references are boring

Up until 2 fighting with referencing software. So. Slow. I have over 200, so it's slow slogging.
So I slept in until 6:30 for my own sanity. No workout, which is too bad, but if the weather is nice I'm going to walk home - a good 40 minute walk would do me good. I have 2 managery meetings today so falling asleep at work is not an option. I have to be alert. Perky even. Wish me luck :)
I will finish this thesis.
Oh yes.

soon

Despite my giving in to bacon heaven snackery last night and being up until 1 I know workout sgive me energy...so I got up at 6:20 and did the My bodyrocks BRTV workout + ab bonus. ~16 minute workout. Had me sweating and I feel like I've put in some time today and can take on the rest of the day with a smile.
Got lots of work done last night and have more to come every night this week...Final edit done on first half. Tonight is final edit on figures and legends and (if my other supervisor get off her ass and gets back to me) section 3. Tomorrow bibliography.
Then it's tweak up the final section and let my second supervisor look at it over the weekend. I'd hoped to have it all completed but my second supervisor is NOT meeting her proposed deadlines.
*sigh*

But...soon I will finish.
NO really.
How cool is that?

*grin*

curse you bacon!

Right when I discover my groove again...I also discovered bacon flavoured microwave popcorn.

Heh...Lets just say I will not be buying it again for my own safety. :)
Damn that stuff is good. Especially in the middle of a long night of nitpicky editing...

nom nom nom...

*courage*

unscathed

Not too bad. 34:45 for my 5K run yesterday. My feet are still sore on the large blister on the arch of each foot, but I'll live. I've just got fluffy socks on today. I'm not too stiff either, surprisingly. Seeing as I did nada last week for fitness, I survived rather unscathed. In a better mood today. The rain has stopped.

This morning I was determined to workout, but not overdo it and hurt myself again. My knee is back to normal and had no issues with my run. Sooo, to warm up I did 50 sumo squats with elbow to knee lifts, 20 pushups with a 10 second plank and 2 sets of 50 leg lifts with hip extensions on each side. Then I hammered out the where have you been bodyrocktv workout. Solid workout. I had to modify a lot of the pushups to knee ones for the last part and I sure was wobbly on the one legged stuff with the monkey pushups, but I pushed myself. It felt good to sweat...there was sweat dripping off my nose when I was done, so I know I worked hard! Protein oatmeal for breaky and I'm in for work.

We shall see what today has in store for me :)

meh

Did the 5K fun run in the pouring rain. Not as much fun as it could have been. Only had to walk about 100m of it, which was good. Discovered my running shoes give me blisters when wet, which was bad. Ow. Had to take a looooong hot shower after to warm up. Turns out, it all made me grumpy.
Came home and grumped at J and altho we eventually went out for breaky, didn't really deserve it with me being grumpface. Not at all the nice morning I had hoped for. Know how sometimes you get grumpy and just say the wrong thing to people who are just trying to be nice and it sort of grumps along? Yeah. That was me - classic foot in mouth.
Trying to salvage the rest of the day by doing some thesis work and making some bread. Hoping to be kinder the rest of the day...feel less meh. Don't want to grump anymore. Roped into supper at my brother's to save my Dad from an entire weekend there trapped with my sister in law. I admit -don't really want to go, but perhaps my grumpface would be best somewhere else for a while...J is staying out of my way so I don't grump anymore. He was supposed to work today but the rain postponed it so he has an out on the supper. Not a totally crummy day...just really meh.
It's rained since friday afternoon and hasn't stopped. It's leaking into our moods...

longest appendix ever

Yeah.
My knee is quasi OK, but I am nervous I will hurt it. And yet...well...I feel bleh. I need something. Think I'll see if J wants to go for a long walk tomorrow after work.
I'm am up at stupid o'clock again, just having finished my appendices on my thesis (seriously the most boring thing ever. You have to list every little thing you used - all the machines and chemicals and where it came from and how you made it into a solution and what computer programs you used. Gah. So tedious....)
I am experiencing my body morphing...my weight is the same, but I can feel my muscles shrinking as I sit here! Listen! Can't you hear them? :)
 Oh I know I'm being melodramatic, but I was getting hyped about summer and looking at last summer's photos...and damn I was doing well then. I have a month until I head to a festival where I will have my only shot at bathing suits for the year, so I want to make sure I'm not throwing away the muscles I worked so hard for all winter. I've been working hard to make muscle tone...I'm definitely getting back to it. I have plans baby. Plans. bikini plans...it's ON. Besides...I don't want to lose my ability to do pushups like I could before...they make me feel all amazon :)

I signed up for a 5K fun run ages ago for this sunday AM so there is that, and I hope to do a ZWOW on saturday. That... and stop snacking. When I work on the computer lately, it is SO hard no not nibble away. I tried buying healthy snacks instead, but grapes are only healthy when you don't eat the whole bag at one sitting. :) I made some rhubarb muffins...and I am staring at them. I could seriously demolish another before I go to bed...I think that's what I like about working out - it gives me leeway to have a muffin or the odd thing and not be so attentive to what I eat. It's a lot closer when there's no metabolism burn start up in the morning...

Ah well. Nothing else for it -I'm on it. I want to be back where I was before I left for holidays before I go on more holidays. He heh.
I'm not going to go nutso. If I do, I'll just hurt myself again. Right now - my thesis is THE priority of life, so this week - sleep won out. But, next week, I'll be at the point (knock on wood) where I can really get back to it as I'm actually at the reading things over stage now, until I get my reviews back from my supervisors. And it's the weekend. I can actually sleep in a bit this one - no insane list of chores or family visits this time. Just some housework and mowing the lawn...DEFINITELY doable.

For now, I need to get my tired butt to bed. TIme to get up in 6 hours and get to work :)

Microsoft can bite my arse

Yeah. Knee still twingy. Slept in after being up until 1. Not all gloomy though - I had some compan towards the end, since J had some of his music show volunteer crew over and out on the deck after his weekly shoot - it was nice to have people about as I edited. They're all great people...hearing laughter in the house always makes me smile. They were still enjoying themselves when I went to bed.

Spent the day fighting with Microsoft Word. Literally. There was yelling. Yes, Formatting, she is a bitch. And it is a she - no man could be this complicated! Particularly ranty with the new Word 2011...where everything is arbitrarily moved, it would seem. And, to do things I must first find them!! BUT, I am getting there. Sections 3 of 4 revised. Waiting for feedback on the last section and putting together all the supplemental appendices and such. It is coming. Lordy it's slow, but it's coming...

Soon my minions. Soon...

Mt. Thesis

Slept in again today. Knee almost better. I am hopeful. I do feel guilty not working out, but really I am finding that in this crunch time of hard work, I am needing the sleep. I am quite sane, all things considered. And the crunch is yet to come. I hope to go up to the lake on the long weekend in July, and hope to be done the thesis for my committee before then, as I have the second weekend in July booked off for my only festival of the summer with J. So I am trying to not wig out at the enormity of the reality of the deadlines and just keep working.
Poor J seems very sad and resigned lately about me working hard. I think he felt me handing in my thesis draft meant I was done. He has no idea the nitpick details that remain and it drives me crazy when he asks me "when will you be done?" because I don't exactly know. I just hope. Unfortunately it's revise revise revise, and altho I'm on the final section revisions, there are still a lot of nitpicky things...and I have this month to finish. And my other supervisor is still looking at my sections too. *sigh* It's just takes time.

Also,  I just learned my proposed external examiner was in a car accident, so that really doesn't help. I am selfishly hoping she will feel up to being the reviewer and be able to let me defend by the end of August, but really...still don't know. Dont' know if she can and the university is rather backward about not setting an official defense date even with an examiner is arranged until my thesis is in and past my committee. Soooo...it needs to get to them so it can go out to her. I know if it gets past my two supervisors then it will be good... I picked experts to be on my committee, so I know they'll have comments. And they'll be valid ones. I want this to be good.
SO many little nitpicky details...it's so NOT my thing. The whole "this word would work better that that one" and "you used the wrong antecedent here" business is giving me brain hives! But...I continue. I work hard. This is my first real attempt at technical writing, and I am grateful for all the help and revision. I just wish it could be done. It's tough to edit your own stuff. I do not have the skills...

Patience grasshopper.

family hangover

Had a great weekend of family visiting. Got to see my cute little grand nephew (who is the happiest kid ever) and visit with my sister and dad. My husband was a saint and helped with everything and let me just relax and be with my family. Now, the house is strangely quiet and after a sunday of thesis work, if it weren't for the forgotten baby pants in the spare room and tonne of photos on my camera I might doubt they were ever here. I have some wine leftover. Giggedy.

I think I am developing some kind of food sensitivity tho. For satuday I brought two salads to the BBQ at my brothers: strawberry almond feta tossed salad and a quinoa salad with veg and beans and a lime vinaigrette. That evening and last night after having the salads for supper my stomach was in knots and I felt pained and bloated...I have never reacted that way before to either salads and J was fine so I'm not sure what was up. It is similar to digestive issues I used to have before I started eating clean. It was bad enough that instead of being my lunch today they are both in the garbage. Bleh. I seem to be the only one effected so I'll have to see how I feel next time I have quinoa. I like Quinoa, so I hope it's not that...but we shall see. All I know is I had Red River cereal and fruit for breakfast and have no desire to eat anything remotely unhealthy for a while...

My knee (grrr) is still not entirely back to normal, so I'm growing impatient. Given how awful I felt last night I slept in and woke up before my alarm this AM. I didn't workout since my knee still isn't top form, but tomorrow I'm going in no matter what...I refuse to get completely out of shape waiting for my knee to recover. There has to be lots of things I can do to work around it. Once it stop hurting I can do the physio exercises that will help it...just must be patient.
I'm not good at patient.

family

Another late night of errands and cleaning and bit of thesis work. (not enough, but some) and the house is ready for my family invasion. My knee is feeling slightly better but still aches so I did not workout again today - hope to be back at it monday. I slept in and had a nice hot shower and some protein oatmeal and a banana for breaky and am in for work, trying to focus until I can head home and spend lots of time with my family. My whole family. Meep. :)
I hate that I'll likely have to hide for 2 or 3 hours on saturday and work on my thesis as I have to hand in my edited final section on monday (and work on it all sunday after they leave...*sigh*), but I really can't wait to see my family for a few days. They are here until sunday when they go up to visit dad for a week at the lake. I wish I could get away to be up at the lake with them, but I am so glad to see my sister and her whole family even for a little bit. They live in Ontario and last time we were all together was Mum's memorial almost 2 years ago. I look forward to much more laughter and smiles. My sis and her hubby look after 4 foster kids and this is their first family holiday in almost two years, and maybe the last one with all the kids together, since my niece and nephew are in their 20s now (wow my sis is 10 years older than me but that made me feel OLD to write!) My gorgeous niece is in university now and my nephew is a new dad - and I get to meet my little great nephew tonight!
Man, I am SO excited. I've grabbed some wine and I'm hoping they'll all fit in our house! I am looking forward to an evening of visiting in the house and sitting out on the deck. No real plans yet, just visiting. I admit, I am determined that not even my brother's wife (who is an emotional handful and can be very challenging, especially if things don't go her way or aren't planned to the minutia) will interfere with the weekend. I can't wait to get home!! :)
Hope you all have a great weekend!