Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Spreadsheet Spaz


I am currently taking a mini-break from Excel Hell to blog about these nifty spreadsheets I am crafting to track my progress. It is hell because the formulas are so tedious and I am by no means an Excel Whiz. I do enjoy playing with color and graphics to make my stats really POP, though. That's the whole point. I will do anything to get these numbers burned into my mind. I am only on "Week 2" but there is something extremely gratifying about being able to enter information into those cells... it means I am actually out there doing something!!!! Go me!

As I am sitting at my kitchen table pounding away at my keyboard, I am unsettled. I cannot sit still for some reason. I do not feel like my day is complete. I am looking at this nice little chart I just made and the data says that I only walked 4.4 miles today. I am not satisfied with that. I feel like I should have snuck a few more miles in there, especially because I was off work today with nothing better to do. I went for a little walk, came home and devoured some really-bad-for-me food, and then sat around watching "Nightmare Before Christmas" while I waited for my laundry loads to finish washing/drying.

Look at that: walking (GOOD). Eating and Sitting (BAD).

Oh no! Am I undoing all of my good work????

The crazy thing is that I want to get up RIGHT NOW and get in a few more miles. What's crazy about that? Well, it's 10:15pm and 30 degrees outside. Brrrrr. I just need to stay inside.

Guess I will have to walk double time to make up for these setbacks.

1 comment:

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