Day: November 6, 2015

NovemberNovember. Month Eleven. 2015 has almost come to a close. I’ve felt like I was flying by the seat of my pants for the entire year…so far. Maybe November/December will settle down (even though I’m writing a goal post on the 6th…but that’s neither here nor there 😛 ). I’m doing the keto diet from this point on through the end of November. Will break it for Thanksgiving because reasons, but that’s the only allowed exception. #crying

Hopefully this month will be wonderful and full of deliciousness. I mean, it is full of a week-long vacation (really 9 days vs. 7). It’ll be time to relax, time to hang out with people I care about, and also potentially get my wisdom teeth out. I’ve got some big expenses potentially coming up (e.g. wisdom teeth, “new” car, catching up on debts, new phone,…) But here are some more things I’d like to do!

  • Read Ender’s Shadow & Shadow of the Hegemon
  • Finish one bear for the Mother Bear Project
  • Stick to a keto diet (excluding Thanksgiving Day)
  • Budget attack & debt repayment plan
  • CLEAN AND UNPACK MY ENTIRE ROOM

Not too unreasonable right? But then again it never is.

Good-bye

50b130ec-3165-4198-80b3-0574b722b7deExcluding the third week of October, it was pretty nice. There was a point during which everything had gotten very tense with many in my life, Z in particular, but all of that has been talked through. Both of us had very hectic months…and it’s hard to be nice and supportive when you’re up to your ears in stress and tasks and nonsense. It almost being my birthday made me feel very stressed out. I’m always thinking about money, and my power-steering is going out, but mostly the idea that I’ve passed my mid-twenties and am now officially in my late-twenties. How did this even happen? HOW DOES AGING EVEN WORK AMIRITE???

But I had a fun birthday party and got a lot of cute pictures from it 🙂 I also got to bake a bunch, which was awesome. I made a pumpkin cake, a Coraline cookie cake, and tons of adorable cupcakes with skeletons made out of marshmallows and fudge pretzels. The wedding was also a ton of fun. The dress I got matched everyone and looked great, and I did my own make-up (which turned out well). But how did I do on goals?

I need to start making time for being productive outside of work. Taking time to myself is fine, but going home and watching Netflix until I’m relaxed (which ends up being time for bed) is not cutting it. I’ve gained almost 20 lbs since last December, so I went to my doctor to see what to do (because I’m fairly certain most of it is due to my Nexplanon implant), and he said that there wasn’t some kind of medication that would really help. He pointed out Alli, but mentioned that it only really worked up to ten pounds and that it wouldn’t do as much as controlling my diet would. Because of the hormones Nexplanon affects, I will probably have to be more strict than just normally dieting. He suggested keto, which I’ve done before, so good-bye carbs again. My gym membership restarts at the end of this month, so that’s something I will be using. Below is a little snapshot of my October. Can’t wait to see what November has in store!

October