A Little Progress

The ticker at the top of the post has moved in the right direction.  In June, I was 16.9 lbs above my lowest weight, which was in November of last year.  It is Oct. 21, and I am now only 11.2 lbs above my lowest weight.  It's not a lot of progress, but it is some progress, and for that I am grateful.


This week was a little weird at work as the senior staff announced a major reorganization of my division.  My job hasn't changed (yet) but my boss has been promoted and is now heading up a new group and I'm not moving with her.  I am very happy for her; she's going to be running a project and systems group and although I can do the work, I don't enjoy it, which makes it a struggle...so I'm glad, from that respect, that I'm not going with her.  The other REALLY good boss I've had in this division (the one before the psycho 8 years ago) is creating a new group, and I'm hopeful that he'll request that I be moved to his staff.  I hope I didn't just jinx it.


Amazingly enough, with all the drama, I didn't stuff my face.  I didn't exercise as much as I should have, but sometimes going home to rest and calm my mind is the best thing.  Last night I met a friend at the beach (she also just got promoted!!) and we walked for 30 minutes and almost 2 miles.  Tonight I did 30 minutes on the elliptical and burned 300.9 calories (at least that's what the machine said).  I've got my gym bag packed again, and it's going with me tomorrow morning when I leave to babysit my niece again!! I didn't have to wait another 5 years before I was asked again!!  Woooo Hooooo!!  I'm taking her to gymnastics class and then Dunkin Donuts.  I just hope that I don't do too much damage there, but my plan is to stop at the gym on the way home.  I'm so glad my sister asked me to do this.  You have no idea how much it means to me.  I feel useful.


My cousin is still going through a hard time.  I expect she'll be living with me full-time by the end of this month, if things finally start going her way.  I have very little time to get rid of a lot of crap from this room so she'll be comfortable.  My office is also my guest room, and while it's comfortable for a short stay, it's not set up as bedroom.  I'm not able to move my desk (it's a mammoth) to another room, and I have only two bedrooms anyway.  She knows this and understands.  She has all her furniture in storage, so we moved some of my things to the storage to make room for her:  a comfortable upholstered chair and ottoman as well as a rocking chair my grandpa bought my mom when she was pregnant with me.  


I hope she gets on her feet quickly and can settle where she can be comfortable long term.  She desperately needs a job, and I sure hope she finds one that she enjoys and enables her to go to school and pay her bills.  My cousin likes to exercise and eat healthy, so she'll be a good influence on me while she's here.


I changed one of my posts from November of last year to a draft because I was getting a ton of searches as the #1 Google search result for a certain gadget that I will not name here again.  The last thing I need is some fitness-crazed coworker finding my blog. NOT!


Coming Up:  

• Rick Springfield and Jack Wagner on Nov. 5 (I said no to friends before the tickets went on Groupon...then I had no excuse to refuse)
• Annual trip to Charlotte, NC--Nov 10-13
• Staycation during Thanksgiving week 
• Thanksgiving at Dad's girlfriend's house (yay...) and first time without my sister since Mom died 
• Judas Priest on December 1
• Hall and Oates on December 5
• Hanukkah starts December 20th, when I'm sure my sister will be at Disney celebrating Xmas
• I've got a December birthday 
• Another staycation the last week of December
• And somewhere in all of this, relocating my mother's remains from her temporary mausoleum space to her permanent space because the building is FINALLY done...and the unveiling that goes with it

And finally, I've decided that it's time for me to find a man and have a committed relationship.  He's got to be the right man, though. Not just anyone will do. So, I've joined a "relationship" service, thrown a boatload of money I don't have at it, and now we'll see what happens.


This should be an interesting end of the year.