The internet ate my post. I can almost take a hint. To sum up, snow=change in plans because no new weather boots yet purchased. Wearing a wristwatch again for first time in years=checking time constantly. 2:07 EDT.

ETA: I mean 2:12 EDT. Apparently I need the practice reading an analog watch face, so no more worries about checking constantly.

Today has been not good so far. Luckily my afternoon promises to be better because there will be Lee in it

I have to go to work. Don't wanna.

We went to the barn this morning, helping with one lesson. The client was an independent rider, so neither K-Bug or I had to do much. Just groom and tack and then walk in circles for a while. The same horse was being used for the next lesson so we didn't even have to groom and put Snoops away.

In a bit we are off to a 4 year-olds birthday party. This is one of the kids K-Bug nannies.

New plow guy came, for some reason went down the steep driveway without finishing our parking lot and couldn't get back up again. Needless to say, he isn't getting paid his full quote.

We just bought a rowing machine because it was the one exercise machine we both like and will use. Setting it up today.

One of my roommates has a rowing machine and I have been putting it to good use as my New Years resolution. I do 20 min a day, 5 days a week. I can skip a day or just not go that hard for the twenty minutes if I'm feeling tired or lazy. My distances are increasing steadily. I'm a big fan.

I love the elliptical because then I can read while exercising. Double tasking FTW. (ok, sure, I listen to audio books while walking outside and then I can be listening to a book, walking and people watching all at the same time which is even better, but requires the outdoors to cooperate. Elliptical don't care about night, or rain, or blustery winds.)

Although my creatinine level has crept up to 5.35 he's allowing me to stay off dialysis for a while yet.

Yay Morgana! I used to work on a dialysis study--it seemed like such a timesuck of a thing to have to do for hours several times a week.

I tried to get my previous cat to knead my shoulders, but he just wanted to knead my butt.

That would be awesome--magic kitty masseuse!

So far good weekend--did the clothing sale last night, got some good stuff, then went dancing (always good) and met up with a girl there who'd messaged me online, and we ended up making out, so yay that. And this morning, a run with the exroomie, and brunch, and now we're going to go shopping for her (which I enjoy--she's not good at shopping, and I get to have all the fun of shopping while spending someone else's money!). Good times, only issue is I still have kind of a terrible headache from last night, even after painkiller and caffeine and running and brunch.

I am about to go do 18 miles (roughly 3.6 hours) on an ellipitcal machine since I still can run.

Oh lordy. I hope you can watch some TV or something??

Jane the Virgin, which is Totally Awesome.

Very true, it is awesome!! I have been evangelizing it.

home from church thing. I am on call this weekend, so I have to call all the will-call jobs for Monday and confirm/cancel and get the Monday schedule out by noon tomorrow. I have already had 1 Monday job call me to cancel and then also 1 new order put in. so really I only need to make 2 calls. still there is a healthy amount of don't wanna in my general area.

see also the don't wanna for dealing with the piles of paper beside me, the bins of things to eBay, and checking that needs to happen.

so I think i will update the work schedule and open up FaceTime. one is actually getting work done, one is an invitation to possible distraction from the rest of it.

I did in fact tell everyone to watch Kidnapped nine years ago. It has additional good features besides Timothy Hutton.

I totally listened and watched it. Loved it.

The weight / food / exercise discussion is interesting.

I keep seeing people who are so happy and surprised that I've lost weight. Like I'm suddenly a better person cause there's less fat.

And I've gotten brutally honest, I fostered a dog and her custody was in flux for about six months. So, yes, I exercised a bunch more but I also was getting close to a nervous breakdown. Less than half of it was healthy so really don't congratulate me. It's like being congratulated for an eating disorder.

Yes, I'm out for an hour and a half before work exercising the dog and probably three after and about half of that is also excercizing me. But I haven't started eating better or anything intentional, I just was so stressed that instead of dinner, I'd be crying while trying to tire out the puppy who wasn't even really mine at the time so I could go to bed.

And work is stressful and I never, ever get a lunch break so half the time I don't eat there.

So I hate when people act like I deliberately changed my habits and am now more healthy. Because having some weight off is likely good for some muscular and skeleton issues but I'm damn sure that it's not healthy by any other metric.

I'm actually planning out some meals to take to work next week and prepping them over the weekend to *be* healthier. And feel healthier. But it's got fuckall to do with the fact that every time I'm weighed, it's a smaller number. That doesn't feel healthy.