January 10, 2008

Goals for This Week

1. Eat at home every day this week.
• This is our sixth day of eating at home
  
2. Only drink one soda per day.
• Have gone four days drinking only one soda. Have had 2 1/2 liters of water (this is a lot for me).
  

What Did I Accomplish Today?

Home
I am now only one load behind on dishes and the kitchen is much cleaner than normal. It's much more pleasant to cook in under these circumstances.

Work
Wrote a proposal to change a company policy that could end up saving the company nearly $56,000 per year.

What Could Have Gone Better?

Home
Did not do an extra load of dishes or any extra cleaning.

Work
The proposal took much longer than I expected and other work piled up, untouched, while I worked on the one project.

Today's Menu

Breakfast
Homemade Instant Oatmeal

Lunch
Black Bean Soup and a Little Debbie Brownie (100 Calorie)

Dinner
Meatball Sub Sandwiches and Macaroni & Cheese

Snacks
Apple Wheat Muffin, Homemade Yogurt (with honey, strawberry jam and Kashi Go Lean Crunch cereal), Poppy Seed Cake, Kashi Granola Bar

How Do You Feel?

1. I feel like I've been eating much more than normal this week but the food is healthier and I'm feeling pretty good physically. I have started to notice that I'm not able to eat as much as usual even after just one week of watching what I'm eating.
2. I've been very tired from the new work schedule and cutting back on sodas.
3. I've done something to hurt my left arm. When I touch my elbow against a hard surface (especially a corner), a pain shoots up through my arm and makes my hands and wrists numb. I also have random pain in my wrist. This has been going on for a couple of days now.

Fun Stuff!

Reading

• Finished Spellbinder by Melanie Rawn. I highly recommend this book. It has a strong background of what modern witchcraft really is mixed with a touch of Harry Potter style magic (but in a more adult context).
• Rereading Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner by Scott Cunningham. I've felt a new interest in religious studies. I'd like to start practicing instead of just reading.
• Started A Witch's Bible by Janet and Stewart Farrar. Seems very dry so far but I"ll try to keep at it.

World of Warcraft

• Went to my first Zul'Aman raid tonight with Gorgonzola (Level 70 Tauren Druid - Restoration Spec). We got the bear boss down and some good attempts on the Lynx boss.

Things to Think About:

1. Putting family recipe site online.
2. Registering our old business URL so that we have it for any possible future needs.
3. Need to think of a cake decorating and sketching project for January.