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Michael's Diary -- 2001-2003 Archive
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5.02.2003
This has been an exahusting week. First, my Pocket PC died. Disconnected it after a regular old synch, and the screen dimmed; it wouldn't turn off or reset. Had to hard reset it. Spent hours rebuilding it, only to have it do the same thing the next morning after I synched it before leaving for work. SO AGGRAVATING. Came home and spnet 6-7 more hours trying various combinations of hard reset, reinstalls etc. with no success. Then found out that the idiot at the store I bought it from billed me not for the Product Replacement Plan, which I specifically asked for, but for the Service Plan, which I did not request, so I can't even get an "easy" replacement. So I am PDA-less which is a major problem for me ad my PDA is the key to my sanity. . .
Which has been sorely challenged lately. Work has been crazy all week long, just crazy. G and I have had little time to spend together. We have company coming tomorrow also. I think on Sunday I will crawl into a small dark hole and sleep.
Went out last night for a few drinks with my friends. Good to have some laughs with the boys.
6:51 AM
4.29.2003
A very busy day. Started with a disappointing visit to the doctor. Blood pressure is back up where it was after he took me off one of the medications. Bummer. Weighed myself, and my weight was up four pounds from my last visit. The doc says it's no big deal -- weight can change as much as 5 pounds back and forth during the day depending on how much water, fluids and food you have consumed at any given time. After a busy afternoon dealing with clients, I picked up a scale and weighed myself when I got home. Weight was back down to where it was at the last weigh-in. I was just literally on my way out the door to take my walk when an emergency call came in. Had to get suited up and shoot down to a well-known improvisation theater to save the day for their video guy. Only got home about an hour ago. Got home, got to see my wife for a few minutes before she had to hit the sack for her brutal 5:00 am wake-up. The I ate my dinner, a couple of Healthy Choice frozen pizzas and some pretzels. Mmm mmm good. Topped off with some delicious Sunkist diet soda, a couple of big glasses. Weighed myself once again. Weight was eight pounds higher than when I weighed in earlier with my shoes on! I checked it twice to be sure. I'm glad to have a scale anyway.
Lately I have been less religious with my diet and exercise has been fitful at best. Eating a little more, not watching my portion control. So, I am keeping my food diary again and watching my totals very carefully. I've also noticed that there has been a subtle shift in my mindset toward teh whole dieting, one that a realized as I was driving along thinking about and which could potentially be deadly: feeling sorry for myself that I had to forego certain things that I craved. Have to be watchful of that. A major part of my success thus far has been programming myself to see any effort I make in this direction to be a huge positive, something I am giving to myself, rather than taking away. That must be paramount in my mind.
A couple of weeks of nice weather and solid attendance to my food intake shoud get the ball rolling again. Have to crank way back on the beer intake for a while too. We have company coming this weekend, a family type of thing, and G is neck-deep in her studies, so there won't be much cause for carousing this weekend. Just as well, it will give me an opportunity to not drink!
11:55 PM
4.28.2003
A good day. Nice quiet morning. Meditated, let's see if I can do it all week this time. I enjoy it so much and get so much out of it, I don't know why it's so hard to get myself to do it with as much consistency as I'd like. I'm not very clear-headed early in the morning. Maybe with a little focus this week I can get in the groove.
Got a lot done with a customer. More work for them coming soon. Settled some other work-related business, stopped by the bank, picked up the laundry, came home, chilled for half an hour, took my walk & picked up a delicious chicken burrito (no sour cream please) for dinner, with some chips and salsa. Cleaned up the kitchen and by now it was 8:30, and I didn't feel like embarking on a project. I mean, I did, but it was too late. I think the thing to do is to walk just as soon as I get home and still have some momentum. I will lay out my things tomorrow before I go and be better prepared. Did some preliminary work for Genevieve's birthday trip to Martha's Vineyard. She's watching last week's 24. Gonna tidy up and get in bed.
10:27 PM
4.27.2003
All in all this was a good weekend. A lot of time spent with Genevieve which is always good. Our schedules often leave us with little quality time during the week and even some of the weekends and it's so important. Last night we went to have dinner and a few drinks at a restaurant called Feast, which was quite nice. I had chicken breasts in mole sauce and Genevieve had, um, something over gnocchi, chicken, I think. Our friends were tired so they went home early; we went to see some music at a bar called The Note. One group was some rock 'n roll chicks called Rocket Girl, not too bad but not too interesting. Then there was an act called, no lie, Sullen. They took the stage after their cheesy smoke machine failed to provide the desired ambience for their grand entrance. Judging from their music their name should be "angry." Perhaps it was the hilarious, Spinal Tap-esque effect of their stupid smoke machine that made them so angry.
Anyway half a song was all it took. We adjourned promptly to another bar and spent a few hours talking. It felt good.
Today was Orthodox Easter and our friends Gabi and Michael had their traditional Romanian Easter feast. Lamb, stuffed grape leaves, pita, etc. Many fine eats, overindulged a trifle. This next week will be a week of getting back on track, I hope, and with that in mind I am going to bed for a little reading and early slumber very shortly.
10:56 PM
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