Sleepy, Dopey and GRUMPY

What do you do when you're just plain GRUMPY?? No real reason at all, not hormones, not lack of sleep, nothing that seems apparent...just grumpy? Does that only happen to me? If it happens to you, what do you do? If you live with a significant other, how does it affect your relationship? How do you deal with it differently than you would if you were by yourself? Does your significant other understand your unexplainable grumpiness? These are the important life issues I am grappling with at 12:54am on a Saturday morning.

BeeBeeBeep!

The dehumidifier in the basement is full...it's beeping...it's driving me CRAZY. Awhile ago, the alarm from a watch (hidden somewhere, I couldn't find it) was also going off.....more continuous than the dehumidifier, and a slightly higher pitch. They actually harmonized quite well...but still drove me crazy. I guess I could always go and empty the dehumidifier. That would help. :P

AUGHGHGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In anticipation of our trip to Jamaica in February, I decided to listen to what my body has been telling me for a few months now: "You are not being nice to me." I haven't been moving, let alone exercising, and I haven't been eating...and when I do eat, it's not what my body needs. I don't avoid eating for weight reasons, I just get busy and forget. I don't often FEEL hungry, probably because my brain is too busy with other things...so usually what happens is by the time I realize I need to eat, I also feel like I should eat something healthy. And then I get overwhelmed and confused about WHAT to eat....so I put it off...and then it's either too late, or I'm too tired to bother. Thus begins the body's starvation mode where it will CLING to every little ounce of food it can get.

I went to my gym (Curves) and got weighed and measured. From past experience, I had an idea of where I thought I was and a backup idea of what the very WORST might be. Yah. I'm 10lbs OVER my worst case scenario, my body fat is UP 5% from where it was at my previous high weight. It's up 8% from my most "fit" point back about a year and a half ago. At first I was really defeated, but now I'm mad. Which is good. Cuz now I'm motivated.

So here's the plan:

EAT 6 small meals a day
EXERCISE by going to CURVES 5-6 times per week (varying levels of intensity), going for FAST, long walks with Cathy and some other stuff at home (dvds....I'm waiting for a new belly dancing one to come...that should be fun)
SLEEP my 8 hours a night and
DRINK my 8 glasses of water a day.

Sounds simple, hey? HA. I'm not sure how I'm going to stay motivated yet. Any ideas or advice?