Week Two Weigh-In

A little disappointing this week, as today weighed in at 220. I had gotten down to 218 late last week, but a weekend of cast parties, and 2 nights of eating leftover spaghetti seems to have taken its toll. So technically it is up .4 from last week, but as I mentioned in a previous post, losing close to 7 lbs in a week seemed too much anyway.

I’m still down 5 from 2 weeks ago, so I’m hanging in there. Hopefully this week will be another good one. This morning I still have a sore neck, so getting out to go walking is next to impossible. So… bring on week 3!

OW!

Woke up this morning with a huge “crick” or whatever you want to call it – a pain in the neck… makes it hard to turn to the side. Still bothering me despite one of those heating pads. ARGH!!!! I just hope it goes away before tomorrow

Meanwhile, I am still having trouble at work with one client, who is just simply wearing me down. Nothing I do is right, and they keep making demands about a shopping cart that are at the same time outside the scope of the contract, but at the same time something that “should” be fixed because they are bad templates. I have to tell the client “No” when they request these things, and they just keep on requesting changes to things in the shopping cart. Over and over. It REALLY is bugging me, to the point where if we weren’t so busy I would ask somebody else to take the project away.

The frustration level is reaching a new high, and not having any free time because of the play is just amplifying the frustration. Not sure when this will ever end, but I hope it does soon.

Done Baking … time to relax

I went home from work at 11:30 to take a break before opening night of the play. Now, I am HARDLY a major character in this production (by choice) so it’s not like my performance will make or break the show… but rehearsing every night till almost 11… well, see my previous post.

So I got back to town around noon, went to the grocery store and bought ingredients for my famous hot onion dip. (yum!) and came home. I started the dryer to dry some clothes that had been sitting in the washer since about Tuesday (I know.. I know..) and then started a load of whites with bleach. While this was going on, I heated up a frozen pizza (Hey Im allowed one “bad” day!) and started chopping up onions in my little food processor.

Normally I make 1 “batch” of this onion dip and take it to the party. Well, this is a large cast (30+ people, of which 20+ are between 14-20 years-old. ) so I decided to make not one… not two.. but three batches. Yikes. So I have been mercilessly chopping onions all afternoon and baking a giant pot of onion dip for the cast party tonight. I also bought 4 boxes of wheatables to go with it.

I just hope it all gets eaten, because it would NOT go well with the diet. Think cream cheese, mayonnaise, parmesan cheese, and tons of onions. NOT low-fat.

So now, the load of whites is in the dryer, and I think I can finally “relax.”

So until tomorrow… latta!

Overheard on Jerry Springer today…

Wife to husband who has been sleeping with his step-sister:

“the only reason I keep on yellin’ atcha is cuz marriage is supposed to be 50/50 not 50/25!”

What a great world we live in.

Exhaustion

The last week has been demanding for all members of the cast of Bye Bye Birdie here in Ames. I for one, am simply drained. Along with starting a new diet, coming home from work and turning right around to the theatre until 10:30 every night is very demanding – luckilly tonight is opening night, and the end of the “hell week” of rehearsals. From now on it is just performances and pick-up rehearsals, so I hope to get more sleep.

Last night after the show was terrible, I couldn’t get to sleep because I kept thinking about how busy we are at work, and all of the web projects I have piling up on my desk that seems like they will never be done. Every time I finish one, two more appear. I’m sure once the play is over and I get some sleep, that things will improve, but I am taking a half-day at work today just to relax. The problem is, I’ll probably spend it worrying about the stuff I could be doing. I’ve never been good at taking vacations. When I was in Los Angeles, there really wasn’t anywhere to go for vacation… I mean, I was >IN