Snap out of it!

Wow.... I been in a funk for the last several days.  I gotta let certain situations quit getting me down.  My weekend didn't start off so well.  I was supposed to go sing for my little seniors last Friday, but I was up most of the night with a sick stomach.  Not sure why.  I had to cancel my gig, which is something I REALLY hate to do.  My music is my soul food, and without it, I really suffer.  Plus, I hate to let all the folks down.  But I worked it out with the director to go over in a few weeks and redeem myself!  :)

So I rested most of the day and got ready for my overnight stay in the hospital that evening.  I had to go stay overnight at the sleep lab for my sleep study.  That. Was. Awful.  Oh my word....it was not what I was expecting at all!  LOL  I checked in at 9 pm and headed back with the nurse to get all prepped.  It took her a half hour to get all the wires and monitors hooked up to various parts of my body.  By the time she got done with me, I looked like a walking voltage box.  Here is a lovely picture of what I looked like.  Good thing I can laugh about it.



I had electrodes glued in my hair, behind my ears, on my legs, and wires up my nose.  Now tell me....how is a person supposed to sleep like this??  Well, you don't.  They gave me about 45 minutes to wind down and lay there and read a little.  Then they came in and turned the lights out.  There I lay, trying to sleep.  Tossing and turning.  Oh no.  I have to pee!  I call the nurse.  This is the crazy part.  Try to get up and use the bathroom while all those wires are hanging from your body!  Not fun at all.  Now, I am a pretty low maintenance person, and can go with the flow, but that was very weird and uncomfortable. 

So, I get situated back in bed.  Go to sleep, go to sleep, go to sleep.  Let me tell you, this is all mental.  I was not comfortable in this environment at all.  And let me just say that the staff there was great!  They did everything in their power to make me feel good.  I even recruited several of the nurses there to come to my Zumba classes!  hee hee  But for the life of me, I just could not fall asleep.  Plus, the 1001 wires glued to my body did not help.  The nurse told me that if I reached the 4th stage of sleep they would come in and put the CPAP machine on me to see what level I would need it at for in the future.  I never even got that far. 

I finally dozed off, but very lightly.  The next thing I knew, the nurse came in at 6 am to wake me up saying it was time to go.  But there was no CPAP machine on my nose.  Guess I didn't make it to the 4th stage.  She said I did get enough minutes in to run a study, but I may have to go back and sleep over again with the machine.  Awww heck.  Not what I wanted to hear.  But hopefully I still qualify for a machine, because I am a super bad snorer and something needs to be done.  I need more oxygen to my body when I sleep.  I know my days would be alot better and I would have more energy if I was getting the proper amount of oxygen at night.  When I finally went home the next morning, it was quite a chore getting all that glue and gunk out of my hair.  I had to actually put Dawn dish soap in to dissolve the glue!  Ack!  Not pleasant.

The rest of the weekend was ok, but I felt like I was down the whole time.  A few things have happened that have taken me by surprise over the last week or two.  Things that you can say blind sided me, but actually, I could see them coming.  I know...weird.  Things are working out now,  but I just didn't feel like blogging or being very social.  This sometimes happens to me, and I just need to be left alone and let it pass.  Life is not always perfect.  I may get knocked to my knees, but I NEVER get all the way knocked down.  I will get up again.  Things really aren't that bad.  Just a few things that happend that made me think, "Why?"  or "That was unacceptable" or "I certainly would have handled that differently than you did!"  But it is what it is, and life goes on. 

I am back to being me.  Finally crawled out of my hole and things are fine!  Life is very good and I need to learn to roll with the punches a little better.  I have to tell myself that things could be a lot worse!

I love my new gig teaching Zumba at Altius Gymnastics Academy here in Logan.  We kicked off our first night there tonight, and we had 5 people.  Not the number I had hoped for, but it will grow.  I love the spring board floor!!  It is soft and cushy and feels so good on my feet!  That is so what I need....especially with all the feet problems I am having.  Plus, when we jump, it makes us feel athletic!  LOL  It actually makes the dancing so much more fun.  I love it!  Plus the sound system there is killer.  Being a musician and all, that really has an impact on me.  You should see the rack and power amps this gal has for her system!  Super cool speakers up on the wall with a lot of low end that brings out the bass end.  OH YEAH.  Super dooper cool. 

I am looking forward to this next weekend because my husband wants to take our boat out.  Yay!  I love the water and I love boating.  Maybe we can even catch a fish or two.  I am very blessed with the life that I have, so it embarrasses me when I get down over trivial things.  But the good news is, I have snapped out of it.  Life is good and life will go on!  I had a super great day today.  I started by waking up at 5:30 am and headed over to a friend's house for a great workout.  She does private teaching in her home, and it was amazing!  I loved the workout she did with me and a few other ladies there.  It really jump started my day, and was different that what I am used to doing.  It totally got me out of my comfort zone and shook up my workout, which was good!  Thank you girl!  You know who you are!  Can't wait to come back and do it all over again!  :)

Here is what I ate today:

Breakfast-

2 scrambled eggs

2 slices turkey bacon

1 slice 9 grain bread toasted

1 c. green tea

32 oz water

Mid-afternoon snack-

1 c. red grapes

16 oz water

Lunch-

Tuna fish sandwich on 9 grain bread

1 c. sliced kiwi

10 lays baked potato chips

16 oz water

Mid-afternoon snack-

Spinach and romaine salad with shaved carrots, boiled eggs, celery, shrimp, tomatoes, pinenuts and lite ranch dressing

16 oz water

Dinner-

Smoothie with 1 c. almond milk, 1 scoop shakeology powder, 1 apple, 1/2 c. frozen blueberries and handful of spinach

16 oz water

After-dinner (and after-Zumba) snack-

1 rice cake with peanut butter and honey  (This is an awesome treat!)