Long Weekend

No, not like a holiday or anything. Just a long, busy weekend.

Last weekend we just about killed ourselves in the kitchen prepping the week's worth of food so we could grab and go. Or, that was the thought anyway. Sure, it was all prepared but it still seemed like a lot of effort to grab a snack, or several, throughout the day.

I am in grad school hell right now. It is nearing the end of my first quarter and I have been buried in writing a 15 page final paper on colonial women. Interesting stuff, thankfully, but I can hardly keep my eyes open. Friday, I worked on the thing all day. Saturday I planned to "finish it up" and work on my Russian revolution final paper today. Nope. Spent two more solid days on my paper and still have about 5% more to do...another read through, adding footnotes, triple checking everything is where it should be. Luckily, it isn't due until Wednesday night but with my son arriving from college on Saturday I really want the Russian final finished before he gets here even though that one isn't due until a week from tomorrow.

In other words, I need a break from adulting. I'm wiped out.

This weekend was rough. And I spent most of it writing and the other part doing all those grown up things like cooking and shopping.

Today we set out to do some prep again. Easy, we said. Fast, we said. Uh huh.

We made coconut peanut butter no bake energy bites; two different types of dressings from the 21-day fix cookbook; browned up 3 lbs. lean turkey; cooked 2 lbs. shrimp; stir-fried a ton of veggies; cut up and sliced a jicama; cooked maki-mahi patties for lunch and cod for dinner; cooked broccoli rice; cooked turkey bacon; hardboiled some eggs; and roasted a spaghetti squash, butternut squash, and acorn squash. Then, we cleaned out the refrigerator from top to bottom, restocked it, and washed all the new little storage containers we bought.

I worked out yesterday, difficultly. It was supposed to be my pilates day but I didn't do it. Couldn't. It is so bloody hard and I was so bloody exhausted. So I did the day one cardio again. Oye. That's the toughest one. Today, I did the cardio fix, day five, and still struggled. Couldn't do any of the on the floor, up again (like the burpee) moves so I skipped over them. Hey, I worked out, there should be something about that.

Meanwhile, I have been short all weekend in my containers! Time got away from us both days and between running around, shopping for the food, preparing the food, working on my final paper...we just lost track! Ugh.

But, on another note, I am feeling really good, despite the whole stress from grad school thing and sadness over some friend/family issues that I'm feeling right now.

I hope this is all working. It should be, right?

Now, I will go and put my feet up after a very long day and look over my paper again tomorrow. And then I can start counting down the days until my son comes home! Can't wait!