September 2009

What a beautiful day! I love that I get direct sunlight on my balcony and in my windows for several hours each morning/day now. I woke up at 8am this morning and managed to hobble out of bed in time for both the cable man (who had to come fix the cable connection) and the furniture guys (who were picking up my love seat, which unfortunately just didn’t fit in my living room, so I returned it). And when I say “hobble” I am not exaggerating. It seems I did something bad to the back of my calves, they have been hurting something AWFUL!! I have been on my feet pretty much all day long for the past 3 days, plus bending, squatting, lifting, reaching, etc. I guess I wasn’t in as good of shape as I thought. Although the rest of my body has been feeling good.

I have been taking a break from thinking about dieting, raw foodism, fruitarianism, etc for the past several days and let me tell you, it’s been wonderful! I’ve been eating when I have time and not worrying about calories or nutrition. It’s really freeing. As a result, I have actually lost weight. (Haven’t weighed myself yet but I can tell the way stuff is fitting ). I know now that I was definitely worrying about it all WAY too much. I’m going to keep myself in this easy-going diet frame of mind for as long as I can. I’m not over-eating greasy crap food anymore or battling cravings. Instead, I just eat what I want within reason when I’m hungry and have time. This morning I had a hearty breakfast, knowing that it’s going to be another super-busy day and I probably won’t eat again until dinner. I had a banana, some organic honey-flavored cereal, and a coffee-flavored all-natural yogurt.

I didn’t do anything exciting for my birthday yesterday, but my sister and niece came over and brought me a card and hung out. We are all (me, sister, niece and Aunt) going to celebrate my birthday this Thursday evening by going out to dinner and maybe a movie or something. I spent yesterday afternoon/evening unpacking the many many boxes in my dining and living room area. Still have my bedroom to fix up and my computer room, which is stuffed with book boxes to the point I can’t really walk around it.

Moving day was… interesting. Here are some of the highlights: the movers were 2 1/2 hours late; nobody was answering the phone at the office, so I was panicking; they finally arrived at 11:30. They had estimated it would take around 4 hours to move me altogether. Well, that didn’t happen, it took 7.45 hours; I spent double what I had planned; the elevator that my old building had set up for the movers to use kept breaking down; it was 93 degrees and extremely humid out that day, so it was miserable; my sister had her dog over and she kept peeing all over the place (mostly on the balcony but once in my apartment as well); my old building has three elevators. One is broke down for the next couple of months; one was being used by the movers exclusively; so a building with 32 floors of tenants had to use the 1 remaining elevator during the time the movers were there; My sister and I had to use the tenant elevator to take stuff down to my car (because I park on the 3rd floor, since the moving elevator was programmed to only go from the 9th floor to the lower level). Each time the elevator arrived, it was packed with people. Thankfully people in that building are nice and were in a good mood that day!

The cable company was supposed to come out originally on Monday, but someone had messed up the schedule. So around 11am on Sunday (before the movers had arrived), I got a call from a cable guy who said he was on his way to my new place to hook up service. After a couple of panicked phone calls to Cox and back to the tech, we decided that 4:30 would be a good time for him to go back to my new place. (The movers had finally arrived and I figured it couldn’t take more than 3 hours to pack up my apartment). Well, of course it took a lot longer than that. We finally left my old building at 4pm. My sister and I drove our cars over and arrived here around 4:25. One of the movers hurt his knee and had to be dropped off en route to my new place, which made them arrive here at 4:50. The cable guy got here at the same time. So the movers had to dig around in the truck to find my computer and TV, which took longer than it should have. Unfortunately the cable didn’t get hooked up properly the first time, so they had to come back this morning.

So it took until 7:15pm for the movers to finish! There were a few other difficulties I won’t get into. Suffice it is to say that I am a little disappointed. So one of the managers there is going to call me back today and possibly give me some sort of refund or discount.

The highlight of the day was when my sister’s puppy peed on my brand new carpet here in my new apartment.

Whew! Anyway, I was so tired on Sunday night that I couldn’t fall asleep despite soaking in my new whirlpool tub (I was over-wired). I finally drifted off around 3am and slept fitfully through the night. Then woke up to a loud pounding on my front door around 10am. The furniture delivery guys had arrived with my new TV and couches, etc, and there were boxes in the way in my living room! Very heavy boxes, plus an extra bookcase. I had to move it all into my dining room while still half asleep and in my pajamas.

Anyway, things have calmed down now, everything is working fine and I absolutely LOVE this place already for many reasons: it’s a safe, gated community; I have a huge bathroom, a large kitchen space and dining area; very quiet; I have my own garage to park in; my own private laundry room in my apartment; very nice and friendly office staff; direct sunlight; 24 hour gym in main building; and I love this area too – there is a large shopping district less than 2 miles from here. I’m now nearly 10 miles from the river and away from the nasty methane smells, too! Cleaner air here.

I have to head over to my old place a bit later today to finish cleaning up, plus get the rest of the stuff out of my fridge and a few other items left behind.

I will be taking some pictures of my new place as I get more unpacked!

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I only have time for a super-quick update…… yesterday was SO stressful, so many things went wrong during the move! Almost everything that could have went wrong did at one time or another.

Oddly enough I didn’t get overly upset or burst out crying, despite the fact that I’m probably in PMS mode right now.

I was running on like 2 hours of sleep yesterday. This morning I got roused out of a deep sleep by the furniture delivery guys, who were pounding on my front door like the world was ending.

I’ll do a proper update later tonight or tomorrow. I think I lost a couple of pounds over the weekend (or maybe inches) because I’ve barely had time to eat and I’ve been running around like a chicken with my head cut off. I’m also in quite a bit of pain!

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Well, moving stress and exhaustion has hit… D-day is arriving soon and I’ve been so busy packing. It turns out I own way too much crap.

The good news is that I’m progressing quite nicely, but I still have too much to do. My apartment is lined and stacked with boxes in every free space. It’s almost gotten to the point where I’ve given up careful packing and have instead begun throwing stuff in boxes randomly. Thankfully I don’t need to deal with the heavy stuff or electronics. The moving guys themselves are going to carefully pack my computers up for me (I have 5 of them plus 2 laptops, I know, crazy huh?!) I’ll probably also have them pack my juicer and blender.

It doesn’t help matters that I’ve been feeling a bit yucky the past couple of days. Probably from stress.

As for diet stuff, I am too busy to worry about it now although I made an important revelation the other night. You guys left me some very helpful and amazing comments on my second-to-last post, for which I’m very grateful! My revelation was this, in a nutshell: I am addicted to fattening, greasy/cheesy food. I’m not craving it because I need a nutrient in it. I take in plenty of calcium and fat and protein. Why would I needed anything that’s in that sort of awful food?

So, it’s an addiction and needs to be dealt with. I have a plan but it’s going to have to wait. I’m too busy with other stuff to worry about it now.

Perhaps I traded my alcohol high (when I used to drink a lot) for the greasy cheesy food high? It’s certainly possible.

My hair seems to have improved since eating eggs again. But I won’t know for sure until a few weeks from now.

I’ve started taking Vitamin D3 supplements because the sun is never out long enough to go out and catch rays around here.

I’ve also been getting lots of physical exercise (exertion) in. Packing up a large 1 1/2 bedroom apartment by yourself is actually quite a bit of work!

I’ll update more later.

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