Another Weird Week

This time of year always makes for weird work weeks. Since the Holidays fall straight smack in the middle of the week my days are all sorts of confused. I work today until 3:00 (I have a therapist appointment at 3:30), tomorrow until noon (closing early for the Holiday), and then have Wednesday off. I will work Thursday and Friday and then get another two day weekend. Next week things will be back to normal though and hopefully it won't be so dead here at work. Hard to get motivated to go to work when you know it is going to be a long, slow day.
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Weekend Recap:
It was a nice weekend minus Andrew working on Sunday. Saturday we went grocery shopping and ran a couple other errands and then that evening we had one last Christmas celebration with Andrew's aunt and uncle. They were very generous buying us dinner and then giving us some gifts.

Andrew had just sent Dana some of the items off of my wish list on Amazon and then she threw in that adorable penguin Tervis cup! I am forever thankful for the Sigma brush and The Balm Nude'tude palette. I have a tendency to love the higher priced makeup and skin care items and really appreciate her getting that for me. She also gave me a $15 gift card to Amazon and I think I am going to get a few books for my Kindle.

I am in LOVE with the palette:

It is gorgeous. I used three of the colors this morning and used my new Sigma brush (along with some other Sigma brushes I have) and love the look I achieved. I ♥ make up. Not gonna lie. 

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Food & Fitness:
My weekend was OK when it came to food. I am still using MyFitnessPal to record my calories and exercise. I had sushi on Saturday night and Sunday I splurged on a couple of beers and some popcorn for when we watched Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire with the Rifftrax. Absolutely HILARIOUS by the way. Andrew and I were dying laughing. I need to get more of those.... but I digress....

I used my new Heart Rate Monitor on Sunday when I did DDR and I love it. So much nicer than my old F4 that I had (and bought in like 2008....) I love the look of it, the feel and of course the color.

Since I wasn't used to the HRM yet (hitting wrong buttons, etc.) I had stopped it after burning 59 calories already so my total was 627 calories in 50 minutes. Very proud of that. DDR is intense people. I play most levels on Standard or Heavy so I get a huge calorie burn. I've been playing the game (on and off) for over 11 years and I am thankful that every time I pull it out I don't have to start over from the beginning. My favorite game is DDRMax2. The songs are fabulous (once you unlock them) and the workout mode is great. The calorie burn is almost dead on too. 

Today's Menu:

B: Old fashioned oats cooked in 1 c. plain almond milk, 2 T Almond Butter, banana, coffee with peppermint mocha creamer (507 Calories)

S: 2 String Cheese (100 Calories), 3 Clementines (105 Calories)

L: Huge salad with red bell pepper, carrots, roasted garlic, 2 HB eggs, and 4 T Light Ranch and a Santa Meltie (385 Calories)

S: 11 PB filled Pretzel Nuggets (150 Calories)

D: TBD

Activity: DDR - at least 600 calories burned

I am not sure what I am doing for dinner yet. I still have leftover lentil soup I really need to eat up before it goes bad. I might do that with a baked potato. If I burn 600 calories during exercise I'd have 983 calories to play with for the night. Obviously I won't use them all but I might use some of them to have a treat.

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I am looking forward to seeing Linda tonight. When we left off last Monday I had a bit of an emotional break through from a memory that I have been holding onto for years and years. I've never let myself really face that memory (obviously a bad one) and releasing all of that pent up emotion was liberating. It was something that happened my senior year of High School involving my weight issues and a boy I liked.

I have some more of those memories that we will get to as we continue to go through my timeline and there is one in particular that I don't really want to face.... but I know I have to. It is a memory that is absolutely horrid and I never told a single soul about it; not even Andrew or my best friend... and I tell her everything. This will be my first time ever letting it come to the surface and even though I know it will be in the confidence of that room with my therapist - I fear talking about it.....