Why I suffer:
1) I am going thru intense cookie and candy withdrawl.
2) It is cold outside and I still have to run anyway cause the mini is about 12 weeks away. Yesterday was Brrrrrrr cold!
I have also determined that I don't run well under the following conditions: cold, heat, rain, snow, ice, hunger, exhaustion, to much sleep, to heavy of a meal the night before, PMS, POST MS, cookie withdrawl, morning, noon, evening or night...hmmmm
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Sunday, January 28, 2007
Mission Accomplished
50 minutes run on treadmill
60 minutes walk on treadmill
45 minutes spinning class
2 hour of wandering around Walmart
GO KIM GO!
I thought for sure I would be sore and unable to walk today but feel good and my knee does not hurt anymore then if I had run 2 miles so all looks well. However, I am not going to think I am all in the clear until tomorrow morning because I tend to get my stiffness and soreness on the second day. I think for my knee I have to make sure I stretch it after every activity and then keep it braced for the rest of the day when I use it hard. I am pretty sure I have an IT Band issue going on....Did anyone realize I was a doctor?
Baby Adam: Got his first pair of shoes yesterday and I found him and awesome 4 piece sports outfit for $7.00 on clearance! What a bargin! He put up with the shoe on and off thing really well but then he started getting irritated with us. Baby Adam does NOT suffer silently, when he has had enough he lets us know!
Posting some new pictures on Flickr...please check it out....
60 minutes walk on treadmill
45 minutes spinning class
2 hour of wandering around Walmart
GO KIM GO!
I thought for sure I would be sore and unable to walk today but feel good and my knee does not hurt anymore then if I had run 2 miles so all looks well. However, I am not going to think I am all in the clear until tomorrow morning because I tend to get my stiffness and soreness on the second day. I think for my knee I have to make sure I stretch it after every activity and then keep it braced for the rest of the day when I use it hard. I am pretty sure I have an IT Band issue going on....Did anyone realize I was a doctor?
Baby Adam: Got his first pair of shoes yesterday and I found him and awesome 4 piece sports outfit for $7.00 on clearance! What a bargin! He put up with the shoe on and off thing really well but then he started getting irritated with us. Baby Adam does NOT suffer silently, when he has had enough he lets us know!
Posting some new pictures on Flickr...please check it out....
Saturday, January 27, 2007
If it weren't for bad luck I'd have no luck at all
That title is not entirely accurate because we had some awesome news. Jerry's medical procedure came back with good results. The downside to that is that we still don't know quite what is wrong with him. So the doctor will move on to the next thing but we are so thankful to God that there is no cancerous colon. I thank all my wonderful friends and family who kept us in their thoughts and prayers!
Okay now to address the title of today's blog. For some reasons things I have been touching have just been breaking for no apparent reason. I am a SHLEPROCK. For those of you that have been deprived of the really good cartoons. Shleprock was a character in the later Flintstones when Bam Bam and Pebbles were teenagers. Poor Shleprock everytime he walked passed things they would collapse or burst into flames etc....So for no apparent reason my digital camera will not work. I used it one day and put it nicely back in the case and next time I used it...nothing...I tried everything...new battery, cleaning the terminals...dead dead dead and at that same point my computer went down...well first my internet went down just out of the blue for no apparant reason and in an attempt to fix that the computer crashed. Okay there was more to that...perhaps I deleted important files to the running of my computer but it still crashed....then Thursday after returning home from the hospital I went to get in my car and it would not even turn over...just right out of the blue..right in front of my house. So my husband called the Sear's roadclub so we could get it towed to the shop and the lady on the phone FROM SEARS ROADCLUB asked my husband how he was going to pay for the tow...and he said,"Wiiiiith my Sear's roadclub which I have already paid for" DUH LADY! OH and the CAR COST ALMOST 400 TO REPAIR..SO NOW MY BUDGET IS BROKE.
Okay the whining was fun so now I am going to make a list of things that are irritating me....
1) Why do I fall asleep in church? I can run or not run, get up early, sleep in late and I STILL FALL ASLEEP IN CHURCH. A couple of weeks ago I took a stacker and drank 3 cups of coffee and still FELL ASLEEP!
2) MY DOG STINKS BAD....LIKE NASTY OLD TUBE STOCKS WORN IN THE MIDDLE OF A HEAT WAVE and the more hyper he gets the more stench he emits. I bathe him and in a day or so it is back...blah Horsecoat Sharpeis stink!
3) My insurance man came over to look at my house due to the garage fire (arson August 2006) because the company is thinking about dropping us...he says should be okay and then Friday leaves a cryptic message on my machine about "Where were going to go with this". Friday afternoon...could he not have left this message on Thursday so I am not dwelling on this all weekend.
4)My knee....I want to be an athelete...my knee is not in agreement
5)My house is dirty and unorganized. I am a bad housewife. I am surprised my husband does not divorce me on grounds of 'Disorganization and Laziness" I want it to be clean..truely I do...I just don't want to be the one to do it.
Okay I better stop because this list could go on and on so now 5 things I am grateful for from this week.
1) My husband and that my husband got a good report on his medical procedure
2) Baby Adam's sweet smile when Jerry and I were feeling down
3)My new kitchen cabinet that my husband put in for me this week...he also ordered my new sink, countertop and another cabinet. We will be doing flooring shortly
4)My one good knee
5)That it was only a starter in my car and not the whole engine and that if my car had to break down at least it was polite enough to do it in front of my own house.
UPDATES:
Baby Adam: Says Da Da
YMCA: Back to spinning and back to some light running. Looking at time right now since the Mini is coming up. I need to be able to run/walk for 3 1/2 hours so for me since speed is not a factor...finishing is the goal....I am looking at time during trainings. Tuesday 30 minutes, Thurday 40 minutes....today is 50 minutes and one hour walk and then one hour of spinning...ouch my body declares in advance. I did find that after I ran on Thursday and kept it wrapped all day that I had very light knee pain as opposed to "I aint walking up stairs because it hurts to darn bad" pain.
WARNING SOME PEOPLE MAY FIND THIS INFORMATION OFFENSIVE
***Sugar Free Products will give one GAS*** Use these products with care*** Gas Mask may be needed****
Okay now to address the title of today's blog. For some reasons things I have been touching have just been breaking for no apparent reason. I am a SHLEPROCK. For those of you that have been deprived of the really good cartoons. Shleprock was a character in the later Flintstones when Bam Bam and Pebbles were teenagers. Poor Shleprock everytime he walked passed things they would collapse or burst into flames etc....So for no apparent reason my digital camera will not work. I used it one day and put it nicely back in the case and next time I used it...nothing...I tried everything...new battery, cleaning the terminals...dead dead dead and at that same point my computer went down...well first my internet went down just out of the blue for no apparant reason and in an attempt to fix that the computer crashed. Okay there was more to that...perhaps I deleted important files to the running of my computer but it still crashed....then Thursday after returning home from the hospital I went to get in my car and it would not even turn over...just right out of the blue..right in front of my house. So my husband called the Sear's roadclub so we could get it towed to the shop and the lady on the phone FROM SEARS ROADCLUB asked my husband how he was going to pay for the tow...and he said,"Wiiiiith my Sear's roadclub which I have already paid for" DUH LADY! OH and the CAR COST ALMOST 400 TO REPAIR..SO NOW MY BUDGET IS BROKE.
Okay the whining was fun so now I am going to make a list of things that are irritating me....
1) Why do I fall asleep in church? I can run or not run, get up early, sleep in late and I STILL FALL ASLEEP IN CHURCH. A couple of weeks ago I took a stacker and drank 3 cups of coffee and still FELL ASLEEP!
2) MY DOG STINKS BAD....LIKE NASTY OLD TUBE STOCKS WORN IN THE MIDDLE OF A HEAT WAVE and the more hyper he gets the more stench he emits. I bathe him and in a day or so it is back...blah Horsecoat Sharpeis stink!
3) My insurance man came over to look at my house due to the garage fire (arson August 2006) because the company is thinking about dropping us...he says should be okay and then Friday leaves a cryptic message on my machine about "Where were going to go with this". Friday afternoon...could he not have left this message on Thursday so I am not dwelling on this all weekend.
4)My knee....I want to be an athelete...my knee is not in agreement
5)My house is dirty and unorganized. I am a bad housewife. I am surprised my husband does not divorce me on grounds of 'Disorganization and Laziness" I want it to be clean..truely I do...I just don't want to be the one to do it.
Okay I better stop because this list could go on and on so now 5 things I am grateful for from this week.
1) My husband and that my husband got a good report on his medical procedure
2) Baby Adam's sweet smile when Jerry and I were feeling down
3)My new kitchen cabinet that my husband put in for me this week...he also ordered my new sink, countertop and another cabinet. We will be doing flooring shortly
4)My one good knee
5)That it was only a starter in my car and not the whole engine and that if my car had to break down at least it was polite enough to do it in front of my own house.
UPDATES:
Baby Adam: Says Da Da
YMCA: Back to spinning and back to some light running. Looking at time right now since the Mini is coming up. I need to be able to run/walk for 3 1/2 hours so for me since speed is not a factor...finishing is the goal....I am looking at time during trainings. Tuesday 30 minutes, Thurday 40 minutes....today is 50 minutes and one hour walk and then one hour of spinning...ouch my body declares in advance. I did find that after I ran on Thursday and kept it wrapped all day that I had very light knee pain as opposed to "I aint walking up stairs because it hurts to darn bad" pain.
WARNING SOME PEOPLE MAY FIND THIS INFORMATION OFFENSIVE
***Sugar Free Products will give one GAS*** Use these products with care*** Gas Mask may be needed****
Sunday, January 21, 2007
Running in a Winter Wonderland
Snow is falling and Kim was running. Well more or less running. I was moving swiftly. I have not worked out on the weekend for at least 12 weeks. I decided last week enough with the sitting on my rear so Kendra and I went spinning. So this weekend I spun on Saturday, accompanied by my beautiful daughter Kendra. Last night I told myself okay Kimmie you are gonna get up in the morning and do a walk/run. Got up this morning 5:30. Looked out the window just appeared cold. Told myself I would go at 6:00. Husband gets up and I asked him if he would like to accompany me on a walk/run. He points to Vandal Cam and says, "Not in that stuff" I look SNOW SNOW SNOW. It was not snowing a half hour ago! CRAP I DON'T WANT TO RUN IN THE SNOW!The mental whining began and for once my body did not participate it in the whining. It was solely a mental mutiny. So my body took over and took me into the back room to grab my stuff. I put on my yaks/got my mittons (a gift from my mother in law who said she read an article that runners should use mittons as opposed to gloves...made the gift extra special that she bought it for that reason!) and went out in the SNOW. It was lovely...quiet...could just hear my feet crunch in the snow...beautiful, peaceful and I got this fabulous feeling of wonderfulness that not only did I run but I ran in cold snowy weather when most people were laying snuggled under their blankets. So now I feel very unslug like as I spun yesterday and ran today..granted it was only 2 miles but I did something.
Time to run a warm bath and my wonderful husband is fixing me a yummy breakfast. I will try to post some pictures later today and my sweet grandchildren!
Time to run a warm bath and my wonderful husband is fixing me a yummy breakfast. I will try to post some pictures later today and my sweet grandchildren!
Monday, January 15, 2007
Wazzzzzz Up
Okay I was trying to be cool with my title but it just ain't working but here's whats up anyway:
Running: I STINK. Due to my slackage because of knee pain for the past month or so I have regressed back to beginner. I did 3.64 miles on Thursday...okay I walked/ran 3.64 miles on Thursday and it was HORRIBLE. My corn was screaming at me. My lungs in protest shut down on me. My mind was was chanting over and over "I am not doing this" "I want coffee" "I hate you" I had to once again argue with myself and tell myself that I am slacker not to mention a HUGE WHINY BABY WITH FLABBY THIGHS. I thought I was past all this argument between my will and my traitorous mind and body but guess not. At any rate I am starting from scratch and it makes me furious.
Mini: Due to my knee pain. I probably won't be able to make my goal for the mini but that is okay I am still going to do it and if I have to walk/run thru the entire thing I can live with that.
Okay I lied I can't live with that but I will deal with it. Okay I won't deal with it well. I will probably whine for six months afterwards but what the heck that is what my blog is for.
Knee: Knee pain is improving..slowly but improving I can now go up and down the stair almost straight instead of at an angle. Heel pain has diminished rapidly.
Spinning: I have resumed spinning. I LOVE SPINNING. My daughter joined me on Saturday. She says she now can't sit down, stand up or climb stairs. I laughed. She says she will see me there next Saturday. She is her mother's daughter. Hurt her and she comes right back for more.
Food: A good clean weekend for Kim. I am going to try really hard to get off some weight and and try to weigh in around 155 or so by mini time. I was strong on Friday. Despite the "please pick me up and call for Pizza" vibe that my phone was sending out. I refrained. I had some scrambled eggs and a lowfat waffle with sugar free maple syrup for dinner. Saturday I got up and had 2 slices carb control bread and one tablespoon of reduced fat peanut butter then went to spinning. Once again stood strong and did not buckle to the "go out for lunch" habit. Came home and scrambled eggs and had a pancake with fat free syrup. Yes this is more then what I eat during the week but that is okay because it is ALOT less then what I usually eat on the weekends. I had shrimp and rice with snowpeas for dinner. Sunday got up really really early and ate some Fruity Cheerios so had to forego my Sunday morning bacon. This made me very very sad as I have had a lifelong love affair with bacon. I had some chex mix for a snack when I got home from church. It has like 4 grams of fat and 120 calories. For lunch I had two wheat tortilla with some cheese and peppers. Cooked with pam not oil...a little dry but good. Side of salsa and lowfat sour cream...repeated for dinner with some sugar free reduced fat mint chocolate chip icecream with sugar free chocolate syrup and 2 table spoons of whipped cream. I know that sounds like alot but compared to what I have been eating it was like a starvation diet. Over the holidays I have been routinely consuming large amounts of Cherry Kisses, Nuts, Cookies, cookies and more cookies. Matter of fact one day around Christmas. I had a plate of cookies for breakfast, had more cookies for snack, ate a plate of cookies for lunch and had cookies for dinner. So my only consumption that days was COOKIES. BAD KIM! So go Kim go for a good weekend. Like I have said before it is all about habit and routine for me. When I am out of a routine I eat like a pig. I am sort of like a horse....put a bridle on me and I do well. Take that bridle off and set me free and I run wild.
Okay enough about food. Plan today is to pick up Ty and take him bowling...but first spinning and power hour.
Baby Adam: Went to church for the very first time. He did great in Sunday school. He sat on my lap and just was so interested in his surroundings. He was arching back so he could check out the HUGE ceiling fans. He loved the singing. During church he went to the nursery. When I went back I asked if was he a good boy and she said he was excellent as long as she was singing to him...which just so happens she sings in the choir so she got her practice and he got to hear a pretty choir lady sing to him. Baby Adam is a very happy morning boy!
QUESTION OF THE DAY: Why must I have a mind that is athlete but a body that is a slacker?
My most frequent thought for the week: "I STINK" mostly thought while working out and really it wasn't stink I said but the word I really said sounds trashy and I don't want anyone to think I am just another trashy hoosier woman so I substituted the word "stink" HINT take out the tin and put in uc and that is what I really said but like I said I am not a trashy woman so I won't actually write it.
Running: I STINK. Due to my slackage because of knee pain for the past month or so I have regressed back to beginner. I did 3.64 miles on Thursday...okay I walked/ran 3.64 miles on Thursday and it was HORRIBLE. My corn was screaming at me. My lungs in protest shut down on me. My mind was was chanting over and over "I am not doing this" "I want coffee" "I hate you" I had to once again argue with myself and tell myself that I am slacker not to mention a HUGE WHINY BABY WITH FLABBY THIGHS. I thought I was past all this argument between my will and my traitorous mind and body but guess not. At any rate I am starting from scratch and it makes me furious.
Mini: Due to my knee pain. I probably won't be able to make my goal for the mini but that is okay I am still going to do it and if I have to walk/run thru the entire thing I can live with that.
Okay I lied I can't live with that but I will deal with it. Okay I won't deal with it well. I will probably whine for six months afterwards but what the heck that is what my blog is for.
Knee: Knee pain is improving..slowly but improving I can now go up and down the stair almost straight instead of at an angle. Heel pain has diminished rapidly.
Spinning: I have resumed spinning. I LOVE SPINNING. My daughter joined me on Saturday. She says she now can't sit down, stand up or climb stairs. I laughed. She says she will see me there next Saturday. She is her mother's daughter. Hurt her and she comes right back for more.
Food: A good clean weekend for Kim. I am going to try really hard to get off some weight and and try to weigh in around 155 or so by mini time. I was strong on Friday. Despite the "please pick me up and call for Pizza" vibe that my phone was sending out. I refrained. I had some scrambled eggs and a lowfat waffle with sugar free maple syrup for dinner. Saturday I got up and had 2 slices carb control bread and one tablespoon of reduced fat peanut butter then went to spinning. Once again stood strong and did not buckle to the "go out for lunch" habit. Came home and scrambled eggs and had a pancake with fat free syrup. Yes this is more then what I eat during the week but that is okay because it is ALOT less then what I usually eat on the weekends. I had shrimp and rice with snowpeas for dinner. Sunday got up really really early and ate some Fruity Cheerios so had to forego my Sunday morning bacon. This made me very very sad as I have had a lifelong love affair with bacon. I had some chex mix for a snack when I got home from church. It has like 4 grams of fat and 120 calories. For lunch I had two wheat tortilla with some cheese and peppers. Cooked with pam not oil...a little dry but good. Side of salsa and lowfat sour cream...repeated for dinner with some sugar free reduced fat mint chocolate chip icecream with sugar free chocolate syrup and 2 table spoons of whipped cream. I know that sounds like alot but compared to what I have been eating it was like a starvation diet. Over the holidays I have been routinely consuming large amounts of Cherry Kisses, Nuts, Cookies, cookies and more cookies. Matter of fact one day around Christmas. I had a plate of cookies for breakfast, had more cookies for snack, ate a plate of cookies for lunch and had cookies for dinner. So my only consumption that days was COOKIES. BAD KIM! So go Kim go for a good weekend. Like I have said before it is all about habit and routine for me. When I am out of a routine I eat like a pig. I am sort of like a horse....put a bridle on me and I do well. Take that bridle off and set me free and I run wild.
Okay enough about food. Plan today is to pick up Ty and take him bowling...but first spinning and power hour.
Baby Adam: Went to church for the very first time. He did great in Sunday school. He sat on my lap and just was so interested in his surroundings. He was arching back so he could check out the HUGE ceiling fans. He loved the singing. During church he went to the nursery. When I went back I asked if was he a good boy and she said he was excellent as long as she was singing to him...which just so happens she sings in the choir so she got her practice and he got to hear a pretty choir lady sing to him. Baby Adam is a very happy morning boy!
QUESTION OF THE DAY: Why must I have a mind that is athlete but a body that is a slacker?
My most frequent thought for the week: "I STINK" mostly thought while working out and really it wasn't stink I said but the word I really said sounds trashy and I don't want anyone to think I am just another trashy hoosier woman so I substituted the word "stink" HINT take out the tin and put in uc and that is what I really said but like I said I am not a trashy woman so I won't actually write it.
Sunday, January 07, 2007
Colts Excitement
The men folk are giddy over yesterday's Victory. Please note the food that is crucial to football...Crackers, Cheese in a Can, Summer Sausage and Sliced Cheese. I thought the Chex Mix added a nice touch but they turned their noses up at it. FYI to all football ignorant woman. The men folk must wear the exact same clothes for the next game so the Colts win again. The jersey CAN NOT be washed. My daughter and I inquired as to whether the "wear the exact same thing" rule applied to underwear and socks. It does not! The rule only applies to shirts and hats. No other shirts and hats may be added. So James who forgot his Colts hat is forbidden from wearing it at that next game. Boy there is alot of rules to football watching! I tried to get some action shots of them jumping up and down and waving their arms in the air (which they usually do) but I got bored and left to go to the sporting goods store to buy my patella band.
Christmas is over and the Goose Has Gotten Fat
I love the holidays but this year I am mightly glad we are through them. This has been an eventful holiday season!
Updates:
Running: No running on the weekends since the second weekend of Thanksgiving. So back to my weekend runs this next weekend! I was going to run this weekend but could not due to dental surgery (see dental surgery update below). Not only has Christsmas Shopping stood in the way of my running but a very sore knee. I purchased a patella band last night. My knee is not that excruitating but bad enough that running on it is not that pleasant. I can walk well but going up and down steps is a killer. It feels stiff....So I took this week off from running and went and bought my band so I will start back easy on Tuesday. I am going to start spinning again because I really miss it. I will just find a way to fit it in my schedule. The summary of my non running is my thighs feel flabby and loose and my belly shakes and yes just like a bowl full of jelly, my jeans feel uncomfortable and I miss that used up feeling. Even my power hour workouts I have not gone full blast. So now back at it with full force...except the running due to knee recovery will introduce running back gradually. So I will start updating my side bar. Hopefully next weekend I will go get a new bike (as my previous bike was damaged in the garage fire).
Dental Surgery: My bone grafting on the left side of my mouth was done on Friday. Today it just feels like someone socked me in the jaw and my mouth does not want to open all the way. So $6,080 later I have a fairly good mouth. My insurance should pay about $1,500 of the $3,080 I had to pay for the left side which is better then nothing! I special thank you to my friend Jill who left me a gift of soft foods. What a thoughtful friend she is!
Christmas: It was so wonderful Christmas Eve to have all my lovely family around me. Abby looked adorable and sweet in her little Christmas dress and Carissa looked like a little Christmas Princess in her green velvet Christmas dress. Adam wore a baby's first Christmas outfit and I must say he looked extremely cute and adorable. Tyson was aglow with Christmas excitement and came in waiving his $$$$$$ of fake money he got for Christmas at his other Grandma's house. I love seeing that look of excitement on his face! To begin our festivites Amanda read us a lovely book to help us keep in mind what Christmas is really about. We had a wonderful time as always. Christmas Day G-ma Carnahan, James, Tasha, Lucas, Kendra and Baby Adam came to join Jerry and myself. We opened gifts and then had a delicious lunch (Heavenly Ham yummmmmy). I don't care if a Heavenly Ham does cost $50.00. I work hard all year and if I want a Heavenly Ham on Christmas day I will have one as long as I can afford one!
New Years Day: We had a nice lunch and played board games all afternoon. We played my two new games Fact or Crap and Uno Spin...both fun fun fun! I am a big fan of games and wish we played games more often. I think in Feb I am going to have a Chili dinner and have everyone over to play board games.
Carissa: Is now 1 year old. It is amazing how much they grow in one year. She is walking and playing and laughing. We went to her birthday party on Wednesday and boy did she love cake!
Upcoming Events: Family Girls night Out: Kendra, Denise, Amanda, Tasha, Natalie, G-ma C and any of our friends (must be over 18). Lets get together for a night of bowling and dinner or movie and dinner. If anyonoe has any better ideas throw them out there! We need some bonding time!
Ty: Grandpa and I will pick you up on Martin Luther King day and we will have fun day...what sounds fun to you???
Upcoming birthdays: Jerry and Mom in February and Ty in March.
I had Baby Adam for the night and expect him to wake up at any moment to be fed. He sleeps really well through the night but he makes alot of little sounds. The first couple times I jumped up to check on him and then figured out those are just his sleep sounds so then I would just listen to them to see if they got to be "I want someone" sounds. (Which it only did one time and then it was not a "I want someone" sound it was a "I want my Pacifier" sound.) I was so scared that I would sleep thru his cries but no I popped awake at the first little sound, so did Grandpa Jerry. All those times he slept thru our children crying I bet he was faking because he heard Adam! Jerry is such an amazing Grandpa! Adam is one lucky lucky boy because they are going to have lots of fun when Adam is older and Grandpa teaches about outdoor stuff!
That is all I have no current raves other then the Governement shutting down for President Ford's death. Yes he was good man but come on he got paid to be president. It's not like he volunteered and did not get any compensation. We didn't need to bring the goverment to a grinding halt! I am not just saying this because I had to work..really it did not impact me directly except for I did not get my usual delivery of credit card offers and my "your subscription is going to expire soon" notices. I just think it was gigantic waste of money and time.
Please pardon any typo as this is very early and I have not yet consumed my full cup of coffee. I have to go and rescue Baby Adam as Grandpa wants to wake him up and play with him. I had to tell him "NO waking the baby"
Have a great day everyone! I love all of you! Not just my family but I hold my friends close to my heart as well!
Updates:
Running: No running on the weekends since the second weekend of Thanksgiving. So back to my weekend runs this next weekend! I was going to run this weekend but could not due to dental surgery (see dental surgery update below). Not only has Christsmas Shopping stood in the way of my running but a very sore knee. I purchased a patella band last night. My knee is not that excruitating but bad enough that running on it is not that pleasant. I can walk well but going up and down steps is a killer. It feels stiff....So I took this week off from running and went and bought my band so I will start back easy on Tuesday. I am going to start spinning again because I really miss it. I will just find a way to fit it in my schedule. The summary of my non running is my thighs feel flabby and loose and my belly shakes and yes just like a bowl full of jelly, my jeans feel uncomfortable and I miss that used up feeling. Even my power hour workouts I have not gone full blast. So now back at it with full force...except the running due to knee recovery will introduce running back gradually. So I will start updating my side bar. Hopefully next weekend I will go get a new bike (as my previous bike was damaged in the garage fire).
Dental Surgery: My bone grafting on the left side of my mouth was done on Friday. Today it just feels like someone socked me in the jaw and my mouth does not want to open all the way. So $6,080 later I have a fairly good mouth. My insurance should pay about $1,500 of the $3,080 I had to pay for the left side which is better then nothing! I special thank you to my friend Jill who left me a gift of soft foods. What a thoughtful friend she is!
Christmas: It was so wonderful Christmas Eve to have all my lovely family around me. Abby looked adorable and sweet in her little Christmas dress and Carissa looked like a little Christmas Princess in her green velvet Christmas dress. Adam wore a baby's first Christmas outfit and I must say he looked extremely cute and adorable. Tyson was aglow with Christmas excitement and came in waiving his $$$$$$ of fake money he got for Christmas at his other Grandma's house. I love seeing that look of excitement on his face! To begin our festivites Amanda read us a lovely book to help us keep in mind what Christmas is really about. We had a wonderful time as always. Christmas Day G-ma Carnahan, James, Tasha, Lucas, Kendra and Baby Adam came to join Jerry and myself. We opened gifts and then had a delicious lunch (Heavenly Ham yummmmmy). I don't care if a Heavenly Ham does cost $50.00. I work hard all year and if I want a Heavenly Ham on Christmas day I will have one as long as I can afford one!
New Years Day: We had a nice lunch and played board games all afternoon. We played my two new games Fact or Crap and Uno Spin...both fun fun fun! I am a big fan of games and wish we played games more often. I think in Feb I am going to have a Chili dinner and have everyone over to play board games.
Carissa: Is now 1 year old. It is amazing how much they grow in one year. She is walking and playing and laughing. We went to her birthday party on Wednesday and boy did she love cake!
Upcoming Events: Family Girls night Out: Kendra, Denise, Amanda, Tasha, Natalie, G-ma C and any of our friends (must be over 18). Lets get together for a night of bowling and dinner or movie and dinner. If anyonoe has any better ideas throw them out there! We need some bonding time!
Ty: Grandpa and I will pick you up on Martin Luther King day and we will have fun day...what sounds fun to you???
Upcoming birthdays: Jerry and Mom in February and Ty in March.
I had Baby Adam for the night and expect him to wake up at any moment to be fed. He sleeps really well through the night but he makes alot of little sounds. The first couple times I jumped up to check on him and then figured out those are just his sleep sounds so then I would just listen to them to see if they got to be "I want someone" sounds. (Which it only did one time and then it was not a "I want someone" sound it was a "I want my Pacifier" sound.) I was so scared that I would sleep thru his cries but no I popped awake at the first little sound, so did Grandpa Jerry. All those times he slept thru our children crying I bet he was faking because he heard Adam! Jerry is such an amazing Grandpa! Adam is one lucky lucky boy because they are going to have lots of fun when Adam is older and Grandpa teaches about outdoor stuff!
That is all I have no current raves other then the Governement shutting down for President Ford's death. Yes he was good man but come on he got paid to be president. It's not like he volunteered and did not get any compensation. We didn't need to bring the goverment to a grinding halt! I am not just saying this because I had to work..really it did not impact me directly except for I did not get my usual delivery of credit card offers and my "your subscription is going to expire soon" notices. I just think it was gigantic waste of money and time.
Please pardon any typo as this is very early and I have not yet consumed my full cup of coffee. I have to go and rescue Baby Adam as Grandpa wants to wake him up and play with him. I had to tell him "NO waking the baby"
Have a great day everyone! I love all of you! Not just my family but I hold my friends close to my heart as well!
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