Quirky Fantastic

I just realized that the last time I posted about goals was back in February. I was going to figure out a March goal, and then allergies struck.  I didn't wind up setting a secondary goal for March, although I did complete my primary goal of tracking my food on My Fitness Pal. I actually found it so useful that I've kept going with it into this month. I think that I'll keep going. I'm not necessarily losing weight, but it does help me look at my macronutrient and calorie intake and analyze correlations to mood and energy levels. This month, my main goal was to ditch the snooze button. I've been mostly successful. However, I did use a work-around of completely turning off and resetting my alarm a few times, adhering to the letter of the goal but not the spirit. I'm not proud of that, but it was mostly during Spring Break.  Overall, I do feel better when I don't snooze for ages, which is what I tend to do when left to my own devices. I think that th...

It's taken me longer than I thought to get back to this post series. First, I was feeling under the weather. When my new allergy med routine finally kicked in, it was Spring Break and I was off to Austin. When I got back, I had the best of intentions. I had planned to paint my living room...Well, that didn't happen. It turns out that I'm not a fast painter. I'd already painted the trim in my hallway, and it took me a day to finish painting the rest of the trim in my living room plus this closet. I'd been wanting to try something visually interesting to make my condo seem more at home to me. I'd managed to damage my closet door when I was experimenting with taking it down, and now it won't close properly. With the other repairs I'm doing, getting a new door is a low priority to me, so I decided to paint the bottom half of my closet blue. I mostly decided to make it two-toned like this because I don't have a step stool and I didn't feel lik...