More financial work for me.

My checkbook tells me I have -$8.09 right now. Granted, that won't actually go into affect until the payments and everything clear, but that's what my balance is.

My online banking account is claiming I have about $75 more than I think I have.

Okay, something is off. Where? When? How?

Sadly, I don't know.

What of the unfortunate practices I fell into the habit of back when my first laptop went blooie was not balancing my checkbook with the statements the bank sends me.

I think it's very safe to say that this practice needs to change. ^^;

All I need to do is find the other check book registers that I've filed out and find all the bank statements and see where the two of them don't match. Which just goes to show that I should have kept up with that even when the first data file went bye-bye.

That's all.

This might take me awhile. ^^;

On the plus side, the imbalance isn't going the other way. That would be even more annoying.

Health challenge update

I've updated my points on the health challenge website for work. Thus far this week, I've accumulated 16 points!

I shall need to add exercise to my schedule tomorrow and see how that helps. I've been meaning to anyway - just not anymore tonight, since I've been up since 4am. ^^;

Tonight's dinner was fish, veggies and rice. Was very tasty, and from one of my Light & Tasty cookbooks. Dad liked it too, which is always a plus.

The downer is I'm still hungry, but you're supposed to be a bit hungry shortly after eating if you really want to lose weight healthily. (Loosing 20 pounds in one month technically isn't good for you, though that is what happened to me when I changed my portion sizes to what they're supposed to be.)

Changes to the blog

I have decided to separate out what I'm putting into this blog. Mainly to make things more interesting, and to make it so people who are mainly interested in my crafts aren't needing to pass by the weight loss and book posts.

This blog will now only be for my weight lose and financial goals. :)

I will have other blogs (and possibly either a tumblr or a comicpress/wordpress site) for the crafts, musical interests, language studies, mathematical studies, and my book.

News on when each launches will be pending.

There's motivation for ya!

At work this week we started the Health Challenge. You get four points for 30 minutes of exercise per day, and one point for certain foods, and relaxing. Every day I take a bit of "me time" so I haven't had issues with that one. :D

The store that gets the most points wins $1,ooo for a fun fund event (like a pizza party (which would be counter-productive, but you know what I mean), of a bowling party, or similar), and they will also choose 25 associates to each also win $1,000.

I can use that, right? So hey, incentive ho~! :D

This isn't working.

Not the blog; that's fine.

No, what's not working is my attempts to follow Bill Phillip's suggestion on when to exercise. He recommends getting up an hour early and doing it then.

So, being an attempting chick, I tried this. Normally when I get up, I get up around 3:30-4 AM, because I have to be to work by 5. (This includes about 1/2-1 hour of sleeping in by hitting snooze, as I've learned if I set my alarm for about an hour before I *have* to get up, I'll actually get up on time.) So I set my alarm for 2/2:30 - including the alarm setting on my cell phone - intending to get up around oh, 3am, so I can exercise for an hour before having to get ready for work.

This didn't work.

You know what happened? I'll tell you what happened. I kept hitting the snooze alarm until my normal time-to-get-up time, and sometimes even past it. I tried this for a week, and it was the same all week long, no matter what time I went to bed the night before. 9pm was my norm, so I tried 8pm and 7pm. Nope. Didn't work.

So, I've decided that despite my best intentions, AM get-up-early-and-do-this exercise isn't for me. The only problem with this is that he recommends doing this because it's before you've eaten anything, therefore you'll burn your breakfast as exercise calories, or some such fiddle faddle. Well, okay.

I'll try exercising in the afternoon.

My eating schedule right now is as follows: breakfast around 4-ish, meal 2 around 8-ish, meal 3 around 10-ish, meal four (if I'm able to take the break; sometimes we're too busy) around noon-ish, and then another small meal around 2-ish when I get home, then nothing until dinner around 5-7 pm. I've decided, since I have that 3+ hour stretch in the afternoon/evening when I'm not eating, I could probably exercise in that time period, around 3-4pm.

Granted, it's not quite what Bill Phillips had in mind in his "Body for Life" book, but at this stage, I'll take what I can get.

Anyway, last I weighed myself I was at 185.5, so I'm gaining again, despite efforts to the contrary. This is partially what has prompted me to up the ante in the exercise department. I hope to start this when my schedule re-rights itself, as it's a bit helter-skelter at the moment.

Though with the new scheduling system starting in a bout a month, it's entirely possible that I'll be able to start the whole exercise in the morning thing, as we'll be opening the desk later. Then again, I could also wind up back in flooring, the other department I worked in. :/ We'll see what happens. As long as I am able to keep my sleeping schedule somewhat regular, I should be okay, I hope.