I'm sitting in our living room typing away, staring at the vacuum I hope to use soon. We normally have some thick red curtains that cover the side windows a bit. They are making their theatrical debut right now and it is a bit shocking to me how much more light our living room gets when they are not here. I should tell you about the plants! I have two tiny succulents and a cactus on the window sill, a spider plant, a basil plant, the creature, a bright light house plant (which has some sun burn, so it got moved to a less sunny place), and a cool plant who's leaves are supposed to roll up in the dark. I worry a bit that it is not happy because our living room never gets dark, because when the sun goes down the streetlight turns on. The basil plant and a plant, I have started to refer to as the creature, are the happiest. The creature is a part of a succulent that I bought at Trader Joe's. Since I re-potted it has gotten much bigger and has two new shoots. It's going to be even bigger and crazier!
I've been feeling a bit sad recently, nothing too bad, just a general level of sadness. The sadness/crankiness started when was I working on two projects that overlapped and had very different working times, one we worked all night then the other I worked in the day times. For a few days, I stayed up till 4:30 or 5am then woke up at 10 or 11 or one day 7:30am and went to the other theater for the day/early afternoon and then went back to the Night time theater till 3:30 or 4:00am. At first I chocked the sadness mostly to exhaustion and having a very weird waking/sleeping schedule, but the feelings didn't go away once I was only working one job. Then I started craving salt and realized I was due to get my period this week.
I woke up this morning, made breakfast and decided to tackle the full sink of dishes. However, I was twice thwarted by shower takers, so I decided to clean the counters and sweep the floor. In just a little while the whole kitchen was clean and once the floor dries, I'm going to put all the dishes away before I go to the theater. I think it must be a good thing that one of my first new responses to not feeling well is cleaning. I don't think I would have ever seen that one coming! A clean kitchen means a good place to make good healthy food and good choices. A dirty kitchen does not inspire me to clean, it just inspires me to get the hell out.
Fast forward to the next day, Sunday a weigh in day.
I went to WW today and guess what! I gained 4 lbs in 2 weeks. I want to blame a lot of that on the period and having a few beers last night but really I ate a bunch of crap last week.
Here's to a week of tracking, walking and celebrating a birthday. :)
