Some days my life sounds like a Shania Twain song

"It's about as bad as it can be..."

This morning I woke up to an e-mail from my professor saying I got a 13/20 on a project.  That's a 65.  This project will join 4-5 others and make up 20% of my grade.  I thought I did better than that!  

"Even something simple as...
forgetting to fill up on gas...
there ain't no explaination why, things like that can make you cry, ...
just gotta learn to have a laugh"

Then I found out only because I hounded my leasing office that my August rent hadn't been paid.  I could have sworn it was.  So when I came in and paid my September rent because I realized the auto-pay hadn't continued on the new lease, they just automatically applied it to August.  Without telling me. Now granted, should I be able to keep track of this?  Yes.  I set up auto-pay last year and just like a crock pot, I set it and forgot it.  They send out unpaid balance sheets about the 12th.  They didn't send out one for August and send Aug/Sept together because "there were so many new residents and transfers".  It seems like in all that moving and shifting a reminder would be a really good idea.  But no one asked me! Let me set up e-mail notifications or SOMETHING. The best they can do is I have to pay half by Friday.  Cute.  

But hey, at least I went to the gym this morning.  : | 

"When everything is going wrong....
Don't worry it won't last for long...
Yea it's all gonna come around, don't let it get you down, you gotta keep on holding on."
Just take a deep breath and push forward.  No wallowing!  And listen to happy music on repeat!

"Up, up, up.  There's no where but up from here..." and I'm sure it will.
::sigh:: just another road bump in the road to GRADUATION.  No one, including me, ever said this was going to be easy.  But I wouldn't trade the way things happened for the easy way out.  There's a lot of good that has come out of this process.  

Until next time, 
:)

A pep talk and a plan...

My how time flies!  It's been a busy summer!  Although I guess it's not really summer anymore.  Wait, that changeover is this Saturday.  Does that mean fall is COMING?!?!?!  OH I hope so!!!!!!  But I just looked at the weather forecast and fall won't be coming before Tuesday at least...and I can't tell beyond that because it only goes out 10 days *sniff, sniff*.  But that weather last Saturday was amazing!

Yes, I'm avoiding talking about where my weight loss journey and running progress is.  I'm in denial.  At least I'm not in denial about being in denial.  Wow, I could get lost in this circle.  But, I digress.  It's not anywhere.  It's not gone down, it's not gone up.  Just blah.  I haven't run but about once all summer and I hate it.  But I hate summer more.  This summer was pretty awesome though (NOT the weather, other events...) :) There I go getting *distracted* again.  Or am I?  Hehe.  It needs to go down so blah, but it hasn't gone up so yay?  Ugh, I just want to run again.  I keep telling myself that when it's not hotter than fire outside I'll go for a run.  Or I could go to the free gym at my apartment complex.  I mean like 50 yards away.  Geez.  I really have no excuses.  And it's open 24/7, so I got nothin'.  Well give me 5 minutes and I'll have an impressive list of excuses. 

So a plan.  Get things done as efficiently as possible and take time in the morning to carve out at least 30 minutes on the treadmill.  I have at least 3 days a week that getting up wouldn't be a hardship. Like tomorrow a.k.a today :o I just have to shift a couple things around without disrupting my studiousness nature I discovered this semester.  

I'll get there again.  My goal is to get where I was at the end of last year (about 10-15 lbs from current) and just sit tight.  I was happy with that place, and so I'm going to get there and hang out.  I haven't been to Weight Watchers in...a while.  My mind keeps telling me that they'll judge me for being away that long because that's what I'm doing to myself, but the truth is they've all been right where I am right now.  And they're loving and accepting no matter what.  We all screw up.  Over and over sometimes.  It's time to get back on the horse, put the past in the past and stop wallowing!  How's that for a pep talk?  

I promise to go less time than 4 months without posting for next time.  I might even post tomorrow!  Again, a.k.a today.  ;)

Until then, goodnight moon.  :)

Until next time,
:)