Day Three
I had the day off, yes, but I was up in the night with a horrific headache. I sat on the couch with a massage tool working on my upper back and neck for two hours until it went away. When Mark got up for work, I helped him prepare food but then went back to bed.
I took the kids to school, then went back to bed. Of course, this never works, because other people are up, and they feel compelled to text me.
"I think I forgot my meds." Et cetera.
I napped a little, then went to the gym. I didn't have much time left to exercise, though, so I just did four rounds of elliptical and three of abs and weight-lifting. I finished the weight-lifting routine I had started a few days ago. All the songs randomly lined up on my iPod were under three minutes for the first three rounds, as if they knew there wasn't much time. All in all, I burned about 258 calories.
I spent the rest of the day finishing up my two sons' Eagle Scout projects. I finished running the dishwasher for the pill bottles project. It took three loads, because you can't put the pill bottles just anywhere--I had them on the top rack. I set them out to dry, but ended up drying them out with a paper towel, anyway.
I printed out their essays and picked up my youngest son from school. We loaded twenty-six bags of donated food items--three hundred thirty-three--back into the car and met the person at the high school pantry who runs it. We unloaded and got her signature, then helped the high schoolers to get home. We finished drying the bottles, matched them with lids (which we also had to dry), sorted them by size, then laid them side by side and end to end in Ziploc bags for mailing. Then we were off to the post office, where I had to mail four packages of them to Ohio. Then we tried four places to develop the pictures. Most of the pictures were on my son's disposable camera, and we were dismayed to find out that, while some places do develop those, they send them away and it can take two weeks to get them back. We finally settled on the place that had the least time. Fingers crossed.
All of this was very stressful to me. I've been having near-constant tension headaches and stress dreams. Because I'd slept in so long, I didn't eat at all until twelve-thirty. That was easy. I didn't make eggs because the stove was covered with drying pill bottles. I heated up some leftovers and lived mainly on that and dried melon all day, but, in the most stressful moment of driving around, another child let me know s/he had been in an accident with the vehicle I have had to fix five times in the last month.
I tried to be calm, patient, and fair, but I'm sure this sent my blood pressure to the moon. When it was all over and I had even been able to deliver my younger children to their dad on time, I finished the teaspoon or so of ganache in my fridge, and three Christmas candies. For supper, I had about a cup of baked squash with some butter. I also had 1 slice of Swiss cheese and three slices of dried apple as snacks. I had a cocoa at bedtime, with a spot of cream. Total calories eaten: 1259. Total burned: about 258. Net calories 1001. I was also down two pounds today. Thirty-eight to go.
I took the kids to school, then went back to bed. Of course, this never works, because other people are up, and they feel compelled to text me.
"I think I forgot my meds." Et cetera.
I napped a little, then went to the gym. I didn't have much time left to exercise, though, so I just did four rounds of elliptical and three of abs and weight-lifting. I finished the weight-lifting routine I had started a few days ago. All the songs randomly lined up on my iPod were under three minutes for the first three rounds, as if they knew there wasn't much time. All in all, I burned about 258 calories.
I spent the rest of the day finishing up my two sons' Eagle Scout projects. I finished running the dishwasher for the pill bottles project. It took three loads, because you can't put the pill bottles just anywhere--I had them on the top rack. I set them out to dry, but ended up drying them out with a paper towel, anyway.
I printed out their essays and picked up my youngest son from school. We loaded twenty-six bags of donated food items--three hundred thirty-three--back into the car and met the person at the high school pantry who runs it. We unloaded and got her signature, then helped the high schoolers to get home. We finished drying the bottles, matched them with lids (which we also had to dry), sorted them by size, then laid them side by side and end to end in Ziploc bags for mailing. Then we were off to the post office, where I had to mail four packages of them to Ohio. Then we tried four places to develop the pictures. Most of the pictures were on my son's disposable camera, and we were dismayed to find out that, while some places do develop those, they send them away and it can take two weeks to get them back. We finally settled on the place that had the least time. Fingers crossed.
All of this was very stressful to me. I've been having near-constant tension headaches and stress dreams. Because I'd slept in so long, I didn't eat at all until twelve-thirty. That was easy. I didn't make eggs because the stove was covered with drying pill bottles. I heated up some leftovers and lived mainly on that and dried melon all day, but, in the most stressful moment of driving around, another child let me know s/he had been in an accident with the vehicle I have had to fix five times in the last month.
I tried to be calm, patient, and fair, but I'm sure this sent my blood pressure to the moon. When it was all over and I had even been able to deliver my younger children to their dad on time, I finished the teaspoon or so of ganache in my fridge, and three Christmas candies. For supper, I had about a cup of baked squash with some butter. I also had 1 slice of Swiss cheese and three slices of dried apple as snacks. I had a cocoa at bedtime, with a spot of cream. Total calories eaten: 1259. Total burned: about 258. Net calories 1001. I was also down two pounds today. Thirty-eight to go.
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