Finally studying!

Yay I'm being productive! Sure I haven't done nearly as much to prep for my contract negotiation assignment as many of my classmates but at least I've done something. This assignment is scaring the crap out of me. I know it's important to think about but I hate legal stuff. I wish I could afford to hire a lawyer to negotiate my employment contract for me. Although I guess if I could afford that I wouldn't need to negotiate so carefully huh?

I've also started studying for a test that doesn't close till Friday, which is way sooner than I was managing last semester. So what do I think finally made me start? Well the fact that practice management still sucks and is a time waster makes me feel like I should at least do something useful in there so I work on homework. And my roommate and I started studying together tonight which proves that I'm definitely more motivated to study when I have someone else to be accountable to. So I guess that has to be my plan for the rest of the semester. Study buddies!

I've also discovered a great way to get myself to eat better. My cousin and I had our second weekend cooking marathon. She lives down in Denver, about an hour and 15 minutes away from me so it's relatively convenient for me to visit her (esp compared to when I was a kid!). When I had more time I used to go down and spend whole weekends with her to get away from all the stresses of school etc. But now both our busy schedules mean that we usually only have one day every so often the meshes so we've made a new tradition. I drive down, we shop for whatever we feel like cooking for the week (trying to make it relatively healthy) and cook enough for both of us to have leftovers. This week we made:

Chocolate chip cookies (cause it's my specialty, yes I know it's not healthy)
Guacomole to snack on while we cooked
Smoothies, again to snack on while we cooked
Seasoned ground turkey for tacos (which we had some of for dinner before I left)
Homemade spaghetti sauce with ground turkey meat

I've had the spaghetti for dinner the past two nights and it's so good!

Exercise-wise I killed myself at barbell class again yesterday. So far my thighs are hurting most of all. We'll see how badly I'm hurting tomorrow. Last week the second day after was the worst, although I wasn't pain free until Sunday when it was almost time to do it all over again!

Random thought: does anyone else notice how similar Blogger feels to what Xanga used to be? Although I still haven't figured out how to get this site to notify me when people comment on a post I've commented on on someone else's blog.