First, the Health and Fitness.
I found a site called LoseIt.com and I joined and have been keeping track of everything I eat and watching my calories, and adding any exercise I've done (not much). Because of that I've been making way better food choices and besides half a mini cupcake at the wedding I've avoided my downfall: the fatty, sugary baked goods. I've been drinking more water, haven't had my usual sweets and sugary drinks, and have been eating more fruits and veggies... still not enough, but an improvement. It's been good, though man occasionally I really wanted chocolate or cake or something. And I've been a bit tired, since my body was used to running on sugar, but I'm sure in a few more days it'll sort itself out, and be the happier for it. I was planning on getting in more exercise, but then Ryan sprained his ankle, and we haven't got out for our planned walks, and he was home for a couple of days, so we mainly hung out.
On a side note, we went and saw Green Lantern and loved it! Out of all the comicbook movies we've seen this year (Thor, X-men, and Green Lantern) it was hard to choose a favourite since we liked them all, but we think Thor's at the bottom, and we feel that X-Men and Green Lantern are so different... in part because X-Men is a return to familiar characters (though their earlier renditions, it's still Xavier and Magneto and Mystique, etc...) and a familiar Universe, and it was really well done, but we might have liked it in part because of the familiarity, and to get more backstory, while Green Lantern was fresh, and more fun. We laughed a lot. But it also had decent character motivation and depth enough to understand why the characters did what they did, for the most part. X-Men has always shone in that regard, and even more now... you totally understand Xavier and Magneto's story, as well as Mystique's, and so many others, and why they do what they do and believe what they believe. But enough about movies... for now.
But yeah, so I'm doing OK there, and am hoping to have lost a fair amount of this extra unhealthy weight by the end of this year, and will have hopefully taken advantage of the fitness facilities at school and gotten in shape too.
Spiritual Life... ummm... no real improvement in this area this week. Though I read a great couple of blog posts recently on trusting God: one by my awesome sister-in-law here on how Gratitude is the Essence of Trust, and one here called "Daddy Save Me". They got me thinking. And so I did pray a smidge, asking that I get a fuller revelation myself about this kinda thing. We didn't make it to church, and I can't even blame it on staying up late partying at my cousins wedding the night before since we left kinda early... we just didn't really try to get there. Oooops. And my Bible still hasn't been out. Though I'm slowly trying to read Designer Genes, by Ken Harrington, and it's got lots of verses in it. Ha.
Procrastinating and Housework. Well, we did get some of the house clean over this past week, but this morning I procrastinated and wasted time online, and so now I have a lot to do this afternoon. I need to clean my bathroom, wash a few dishes, wipe the kitchen counters, do some laundry, and tidy the office up. Tomorrow is vacuuming. Tonight Ryan is going to help me clean the TV room. We only have a couple more days to get this place clean before Ryan's mom and his grandparents come for a visit and we want the house to be clean. Then we really want to find a way to keep it clean, which will involve breaking off many bad habits.
Relationships With Others. Well... I did have a good visit with my Aunt Shannon at the wedding, and did visit with a few other people. I also hid behind my camera a fair amount. We've had Colevin and Ebony, Ryan's younger brother and his wife, over for games the past couple nights, since it's a totally affordable entertainment for all of us, and we need to watch spending.
Oh, that's something else I should be watching... money. Haha. Though the eating out less and less sugar and crap foods will certainly help in that area. Hmmm... maybe gonna have to think about adding some sort of savings goal or something, but for now, I think I've got enough stuff on my plate.
We're hoping to have a games night on Friday, since the house should be all clean, and we've got the time, and the games. If you don't really know us, we're board game fanatics. All started with a game store in Victoria, BC called Interactivity. It's on Fort St. near the Bay Centre and it's owned by a guy named Jack, and he's amazing and knows so much about board games (and we're talking Euro-board games here, not Monopoly and things like that) and he's part of a gamer group and so they play all these games, and he knows what is playing well, and what isn't, etc. And it's his passion. And he got us hooked on these Euro-board games. I'm gonna have to do a post on the games we have and stuff at one point. They are so good. But yeah, board games. And a games night. So I might be social!
So all in all I did enact some changes, and in some places I'm still in a rut, but for a first week I guess it's a start. Baby steps are still steps. And next week I hope to report even better things! And tomorrow I'm also hoping to start my 52Project, where I post a self-portrait (a photo I took of myself, either from arms length, or using a timer, or a remote, and having conceived of the concept and done the post processing myself as well) every week for a year. And it has to have been done that week. Looking forward to that project too. I need to get back into actively doing creative things, like writing (even just this blog) and my photography, and maybe even more painting and sketching and things too... since it's such a part of me, and will hopefully help keep me sane when I start up school again.
And just to finish things off, here's the Queen, meeting and greeting a whole bunch of troop horses. <3 Love :) The photo is from here.
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