Bye-Bye January!

It is so crazy that tomorrow is February, where has the time gone?! I am proud to note that although I didn't blog everyday I did manage to write a blog for 23 out of 31 days, not bad for getting back into the swing of things. I have decided it will be fun to look back every month and see what I accomplished. So this month I love 6 pounds!! Yup, all of it was weight I gained over Christmas but this is progress none the less. I ran 45 miles (or will have after I go running tonight). It took me until August to run that far last year so this is big for me! I gathered a ton of addresses for the wedding, sent out Save-the-Date cards and helped John pick out tuxes for him and his groomsmen. So most of my big accomplishments revolve around the wedding, but it is what it is. I am looking forward to February, John's Birthday, more wedding nonsense and more running of course!

It Takes Time

I sometimes wonder why I think losing weight should be easy; like all the weight I want to lose should just come off in a few months. The inspiration picture I blogged about yesterday was taken almost 6 and 1/2 years ago, it took me that long to gain a lot of weight. So why should it take only a few months to lose that weight? If I was to lose even a half a pound a week it would take me more than 3 years to lose that weight. It is hard to lose weight and it took time to put it on so it should take time to come off. I just have to keep trying and working hard at it and not expecting things to happen so fast. That is harder than it looks but I am going to try.

Inspiration

First off I apologize for slacking the last few days. I have been enjoying a few days at home in Altamont, it is so nice to come out here and just relax sometimes. But something else happened as well!! I found the inspiration I need to lose weight. I was going through photos to find a few to put on a wedding video for John and I, when I stumbled across photos from my senior year in high school. I know I was much smaller then than I am now but I found one picture of me at state volleyball and I have to say damn, I looked good! I have never called myself skinny, but I would say I am skinny in this photo. So I am taking it home and I am going to hang it on my fridge so I can look at it everyday. It makes me excited to have something to work towards, not that I didn't before but I now I have something tangible to look at and remember that I was that size once so I can do it again!

Doctors are Ridiculous.

I could start and end this post simply by saying doctors are ridiculous, the things they charge for and get away with makes me so mad! Case in point. Well first of all there is a slight back story. My new insurance at the Daily Herald has a mail-order prescription service they make you use for all long term prescriptions so I signed up and ordered my birth control through the system. They ask for a doctors name and number so I put it on there, thinking in a few days I will get my medicine and it will all be dandy. Wrong. I get a phone call from my doctor, well my doctors nurse because doctors don't really do anything themselves, this morning telling me Dr. Cannon won't verify my prescription until I come in and get my blood pressure checked because apparently last time I went in it was high. So I am already annoyed that I have to go in to the doctors office to get my blood pressure checked, all because I can't fill my prescriptions at the pharmacy. So I go in they take my blood pressure it is fine. I wait 5 minutes the nurse comes in and tells me the doctor will sign the prescription order and I am good to go. I was in the office for a total of 15 minutes maybe even less and I didn't even see the doctor. As a side note I have never actually met Dr. Cannon and have been "seeing" her for four years now. I always see her nurse practitioner. But back to the story, I am there for less than 15 minutes and I get ready to leave and the nurse gives me a paper and sends me to the check out. The girl there asks me if I have a co-pay. "What? All I did was have my blood pressure checked, I am being charged for that?" The lady goes on to tell me that yup I am being charged for an office visit. WTF? Is all I have to say. How does it work that I can be charged for an office visit when I 1. didn't even see the doctor, 2. they didn't treat me for anything and 3. had something done that I could have had John do for me!! As another side note, I tried to take my own blood pressure before I went to the doctors but that was harder than it looks. So I am annoyed by the whole system!! If my insurance would just let me fill my prescriptions however I want I wouldn't have had to get the doctor to verify it, then I wouldn't have had to go get my blood pressure checked and I wouldn't be having to pay who knows how much for something so silly!!!

Only Child Syndrome

I think if John and I still have Willy when we decide to have children (and I hope we do!!) Willy is going to have a hard time adjusting to not being the only child. Yesterday we baby sat for a friend of ours and when I was holding the baby trying to get him to stop crying Willy was whining because he couldn't sit on my lap. Then when Jaden wasn't crying Willy would just look at him like "When is that thing leaving?"
Towards the end of the night Willy finally decided he was okay and came at sat by him, but as soon as he left Willy curled up on my lap. Then in the days I have been working at home he just sleeps right next to my leg all day and when I try to work out he licks my leg and tries to sit on my lap when I am stretching. The little guy is clearly a spoiled rotten only child and an attention hog, if you aren't petting him he acts like the whole world is going to end. Good thing he has a long time before he needs to worry about a baby coming to stay!

150 Days

In exactly 150 days I will be getting ready to walk down the aisle and get married. It is insane to me how fast the time has gone by! It seems like not long ago the day count was 350 days! We finally got our save-the-dates and sent them out to those coming from out of state, I guess there is no going back now (not that I want too, just saying). I wish I could say everything was ready for the wedding but there is still a lot to do! We have picked out our wedding bands and the groomsmen tuxes though, so we are getting closer. Although the days are flying by it also seems to be going really slow, I know that sounds dumb but it seems like New Years was forever ago but it has really only been 3 weeks. It seems strange that in 151 days I will no longer be Paige Fieldsted but Paige Hoffman. I should start practicing signing my new name, after all it took me 24 years to perfect my signature and now I have to start all over again!!

Working From Home

I have been working from home the past three day because there is a plumbing problem at work and since there are no working bathrooms in the building we get to work from home (and good thing to because my car is in the process of being repaired so I can drive it safely again). I can't decide how I feel about working from home. On one hand it is nice to be able to get up 15 minutes before I have to "be" at work and not have to get all dressed up. But at the same time it is good to get dressed, put on make-up and get out of the house everyday! I do love spending the day with Willy, he just lays by my leg all day long and I love not having to drive 45 minutes each way to get to work; so when I work 9 to 5 at 5 I am really done, I don't have to drive another hour home. Some of you, like John, might think that while I say I am "working" at home I am really just watching TV doing nothing. Not true! I haven't turned on the TV and have gotten just as much done in the past three days as I would have had I been at the office. In fact I probably do more work, because I feel like if I am at home I should be working, not surfing the internet like I sometimes do when I am actually at work. This working from home business could last almost 2 more weeks so I guess we shall how I feel about it then. But for now I am enjoying all the money I am saving on gas!