IS THIS CHEATING?

Ok here is the question...Is this Cheating? (Denise are you paying attention?)
Location: Kim's Kitchen Table
Participants: Me, My son James, Son's Fiance Tasha and my sister Denise
Activity: Texas Hold Em
We were playing Texas Hold Em. It was Denise's deal. Due to a comment made by my son which alluded to the size of the Poker Players ( I tried towrite about it but you just had to have been there when it happened) my sister says " Just for that comment I am all in and I haven't even looked at my cards" Seeing as I HAD looked at my cards I went all in because what was the chance of beating my hand without even knowing what she had and I had what I thought to be a fair to decent hand. Well guess what? Her hand beat both James and mine. Okay so here is where the question comes in. The next day while shopping she said she had a confession to make. Her confession...she MAY have briefly glanced at her cards. She says this is good poker playing and I say CHEATING! What is your take on this???
Lesson Learned: Do not trust your sister when she is at the Poker Table. The woman has NO MORALS when it comes to gambling...hahahahahaha

Okay aside from my sad pathetic poker playing I had an awesome Thanksgiving with my family. Lots of food!!! Ummmm. Because I did 4 miles on my treadmill Thanksgiving morning I accumulated a pie credit and could eat a big piece of pie for free. I will now spend the next 3 weeks working for Christmas food credit! My aim is to accumulate enough pie credits to eat an entire pie on Christmas Day.

This morning thanks to Bonnie and Mike I actually had to hustle on my run. Even though they went very slow for them it was very fast for me. I think every once in awhile I need to have someone to run with me to push me...because I am like an old pickup truck...don't look so good, don't run so good...but can eventually make it to where I need to be.

I am so tired I could cry!

I am finally sitting down and taking a 5 minute break. Since I got home I have done nothing but cook cook cook in preparation for our Thanksgiving feast. As soon as I am done complaining and whining on this post I am going to finish peeling the last of the 10 pounds of potatoes. I am so tired but I am going to push thru because the more I do tonight the less I have to do tomorrow. Yesterday had a great relaxing run. For the first time in awhile I can say I actually enjoyed it! I felt pretty strong, my breathing was much better (after the first mile that is) and I actually was getting into it. I was still slow but my body was much more cooperative Now maybe I can start gaining some ground. Today was swimming day, as I have said before, I HATE SWIMMING! I do it only because it gives my foot a rest! I have made progress now...I do not have to wear the bubble belt. I still stay within an arms reach of the wall (in the deep end) but I am BUBBLE FREE! I like to think I sink because of my awesome muscle mass. But when I shared this tidbit of information with my fellow swimmers they laughed at me!!!! Ha shows what they know....they just can't see my awesome muscle mass because I wear a shirt and shorts into the pool...so I won't intimidate them with my awesome physique.
Special Note to my Daughter and Daughter in Law and Soon to be Daughter in Law: If one of you girls don't come over here and learn how to do Thanksgiving dinner you are all going to starve or have to eat at MCL when I drop over dead!
KUDOS: To my mother who has been making a very strong effort at Power Hour Class! She acutally almost sweated this week. She is truly seeking her inner warrior. A big thank you to her heart doctor who layed it on the line for her.
How True How True: Taken from the WLFI website from Mr. Food. This perfectly describes my Thanksgiving experience:

'Twas the night of Thanksgiving, but I just couldn't sleep.I tried counting backwards, I tried counting sheep.The leftovers beckoned, the dark meat and white,But I fought the temptation with all of my might.Tossing and turning with anticipationThe thought of a snack became infatuation!So I raced to the kitchen, flung open the doorAnd gazed at the fridge, full of goodies galore!I gobbled up turkey and buttered potatoes,Pickles and carrots, beans and tomatoes.I felt myself swelling so plump and so roundUntil all of a sudden, I rose off the ground.I crashed through the ceiling, floating into the skyWith a mouthful of pudding and a handful of pie.But I managed to yell, as I soared past the trees,"Happy eating to all - pass the cranberries, please!"

Bye time to peel potatoes.

LIFE LESSON

Eating an entire box of Shredded Wheat over a weekend will give you one heck of a belly ache!

Knock Knock Knocking on Heaven's Door

How ironic that just as I felt like dying on my run this morning that Axel Rose's rendition of Knocking on Heaven's Door came on. I cann't believe how much ground I lost while recuperating my stupid foot! Now parts of my body are at war with each other: My brain is the instigator it starts out with "I am so excited lets go for a run. I need to feel the endorphins...no no don't worry about coffee you can have a cup when we get back...it won't take long" So my stupid body complies..... 1/2 mile down the road my lungs start screaming" Help Help we can't breath! Stop Stop we are burning!" Then my knee joins in, "Ugh you big lug I am not made of titanium", if that is not enough then my foot starts yelling "Hey you big pig lose 20 more pounds your killing me down here" The then instigator turns traitor and starts whining" You didn't even let me have a cup of coffee" So then all the body parts joined forces and made me miserable the entire run!
ENJOYABILITY FACTOR FOR THIS MORNING: 0
PREDICTED OUTLOOK FOR TOMORROW'S ENJOYABILITY: 0
On the upside though I did finish without walking and even did sprints back the last 1/2 mile.

Yes as you can see I am in top whining moan! So lets see do I have anything else to whine out....hmmmm I believe I do! The house next door has been sitting empty for more then two years and we not seem to have a little mouse problem. I have set traps and that was pretty effective for awhile. However, the mice must have lost their craving for peanut butter and/or cheese because now the don't touch the traps...I know their still in my laundry room because they are still leaving their little calling cards. Blah! I have called the city and they still have done nothing about the house next door! Meanwhile my house is like a little mouse buffett (on account of my dogs and their dog bowls).

Updates:
Christmas Shopping: Ahhh it is only 5 days till BLACK FRIDAY! Enough said!
Thanksgiving: Food bought, Menu planned, House NOT CLEAN. (The upside is that my family does not care if it is clean as long as I have enough pie! I LOVE MY FAMILY FOR THAT!)
Birthdays: Today starts the parade of birthday cakes. My daughter's birthday is actually Thanksgiving day but we are doing it tonight. Then we have birthdays in the family the following days, Dec. 5, 7, 9, 18, and 22. Also throw my boss's birthday in that list too! I HATE birthday cake by the end of December as do my jeans.
Sleigh Bells" The 5k Sleigh bell run is December 3 and I believe I am recouped enough to handle it. Though the outlook on improving my time is dim as I am still very gentle with my foot.

WHATS UP WITH THE CARDIO?

I think my little hiatus (injured foot,despite doing other cardio work) has definetly put me behind. I only did 3.8 miles yesterday and thought my breathing would never get under control) It was all I could do to talk myself into finishing but finish I did. My legs weren't tired it was all the cardio thing (and a little mental). I tried to justify it by telling myself it had been 14 hours since I ate last...I am recovering still from oral surgery and foot injury...excuse excuse excuse!!!!I feel like I am starting all over which bugs the heck out of me since I have a 5k on December 3. I am also on the heavy side for doing this! I really really need to get off at a mininmum of 10-15 pounds. I probably should start measuring all my food again....BLAH. I am going to clean my house this morning and then just do a couple miles then do maybe 5 miles on my bike. Sometimes I feel like I will NEVER obtain my goal of being able to do a 1/2 marathon!!!! I guess not this May but I have targeted next May 2007 I am going to work for it with a PASSION! In the meantime I think I am ready to work on some sprints maybe that will help bring my cadio back to life....the only thing is it STINKS doing sprints by yourself. Maybe I can talk someone at the Y into helping me!!! My problem is the people there are either to advanced for me and the others are strictly walkers. There seems to be NO ONE at my level!
Updates:
Wedding: My daughter was married on Thursday evening...congrats to Lucas and Kendra. I am very happy and glad that they are marrried! My daughter and I have had our rough patches (Hey Kendra...you and I could probably do a entire blog devoted to nothing but mother/daughter conflict.hahaha). Maybe instead of yelling at each other over the phone we should set up a blog and just post our rude thoughts about each other there! Hahahahahah
We are having scheduling conflicts but hope to have reception within 30 days.
Grandchildren: Baby Shower today for the littlest princess in our family....the eldest princess (see wedding update) willl soon have a little princess to train!!!! Eldest Princess is waiting for mother (me) to keel over so she may inherit my title as "Queen". Queen refuses to keel over and will retain her title till she is 120 years old!!!!! Tough Luck Eldest Princess! Grandson Tyson will be at the baby shower today to help celebrate his little sister! I tell you that kid has a sense of humor! I love spending time with him because you never know what is going to come out of his mouth. He cracks me up. He is going to be happy next time he comes to my house because I added a new Ninja Turtle to the toybox and it came with a DVD also.
Nieces: Okay Amber time to get back to Power Hour and congrats on your weight loss. Just remember to keep it healthy! I love you and you are doing awesome...keep working at school. We all know you are brilliant we just wanna see it on paper. Cute story about Abby who is 3 yrs old): When I kept her overnight we went to Boo at the Zoo where we went on the enchanted train ride with assorted nursey rhyme themes to watch. We were at the Little Miss Muffett scene where Miss Muffitt was of course eating her curds and whey...when along came the spider...and landed on her head...sending Ms. Muffitt into spastic fit of fear....when Abby spoke up (making all the people on the train laugh their butts off)..and said "Why didn't she just smash the spider." Now that people is a future STRONG woman!!!!!!
House: Still messy...still don't care
Dental: Feeling better....still grossed out but adapting! Back to the dentist on Tuesday for deep cleaning and who knows what other kind of painful dental torture. FYI: The tooth fairy does not visit woman over 40 so don't bother!
Christmas: Have shopped myself into a Christmas frenzy. I have made a Master Christmas List and have it color coded for gift ideas, gifts purchased, gifts purchased and wrapped. I even have a little Christmas Code Legend at the bottom of my list. I think I have finally gone over the Christmas deep end. No doubt when I do keel over (see Grandchildren update for that timeline), they will find my body amid wrapping paper and bows with my Master Christmas List clutched to my chest in my cold dead knarled up hands.

Thats all for now folks...probably way more then you wanted to read but hey it is 6:15 am on Sunday morning I have no family members or friends that will allow me to call them this early and my newspaper is not here so what else do I have to do????? Whats that??? Did I hear someone say get my big butt out on the road and run..... Hmmm guess it is that time....Bye for now!

SLACKERVILLE

Yes I am a citizen of slackerville. My house is a mess, my filing at home is overflowing my "to be filed basket", my kitchen floor is disgusting, my check book is unbalanced (as I am), my yard is beginning to look like the Munster's yard, and on top of all that I have hit a weight and exercise plateau.
I have decided I need to muster up some major enthusiasm. I think I need some good old fashioned drill sargent to scream in my face to get me moving. I did move a little faster and farther this weekend on my run, when the police officer followed beside me to let me know there were 2 rottweilers running loose and I should take a deter. So I took a one mile deter and that was just to much for my foot and now it is tender. I was only going to do 3 1/2 ended up doing 4 1/2 on account of the vicious dogs. Hmmm that is a thought a drill sargent with vicious dogs NOW that would get me going and probably solve that little plateau problem.
I did successfully manage to stay away from CEREAL this weekend. I swear I am like a junkie when it comes to breakfast cereal. Once I have that first bowl I am thinking about my next "fix". So I have decided to go cold turkey on the cereal. It is just not normal for one woman to eat a jumbo box of Golden Grahams in two days!!! Yeah Kim!!! (not for eating the entire box...but for not eating ANY cereal this weekend)

Engagement Update. My son a/k/a blogger name BIG DADDY, got engaged during his vacation. Oops that does not sound right. He did not find a girl while on vacation and got engaged but rather he took the girl he already had on vacation and proposed to her. Welcome to the family Tasha! You gotta love a girl that does not get shaken when a family member says" I want the flaming head on a stick." (Inside warped family humor...you had to be there).

All I want for Christmas are my two front teeth!

PHRASE OF THE DAY: "Rinse and spit please"
Merry Christmas to me! However, Santa was exteremely generous and supplied me with FOUR new teeth. I must say oral surgery is disgusting...especially if you are awake and get to see him stitch up your mouth with what appears to be fishing line and a hook. I now know how a Trout feels. At any rate I am over and done with that and now only have four quads of deep cleaning and I will be done. I have taken an oath that I will do whatever the dentist requires of me for dental hygiene. The only worry I have is loosing my partial during power hour class and have it skid across the gym floor. The dentist has advised me that that is an irrational fear (one of many) and they are going to stay put and when I get my implants I will be in excellent condition. Thank you thank you to my daughter who was quite kind and took care of her mother while she recovered from her oral surgery. Aside from the remark they made about sneezing my partial out my daughter and husband were quite compassionate oh and also the hysterical laughing about my valium stupor. I fired my husband as my nurse and my daughter's employment as my personal nurse is on shaky ground!!!!!!

Okay enought about the yucky yucky dental stuff.... I am having NO foot pain still and it is awesome. I am going to gradually increase my mileage and if all goes well hope to be back to where I was within 12 weeks or so (6-7 miles). I also need to get off these last 25 pounds but I have to get control of my weekend food to do that and with the holidays coming up it is gonna be tough.

Wedding Update: My daughter will be getting married on November 10, 2005. So I welcome my new son in law to the Family. He is a great guy and I love him like he is my son!!!! And now he will be!!! ACTUALLY he is NICER TO ME THEN MY OWN DAUGHTER HAHAHAAH Is that because they are not married yet? Will that change after they are married and he knows I am stuck with him???HMMM we will see. He has to at least be nice to me till Christmas to get his awesome Christmas gift.

Baby update: My granddaughter is expected to arrive January 12, 2006. A little more then 8 weeks away! I am giddy...I am thrilled...I am joyous....I can't wait till she gets here! No name yet...though I love the name Olivia but I have been voted down...any suggestions???? And this is one lucky baby because she is going to have the most awesome big brother!!!!

I AM BAAAACK

Finally at long last my foot pain has take a leave of absence...permently I hope! Sunday I did 4 miles and today I did 3 1/2 miles (alot less the what I was running preinjury but that's okay)then swam for 45 minutes!!!! NO PAIN. My joy knows no bounds!!! However, the downsize is that I have lost my power of concentration. Every single mile is not physically painfully but it is most certainly mentally painful. I was going to run tomorrow but because the first thought in my head this morning was "Oh my God I am so glad I don't have to run." I decided to punish my traiterous body and make it go whether it liked it or not! I was okay at the end and hope that I can get my mind back in tune with my body. Before my body would give out before my mind...not it is the other way around....I prefer it the other way!!! I hope know one was listening to me this morning because I argued with myself outloud the entire 3 1/2 miles (truely I did...people probably thought I was a nutcase). My mind kept saying stop stop walk and so I called myself a wienie, baby and slacker and advised my mind that it had better shut the heck up or I would really give it something to whine about...perhaps 30 minutes of walking lunges with the body bar or even worse continually seal walking across the gym.

After all this recovery I have a new found respect for my body and now when it says it hurts I will listen to it and not try to push thru pain because I have lost a lot more ground by prolonging the healing then if I would have just given it a rest when it first started.

Tomorrow is my oral surgery day. I am going to the Y to exercise before my surgery then I am coming home and popping a valium and waiting for daughter to pick me up and deliver me to the Den of Pain and Agony. The dentist has prescribed some valium because I am a big baby when it comes to dental work. My plan is to take valium all day tomorrow, Friday, Saturday and Sunday and sleep my way thru the healing process!!!! I told my husband just wake me up long enought to pour some nourishment down my throat and shoot another valium down my throat and I'll be good to go.

Advise for the Day: Don't run and swim in the same day because it will GIVE you a HUGE appetite.