Ha!

So this morning while I was walking on the beach I saw a lady wearing a shirt that said "I'm smiling because you've all finally made me loose my mind"

No carb blues

So evidently being on a low carb diet can cause depression, mood swings and irritability in certain people. All these things I've been for the past week!! I have been on the Atkins diet phase one for well over a month now and have not moved onto the other phases as I was suppose too. My bad. Looks like I'll be jacking up the carbs so I can stand myself again.

Lifes a Beach

Day two here at the beach...I took a nice long walk this morning. Watching the sun rise with all the old folks is something else ;-) I slept like poo poo last night. I kept flying up out the bed gasping. Not sure what all that was about but it's left me exhausted. I see a poolside nap in my future.

Gillian Welch

Saturday was a fun day!!! Aaron and I decided after a full month of strict dieting that we would splurge and splurge we did! We went to La Fonda for lunch where I chowed down on chips and queso followed by a cheese quesadilla with rice and beans. Dinner was even better...The Vortex. Bluemoon, bacon cheese burger, fried pickle spears and sweet potato fires!! It's now Monday and boy am I paying for that splurge. It's going to take me all week to get back down to the magic number but it was worth it. After our amazing dinner we went over to The Variety Playhouse to see the one and only Gillian Welch, oh and her sidekick Dave Rawlings. I don't think he gets enough credit. He is a BA!! The show was absolutely amazing. It was hands down the best live performance I have ever seen. We stood right up front at their feet and I sang along the whole time. Singing along is evidently something people don't do at her shows because as I looked around every one's lips were sealed. Boring!!! It was uncanny how quiet of a show it was, the audience I mean, the respect in that room was overwhelming. I have never considered following a tour around but this one I would. I could watch these two every night and not get bored.
So I am at the beach and this is day one of my two week vacation. I hope to god I can chill out and get some good relaxing in. This past week I have been an emotional basket case and the mood swings are enough to make me was to scream. There are some other things going on too and I am starting to wondering if I am either A. Depressed or B. Have a hormonal imbalance of some sort. I'm going to give it a few weeks and see what happens.

Creature of Habit

These past few days have all been wonderful and all about the same. I get up, take the dogs out and feed them, head out for my walk/jog about 8:15am, come home and kiss the ground because I made it back, call my Mother for our morning chat, read for an hour or so then either run errands or do chores/work then return to more reading followed shortly by a nap. The evening consists of a little more working out and much more reading. I don't want it to end!! I've got two and half more weeks (two of those at the beach) before classes start back up and I am hoping to drag it on through then.

Oh boy was yesterday a nice day. Got started with a jog/walk, then cleaned the house, started packing for my beach trip, read a lot and had a great lunch with my friend Jennifer. She had a baby about five months ago and has been out of pocket so it was nice to catch up with her. I finished the day with a little elliptical and stationary biking while watching Weeds and reading a very good interview with Gillian Welch...multitasking is my game while working out. Then I read myself to sleep. This break from school is awesome and I'm really trying to take advantage and decompress as much as possible.
This morning I went out for my jog/walk again. Sorry to say it was little more walking and less jogging than I would have liked. Some days it's as if my body just doesn't want to work for me. But none the less I made it through and feel better for it. I've exercised everyday for the past three months I think maybe even longer than that. I'm at that point now where I feel guilty if I don't use my body for something each day.
Well I've just made lunch plans with Autumn and I know we will talk more about her wedding!! I'm so excited for her and Travis. We have one year until the wedding so there is plenty of time to plan. I'm off for more leisurely reading until lunch. I've got seven books to read before school starts back up!! It's awesome!!

Alone Time

This past weekend was full of what some of us cherish, "alone time". Is it that we love ourselves so much or just hate the company of other people that makes alone time so awesome!?! Ha! I soaked it up to the fullest and bathed in the solitude. Don't get me wrong, I love being with my friends and family but sometimes it's nice not to have to consider another person for a while. Is that selfish? I personally think that something is wrong with you if you can't entertain yourself ;-) My big thing is talking. Sometimes I don't want to talk. I know that must shock the majority of you considering that I talk ALL THE TIME! Saturday I played "Man of the House" cleaning and staining the decks as well as riding the driveway of some mildew. While doing this I listened to NPR which I never do on on Saturday. There were some pretty good shows and I did a lot of laughing.I suggest NPR on the weekends. Sunday I did get up and take a jog but then I played "Couch Potato" and managed to take two long naps and watch three movies. I of course watched my Sunday staples, CBS Sunday Morning and 60 Minutes. At some point I found myself in the kitchen cooking myself dinner and listening to vinyl...thankfully, 45 minutes later I was back under the covers. I have to say, all and all I was very pleased with my weekend. I think it was long over do as I sometimes don't know when to stop. It was a great follow up to the end of summer semester and the best way to prep for my beach vacation ;-)