And so the Summer Survivor Challenge begins

I know it's been a while since my last post and I apologize. I've been a little lazy to post on my blog. So sad, I know. Well last week, I joined the Summer Survivor Challenge at work. It's a fitness contest to encourage people to basically get off their asses. Some are joining to lose weight and some are doing it to just stay fit. I joined a team kind of last minute. But there are several prizes to be won, like IPOD's, a flat screen TV, and a home theatre system. You calculate your points every day for how many fruits and vegetables you eat a day, how much water you drink, and how much exercise you do. And you get points for how much weight your team loses. Technically, there are only 3 people on our team that need to lose weight (it's a 6 person team), but I think I'm going to try to lose weight anyway. Every little bit helps.

My team voted me captain. Apparently, I'm a good motivator or something. The captain's main job is to motivate their team. . . and to calculate the team's points every week. Oy. The challenge does not officially start until Monday, but the sabotage has already started. On Friday, my boss (who is on a rival team) offered me Krispy Kreme donuts. What is she, nuts?? I did not give in. Later, I was eating a bowl of chicken soup from Chick-fil-A (very healthy actually) and I told her that it was better than her donuts. She said that they were just a charitable contribution. I said, "Yeah. . . a charitable contribution to my hips." I'm thinking I'm going to do the Special K Challenge for the next 2 weeks until I go to L.A. Apparently, you can lose up to 6 pounds in 2 weeks. We'll see. I also intend to work out like crazy. I am very committed to this. I think it's just something to take my mind off Robert. Even though I'm not really as sad or angry as I was anymore, I still think about him. But I am definitely healing. Good for me.

I talked to Luke on Friday and we both agreed to be healthy eating/workout buddies on our trip to L.A. Even though I'm sure we will eat junk food, we both agreed not to go too crazy. And since the hotel has a pool, I intend to swim every single day so I won't have to skip my workouts while I'm there. He suggested we go out clubbing and pick up guys while we're there. Dancing and sex are great exercise. Well. . . the sex can be good exercise if it's done right. And a trashy one night stand will definitely help me move on. Hehe.

Yesterday was not my day. It started out innocently enough. Work was slow and I spent most of it surfing the Internet. I decided last minute to get some Mexican food to go on the way home. Since I was starting my Special K Challenge today, I figured that I would have a "last meal," so to speak. I picked up some food from my favorite restaurant and then I decided to go to the grocery store. The storms from Hurricane Dennis were supposed to hit us soon so I wanted to go ahead and pick up some things so I didn't have to leave the house. Of course, even though the storms weren't supposed to hit until today, the rain hit yesterday while I was on the way home and while I was in the grocery store. And hit us they did. As I was leaving the grocery store, it was POURING. I was forced to unload my groceries from the cart to my car in the rain and I got soaked. Seriously. . . . my jeans were sticking to me, they were so wet. Robert always said that he thought women were sexy when they were wet. I must have been a goddess yesterday. I finally got home and then I had to unload everything. That was fun. Since I was carrying all my groceries in one load in the house, I dropped the bag that had my milk in my garage. Of course the milk busted. Dammit. Now I have to buy more milk. Whatever.

I just went in and immediately, got out of my wet clothes, unloaded my groceries, and just enjoyed my Mexican food. For the rest of the night, I relaxed. I know that it's going to be raining for the next couple of days. I don't think it's going to be as bad as Tropical Storm Cindy though. Cindy has cost Georgia about 50 million dollars in damage. Dammit, I hate the rain. Well. . . not when I have someone to cuddle up with inside anyway. :)

Well the next two days are going to be spent studying, working out, and maybe even some cleaning. I'm actually looking forward to it. Crazy, I know. And how is it that my class just started this week and already I'm behind?? I have to fix that for sure.