Well, talk about cutting down to the wire to do the 2nd thing outside of my comfort zone for this month!! Tomorrow is my last day! I'm glad (as stressful as it was) that things worked out the way they did at work. Now I can count the things I did and they way I handled things as something outside of my comfort zone. That was one.
Today I did the other AND knocked something else off my list! I went to the movies alone. It wasn't as bad as I thought it was. I still don't know if I could go at night, but a rainy Saturday afternoon was a great way to try it. I was almost proud when I said, "One for Julie & Julia". (and not for nothing, when did the price at the movies SKYROCKET! $8 for a 12:45 movie? And $9.25 for a water and a small popcorn? Really?)
So I got to check off another thing off my list. The movie was great. Kind of got me thinking about the goals I have in my life... the 5K training I am committed to, the 101 list, and my 2 things outside of my comfort zone a month. Wow, seeing it all written out like that, I have a lot going on. And I'm actually committed to all 3 things, sticking to them.
Just like Julie in the movie, I get really excited about the idea of something, but never really finish any project. Last year when I quit smoking, that was the first time I ever stuck to a New Years Resolution. I like having short term goals. I think they are easier to accomplish. And I am more than 1/2 way through the year! I have succeed each month in doing 2 things outside of my comfort zone.
It really is getting even harder now to come up with new things. I think I am a much more confident person than I was 8 months ago. I am much more secure in myself, much more self assured. I can speak up more easily and can stand up to something when I feel it isn't right. This has been a really interesting year for me. If I can change this much in 8 months, what's going to happen the rest of the year?
So on to updates for the list... I said I needed to get 3 massages. Well, that's easy now. I prepaid for 12! :) I have been in physical therapy for my back (gotta love stress!) for over 2 months now, but per the therapist my pain and the problems are so chronic that physical therapy can't do much more. They passed me along to a massage therapist they rent space out to. I saw Ed Tuesday for the first time, and it was GREAT. Talk about a deep tissue massage. Sad, but after 2 months of PT he said he could take a jackhammer to my shoulders they were so tight! Nice, huh? Well, I am going to be seeing him once a week for the next few months... and I love that I already wrote the check for my next 11 appointments! 3 months of massages should be amazing and hopefully my back, neck and shoulders will start feeling better soon. So in another 2 weeks, the "get 3 massages" will be off my list too! :)
ON to lose 25 pounds. I need to look up what I weighted when I started this list, but going back to New Years to yesterday morning, I have lost 9 pounds. I know that jogging the most to do with it. I need to make sure I continue to eat well so I can keep losing more weight. It would be so cool if I could drop another 10 pounds in the next month, even if that's reaching a bit. (ok, so mostly I eat well, and with the over $100 I spent at the grocery store today only 1 thing- my dinner today- was bad, but I was just craving my Mexican fix! Tomorrow back to fruit, veggies and healthy choices! I can do this!)
With the jogging, the 5K training, it is AMAZING! We even met yesterday at 6pm, ON A FRIDAY! to train. 3 of us did it. I am SO proud. My whole thing at the track was walk 1/2 mile, jog 1 mile, walk 1/2 mile, jog 1 mile, walk 1/4 mile. TWICE I jogged a mile without stopping! I jogged 2 whole miles yesterday! When I started doing this I had trouble with jogging for 60 seconds and I didn't think I was going to make it. Yesterday I jogged a mile without stopping, and that was the 3rd time last week I did it! I am REALLY proud of this! I'm a little scared at trying to jog for 2 miles straight. I think I need to do a mile and a 1/2 first. I might try for that Monday night. We'll see how I feel.
SO 2 more updates... I tried to pay for someone behind me at a tollbooth last Sunday morning coming home from Laconia. First time ever there was no traffic at the tolls! NO ONE was behind me! I even had the extra dollar out! I didn't want to pay for the no person behind me! :) So next time I guess...
And the getting on TV. I went to the taping of Loretta LaRoche's PBS show, but it has been on at 4:30am! I haven't been able to watch it. I'm so bummed out! So maybe I got on tv, but I'm not awake to see it. I keep checking on line to see when it is going to air next. Too bad I didn't have a DVR. Hmmm... my friend Angela does. Maybe I can ask her.
Well that's about it. That's all the updates and ramblings. I really like the way everything is going. Funny, with doing all of this I have become much happier in my life. I still get crazy stressed, especially with work. That's my biggest challenge right now. Some days are better than others. Today was great, a Saturday! :) Gotta love weekends.
Oh, one more thing. Today is pouring (hurricane Danny I think?) I slept until 11, went shopping, went to the movies, came home and hung out. No plans at all. Just a nice relaxing, I don't have to do anything sort of day. I'm enjoying this more than anything. Been a very long time since I had a day like today.
Ciao! :)
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