think I may suggest we go up earlier (doors open at 6:30) to do a little book shopping and just walk around near campus. I love that area.
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I've not talked about my health goals lately, and I think that's why I'm in a slump, so I'm going to give it another try. Just quick recaps on all of them, at least until I see what works best for me.
Schedule: I must be more consistent with working out. This is my biggest problem, and has been since WisCon back at the end of May. That's a long time for sporadic work outs. Maybe I need to look into another class; even though kickboxing ended up not being enough boxing for me, at least it helped me schedule in work out time. My mini-goal is to work out today, tomorrow, and Saturday, then evaluate what I want for next week.
Water: I'm doing good at drinking water at work, but I need to do more at home, too, instead of diet Dr. Pepper. I'm up to about three liters of water at work, but that's still not enough.
Sugar: I'm doing an experiment where I cut out sweets for fourteen days (today is day four), because I really think my mood changes when I eat it, and I want to see if not having it will help balance. (Allowed items include: flavored rice cakes, diet Dr. Pepper [though, I know, no sugar, but it has a sweet taste], and beer [once in awhile, and only Corona].) Next step will be to cut down my diet Dr. Pepper, but I don't want to be hasty.
Food: This week has been a good week for eating healthy. The past few weeks, not so much. I also need to get better at tracking my food habits online, because I'm paying for Weight Watchers online, I'd best use it, or it's time to get rid of it.
Doctors: I really need to go get a mole removed. It's on the right side of my nose, and the edge of my glasses rub against it and iritate it. Then, because it's already iritated, I can't stop touching it. It's a nasty cycle, and the best thing would be to get it removed. I want it actually cut out, not just shaved, because I'm afraid it will grow back if shaved, plus it can be tested for cancer (not that I'm worried about that, just as a safety precaution). I'm not worried about a scar from cutting it, which is what all the information cautions, because if it did scar, it would probably be the smallest scar on my face. I have two in that general area, one right above my right eyebrow where I ran into the edge of a coffee table as a toddler and one right between my eyebrows along a frown line from where I busted my head open with a saber, but each of those is nothing compared to the one on my right temple and down my cheek. That scar, in two sections, looks like North and South America, though the top looks more like South America than the bottom. I embrace my scars.
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The getting rid of things has slowed. I need to organize the last two bookshelves and then start in purging something other than books. I also need to make more time to write and edit. I also need to find some more freelance work. I also need to practice my bass guitar more.
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Saturday my youngest sister, K., and I are going to Columbia to see some bands, one local out of St. Louis, one local to Columbia, and two others. I don't recognize any of them, but she put together a mix CD for me, and I'll try to listen to it tonight and tomorrow. I like Columbia, and I think I may suggest we go up earlier (doors open at 6:30) to do a little book shopping and just walk around near campus. I love that area.
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I've not talked about my health goals lately, and I think that's why I'm in a slump, so I'm going to give it another try. Just quick recaps on all of them, at least until I see what works best for me.
Schedule: I must be more consistent with working out. This is my biggest problem, and has been since WisCon back at the end of May. That's a long time for sporadic work outs. Maybe I need to look into another class; even though kickboxing ended up not being enough boxing for me, at least it helped me schedule in work out time. My mini-goal is to work out today, tomorrow, and Saturday, then evaluate what I want for next week.
Water: I'm doing good at drinking water at work, but I need to do more at home, too, instead of diet Dr. Pepper. I'm up to about three liters of water at work, but that's still not enough.
Sugar: I'm doing an experiment where I cut out sweets for fourteen days (today is day four), because I really think my mood changes when I eat it, and I want to see if not having it will help balance. (Allowed items include: flavored rice cakes, diet Dr. Pepper [though, I know, no sugar, but it has a sweet taste], and beer [once in awhile, and only Corona].) Next step will be to cut down my diet Dr. Pepper, but I don't want to be hasty.
Food: This week has been a good week for eating healthy. The past few weeks, not so much. I also need to get better at tracking my food habits online, because I'm paying for Weight Watchers online, I'd best use it, or it's time to get rid of it.
Doctors: I really need to go get a mole removed. It's on the right side of my nose, and the edge of my glasses rub against it and iritate it. Then, because it's already iritated, I can't stop touching it. It's a nasty cycle, and the best thing would be to get it removed. I want it actually cut out, not just shaved, because I'm afraid it will grow back if shaved, plus it can be tested for cancer (not that I'm worried about that, just as a safety precaution). I'm not worried about a scar from cutting it, which is what all the information cautions, because if it did scar, it would probably be the smallest scar on my face. I have two in that general area, one right above my right eyebrow where I ran into the edge of a coffee table as a toddler and one right between my eyebrows along a frown line from where I busted my head open with a saber, but each of those is nothing compared to the one on my right temple and down my cheek. That scar, in two sections, looks like North and South America, though the top looks more like South America than the bottom. I embrace my scars.
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The getting rid of things has slowed. I need to organize the last two bookshelves and then start in purging something other than books. I also need to make more time to write and edit. I also need to find some more freelance work. I also need to practice my bass guitar more.
