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canadiandiamond) wrote2010-05-30 03:15 pm
canadiandiamond) wrote2010-05-30 03:15 pm
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sunday morning coming down
Ok, it's technically Sunday afternoon but still, the coming down part applies. Or, well, to be specific it's more accurately going up that's got me feeling down, heh. I knew it was going to happen but I guess part of me hoped I'd been able to break even or something, but no, according to the same Wii scale I always use I was up 0.3kg this week. Which isn't a lot, it almost negates the 0.4kg I was down last week so it's not a complete backslide or anything, but it still sucks and it's still demoralizing.
Of course there's no one else to blame but myself - I ate very poorly this week, which I can partly blame on being in Court every single day of the week (save Monday which was a holiday) and having to eat on the road. I probably could've eaten better but I'm an expert at convincing myself that I've "earned" or "deserve" less-than-healthy food due to the stress and strain of being in the middle of a trial or something equally as taxing on me. I also over indulged this weekend when my sister came home, which involved picking up more snacks than I usually would for a weekend and even a late night (~10pm, not uber late but still) 6" sandwich from Subway on Friday night, and it all adds up.
The good news, though, is that I am out of snacks, heh, and this is something I can nip in the bud by, you know, not eating like a pig this week and not buying any more junk food. Depending on how my office hours look (I think I'm mainly in the office all week, with the exception of a court appearance tomorrow and Friday) I'll hopefully be able to get home in time a few evenings this week and actually work out for a change. That'll help since I've been coasting by and losing the little weight I've lost so far solely by restricting my junk food intake and not by actually working it off. I'm taking this as a good kick in the rear to get my butt back into gear and to start working for what I want instead of just hoping for it to happen, and hopefully by this time next week I'll be back on the right side of the +/- result.
The burn out feeling continues in LOTRO, though it's not as bad / as burned out as I've sometimes felt in the past. It's a different kind of feeling, if that makes sense. It might even just be frustration - I can't speak for my entire kin, of course, but I do think we're all getting mighty pissed off with the current end game raid.
This last week or two has seen us backslide, even - there are three bosses in the raid, and usually we down the first two easily enough on Thursday night and then have Saturday (and sometimes Monday, which is a bad night but what are you gonna do) to try the third boss, whom we've never beaten as of yet. This past week, though, we couldn't even beat the first one on Thursday night. I was out of town but![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
believeitup gave me the lowdown on it. That meant last night instead of having all night to work on the third boss, who, believe me, we need lots of work on, we had to start from scratch. Which we did, and we eventually did take the first two down, but not after three or four wipes on the first boss and one wipe on the second. Compare that to the few weeks prior to this when (aside from last week when I think we didn't raid at all on Thursday) we were doing the first and second bosses on pretty much the first shot every time and, yeah. Frustrating as hell. We finished the second one so late that there was no hope for a shot at the third and as of yet nothing's scheduled for us to go back. Locks, the in game method of keeping your place in a raid (i.e. what bosses are done and where you start off, basically) reset on Thursday, which is why we normally try to get the first two done that night, giving us the rest of the week to work on the last one. We'll see if anything is set up for early this week but I don't know.
Other than that, my dice in game have definitely cooled down since last Friday, where I won a couple of big things, and have been mostly dead since then. I did get some gear for my primary alt on Friday night, but that was because no one else even rolled against me, heh. Other than that I've had a horrible time with loot, but what are you gonna do? It sucks to be in a rut that way on top of the other frustrations and everything, but there's really nothing for it, other than to walk away from the game for a bit, or to lower the time I spend in there, which is what I'm doing. I do need to pop on later tonight to craft some supplies for some of my toons, and to chat withbelieveitup when she gets home of course, but other than that I'm not planning to get in game much today.
My plans for today basically involve grabbing a shower as soon as I finish typing this and then popping into the office for a few hours to catch up on things. I've got a stubborn client who actually calls me at home, repeatedly, and just does not get that I cannot work 24 hours a day. >.< Or, well, I could, but I don't want to completely overstress myself and have a heart attack, which they don't seem to get. *sighs* So I want to get the work done for them so they can leave me the hell alone, and I've gotta prep for tomorrow as well, which won't take very long at all but I still want to do it. It should actually be a nice week at work, at least relative to the last few, which will be a welcome change. Other than that, I'll try and play a little Red Dead Redemption - which, by the way, is amazing - and maybe read a little before hopping in game to meet my wife for a bit before going to sleep.
Hope everyone had a nice weekend! :)
Of course there's no one else to blame but myself - I ate very poorly this week, which I can partly blame on being in Court every single day of the week (save Monday which was a holiday) and having to eat on the road. I probably could've eaten better but I'm an expert at convincing myself that I've "earned" or "deserve" less-than-healthy food due to the stress and strain of being in the middle of a trial or something equally as taxing on me. I also over indulged this weekend when my sister came home, which involved picking up more snacks than I usually would for a weekend and even a late night (~10pm, not uber late but still) 6" sandwich from Subway on Friday night, and it all adds up.
The good news, though, is that I am out of snacks, heh, and this is something I can nip in the bud by, you know, not eating like a pig this week and not buying any more junk food. Depending on how my office hours look (I think I'm mainly in the office all week, with the exception of a court appearance tomorrow and Friday) I'll hopefully be able to get home in time a few evenings this week and actually work out for a change. That'll help since I've been coasting by and losing the little weight I've lost so far solely by restricting my junk food intake and not by actually working it off. I'm taking this as a good kick in the rear to get my butt back into gear and to start working for what I want instead of just hoping for it to happen, and hopefully by this time next week I'll be back on the right side of the +/- result.
The burn out feeling continues in LOTRO, though it's not as bad / as burned out as I've sometimes felt in the past. It's a different kind of feeling, if that makes sense. It might even just be frustration - I can't speak for my entire kin, of course, but I do think we're all getting mighty pissed off with the current end game raid.
This last week or two has seen us backslide, even - there are three bosses in the raid, and usually we down the first two easily enough on Thursday night and then have Saturday (and sometimes Monday, which is a bad night but what are you gonna do) to try the third boss, whom we've never beaten as of yet. This past week, though, we couldn't even beat the first one on Thursday night. I was out of town but
believeitup gave me the lowdown on it. That meant last night instead of having all night to work on the third boss, who, believe me, we need lots of work on, we had to start from scratch. Which we did, and we eventually did take the first two down, but not after three or four wipes on the first boss and one wipe on the second. Compare that to the few weeks prior to this when (aside from last week when I think we didn't raid at all on Thursday) we were doing the first and second bosses on pretty much the first shot every time and, yeah. Frustrating as hell. We finished the second one so late that there was no hope for a shot at the third and as of yet nothing's scheduled for us to go back. Locks, the in game method of keeping your place in a raid (i.e. what bosses are done and where you start off, basically) reset on Thursday, which is why we normally try to get the first two done that night, giving us the rest of the week to work on the last one. We'll see if anything is set up for early this week but I don't know.Other than that, my dice in game have definitely cooled down since last Friday, where I won a couple of big things, and have been mostly dead since then. I did get some gear for my primary alt on Friday night, but that was because no one else even rolled against me, heh. Other than that I've had a horrible time with loot, but what are you gonna do? It sucks to be in a rut that way on top of the other frustrations and everything, but there's really nothing for it, other than to walk away from the game for a bit, or to lower the time I spend in there, which is what I'm doing. I do need to pop on later tonight to craft some supplies for some of my toons, and to chat with
believeitup when she gets home of course, but other than that I'm not planning to get in game much today.My plans for today basically involve grabbing a shower as soon as I finish typing this and then popping into the office for a few hours to catch up on things. I've got a stubborn client who actually calls me at home, repeatedly, and just does not get that I cannot work 24 hours a day. >.< Or, well, I could, but I don't want to completely overstress myself and have a heart attack, which they don't seem to get. *sighs* So I want to get the work done for them so they can leave me the hell alone, and I've gotta prep for tomorrow as well, which won't take very long at all but I still want to do it. It should actually be a nice week at work, at least relative to the last few, which will be a welcome change. Other than that, I'll try and play a little Red Dead Redemption - which, by the way, is amazing - and maybe read a little before hopping in game to meet my wife for a bit before going to sleep.
Hope everyone had a nice weekend! :)