Stupid Scale

Last WI: 216.8/At Home WI: 217.0 (BOO!)

WEDNESDAY

Well I was good yesterday considering the hang over. As I noted, I had a sub for lunch and went home planning on going to the gym. Well, I felt like crap so got Erik to agree to go later, after dinner and his Kiwanis meeting. I napped a bit then made some pasta for dinner. Erik finished his meeting at about 8:00 and we met at the gym. I was supposed to do 3 miles, but hung-over I have the hardest time running. I got 1 mile down and just felt like crap. My asthma was acting up as well, so I got off the treadmill, took a hit off the inhaler and jumped on the elliptical where I did 60 minutes in an effort to make up for my slackerness on the treadmill. Overall 70+ minutes of cardio and over 1000 calories burned.

So why was the scale only down to 217 this morning? Hell if I know. I have to hope that I still haven't re-hydrated from Monday's binge and that another good day will drop it down where it belongs. I have to hope.

So lots of water today. I've been relatively good food-wise. I've had a balance bar, a nectarine, some popcorn and subway for lunch. I have 11 points left for tonight which is plenty. I plan to go straight to the gym after work, and then home for an early night. Erik has Daniel so that shouldn't be a problem. A light dinner, and I'm (HOPEFULLY) set for a good WI tomorrow. If I don't lose this week, I'm going to be pissed. Yes, I over-indulged on both Friday and Monday, but so far this week I've already earned over 30 APs. Surely I didn't over-indulge more than 3000 calories?!? Did I?!?

I'm supposed to do speed work on the treadmill today but I might try to get in the 3 miles I was supposed to do yesterday instead. I think it's more fruitful - weight loss wise. Either way I will earn at least 5 APs tonight. Hopefully closer to 10.

On other notes, work has been crazy lately. I've taken over a caseload of an attorney who left a few months ago. He did all the sex crimes. So not only do I have my regular case-load of burglaries, robberies, and thefts. Now I have over a dozen child molestations. Not exactly easy cases. Our next trial calendar starts October 15th. I have 60 cases on the calendar, 12 of which are child molestations. What that ultimately means is that I'm going to be in trials for 2 weeks straight, probably trying child molestations and nothing else - cases that are very disturbing and frankly, often hard to win. Now I do have a couple really good cases where either the defendant admitted to the activity or there is DNA evidence to prove it. But most of the cases are a he said-she said battle where the kid says it happened and the defendant says it didn't. Unfortunately, those cases are hard to win, and the jury needs only have "reasonable doubt" to acquit. I hope to try one of the "good" cases first so that I can get a solid "win" under my belt before I try some of these harder ones. Confidence plays a big factor in trial skills, and in my non-sex crimes I feel really good. I've just never tried a sex-crime yet, and I have so much to learn. So - because of all this my weeks have been filled with meetings with victims and witnesses. Let me tell you how draining it is to talk to kids who have been molested all day. They are all adorable, sweet things that have to talk to me about horrible events in their lives. It just sucks. But it has to be done.

Anyway - I like my job, but it can be draining at times.

On other job news, I have a follow up interview at the "big firm" I interviewed with a couple weeks ago next Friday. It's an all day interview, so I'm taking the day off. Again, it boils down what I'm going to do if I actually manage to get an offer. I'm afraid I'm going to have to take it. I can always come back to prosecution, but getting my foot back into a big firm in the future is going to be hard. Who knows - I'm putting the cart before the horse here, so I'll just see how Friday goes. Meanwhile - child molestations, here I come. woo hoo!