Wind, freezing temps, getting healthy and no time.
Well, I'm a week into trying to get it together and while I feel like I've been super productive, I also feel like it came at a price. I feel no sense of peace at all. It's amazing how your mind can be so FULL for days at a time. I know I'm not alone in this - plenty of people have more going on that I do, but man, I wish I could turn it off long enough for a moment of peace.
Brandon went to the old house after work on Thursday to start painting the half bath, then we both went after work on Friday and didn't stop until after 9pm, followed by a long drive home. I went back early on Saturday and he joined me when he got off work. We finished painting the half bath and the kitchen a neutral color, edged and mowed the lawn and put out some new plants on the front porch. All in the hope of getting a potential buyer to see what a great house it is. I hate neutral colors! After growing up in government housing, I embraced lots of color in our homes. It's done though and I'm praying for the perfect family to come along and fall in love with it.
I did manage to workout twice this week. I even put on my chicken boots to go out there since I had to sludge through mud from all the rain we got. I revised my work out plan after reading a bit on more effective routines and I received the gloves I ordered to use on my punching bag. Brandon got me a stand for it for our anniversary and I'm soooo excited to use it! I wanted to workout 4 times, but after painting, I was beat! And sore! I ended Saturday with almost 14,000 steps, so I'm calling that a win. I spent Sunday afternoon meal planning, grocery shopping and meal prepping. That was so much work! I'm hoping this part starts to get easier. While I have managed to lose 77 pounds (VERY slowly), I haven't moved the scale for over 6 months. I know stress plays a HUGE roll in that, but it is still super frustrating. I premade enough food for lunches and dinners for at least the next three days. B and B will each take a night this week of cooking too! Oh and Brandon hung my medals from my virtual races up in my gym.. I love seeing them there!
It was amusing to see us walking through the parking lot at the grocery store. The wind has been crazy today and it made some of look crazy as well! LOL!
It's mid-March and we are getting freezing temps tonight and tomorrow night. What the heck?! I refuse to lose any seedlings this year, so we went out right as it was cooling down to plug in heating mats. This is only the 2nd year I've tried growing anything substantial. I learned a lot last year, including the fact that a greenhouse does not keep them warm in freezing temps. I also learned that I don't need to worry about the fluffy butts (chickens). I have to worry about the heat more than the cold. I get ridiculously excited about growing things. I've always been under the impression that I had the black thumb of death. Turns out I may have been wrong about that.
All throughout everything we did this weekend, my brain was constantly thinking about what I wasn't getting dome. Who does that? I have confidence it will get better. That's what I'm working on now. Put in the work. See results. Find peace.
One last thing and this did make me laugh. My team at work was just talking about SPAM. We were divided on Yum vs Gross and I am on team eeeeewwww! Who am I to yuk someone's yum though? Hehe. What made me laugh was coming across this today at the grocery store... On that call we were talking about how there are so many flavors of SPAM now. I now have an idea percolating in the back of my mind. More to come on that much later.
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