Throwaway day

I really could've done without today. Sometimes work is just friggin busy and sometimes it's UNBEARABLE. Like today. What made it worse than usual was the fact that some of the few people left in the IT team are so goddamn unflexible. Truth be told, those were people who always were unflexible but now, when pushed to their limits they break and take it out on others. I hate nothing more than being talked down to in such a condescending way that I feel like I'm 3 years old and have done something wrong. And I hate the fact that some people don't get that it would make life a lot nicer and easier if we worked WITH eachother, not AGAINST eachother. Oh well... at least today is over.

But there is some good coming out of today, too. After a week on Weight Watchers where I didn't write a single thing down (and WW people know that writing down what you eat is as necessary as counting points)and pigged out over the weekend, I expected the worst when I stepped onto the scale at the meeting. I was very pleasantly surprised to find out that I had lost 2.6 pounds! Wohoooo!!! What's not so good obviously, is the fact that I am pretty much eating microwaved WW meals for lunch and stuffing my face with WW ice cream or other low point sweets in the evening. So I really have not changed my lifestyle, which is where WW is trying to point you towards.
What I absolutely LOVED about the meeting today was what the leader said she'd read in a book she bought recently. She was saying "When you drive your car towards a destination and you miss your exit, do you ever say - oh well, missed it - and keep driving on? No, you don't. You make a U-Turn and find that exit again and eventually get to where you were going. Same applies to weight loss. If you've had a few bad days and you think oh screw it, it's all ruined now anyway and you give up, that's wrong. All you gotta do is make that U-Turn the next day, find your way back to where you were before and continue to the destination!"
It totally rings a bell with me. I usually tend to go overboard one day and then the next I keep thinking, well, I've ruined yesterday so might as well ruin today. And it just goes round and round in a circle. So, I'm gonna try to remember the U-Turn theory and hope that it will eventually help me.

My current NaNoWriMo novel is going absolutely NOWHERE. I'm not sure if I should continue with it because truth be told, it just doesn't inspire me. I might start another one, with an idea I've had for years too. Or I might just give up altogether. Work is so stressful nowadays, I barely have time to breathe so I'm not sure I'll have the energy to sit down in the evenings and write 50,000 words. But I shall try.

Enough for today... it's 8.30pm and I'm already dead tired. Think I'll be heading to bed early. Night night!