i'm not a very patient person and that patience was severely tested today at a doctor's office! a little backstory first, though...wednesday night stephen closed his bedroom door on jordan's finger and somehow she ripped off her pinky fingernail. it was an accident and stephen feels very bad about it. luke wanted me to take jordan to see the doctor to make sure there's no infection, so i called and made an appointment at a new place, closer to home. the appointment was for 11:30am and since i knew i'd have paperwork to fill out because she would be a new patient, we got there at 11:20am and that's when the waiting game started!
we waited in the waiting room for 45 minutes and i wanted to leave after 30 but jordan said she wanted to see the doctor...imagine that, a 3 year old who wants to see the doctor! but she was being relatively good waiting considering the lack of toys or kids books (mental note, pediatrics waiting rooms are much better then general practice ones) so we waited. she entertained herself with watching the fish in the big tank, "reading" a magazine, taking off her shoes, and digging through my purse. they finally called us back to the exam room and that started the second round of the waiting game!
while waiting this time, jordan asked me questions about the things in the room, we talked about going to the store, she sat on the 3 different chairs in the room, and then we both gave up being patient! she decided that she wanted to go home and i decided she was right! we waited in that room for another 45 minutes and i just couldn't take it any longer! quite frankly the fact that i made it that long is a near miracle for me! we headed out of the exam room and up to the front desk were i let the check out woman know that we hadn't seen the doctor and just couldn't wait any longer. she apologized and then went back to let our nurse know that we were leaving, both women returned a couple minutes later and the nurse said "oh, well the doctor can see you now." i said no, we're not waiting any longer, we're ready to leave. i was very nice and not loud, but there was a lot of impatience in my tone when i said i wanted my $100 back (our insurance just covers well child visits so we had to pre-pay $100 before even seeing the doctor). she did void the change and we walked out, never to return there again!
i've had issues with waiting at the kids pediatrician's office in the past so i was hoping that i could find a place closer to home and less waiting issues...i was apparently mistaken! i had been to another branch of there offices before and was always in and out in 30 minutes, less sometimes. i guess i took that for granted and assumed that since it's the same name, it would be the same quick in and out; i was very wrong in the end! so now i'll just clean and care for jordan's finger and watch it closely over the weekend, if it gets worse i'll call her pediatrician first thing monday and drive out there. i'll give up convenience for my time!
Friday, October 10, 2008
Thursday, October 2, 2008
i missed a day blogging so no more counting days!
i didn't get a chance to blog last night so i'm not counting my days in the headlines anymore...i've been known to skip several days in a row so it's just better not to draw more attention to that then needs be! i did get my workouts in both today and yesterday, so far no body parts are screaming in protest so i guess i'm doing alright!
i've been doing the whole weight watchers thing for almost 3 months and i'm just not happy with the progress or really lack of good progress. i just figured that after 3 months i would be a lot closer to my goal or even at goal since i didn't/don't have all that much to lose. it's frustrating since i feel like i'm doing everything right, staying within my points, working out, drinking tons of water and still i've been in a sort of plateau/rut phase for the last 6 weeks or so! for nearly a month i gained and lost the same 1.5lbs, then i finally lost 2.5lbs about 2 weeks ago but am now back to the not losing/gaining .5lb again...it's a horribly, vicious cycle and i really don't want it to continue! i know i should be happy with the weight i have lost and i really am, but it just seems like i'm doing all the work of watching what i eat and exercising only to stay the same! it's so completely frustrating and really baffles my mind! i don't know what else to do to get the scale to move down rather than up! i'm really hoping that the changes to my workout schedule this week have made some changes and that i've finally gotten over the plateau...i'm not hoping too hard though!
and on top of the crappy way i feel about the whole lack of weightloss thing...my husband is now ticked at me about something i did, only i don't know what i did and now i'm on eggshells about everything. he just seems to have a way of making me feel like everything i do is wrong and it just agrivates me, especially when he won't tell what i did! so how am i supposed to change and fix things when i don't know what i did! i even started to blame myself for the now broken iron, when i know i didn't cause the iron to break nor would i, even if i could. somehow, though, it will come back to be my fault since i should be ironing shirts for him and had i done "my job" earlier i would have known that the iron was broken and could have therefore gone and bought another one before 10:30 at night. but, no i'm not doing my job and therefore when he went to iron his shirt tonight at 10:30, that's when we realized that the iron was broken. i did volunteer to go to the store, the store that i can't stand going to, to get a new iron so he would have an ironed shirt for tomorrow but he just said no in that tone that drives me nuts and causes me grief!
so, that's where i am today...frustrated by my lack of weightloss, not understanding why my husband is mad at me, and feeling guilty for whatever i did do or didn't do, for that matter! let's hope for a better tomorrow because i don't think i can have many more days like these before i just give up and crawl into some hole!
workouts: yesterday, stationary bike-35minutes and elliptical-35minutes
today, treadmill-65 minutes
eating: pretty good...i did have a cookie and beer tonight...really thought of having another beer if it weren't for the fact that i don't want to be up peeing all night!
water: lots and lots like i should be!
on a happy note to end this...i did get my new mp3 player today and have been putting new music on it since i opened the box earlier! i'm like a kid on christmas with a new toy!
i've been doing the whole weight watchers thing for almost 3 months and i'm just not happy with the progress or really lack of good progress. i just figured that after 3 months i would be a lot closer to my goal or even at goal since i didn't/don't have all that much to lose. it's frustrating since i feel like i'm doing everything right, staying within my points, working out, drinking tons of water and still i've been in a sort of plateau/rut phase for the last 6 weeks or so! for nearly a month i gained and lost the same 1.5lbs, then i finally lost 2.5lbs about 2 weeks ago but am now back to the not losing/gaining .5lb again...it's a horribly, vicious cycle and i really don't want it to continue! i know i should be happy with the weight i have lost and i really am, but it just seems like i'm doing all the work of watching what i eat and exercising only to stay the same! it's so completely frustrating and really baffles my mind! i don't know what else to do to get the scale to move down rather than up! i'm really hoping that the changes to my workout schedule this week have made some changes and that i've finally gotten over the plateau...i'm not hoping too hard though!
and on top of the crappy way i feel about the whole lack of weightloss thing...my husband is now ticked at me about something i did, only i don't know what i did and now i'm on eggshells about everything. he just seems to have a way of making me feel like everything i do is wrong and it just agrivates me, especially when he won't tell what i did! so how am i supposed to change and fix things when i don't know what i did! i even started to blame myself for the now broken iron, when i know i didn't cause the iron to break nor would i, even if i could. somehow, though, it will come back to be my fault since i should be ironing shirts for him and had i done "my job" earlier i would have known that the iron was broken and could have therefore gone and bought another one before 10:30 at night. but, no i'm not doing my job and therefore when he went to iron his shirt tonight at 10:30, that's when we realized that the iron was broken. i did volunteer to go to the store, the store that i can't stand going to, to get a new iron so he would have an ironed shirt for tomorrow but he just said no in that tone that drives me nuts and causes me grief!
so, that's where i am today...frustrated by my lack of weightloss, not understanding why my husband is mad at me, and feeling guilty for whatever i did do or didn't do, for that matter! let's hope for a better tomorrow because i don't think i can have many more days like these before i just give up and crawl into some hole!
workouts: yesterday, stationary bike-35minutes and elliptical-35minutes
today, treadmill-65 minutes
eating: pretty good...i did have a cookie and beer tonight...really thought of having another beer if it weren't for the fact that i don't want to be up peeing all night!
water: lots and lots like i should be!
on a happy note to end this...i did get my new mp3 player today and have been putting new music on it since i opened the box earlier! i'm like a kid on christmas with a new toy!
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