update….

i guess another appropriate title for this would be…sucks being in your late 20s. I can’t believe i’m in my freaking late 20s. (though, i’m technically still on the "mid-20s" side of things…or not. sucks anyway)

still with same guy. its been like…20 months? it’s completely freaky. and i mean, we’ve had problems and stuff in the past. but i guess either he’s stopped going stupid idiot single boy trying to adjust to coupledom things, or i’ve gotten more tolerant of those things. *shrug* i guess next step (for me at least) is to figure out what the heck I want out of this…Sucks being in your late 20s. I can’t believe i’m in my late 20s. sheesh

gained a crapload of weight this past year. Weight that I’d struggled and worked really hard to lose. SUCKS. so trying to get myself on track again. here’s what i’m trying to do.

1) work out more. I used to be pretty good about going to group exercise classes (kickboxing, upper body class, step, yoga) but this has trailed off the past year. This will hopefully be made easier by now working closer to the gym.

2) eat better. not doing so good on this. ate a crapload of junk this weekend. but, it’s a holiday weekend! I think I did pretty good. despite the mass amounts of ice cream. I love ice cream. Also, I did manage to cook when I was home, for the most part. and tried to reduce snacking. again, except for the ice cream. it gets me everytime. especially when it’s in my freezer (I bought it when friends were in town, and they didn’t eat too much of it)

3) sleep more/better, which i’m also not doing right now. and i guess all of these fall into a, get on a freaking schedule theme…

I think I might try to keep track of stuff here. but my goal is 2 lbs/week. hopefully. though that’s really hard to notice/measure. I also read somewhere that you’re supposed to only lose 10% of your body weight at a time, and then maintain for 6 months to get your body to reset that new weight to be it’s "happy" weight. which is apparently set when you’re around 20/21. And that for me, was a TERRIBLE time for it to set itself, because that was the peak of my eat crappy food, drink lots of soda phase in college. ugh. a stupid decision that i will apparently have to deal with for the rest of my life. and now i think i’m starting to get to an age where my metabolism is starting to slow down naturally. making it HARD to lose weight. sucks being in your late 20s! (there it is again)

did some yardwork this weekend. not terribly impressive i know, but it doesn’t really fall into the terms of my rental agreement (or at least I don’t think it does). but i get some sort of weird sick twisted thrill out of doing yard work. except for lawn mowing. i hate doing that. picked up and bagged all the leaves that were on our tiny patch of yard (it’s a townhouse)  that had been there since Fall 2007. It was gross. top layer of leaves were fine. dry. whatever. easy to pick up. the layer under that was disgusting. earthworms, bugs. wet/damp. it had started decomposing. YUCK. then went a little bit crazy pulling weeds/crabgrass and whatnot. then realized I probably should’ve asked the landlord if he’d had anything planted out there that wasn’t supposed to get pulled up. then looked and noticed that there were huge patches of barespots with the leaves and weeds gone. so made my first attempt ever to plant grass seed. hopefully it’ll look okay and grow okay and stuff. but now i’m all sore from bending over all the time to pull stuff up. I’m sure our neighbors are like thank jeebus, because we had the worst looking yard ever. plus we don’t mow as often as we probably should, so with all the superfast growing weeds, it starts looking pretty junglelike pretty quick.