New career, new me

A longtime friend encouraged me write something every day, even if it was a short paragraph.  

As mentioned in an earlier post, I started back to work today full time. My schedule will be 4-10's with Friday off. I still plan on being at The Clore Center on the weekends so I am going to have to figure out how to manage my time efficiently. 

I want to eat better and work out as well so time management is crucial and I do tend to overbook myself. Creating a habit to establish a routine will be key in my success. Since I will be working too far out to eat out at lunch time, this will give me an opportunity to learn to eat smaller meals every two hours. So I am going to start with oatmeal in the morning then every two hours eating an apple, then some nuts, a peanut butter sandwich, an orange and end with a powerbar. The night before I will start a light meal in the crock pot for dinner. Tonight I put a honey garlic chicken together so that all I have to do in the morning is pull out of refrigerator and start the crock pot. I will let you know how it all turns out. 

Workouts will be a little bit harder, so since I do enough walking on the weekends at The Clore Center, my goal will be yoga on Wednesdays and hiking on Friday. My goal is to be down 25lbs before our camping trip on July 4th at Lost Lake in Oregon. I really can't wait to share photos of the scenery in Oregon. Hood Mountain is captivating. Not to mention since I moved up here I have always wanted to visit Timberline Lodge that the outside of the Shining was filmed. Yes, I know it is based on the Stanley Hotel in Colorado but the filming of the exterior shots was Timberline Lodge on Mount Hood.  

Well before I close just wanted to mention that Oregon is also known for its Pinot noirs and Pinot Gris which are great summer wines. Of course a visit to the Naked Winery will be a must, to be continued July 5th.

Reading my post again before publishing, my conclusion is that I am going to have to learn not to speak in the first person so much.... hope to improve but not tonight, EXHAUSTED and 4:30 comes early.