Reboot Boogaloo, September - open group

I didn't have time to post this morning! We are out at the in laws right now and will be leaving soon. Got a walk in. Windy and 82! Love it!
No news from Russia today. Hope it comes tomorrow. Getting antsy!

Quick check in boogaloo!

weird day. weighed in for Weight Watchers online and have lost 4lbs this week. And so what happens...I get completely and utterly depressed for the rest of the day and end up eating a big honkin piece of rich carrot cake. I did walk about 2 km today which is ok I guess. SO confused.

boogaloo bleh.
sj.

Why depressed? not enough? sometimes I get depressed over success, like it's a letdown, or I need to "celebrate" it in a weird way. Yesterday was a mopey day. Over now, and keep going. Today is a new, less depressed day, or something.

Today I have to go up to campus, and probably there isn't a fight. I have to go check a bulletin board for my assignment. Really? a bulletin board? is this 1897? Sorry, totally a first-world problem but it's a two hour commute to look at a bulletin board when someone could/should call or email me and tell me what I need to know. I could put it off until later in the week, but best to get it done. Blergh.

Off to positivity: today I will eat real food (went out and had pub food, including, interestingly a shared piece of carrot cake (maybe it was the fall T.O. air yesterday?) and drink lots of water and move to combat my own mopeyness. I think most of mine is uncertainty/change of seasons. I also have to get packing/preparing as I leave Sunday, which will be here soon. Yikes.

Real food, no more stress eating, and remembering to be gentle with myself because I am stressed.

That's enough for anybody, boogaloo.:flowerforyou:

WOW MM!!!! I am so excited for you. It's been so long in coming that it's hard to believe it's real and it isn't even happening to me. . .I can't imagine what ya'll are going through.

Here's hoping everything moves forward perfectly!

thanks for your encouragement! today was a better day, I walked over 3 km and did about 3 hours work prepping for my choir and other projects. I feel it has been a pretty productive day. Let's hope I can keep some consistency.

blessings to you all!
sj

CP, I hope you get the kitchen remodel decisions made and they come easy for you. That would be a fun, but difficult thing to do. I hope it all turns out like you want!

Mary, safe travels today!

V, how did the campus trip go?

Sarah, it sounds like you had a good day yesterday.

Newbies, where did you go?

I didn't log yesterday. I should have. I think I needed to. Then I felt really really nauseated after dinner last night. I don't know what that was all about. Steve said it was anxiety. Maybe. I hate that my stomach gets nauseous when I am nervous/anxious. It only makes me feel more nervous/anxious. It may have been something I ate too. I need to limit my dairy intake. My lactose intolerance gets worse the more stressed out I am. I did clean for an hour or more yesterday and got the house looking really decent. :happy:
I'm not sure what's happening today. There's always some cleaning to do, so I will probably do that for about an hour or more. I'm logging my food. I need to make a grocery list. I am working out today. I don't know what I am doing. It will either be a walk or the stretch P90X video, which I haven't gotten to do yet. Or both. Steve is working late tonight so it's going to be difficult to be motivated to go to church.
We tried figuring out all the flights last night but they weren't working out. It's looking like we may have to drive to Houston again to fly out. :grumble: We could fly on AA with a stop in London, but the return flight leaves Moscow at 5:50 AM. Andrei will drop us off at midnight like he did the first trip we went. It was awful for us that time waiting for 5 hours in rock hard chairs, trying to sleep. It would be worse this time with a five year old, who's exhausted and probably scared. It would also cost my mom over twice as much to go. We have airline miles. Anyway, it's kind of a mess. Steve's contacting a travel agency to see if they can come up with something better. We were planning to fly to Houston because it issn't that horribly expensive, but there weren't enough seats left on the flight we need to make it to the connecting flight. :ohwell: So I don't know what's going to happen. I won't worry about it. That's my husband's job.

Ten more days (I hope!) boogaloo!

Good morning. :yawn:
Had some crazy dreams last night so I am out of it this morning.

Since I am not getting work outs in because too much is going on, I decided to concentrate on my eating for right now. If I exercise, great. If I don't exercise okay, as long as I stay within my cals. My stomach has been torn up for a couple of days and I'm pretty sure it's because of what I am eating and also because dairy right now is just not good for me (due to stress). So I *hope* to log all my food for the rest of the week and into next week, today. If I already have it planned out, then I will know what to eat and I won't have to go searching for stuff in the pantry which inevitably leads me to not so healthy stuff. I don't know how I could log my food every week, but it would probably be a good idea to try. And things will change. I will eat something different than planned but I will then know how much I can have ahead of time and still stay in my cals. So that's what I am going to try to do today after going to the store.
I really need to start walking again to prepare for our trip, so I will work that in when I can. I am wearing tennis shoes to Moscow this time (weather permitting) and I am hoping the walking will be not as far and slower since we will have a 5 year old with us. (BTW we have not been able to book plane tickets yet. It just hasn't been working out yet.)
So goals today: grocery shop, log my food for a week, get a walk in, and some more general cleaning around the house. Oh and lists for myself and for other people to prepare for the trip.

Determined boogaloo.

Did we scare off new folks? I think we're friendly. Are we not friendly?

Anyways. . .Have pretty much decided to go have a talk with the union rep when I get back from the trip. It is not OK to treat workers or people in general this way, and I for one will not put up with it. I will at least calmly put my complaints/dissatisfaction on record. I think it was probably good that I did not get up and speechify at the meeting itself, as it would have only caused trouble for me personally/politically this year in the department.

In other news, had my last "restorative" summer session yoga class today. It was v. good, essentially just 5-6 different versions of savasana. I'm trying to decide how much work/technology to take/how much to leave on next week's trip. I'm actually considering not taking my laptop and just taking a notebook (old school!) I want to do some writing on the convention itself while I'm at the convention, but also realize that I will be doing a lot of moving around, so there will need to be downtime as well. Today is the first day I've really been able to sit down and do things like figure out "what time my plane leaves" and the like.

Walked to/from yoga. Going out to hear some music tonight. that's enough for today. Resting up for the stress of travel. Have I mentioned that I hate to fly? Not looking forward to the extra security that will no doubt be in place on Sunday when I'm flying, on three connections on little teeny tiny commuter planes. ugh.

Glad to hear that kitties are OK for now, Mary. These fires seem super scary from where I'm sitting watching the news, so they're internationally famous, in case you were interested.

Getting ready for the road, boogaloo.:flowerforyou:

I hope we didn't scare off the new people. Come back new people! And Pebbs we haven't seen in awhile!

I logged on to MFP and it said I had -80 calories left for the day. Must be a glitch. Then I realized I have already logged my food for the day! :laugh: Some days I'm just not fully here.
Have any of you been jetskiing before? Steve signed up for a Groupon thing two months ago. We have to go this weekend, or it's just not going to happen. I don't really want to go but my only reasons not to go are fear based and I refuse to give in to that. I just wondered if it's fun. I don't want to fall off. Steve said part of the fun is getting wet. Not for me. I like going fast and I like riding a motorcycle, but I'm not sure about doing both of those on water. I'm not really looking forward to it. And I don't want to get sunburned! I haven't been burned this year and I'd prefer to keep it that way. I don't really care a whole lot about being tanned and all that, like I used to. I'd rather not get skin cancer.
Okay I'm done venting. Today is Bible Study, more prep work for the trip, eating healthy, basic cleaning and hopefully a walk. We leave one week from tonight! Ack!

No fear based excuses boogaloo.

Morning!
Ugh, there are workmen on our roof (so maybe it won't rain in my bedroom this spring?) but it's my teaching day, and they're using a smelly generator and the whole building is shaking and I can't find my first student's number. I want to flee my apartment.

In other news, goals for the day are to flee (absolutely beautiful day outside) in an active way. Mary, the senior teacher wasn't there to speak to about what class I would fit into for active practice. I think I will email her, as she's always busy even when she is there.

I'm in denial about my trip, haven't done any of my over planning. Probably tomorrow will be a planning binge, but really, there's not much to plan. Really it's just go and watch and write.

Building shaking boogaloo.:flowerforyou: