Hello! Thank you. Thank you so much for all your love and support for me and my family. My Grams is up in Heaven (where I’m pretty sure whiskey is calorie free). I really appreciate it. I’m still processing everything but feel okay right now. I’m going to help my mom pack her stuff on Friday. I’m very grateful I can be there for her.
Now let’s talk about all the random thoughts and confessions bouncing around my head right now… should I say running around my head? Anyway… this is what is on my mind right now.
1. I do push-ups with my knees on the ground. I don’t apologize for this. But it didn’t occur to me until I fell last week and went to do a BeachBody workout the next day. Yeah, my knee was NOT having it.
2. I’m currently waiting for my car to be serviced and sipping delicious free Starbucks coffee. This is good, but I wish I had fruit punch Spark right now. So refreshing. I definitely drink more in the summer.
3. I started to write the post about my Grams on Monday night when she was still alive so some of it is written like she’s still alive. And there are some typos, but I can’t re-read it right now to edit them. It just makes me too sad right this second.
4. The only reason I don’t eat a whole watermelon in one day is because I stop myself. I want to though.
5. I really love my ‘upside down machine’ aka inversion table. I’ve had it for a few months now. My brother had one for a while and I would use it over there.
6. My nighttime eating is out of control right now. I’m not hungry, just gotten into the habit of full on eating a 2nd dinner at 10pm. WTF Monican. I end up eating leftovers from dinner that I packed up for the next day. It’s mostly because I’m super tired and instead of going to sleep I go to the kitchen. Busted.
7. I think I might finally need more friends.
8. I’m really trying to be kind to everyone. EV. Er. EEE. ONE. It’s easy to be nice to people who are nice to me. But the Bible doesn’t say “Treat your neighbor as yourself – but you can be mean to jerks”. Unless I didn’t get to that part yet? For now I’m working on being kind to everyone. And when I fail I’ll try again.
9. I’m going to an event at the Pala Casino today. I was invited a long time ago and almost canceled since this week has been so sad and hard. But I’m going to rally and go. My Grams was a big gambler – she would have thought it was awesome that I got invited to something like this.
10. I don’t want to make this a full on commercial but these Spark / Rehydrate flavor combinations sound amazing! I want all of them!!
Rehydrate Orange Canister // Rehydrate Orange Stick Pack // Spark Mango Canister // Spark Mango Stick pack
Rehydrate Red Raspberry Canister // Rehydrate Red Raspberry Stick Pack // Spark Pink Lemonade Canister // Spark Pink Lemonade Stick pack
Rehydrate Key Lime Canister // Rehydrate Key Lime Stick Pack // Spark Cherry Canister // Spark Cherry Stick pack
I feel real hard on a run on Sunday – at mile 2 of a 10 miler – and my whole right leg is scraped to hell and my left wrist is sprained and I can’t do much of anything right now, except for run, and it’s making me SO ANTSY. Every day it gets better, but I’m real impatient.
Ugh. I’m sorry 🙁 Are you feeling better today?
This was a fun post. Thanks for writing it. Prayers to you!
Im so sorry for your loss, your gran sounds like a wonderful, fun lady.
My confessions are that i too do knee push ups and i really don’t think ill ever do a full one, and i need to stop eating so much sugar. My skin hates me, my moods are up and down and i know i need to be kind to myself and fuel my body right, but i just haven’t got the motivation to give up.
Monica, the thing I love most about your blog (aside from the humor) is that you are so REAL. I totally appreciate that you say (write) things that so many of us can relate to – but may also be too afraid to admit. It’s refreshing to kow that someone else has the same crazy shit going on.
On another note, I am so, so sorry that you lost your Grams. I remember how hard it was when I helped my mom pack up my grandma’s things. Seems like so long ago, but I still miss her and I know she watches over me
Oh yeah, and I’m totally with ya on the 4th meal situation. WTF? I usually blame running, but let’s face it, I’m not running a marathon every day!
Do you bring your laptop with you to work on your blog post on the go? Or do you use your phone/tablet?
I’m with you on the nighttime snacking…my weakness is mint chocolate chip ice cream. I just can’t seem to stop so when it runs out I’m taking a break.
It’s hard to be nice all the time! I try my best to be pleasant but honest with everyone because I’m not a fan of confrontation.
Hope you had a great day!
1. I need to quit drinking Diet Coke or at least majorly cut back on it.
2. I signed up to run a 5k at the end of October and have not done anything to achieve my goal of being able to run the whole thing. (I just want to get the point where I can run the full 3 miles without stopping).
Confession: I was recently diagnosed as lactose intolerant, but I can’t stop eating yogurt and ice cream. I had coffee with a friend today and poured half and half right into my cup o’ joe. It’s ridiculous and I know there are tons of alternatives, but I can’t seem to quit the cow and thus walk around with a stomachache all the time.
So sorry about your grandma – sounds like she was an amazing lady!
I do knee push ups too. I always think I can do full push-ups and then I try it and after 4 or 5 I remember that knee push ups are easier
I ate an entire cantaloupe last night. I make no apologies for it. It was delicious.
I am so sorry for your loss and you and your family are in our thoughts and prayers. As far as typical day of food goes I have a question for you: Have you ever tracked your food with an app in the past? I have and I don’t want it to be a “chore” and at first it’s not, but then it seems to become one. Do you have the same experience with it? It seems like I do well when I keep a log of food as far as weight loss, but then I dread “data entry” and fall off track. Any advice?
Confession: I’ve been craving a big fat burger all week, but I’ve been so busy and in the throws of performing in a musical that I haven’t been able to. But I plan on eating one after rehearsal tonight. BURGERRRRR 🙂
And now I definitely need some watermelon! I had popcorn last night right before bed, but I definitely didn’t have enough to eat earlier, so it was alright.
My week is going ok, but I’m very much ready for the weekend, can we all just vote and make that happen? 🙂
I feel the same about watermelon. But I have eating 3/4 of a largeeee one (lol).
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Hey, I’m hoping you can give a bit of detail about the type of strength training you do since it seems to be working well for you — what exercises, weights, etc. Thanks.
My week is going ok actually for a change.
I had a bagel with peanut butter at 9:30pm last night and then went to bed right after.