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A-Ha Moment via text

Friend: How is life? Haven’t talked in awhile

Me: I’m pretty great. Work is really busy, but going very well. T and I are better than we’ve been in a while. Social life, fitness, and finances are all on point. I will gladly relish in this high for the moment.

Friend: That’s so good!!!! You def deserve some good/chill times. I feel like the last half of last year and early this year weren’t your most fun.

Me: My life is always feast or famine. Mar-Sept ‘17 were really rough, I’m glad it’s behind me.

Me: This week in April was also particularly traumatizing in 2013. I feel like at least lows of last year I addressed/dealt with so I don’t have the same level of PTSD as I do with my 2013 rough patch.

Friend: Which was 2013? Ya learning to deal is one of my top life lessons in the past couple years.

Me: When my supervisee had her baby 2 weeks early and a week later my boss announced she was leaving just as I reached the one year mark on the job, all while facing turning 30 that Aug.

Friend: Ooh yes and then you [REDACTED]. Healthy times

Me: Most of my stress and trauma as adult is from work, but that’s because I use work as a poor coping mechanism for my mom’s alcoholism :::A-HA:::

I’m feeling very self aware at the moment and being able to verbalize it to others helps. Although this friend knows all too well about my lows, but still being able to say most of the “bad stuff” in my life is work related and I’m learning how trival work is at the end of the day. It’s a job, as an educator and administrator its an important job, but it’s still just a job. I can’t let a job own me.

Choices

I’ve been getting into a really good workout routine the since the start of the year and I’ve really held it sacred because summer is my peak work season and I know I won’t be able to get to nearly as many classes.

Yesterday a last minute meeting got put together that I got invited to through another colleague with the University President and some other university leadership to talk about student veterans (which supporting their success and advising their student group is part of my role).

Is it good/bad that my first thought was 5p-6p on Thursday, umm no I have Body Pump and Combat express. My second thought was after business hours, come on.

However I realize what an important opportunity this is to help further advocate for student veteran success in front of university leadership. So I’m staying late and missing class this week, but it’s for a good reason.

I will be working a half day Friday because I have an event that requires me to be here at 7:30am in Friday so between an early day following a late night, I’ll starting my weekend early!

Lent Goal ACHIEVED

This year for Lent I decided to journal every night, a habit I had for like 15 years but fell out of routine with the last few years. I’m pleased that I’ve written every night since Ash Wednesday (Feb 14). 

I told myself I “only” need to write a page and it doesn’t even need to be a full page. On a few occasions, I wrote more than a page, but I’d found a page to be a good amount overall. I also start a new page each day regardless of where I finished on the last page, which is a practice I haven’t done in a REALLY long while and I like it. 

The plan going forward is to write each night still. However now I can opt out of writing if I’m too tired or have nothing to say, but I think switching writing from opt in to opt out will be good for me and my habits. 

This northern Virginia winter wonderland means that work is cancelled, but fitness classes at my gym are cancelled tonight too. Yay no work, but womp, I was going to go to Body Combat and Pump.

I guess this means I need to dust off my workout DVDs and see what I can do at home. I’m thinking each level of Jillian Michael’s 30 Day Shred and some yoga with Adrienne on YouTube.

Lenten Check In

After reading @legallybrunettemama ‘s post about her Lent progress I thought I’d chime in. My Lenten habit I’ve ADDED to my life is writing in my paper journal every day. So far I’m 2 weeks in and I honestly forgot how good it was to have a nightly check in with myself. I give myself 1 page to write a day, but no pressure to fill it – however, one day I filled 2 pages. Anyway, each new day gets a new page, which also makes looking back through the journal easier. Small goals are still worthy goals, never forget that!

Telework Tuesdays are BACK

So I plead my case in recent weeks to have my weekly telework day back. I was granted the request for this semester, but was told I would not likely get this opportunity to telework going forward (which is garbage), but I’ll take what I can get and I’ll fight my fall semester battles when the time comes…

Lunch Miles

Spent 40 minutes of my lunch break walking 2 miles on the treadmill at the gym at work. Today’s been SUPER quiet at work and I was getting restless. I’m so glad I went and got my blood pumping – even though I plan to go to Body Pump and walk some on the treadmill later. 

Weight loss and weight maintenance is a neverending journey and that’s okay. I just need to work on balance, that’s my goal for 2018. 

Winter Break Re-Commitment

I’ve been on Winter Break at work this week, but the students were out for the semester the week prior so it was easy to get out of the door on time and not have work stress on my mind. 

  • 12/18 – Treadmill
  • 12/19 – N/A
  • 12/20 – Treadmill
  • 12/21 – Body Pump
  • 12/22 – Treadmill
  • 12/23 – Body Pump
  • 12/24 – N/A
  • 12/25 – N/A
  • 12/26 – N/A
  • 12/27 – Body Pump & Treadmill
  • 12/28 – Body Pump & Treadmill  (3 Day Cleanse, Day 1)
  • 12/29 – Body Pump & Treadmill (3 Day Cleanse, Day 2)
  • 12/30 – PLANNED: Body Pump & Treadmill (3 Day Cleanse, Day 3)

I head back to work on ½, but the students don’t start back until the day after MLK weekend, so I get the first 2 weeks in January to not have to think much about work. I plan to leverage this time. Jan 1 a Monday, how perfect! That is my Weight Watchers FreeStyle kick-off day and I’m pumped. 

PS – I got an air fryer for Christmas!!

Back to tracking

I have a love/have relationship with weight watchers tracking, especially since the website doesn’t want to load on my work computer anymore (I’ve tried multiple browsers, I dont get it). so I can only use the app and I’m still someone who prefers to type on a keyboard over a phone. I also prefer to talk on a phone over typing.