Day Twelve.

    Currently I am exhausted....what a day! Like I was afraid of, I didn't get much sleep last night and apparently I looked as sleepy as I felt because a co-worker commented on how tired I looked:( At any rate, despite that, I had a pretty decent day at work....the pace was actually pretty good. Sometimes on a Monday it can be an absolute nightmare. I went to the food store after work to get a few things I needed and I tried to think about dinner tomorrow night as well. I really need to start planning my meals out better so I'm not at the store every single day! When I was growing up my Mother would always shop for two weeks of meals at a time and she would tell my sisters and I her meal schedule. I got so bored of that while growing up and I think I am just rebelling against that routine now because I usually decide what's for dinner after work. I don't get too enthusiastic about cooking, I feel like it takes so much time and you just end up eating it so fast. I guess to a certain extent it brings out a lot of my OCD issues as well. For instance, I eat a lot of salad and I get so paranoid about cleaning all of the veggies off. So there I am trying to make salad for dinner and it just turns into me battling my OCD in order to get it made. I'm literally telling myself, the lettuce is clean just put it down....ugh.
    I was really nervous about getting home today and finding an excuse not to workout. So when I got home I didn't waste too much time. This was of course after I cleaned my work shoes off and inspected my only pair of legitimate sneakers. That probably sounds odd....but there was an incident a few weeks ago where I was scared something from work had gotten on them so I had my boyfriend clean them in his washer. I haven't worn them since the incident and I knew I needed to wear them to workout. They seemed okay....gulp....I hope:) I got on the elliptical and I tried to focus on enjoying it, not hating it....this was short lived! I played The Gaslight Anthem and of course, like usual when I'm working out, the lamest, most quiet songs were playing. I got through what I thought was definitely going to be 30 minutes only to find out it was 25 minutes! I stopped anyway because I knew I was going to give my dog a walk which was going to give me more exercise. We had a nice walk, I even ran her down the back street which she loved!
    After that I did my usual laundry, shower, fold routine. It's basically exactly how it sounds....I put laundry in right before I take a shower, then when I'm done I fold the laundry that I had put in the dryer on the previous day. I refuse to fold laundry after work until I have taken a shower because I get really anxious about my clothes getting re-exposed to work germs.
    Let's see, I just quickly microwaved a lean pocket for dinner....fancy right?! Tomorrow night my boyfriend is going to come over and we already planned to have buffalo chicken salad:) I was trying to think of a healthy option and when I make it at home it's not that bad for you at all. My boyfriend seemed really stressed when I spoke with him tonight on the phone because he hadn't been home since Thursday. I feel bad sometimes because we spend more time at my place than his, only because he lives an hour away. With my work schedule it's just to much to have to drive that far to work when the commute from my house is only five minutes. He understands, but I can imagine it gets pretty frustrating not being home that much. We've been doing this for almost a year and a half now. Writing this blog is so much easier when it's just me in the room. The last few days I have been trying to write my blogs with people around and it makes it very difficult. Anyway, that's it for now:)