Weight Loss

When I weighed in yesterday, I had lost all that I gained last week, but not the week before, putting me at minus 10.4 lbs. total... Not as good as I was hoping for, but not too bad.  Just gotta hang in there... I think once the stress of the end of the semester is gone and I've gotten settled at my internship, things will get easier.  Have been doing pretty good on my running, although today wasn't great.  Really need to work on the diet part more... Even though I've been doing ok calorie-wise, I really need to focus more on what I'm eating.  Goal for next week is to follow my plan well enough that I actually lose the 2 lbs. it says I should.

Happy Easter!

Had such a great Easter weekend in Houston (well, Richmond... whatever).  Drove through Waco on my way down on Friday and had lunch with Jenny for her birthday (which was Wednesday), then got into town around 5 or so.  Friday night we went to "The Miracle" at Nolan's school.  It was so good!  It was a walk-through play kind of thing of the last days of Jesus' life.  Nolan was a Roman guard in the crucifixion scene.  I was really impressed with all the kids' acting and everything.  Saturday, me, Lora, and Aunt Beth went to see Soul Surfer-- such a good movie!  The only thing that bothered me was that Carrie Underwood was one of those girls who looks cute on mission trips... You just don't wear heavy makeup, cute clothes, and earrings while doing tsunami relief... sorry.  But seriously, great movie!  I also got to see Kim and Andrew, who live on the other side of Houston, but they drove over to the mall to see me!  It was great to get to catch up with them.  (Shameless plug:  if anyone needs any graphic or web design, Kim is your girl... everything she does is so cute!  www.tinyowlstudios.com )  Anyway, so Sunday we actually didn't go to church, so that was a little weird, but we figured the Friday night thing counted.  And I have to admit, it was nice to lounge around and even get some homework done that morning.  My uncle's brother and his wife came for lunch, which was so good, and then it was time to get back on the road...

Ate way too much, though, of course, which has kind of been the story of my life the last couple weeks.  Last week, I was pretty stressed over a paper at school (It was on Cognitive Behavioral Play Therapy... but I feel pretty good about it at least), plus I was running out of groceries, so that equals... junk food/fast food.  Oops.  Definitely gained weight last week.  And probably even more over the weekend, so I'm gonna really try hard this week and get back on it.  Doing well with my running though.  I'm on Day 2 of Week 4 (yeah, yeah, it's been like 8 weeks...), and Day 3 is running a mile!  Well, it's running 10 minutes anyway... I doubt I'm running fast enough for that to be a mile yet, but I'll build up to it.

Well, I got up early so I could be productive today, so I should go do that.

Netflix:  DVD- The Switch- really cute!; Instant- Brothers & Sisters still- it's like watching a train wreck... they're so dysfunctional!  But I just can't help but watch!

iTunes:  I bought the 2 newest Glee soundtracks (#5 and the Warblers one) for my drive home yesterday, and I'm loving them as usual!

Keeping on keeping on

Down another 1.4 lbs this week to make a total of 11.8.  I probably just gained all of that back tonight going out to eat with Brent and the kids after their violin performance, but I'm still happy with my progress, just gotta keep it up!

Life Lately (*fair warning* most of this post is me whining)

Life lately has been... busy.  And stressful.  I'm trying my best to hang in there for the end of the semester, but it's hard.  Less than 3 weeks to go, which is great, but I also have a LOT to do in those 3 weeks... 15-20 page paper, several chapter quizzes (which means, of course, that I have to read the chapters), 400 pages of outside reading for Practicum (which I was supposed to be doing all semester...), short paper on a conference I'm going to tonight and tomorrow... I'm just ready to be done.

And on top of all that, of course, I have work.  And I love my job.  But it's just draining sometimes... and I need to get extra hours there because I'm poor and I have tuition payments coming up, but I also need to spend that time on school, so it's just frustrating.

On a completely different note, a friend from church, Patti, asked me the other night if I would be willing to go on a blind date with a friend of hers... Yikes!  I looked the guy up on facebook and he seems normal enough and I trust Patti, so I agreed... It's not a done deal or anything because she talked to me about it before asking him, so it may not even happen.  We'll see, though.  Don't know whether to be excited or scared, but I figure no matter what happens, I'll at least have a good story, right?

Anyway, I need to go shower now... getting some of those extra hours at work in this afternoon... Then I get to listen to Dr. Patterson and some other guy lecture about the Bible... Pray that I can get past my personal feelings about him and really listen to what he has to say...

Double Digits!!

Just because I said this isn't a weight-loss blog doesn't mean I won't post my weigh-ins.  Having said that, I lost 1.2 lbs this week to make a total of 10.4 lbs!  Nice to be in the double digits.  Downside is I now have 50 less calories to eat! I've done really well this week... gonna try to do even better next week.  I've actually found myself looking forward to running on my running days... crazy huh?  I need to try to be more consistent with exercising on my non-running days, too.  Also, weekends are usually bad, so I'm really going to try the next couple of days to get a good jump start on the week instead of starting off badly and having to make up for it.

Hmm...

So this is kind of becoming a weight loss blog, huh?  Don't mean for it to be.  I really do have other things going on in my life... they're just all boring.  School.  Work.  Being a lazy bum during my down time because I'm so exhausted from school and work.

I've been trying to find an internship for this summer as my last semester of practicum... I actually had an interview on Tuesday.  I think it went well, but I also haven't heard anything back yet.  I don't know whether I'm supposed to call her or she's supposed to call me or what.  Hopefully I'll hear something soon, I'm just ready to have it all figured out.  Plus this place seems really good.  I think it'll give me some good variety but she also said they have a big need for children's counselors and that's what I've already been doing, so it'll give me something that I'm already a little more comfortable with.  So we'll see!

Today was slightly productive but also very lazy.  I went to class, went for a run (well... walk/run...), and did one of my two interviews that I need to do for a vocational guidance paper that's due on Monday.  That was the productive part.  The lazy part is that for most of the rest of the day I've just been laying around (lying around?) watching tv.  And I may possibly go to bed when I finish this... and it's only 9:15... I'm just tired all the time...

Anyway... that's about it for my life lately.  I know, pretty dull.

Current Netflix:  Brothers & Sisters
Current iTunes:  Nothing in particular... been listening to my "Exercise" playlist more often recently... it's pretty random, has everything from U2 to Skillet to Mandisa to Glee.

So close!

Well... I didn't quite get to my 10 lb. mark... but I'm .8 lbs. away, so I will definitely be there by next week!  I'm still satisfied.  I've done really well this week, both with my eating and exercise, so that's good.  And if I can keep up the pace of losing about 5 lbs. a month, I can be at my goal by the end of January next year (which would be right at a year, since I started exercising in February instead of January like normal people).

In other news, it's also "so close!" to the end of the semester!!  Praise Jesus!  My last final is on May 4 and I could not be more ready.  Word to the wise:  don't try to take 15 hours in a semester in grad school.  I turned in a paper yesterday that was due Tuesday night... and this is the 2nd paper in a row (2 different classes thankfully) that I've intentionally taken the late grade on.  This is so not like me!  I just can't seem to get motivated... Just got to hang in there though... almost done.