Shopping, unbelieveable laziness, and more
I'm so stupid sometimes! Last night I stayed up so late, until almost 5 am (and with no alcohol - yay!) watching stupid, stupid, stupid-ass TV and then finishing my book. As a result, I slept until 2 p.m. today. So I'm drinking my coffee right now and praying to be able to fully wake up soon. It's kind of gray outside today, so I have all the lights on so it's happier in here. Office Space just started, I love this movie!
Because I was such an idiot yesterday, I didn't start working on that opinion, so I have only today and tonight to finish it. But that's okay, I usually work best under pressure anyway. What did I exactly accomplish last night? OMG, I can't believe I'm going to actually admit this, but from 5:30 p.m. until 3:00 a.m., I watched NINE AND A HALF HOURS of episodes of Law & Order: Criminal Intent and played stupid little computer games on the computer. What a complete waste of time!!! Sometimes I really shock and piss myself off! What's wrong with me that I can be that lazy???
But before that, I had a wonderful day yesterday!! Florida called and woke me up at 8:45 a.m. to ask whether I wanted to go to breakfast and go shopping. And I said OF COURSE, that's way more fun than going for a walk by myself and starting right away on my opinion! So at a little after 10, we met and went to Nookie's for breakfast. I'd never been there, but it was really tasty!! I had one of my simple favorites - scrambled eggs w/ cheese on top and 3 slices of bacon - yummmmmy!!!! And Florida had blueberry pancakes which looked so wonderful as well!
We chatted and had a yummy and relaxing breakfast, and then shopped down Halsted and along Armitage. I ended up getting a really cute pair of pink cords that were on sale, and a little jean blazer-type jacket that looks both nice and cool at the same time (it looks better on me than on the model in the website), and Florida said it makes me look tiny - well of course I had to get it then!!! And Florida got a couple of really nice blazers for work from Ann Taylor (really good sales!), and the cutest green shirt/sweater set ever - it looked absolutely fabulous on her! We looked at shoes, and at the wonderful little knick-knack-type shops on Armitage, it was so fun!
Oh, and I got a little book that I think will be wonderful for me, especially right now with me stopping my drinking. It's called How Now: 100 ways to celebrate the present moment. It's first of all a super cute book! And has little pretty and relaxing close-up photographs interspersed throughout. But of course the most important thing is the content, and that's what really got me so excited. For each of the 100 things, it has just a tiny little paragraph, and then a practice exercise, so it's really an interactive book and can be as helpful as someone wants to make it. The first one, titled Begin, I'll do today and post on here. I'm really excited about this! I love self-awareness and self-improvement exercises!!!
At about 4:00, Florida and I were exhausted from our shopping expedition, and also so hot and sweaty cause it got almost ridiculously hot outside yesterday! So we parted ways, with me thanking her profusely for calling me and helping to make my day so fun!!!! Thank you, Florida!! I'll go to breakfast and/or go shopping anytime with you!!!
Right when I left her, I had a few little twinges of wanting to drink, cause that's what I'd ordinarily do after heading off by myself on a Saturday, or any day actually. But I said "no" and just went straight home to my kittens! When I got home, I tried on my new pants, and fed the babies, and well, you know what I did after that: lazy pointless nothingness. I thought about going to the grocery store at one point, cause I'm almost out of cat food, but I didn't because the temptation would be too high (for putting that bottle of wine into my basket).
Of course, I'm now officially out of food for them, so I do need to go downstairs to the store soon, before their dinner time is here and James starts mewing :) However, so far, I've been really, really strong! Because I've decided that drinking is just not an option, I haven't been even close to getting anything for the past five days. I keep telling myself to not start getting cocky, cause it's only been five days. And I haven't had to deal with down days yet, or pms yet, or even with a really strong craving to be drunk yet.
I need to call this guy back, I'll call him Justinian. I met him a week and a half ago at the volunteer group wine party. He was there with a group of friends who all just graduated from law school, and we chatted for awhile and I went out with the whole group to a restaurant for a bit afterward. He asked for my number when I left, and called me the next night. I couldn't meet up with them that night cause I had plans with Florida, Asparagus and TIC and was too tired by the time I got home. He called again that weekend and then on Monday, but I was in both drunken stupor and not wanting to talk to anyone so I never called him back. And then of course, I was quite busy last week with admitting my acoholism and dealing with that. He called on Thursday night and left a message saying, "Hi Caterpillar, it's Justinian. I called you a couple times earlier this week and never heard back from you. I hope you're not blowing me off. I'm just going to lay it all on the line here: I had the best time talking to you last week. I think you're so beautiful and funny and smart and so interesting and I would really love to see you again. My number is xxx, I really I hope I hear from you. Talk to you soon, Justinian." It was such a sweet message. So the thing is, I liked talking to him too, but I wasn't really attracted to him. Physically, he's not my type - he's maybe six foot which is fine, but a little stocky, which I'm not usually attracted to, and he had a gotee (sp?) and very very short hair, cause maybe he's starting to go bald. And he isn't really a forceful-type guy, instead being a tiny bit shy or something like that. And when we were talking politics for example, I was running the converstation - he sort of agreed with everything I said and didn't really argue against me even when I knew he didn't completely agree. He was a bit wishy-washy, cause he was a little too into me. In addition, he said that he really likes the law. How boring! I'm a lawyer, and I really don't have much interest in the law at all! However, he was so sweet in his message, and I should really give him a chance instead of being so picky and judgmental. I mean, I'm not perfect at all. So I'll call him in a little bit. I'll tell him about my decision this week as an excuse for me not calling him.
Okay, I'm going to spruce myself up a bit, make myself a roast beef sandwich, go to the store and get food for the babies and for me for lunches this week, do my little How Now exercise 1, call Justinian, and then sit down with my stuff to finish this mf-ing opinion. Oh, and I'll of course take a break to watch Desperate Housewives and sort of half watch Patrick Dempsey in Grey's Anatomy.
Oh, and The Fat Project update:
Saturday, October 1
2 cups coffee w/ milk
2 scrambled eggs with cheese, 3 slices bacon, more coffee, and a few grapes
Lots of water
Macaroni and cheese (I bought two boxes the other day, so after today I won't be eating this crap anymore!)
A couple almonds
That's it!
Because I was such an idiot yesterday, I didn't start working on that opinion, so I have only today and tonight to finish it. But that's okay, I usually work best under pressure anyway. What did I exactly accomplish last night? OMG, I can't believe I'm going to actually admit this, but from 5:30 p.m. until 3:00 a.m., I watched NINE AND A HALF HOURS of episodes of Law & Order: Criminal Intent and played stupid little computer games on the computer. What a complete waste of time!!! Sometimes I really shock and piss myself off! What's wrong with me that I can be that lazy???
But before that, I had a wonderful day yesterday!! Florida called and woke me up at 8:45 a.m. to ask whether I wanted to go to breakfast and go shopping. And I said OF COURSE, that's way more fun than going for a walk by myself and starting right away on my opinion! So at a little after 10, we met and went to Nookie's for breakfast. I'd never been there, but it was really tasty!! I had one of my simple favorites - scrambled eggs w/ cheese on top and 3 slices of bacon - yummmmmy!!!! And Florida had blueberry pancakes which looked so wonderful as well!
We chatted and had a yummy and relaxing breakfast, and then shopped down Halsted and along Armitage. I ended up getting a really cute pair of pink cords that were on sale, and a little jean blazer-type jacket that looks both nice and cool at the same time (it looks better on me than on the model in the website), and Florida said it makes me look tiny - well of course I had to get it then!!! And Florida got a couple of really nice blazers for work from Ann Taylor (really good sales!), and the cutest green shirt/sweater set ever - it looked absolutely fabulous on her! We looked at shoes, and at the wonderful little knick-knack-type shops on Armitage, it was so fun! Oh, and I got a little book that I think will be wonderful for me, especially right now with me stopping my drinking. It's called How Now: 100 ways to celebrate the present moment. It's first of all a super cute book! And has little pretty and relaxing close-up photographs interspersed throughout. But of course the most important thing is the content, and that's what really got me so excited. For each of the 100 things, it has just a tiny little paragraph, and then a practice exercise, so it's really an interactive book and can be as helpful as someone wants to make it. The first one, titled Begin, I'll do today and post on here. I'm really excited about this! I love self-awareness and self-improvement exercises!!!
At about 4:00, Florida and I were exhausted from our shopping expedition, and also so hot and sweaty cause it got almost ridiculously hot outside yesterday! So we parted ways, with me thanking her profusely for calling me and helping to make my day so fun!!!! Thank you, Florida!! I'll go to breakfast and/or go shopping anytime with you!!!
Right when I left her, I had a few little twinges of wanting to drink, cause that's what I'd ordinarily do after heading off by myself on a Saturday, or any day actually. But I said "no" and just went straight home to my kittens! When I got home, I tried on my new pants, and fed the babies, and well, you know what I did after that: lazy pointless nothingness. I thought about going to the grocery store at one point, cause I'm almost out of cat food, but I didn't because the temptation would be too high (for putting that bottle of wine into my basket).
Of course, I'm now officially out of food for them, so I do need to go downstairs to the store soon, before their dinner time is here and James starts mewing :) However, so far, I've been really, really strong! Because I've decided that drinking is just not an option, I haven't been even close to getting anything for the past five days. I keep telling myself to not start getting cocky, cause it's only been five days. And I haven't had to deal with down days yet, or pms yet, or even with a really strong craving to be drunk yet.
I need to call this guy back, I'll call him Justinian. I met him a week and a half ago at the volunteer group wine party. He was there with a group of friends who all just graduated from law school, and we chatted for awhile and I went out with the whole group to a restaurant for a bit afterward. He asked for my number when I left, and called me the next night. I couldn't meet up with them that night cause I had plans with Florida, Asparagus and TIC and was too tired by the time I got home. He called again that weekend and then on Monday, but I was in both drunken stupor and not wanting to talk to anyone so I never called him back. And then of course, I was quite busy last week with admitting my acoholism and dealing with that. He called on Thursday night and left a message saying, "Hi Caterpillar, it's Justinian. I called you a couple times earlier this week and never heard back from you. I hope you're not blowing me off. I'm just going to lay it all on the line here: I had the best time talking to you last week. I think you're so beautiful and funny and smart and so interesting and I would really love to see you again. My number is xxx, I really I hope I hear from you. Talk to you soon, Justinian." It was such a sweet message. So the thing is, I liked talking to him too, but I wasn't really attracted to him. Physically, he's not my type - he's maybe six foot which is fine, but a little stocky, which I'm not usually attracted to, and he had a gotee (sp?) and very very short hair, cause maybe he's starting to go bald. And he isn't really a forceful-type guy, instead being a tiny bit shy or something like that. And when we were talking politics for example, I was running the converstation - he sort of agreed with everything I said and didn't really argue against me even when I knew he didn't completely agree. He was a bit wishy-washy, cause he was a little too into me. In addition, he said that he really likes the law. How boring! I'm a lawyer, and I really don't have much interest in the law at all! However, he was so sweet in his message, and I should really give him a chance instead of being so picky and judgmental. I mean, I'm not perfect at all. So I'll call him in a little bit. I'll tell him about my decision this week as an excuse for me not calling him.
Okay, I'm going to spruce myself up a bit, make myself a roast beef sandwich, go to the store and get food for the babies and for me for lunches this week, do my little How Now exercise 1, call Justinian, and then sit down with my stuff to finish this mf-ing opinion. Oh, and I'll of course take a break to watch Desperate Housewives and sort of half watch Patrick Dempsey in Grey's Anatomy.
Oh, and The Fat Project update:
Saturday, October 1
2 cups coffee w/ milk
2 scrambled eggs with cheese, 3 slices bacon, more coffee, and a few grapes
Lots of water
Macaroni and cheese (I bought two boxes the other day, so after today I won't be eating this crap anymore!)
A couple almonds
That's it!
