Back on the Blogging Wagon

Well, it seems as though I disappeared out of the cyberspace universe for awhile. Sometimes I don't even think about blogging, while other times I can't wait.

I am in the process of switching from attending WW meetings & using e-Tools to just doing WW online. I found that since I attended so many different meetings that I didn't feel connected to any of them, and I hadn't really gotten to know anyone in the meetings the way that I had online. I love all the online stuff and it's something I can actually afford to keep up, so that's where I'm at. I said goodbye & thank you to my leader and the other volunteers on Wed. night. I didn't go to WI 2 weeks ago because I felt that I had gained weight, and things were really busy. When I went this week, I had lost 3.8 lbs! :) How fantastic! Now I've lost a total of 11.8 lbs in 11 weeks. Not too shabby considering I've sucked the big one on being active.

I've been remembering more this week to actually wear my snazzy pedometer, though I've only gone over 10,000 daily steps the one time that Jeff & I went for an hour long walk in the evening. That walk was between 6 - 7,000 steps alone! Unfortunately we've both been tired, and he's been basically sleepfucked for over a week now. Since I don't like walking at night alone, I haven't gone walking. Too bad, really. I love getting outside, but sometimes I'm just too damn lazy!

I think I may have finally gone down a pantsize, though I'm still the same up top. I bought these awesome plaid capris on sale for $30 (reg. $50) at Ricki's last week when I was looking for a blouse to wear for my meeting. I just grabbed 18s, tried them on & thought they looked fine. When I got them home & put them on to show Jeff, we both thought that they looked too big, so I took them back the next day and got a pair of 16s. So glad there was a pair in that size there! I like them so much I would've been tempted to keep them even though they didn't fit!

Another effect of that though is that my fav jean gauchos don't fit now! :( NOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooo!! While I am pumped, now I'm down basically to 2 pairs of dress pants, 1 pair of jeans, 1 pair of white gauchos and these new plaid capris. Since the dress pants are reserved for classy, that means I have 3 pairs of pants I can wear, and can only wear the white with white panties! *eeps* I think I need to buy another pair of pants, but I'm not sure what kind.

I tried to organize a cleanup downtown on the Green Tuesday for the "TD Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup" week, but out of the 300+ people I invited, not one person showed. :( That was really disappointing. I had promised myself though that I would do it myself if necessary, so for 3 hours straight I walked around with my garbage bag, plastic glove and bent over to pick stuff up every few seconds. The majority of stuff was just cigarette butts. I'm thinking of e-mailing the city & recommending that they install those butt holder-things near the benches to avoid that. The big piss off was when I man walked to an area I had just cleaned to smoke a cigarette, watched me continue picking up butts, and then just threw his right on the ground & walked away. I swear I almost went after him! I did go back & pick up the butt though. Grrrr....

I have a bunch of French work to do this weekend, but I'm torn between doing that today or tomorrow. I really want to go apple picking or second-hand clothing shopping today.

I've realized that I let a lot of friendships drop after I moved in with Jeff & started working. Not so much because of Jeff, moreso because work seems to take up so much of my life, just like the additional classes are now too! Sometimes it feels like I don't even see Jeff because he's been working nights and I work ~8am-5pm, M-F, and sometimes on the weekends (21 hours last weekend). It was really sweet that one night this week he knew he'd be working late, so he came home when I got off work to spend 3 hours with me, even curl up in bed with me while I fell asleep, then went back to work for the entire night. He came home at 7:30am the next morning when I was getting ready for work. I decided that since I had so much OT that I was going to curl up and spend time with him, so I did for 30min. It's no 3 hours, but my work's not as flexible as his is.

Back to the friendships...I'm trying to slowly work on going out with people again that I haven't seen for awhile, try to rebuild the friendships. They seemed to just fade away without me noticing. I used to have invitations to do stuff all the time, now not so much or with different people. I notice it most when I want to do something and I find that I'm not really sure who to call. I don't have my posse of girls here like I did back home. It's different, which is why I'm actually planning on working harder on gfs then guy friends.

I'm planning on having a few drinks tonight, so I definitely need to get out & rack up some APs. Maybe walking the mall will count. haha I'd rather be outside though, so maybe I'll go biking downtown.

I've gotten better at portion control and making lunch, but I still suck at planning ahead and cooking things. *sigh* One step at a time...