Saturday, June 28, 2008

What a bummer Saturday!

I finally took a Saturday off , well not for nothing though, but for my nephew's 5th birthday party. On Wednesday, I had a scratchy throat. On Thursday it was full-blown soar throat. Maybe I will be better on Friday. On Friday it was just as bad but maybe I will be better tomorrow. On Saturday, it was horrible. I was determined not to miss his party. So I went and stayed way in the background. I did not even run around taking pictures. I was miserable. I barely drank 2 ounces of soda because it hurt so bad. The thought of cake and ice cream was not an option and it was such a cute Hulk cake too.

As soon as the party was over I headed over to the ER for three hours to find out I had severe tonsillitis due to strep. I had to have a shot and immediately start antibiotics. I asked the doctor for ice chips while I waited and he said I could have them but my throat was so swollen he was worried about me choking on the ice chips.

Now you ask, why did I not go to the doctor sooner? Well blame the doctors. They harp so much on not wanting to give antibiotics out that I am scared I will go and they send me home to say, wait it out. It has happened to me before. Then when I returned three days later they apologized and said I needed an antibiotic after all. HMMH! Now you know why I hate doctors.

On to the next subject, I missed WW because I was feeling so bad. I have not eaten anything but popsicles, slurpees and chicken broth since Thursday. Hmmh! The thought of food is revolting when it hurts so bad to swallow. It will be interesting to see my weigh-in this week even though I know it will be false because of my lack of food intake.

Please pray for me a fast recovery. The last few days have been miserable.


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Wednesday, June 18, 2008

OK. OK , OK, enough

I really do set goals and I really am trying but ok, enough is enough with the obstacles. I struggled after my brother's wedding with a cold and had set the following Monday to head back to the Y but something set me back. This happened two weeks in a row. This past weekend I decided this Monday would be my day back at the gym. No if's, and's or but's........ ummh, yeah right.

Sunday night my nephew came down with the stomach virus. At midnight my mom came down with the stomach virus. At 5 AM I came down with stomach virus. I did not get out of the bed , well besides making sprints to the bathroom , until 3 PM. It is now Wednesday and I have returned to work but still do not feel 100% well.

Now my goal will change. I will try to get some kind of workout in Thursday and Friday and will return to the gym Monday. I will not allow all these obstacles to ruin what I have worked so hard to accomplish. I will nottttt...

Saturday, June 14, 2008

A glimpse into my life...

A small glimpse in how my last few days have gone.

Thursday- Weigh in day and WW meeting. Missed both because I thought we were going to Water Country early. We made it to Water Country at 3 PM because there were so many obstacles thrown at us as we prepared. We were there for three hours and it turned out to be a great three hours. My nephew is at the age now that everything is such a blast for him.

Friday- Started off quiet but got mad when I had to drive to our main store to get some transfer items. I do not like to do that because it makes me late and wastes gas. Went to work and it was somewhat good. I left work early because my cousin's graduation was at 7 . I left in plenty of time and should have had time to spare. OK, sure . The main tunnel I use was blocked due to an accident. It took me 20 minutes to slowly make it to the next exit to try a different route. Well a thousand other people had the same idea. What should have been a 26 minute ride was 1 hour 15 minutes. I was one mile away from the graduation ceremony at 6:57 and the doors close at 7 PM. There was no use, I could not get there , park and run into the Coliseum in three minutes. I am not superwoman. My sister had my ticket because we were supposed to go together, so now I had no ticket and would risk her not being there either if she came out to give me a ticket. Well my cousin understood and I went to his party today, so he was happy.

It does not stop. I came home and did some work on the computer which I do alot because the computers at work are on sabbatical ( broke).  I thought I had accidentally left a good amount of money in the car. I went out and did not find it. I was frantic and ran up the front steps only to trip on my own sandals on my feet. I crashed knee and elbow first onto the concrete. Yes, ouch. Sad thing, no one inside heard me even as I slammed up against the front door. I was out there alone , trying not to cry and praying nothing was broke. I was ok , somewhat, scratched and bleeding but ok. Oh and I had brought the money in earlier.

Saturday- Woke up sore from my fall the night before. I really want to stay in bed but have to get up and meet my employee to take her some things for the day since I was off for the graduation party.  The box I pulled broke and all the books crashed out. I had another box that had father's day mugs for my preschool sunday school class. I pulled all six out with no problem and then pulled the box out and one mug came with it and went crashing on the ground and broke. Oh well, now I have to hope I have enough to pass out Sunday morning.

The rest of the day went pretty good. It was nice to have a Saturday and not to have to do much. I usually work on Saturdays. The only bad thing was overeating. I struggle big time with family get togethers. I am ok all week at home but a family get-together and I have an eating binge. Does anyone else have this problem?

Sunday- Havn't started that day yet but it has to get be better than some of the previous days. I will try to make sure both feet are on the concrete and not my knees or elbows. We are having a family get-together and I will try not to over-indulge. It will be hard though. The fortunate thing is that I prepared most of it and it is low-fat and WW healthy, yayyy.

Ohhh one more thing, the locals will understand. It is hard enough with this humidity for those of us who have any kind of breathing problem but we are also battling at night a wind change which is causing us to get smoke and scents  from the Great Dismal Swamp fires. I think tonight was the worst night yet. I could even smell it coming through my vent in the kitchen. It has been horrible.

http://www.wvec.com/news/topstories/stories/wvec_top_061408_fire_update.1810f79.html

 


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Saturday, June 7, 2008

Sweating it

Went to WW this week and was praying that I had not gained anymore than I already had. I only worked out once this week and that was for only 20 minutes and I followed my points ok but went a little over my weekly budget. I was sweating it though.

Oh to my surprise, they told me I had lost 4.7 pounds. I was shocked and astounded. That now put me back within 2.2 pounds before I went off track. Yayyyy! Thinking about things, if I was able to take off 4.7 pounds in a week of being back on track. Can you imagine how much I over indulged those 3 weeks to gain 7 pounds? Wow!

The Virginia wedding reception for my brother is tomorrow. Hopefully, I will be too busy to indulge in all the tasty treats since we are the hosts. I have already started today on a bad start. I just had a Bojangle's biscuit and Pepsi, oh well I will compensate for it later.

Toodles, for now.