jade's Blurty

Quietness.
Whatever.

I haven't been updating because quite honestly, nothing's been going on really, which is actually pretty nice.

Anyways, I'm updating because I'm chilling at home because there's nothing going on at work, and I have the time to kill.

Basically, I figure I should take as much time as I can because pretty soon, I won't have any choice but to be at work whether it's necessary or not, so I figure I should chill at home as much as I can now. Makes sense, right? I figure I'll go to work tomorrow, and maybe one or two days next week. Ha.

Anyways, it's pretty awsome. I did a mask; I talked to my mom and dad on the phone, and I'm going to do some yoga and call my friend Liz or maybe Jamie. Basically, I'm catching up on my phone calls, and that's nice. Plus, I'm haning out with Mugs, and he's awesome. If I have time, I might even make a split pea soup and give myself a pedicure, but now I'm starting to sound kind of ambitious, and that's not in keeping with the spirit of not going to work.

So yeah. Work is quiet. I went to a meeting yesterday. It was long and boring, as all meetings tend to be.

One thing that sucks is all the turnover. Basically because there's a new governor, he has to hire staff, and he's obviously been hiring lots of people from the Assembly, and so basically everyone is gone. Le sigh. My boss' boss is retiring, which is horrible. He's been replaced by this woman who's a horrible micromanager. She used to be a team leader (like my boss), and if she was sick or on vacation or whatever, no one on her team could leave until she called them to release them. Right now we all have to stay until session is over, but she made her team stay until conference was over (conference is after session; it's where the members discuss certain hot legislative/political topics), which is totally ridiculous, because the conference schedule is known to everyone so eveyrone knows if their issues will be up and if they'll be needed. Plus, it keeps staff there like two or three hours later than necessary, which is just stupid. I mean really. I'm seriously nervous about this because I do not want to be here every night until 2 or 3 am. I use to sit next to her old team, and every night when I finally left at 7,8, 9, 10...they were all still there. Always. Ugh. Yuck.

What else? My parents got me and D an entertainment center for our birthdays, and it's really pretty, and it looks really nice. The only problem with it is that it's super big, and it looks kind of silly and crowded in our tiny apartment. Hopefully that won't be too much of a problem for too long, although it looks like it might be a problem for longer than we originally anticipated.

Our landlord wants to wait to sell the building because they want to fix the basement, and that's fine with me. I'd rather buy it at a slightly higher price knowing that it's been taken care of. Plus, we get longer to save up money, and it means it'll be less time that we'll have a mortgage on one income, which is obviously good. As another plus, it means that the grant money for first time homebuyers will be replenished ebcause it is supposed to be replenished in June, and I don't think the basement will be fixed by then, but whatever. Anyhow, now we feel like we're in a much better position to buy a house and pay the mortgage than before, so that's cool.

I'm still kind of worried about how Bill will factor into all of this. I mean, he's a loose cannon, and he kind of hates us for being happy and successful. I know that sounds really weird to say, but even when we were friends, he was always like....wait until you get divorced and go bankrupt and get cancer and have everything bad in the world happen. I mean wtf is that? Ugh. Anyways. I'm afraid if he knew we were buying it he wouldn't pay rent, and he may destroy the apartment. Bah, Bill. Obviously it's annoying living in an apartment building with someone with whom you're not on speaking terms. A few days ago we went to a happy hour for a colleage's birthday, and he was there, and we were there, and we didn't speak, and it was totally weird. It's like a bad breakup.

Anyhow, onto other things.

Still feeling fat. It's like I look in the mirror when I wake up, and I look thin, but it's like I gain twenty pounds in the following thirty minutes when I eat breakfast and get dressed. WTF? With winter and snow and all that, I've felt more like holling up in blankets and playing Scrabble than hitting the gym. Totally unacceptable, I know. I've been trying to eat super healthy though. I've been feeling kind of under the weather, so today, I'm eating all fruits and veggies. Kind of a healthy detox sort of thing. I think I'm only doing it for a day or two. I just want to eat a ton of fiber and antioxidants and just feel good. Lots of lemon water too.

So far today:
Bfast: raw broccoli and carrots
Lunch: raw celery and carrots with homemade roasted eggplant hummus (I'm allowing beans, lentils, and peas for their protein, fiber, and vitamins.)
Snack: broccoli and hummus
Dinner: homemade split pea soup

By tomorrow, hopefully my bananas will be ripe so I can eat one. Basically tomorrow I'll have the stuff I ate today, plus the banana and some V8.

This is only a today/tomorrow thing. On Saturday, I have dinner with my parents and some relatives, so there will be tons of food and wine and what not. But yeah.

Afterwards, I want to work in organic yogurt or salmon for breakfast, and I want to try to eat as many fruits and veggies from 9-5...basically just f/v for lunch and snacks.

Anyhow, that's pretty much it at this point.

And now I'm thinking....
Yoga
Soup
Phone call to Liz/Jamie
Pedicure?

Current Mood: calm