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Monday vent(s), anyone?
Anyone else need to get some stuff off their chests to (hopefully) start the week off in a better mind set?
Why yes, I think I'll go first...
#1 - Seriously, giant zit on my chin, I defeated you over a month ago and you are back in the exact same spot and huge and painful! Despite generally having conquered skin issues over the past few years, this one GIANT thing on my face makes me want to cry.
#2 - I'm angsty about my aunt who had gastric bypass in October and keeps AWing on FB about how much she's lost (95lbs-to-date). I'm fine with her decision and I'm not judging that. I'm judgy about the self-congratulatory posts, where she thanks the people who comment and tells them 'you can do it...slow and steady...blah, blah.' Getting 80% of your stomach surgically removed isn't 'slow and steady.' Grr. I've been at this weight loss thing for twice the amount of time as her and have lost half as much. The latest post was "oh, now I have to be careful not to lose more than another 15." Boo-f'ing-hoo. /martyr rant
#3 - I have in-laws in town and we're dog sitting. I want my house back!
Re: Monday vent(s), anyone?
1. I had a cavity filled last week (a small one) and I am still having some discomfort. If I have to go BACK to the dentist this week for whatever resolution, I will be peeved. Stop hurting already!
2. I'm worried about my MIL (I like my ILs). She had a uterine lining biopsy sent on Friday due to abnormal thickening. She's convinced she has cancer due to her family history and her own extensive OB history. The patho won't be back until the end of this week. Seriously, with modern medicine you'd think we'd have answers sooner than a week!
3. My dad had a triple bypass in Oct. He now has to have follow-up testing because he's having some chest pains again. He is getting nuclear imaging to see if there are more blockages or if it's just inflammation. He's also accross the country so I can't be there. It's not fair...he's done everything right since before his surgery (exercies, cutting salt, losing wt, ect) and he's young (mid-60's).
4. I need to get back on the weight loss/healthy eating bandwagon. Seriously I've slacked majorly and I need to get my butt in gear. Today it is!
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I am so mad at myself. I don't know why someone else's birthday is an excuse for me to keep up the drinking all weekend in my mind. Now I have a headache and I'm tired because I don't sleep well with alcohol in my system. I know that, yes I persist in doing it. I need to just stop drinking, it's ridiculous. Just a ton of empty calories. Sometimes I wish I had a lower alcohol tolerance so I could get a buzz in a glass of wine.
I also didn't wake up and work out because I knew I had crappy sleep, so I have to do strength training after work today. I don't like working out after work.
#1 - Last night was the 3rd night in a row where I woke up to pee and couldn't sleep for 2-3 hours. I really need sleep right now and I'm tired but I'm just restless.
#2 - One of the other reasons I couldn't sleep last night was because of the GI cramps I was having
#3 - I don't work until noon today so I would normally run on the treadmill but I slept in now (after I finally fell back asleep after 5am) so now I don't have as much time and I'm still tired
#4 - woke up with product of those GI cramps last night and don't think i should run now
But, darn it! I'm going to try to walk on the treadmill.
1- I have a cold that just will not go away. When I think I have it beat, it comes right back. This morning, I woke up blowing my nose and coughing like crazy! I was supposed to start training again for the next run- taking a week off to break this. Grrrr!
2- Stupid yeast infection will NOT go away as well. Also looking for a gynecologist but I am terrified because they are just a list of names. smh. This is not a good thing. I am a doctor snob.
3- Did I mention I so want to work out? (I feel icky. . . and like diabetes and obesity is creeping up on me.)
1) as usual my neck hurts. This is getting so old. I am sick of having pain in my body 100% of the time that causes me to lose sleep, cry, and feel this way. I am 27, and have had this pain for 10 years, I am totally over it.
2) I love having company. For like 1 night, maybe 2. It will be nice to see my old friend this week, but I hate that she is staying for 5-6 nights.
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1. I still don't feel 100% after my half marathon. TWO WEEKS AGO. That is just lame, and I know somehow it's all my fault but geez it sucks.
2. There's a new Irish Pub in town. It's going to be the death of me.
3. Yes, DH honey, I am tired, because I wake up bitchass early and run and lift and then go to lab for 10h a day. I'm sorry you're SOOOO tired from your vacation to see your parents. But please keep it to yourself, since my sympathy button seems to be malfunctioning this week.
1) I just want to sleep. Sleep in. Sleep all day. Sleep all night. I'm so effing tired.
2) I wanted Reese's peanut butter eggs, so DH went to Walgreens to get a pack of 6. Six. He came home with a bag of them AND a bag of mini pb eggs. I'm grateful, but I'm screwed.
3) I read the second book of Game of Thrones so long ago and just finished book five, so when I watched the season premiere last night, I was SO confused.
Yes,I'm smiling...I'm a marathoner!
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2011 Bests
5K-22:49 10K-47:38 Half Mary-1:51:50
2012 Race Report
1/1-New Year's 5K-22:11
2/11-Sweetheart Classic 4-mile-29:49
3/24-Coulee Chase 5K-21:40
5/6-Colorado Marathon-4:08:30
5/28-Bolder Boulder 10K
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1) H, I feel very badly for you that you were debilitatingly exhausted all day yesterday after getting up with the baby on Saturday night. You may recall that I got up with her for 107 of the 108 nights that we have had her and I do not cry about it every day. Man up.
2) See above. Seriously, man up.
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2010 Race PRs:
5K - 24:57 10M - 1:28:20 13.1M - 1:57:29 26.2M - 4:28:29
#1 Dear pimple under my lip - thanks for not being as puffy as last week when it looked like I had a fat lip, but please go away now. You seem to defy all concealer and look super awkward.
#2 Dear work - please be slow this week and next. I took off this Friday to travel up to MA for the first night of Passover and I am on jury duty next Thurs & Fri. I am thankful for these days away from the office since I'm saving my vacation days for big trips later this year. I don't need to have any anxiety about missing things while I'm out over the next 2 weeks, which I will inevitably have.
1. I really wish DH's MBA program would not make him have to give a presentation in class this Saturday from 2-6PM so we could drive home for Easter and meet our niece that was born last Monday (we left 12 hours too early and missed her birth). I know it's an accelerated program and he'll be done in May, but seriously, it's Easter weekend!
2. I also have a stupid yeast infection that needs to freaking go away already!
3. Our puppy destroyed our foam mattress topper yesterday while I was washing the sheets. I *always* out the gate up to keep her out of our room but DH forgot to move it back and she had a hay day destroying our mattress topper and shredding it to pieces. Consequently, the mattress topper went in the trash, I slept terribly last night, and my back is sore.
Happy Monday?
1. I have to do laundry today, AND clean.
2. TN is running slow.
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