Another double-day update here. I need to work on my pad thai recipe: I have a hard time mixing the noodles evenly with the other stuff (or vice-versa), and this time the bf ended up with almost no chicken nor tofu and complained, saying he wasn’t going to eat the other 3 bowls designated to him as left-overs. I finally did get back to my work-work, though, which was good after last week’s almost doing nothing. But, in the evening it was another case like last Sunday/Monday of trying to beat the computer, doing some stuff while the computer was running code and trying to get things in while the code was running, seeing what it output in the next cycle, and doing more. So, I was up until about 1am doing that and so yet again, my sleep cycle (not duration) suffered.
Today, I got downstairs in late afternoon for weight-lifting. Because I wasn’t making dinner, there was much less stress on timing, and with days getting longer, I felt more motivated (or less not motivated?) because it was still light out (the sun is setting here around 5:30 these days, as opposed to an hour earlier just last month).
Then, after months of saying we’ll do it, I finally got the bf downstairs to show him the weight lifting routine that he can use (as in, mine). So, I counted that as “core exercises” since I demonstrated the lift, but then I monitored him. We did it with just the bar in order to get the form down. I thought it would take about 20 minutes, tops, but it took a whopping 35 minutes (even though we did only 1 set of most things) because I was explaining form and the rationale for several things.
I was good on work-work today, too, though it’s a bit easier given that I have 3 hrs of telecons in the morning for a remote science team meeting for something I’m on, for the first four days this week. That said, I’m going to head out grocery shopping early tomorrow (Wednesday) so that I can call into the meeting as I start the grocery shopping. (I lose cellular reception for about 20 minutes between the house and the first town.)
I was also going to go to bed by about 10pm tonight, but, it’s 11:07pm now. I got side-tracked because I needed to order some prints for a present for my dad as a present he requested, and the sale ends tomorrow.
Regarding food, I’m still finding myself doing intermediate snacking on a sliver of dried mango here, a single M&M there, and needing to consciously stop myself from doing it. Fortunately, I’ll be out for several hours tomorrow, so it’ll be a bit easier not to do that. Also, I need to remember that I have pickles and ice pops for those “zero calorie” snacking craves that I need to exploit.
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