Being Healthier

Boring, but sharing goals means I have to stay accountable:

Yesterday Joe and I officially decided that we were going to do three things these next couple of weeks: (1) work harder on the house, (2) eat healthier, (3) work out (not just regularly, but a lot). We accomplish goals better if there's some sort of deadline, and we have a few coming up.

(1) house: My mom is coming down Sunday for the week to help us work on the house. We have old friends coming from Houston to stay with us October 3-5. Both are good motivation to get a bunch done on the house!

(2 & 3) getting in better physical condition: Some ladies at church are having a party at which you are supposed to wear your wedding dress or bridesmaid's dress on October 3rd. Since friends will be in town, I'm not sure if I'll go, but I think I'll at least try on my wedding dress for the first time in nearly 7 years. I'm pretty sure it is a size 4, and that is tiny for a wedding dress (a 10 is more like a 6 or 8). So my goal is more being CLOSE to fitting in it instead of actually fitting in it. Joe's starting soccer season again, so that's his motivation.

us and some of my wedding dress long, long ago

Hopefully the "deadlines" will help us get going on somethings we needed to do anyway! On to the funny part...

So, Joe and I had officially decided to do these things on the drive to work yesterday. I got to work to see an email from my boss that says to come downstairs for kolaches, cake, and other desserts for a coworker's birthday. I didn't go (though I did go down later to wish her a happy birthday and had to refuse cake then) and I ate my granola for breakfast. I went to a seminar at 11:00, and pizza and sodas were served afterwards. I decided to eat some pizza instead of the lunch I brought, but I stuck with water to drink. It smelled so good, and I had already turned down kolaches! The office woman who had organized the food is a friend and she insisted that I take a whole pizza back to the lab with me for lunch the next day (to share with one other person in my lab). I took it, but I'm going to eat what I brought for yesterday instead. Moving on, I went to another seminar at 4:00, and there were giant yummy-looking cookies from Jason's Deli. I didn't take one, even though at points I nearly fell asleep in the too-hot conference room hearing a man talk about nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in the auditory cortex (do you blame me?). So the day I commit to eating better, I was offered tempting food all day at work. Of course.

primary auditory cortex (in human brain)

We did go running (which also involved some walking for me) yesterday. We have such a beautiful neighborhood! One neighbor has a pet goose!

Okay, okay. I've been a bad blogger.

And it's not because there's been nothing to blog about, either! (I dedicate that double negative to my mother- and sister-in-laws, both English teachers.) I even have a bunch of pictures to go along with the Peebles' current events!

Until I actually upload those and take the time to write about them, I've decided to give you a list. It's a list of things that make me feel worse than realizing I haven't blogged about life lately. In no particular order, but still numbered:

1. I work really hard on some project and the first thing someone says (okay, I'll be honest, probably anything said in the first 2 minutes) is negative. Why do I want approval so much, anyway?

2. I say "Really, don't worry about it" for the kah-gillionth time when someone continuously apologizes for something for which one "oops, sorry!" would have been more than sufficient. (I don't just feel annoyed, I feel bad that I can't communicate that I'm really not bothered by something. I feel like people unecessarily apologize to me often.)

3. We're parked on the road in front of a friend's house and I open the door over their lawn to get in the passenger side. I sit in the car. It goes down - a lot. So much, in fact, that the door is now stuck in their grass and I can't pull the door closed without getting back out and trying again with the door not opened so wide. Our friends wave goodbye as we finally drive off.

I wish I could say #3 had only happened once or twice.

Well, I've got a few other things I've committed to getting done asap, so no promises on the blog other than I will try harder. Like another blogging friend recently said, I'm hoping that writing a little will help get me going again!

Make me feel better and post a comment of something that makes you feel worse than me taking almost 3 weeks away from posting on here! That should be really easy to think of something for everyone other than my parents, for whom my silence is more of a tragedy. Here's an example: You're happy to see you have just enough cereal left for breakfast. You pour milk in your bowl and then realize the milk has gone bad. Later you begin to think you shouldn't have eaten it.

It doesn't have to be funny. If you're unsure, here's an easy fill-in-the-blank sentence: "I feel worse when I have to change __________ than when you don't post." Fill in the blank with something like a diaper, a flat tire, or my toothbrush.

Papa Murphy's Pizza

Last Thursday Joe and I tried a stuffed pizza (grilled chicken and bacon) from Papa Murphy's. We had a coupon for a large (14"), so I ordered that. It was HUGE - bigger than 14" and about 2" thick! I cut it into 8 slices, and we both only had one slice. They assemble the pizza for you and you take it home and bake it. It's much faster than a frozen pizza (which makes sense but still surprised me). I think the Roma tomatoes made it seem even more fresh. Anyway, the pizza was yummy, so I recommend giving it a try. Oh, but call in your order - it takes them some time to prepare it (I watched - the people move in slow-motion).


note: I looked up the nutrition facts for this pizza. The serving size is 1/12th of a pizza, even though they say the large feeds 3-4 people! What we ate - 1/8th of the pizza, comes out to 549 calories, 196 from fat (21.5 grams). If it were split into 3.5 servings, each would have 1255 calories and 50 grams of fat! No wonder it's so tasty. :)