The Rest of My Life

I feel as if my entries have been dominated by one aspect of my life. There is a lot more going on!

I’m down, officially, 8.8 pounds as of this morning. I’ve started working out again this week, and it feels soooo good to come home drenched in sweat. I do need to buy different socks, though, as the ones I have are way too short and leave me with blisters. Damn my amazonian feet! But, hooray Amazon Prime! I can haz them in two business days. Woot woot! Ordered. Will be here on the 5th. Thank goodness. My poor feet.

Enough about socks…

I’m not doing a fad diet. I’m just eating less and moving more. It’s very sustainable. I don’t feel deprived. I feel pretty good.

I’ve been consistent with my vitamin and medication regimen. I don’t notice a huge difference, other than a prevailing feeling of wanting to improve myself and my quality of life. That might be what spurred me to start the vitamin regimen in the first place!

I’ve been stretching with a method called the Miracle Ball method. I love it. I haven’t felt so good in a long time, especially my back and neck. It’s a set of two small inflatable balls that you use to elevate your body in order to stretch it in a different way.

The first time I did the set of stretches for my neck, I heard a loud click in my back and something shifted back into place that’s been out for a few weeks.

Bliss. Absolute bliss.

I’m finding it easier to move the more I do it. I don’t wake up limping around because of my ankles. It’s such a good feeling.

Work has been all right. It’s looking like I’m going to have a week off between contracts. I’m ok with that. Even though it means no paycheck, I find that I’m getting really burned out on work. I haven’t had a proper vacation since my cruise, which was now about 2 years and 1 month ago. Every other vacation has had some aspect of work – even the trip out to LA, which I initially spent in conference.

I’ve been watching Little Man with some regularity. It’ll be a few more weeks before Rachel is back. He’s getting so freaking big, smiling and giggling and baby babbling. And, the most fun portion, deciding ‘Fuck sleep! Who needs that shit?!’ as he furiously headbutts me because he’s so tired. *laughs*

Brian bought me a beautiful picture frame that says "An Aunt is a forever friend" and put a picture of Little Man in it. It absolutely melted my heart. I have such fierce love for that family. I would quite literally do anything for them.

I put it in my office, where I need his smiling face the most. I put it there to remind me that there’s so much more to life than work, and I have the love of some truly amazing people.

This is how I know I will be ok.

All right. Time to do some stretches and then get to work. I get an extra 8 hours of pay (not OT sadly) because of Memorial Day this week. I think I’ll be needing the extra money!