A few years ago I had very bad insomnia, and my friends on the SCC boards posted boring movies I should watch to help me sleep. Well, pirates (et al.), it is time to drag that list out again. *sigh*

I woke up last Tuesday with a sore throat, and my skin hurt. I had a ton of stuff to do that day, including starting a new GMAT Advanced class and checking out the restaurant that is catering my parents' anniversary party. So I basically ignored the entire sick thing, and I was actually successful at sticking to my schedule.

I ended up basically having an entire week off, due to the 4th of July holiday and the fact that one of my GMAT classes just ended. This turned out to be a good thing, since have spent most of my time off being sick. I felt worse on Wednesday, though it was pretty much more of the same. By Thursday my skin didn't hurt anymore, but I was starting to get congested. On Friday my sore throat was gone, but I was all stuffed up and starting to cough. I managed to take a long nap on Friday afternoon, which helped A LOT. But by Saturday, it was even worse. I slept a lot during the day, but Saturday night was impossible. I had so much trouble breathing that I only managed to sleep for about 3 hours. When I got up in the morning, I found my dad's stash of Sudafed, and after breakfast I went back to bed. I woke up only when the Sudafed wore off and I couldn't breathe again.

I seem to be better now, though. I haven't taken any Sudafed since 3pm, and I'm actually breathing OK. We'll see how tonight goes.

I hate being sick. Bleah . . .

Well, week 3 was pretty much a wash. I only managed to earn 10 points. Well, actually, when I realized that I wasn't going to make it to 20, I pretty much gave up trying. Bad Kat. Oh well. It's a new week. I'm considering last week a practice run and am making no changes for this week. Here are my 5 (again):

1. Get out of bed before 8:00.

2. Drink 1.5L of water.

3. Wear pedometer and walk at least 4000 steps.

4. Take medicine on time.

5. Walk the dog.

Well, I didn't do as well as I'd have liked during week 2, but I still managed to earn 20 points. I'm saving my reward for a while, until I decide exactly what I want from the craft store. This week I was a little ambitious. I didn't make many changes, but I tweaked the old 5 just a little.

1. Get out of bed before 8:00. I pushed this up yet another 1/2 hour. I think this is going to be hard to do, since I'm starting most of my classes this week, but it's something I need to do. I really don't like wasting half of my morning in bed.

2. Drink 1.5L of water. I have not been doing well with this one at all. I was hoping to increase this to 2L this week, but, since I almost never reached this goal last week, I had to keep it the same this week.

3. Wear pedometer and walk at least 4000 steps. I increased this quite a bit. I'm getting to a point where I'm working hard on my 5, and that's where I want to be.

4. Take medicine on time. I'm doing pretty well on this one and will most likely replace it with something else next week. Not sure what yet.

5. Walk the dog. This is the same every week, but the distance actually changes. We are walking pretty far now, over a mile, a lot of which is uphill. We'll get to a much longer distance at some point, but the increases aren't too big in order to fool myself into thinking I'm not walking that far. LOL