bewize | Entries tagged with win

Vacation was wonderful and awesome. I should really take more than one of those every few years... especially since I was technically only off work for one day. And I worked yesterday, too. I blame V. She said I needed a smartphone and I told her once I had one, I'd never be free again. Lo, I have one and I'm never free again. I was making work calls from the baseball stadium and answering emails at Disney.

Yeah. Minor vacation fail.

( The Awesome )

Today, I am already buried alive with work. The thing about vacations - you're always punished for taking them. I've already met with a client, avoided two phone calls, and have court in two hours. I also have a conference call at noon.

I really need to take a few minutes and put together some sort of To Do list so I'm not scattered across the globe this week.

I hope everyone weathered the storms last night. We saw some of it driving back, but not much. Now, I just need to get my eye to stop twitching and I'm ready to tackle my day!

Someone just used the hallway as a restroom. I can't decide whether or not I should be grossed out or laughing hysterically. The kicker is I *told* him to go upstairs and use the bathroom there, since the one on this floor is locked to the public.

But really, if he's willing to do that in a hallway that is encased with glass doors, what would he have done in the private bathroom area??? May I never find out.

************

I just got a text from my sister, whom I've not spoken to in months, telling me that she had to have her cat put to sleep and would like to "hear my voice." I will call her, but I'm not sure how to have this conversation, because I'm still not okay with the lying or the being ignored. But, I do feel bad about the cat. :(

*************

I am on a ROLL today at work. Got one client off the imminent foreclosure list, got another client off his driving charges, picked up yet another client who needs some foreclosure work done. Whoot!

*************

I was having a conversation last night wherein I was asked about the last time I was "relaxed and comfortable." Do you know what? I have no frigging clue when that was, but I'm pretty sure there was probably copious amounts of alcohol involved.

This... is a mirror to my life that I'm not quite sure what to do with yet. I shall put the image aside and contemplate it later. It's disturbing, though, to realize that I simply never relax and never feel comfortable. I've always, always, always got something on my mind that is stressing me out.

This explains a lot of gray hair...

Dear Lord, how is January 19th?!

Between the snow and the slammed, time is flying this month. I've got a lot to do and dwindling time to get it done. And yet, I am remarkably unmotivated atm. Seriously, I've just read the last three days of journals/emails, because I didn't have time before now, and I don't want to do anything else.

I ate a late breakfast, but I'm thinking I might go and eat lunch now. Then come back and see if I can't jump start the afternoon?

News: I've hired a part time paralegal/legal secretary and she does, in fact, increase my productivity significantly. This is awesome.

I've taken on a few new cases, which is also awesome.

I settled a fairly big case last Friday and spent the weekend/Monday celebrating too much. It's not huge - but the money that's my portion of this is enough to pretty much take away the crutches of my financial health. I'm excited. :D

I'm going to a seminar tomorrow, so I'd best get the lead out. Especially since I have a trial on Monday. Blah.

Right. Lunch!

I love this commercial so much I want to marry it and have it's sarcastic babies.

Really.

************

Guys, I am in an almost deliriously good mood. Things went very well last week; this weekend was awesome, if too busy; I'm looking forward to this week - even with the absolute glut of work I have to do.

I feel frigging manic - and while I don't think I am, I'm honestly not sure.

Good things:

* Made money
* New cases
* AWESOME cases
* New office space
* Standing up for myself at work
* New laptop
* New experiences that I am embracing without letting myself freak out
* Sleeping enough
* Yuletide (even with the wank, I'm still excited)
* AMAZING music videos that exist in the world that I didn't know about, but now do
* Wonderful friends
* FICS!!!!!!!
* Good food
* Beer
* People who love me and call to say so

I dunno. I don't expect it to last, but right now... I'm frigging due.

Really.

*bounces*

I ran about 2.5 miles on Friday and then just didn't feel it the rest of the weekend. I ran about a mile yesterday and today, thanks to the rain, I skipped it all together to do Jillian Micheal's 30 Day Shred.

( That Woman is a Total Bitch. And I Mean That In the Nicest Possible Way. )

Anyway! Time for some quick totals, for my own benefit.

Week One Total: 11.5 miles; 20 minute belly dancing

Week Two:

Sunday, September 19: Ran 2 miles
Monday, September 20: Ran 2 mile
Tuesday, September 21: Ran 3.5 miles
Wednesday, September 22: 1 hour belly dancing class; 20 minutes of actual exercise
Thursday, September 23: Ran 2 miles
Friday, September 24: Ran 2.5 miles
Saturday, September 25: Ran 1 miles

Week Two Total: 14 miles; 50 minute belly dancing

I'm on day 15 of 90 and still going strong. I'll be honest, I thought about quitting, but knowing that I'd have to 'fess up has kept me moving. I really want to make this work. I really want to finish this - not for the weight loss, though I do want that, and not for the self-congrats, though I do want that, too. I want to do this because I want to know that I can. I want to finish because I started.

I want to do this because I want to do this for myself.

So I weighed in today.

I'm down.

5.4 lbs down, actually.

*GLEE*

I've officially crossed the BMI threshold from obese to overweight.

If you heard squeeing, it was from me.

Now, onward to fit in my clothes again!

It's 4. Thus far today, I've had 43 phone calls, either incoming or outgoing.

There was a minute where I was on the phone and had someone on hold for 90 seconds. There were 3 voice mail messages when I got off the phone.

*dazed*

That is not counting the actual work I was doing, nor the emails.

Holy shit. No wonder my brain is mushy...

I am trying very hard to get things done. Getting Things Done, even. Thus far, I've managed to do quite a few things, but my TO DO list is longer than my DONE list.

And it's been 2 hours since I started typing this. I suspect that, more than anything, shows how my day is going.

But, I did cut my car insurance bill in half today!

I bit the bullet and signed up for Weight Watchers again. I feel like P is right - this is the time to get our lives back under control. I don't want to be the woman in the cartoon anymore. I want everything to make sense and be easy and feel like I'm doing good things with my life. I feel like I can manage this and Weight Watchers worked for me.

( Talking frankly about weight )

I went running today again. It was awesome. ( Exercise )

During the Hall of Fame Luncheon, the speakers all talked about Winners. I'm tired of not being a Winner by their definition. "Winners make commitments; Losers make excuses."

"A winner doesn't blame others for his failures, or credit luck for his successes."

( Thinky )

So, I've been super stressed about money all month and could not for the life of me figure out why it was so tight. It turns out, I forgot to deposit a rather significantly sized check, which I found in my wallet today.

The good news is money! Also, it's money that I've made it without all month, so it's not urgently desperately needed money. I'm going to put some of it in savings and some of it on a credit card. Whoot, whoot!

I also took care of a few things that are stressing me out, so those are off my to do list. I plan to go running this evening and I'll probably put in another long night at the office. That way, shit gets done.

I'm taking half a day off tomorrow. I'm so tired and so burned out. I can't decide if I'm better off going to the pool or the movies. Thoughts?

Going to get some stuff done now, because S will be in shortly and wants to go watch the game across the street and work from there, which means I can't use the comp at that point. *woes*

Yesterday, I ran for 20 minutes without stopping. My distance is too slow, but so the f what?

I *ran* for 20 minutes without stopping.

And didn't die!

Do you know how awesome this makes me?!?!?!?

( More Actual Thoughts on Running )

I'd really like to run a 5K near the end of August. If anyone is planning to run one, or has one to suggest, or anything like that, please let me know!

It takes 21 days for something to be habit. 90 days to get an addiction. And according to the guy at the shoe store, if I run for the rest of the program here, I'll never want to stop. I can live with that.

( Health blathering )

Well that's enough from me for now. I've got things to do and docs to go and see. Wish me luck!

I'm excited that today's 3w4dw non-fannish topic is writing. This has been something that has been brewing in my brain for a while and I'm hopeful that perhaps people will have thoughts (that they'd like to share with me) on the topic.

I've been telling stories since I was an itty-bitty child. I remember dictating them to my brother, who would write them down for me. I remember taking the writing assignments in school very personally, because I often would wander away from teh stricly assigned topic to go wherever my imagination took me.

But it just didn't seem practical to want to be a writer. ( So I did other things. )

And now I have to go and finish writing the two articles I have due today. Cheers all!

Thank you!

Thank you so much!

I love my new shiny six months of paid account.

You have made me a VERY happy Bewize, indeed!

*twirls*

♥

Love means never having to say...

( Whispers and Murmurs )

Thank you.

This entry was written in response to the

therealljidol Challenge 20: Love means never having to say... There will (probably) be voting for this week's entries. I will make sure to link to the poll once it is put up and I would appreciate it if you would vote for me if you enjoy my entry. As always, feedback is welcome and appreciated.