Crash ‘n’ Burn

We all have our moments.

Today is mine.

My moment to fall right off the healthy balance wagon.

Bam!

FH had to leave for yet another sail this morning.  Only 4 days this time, but still.  Bummer, right? 

I slept like shit last night.  Even tried relegating myself to the spare room but still tossed and turned.  I hate those nights.  So when I got up at 6am this morning to drive FH, my body was not impressed.

I packed my gym bag, filled my water bottle, pulled my hair up…completely intending to workout on my way home…but seriously people, it would have been dangerous.  Falling asleep on the treadmill is not advised!  So I came straight home to hug a pillow on the couch for an extra couple of hours.  Strangely enough I slept better for that two hours than I did all night.

Here’s a fun little thing for you all…  homemade egg nog misto!!

Even though I’m still using up my Starbucks gift cards and not paying out of my own pocket I think four trips in three days is enough…so now that it’s Monday I am back to brewing at home.  Jen’s cute (but sad!) video the other day reminded me that I too can steam my own bevvies at home.

My machine makes crap espresso (waaaaay too much water) but my 5 years of barista experience back in the day have left me able to make Starbucks quality foam with the steamer wand.  :)

80 measly calories for three mugs of foamy light egg-noggy half-caf goodness!

The bad part is that I sipped on those coffees all morning and into the afternoon and didn’t eat ANYTHING.  I’m so backed up with work after losing the internet on Friday, it’s ridiculous. So by the time I realized I was hungry and got food, I made bad choices.

• chocolate
• chips
• Wendy’s chicken strips
• cheese

Random, weird and completely void of nutrition.  Sometimes you just have to let it happen.  It’s out of my system and I have already planned for tomorrow.  Project Energize shall return!

In festive news, yesterday FH had to work so I ran some errands and switched out the Fall centerpiece for the Christmas one…

Tis the season to start thinking about digging the boxes of lights and decorations out of the scary room in the basement!

If it's not one thing....

...it's another! Yes, I'm full of cliches lately. Ugh...so I finally got that whole camera thing sorted out (I think!) and now I'm having a computer MELTDOWN.

My laptop has been on it's last legs for a while, which is why I broke down not too long ago and bought a new desktop computer. But I still need my laptop for travel. I'm traveling this coming week... visiting friends and family, but I'm working the whole time too. So yesterday I decided I'd better clean up the laptop to get it all ready for the trip. Well...apparently it didn't like that idea.

It was processing very slowly, so I decided to just reformat the whole thing and start from scratch. Generally a fine idea, right? Except once it was all loaded up it decided not to recognize a bunch of it's own hardward...like the wireless card (kind of important for an internet based job!!). So...blah blah blah...after much fiddling and frustration I decided just to reinstall again...but now it's saying some file is corrupt and wants me to fix it, but it won't boot properly for me to do a disk check! Actually it's stuck in a loop....starts to boot, then resets, starts to boot, then resets. Argh.

I had planned on replacing it later this year once my traveling and expenses were all out of the way (honestly I was hoping it would last forever!)...now is not a good time!! But I CANNOT leave here on Saturday without a working laptop set up for my work emails, etc....so I guess I'm going shopping tomorrow. Nothing like a last minute, impromptu shopping trip! Blah.

Sidebar: while doing some quick research I thought a netbook would be perfect...but they don't have DVD drives which is no fun! It's nice to be able to watch movies on a laptop when I travel. Too bad.