Saturday Afternoon

I rescheduled my afternoon shift in order to stay in bed for a long while. I really overdid it out there on the wood today. While I'm sure I burned off the half a pizza I had before venturing out there, in typical fashion everything was a lot harder than I expected. I think the major mistake was shoveling a path. When I shoveled I uncovered the drainage hose from our gutters and it was freely sending water down the path I had created. This turned the remaining snow to slush pretty quickly and the 2 minute walk from wood pile to house turned into a 10 minute ordeal of swearing, cursing, and general pain in the neckism. I was out there for two hours instead of the normal one it takes me. I only stopped because my heavy leather gloves were so water logged at that point that they were starting to fall apart.

Got back inside and found that one of the cats had dumped my soda on my keyboard. He was in search of catnip. He then promptly got sick all over the floor as I staggered into the shower. I really do like animals, but today lol ... having to clean up cat barf when you're totally at the end of your rope just isn't really right. I said the hell with it, changed my schedule, and went to bed after that. I didn't really sleep since I was waiting for the frozen food guy to get here, but man, I needed to get off my feet.

One thing I should note, I haven't just lost weight from dumping soda. I've also dumped a lot of snacks. I saw a report on how many calories were in the cookies I used to eat, in pop tarts, and in a lot of other things. I used to munch constantly or even have a meal of 10 cookies or so. I stopped doing that. Now I occasionally have some chips or a candy bar but nothing too over the top. There's not a constant open thing of chips here. There's not a constant need for snacks. If I get really hungry for snacks I have a couple of peppermints or a cup full of total raisin bran.

I know I'm doing a lot better than my dad was at this age. He was already 220-230 lbs. and was on the way to heart surgery. My mom at this age was also very overweight (I'm surprised that I don't have the pear shape or big butt that her side of the family has). I know I'm doing better than both of them. But still, there's a lot more I could be doing. I hope it's showing. I know I look different but I'm trying. So keep up with my webcam and let me know how I'm looking.

Anyway, my brain is pretty much gone. I have to work in an hour and hopefully I'll get through the three hour shift without incident. I think I'm going to play some simgolf ... yum .. simgolf ...

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