acknowledge and feel proud of all the things I DO accomplish

yesterday, I was ust trying to find people to talk to for different articles and couldn’t get hold of anyone who had anything to say, very frustrating. Today though, I found a good source for one article and finished writing that, got hold of another guy to talk to for another article and did a long phone interview with him, and made arrangements for several other interviews later in the week. Very happy about that!

Nothing much gets done this evening, I’m going to the opera to see Andreas Scholl and Concerto Copenhagen in concert, very much looking forward to that! Then I’ll have to write a review, which is very scary because my editor also has tickets to this concert, and he has been living and breathing classical music for 50 years, so he really knows what he’s talking about. So I’m freaking out a bit about getting it all wrong and him thinking I’m a complete idiot. He actually stayed home from work today though, because he’s a bit sick and his son has the swine flu. Must admit I’m kind of hoping he’ll stay home from the concert too.
Either way, should be a great concert, and this is one which I asked to be allowed to go to and write from, and the editor said yes, quite happy about that initiative too!

- I finally managed to sit down and get some seriously boring paperwork done, that I should have done a while ago. I hate that stuff and procrastinate like crazy, but now it’s done.
- Paid some bills, also something I tend to procrastinate on.
- I did 15 minutes of relaxation exercises, which for me is quite excellent.
- Did some strength excercises
- Hid dog treats around the appartment, a very popular thing with the canine division of the curlychaos household.
- I’ve had no diet sof drinks at all today. I love them and tend to have quite a lot, since there are almost no calories. Lots of other nasty stuff though, so I’m trying to cut back.
- Now I’m off to practice some piano, take Cora out for her evening cat chasing session, and then a little time to relax before bed!

that I haven’t used this very difficult week as an excuse to fall into my favorite trap: comfort eating. Instead, I decided that I’m not going to make myself feel even worse by overeating and feeling fat and miserable, and I have actually lost a kilo this week. I even managed to say no to cake at work twice this week. It remains to be seen if I will be able to keep it up, but I am quite proud of myself for doing it this week, so hopefully I will. Tonight is crisps-night though, but that is ok, I have decided to allow myself yummy treats once a week. I’m not one of those people who can give unhealthy food up completely, that would just cause me to go nuts at some point, ruin my diet by eating crisps until I felt nauseaus and then give up on the diet completely. So, tonight, yummy treats!

and I caught myself rushing out of there, thinking about all the things I need to get done this weekend, and worrying that I probably won`t do half the things I had planned to do.
Instead of thinking yay, I started my weekend by getting up quite early on saturday taking a really hard aerobics class at the gym, even though I just wanted to sleep in! I need to start focusing on each thing I get done, instead of putting myself down for not doing absolutely everything on my list. So here goes

YAY! I went to the gym today! ;)