SBF, Reboot Boogaloo, Aug 1

Happy Monday. :happy:

People were complaining about the heat at the beginning of June. I said, "People, you have a long way to go till it cools off again, so settle in and get used to it." Now I'm getting cranky about it. Ha ha! Mary, have you put out dishes of water for any animals that might come by? My mother in law has a tub of water out (of course she lives in the country) for birds mainly (and food as well), but the raccoons make themselves at home IN the tubs of water. :laugh: Do you live in an apartment? I guess if you do that might be kind of hard to put tubs out....
I did some looking yesterday after Mary said magnesium deficiency can cause leg cramps and wow, I do have a lot of the symptoms, although the symptoms could be something else as well. I think I sound like a hypochondriac. But my mother in law gave me magnesium spray a while back. It makes my skin itch a little so I only used it once. I tried it yesterday. My legs still hurt BUT I did get a full night's sleep! That tells me that a) either I was too tired to care about pain or b) my leg cramps weren't as severe last night. I am also suspecting a potassium deficiency. Either way it showed me that I am not eating well right now and I need to work on it. Two more days and I get to take the saliva test. Too bad it takes two weeks to get the results.
A small victory this morning: I through out half a chocolate cake. Yep! It was leftover from the shower Friday night and I really didn't like it the first time. I had a piece last night and I just couldn't finish it. :noway: So I threw it out this morning. Yay!
I don't have time to sit and log all my food right now, but I am going to try to be more aware of what and how much I am eating. As far as exercise, I'm not sure it's a good idea right now for lower body stuff till I figure out what's wrong with my legs. I may do some upper body and crunches, but that's only if packing things doesn't give me a good enough work out. I am starting this morning in the storage room which is basically a nice part of an attic. So I won't be in there for very long this morning. My other goal today: drink lots of water since dehydration could cause pains.
Found a piece of ceiling on the floor in the kitchen this morning and a hole in the ceiling. Nice.

13 more days boogaloo!
MM

Aaaaah! It's August already?!? Where did my year go? :indifferent: I blinked, and it disappeared....

Anyway, I'm hoping for a productive week. And we should hear on Tuesday if our offer on the house was accepted!! I'm so nervous, I want this place so badly!

MM- I hope you're legs continue to improve!

And I hope you both get some better weather soon! :flowerforyou:

Today: Housework, study (YAY for getting some history books, good way to take a break from math), exercise, and good food choices!

I used a lot of exclamation marks in this post....boogaloo.

Well, food yesterday was a complete FAIL. Okay....so everything was kind of a fail. :ohwell:

New day, new chance right?

Not feeling too good today, and nervous about getting a response to our offer.


Try again, boogaloo.

Mary, the app is actually called "gorilla workout" it was cheap, if not free. As far as the toilets go, I would call the city (to see if others are having troubles) then straight to plumber, and fast. Scary toilets are scary. I do not mess with the toilets.

MM, you guys are going through a lot of chaos, and I'm sorry it's effecting Alex (and you). It will all be over soon? Or different soon? I find when my house is in chaos, it helps to get out of the house as often as possible, even if it's just a short walk (hard in this heat, though).

Livi, every meal is a new chance. I have really (I think) finally made the shift mentally that there's no food that can make me a failure. Some food is not as good for me as other food, but food doesn't make me a failure. Or you. Or anybody.

As for me, today is: therapy, a short writing session (as soon as I'm done here), shopping for food that maybe isn't watermelon, and whatever the cute little monkey wants me to do. I'm doing it during commercials now. I actually saw one of my long lost shoulder muscles yesterday, so that was very cool. I can also now accomplish 25 (total, in sets) modified pushups. I AM AWESOME. sorry for yelling, but doing any kind of pushup makes me very excited, since a few months ago I couldn't lift a pitcher of water or wash dishes.

WE ARE AWESOME!, boogaloo.:flowerforyou:

ETA: if you want to read lots and lots more words about "food cannot make you a failure" new blog boogaloo. Also details an interesting discovery made at the doctor's office yesterday.

Update:

Mary, it doesn't really feel like a charlie horse, but I will try the towel thing when it hurts again. Strangely enough it hasn't hurt me at all so far today! Or at least very little.

V, I got the gorilla app! Looks great. I am wanting to start now but I'd better see how my leg is doing. It would be just the right amount of time (and space) for me right now. I'd feel like I am doing something again!

Livi, so excited for you about your house. You have more patience than I do about moving. I'm ready to load everything up, unboxed even, to get to our new house and get settled.

I got an hour's worth the work done in the garage. That's about it so far. I'm going to try to work on packing pictures and puzzles now.
I forgot to tell you that when we told our agency we were moving we were scolded for not waiting until it was completely finished. :embarassed: Steve wrote her back and said, 1) we thought it would be better to move before she comes instead of uprooting her once we get her home, and 2) we have rats. She wrote back and said , "Oh. That is bad." We will just have to put our old address on certain papers and our new address on certain other papers. She also said it could be the middle of September before we go get our daughter because Andrei has to get her passport done which takes 8-10 days I think. So more waiting but that's okay. The timing will be perfect and we will be more settled in. I can probably have Alex started on school by then too.
Anyway, that's my update. Back to work!

V- Your guilty cycle internal dialogue very closely matches mine. It's a hard thing to break once it's started. But between a long talk I had with a friend this morning and your blog post things are looking a lot better.

MM- I'm a bit impatient too. I'm dreaming out all the different things I'm going to do, how I'm going to arrange furniture, where I'm going to store things. :laugh: We'll probably be moved in by November or sooner, but since we'll have the lease here till December there won't be any rush and I can thoroughly clean the house before moving in and get this place spotless before the walk through with the apartment staff.


We got the last signatures on the house!! So it's definitely gonna be ours! Unless the inspector finds something wrong, but I don't think that will happen. So excited!!!


YAY for new house! Boogaloo.

Everybody is busy bees. Sorry, I mean busy pebbles.My smilys aren't working either, so wink.

Today is yoga, and a trip to the health food store. My acupuncturist is putting me on a supplement she thinks will help to even out my hormones. Not feeling pms-y two weeks out of the month would be good. Then, it's home to write. I realized yesterday when I was shopping that I haven't eaten meat in over a week. This is interesting to me.

Other goals for the day: hydrate, walk home from yoga and write two sections of the chapter. If I can accomplish this, I will have a draft. It will be quite drafty, but it will look like a rough draft of a chapter.

Bad news of the day/week: since my husband has been in the states, his car has been hit while it was parked (person was both nice and insured, phew), vandalized (we are thinking this may be due to the "foreign" Canadian plates, as we have been harassed in his Mother's neighborhood before (really?), and last night a major piece of his equipment died. So, he/we is/are very unlikely to net a profit on his work this week. Blah. Due to the car weirdness last night, I told him to go stay at a hotel (more money spent) because we fear that tonight it could be worse stuff done to his car (his expensive tools of his trade are all stored inside, too). We were hoping we could get away for a few days in August, so now that will not happen. Disappointed. Sad face.

Miss my man, boogaloo.Flower for you.

Morning!

I'm feeling better today, but kind of unfocused and I have that mopey "in limbo" feeling. I keep thinking of stuff to do but it still feels like I'm wandering around aimlessly. It's probably cause I'm looking forward to the house.

I'm thinking about getting started on the packing now, even though it's way soon. But if I pack up unnecessary items, like my stuffed animal collection (which is probably far too large considering I'm a grown married woman :laugh: but at this point I think I can say I'm just saving them for future kids ) and off season clothes. It'll make for less work later on...

Goals: To-do list, nutritious foods, some kind of exercise, and no moping!

Get focused, boogaloo.

V, ugh. That's awful about your car getting messed up! :mad: So sorry that happened. I could comment more but that would get me on a soapbox. I hope the money comes up so you can still get away this month.

Mary, did you get the toilets fixed?

Livi, I was in the limbo mode shortly after I found out we were moving. I think it's shock. :laugh: And I have a lot of stuffed animals too (and hot wheels cars that I don't let Alex play with. ). The kids do get to play with the stuffed animals. In fact I have a 4 foot stuffed white tiger that's been in the closet for years because I haven't had room for it. I will at the new house! A date won it for me at Seaworld when I was 19 so it's 16 years old. I don't mind if it's in Miss I's room but I do not want kids climbing all over it. It's full of those little beads that will make a huge mess. So now you ladies know what's in my closet. :laugh:

Happy birthday to my daughter today! She's five. I wish she was here and she could have been but it's okay. I hope they are doing something for her to celebrate. I'm not sure they are. There are so many kids I don't know how they would keep up.

The maintenance guy is coming out to fix a couple of problems with the doors breaking. He said the leak in the kitchen would have to wait till we move out. He said it sounds like the A/C drain is plugged up, and then it goes to another pipe which is probably plugged up, and in that case it goes into the plumbing and causes problems. He will look at it but I don't think there's anything that can be done. Oh well. It's just one more week! :bigsmile: (I think I'm abusing my smiley privileges again.)
My leg was hurting last night again so it must be from standing so much and doing squats while cleaning the blinds. I'll try to stretch it some today to see if that helps again. I am planning on working in the garage this morning for a bit and then cleaning more windows and blinds, and empty cabinets. And I will get some more packing done too.

More of the same boogaloo!

MM- Hah, well I guess I can feel better about my stuffed animals then! :bigsmile: Some of them are special because my Dad sent them to me when I was younger, but others are just cheap little things I picked up on a whim because they were cute. So the latter will probably end up being packed away in the new house til kiddies come along.

Mary- Hope your cats calm down! My cat loves when people come around to fix something, she gets super curious. In fact the only thing that really bothers her is other animals, I think because we found her as a stray and probably fought a lot.

V- LOL! I totally understand what you mean about the socks. :laugh: It's horrible that someone would do that to your car though. :frown:

So. After the giant pane of glass fell and shattered in our second bedroom yesterday I became rather unproductive. :grumble: I'm just glad it didn't fall about 30 seconds sooner. When I was standing RIGHT under it. Or a couple months ago when my aunt slept below it. :noway:

Apparently, this pane was installed without the "secure double-sided tape that is a very safe design." I don't know, maybe I'm the only one who thinks its kind of stupid to have a giant pane of glass (untempered, by the way) with nothing more than double-sided tape a bit of cheap caulking to secure it? :ohwell:

Soooo glad to be moving out of here. They spend a lot of time "prettifying" the complex, so it's not noticeable how crappy these apartments actually are until you're in a lease.

Still feeling funky, and annoyed by it. And still trying to get back in complete control of the eating thing. And not be depressed by the scale. I hate seeing the 160's rear its head again. I don't care if i stay at 159 for weeks, I just want to stay in the 150's!

Get in control, boogaloo.

Mary, how are the cats after the drama yesterday?

V, were you able to get your work sessions in?And that's great about your flight being "paid" for!

Livi, I wonder if the people who own your apartment complex also own this house we are in. :laugh: Glad we are both moving out!

Today is a busy day and now DH wants to throw a monkey wrench (literally) in it by taking his car to the shop for the overheating. It would be fine but the place is 30 minutes away so we'd lose two hours of cleaning time ( to go drop off and pick up, assuming it got fixed today). Our cooler morning hours are already slipping away and he doesn't seem to be in a hurry which makes me not want to hurry either. Done griping.
I am sore from yesterday and I actually felt sore right away instead of the delayed two days later kind of sore. So yay, I am getting a workout in! Goals today: get camaro ready to drive 2.4 miles (requires installation of seat and seatbelt, and replacing light bulbs to make sure we have brake lights etc.), pack up the garage, move all the already packed boxes downstairs, and pack things that we do not need for a week or can do without. Makes me wish I hadn't packed the plastic cups. Doh! I'd also like to get the backyard cleaned up (not that bad) and...whatever else we can get done, if we manage all of that.
Alex was dry heaving a bit yesterday which scared me. I think he was hot and dehydrated. Today he's staying in the house and watching movies if need be. Steve and I will be downing the water as much as we can.

Staying hydrated boogaloo!
MM (why do I always sign off? You know who I am. :laugh: )

V, I love your Mary comment. :laugh: Mary, you are crazy but in a good way.
Livi, how are you doing?

It's a busy day. We went to church and then had lunch with Steve's brother and family. They live about an hour or so away but we only see them once or twice a year. So sad. We're hoping to have them over after we get Irina settled in. Now we need to set up a time to meet with his sister and family who also live about an hour away and we only see once or twice a year.
We have about an hour before we leave for the church meeting tonight. Sounds boring. A meeting. But it's not a business meeting. It's a fellowship. We got to a Calvary Chapel, which have churches all over the world. It has a nickname of Calorie Chapel because Calvary's usually have potlucks and food fellowships all the time. Most churches do I suppose.
I declared today a day off. I am sore, but in a good way, and I have bruises all over my body from moving things. :laugh: I actually have a big one on my right calf which is making me wonder if I did something to it and that's why it was hurting for ten days. The bruise just showed up about 3-4 days ago though. My legs are doing better, thankfully! I may even do the gorilla work out tomorrow if packing doesn't wear me out.
My mom texted and wants to know if coming up to help us move would be a help or if they would just get in the way. I've never had to tell my mom not to come up. I've always wanted her to come up, but I have a feeling it would just cause more stress and she and my brothers have never been known to really be a big help. That sounds awful. They might keep Alex busy and out from under our feet but I think I can also send him to a friend's house while the moving is going on. I think I will tell her no. I could use her help during the week to pack or unpack but I think during the move would not help. We have church people helping so we're covered.
A much needed rest boogaloo.