Next time I whine about doing cardio, could someone *please* smack me upside the head and remind me how awesome I feel after a good 30-minute workout?
I had promised myself earlier that I could do some genealogy research as a reward, if only I would go do the 30-minute kickboxing workout on my latest PUSH DVD. Now I see that the afterglow IS the reward.
So tired… but feeling so good.
Last weekend, Aaron helped me unhook the Power Mac 6500 and remove it from beneath my desk. It had been co-habitating with my Dell for some time now, but it hadn’t been powered on for months. My new(-to-me) iMac is *much* cuter, and just a little faster.
In the process of disconnecting and reconnecting and disentangling and shuffling, I had to remove a very large stack of crap from my desk. This stack o’ crap included three spoons, two water glasses, five sheets of cute anime stickers, a slew of pens, and a stack of used scrap paper.
See, before the advent of the Google to-do list, I would either e-mail myself a list of random thoughts I’d had at work, or I would write those thoughts down on a quarter-sheet of scrap paper. I would remind myself to check out certain scented oils for candlemaking, or to blog about a particular topic, or just to freakin’ wash the dishes already. So, now I have a stack of random blog topics, some as much as a year old, just waiting for me to exploit them. Plus some stale to-do items that still apply.
For shits and giggles, here are two topics I found on one sheet of scrap paper, amongst some other to-do items and doodles:
I just remembered that I used to be one of those annoying people that would say, “Smile! God loves you!” Was that really me? Good grief.
What is it that turns normal people into blogosphere celebrities? Wit, humor, honesty, design, content?
I can’t say that I’m interested in expounding on either of these topics at the moment, but I thought they were worth noting. Feel free to discuss.
*one more piece of scrap paper hits the trash*
To all of you who scoffed at my intention to go jogging: you were right.
However… despite that, I still managed to lose 2½ pounds. That brought me down to 205 even. w00t!
Last week saw the return of the DietOrganizer program for Palm OS. Monday was kind of a shocker for me, as I just ate how I would normally eat, evening binge and all, and the calories just kept piling on. My little carb meter was in the red, and my overview said I’d eaten 600 calories more than I should have. Damn. After that reawakening, I was much more careful about my portion sizes and my foods in general. Let’s hear it for an electronic conscience.
Now, I *had* said that I would allow myself to buy some cool new clothes when I hit 205, buuuut… I think I’m going to wait until I’ve proven to myself that I can *stay* there. If I’m still 205 or lower by this coming Saturday, then maybe I’ll go on a little mini-shopping-spree. (See, I weighed myself on Sunday morning, after a day of Indian and Chinese food, and I’d gained a pound and a half just from that. I’m counting on losing that buffet weight pretty quickly, though, but I forgot to weigh myself this morning to check my progress.)
For this week, I’m continuing to track my food intake, and adding one more element: exercise. I haven’t done my PUSH workouts in much too long. This evening, I tried to step up to the next DVD, just for something different, and it was way too much for me. I’m going to have to go back to the last workout I was on before I slacked off, and continue with that one this week. No shame in that. I’m still exercising.
As I mentioned earlier, I’ve also restarted my podcast. I’m hoping that this will force me to focus on my eating and fitness habits (which is the reason why I originally started the podcast in the first place). Can’t go being a hypocrite, after all.
It’s slow going. I keep falling off the horse… but as long as I get back on, I’m OK. As long as the number on the scale is creeping downward instead of upward, I’m winning.
I’m gonna be all right.
I was sitting here tonight, feeling like being a lazy slug, when the sudden urge to podcast struck me. I hooked up the handy-dandy MXL 990, printed off the notes I’d written myself TWO MONTHS AGO, and sat down to podcast about why I hadn’t been podcasting.
I’m so kewl, I even figured out how to make Movable Type post entries at a scheduled time in the future. So, Episode 11 of the Low Carb Lifestyle Podcast will be up at 8am tomorrow morning.
I’m going to try to keep a weekly schedule, complete with main topics that are recorded weeks in advance (what a concept!). I have… *counting* …eight show topics right here on a list by my desk, with two book/diet reviews ready to go and a couple more books to read yet.
So, miracle of miracles, my podcast is back! And, for those of you not eating low-carb… it’s really not going to be totally about low-carb eating. Some of my future show topics include:
Basically, I’m writing down ideas that come to me at random times, and planning to write an outline about each of them and jabber about them for about 10 minutes each. Resources and references will be used heartily.
Oh, speaking of resources… I have a voicemail line! 206-984-2-EAT (2328). If you’re into the diet thing, and have some diet or exercise advice or commentary you’d like me to include on my show, please call! You’re also welcome to e-mail me mp3 files, too, if you so choose. But you know those free night and weekend minutes are eating a hole in your cell phone pocket. 😉
I’m not quite sure what happened.
One of my co-workers had mentioned this week that he had to have his ears cleaned by his doctor. A few of us ended up discussing various good and bad ways to clean out your ears: borax, hydrogen peroxide, Q-Tips, etc.
This evening, I decided to clean out my ears with hydrogen peroxide and a warm water rinse, just like Mom used to do. Did it shortly after dinner. One capful of peroxide in the ear, head tilted all the way to the side, with a washcloth standing by for drips. After the fizzing died down, I flipped my head over, washcloth to my ear, and dumped the peroxide out of my ear onto the cloth.
When I came upright again, I felt a little funny. Dizzy, almost. I figured it just had to do with me having my head on its side, and went ahead with the second capful of peroxide. Same thing — I was *really* dizzy when I straightened up this time. But I still had to rinse, so rinse I did. One capful of water in the ear, same way.
Then I was unusually dizzy, but not off-balance. Not too much, anyway. Almost disoriented. Nauseous.
I laid down on the couch to watch World News, then changed to the Food Network to watch Good Eats. Still nauseous.
Even now? Still kind of sick to my stomach. Something went horribly wrong during what should have been a welcome ear-washing experience, and I’m still not sure what.
And I didn’t even get to wash out my right ear.
Update, 8/18/06: I did some Googling to see WTF I ended up doing to myself. Read on to see the sources I found…
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