Day 20 of 30: Zombie Willpower

Welcome to Wednesday. Woke up feeling like a sack of bricks this morning. I need to find a way to get more than 5-6 hours of sleep on weeknights. I am trying! Life's is busy and on top of that, I'm a naturally born night owl. My poor Mom, who is a morning person, must have loved that while I was growing up. My theory isn't that I stay up too late, but rather that the mornings arrive too soon.

I'm still working on trying to help my left knee feel better. Tensor bandages don't seem to do much of anything. Ice helps for a bit, but I can't ice all day long. Tiger Balm, my esteemed friend, dulls the pain and makes my knee all cool and tingly but a few days of applying it and nothing has changed. I'm trying pain meds today and I'll see how that goes. It's very frusterating to have the drive to exercise, and then a knee that's set to foil your well laid plans. Evil left knee, I will not let you win!

This evening I took the BRT home on my normal hour-long-plus commute. I was feeling under the weather and just wanted to take a nice nap. I dragged myself upstairs to workout. Telling myself that 20 minutes is not really that long and with bribes of berries and chocolate as an evening treat.

I'm tired today. The plan is to hold the couch down for a few hours after working out a little. I don't even have enough energy to play video games! That's how zonked I am. I imagine this is how zombies feel everyday. I can now relate with their kind. Heavy arms, tired legs, slurred, babbled speech. I understand completely. Maybe they aren't actually zombies, but just really tired people. Think about it.

I will stop the crazy ranting now. Sleep will come early tonight. I can tell you that much.

On a more cheerful note, I resisted a whole bunch of offers for sweets today while at work. I stuck to my guns and turned down a long list of treats. I had an amazing amount of will power today. Chocolate guiness cake, chocolate chip cookies, homemade toffee, chocolate covered almonds & a cadbury creme egg were all offered to me today and all graciously declined. I've heard that fit feels better than sweets taste. Although, I did treat myself at the end of the day to a few dark chocolate cranberries but just a few.

Day 20, full of willpower & zombie-like fatigue, completed!