Am I having fun yet?

I can't believe a whole week has gone by since Carol-Ann's last post and almost two weeks since mine! I don't know if it is good or bad to be this busy, maybe a bit of each.


For the past couple of weeks, I've been fighting to keep my head above water! A new doctor to learn how to transcribe for, new equipment to conquer for the other doctor's work, getting all my tax ducks in a row... I want to eat!



I better be honest...I HAVE BEEN eating!

I'd love to be very successful at this weight loss, but I feel like I am treading water and can't make any progress. Explainable, yes. Understandable, yes. Good, no! Not enough water, not enough exercise, too much stress, too much food -- there it is in a nutshell. Not a pretty sight!

This evening I have been taking stock of the situation. I'm having a rare moment. All my work is done. All the receipts and documentation for my tax appointment are carefully assembled, organized into beautiful spreadsheets, and in the manila envelope ready for me to grab and go on Wednesday morning. So, back to the situation at hand...

I hate to admit it, but I have gotten off the track and need to figure out a good way to get back on it. I know how the dominoes began to fall. Work became overwhelming because of the learning curve I have been in on two different fronts. This meant that to get the work done, I had to be up until 2:00 a.m. routinely without much time to catch up on the missing sleep. Exercise did not happen, I forgot to drink my water, and I needed snacks just to keep going. I don't see the end of this just yet, but things are definitely getting easier, so...

I'm trying to put my thoughts about this on here as a way of giving myself the needed push in the right direction.
Exercise: Since I am getting to bed at a better time tonight, I am hoping to start on the treadmill again tomorrow with some stretching midday. Barry said he is thinking about getting up and exercising at the same time, and that would REALLY help!
Water: I am going to remember to measure out my water to make sure I drink enough.
Food: I'm just going to have to write down every morsel again!
Sleep: I'm hoping to get to bed by midnight each night this week.

So that's the plan, and I will let you know midweek how I'm holding up!

Jackpot?

Well, here I am being both late and early. Although I did weigh in on Monday last week, our internet was down so I couldn't record it! So I am recording that reading tonight and it is "late". This morning, for some unknown reason, I stepped on the scale a day early and was pleasantly surprised to see that I am down a bit! But since today is Easter and we were eating a bit of this and that extra today, I've decided to record an "early" weight! Who knows! By tomorrow morning I may have gained 3!

Now the eagerly anticipated reading for this week just has to be Pat's! Has she done it again?! We should start a jackpot like our local 680 News Radio -- they have a weather guarantee which climbs by 100 dollars a day whenever the weatherman's forecast has proven to be correct within a couple of degrees or so. The last I heard (haven't listened to the radio over the long weekend!) the jackpot was sitting at some outlandish sum of about $17 thousand dollars! For some reason I think of Pat whenever I hear 680 News has maintained their guarantee!

GOOD JOB, ANDREA!

I do think Andrea has posted the best weight loss we have had thus far! Keep it up, Andrea! We are so proud of you!

(Second reason for posting: That mouth has got to go! This post will push it down a little.)

NOW I am quite done!

Who Let C-A Post to this Bloggie?

Zoom-Zoom!

Zooming in.

We just have to see this one closer up!

More Wailing!

Andrea and I are wailing together!

What a week!

I love to dream of my job as a comfy, cozy, jammies-and-coffee kind of thing! How I wish! The truth is that my job is comfy and cozy every now and then, but this past week has been far from it!

My local doctor client has been dictating onto those little minicassettes, and I have been driving back and forth to pick them up and drop off the finished work. Up popped my little dream of lounging at home, so I asked him if he would be interested in changing over to digital recordings that could be sent to me over the internet, with my finished work returned to him the same way. He was! I saw visions of no more driving in the snow and me having lots of extra time! I researched, updated him, researched some more. After much discussion and frugal searching to find the best for the least, we decided on the recorder for him and the accompanying software that lets him load his sound files from his recorder onto his computer, encrypt them so they will be HIPAA compliant, and send them over the internet to me. I got the software and foot pedal that will unencrypt those sound files, play them for me to transcribe, encrypt them back up again, and send them back to him so he can unencrypt them and print them out. See how quick and easy that sounds?

I've been back and forth to his office several times to set up his software properly so that it will do everything automatically for him. The instruction manual should have been twice as long to have all the info I needed! I even had to take Trent with me one day because things weren't working, only to find out we had been using the wrong password! I really don't think I am smart enough to be my doc's tech support! I have to say that he has been carefully keeping up on all he has to know for doctoring and has been pretty much leaving computer skills to others. He and I have been over enough bumps in this road to make our teeth rattle, I'll just tell you!

Yesterday was a mess. He used the wrong program to open the encrypted work I sent back and therefore saw only gobbledy-gook. (Bad because it didn't work; good because it was encrypted like it should have been!) I sent it again, but it was blank. (Totally bad!) I sent it again. (This time I attached the wrong file, and it did him absolutely no good!) The fourth time was a charm: I sent it right, he got it right, it printed right, and we were elated! I was just finishing the second bunch of work when...blip, blip, blip...one after the other, 16 new files came to my computer from his computer!! Oh, that made me feel good!

We had a rough start today when he forgot how to open the work I sent him and deleted it! I sent it again, and the fact that my phone did not ring again is very positive! Since then it has been smooth sailing. All the work is done and sent back now, and I am blogging. (Blogging is the REAL jammies-and-coffee-cup thing!)

And as for the eating...I think I have been more successful so far this week at working out computer problems than I have been with my food control.

Andrea is coming home tomorrow for spring break, and we are going to encourage each other in person! Plus she is bringing an exercise video for us to try. Things are looking up!

Congratulations to the New Broom!

Whew! What a relief! I love it when old sayings hold their ground and Andrea has not let us down:

Congratulations, New Broom!
Thou hast truly swept well!

Special recognition is also due to Roger who has done so well by gaining only .2 pounds in his time off!

Pat, remarkable! That's all I have to say about that! Three weeks in a row! Wow! Well, they say that's the way to lose weight -- lose some and maintain it there for awhile and then that is truly your new weight.

Well, J -- what can I say! Looks like you and I are stuck in sympathy pains! Actually, that's quite a trick we pulled off together! So I'd say this week we all deserve a round of applause!

The Yo-Yo is Wailing!

WAIL!

(That's absolutely all I am saying!)