The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

It has been a good work week for me. I finished Phase I of my project at work (now on to Phase II - V!) and I won the Administrator of the Year award at work. There is a part of me that feels that the award may have been a political move as I am the only admin that came over from the company merger last June. But another part of me knows that I am a hard worker and that I'm a fast learner so maybe I do deserve it. I just feel sorry for the other people that I know work hard but have never received the award. Further work notes...I received my annual raise. It wasn't that great (3%) but it was more than what I anticipated because with the company merger the agreement was that I had to be offered a job at my current salary or more so I started here making more than the majority (or possibly all) of the existing administrative staff. I had assumed that I wouldn't get anything to help get the other admin more into my salary range. By the way, the maximum that was given out to any employee was the 3%.

On the health front, I've stayed within my calorie range every day, I have managed to maintain my goal to cut my wasted calories back by 50%, I'm still following my plan of eating out no more than twice a week (only once last week!!) and I've been exercising this week. I had one day where I only got in 30 minutes of exercise. My weekly goal is 7 hours total so I can make it up this weekend, but it still put a little scare into me because the the following day I was feeling kinda blah about exercise again which was too close to a trend for me. Instead of giving into it though, I forced myself to workout. I've only done 3 different types of exercise this week so I need to get in another to meet my goal of 4+ different types of exercise per week which is doable. And I have an appointment next week to check out LA Fitness - my small raise will more than pay for the cost of a membership if I decide to sign on. It is near work, it opens at 5 each morning and it has a pool where they teach water aerobic classes so it is sounding very tempting. And if I do sign on, it will help tremendously with my weight training goal of 2 hours per week - at the present time I am failing miserably at it! I am managing to get in a total of 1 hour, but that's it!! And weight wise - the last two days I've been seeing numbers in a new decade. Woo Hoo! Of course, my official weigh in isn't until Tuesday so it could fluctuate back up but I'm keeping my fingers crossed.