Everything's been turning around slowly but surely.
I really can't even describe the new lease on life my Zen has given me. (Sorta sad? Perhaps.) I'm a big believer in deprivation as a means to an end. I've wanted (in no particular order) the Zen, a digicam, and a vacation more or less since I plopped back into town last July. I kept putting them off until I got a job (check), moved (working on it) and lost some of that pesky extra weight (mostly done). No point in having spare money if I can't at least do something to make myself happy for a change. So, I took the plunge and got it and I'm glad for it. Post-apartment pinning down is the LA trip to roll around town with C. Nothing wrong with doing stuff for kicks every now and again.
I was pretty hype as the week passed. Music makes my time at work pass so much faster. The only problem with that being if nothing much is going on, I zone out on the music and lose all pretense of "working." I need to work on that. Even the gym breezed by. I'm not at obnoxious iPod user codependency yet, but it's definitely omnipresent. Especially now that I figured out how to completely work it. What's really up with complicated electronics not coming with an instruction manual? For over $250, you can do a little more than give me a damned manual file on the CD.
Adding to that is that I've been on a serious healthy kick over the past month that's been paying off big time lately. Weeks of eating salads (with meat sides because I am me) before easing back into regular stuff in moderation plus quality time at the gym means I've gone down about a size and am back to pre-job weight at least. I feel great and I'm not even done. Who'd have thought I'd actually learn to like the gym? I'm thinking of trying to get down to the start of senior year single digit size. We'll see. I hate it when I'm too skinny.
It's all coming together now.
Posted by Candicissima at October 3, 2004 06:26 PMyay! meanwhile, i still need to either check on the wing i've so generously donated to my gym or cut my losses and find another solution. im tempted to go with the second choice, cause really, a year of paying for the gym and only going 4 times really isnt cost effective...
Posted by: jay at October 4, 2004 05:33 PM