Home Again, Home Again, Jiggity Jig!

I have recently returned from my annual pilgrimage to Cape Cod. When I returned home last year I started this blog. I definitely have not reached my weight loss goal, in fact I am exactly where I was last year, however I have learned one thing in a year-the Cape is necessary for my mental health.
I arrived at the Cape a tired and de-motivated woman. I had been feeling very blah leading up to my trip. I hated everything in my closet, I was sick of all the usual stuff I cook for dinner, work was annoying, I was sick of not keeping to my budget, I hated everything about my apartment, I didn’t want to go out, but I didn’t want to stay in—basically I was in a major rut.

Thankfully, my vacation crashed into this situation like a rogue wave (I love Deadliest Catch!). The first couple of days on the Cape were good and relaxing but it wasn’t until the third day that I realized that I was beginning to feel good, inspired even. I had some new ideas on things to do to the apartment and some new ideas on foods I wanted to try and things that I wanted to blog about. It was really refreshing to suddenly feel revitalized. I don’t think I knew how bummed out I was until I began to feel better. Then it hit me….this happens every time I spend the week down the Cape. I leave feeling renewed and energized, kind of how I *think* you should feel on New Year’s Day-like a clean slate and that you have things you want to accomplish-a good feeling.

That said, I made some resolutions during my vacation:

1. I am going to update my blog on Sunday’s (possibly post on Monday-editing time is sometimes needed) Also, I should mention I have more than one blog so it could be either one.

2. I will be Wendy Weight Watcher-stick to the plan, use my food journal, plan weekly menus, grocery shop and try to change up the things I cook so I don’t get bored.

3. I watch too much TV-so I am going to banish TV on one weekend day until after 8 pm. I think this will encourage me to do the other things on this list or at least leave the house.

4. I will be less stringent in the way I think about my weekends. Currently, I am very possessive of Sundays, I like to go to my WW meeting, grocery shopping, clean the apartment and basically just hang around like a bum.

5. I am going to try to get some kind of organization into my life and root through all of the junk that I have—and possibly have a yard sale

6. Stick to a savings plan. In my defense I had a savings plan that was going well, until there were some changes in my employment that were beyond my control.

So there you have it my post vacation resolutions.

Here is the progress one week back from vacation.

I posted a blog-not on Monday but that is because on Sunday I had a small cookout in my backyard with some friends (see resolution 3&4) and was a little too tipsy to write. Friends don’t let friends drink and blog.

I went grocery shopping, planned my menus (have not ordered out) and cooked something I have never made at home before: mussels (pretty good and not too stinking in my small little kitchen)

I have some vacation cash left over, so I have been using that instead of money out of my checking account and plan to move any money left in my weekly allowance into my savings at the end of the week.

So far so good, let’s just see how it goes. Thanks for reading!