I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday! I had a great Christmas at my boyfriend’s family’s house. We went over early and watched his younger brother and sister open presents and then hung out all day…it was great. Also, I got a garmin watch!!!

I’ve been away. Not eating crap or being lazy. Just taking a break from tumblr. I’ve been trying to get used to my super-busy schedule. I finished my second week at my new job and it’s going well. We’re also in the process of packing for our move in two weeks.

I haven’t gotten in all my workouts and I’ve had a couple of nights when I was just way too tired to cook, so I ordered out (although I did my best to make decent choices despite my lack of good options). Altogether, I’m not unhappy about my progress but I do know that I need to get back in the groove once I get a little more settled in my job and get moved into the new house. Despite all of that, my weigh-in last week had me at my lowest yet (168 lbs)!

Oh, and I am loving this snow! Especially since I don’t have to go back to work til Tuesday, yay!

…says my stomach.

I just realized it’s 2pm and I haven’t eaten anything today…AHHH! why do I do this?!? Then I’m starving later and eat crap, and way too much of it. I think one of my new goals needs to be to eat breakfast…even if I don’t want to, even if it’s just something small.

Starting Weight (late Aug 2010): 195

Last Week’s Weight: 170.5

Current Weight: 168.5 lbs

-2 lbs this week! Finally out of the 170s!!!

Total Loss: 26.5 lbs

Yay! Well, I’d write more but I’m exhausted, goodnight fitblrs!

Well, my run this evening went by a lot faster since I happened to catch the press conference on ESPN of Urban Meyer announcing his retirement from coaching Gator football. The damn headphone thingy wouldn’t work so I had to concentrate really hard to read the captions.

I have mixed feelings - on one hand I do agree he just hasn’t seemed happy and he probably has missed out on a lot of stuff with his kids. His comment about not seeing the university his daughter just signed with kinda made me choke up a little because he seemed so genuinely disappointed in himself. I remember one night eating out at my favorite sushi restaurant and he had taken her out just the two of them for her birthday - they let them have the whole back section just to themselves.

Anyways - it’s also kind of annoying that he decided to do it after this craptastic season. Nor do I believe he’s really done with coaching football - we’ll see in the next few years (he is ONLY 46).

Okay, enough of that…I finished my run. That was a little hard, they started playing clips of past seasons and it brought back a lot of memories. Running, breathing, and fighting back tears is hard. I miss my fellow gators.

GPOYW: Gator Band Edition (2005) (I’m the one standing up in the back on the far left.)

But then I wouldn’t have THIS monster!

And yes this is exciting because I’ll know what I’m working during the holidays, who my preceptor will be, what my first week schedule will be (which is less than a week away)…

But mostly because as soon as it hits my email box I am going to find a race to register for. I know myself, and I know I’m going to need a race to keep me motivated these next couple weeks while I try to get used to a new (and much busier) schedule. Plus it’s been too long and reading all these race recaps def. has me in the mood.

Well today I finished day five which was supposed to be day seven but I somehow couldn’t make time for 30DS on the weekend…although I did get in a super long (for me) run with the boyfriend on Saturday that kinda made up for it.

So may plan is to double up on my non-run days this week…wish me luck! My legs are going to be soooore.

I’m kinda happy to see I’m not the only one that’s missed a few days because I was feeling so guilty - but it also kinda stinks to use a skip day this early in the game. Regardless, I’m loving this, and I feel so good even with only 5 days done, there’s no way I’m not making it through all 30 days.

Also - today I moved on to the next week of my bridge to 10k training. 17min run/1 min walk x 3 (= 51 minutes running = longest ever = VERY HAPPY Angela!)

If you’re a nurse…and you ever plan on working as an NP or a CRNA…make a note of the malpractice insurance your hospital is using to cover you while you work as an RN. Geez I wish someone had told me that. Just spent 20 minutes being transferred around a hospital just to get sent back to the first person I talked to. Gah!

I can’t wait for this paperwork crap to be over.

I start my new job 1 week from Monday! Haven’t quite figured out my workout schedule for when that happens…I suppose I need my work schedule first. I’m nervous about fitting in the new job, packing/moving in the next couple of months, taking care of my animals while the bf works and goes back to school, and still making sure to do my running/gym. I don’t know how all of you do it, but if you guys can do it then I’m going to have to find a way to get it done too.