Weekend is almost here!!!
Oh.My.Goodness. This week, I am soooo tired and I can't figure out what gives. I made a quick and easy dinner last night: whole wheat pasta, sauce and spicey turkey sausages, served with a huge, veggie-filled colorful garden salad and homemade zesty italian dressing. It was great. The salad took longer to make than anything else (dressing: 3 minutes, pasta: 6 minutes, sausage: 10 minutes to brown, plus 10 hands free minutes to finish cooking and and flavor up the sauce).
E and I watched "The Professional" last night and I started dozing off towards the end--you know, the most action-filled and loudest scenes. It was only 9pm. I asked him to let me take a 15 minute nap so I could regain some endurance to watch another movie or Top Chef. An HOUR later, he had to shake me awake. I was out of it for TC and an episode of Arrested Development (we've been slowly making our way through the season 1 DVDs). The alarm went off at 7. I reset it for 7:30 and I still had to drag my *ss out of bed.
Even now, I have a dull headache that neither coffee nor rapid release Tylenol has helped.
Strange. It could be TOM-related. I dunno. Let's just say that as soon as work is over today, I'm going home, taking a 15 minute nap (for real--no hour long snoozes this time) and heating up leftovers for dinner. Bedtime: 10pm. As soon as Grey's is over. Unfortunately, I'm on call tonight. Hopefully, it will be quiet and I won't have any sleep interruptions.
I think I was blogging complaints about all that fiber clogging me up last week. Let's just say I've gotten over that hump. Now, I've been going 2-3 times a day. Sometimes at very inconvenient times. Seriously, who wants to interrupt a nice dinner with a bathroom intermission? I know... it's just my body adjusting.
I want to try out two new recipes this weekend, but I haven't decided what yet. Tonight (before Grey's), I'm going through cookbooks to find something new and delicious to try. I have some cod in the freezer that I need to use. I'm tempted to do a baked fish and chips type of meal. But it's been cold, damp and rainy lately, so I'd love to do a hearty, spicy bean soup. We'll see what the weekend (and grocery store brings).
Yesterday, I told my students that I'd host a breakfast for them at my apartment the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. We have to close the residence halls for Thanksgiving Break that day, but the dining halls are closed, so students don't have anywhere to eat. When I told them I was making scrambled eggs and creme brulee french toast, they almost fell off their seats. (No--creme brulee french toast is NOT a healthy recipe but it's quick and easy to make for a crowd and it always wows them). I will make some healthy substitutions: egg beaters for the eggs and FF half and half for regular half and half.
Other highlight yesterday: my 6 week post op doc appointment. He said I was healing very well and I was right in my self-assessment that my core muscles, especially my back was very weak (as evidenced by the soreness after my 15 min. 4mph jaunt Monday). He said at this point, only 80% of the muscle has reattached itself to the bone (they had to scrape it away to get at the disk) and the muscle that is attached is still weak. So... gradual increase in activity. No contact sports (ever). No twisting for several more weeks. No bending past the knees. Aside from that, no limitations. We're really just working on getting me back to doing everything I was doing prior to the injury. Yay! I'm still on for a January 2 return to the gym. Before the holidays, I'll probably schedule an appointment for 1/2 with a trainer who can understand how to give me a program to gradually get me back up to what I was doing. Oh--and I have a 3 month post op visit 12/22 just to make sure I'm still not having any complications.
Hooray! 50 more days until my return to the gym!
But, admission of guilt: I have NOT been keeping up with the PT. I go to PT as prescribed, once a week, but I'm supposed to be doing the exercises 1-2x a day on my own. I do it maybe 3x a WEEK. I WILL do them tonight and throughout the weekend and I will also SCHEDULE in time to do the PT exercises on my Palm with some kind of annoying alarm that won't let me forget.