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25 Aug, 2008

I’m here

Posted by: velveteen In: General

I’m up a few kg but I’m here!

For a girl who made not enough resources to have a successful day, I feel ok about today. At the very least I feel ok about my food and only my food.

The update since beginning of July:

I went on vacation. We ate ok, we walked a lot. I think I gained about a kilo in the two weeks we were away. There were some trying moments for sure especially when our car was broken into in strasbourg.

Right after my holiday I went back to work while Ron and the kids stayed another week at home. Because I was out two weeks, the week back was the week from hell.HELL.

One week later I received a promotion at work. Good thing right? Well yes and no. There are some people on my team who were less than thrilled and this was a very emotional time.

At the same time my company started making some changes including a good friend being laid off. More stress and tears.

Two weeks ago I went to London for work for a week. This was especially challenging as my hotel reservation was no where to be found and I had to find a new hotel which basically maxed out my credit card and I had barely any money to survive the week.

Two people died in this period, my uncle, whom I was not close to, but I’m still saddened (he had a massively hard life) and a friend who unfortunately was bi-polar, heartbroken and lonely who obviously couldn’t find a reason to carry on living. This, my friends, has probably been the hardest thing I’ve dealt with so far.

And I realize, hard, that I am very ruled by my emotions and the more I have to deal with, the harder it seems to remember what is also important for ME. I am really finding it hard to focus. Excuses and all, can you blame me?

On a final note, congratulations to Josephine for being the biggest loser!

Xxx

3 Responses to "I’m here"

1 | tylerdurden

August 25th, 2008 at 7:39 pm

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Looky who is here! Yay! :)

2 | canadianchunky

August 27th, 2008 at 8:05 pm

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I hope you had a chance to enjoy London. Next time that happens in the summer, go to Imperial College. Great location - south Kensington; you can get ensuite rooms, and the price is great (including a so-so breakfast). I have stayed there twice.
Cheers
Shari

3 | velveteen

September 3rd, 2008 at 11:48 am

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thanks Shari! I will keep that in mind. I also stayed in South Kensington, but at a VERY spendy hotel! I think that didn’t really help the situation! I did happen to find a place I could get breakfast, quite close to the tube station - 4,40 instead of 11 at the hotel!!

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