Day050

Thursday April 14th- Shayna's birthday!

After my recent bad day streak, I woke up convinced that today was going to be better than that. Didn't quite start out that way...

Had my doctor's appointment at 10 and pretty much had a breakdown after stepping on the scale. Seriously. It takes 15-20 minutes to get home from my doctor and I bawled the whole way because I was so disappointed in myself and utterly discouraged. I feel like I've been working really hard to eat better and go to the gym and what do I get? Gained a pound. Now, I do realize that 1 pound is not catastrophic, but when I've been trying so hard to LOSE weight and it's going in the opposite direction it makes me feel like it's not worth it. But I tried to put that behind me so I could enjoy the rest of my day.

The Banfield hospitals in our region or district or whatever won some sort of contest and Banfield paid for each hospital to shut down their hospital for 2 hours one day and go to lunch at a restaurant of our choosing. Our hospital apparently picked Olive Garden so that's where we had lunch today. It was fun... I mean, who doesn't love free food for doing a good job at work? Haha

Then Shayna and I met up with Christian, her boyfriend, and her sister Katie at Cheeseburger in Paradise to have a few pre-dinner drinks. Ended up sitting at the bar for about 2-2.5 hours. No big deal. Went back to Shayna and Christian's to get ready for her birthday dinner... also at Cheeseburger. Haha Got back to Cheeseburger around 5:45 and had a few more drinks, a bit of dinner, and then more drinks. And thennnn...

Day050: Woops

Shayna got a bit animated telling a story and knocked her beer into her lap and then onto the floor. Needless to say, it shattered. And she looked like the peed herself (see fb photos). Good thing she was already pretty intoxicated by this point because she just kept on rolling and even sang karaoke with beer soaked pants. What a trooper. Haha It was definitely a successful birthday celebration to say the least :)

Day049

Wednesday April 13th

So today was not really much better than yesterday in terms of work. But I got to leave at 12:30, so I'm trying to put that behind me.

Came home, had lunch, relaxed for about an hour until I went to the gym. Tried running on the treadmill and kept getting shooting pains up my right side so I opted for speed walking on an incline. Much less painful. Did some resistance training and will probably be very sore again. Haha Oh well. Came home to shower but took this beforehand:

Day049: Warped

I originally went out back to photograph the obnoxious amount of pollen that has collected on the back deck but those pictures didn't turn out as interesting as I had hoped. So I opted for photographing down by the creek... where even more obnoxious amounts of pollen and algae are collecting. Gross. Started looking for other things to photograph and thought it was funny how much the tree bent as I got closer and used the fish eye lens. I have another one that was in contest with this one to be my photo for the day- a close up of that circular knot looking thing on the warped tree. It somehow looks like a peace sign up close.... Ryan and I are wondering if someone actually did carve a peace sign in it at one point and this is how it looks now. Who knows...

After my brief photo shoot with the backyard, I showered and headed to Buffalo Wild Wings. Ended up pretty much having a double date with Katie and John. Haha Then went to Young Adult Group at church. Now we are home and hanging out until we decide it's time for bed. :)

Day048

Tuesday April 12th

Today was not a good day. And was sandwiched between 2 days that were also not good. Which were in a string of 6 straight days of stress.

So today does not deserve its own photo. Instead, it gets a recycled one from the original Project 365.

Day048: ...

The difference between the usages of this photo is quite amusing as well. In the original project, this was the first day I completely forgot to take a picture and I felt horrible. This time around, it was entirely intentional. I figure this is my project and if I don't feel like taking a picture because I have no desire to recall anything that happened during this day, it's my prerogative to do so.

Day047

Monday April 11th

Yay- I'm caught up again! Haha

Day 4 of 6- almost done with another long streak. Worked 6:45-12:30... weirdest day ever. Very sad day too. But very very weird.

Left work and went to my parents house to pick up my cell phone which I had left the night before. Not real sure how I survived more than 12 hours without it, but I did. Talked to mom for a few. Closed my bank account at Bank of America. Got jipped there. Drove through at Wendy's. Feel like I got jipped there too because my nuggets were not up to par in my book.

Repainted my nails. Watched TV. Relaxed/rested until Ryan came home. Dinner with the family and Lynn. Played cornhole with Ryan for a bit. Went for a bike ride while Ryan jogged. Came home and didn't feel like being creative so this is what you get:

Day047: Mesh

Ryan pretty much lives in mesh gym shorts despite many attempts to rid him of this habit. Haha Kidding... sort of. But anyway... I really didn't have anything else interesting to photograph, but I always enjoy using my macro lens because I love how crisp the tiniest details are. Other than that, I have no reason for photographing Ryan's shorts besides convenience. :)

Day046

Sunday April 10th

Worked all day. Are you seeing a trend here? We close at 5 on Sundays but I didn't get to leave until about 5:45 or later... which is unusual. It was an unusual day.

But I got to enjoy the rest of it. Went to my parents house for dinner and to hang out a bit. Ryan jumped on the trampoline with the girls while I talked to mom as she was making dinner. He jumped on the trampoline after dinner as well... not sure how he didn't vom all over the place. Haha We played dominos for a bit, watched a couple of funny youtube videos (see my facebook wall for my most recent favorite), then headed home around 9.

Took this once we got home:

Day046: Guitar Strings To The Strum

Since Ryan is working for his dad again, he works Mon-Fri. I do not. Therefore, he has a lot of free time on the weekends. Today, Steven came over and they played guitars and learned songs. So after we got home from my parents, Ryan wanted to show me what he had learned. He played, I photographed. I have a really funny one with Lucy in the background that I will upload to facebook, but I liked the composition of this one better. :)

Day045

Saturday April 9th

Worked all day. Left work around 5 or so. Stomach was messed up alllll day... gurgling and disgusting. Came home to Ryan watching Man On Fire, so I plopped down on the couch with him and watched too. Made stuffed shells for dinner but realized that salads would be delicious, so Ryan went to Farm Fresh and picked up salads. Also came home with Unstoppable, so we watched that after dinner. It was really really good... stressful, but good. I told Ryan I would probably fall asleep during it because I was so tired and not feeling great... I did not even come close to sleeping. Pretty sure I was more alert watching the movie than I was all day. Haha But here's my photo:

Day045: Saturday Night Combo

So basically I took this because I realized I hadn't taken a photo yet and these things were laying side by side. I figured it was a good representation of my day- the best part of today was watching Unstoppable with my husband and enjoying a couple of thin mints. :) That's really all the explanation this photo needs... oh, but thin mints don't really help upset tummies so I don't recommend them as treatment. Ha

Day044

Friday April 8th

Ok... so I've been very delinquent on uploading photos and posts. My bad.

Friday=day 1 of 6 straight days at work. Worked 6:45-1:30. Honestly... I can't even remember what happened this day, either at work or after. Pretty sure Ryan and I went to the batting cages again. Then had softball practice at 7. Somewhere along the way, I took this:

Day044: 'Zilla

I feel SO bad for her. That large ball under her armpit is not supposed to be there. It's gigantic. I don't even remember when it first starting showing up, but it's been quite awhile and it just keeps getting bigger. I feel awful but she's still eating and will actually run around the tank to chase crickets, so it can't be bugging her too much. But it still looks terrible. And uncomfortable.

Anyone have any useful information about what it could be? I'm all ears...