One Year and 32 days: Excess Baggage

Update: no weighing this weekend (this post is from Sunday... even if I didn't manage to finish it until Monday)

Sorry for the long delay. It seems like every day I start to write and then something always comes up. It's been a pretty busy week.

On Easter Sunday someone stole money from my account, so I spent the early part of the week fixing that and making sure I got my money back. What a bloody hassle. Moral: don't ever use your debit card if you can manage it.

I had some school stuff to worry about, but luckily got all of it done. There is only two weeks left of school - man... I am super excited. There is a crapload left to do (3 practicals, a presentation, three assignments, peer assessment, not to mention getting to study!)... but knowing that the break is on the horizon may actually facilitate some work getting done.

I have gotten to the gym here and there, but I have to focus myself a bit more. I just did the recumbent bike on Saturday morning where I had one of my sweatiest workouts in a long time. I think I'll stick with the bike for a while - it feels more satisfying than the elliptical (even if the elliptical apparently burns more calories). And the plus side to this is that my knee shouldn't be affected too much with this exercise.

I went on a date on Thursday night with a guy I had been chatting with on the phone for two weeks. He's a really great guy, if not a little rough around the edges. I may someday have to make a clothing adjustment, but I suppose that's far in the future. He has been the only one I have gone on a first date with that I actually truly wanted a second date with - so this is really promising. We are hopefully going to the movies on Tuesday night to see Stop-Loss... if anyone has seen this, is it appropriate for a date? At the end of our date he kissed me on the cheek and gave me a huge hug, so it's kind of exciting to wonder when our first real kiss will occur. I really appreciated that he didn't come on to strongly considering the other men I have gone on dates with. So... I am excited to have a prospect!

Eating hasn't been great since that Thursday night because it's been a lot of social events since then... I went to a basketball game on Friday and then Fashionista visited me on Saturday night where we had dinner and then went out for drinks. Sunday we went out for breakfast with her boyfriend and his friends. My dad came over later in the day where he attempted to fix my washing machine which has been broken since the end of January and ended up fixing nothing... but I did get a free meal out of it! Certainly didn't feel like much of a weekend.

Oh yeah... and my mom is selling my childhood home to move into a condo! Within a week she had put an offer in on a condo and put our house up on the market. I am a little sad, but also happy that she'll be somewhere smaller. She's been complaining about the upkeep of the full house for a very long time. But the problem is she needs it all cleaned up before Sunday (her first Open House)... I don't know how that will be possible - my mother is a pack rat. She still keeps magazines from 1978 because there are recipes in there... forgetting that, oh yeah, she doesn't even cook. Grr... anyways

I am off to school... ahem.. bed? haha... pretend like this was posted yesterday...