TopShelf's Journal: It's Friday, and I'm pissed

I thought this was supposed to happen on Monday mornings, but I'm just in pissy mood today:

1. Weight loss has steadied off around 188, down about 20 pounds from where I started (and not going back up), but it's been hard to get back into the 3-workout-per-week routine, particularly after coming down with Strep last week. My original goal was to get down to 175 by early March, and it looks like I'll miss that by a fair margin.
2. Our hockey team, which is much improved this season, lost last night 5-3, and I had a couple bone-headed blunders that, while they didn't lead to a goal against, didn't help things.
3. We're not making as much headway on paying off our debts as I would like. We decided to go with minimum payments during the holiday season, but now we're having to catch up with some things (car repair, vet bills, etc.) that are getting in the way.
4. I found out yesterday (indirectly) that I'm not going to the user conference for the ERP system I'm implementing - although the CIO and a VP who's in charge of an entirely different system are going. I had specifically asked to attend this conference a couple months ago.
5. For our implementation project, we need to get IT training rolling to support our internal development plans, but HR is requiring every aspect of this plan (who's getting trained in what, and when) to be nailed down to the gnat's ass, with objective justifications as to why various people are getting trained and why some aren't, etc. Protecting the company from doing something that will get us sued is one thing, but they keep taking this way too far. We need to get the damn training going...
6. Our ERP vendor blows chunks. We're two months into a massive development effort (think many many man-years) with is due in Q3, and they still don't have a complete plan of how they're going to make it happen, and are still lining up resources. Oh yeah, and the bulk of the work is being done in an offshore startup (not outsourced, as it's their firm, but halfway around the world).
7. I'm realizing more and more that I hate project management. Nagging people to make sure they get $hit done is excruciating to me. Some people are great at that kind of thing, but I'm not one of them. Give me the analytical/architectural problems, and I'll do a great job.
8. WTF, Red Foreman? Where'd ya go?

Not everything is woe and misery. My writings are getting quite a bit of run over at Fox Sports these days, including my recent finding that there may well be a lefty/righty matchup advantage that coaches should utilize during shootouts.

Gotta go, time to flesh out this f*cking training plan for back-to-back meetings coming up...

Just be glad...

[Billosaur]

3. We're not making as much headway on paying off our debts as I would like. We decided to go with minimum payments during the holiday season, but now we're having to catch up with some things (car repair, vet bills, etc.) that are getting in the way.

...that your debts are still in reach to be paid off. Sliding over the edge of the cliff is not fun. :(

hope your Monday is going better

[Bill Dog]

Maybe you could give yourself an extension. I think it's natural that your rate of loss will slow the more you lose. And you've had a pretty darn amazing run so far. Maybe you could reach your 175 by mid-year. That's what I'm shooting for, and I've tapered off as well, at 184, +/- .5 pounds. That's down only 11 pounds, pretty much amounting to only comfier pants. But I'm a stinker -- I've pretty much exclusively done it by cutting back on some junk food and cutting out others, and just not shoving so darn m

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[TopShelf]

Yeah, I'm going to have to recalibrate my goals, probably shooting for 170 by mid-summer, or something like that. The good thing is I haven't gained anything back, I'm just holding steady around 188. The reason is that even though I'm not quite doing as well on the exercise front as I was in the last few months (gotta get out to the Y tonight), I've done very good at drinking lots of water and keeping the soft drinks to one a day, max. In the past, I'd have 3-4 Pepsi's a day, so that's about 500 daily ca