The Scale Must Die!!
Okay, I know I'm way behind on blogging, but more on that later.
For starters, as you know, I was finally going to weigh myself on Friday. Well, I did and it wasn't pretty. I weigh 141.4 as of last Friday. UGH. 
After all my hard work last year, one 3-hour surgery has taken me back up to 141. Well, of course, it wasn't just the surgery, it was the fact that I couldn't really exercise after the surgery for a few months and haven't exactly been eating as carefully either. 
I've had time to digest it now, and I'm ready to get serious and take care of this matter!! I have been working out regularly for a couple of weeks now and I plan to continue. My running is back up to about 3 miles at a time. And I WILL be ready for the Army 10-miler in October. I CAN DO THIS!
On to other things......I started over at my new office on Friday and things have been crazy ever since!!
I'm trying to find the cheapest, most convenient way to get to work, and so far nothing is good. As you know, last week I paid $17.00 to park for 3 hours.....
So I tried another option, which was drive to the metro, park, take the metro near my office building, and then a 15-minute walk to the building. Well, that took 2 hours to get to work. Yes, that's right, 2 hours!! Plus I had to pay $4.25 to park for the day and about $11.00 for the metro.
Hmm, there must be a better way, right? So I did some research and found that there is a bus near my house. So I drove to the bus stop yesterday, took the bus into DC, caught a shorter metro, and took the 15-minute walk. Well, that was only an hour and a half trip and cost me about $8.50 for the bus ride and $5.00 for the metro. (Oh, and did I mention the fact that I missed the bus in the evening and had to wait 10 more minutes for the next bus?) 
I left my house yesterday at 6:00 a.m. and got home last night at 7:20 p.m. About 3 and a half hours of that was traveling!!
So today I drove to work.... Another guy told me about a cheaper parking garage, so I decided to try that today because I had to come back to my old office for a little while anyway. He said it was $6.00 for the whole day, which is much more reasonable than $17.00!! So surprisingly traffic was light this morning and it only took me about 45 minutes to get to work. I got there around 7:00 a.m. and left around lunch and get this..... the guy did not charge me!! WHAT? Free parking for nearly 5 hours?? I didn't question it.....I was just so happy! I'm not sure why he didn't charge me, but I'll be using that garage a lot more.
So between the walking to and from work and the metro and my workouts, the weight better start coming off!!!
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Good luck with the new garage!