I LIke Long Walks on the Beach

Hello World!

Today was a semi-frustrating day.  The morning started off fine, two of my favorite students came over for their piano lessons.  It's amazing how fast kids progress!  I'm not sure I can be a prouder teacher with the way these kids are.  I admire their parents for their parenting style and level of commitment and interactions with them.  If I have kids, I hope I can be parents like them.  Anyways, half way through the lesson, I get a text from boss lady.

Long story short, drama drama drama at work.  Reflecting back on my pet peeve blog, I was just annoyed all over again.  It's hard to be able to call my company a team.  Let's categorize my company into 3 different teams.  Techs, admin/hr/finance, and development.  The tech "Director" I can't really call a director.  This guy loves to pin all the blame on admin/hr/finance for whatever goes wrong.  It's almost as though he goes out of his way to get back at us for something we had addressed in a private manner with the CEO.  I'm disappointed that the whole situation wasn't handled better, but whatever.  There's a saying that I heard from my lash lady that certain people at work are guarded like eggs.  Well, I am not an egg.  Sometimes the way I'm treated, I feel like a piece of trash...not even a number within the company.  I truly appreciate my boss lady.  She always stands her ground to defend our little team.  In larger corporations, it's easy to say that you're replaceable.  I always bear this in mind when I want to confront stupid situations like this, so I'm choosing to pick my battles. This battle is to be fought at a later time when I've finished documenting things like a good HR person does.  It gets very difficult being objective when there's such a high level of favoritism and lack of follow through.  Director of Team Techs NEVER reprimands his staff when needed, so they walk all over him.  No respect for him whatsoever, but he continues to turn it around and blame the administrators. Shit just is not fair at work, but when is life ever fair? I ranted a lot and it turned into a long story, moving on! 

I decided to not quit just yet.  I'll only leave my current job either when I find a health care related job or am laid off.  I have promised to work strictly my 8 hours moving forward, though.  This means, no more coming in early and no more working through lunch.  I usually end up at work early because I leave early to avoid the traffic.  Maybe I'll go to the gym nearby before heading into work. Bleh.

I moped and bitched for about half the day about work drama.  It took quite a bit of effort from Mister to get me dragged out of the house.  We went to Costco and bought Kirkland Coconut water.  It's pretty good and I have no complaints. 

After dinner, we went for a long walk on the beach.  We've come to a point in our relationship where there's not too much to talk about anymore.  We know our goals, we've aired our issues, and we've discussed my drama from earlier in the day.  It was a nice peaceful 2 hour walk up and down the coast of Newport.  We passed by many families, couples, groups of friends. It was nice to just people watch while getting some physical activity squeezed in.  At the top of the first hour, we hit Newport pier which was cool, since we've never been there before.  We grabbed an all fruit smoothie to split and started our one hour trek back to the car.  Walking on wet sand with the water splashing up at us was cool the first hour heading south, going northbound we walked through the street to admire the beach houses.  I'm not sure I'd want a beach house....tsunami's yo.  I think I'm going to try to do 2 hour walks on the beach at least once a week from now on.  Talk about a cheap Saturday night date!

Anywhoo, that was my day.  Tomorrow should be fun, teaching then meeting up with some friends, then picking up Mom from the airport. 

Food Log

1. 1c Honey Nut Cheerios
2. 1c unsweetened almond/coconut blend milk
3. 1 turkey and swiss wrap
4. 2 chicken tacos w/ mango chipotle salsa 
5. 1 banana
6. 1.5c  fruit smoothie
7. 2 boiled eggs
8. 1/2 serving of Kirkland Coconut Water

Total calorie consumption: 1,140

Physical Activity

1. 2 hour walk at the beach - Roughly 670 calories burned 
2. 20 minutes cleaning the house - Roughly 20 calories burned

So my calorie consumption is still higher than my calories burned.... I'm working towards slowly lowering the calorie consumption and upping the calories burned so that I can gear myself towards healthier foods.  More leafy greens = more fiber = feel full faster = still less calories than foods listed above.

A part of me wants to go back to a mostly pescatarian diet, which is very possible for me.  Last time I maintained a pescatarian lifestyle, my vitamin and mineral levels were BETTER than that of a carnivore.  Who said?? The guy who tested my blood before I donated platelets, that's who!  I also was able to donate twice the amount of platelets, so I was happy I could do that.  Pescatarian you wonder? I don't eat fish... I love my crustaceans though. Sophie, I miss you, come back and we can go have seafood again.

<3chelle