New Plans & Preparing To Leave

Another day, another set of plans to make the scale go down.

It’s time to step up to the next level of light eating and tough workouts. No more night eating, either.

B and I played pool today and he told me he’s going to miss me when I leave. He was really sad. I’m sad too because we’ve sort of become best friends, in a way. He told me he still has ‘feelings’ for me. Of course, that was after 3 shots of Patron tequila. Everyone at our pool hall thinks we are a couple, which also sucks. I’ve had to tell a few people outright that we aren’t one. Whenever there is a cute guy around us, B acts like we ARE a couple.

I’m going to confess something here: I’m still drinking alcohol almost every day. It’s bad. I try to stop, then plans come up. Everyone is drinking. I know that’s no excuse but damn, it sucks. I know it’s the #1 reason that I’m not losing scale weight.

There, I said it.

It’s definitely time to get out of here for a couple of months! When I’m in Tulsa, I don’t drink much if at all.

Anyway, I need to get ready to go back. I’m going to spend tonight and tomorrow preparing my apartment for departure and get my new laptop ready. I also have to throw a lot of stuff out. I’m not sure when I’m going to leave exactly, but it’s going to be soon. It might actually be this coming week, maybe on Wednesday. I had a wild idea to leave tonight in the middle of the night, but there are things I need to do first. Firstly, let my landlord out here know I’m going and prepay rent. Second, freeze my gym membership for the next couple months. Third, make sure my car is OK.

I don’t know though, I’m tempted to just take off… except the weather is bad over my route for the next couple of days. But I just want to get back there already. Get back to my spacious 1 1/2 bedroom apartment with its nice furniture, HD TV, nice dishes, queen sized pillow-top bed, elliptical machine, 24 hour building gym and pool, covered parking with my own spot, and sister and niece and other family members. (I didn’t mean to list family last, in fact, I miss them more than anything else!)

One good thing about living in two different places is that when you get sick of one place, you can pack up and go to the other place.

Anyway, B wants to hang out tonight. He also wants to go to our pool place tomorrow night and do Karaoke and dedicate me a song. THAT I’m not looking forward to. I probably won’t go.

In other news, there is a new person who lives below me here that has the loudest surround-sound system ever. That and probably a high-tech bass stereo. He started playing it around 9am this morning. Given the fact that I fell asleep around 5am this morning, you know I’m not very happy! I think to get revenge, I’m going to spend all night tonight moving furniture around and stomping around heavily.

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Quick edit: Well, it’s now 7:45pm and guess what? I’m heading to the gym! (I already rode 5 miles on my stationary bike earlier today).

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Even later edit: Geez, I need to stop updating this darn thing. Anyway, I only had 45 minutes by the time I got to my gym (found out they close at 9pm on Saturdays, not 10 like I thought) , so I decided to do the most effective workout: the elliptical, for 32 minutes. I got the machine up to level 12, up three levels from my previous high level of 9! My heart rate actually stayed in the lower 140’s. AND I didn’t sweat nearly as much. It is weird - although I went three days without using the elliptical machine, somehow I could get it on an even higher level than before and it didn’t kick my as* like it sometimes does. I could definitely feel the heightened resistance level though. At one point I was burning 11 cals per minute, which for me is REALLY good. (I still haven’t gotten up to those levels of fitness where one can burn 1000 cals per hour on the elliptical).

Anyway, I just wanted to update about my gym visit. Only 32 minutes working out, but then again, I did 25 earlier today with my bike and free weights. Tomorrow evening I will go to the gym again and do the treadmill. My goal is to get up to a 9.5% incline without it killing me.

Have I mentioned how much I love love love working out?

Well, it’s 9:16pm and I need to take a quick shower. An old friend whom I haven’t seen for a while, J (a different J than I’ve mentioned here) and I are hitting an Irish bar over the Massachusetts border. Yeah, I guess I’ll be drinking alcohol again. Oh well - I have at least 2 sober months in Tulsa ahead of me, so I’m not worried. I may as well live it up now!