angelak | Morning and food stuffs

It’s a hum drum day of days in general. I knew judging by yesterday evening it might start out that way. Not really the way to start off a week (my weeks start on Tuesdays.)

It wasn’t that waking up was so bad. The crack of 5AM came, well – at 5AM. That’s all well and good. I didn’t mind because I vaguely woke up to turn off alarm #1, almost as if I’d been waiting for it to go off – just enough to reach over and fondle Jim’s bicep muscle and fall asleep with it in my hands.

That’s not particularly a bad way to start a morning. In fact, I woke up to alarm #2 with the same muscle in my hands. I even got all my groceries to my car, which was all the way on the other side of the complex, because at 1AM when I got in there was no parking left. And relocated my car to the shitty “half space” for the disabled guy and his van. He gets a special parking spot for his particular apartment – and they cleared out the parking spot next to it with 2 poles partway in the parking spot. So he could load his van.

I temporarily re-parked my car here, which is right near his apartment stairs. This enabled me for quick loading of 2 Dachshunds. I was out and on the road. I stopped by a different coffee stand than normal, closer to the quicker way to the freeway (it zig-zags, and until I got to know the area I constantly took the straight shot to the freeway that took longer.)
Americano drip? I don’t know much of coffee, but it wasn’t bad and it was open early.

Minimal I-5 traffic – that was a relief. Minimal Hwy 18 traffic.
Made it home in an hour instead of 1.5 hrs. Unloaded the car.
It was a relief to be at home with my own fridge, my own space, and no particular random shit falling out of my fridge from obvious retardation of a room mate.

Anyways. 15 minutes away from Jim’s I realized I left my makeup bag. With 93% of my makeup, and ALL of my everyday makeup in it. Damn. I drove on. Showered, dressed, found whatever I could scrounge up quickly at home and then went to work. On break I went to the store and bought spares of my essentials. I think I will just have 2 sets. Of Everything. UGH.

Anyway. Then I found out AutoCross class is full. Damnit. That aggravated me and made me sufficiently grumpy on top of my short amount of sleep.

The one thing that has NOT caused me to be grumpy is my new eating plan.
Today is the first day. I’m going to drop my extra 10.
By Beltane, I know I’ll have made some improvement.
The biggest thing is that I’m going to try and learn some new food preparation patterns. So far, so good. The meals outlined in my plan are pretty tasty and super healthy – and designed not to let my blood sugar crash.

Right now it’s the 6 times a day small portions thing.
Until Beltane, when I will choose a different one if this works well. (A higher calorie option.)

Anyways, once I lose the 10 lbs, I’ll calculate for my activeness how much I burn and eat exactly that. Sounds fair enough to me.

So today has gone extremely well with that. The food is more appetizing and I am learning how to prepare more interesting things with far more fruits and vegetables. But the kind that I can afford etc.

Anyway, lunch went well and I have plans to meet a friend for coffee tonight.
When I get home I hope I can go for a run, but I may have to do this after dinner. I suspect I’ll be hungry.

Needless to say after lunch things are looking up, although I am sure I am prone to being sleepy tonight. If that’s the case, I will use my bike and do 1 hr of recumbent. Whatever the case.

The morning was grumpy.
The afternoon is better.
I kind of want dinner. Maybe I can make it BEFORE I leave for Seattle… hmmm… and then by the time I hit the pavement for a jog, I’ll have already eaten for a couple hrs…
I think I’ll jet from work and give this a shot!

-Angela