The Sunday Post: Stress From All Angles

I said last week that I had been a bit of a hermit and hardly left the flat due to work, well this week I've gone one step further and hardly left my room. My deadline (that I keep harping on about) is this Friday; I'm greeting it with mixed emotions of relief and pure panic. Then on top of all the work I already have I thought 'hey, why don't I try and learn HTML and make my own blogger template?' This little seed of a thought has ruined my life, I basically added the stress and frustration of learning HTML and trying to create blogger templates to the leaning tower of Uni work, well done Catherine.

People always say that if you want to create blogger templates all you have to do is learn HTML & CSS right? Wrong. They don't tell you about all the widgets and XML and all the other little hidden details you HAVE to know. So for now, and for the good of my health, I've given it a rest and chosen to focus on more important things. 

One other problem I've discovered about confining yourself to your room to do work is that you get bored and start eating. I don't even have a lot of food to snack on so I can't figure out how I'm snacking so much. It's actually gotten so bad I've had to join the gym, I usually like to do exercise in my own home but I needed a little boost to get me back into the healthy swing of things. This, however, was all after I decided to bake Tanya Burrs chocolate cookies. Those cookies have so much chocolate in them that even me, self proclaimed chocoholic, had trouble getting through one giant cookie. I also made the mistake of calculating the calories on myfitnesspal, boy did I regret that. Did that stop me from chowing down on them every time I went into the kitchen though? No, it did not. I did the usual girl thing of stuffing my face with yummy, calorific, sugar laden snacks whilst crying about how fat I am. But no more! Today I will control my cookie cravings and eat healthily, I may even whack on my Pump It Up Dance Workout DVD to really kick start the week (my gym membership doesn't start till tomorrow). 

So today will be filled with more work but with a lovely trip to the outside world to retrieve food, seeing as I've eaten it all in my stress filled boredom. As well as trying to motivate myself to get off my arse and try and follow the very skinny Australian woman on my DVD telling me to pump it up, not to mention a sneaky episode of Supernatural later to pick up my spirits (you try and watch Jensen Ackles for 20-30 minutes and not feel inexplicably happy!).