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Ready for the Weekend
Got my list done yesterday, but didn’t buy the Christmas album yet because I need to listen (over and over and over) to the songs we’re going to be leading for church tomorrow. There’s two this week that are new to me, so bring on the “repeat” feature. 
I’m a little afraid of today. “Afraid” meaning “terrified” in this case… I caught a glimpse of my email after work yesterday (something I try to avoid in an attempt at sanity) and see that the feedback I’ve been waiting for on my two biggest projects all came in, and someone I pitched a month ago wrote to say, “We’re ready to get started!” And that’s in addition to all the already-scheduled stuff.
Amazing how often this happens—when a bunch of “waiting for” stuff suddenly becomes “next action”… And unlike most of my self-inflicted time management issues, I’m not sure there’s anything I can do to avoid it. I’ll just have to tell the new project folks that “I’ll be available” later than they’re hoping, I guess. After all, they’re the ones who waited a month to make a decision.
To top it off, I gained four pounds in the last 24 hours. Obviously, that’s not all “real” but it does reflect the poor food choices I made (even low fat banana bread is fattening in the quantities I ate!).
So I’m instituting a new rule: any day that I’m over my target daily weight, I’ll track my food intake. Tracking (even by itself) works extremely well for me, but I avoid doing it because it’s a pain. But absurd weight gain is more of a pain, so hopefully this will keep me on track.
Most Important Tasks
- Release a Twitter background
- Add three lessons to the blog training course
- Create front-end theme for the blog training course
The reward
Permission to spend as much time as I want reading my feeds (after work is done!).
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Don’t weigh yourself every day! You’ll go crazy. Tracking is good, but maybe you should weigh in once every 3 days. Remember, you have to eat 3,500 extra calories to gain a pound of fat, so unless you ate 14,000 calories, I think you are okay.
If I don’t weigh in daily, I get distracted and forget to do it at all. But I don’t take it too seriously—just as a general indicator.
I’m trying to eat a little better than usual because it impacts both me and the baby—and I don’t want to have to try and shed 50 pounds after he’s born. I enjoy sweets way too much to diet for months on end.
Okay, no way I’m getting through my three lessons I’m supposed to create… I’m leaving momentarily for band practice and definitely not coming back to work when I’m done with that.
I’ve randomly decided today that I want to design sewing patterns for babies and kids. Nevermind that I’m not much of a seamstress…