Finding ONEderland

I'm finding myself sitting here thinking about how much I would rather be working outside in a garden (my herb garden sure could use some time) instead of being at work. I have became very dissatisified with working a desk job. I ended up in this line of work because of a ruptured disk in my back and not being able to do the physical stuff I had done before. I need a happy medium. Something not as demanding as factory work but not as sedentary as sitting in a chair for 8 hours day after day. Things are changing here at work...looks very much like I may not have a job within a few months if not sooner. I am not upset about it at all cause I see it as a chance to do something that will better fit me. I have faith that whatever happens will be for the best.

Posted by Annie at 12:01 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

Weight 273

I haven't posted anything in a couple of weekend. I was gone to the Chestpeak Bay for one weekend and then this latest week and weekend just did not have any motivation. Work has been awful because of the transition of our customers to another company. It does not promise to get better any time soon. The heat has messed with my walking and I really need to get back into taking walks. I am up in my weight but it could be bloat for a lot of it but I have not been eating well either.

Posted by Annie at 06:12 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Weight 271

I didn't realize what a drop this was till I looked back at my last weigh in. That makes me feel better and trust me I can use a lot of those "makes me feel better". So for this week a nice 2.5 pound drop. This was yesterdays weigh in but I didn't blog yesterday. Mostly cause of having a million things to do and dreading this coming month. I had not been able to say anything about it before now but at work we are selling all of our dial up accounts to a bigger company. The notices for that went out today. I hope work will not be as bad as I am dreading. I have been stressed with this and family things to the point that my migraines came back. Another thing for work is they have what is left of the company up for sale, if we don't get bought I won't have a job by fall.

Anyway on to better things...I did manage to go for a hike yesterday. We made it around the lake in a hour 5 minutes. Not as good as my 55 minute time that I had been able to do when I was at the lower weight but much better than what I was doing after the slip and gain. That is chopping off 15 minutes on it. I was pleased but quiet beat LOL. The actual time gave for this hike is 90 minutes so it's a good time. Also another milestone...I am fiting into the stretch jeans I got for work comfortably (they are brown and beige colored so okay for the dress code.) I had been fiting in them but I wasn't comfortable and it caused the disks in my lower back to flair up. I am very happy with being able to get into them and wear them. The cool thing about them compared to my dress slacks is that I can wear my tennis shoes with them. So if I want to head out for a midday walk no problem. Plus I am thinking I can wear these to work out with and then go home and change into something afterwords. Will have to see about that last part. Would make doing curves sooooooo much easier.

Posted by Annie at 06:48 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)

Just a quick post. First Happy Fourth of July! Today has been very good. My sister-in-law spent the night and we all got up early this morning. I had a small snack of almond and then we took off walking around the neighborhood before the day had a chance to get hot. Then after that we took a few moments to rest and went to watch the parade. It was pretty good, nice floats and all. Then we took off to get some lunch. After lunch we went to a park that has some walking trials we have not be on before. It's very hilly and I think it will make a great place to walk. We only did about 25 minutes as it was extremely hot out today. Later tonight we drove near where they were doing the fireworks and walked down to watch them. Right before time it came a nice little down pour but lucky we were near a bank that has an over hang so we were able to get there to stay dry. Then the started the fireworks. They were really nice this year. Part of the way through the rain stopped and I was able to get out of under the over hang and see them better. Then we all walked back to the car. It was a pretty good walk as I had parked far enough away to not be in bad traffic. Plus the walk was up hill.

Posted by Annie at 06:19 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Weight 273.5

I actually saw 273 earlier this week but yesterday was a day of no counting since it was a special day and I just wanted to enjoy the day. If you are wondering what was special about the day...I got married *big grin*. It was nice cermony. The chapel we had it done at had a waterfall so I choose to have the cermony at the waterfall. It was perfect for me and will be a beautiful memory to look back on and not overly pricey. I would much rather put our savings into buying a house. Big weddings are great for those that like them though...it's just not me.

Today I need to get some walking in. I got walking in yesterday but was just strolling. Friday I got in 45 minutes pushing the law mower. Mine is not self propelled...so it was a pretty good work out.

I hope everyone else is having a wonderful weekend and will have a great holiday.

Posted by Annie at 04:21 AM | Permalink | Comments (4)