Beauty in Chaos

In the few minutes that I’ve managed to take for my lunch break today, I realize how I do not fully enjoy my “lunch break” and I take it for granted. Even during my lunch break I am sending emails, preparing goodies for customers, organizing sales notes. When does the daily madness stop? I get an hour for lunch but I doubt I’ve ever used a full hour to just be on lunch. New goal this week is to actually indulge in my lunch break. We’ll start small…make sure that I do NOT work for at least 20 - 30 minutes of the lunch break. If I am on a lunch appointment with a client, then when it is over I will enjoy 20 - 30 minutes of ME time before moving on to the next appointment or back to the office.

Baby steps…but it’s the little things like a “lunch break” that can help us keep our sanity throughout or hectic work weeks. I’m trying to avoid wrinkles at an early age here!! ;o)

Today was my first “me” day I have had in years. Mitch has been gone all day and night for Trey’s bachelor party so I have had the house to myself pretty much all day. Normally I feel a little weird about being so alone, but it felt like pure bliss today. I slept late, watched some of the Olympics, bathed and groomed the dog, cleaned the house and just relaxed for a bit. Even tried to work on my budget a bit.

I managed to take a little break from being a Lone Ranger for a few hours and went to the FC Dallas game with Jess, her date, and LiAnh. It was very hot but very fun. Our tickets ended up being standing room only so we walked down the street to the Londener for a bit of food and to hydrate. Then LiAnh dropped me off.

I didn’t manage to try this new workout I wanted to try today so my crazy mind convinced me to do it at 11 PM because of all the crap I ate for dinner. I only went through the yoga poses and work-out circuit once to get a feel for it but I liked it and it did make me sweat a little. I like that the circuit has 4 different routines using the same exercises. The yoga poses are supposed to be good for you mid-section and I could definitely feel it working. These are the sites I used. I’ve decided to try and work this in to my weekly routine every other day and then a light walk/jog with the dog the other days. He needs to burn some energy too. Here are the workouts that I just tried:

http://www.womenshealthmag.com/fitness/crossfit-workout

http://www.shape.com/fitness/workouts/best-yoga-poses-flat-abs

The best part of this entire day is that I was able to just relax and think. I’ve finally managed to get myself out of the funk I was in and just enjoy the day to myself. I have a few more things I need to do as far as my budget goes and I plan on doing it tomorrow as far as re-arranging some of the bill pay dates. Also, as far as my recent growing obsession with being healthier and fit…I believe that I am going to try and cut out beer completely or as much as I can. Not alcohol completely, but I just don’t like how my bladder seems to flare with I drink beer and I also don’t the bloated gross feeling I have after. We’ll see if I’m able to do it, but I’d like to really try.

I’m going to finish this now “me” night with a little bit of reading and then bed. I think I could use these types of days more often. ;o)