Apply to all the residencies

Today was spent mostly working on applications, cleaning up my apartment, grocery shopping, and sleeping. I didn't get out of bed until 10ish and then set to work on my application right away. Bailey sat on the arm of my chair to support me. I finally finished my program list. I'm applying 74 places because OH MY GOD I NEED TO GET IN SOMEWHERE and the more places I apply, the more likely I am to get an interview. Also, apparently I hate money or something because this is going to be hella expensive. Like over $1500 expensive. Yikes.

I hit the gym as a break in application work and did weight training. I opted to do my pre-ankle sprain workout and it didn't really bother my ankle too much. What did bother my ankle was me shoving my foot back into my shoe after taking it off to try on shoes at meijer. I hobbled around the store after that. I probably should have taken the time to sit down, unlace it, put it on, and tie it back up. But who does that? Not me. Guess that was a poor choice. 

Hmm, what else have I done lately? Well, I've bugged Lisa a lot today to make sure she's doing her best with day two of our one week challenge. You can check out her progress on her blog. I've done pretty well. It's hard to track all the things I eat, especially when sometimes I mindlessly eat whatever, but I've been doing it. It's going to be harder tomorrow now that I'm going to have to pack food. Packing lunches is my least favorite past time. I just don't like having to think about what I'm going to want the next day. And then when I'm opening the lunch I've packed, I realize that I never want what I think I'm going to want. It's no good. But I have to do it because if I don't do it, then who is going to? No one. And then I'd have to buy something and that's against the rules of this one week challenge. So, after blogging I'm going to suck it up and pack something.

And now, photos for today so I can look over my application one last time. It goes live tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. which means I have to submit it 74 times and pay a buttload of money. Lovely.

Breakfast of champions/me

Pre-gym snack

Post-gym protein

YUM

Post-grocery shopping snack since I was too hungry to wait for dinner

Dinner

Evening snack

Today's positive: Not freaking out about my application and just taking it in stride.

Radiolozzzzzz

Well, I suppose today could have been worse. It was my first day of my radiology rotation and I was beyond bored. I guess that I should have expected that, but the doctor I was with never even introduced himself to me. He didn't really talk to me for the first hour I was there and then he sent me to lunch at 11 and sent me home shortly after 1. I'm not sure how I'm supposed to learn if you refuse to teach, but he recommend I spend a few hours reading a radiology textbook that was among the few that had been recommended to me. I just spent about 15 minutes reading about radiology and decided to blog because I'm exhausted and that book is putting me to sleep.

Given that I didn't pack a lunch (and never got a tour), I ran home for lunch because surprise! The hospital is redoing their cafeteria and thus no longer has one. They have a few other options, but I figured I'd just go home given that the radiologist told me to take my time. When I got sent home to read, I went to see one of my letter writers and then checked the library. Coincidentally, I owned the book, so I went home to read there.

When I got home, I spent some time in the bathroom (my stomach was being weird) and then motivated myself to go to the gym despite really just wanting to take a nap (spending all morning in a dark room with nothing to do really puts you to sleep!). I got to the gym and decided to do weights because my ankle was really bothering me. This could be because I opted out of wearing my brace most of the weekend. The doctor that gave it to me said to wear it 2-3 weeks or until the pain was gone. And I wasn't that painful, just a little uncomfortable, so I figured why bother with the stupid brace? But now I'm painful and paying for it. But today marks my second week anniversary of spraining it, so only two weeks until I can get back to Zumba (I hope). I promise to wear the stupid thing all day everyday (except showers) from this point onward because I need to Zumba again.

Anywho, I didn't stay at the gym long because my ankle was really bothering me and because all the machines I could do were taken. I cut the workout short at about 40 minutes and called it good. I headed to meijer to pick up a few things (cat litter, watermelons, some other fruit and stuff) and then went home where I created a taste of smoothie heaven. This weekend, my mom and I went on a road trip to Trader Joe's and Whole Foods. So, I got to use my favorite protein and frozen mango for my protein smoothie today. It was awesome. I didn't even have to use a crystal light packet to kill the nasty protein flavor.

I've done some reading and some other things I needed to do around my apartment and now I'm heading to bed so I can get a legit 9 hours in before sitting in a dark room again tomorrow.

Today's photos:

Breakfast

Lunch (sloppy joe meat from my mom)

Snack on the way back to work

YAY!

Favorite protein powder

Mango smoothie awesomeness

Dinner (again, the stomach wasn't settled)

Dessert (when the stomach was more settled)

Proof that I'm wearing the damn air cast

Today's positive: Being productive instead of napping and making myself feel good about myself.

Also, for those who sent positive thoughts and private messages, thanks for making me feel better!

Pediatrics is the worst

I made it to the gym this morning before the downpours started. Given that I checked the weather channel and it said it wasn't supposed to rain until this evening, I didn't really think that'd be an issue, but turns out, the weather channel was a good 12 hours off. I don't like going to the gym if it's raining because then I have to change my shoes (at least that's what gym courtesy tells me) and it's a pain in the ass putting shoes on this stupid air cast. So, anyway: boo yeah for getting to the gym before the rain!

Last night I slept without my air cast on because I had it on a bit tight before going to bed and my foot was all tingly, so I decided to sleep without it. When I woke up this morning, I thought the swelling was down, so I left it off for a while. But I think the air cast really does help support things because walking without it was a bit trickier and I was a bit more painful this morning, but I think that might just be the natural progress of this. I don't know. It's been a while since I've sprained an ankle. But it's not bad enough that I can't elliptical. I just wish I could Zumba. So sad.

Hmm...what else? Oh, I thought I'd like a salad for lunch today with some hard boiled egg. So, I boiled the eggs as I was making my breakfast this morning and then had my salad after getting back from the gym. This was a mistake that my stomach has been making me pay for since. I don't know if it's just having the salad after the gym or having the salad, but whoa nelly, my bowels are all, "Let's explode everywhere." It's not awesome. So, no salad for a while. This isn't a huge bummer, but it kinda sucks because the salad wasn't that good and I am being forced to pay for a mediocre salad.

Yup. That's about it. I've been brushing up on pediatrics today. I hate peds. Not because I'm not a fan of children (which I'm so totally not), but because I hate congenital diseases, growth and development, and viruses. Hate, hate, hate. For some reason, I did extremely well on pediatrics exam, but man oh man, I can't wait to never do peds-related things ever again. Like ear infections? Don't care. When you can say two-word phrases? Who cares? Congenital heart defects? Unless you're turning blue, meh. TORCH infections? They're all the same to me. I know, I know. I'm a horrible person, but the thing that sucks about pediatrics is that it's not even that interesting in practice either. I know some people are all, "You have to think harder because the patient can't actually tell you what's wrong. It's exhilarating!" My response to that? "Enjoy thinking hard. I'll be over here thinking less and enjoying life more."

Photos from today:

Breakfast

Boil all the things...or you know, a few eggs

Baha...soo good at peeling

Protein smoothie even though I didn't strength train

Salad fixings

My mediocre salad (without the tomatoes)

Lunch, part 2

Afternoon snack

My salmon dinner (minus the broccoli I was going to make cuz broccoli can worsen diarrhea)

Bailey's salmon dinner

Living the life of kitty luxury

Pretzels/salt to settle my stomach

This side looks slightly better

You can kinda see the bruising that goes up to my toes

Behind my ankle is all blue...and still swollen

Today's positive: Getting to read some Harry Potter at the gym and not procrastinapping because I hate pediatrics so much. I mostly stayed on task today. Minus maybe taking a bit longer to blog than normal.

Life without Zumba is sad

You guys. Ankles are dumb. Especially my right ankle. Dumbest ankle ever. 

Today I really needed to do laundry because I was out of workout gear. So, I started the day with some laundrizzle. This was not fun as the laundry is located in the basement and I'm on the second floor. This meant lots of stairs. You know what doesn't like stairs? My ankle. It's the thing that aggravates it most. So, that was awesome. Thankfully, I only had two loads because I'm going home next weekend and my mom loves it when I bring home lots of laundry lets me launder for free. Anywho, it wasn't an excellent start to the day.

And then midday, I started getting a bit restless. I was attributing this to my lack of gym time and abundance of sitonmybuttstudying time. So, I decided, "Fuck it. I need a break and I need to go to the gym." I didn't go yesterday, so I really wanted to do some weights since cardio didn't seem appealing. It didn't really bother my ankle, but there was baseline ankle botheredness today. I don't know if I'm pushing myself too much, but it seems so stupid to not exercise just because of a tiny ankle injury. Plus, I like working out and I miss Zumba. A lot. Like probably more than I should. But I know jumping on it would be stupid. So, I shall live a sad, Zumba-less life.

The rest of the day was spent studying and photographing my ankle for you guys. And taking food photos. I had a lot of calories for dinner, so I heated up a Trader Joe's Chicken Lasagna. It was pretty calorie and fat heavy, but I went for it. It was a teeny tiny tray that had "four servings." Right. I had one serving (which is pictured below) and went back for a second since I could/had the calories for it. It was okay. The reason I got it was because it was way healthier than standard lasagna, but you definitely sacrifice some flavor. I wouldn't get it again, but I'm not a huge lasagna fan to begin with. I just liked the idea of throwing it in the oven and being done with it.

That's it. The exam is on Thursday, which makes me panic a bit when I think about it. I mean, I've been studying for a while now and am getting pretty sick of study days, but I also would rather not take the exam...

Anywho, here are your photos.

Breakfast (there was more watermelon, but I ate it pre-photo)

Morning snack

Lunch (chicken sandwich with lettuce, tomato, and avocado), and my favorite beverage treat (they were on sale)

Afternoon snack/pre-gym fuel

Protein smoothie post-gym

Serving #1 

Dessert

It's hard to photograph the extent of the bruising

The top of my foot has a slight blue tinge to it (you can kinda see it in the below photo)

Still swollen - I can't even set it on the ground properly...yikes

Something else I wanted to blog real quick: my smoothies for post-workout. My friend Lisa asked how I make them.  

• 1 cup of skim milk - you can use water to save on calories, but it gets kinda weirdly frothy
• Half a scoop of vanilla protein (the powder I have is like 28g of protein per scoop and you really only need 12ish grams after a strength training workout)
• Half a cup (70ish grams) of some kind of frozen fruit - I tend to go with blueberries or pineapple lately. I've done strawberries, raspberries, bananas, etc. You can use fresh fruit too if you add a tad bit more ice
• 1 packet crystal light to kill the protein flavor - I've been using the mango energy one lately
• 4 ice cubes if you're using frozen fruit; 6 or more if you're using fresh fruit

Throw it all in a blender and blend to the consistency you like. If you want it thinner, use less ice or more milk.

Today's positive: Um, not chopping off my foot out of frustration? Does that count?

Sprained ankles are totally in this season

You guys. Today was silly. Which is my somewhat nice way to say stupid, but really it wasn't that bad, so I didn't want to be that negative. Anywho, I got up early...ish and was studying when this pounding on my roof started. At 8:00 a.m. Um, what? Being the genius that I am, I put two and two together. On Monday, my landlord had some guys come into my apartment to look at all the damage caused by the snow melting this winter. Obviously, they were here to fix the roof. One week before my exam. During PRIME STUDYING TIME. Without warning. Didn't even know they were going to be there. Because that would be courteous and we can't have that. Booooooo. Not a fan of my landlord and I'm so, so, so excited to be moving out in December. But seriously, a warning wouldn't have killed him. Asshole. And before you go siding with him, let it be known that he's been discourteous before (renovating apartments next door despite promising he'd be done the day before; turning my water off mid-shower; not fixing the heat outage for 2 days mid-winter).

Anywho, after getting fed up with the banging, I decided it'd be best if I hit something/lifted heavy things, so I got ready for the gym. Let me just say this: wearing shoes with this stupid air cast is difficult. Also, it's very attractive. The worst part of the gym trip: getting in and out of the car and going up and down the stairs. Also, getting poked in the near armpit region by my underwire. Not fun. Anywho, the main part of the Y is on the third floor, so I totally took the elevator and got majorly judged by the cute tiny girl behind the desk when I got out of the elevator. I wanted to be like, "I SPRAINED MY ANKLE. I'M NOT LAZY." But I simply smiled and headed to the elliptical which magically didn't really hurt. In fact, most of the things I normally do for strength training didn't hurt. I skipped two things that I like to do pretty regularly: the seated leg press and the seated leg extension.

Seated leg extension

Seated leg press

When I got home from the gym (after a pretty legit workout - burned over 600 calories), my neighbor was coming out to take her trash to the dumpster and saw my ankle and had to ask what I did. Well, I'm 100% positive you heard me fall down the stairs (it was loud), but let me just go ahead and say the words aloud so you can think less of me. I have really got to come up with a better story. 

There was still a lot of banging when I got home, but it wasn't terrible. I showered, fed myself and then decided to take Bailey in for his weigh-in and med refill. The little guy gained a pound since his last weigh-in on June 19 and is now 8.75 pounds. This is good because he was dangerously skinny when his thyroid wasn't controlled - a whopping 6.5 pounds back then. I'm told that at most, he should be about 10 pounds. We'll see how that goes given that he will only take his pill twice a day with the promise of treats afterwards...

When I got back from the vet, I was told a little less than an hour until the roofers would be done (I sorta kinda mentioned to them that my landlord's a dick) and then I'd have silence again. Baller. Then I studied the rest of the day and did lots of questions. Now I'm blogging so that I can have the rest of the night uninterrupted for taking pictures of my swollen ankle studying. 

Photos from today:

Post-injury weigh-in so I can make sure I don't gain (also, this is down from the last weigh-in)

Pre-gym fueling

Pineapple protein smoothie

Can you even tell that it's the right one that I sprained?

Mild bruising

Blurry and swollen

Breakfast/lunch

Ready to head to the vet - not a happy cat

8.75 pounds of cute

Snack

Steak and some "roasted" cauliflower

Dinner, part 2

Dessert

Last snack of the day

My awesome homemade non-sock

Today's positive: Going to the gym and getting in an awesome workout despite my "injury."