Rinna

On 5/18/2016 at 11:04 AM, MiaulinTheCat said:

Great Clean Slate attitude!

 

If you like cauliflower, it can be a good substitute for carb-heavy things, especially potatoes. I mostly like it in stir-fry, but it makes for a super-tasty mash that's a good rival for potatoes.

You can also process it lightly in a food processor to make "cauli-rice".  Not a bad sub for rice, and a mild enough flavor not to compete with or ruin a dish.

So, the universe is conspiring against me.  I missed the last challenge due to:

1. Illness. Again.  I spose that's what I get for working in a school. (Germy Juveniles)

2. Hellmachine's murder attempt and ultimate demise.  Damn schwinn elliptical cracked on both sides, where the stupid thing rotates.  I coulda died.

3. Vacation. Traveled to the depths of Hell (otherwise known as Texas) to visit my elderly Grandmother.  She will be 88 this November, but man she's still awesome.  She's what I wanna be when I grow up.

4.  Transporting my DD to another state for the summer. Great opportunity for her to be on her own for the first time, doing cool science stuff.  But hell, she's my first baby, and I miss her terribly.  Been eating a lot of feelings and stuff.

So here I am again.  Starting over, sorta.  Did complete the challenge- before- last, and rewarded myself with a new helix piercing.  I'd really like to do my whole ear (just one) with hoops down the whole side, with a couple/three studs at the bottom.  But we'll see.  I've been told I'm too old (45) and to stop trying to be cool.  Well, I'm not trying to be cool.  I just think it looks cool.

Well, enough rambling, I guess.  I am back on the Hellmachine (after it tried to kill me, and after we repaired it)  This week will be only elliptical, since I took a long break.  Next week I will add something else into the mix.  Just don't know what yet.

Live long and prosper, my friends.

Week 4 recap:  Well this week kinda went to hell in a handbasket. Not a total fail, but not what I wanted it to be.  Due to last weeks 11 mile hile, took a couple days off to heal a pulled calf muscle. Along with that, had several nights of no sleep. So basically I didn't get any extra workouts in.  Did get my 10,000 daily steps, and tracked most of my food intake.  Stayed close to my goals there, a tick over, but not too bad.  So here we are at zero week, and I may just keep n keepin' on, since I was a slug last week. Hmmmm.  We'll see, eh?

Good job!

4:1 & 4:2    Taking a break.  Daughter and I channeled our inner Hobbits and took an 11 mile hike.  It was fun.  Cold and windy, but fun.  So, I figure since I am still somewhat on track mileage wise for the week, I will wait a day or so and let my calf heal.  Pulled something, well, pulled my calf muscle.  Think it was because my athletic shoes were toast.  (they were easily 4 years old)  Got some new ones yesterday and chucked those puppies in the trash.  Plus the trail was wonky in spots, very uneven and hard to walk on.  So I must have over compensated somehow.  Anywho, with my daily steps and the 11 miles, I am not to far off track for my weekly mileage.  Still logging all foods, trying to stay on track there, or at least close (very close).  May be a B+ week, but it's still early days.

 

Wow, you really blasted through your goals last week.  Awesome!  I can't even imagine 20 inches of snow right now...in APRIL!  Hope you like to ski, too

It's called springtime in the Rockies.  And it sucks eggs.  In fact, as I look out my window, I see flurries.  Poop.  Once upon a time, a long time ago, we got 2 feet mid-May.  Brought down power lines and trees.

3:5   Went pretty well.  Got in my steps, and my 5 miles.  Cheated like crazy on calories, but it was Friday and I have been pretty good, really.  Need a treat every now and then.  Mentally had a good week also, after a rough time.  Tyrath is beat down and cowering.  For now.

Recap:

Week 1:  A+

Week 2:  C+

Week 3:  A

 

Totally not concerned about my grade and/or my contributions to the project.

 

 

 

So here's the full/rest of the story. I show up and while we're waiting for the prior class to clear out of our room, Snowflake says "Oh so I'll do the introduction and you can do the conclusion, that way you don't have to do both." Um, I wrote both. And yesterday when another girl asked who was going to cover those slides, I said I would and no one argued. I ask what she was planning on saying, because as of yesterday when I looked at it last, I'd had a slide with all my shit and a bunch of notes; she'd put in a slide after that that read as a bunch of random unrelated facts. She said "feel free to comment/add." So I added a note along the lines of "Since the prof told us to set the thing up as XYZ, what if you set it up this way instead?" Whatever. Open the powerpoint just before class assuming nothing had changed, and nope. Not only did she take my slide, she also deleted everything I'd written except one sentence. She came over and asked for my notes anyway. Fine. Whatever. 

 

So we were supposed to be limited to 15 minutes per group, with 5 for Q&A after. The two groups before us went over time. The one immediately before us took 45. It's totally on the prof for not cutting people off, but that's beside the point. There are two groups slotted to go after us, so prof is like "Okay next group get started quickly please." 3 of us book it up to the front, snowflake is still in her seat writing notes. She comes up and I'm like "great, let's get started." Push the button to take us to the first slide. This is girl "NO we can't start yet." Goes back to the title slide. I honest to god don't even know what she said for the first like, two minutes. Oh, she did get all our names more or less wrong. The two Chinese students in our group use American names because everyone totally butchers their actual Chinese names. Snowflake bypasses that and butchers the shit out of them and then makes a face when she gets corrected. Then she gets to me. I have nothing against my legal name but I prefer a nickname, which I said on day 1 of this class, have put on all the powerpoints I've done myself for this class, and is on the damn name cards we used all semester. She tries to introduce me and I did it before she could and also got a face for my trouble. 

 

Then she starts. And goes on forever. She had a page full of notes printed in like, size 8 font. I didn't realize she was going to read every word of it. She's also adding side commentary as she goes. At one point she gets to a graphic she'd added in with traits Millennials have, and literally starts defining "confident" and "team-oriented" and shit. None of this was on the powerpoint yesterday, mind you. I'm watching the class and half the people are doing shit on their computers, the other half is just staring blankly. I kept searching out two of my friends and they were just like "what. the fuck." i'm also watching the clock and thinking the same thing. At one point the prof says we have 5 minutes left, but she's very quiet and really doesn't make an attempt to make sure anyone sees her. I saw it, obv, and was like "Hey, snowflake-" but she either didn't hear me or didn't care. Finally when she was between bullet points on a slide I stepped forward and was like "Hey, sorry, but I think in the interest of time we need to move to the next example." And she's like "No, I-" and I cut her off and said no, the prof said we were running over. Other girl goes through her stuff as fast as she can. Dude steps up and he has three pages of double-spaced notes. Prof at this point is making faces at her phone because of time, so when dude is ready to move on from the first of his 4 slides I stepped up again and was like "hey, sorry, we're over time and I think we need to wrap up." [My friends told me later the prof had a huge smile on her face and looked relieved at this point.] So I trimmed my 4-minute spiel to "So short version, US Millennials are similar to Millennials in other countries. Let me know if you have questions. Here's 2 quick reasons why it's important. Thanks!" 

 

I wasn't paying attention when I went back to my seat, but apparently snowflake went and asked the prof about our time (we literally started at 6:55 and ended at 7:23. do not fuck with me.), because while the next group was starting their presentation she comes up and stands in front of me and is like "the prof said we were fine on time." The girl who was presenting snapped at her and she rolled her eyes while sitting down. 

 

At the end of class prof gives general criticism for each group on how to improve our stuff for the paper that's due next week. Cool. After class we're all hanging out in the hallway. Snowflake asks the prof about our criticism and I go over to listen because hi, same group, this is important. Snowflake drops the subject and instead mentions to the professor how rude I was in interrupting her and "But you said we were fine on time." Prof was like "Every group went over and these things happen. I know it was hard because I think Flea was the only who saw me but it was good that she told you." Snowflake disapproves. "But she was rude and could have just tapped me on the shoulder." Yeah okay. Prof is having none of it and while she doesn't come out and say "you're a dumbass" she's clearly not agreeing. Someone else gets her attention so Snowflake just rounds on me about how rude I was and "Well just so you know in professional environments you can't be like that. You need to consider that for your future." This girl is 21? I am 28. Go directly to hell, do not pass Go, do not collect $200. She keeps repeating this condescending shit and I'm just like "Look. I'm sorry you feel that way. But it's over and you need to move on." 

 

i hung around and talked to the prof about it. Totally forgot I wanted to go to her office hours today to lay out my apprehensions before this happened. Either way, she told me not to worry about my grade (I hadn't even brought that up tbh) and was like "no, it was fine, I know you were the only one who saw me. and there's always one person in every group..." Cool beans. I'm gonna email her anyway and just be like "look so here's the deal." Not to be a tattletale and I do have a legit question, but even though I don't care about my grade so long as I pass, I am also not putting my name on a shit paper because other people don't want to do something. Literally all the feedback we got tonight was about things we didn't have that I had tried to get people to do. But that didn't get done or, you know, got deleted from the powerpoint.

 

One of my friends later was like "Don't worry, I yelled at her for you." Turns out snowflake had turned to her and been like "Can you believe how rude she was to me? i hope you're never in a group with her because she tries to take over everything." Joke's on you, this girl and I did FOUR group projects for one class last semester and she was like "actually yeah, and she's great and she's the one that kept us on task the whole time. Also I literally timed you and you talked for 15 minutes. The professor was getting angry and you needed to move on." Snowflake kept angling for sympathy and got none. I was pleased. 

 

On top of all this, I turned to the guy I cut off during a lull in class and was like "hey I'm really sorry about that but the prof was getting agitated because we were over time." And he's like "Well it's fine but I'm just concerned about how it will impact our final grade." Bro. I literally did not even give my part of the presentation. Please do not talk to me about grades. [/spoiler]

That's good then.  She can just go to hell.

3:4  went well. Logged all foods.  Did 3.8 on hell-machine.  Went slightly over on calories, but I have my goal pretty low.  Got my 10,000 plus my miles.   All in all a good day.  Struggling sometimes with finishing my workouts. Why run when sitting is so much easier?  But hey, that's the mindset that gained me 20 pounds. 

 

Specialest snowflake talked for 10 minutes. Of our allotted 15. Then yelled at me for cutting her off when the prof said we had 5 minutes left. I literally skipped my entire part. Fuck this class too. 

My daughter hates group projects, always has. There always seems to be one f-up or "I'm soooo smart" in the group. She'd rather go it alone. Some people are just self centered jerks. Some profs take that into consideration. Hopefully this one will too.  Don't let other jerk-faces get you down. You ARE special. She just thinks she is, probably cause mommy said so. 

Gosh, that sounded mean, didn't it. I'm not sure I care.......

 

 I'm disappointed about my weight.  It hasn't gone down since starting the challenge but I believe my body is shaping up. 

 

 

Perhaps you are losing fat but gaining muscle. Then the scale wouldn't change. I'm gonna start some body weight stuff next challenge/first of the month. Got a Thor app  (Thor Fitness )  that had good reviews.  We'll see what happens. Right now sticking with diet (calories) and cardio. Have lost 4 pounds, so I'm pleased so far. 

Track it manually. But not as elliptical. As running. It'll ask time o (clock time), distance ( miles), duration (how long you ran). If you do it as elliptical, it doesn't accurately count mileage for some reason.  

3:3  Day went well.  Went over on calories, but only a little.  Logged it all.  Got my steps plus 5 miles in.  Didn't avoid sugar, but stayed near my goal calorie wise.   And, bonus, I finally figured out how to get my fitbit to register my elliptical workout!  So now it says 5 miles instead of 2.something. Yay!  

 

Glad to hear it Rinna.  Margaritas are good, but I usually just go straight for the tequila. haha.  I hope the rest of your week goes well.

Honestly, I have a weak spot for margaritas.  That's why I stay away from them. Tequila is evil stuff.  After all. "One tequila, two tequila, 3 tequila, floor. "

My kind of party. But where are the margaritas?

I hope all your troubles are behind you. You've had a rough time. Take it easy, recover and continue on. 

3:2  Today was a damn good day. Got my 10,000 steps, plus 3.9 miles. Logged all foods.  Kept my calories down, and didn't feel terribly hungry.  And, for the first time I felt strong while working out. I mean, I felt good.  Yee haw. Score one for the team.

3:1  It was a good day.  Well, except for all the snow. Got in my elliptical in--5 miles. And got my 10,000 steps.  Logged every bite, and stayed under my goal.  Woot.  Back on track after a rough weekend. 

Week 2 Days 4 & 5:  Day 4 went well, logged everything, worked out, etc  Day 5 was a bust.  Had to run errands and get groceries due to impending snow storm.  Glad I did, as Mother Nature dumped 20 inches of snow on us, and we were effectively trapped until today.  Weekend wasn't too productive due to weird abdominal pain.  Spent a lot of time resting and sleeping. 

So far: 

Week 1    A+

Week 2    B- or maybe C+, not sure

But, I lost a little of the weight, 2-3 pounds maybe (it fluctuates too much to know exactly)

Hello suzyQlou!  It's hard finding people sometimes on here.  I lost Bren for a bit when NF revamped everything.  (I couldn't remember her NF name for the life of me)

Last week was a hard one.  Clinical depression sucks eggs.  But this week is so far going better.  (Esp if I ignore the 20 inches of snow outside!) 

It's going. Just managed to eacape Tyrath, only singed a little. Got back on track yesterday.  And today is a new day, right?

Behold: Tyrath the Destroyer

Tried to add gif. Not working. 

Week 2 Day 3:  FAIL.  Not gonna happen today.  Today, the Dragon is winning. Just not feeling it, mentally or physically.  Still tracking, but know I'm gonna go over.  But it's only one day, and tomorrow will be better. Right?  It's gotta be. 

So, I've decided to name the Beast.  Here is what I've come up with: Tyrath the Destroyer.  Seems an appropriate Hell Dragon name. He destroys all in his path, sucking the light and life out of the world.  He's sneaking and insidious. But I'm opening up the floor to those with more imagination than me. Feel free to embelish, or suggest other Hell Dragon names.