back from the trenches

We've been wedding planning for about 3 months now. I can't believe it's been that long since we got back from our China trip, but I'm glad to say I feel good about the progress we've made. I was definitely stressed about wedding planning and felt weighed down by all the things we had to do. Fortunately, Justin kind of reigned in my negativity and has been playing a big part. We have a place, a date, a band and we ordered invitations. Next we're working on day of coordinator, floral designer, photographer, videographer, ceremony music and officiant. Oh yeah, and then we have to plan the rehearsal dinner and brunch. Anyway, even though it's been a tad stressful, I think I can enjoy it now. I can't even know what I did with my free time before...

I'm also still in the midst of applying to business school and I think it's shaping up to be a really tough year to apply. In the beginning I was pretty confident that I would get in to at least one of the schools I'm applying to, but I'm not very confident now at all. There's a bunch of uncertainty around school and my job, which will eventually get cleared up over these next few months, but I have to actively force myself not to be too concerned about what happens. 

I think I need to get my a1c and lipid panel done tommorrow. I don't think the results will be terribly good, considering that I started to kind of eat some cheese and ice cream again. And some red meat. Plus, I've traveled a fair amount in the past 3 months (China and Singapore) which usually makes it harder to control my diet and blood sugars. For a while now, I think my a1cs have been fluctating between good one cycle and then not so good another cycle. When it gets close to 7 (like 6.6 or 6.7) I start getting nervous and reign it back down to 6.3 or something. And then when I get it down, then I start losing discipline. Who knows what my cholesterol levels are...I'll be curious to find out. 

We watched this documentary last night about the Paskowitz surfing family called "Surfwise". The father of the family touted some pretty interesting ideas. He was all about diet and exercise to maintain health, which sounds pretty traditional, but also copied how animals ate their food. He found that gorillas at the zoo didn't eat the apple peel, so he too did not eat apple peels. They also ate no refined sugar or other processed stuff like white bread. And his 9 children did not go to school and surfed every day.