Day Two Hundred and Twenty Two.

    I guess because my boyfriend and I slept in so long yesterday we went to bed much later than usual. I didn't have a hard time getting to sleep but I certainly didn't get as much as I should have. I was pretty tired when I got up and once I got to work things got busy fast. I still managed to get a break around 10am but didn't take any other ones. I also had a student with me so that was another reason I felt so busy throughout the day. I always think the students must be so bored so when I have one I try my best to get them involved. Instead of going right home I stopped at the food store to get some peppermint tea. My co-worker recommended it to me since this weekend I started having a strange recurrence of gallbladder pains, which I first started noticing last summer. When I got them checked out last summer everything was fine so now I'm almost certain it's just triggered by a bad diet. I ate a lot of heavy foods this weekend and it's probably exacerbating things.
    It was later than I would have liked when I got home but the first thing I did was take my dog for a walk. It was such a nice day and she enjoys her walks so much! We went the opposite way around the block than normal and when we got home I cleaned some of her backyard messes up. I talked myself out of working out today because I wanted to get done most of my "to do" list early so I would have time to study for my CE. I put a load of laundry in, took a shower and folded the laundry from yesterday when we were done with our walk. I wasn't feeling that motivated to make anything special for dinner so I just had a bland Lean Cuisine. I ran the dishwasher before bed yesterday so I emptied that after I ate. My second to oldest sister called me right when I was finishing up with the dishwasher, which was perfect timing. We had a nice conversation....it was great to catch up!
    I tried very hard to study for my CE tonight and man there's a lot of material. I'm still not sure what exactly I should be studying so I'm just reviewing everything. I'm actually getting really stressed about it because I don't want to walk in feeling behind everyone else:( I ended up doing a lot of washing today between work, the laundry and cleaning up the backyard so my hands are more dry than I would like. I think the anxiety about the CE is also making me long for the comforts of soap and water:) Alright I better get to bed!