Morrigainz

Yayyyyy! You can do it! And honestly I think that is a decent time if you haven't been going regularly. My 1 mile time is around 13 minutes!

OMG that fucking snowblower. Haha. That was like....the worst night ever. You are probably right about the flag, but we also live in the county that is known to be basically the Michigan kkk headquarters. So, yesterday. No zeroes. Made it to work, was able to do a little work, took a walk with Mr Mir around the neighborhood we might be moving into at lunch, and then went out for dinner with him and some friends time celebrate his birthday (which is tomorrow). Got home just in time for bed. 3 mes: uhhh. No real progress on this. Forgiveness: I forgive you, past me, for not being productive at work yesterday. Clearly we need to figure out how to set ourselves for success behaviorally. Exercise and books: nope. Surprise surprise. Unless you count some walking exercise. Today, I am not at work. I have not been sleeping well again/still and my mind feels somewhat foggy because of it. I'm not sure if it's the Adderall, but it would totally make sense. But also my back was hurting this morning - like, it hurt to get up and go to the bathroom. So I'm chilling today. I did think about going in a little later, but I ultimately decided not to. That should give me time for exercise and books today! We also have a realtor coming to our house tonight. I'm not sure what to expect. I've never owned a home, or bought a home, so this will be a new experience for me. Hopefully it goes well and she thinks we can make bank on our house (not likely).

On the front squats, make sure to keep those elbows up, up, up! It's hard.

Not a lot lately, unfortunately. I've been having a really hard time getting multiple nerds together. And it seems like the ones I hung out with a year or two ago aren't very active on the boards anymore. But we should totally get something together! I am about 30 minutes east of Lansing but I grew up in haslett /okemos and I'm really hoping to move back that way soon.

If I'm not mistaken, that's big bang theory.

Vag up! I love you Jo!

Glad to hear you've rounded a bend! That sounds like a lot of pt work. But i am also lazy. As far as the Facebook argument goes, Ugh. I have been there and it's totally frustrating. I've started quietly deleting people from my friends list instead of engaging because it's just easier. No one wants to have a reasonable debate anymore.

I love that you still have it!

Ooooo what program are you running?

I APPROVE OF THIS PLAN.

BUT MOAR MONEY FOR VISITING

Now THAT'S love.

My husband was weird when I asked him if I could use his electric razor to shave my legs (I had just gotten out of the shower and didn't realize how hairy they were).

I've been doing band-assisted pull ups, and I can hold at the top for a VERY BRIEF MOMENT. In fact it's not really like a hold, just a pause. Hahaha. I can sometimes make my negatives last 10-12 seconds, but that tires me out quick so I can only do 1 or 2.

Yes! Exactly. It is a helper. I was anti-medication for a long time; just because I wanted to be able to rely on MYSELF to take care of myself. I've always been independent and didn't want to have a "crutch" or a "helper" in order to function. But as I've gotten older, I've realized - it's not that there's anything wrong with me - I'm just different. And if I have to take medication to help me be ME, help me be me in the best way possible, and help me function in a society that isn't designed for people like me, then I am ok with that.

Time off! Yippeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!! Feeling weak sucks. But awesome HG is awesome, so I'm suuuuuuuuuuuuuuure you're good. And A2G squats! TEN DAYS

Omigod. I love this. And in many ways it can totally apply to communication in a relationship! But yeah also hilarious. Okay so not much stuff challenge-related this weekend. LOTS of cleaning and weeding, etc, to get ready for our party. And we had our party! And I stayed up until 6 am Saturday night (so actually Sunday morning) and then only got 4 hours of sleep. I have a lot of things to talk about, and I'm not sure in what order I should go. Chronologically, I suppose. 1. I FINALLY GOT MY FUCKING ADDERALL. The dr started me on 10mg of Adderall XR, and basically gave me permission to up it to 20 after a couple weeks if I felt like I needed a little extra oomph. We are also transitioning me off the Wellbutrin. HOORAY FOR NEW DR. I took it for the first time on Friday, and spent the next 5.5 hours weeding and doing yardwork. It was amazing. And I basically finished the task A-Z instead of giving up in the middle. Saturday I did a lot of housecleaning. The thing I notice is that I still get distracted, but it's easier for me to pull away from the distraction and still complete what I'm working on. Also, I don't know if it's due to the Adderall or not, but I did a more thorough cleaning than I normally would have done - vacuuming the baseboards and trim, for example. So this is day 4 and I love it. However, I have also been at work for 2.5 hours and not done any work yet. But I kind of wanted to catch up on NF from the weekend, and I'm almost caught up, so we'll see what happens. But it's amazing - I have energy - I have focus. Obviously there are behavioral issues that I need to address, but the Adderall, I think, will help me get to a place where it's possible to do that. 2. Quick week-whatever-this-was wrapup No zeroes: check. Not always accomplishing the things I need/want to, but at least every day there has been an activity. 3 Mes: check. Doing a better job of mindfully doing things for future me when present me doesn't want to do them. I do wish I had more motivation for the gym though. It's been a challenge to pull myself out of my chair and JFDI. Forgiveness: working on it. Trying to think of things to forgive myself for every day is kind of challenging, and I also wonder if it's good for me because it makes me reflect on all my "failures" from the previous day or whatever. Exercise and books: exercise has been good. All the housecleaning this weekend helped! The books, not so much. Hope to get back on it this week. 4. So, Mr Mir and I live in the country, in case you don't know. We like our house but we really don't fit in with the neighbors. Some of them have pickup trucks with Confederate flag decals in the window. So, yeah. Anyway our plan has been to get the house ready this year (touching up paint, taking care of nail pops, cleaning, organizing, and getting rid of extra stuff). The other day, Mr Mir found a condo that is super close to work that's renting for a reasonable-ish price. So then I started looking on Craigslist and found a house that's also very close. The condo is a no-go because there were like....5 cats there, and Mr Mir is highly allergic. The condo also did not have a basement (wtf it's in Michigan) or really any storage space, and nothing in the way of a yard, so we'd have to get a storage unit and store a lot of our stuff, including our patio furniture. Sadface. Then we went to look at the house. The house is fucking gorgeous. It's an older one that the owner is currently fixing up, and it has all these awesome little details. It's very charming. It's all-wood floors. It has a three-season room. And we could walk to work. So we went through finances last night, and we could totally afford to rent the place, even if our house didn't sell right away. So we are considering trying to do it. Although we keep waffling because we DO like our house and our acre of land. The other house is right downtown so obviously a really small yard. And...it has no garage, just a driveway. All surmountable things though! We are going to take another look at it today and walk around the neighborhood at lunch. When we drove by it seemed nice. Anyway so that is potentially an exciting change. Of course, I like to research ALL the things, so I also found another rental house that's a little further from work but still much closer than where we're at now, and the price is similar. It's exciting to think I might not have to live in the boonies anymore!!!

Omigod. Those storms were CRAZY. I didn't sleep well either. I'm jealous of yoga in the woods! Maybe I should give it a try sometime I like the good week you have planned. It's nice when you can go away and kind of have a fun weekend, but not let the bad food and stress follow you back to the week

You're doing a great job! Love all your mindfulness stuff. And I don't know how you can mindlessly mindfully eat Maybe that just means that you're in the groove and so it's becoming a habit! OHP and bench can both be weird on my shoulder sometimes. So I should definitely be doing more mobility stuff for that. I do the shoulder dislocations sometimes, and band pull-aparts, but I don't usually do much else. Also, hormones suck, so GREAT job getting in your workout anyway, and then crushing it! Glad yesterday was more back to normal. I hate when the funk just comes out of nowhere.

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HOORAY. NOW Y'ALL HAVE TO COME VISIT A MIR.

No excuses! Whatever it takes! Sounds like you guys had a fantastic weekend

Hellz yeah far-past chammy!!!!

Dude, negatives are HARD.

No way! Really? Awesome. Well Beer Fest in Lansing was a couple weekends ago, but I'm sure there are other things going on. Oktoberfest, perhaps summer beer fest in Ypsi (not sure if that's happened yet), etc. But I do love GR! Great breweries/pubs there.