September 13th, 2009

     I took a few days off work around the holiday, as I was reaching burn-out stage.  Not good for my weight.  I ate out with friends too much and I lose a lot of activity when I don't work.  (My job is very physical.)  So my weight was back up a couple of pounds, though it has slipped back down to 157.5 this week.  Even though I stayed busy, got some things accomplished, saw some friends, rode the scooter and got a brand new, exciting camara, I felt increasingly blue.  I worry about my retirement years.  How am I going to keep this weight off and avoid depression without my run-your-ass-off job which I don't even love?  Actually, I read back over some old posts and decided what I really need to do is watch the sugar I eat.  I've been quite a bit more lax than when I first started this blog.  Back then, I strictly avoided it except for Sundays.  Although after many months this phenomena eased off, at first I could really tell the sugar affected me cause I had blues on Mondays, sometimes even into Tuesdays.  Is chocolate layer cake really worth it?  Yes?  No?  I hate these kinds of questions?!? 

     Of course, there is another reason.  Our company surprised me this year.  We didn't expect OT due to the economy.  Yet, our heavy season is here as usual and we are scheduled for extra-day overtime.  In fact more overtime than usual.  I have exactly three days off the rest of this month, IF I'm lucky and my department keeps up!  

     Not much money, no place to go, I thought I would catch up on a variety of things during my vacation that I had been meaning to do for some time now.  My list:  shop for a digital camara, refinish a table, reorganize and feng shui my room, sort through my stashed pile of bills, receipts, articles, magazines and statements, clean Carmine's aquarium (my goldfish), try on some old clothes pulled from storage, get the scooter serviced, find a clothesline, string it and wash my "line-dry only" sofa covers, sew some buttons on a coat, look for a ventilated pair of motorcycle gloves, clean up the phone numbers and photos stored on my phone, contact a friend about ordering a T-shirt for our club, register for the Race For The Cure (our team will be doing the UNtimed one), transplant some houseplants, take my sewing machine in for repair, clean out the car and take a huge pile of newspapers, cans, jars, batteries and magazines to the recycle center.  *Whew*  I got a lot of it done!!  Still have to take in the sewing machine, still working on cleaning and organizing the "family" and "health" baguas of my room, got one more plant to transplant, got the clothesline, now I have to wait out the rain, and I never got close to refinishing the table.  Eh.  Paltry stuff compared to Linda's Mission 100.  Mine is mostly the sum of procrastination!!