This morning my run went very well. 5 miles no stopping, not even on Puke Mountain. However, as I was running, or more aptly described as trotting, behind Leo (who has the patience of a saint), a visualization popped into my poor oxygen deprived brain. I thought I must look somewhat like an old fat labrador that is being taken on a run by its owner. I am always behind, panting, gasping and my tongue is hanging out of my mounth. I probably would even stop to drink out of a mudpuddle if I thought I could get back up again.
Okay hightlights from this mornings run: I was last again! Even though Jeff and Kris stopped at the VP to get a gatorade they still beat me in....how sad is that...people went SHOPPING and STILL BEAT ME! I hang my head in shame.......sigh..... However, the upside is that I saw their back sides a tiny bit longer then I usually do. I tell you I can identify every person I run with by just looking at their back side because that is all I ever see. I find it ironic that the very thing I am absolutely horrible at is the very thing I love. Side Note: Trying to run to Christine Aguilara's "Aint No Other Man"almost killed me...I better stick to ballads.
Updates:
Last Week: Running Good! No stopping on my 3.25 mile or my 5 mile and on Saturday I did 10 on the treadmill (cause we were out of town at a hotel on an interstate). I did 10 minutes run, 1 minute recovery. However, at least twice I snuck in 2 minute recoveries. I found 10 miles on the treadmill to be horrible and hope to never have to do that again. I got a blister because on the treadmill you foot tends to strike in the exact same place time after time. Outdoors you don't get that because of variation of the ground. I also swam several times over the weekend. My food was good on Saturday but I lost it on Sunday and ate like a pig...of which I am still suffering the consequences of.
Mini: The Mini is fast approaching. I have not yet hit the panic zone but look to start melting down by the second week of April. Leo has been so kind as to bump himself back to my slow corral so I do not have to be by myself. Not to many people would be willing to sacrifice their own time to help someone else achieve a goal and I am so very grateful for that. Ahhh I must have taken my sensitive pill again.... My husband, my son and my daughter in law will be there to witness my total humiliation. I just hope I can cross the line with some semblance of dignity...preferable on my feet and not crawling across the line. I would also like to not puke when I cross the line...oh and not to be last or next to last. My luck I will end up crawling across the line and puking just as the newspaper photographer snaps a picture for the front page of our local paper. I can see the headline now....Local Woman Perseveres, Then Pukes.
Grandchidren: Carissa and Tyson came over the weekend before last. Tyson learned how to play Bunco. I love Tyson...he is the only one that will play games with me. He is very bright and can pick up games in a snap...and he is learning to play a mean game of scrabble...of course he is learning at the foot of the master. Carissa is very mobile and darting all over the place. Her favorite game was "Take everything off Grandma's Coffee Table" followed closely by "Remove all videos from Shelves".
Baby Adam is sitting up and he tried his first bite of Grandma's mashed potatoes. He was not sure about the potatoes. He just let them ooze out of his mouth....hmmm he must take after Grandpa's side because Grandma's side never lets a carbohydrate out of their mouth.
Upcoming Event: Spring Fling on Saturday. A day of fun and lame games with Grandma. I think they only put up with the lame games for the Reeces Cups.
Remark of the Day: "Whoooooo Hoooooooo" Yodeled by Karen as we took off at the Y doors at 5:00 a.m. My response, "I think this is gonna kill me"
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Monday, March 19, 2007
Better then I thought
Saturday: Finally got to meet Runner Susan! Met up with her and her sister Amy and had a wonderful time. I have decided I need more girls nights out!
Sunday: 9 miles. Should have done 10 but as I was going to be very late had to skid in at 9 miles. I overslept and then still had to get up and make applesalad to take to the church carryin before I went for my run. HOWEVER, my 9 miles were really good. I was doing about 15 minutes with a 2 minute walk recovery! Much much better. I did it in about 1:57. So my time is getting better. I just slow down so much on the second hour but that is okay...strength is building up I can feel it...I was not really sore. My knee was just a little stiff because I did not put my IT band on after the run...but did not hurt really bad! I was more disgruntled from the large amounts of time I was sitting at church. Sitting for long periods always makes me irritable and tired and it was a very long day at church.
Today the plan is to do a small walk at lunch then one this evening!
High Points of my weekend:
Friday: Having dinner with Baby Adam, Kendra and Lucas and my Mom. I fixed what I thought to be a most delicious meal!
Saturday: Shopping with my hubby in the A.M., My son brought over Ty and Carissa for a visit! Yeah! Meeting up with Amy and Runner Susan
Sunday: Running 9 miles with what I thought to be very little effort(compared to my usual run...probably caused I slowed it down to go further). Ty coming to church with us!
Oops going to be late again!
Will post some pictures later!
Sunday: 9 miles. Should have done 10 but as I was going to be very late had to skid in at 9 miles. I overslept and then still had to get up and make applesalad to take to the church carryin before I went for my run. HOWEVER, my 9 miles were really good. I was doing about 15 minutes with a 2 minute walk recovery! Much much better. I did it in about 1:57. So my time is getting better. I just slow down so much on the second hour but that is okay...strength is building up I can feel it...I was not really sore. My knee was just a little stiff because I did not put my IT band on after the run...but did not hurt really bad! I was more disgruntled from the large amounts of time I was sitting at church. Sitting for long periods always makes me irritable and tired and it was a very long day at church.
Today the plan is to do a small walk at lunch then one this evening!
High Points of my weekend:
Friday: Having dinner with Baby Adam, Kendra and Lucas and my Mom. I fixed what I thought to be a most delicious meal!
Saturday: Shopping with my hubby in the A.M., My son brought over Ty and Carissa for a visit! Yeah! Meeting up with Amy and Runner Susan
Sunday: Running 9 miles with what I thought to be very little effort(compared to my usual run...probably caused I slowed it down to go further). Ty coming to church with us!
Oops going to be late again!
Will post some pictures later!
Saturday, March 17, 2007
VICTORY OVER PUKE MOUNTAIN
I DID IT! I DID IT! I DID IT! You all getting that I DID IT. Finally after months and months I made it up 4th Street hill with stopping. In fact I made it thru the whole 5 miles with no walking at all...not on any of the hills! Yeah Me! I was slow but that was okay! Then Friday I was in NO PAIN, which means.....I AM GETTING STRONGER. I have been told time and time again if I am faithful to the climate runs they will make me better. 1) I am running with others that will help push me and 2) The Hills will make me stronger and 3) I will not get skittish while running with others. For some reason when I run with more then 2 people I get all skittish and kinda sick to my stomach. I think the nausea comes from being nervous because I know I will be last and I hate to be last.
Today or tomorrow I have to try for 10 miles. No I have to DO 10 miles.
Now to start my busy day today!
Today or tomorrow I have to try for 10 miles. No I have to DO 10 miles.
Now to start my busy day today!
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Hostile, Giddy and Bewildered
Those were my mood swings for yesterday. I think I need extra extra extra strength midol. In addition, I have felt sarcastic, mean and nasty and then I when I was taking a walk last night and glanced over in the window and I saw a short squat tubby middle aged woman, discovered it was ME and THEN I WAS DEPRESSED. It is crucial for my well being that I remove 20 pounds of unsightly pudge from my body asap (which was why I was out walking). I need to start walking at lunch again but now we have cable in our break room and it is all I can do to pull myself away from The Young and the Restless. So I must, as sad as it makes me, says goodby to Victor, Nikki, Kay and Jill and begin my afternoon walks.
Sunday: 9.19 walk/run. Not to bad considering I had a belly full of Honey Bunches of Oats (which I will never buy again due to its yumminess factor!)
Monday: Power Hour but not full effort due to my walk/run Sunday. I was all tuckered out.
Tuesday: A little lifting and a 3.25 mile run. Kept a nice steady pace. Kept a good pace by telling myself that 3.25 is nothing compared to 9.19 mile. I did only .25 mile walk to warm up in the beginning..no more walking. Then my husband I did a 3.75 mile walk in the evening...which I was behind him 90% of the time because 1) my legs were tired from my run in the morning 2) I have PMS weight weighing me down 3) My corn was on fire!
Wednesday: Swimming this a.m. which I am going to be late for if I don't quit blogging and ,hopefully, if the the young and restless does not lure me away, a 30 minute walk this afternoon and perhaps a little walk after church.
Okay time to swim...the pudge will not be removed by sitting at my computer desk...though a girl can dream...
Sunday: 9.19 walk/run. Not to bad considering I had a belly full of Honey Bunches of Oats (which I will never buy again due to its yumminess factor!)
Monday: Power Hour but not full effort due to my walk/run Sunday. I was all tuckered out.
Tuesday: A little lifting and a 3.25 mile run. Kept a nice steady pace. Kept a good pace by telling myself that 3.25 is nothing compared to 9.19 mile. I did only .25 mile walk to warm up in the beginning..no more walking. Then my husband I did a 3.75 mile walk in the evening...which I was behind him 90% of the time because 1) my legs were tired from my run in the morning 2) I have PMS weight weighing me down 3) My corn was on fire!
Wednesday: Swimming this a.m. which I am going to be late for if I don't quit blogging and ,hopefully, if the the young and restless does not lure me away, a 30 minute walk this afternoon and perhaps a little walk after church.
Okay time to swim...the pudge will not be removed by sitting at my computer desk...though a girl can dream...
Sunday, March 04, 2007
A TALE OF A BRAVE WOMAN
On a dark and cold morning (6:30 a.m. Sunday to be exact) a middle age but extremely attractive woman (somewhat Jessica Simpson looking) steps out her front door to be greeted by an arctic blast. Despite the dark and the cold she bravely puts one foot in front of the other as she descends her front porch steps to the sidewalk covered that is covered with a thin layer of ice and snow, all the while her minds screams "ARE YOU NUTS? THERE A POT OF COFFEE ON IN THE KITCHEN!" Her mind continues to resist for it knows what torture her body is about endure. The woman is strong. The woman is brave. She completely ignores the screams of panic her mind is emitting and begins to jog slowly down the street. The houses are unlit (as most of the people in her neighborhood are slackers). It is a silent environment but the woman knows this not because the silence is covered by the sounds of her own uncontrolled breathing and Conway Twitty crooning softly "Hello Darlin". As her breathing becomes yet more labored she decides that surely she will die from oxygen deprivation but nothing not even passing out from lack of oxygen will deter our heroine from her long training run. At one point the woman stumbles she recalls a fellow runner advising her to pick up her feet when she runs. She painfully calls her quads into action. They rebel but she offers them a deal. If they agree to pick up her feet she will allow them to have a 7 minute 3 minute ratio for the duration of the 8.07 mile run. The quads, while reluctant to work, realize the wisdom in accepting this deal. This extremely attractive (somewhat Jessica Simpson looking) woman is no longer stumbling. Her breathing becomes less labored. Lorretta Lynn beguns to sing of the misery of a having a misbehaving husband and THEN the only sound the woman hears is the sound of her own breathing. She pulls out her MP3 player in disbelief. The words "Battery Low" are flashing vengefully at her. Oh no! This cannot be! Her mind screams in horror at the thought of the duration of the run being with music. She panics. She knows the battery is cold (after all it is only 17 degrees outside). She opens her mouth and breathes on the battery in hopes of breathing new life into it. The battery does not respond....it is dead. She contemplates calling on the cell phone to request that someone bring her a new battery. She realizes that if she does this not only will the battery be dead but she would be as well (as her family, like her neighbors are slackers). In disgust she crams her headphones into her pocket and continues on. It is dayight now. Her labored breathing is mixed with the sounds of birds chirping. She has a desire to shoot the birds unless they can chirp something by Reba McIntyre. Onward she goes. Past Burger King, where the smell of bacon is wafting though the air. Her son's house is not far away, but she knows, she will not be met with open arms and a cup of coffee this early on a Sunday morning. Her daughter's house is next, again she does not stop. She knows her daughter will tell her if she wants coffee to jog back to Burger King and get some. The woman feels very sad indeed that no one in her family joins her on these early morning execursions or even says "Please stop by and I will give you nourishment on your journey". A solitary tear falls down the woman's cheek. Oh no! She wipes it away and realizes that it is not a tear but the sweat of her brow. She wonders how can one sweat when it is 17 degrees. Her wrists having been exposed to the elements are now red and wind burnt. She wonders if she is getting frost bite. Can one die of frost bite? She decides not to fret over frost bite as it will probably be the oxygen deprivation that kills her. Finally finally she comes to the main road. What will it be? The big hill on the bridge with the fun filled down hill or the flat road? The sidewalks are snow covered and icy going over the bridge. She pictures falling and then hurtling over the rail to her demise. The woman turns toward the flat road. She has chosen her path. The home stretch is near. Her quads have served her well under the agreement. She now turns on her quads and says there will be no more 3/7. The rest of the route will be finished with no walking. Her quads do not complain but her lungs claim her to be a traitor and a liar. In protest they begun to burn and threaten to collapse. She begs. She pleads, "Surely surely you can handle the rest of the journey" Her lungs begun to heave but she sees her house beckoning her, she decides she can breathe when she gets home and picks up the pace and speeds toward her front porch. The middle age but extremely attractive woman (somewhat Jessica Simpson looking) skids to a stop. She has made it. She is alive. She takes a deep breath and begins her cool down stretch.
Stay tuned for next week. Will the woman make it thru 9 miles or will she suffer oxygen deprivation and keel over dead?
Stay tuned for next week. Will the woman make it thru 9 miles or will she suffer oxygen deprivation and keel over dead?
Friday, March 02, 2007
Winter Sleep Coma
What a better way to start a post then with a whine....I AM SICK OF WINTER! I DISLIKE THE COLD DARK EVENINGS! I come home, I make dinner (sometimes my honey makes dinner as he has for the past two nights), clean up the dinner dishes (okay he cleans up..what a great husband) and then I GO UPSTAIRS AND GET IN BED AND DO NOT MOVE TILL MORNING. Which means I burn exactly NO calories in the evening. I want some daylight, I want to move around and feel alive in the evening but the dark cold evenings have the exact same effect on me as Tylnol PM. Okay enough about that...
Semi Running: In all honesty I can't call what I do running because 1) I am not fast and 2) I walk time to time....but here goes the rundown for the week: Monday 8 miles consisting of .25 mile walks then .75 run on the machine of death and boredom a/k/a the Treadmill, Tuesday 3 miles probably spent at least .75 of that walking...maybe a little less. Thursday...now that was depressing...5 miles and lots of walking. I don't know what was wrong with me because I was way worse then usual. I believe it may be because of the 8 miles on Monday so this weekend I will definetely do my long run so I am not stuck with making it up on Monday. The plan for me is to be fresh for the Thursday Climate Run. Thanks to Tink and Turtle for staying back with me and not getting frustrated because every time they turned around to check on me I was walking. Of course when they turned around I had to start running again...Perhaps they should have run backwards the whole way to keep me moving. No running today other then the small bit in Power Hour and my hope is to do a long run on Saturday morning...early so I can actually have a Saturday.
Swimming: Wednesday...I swear I worked harder at swimming. I told my friend Jill...she looked skeptical.....hahahahah everyone should have a friend that will call you out when you are slacking. My favorite Jill swimming quote, "Waa, get moving".
Hunger: I am suffering from unending hunger. I think my stomach is eating a hole in my body. I am eating plenty believe me but I am like a bottomless pit. That is one of the reasons I am up at this awful hour of the night. I woke up hungry...can't eat...want fudge, want cookies...want anything sweet. Can't eat...trying to take my mind of hunger by blogging...it is not helping...I am wondering if the Candy Cane ink pen in my pen jar would taste good. It is a long time till breakfast....sigh
Okay I am going to bed because this obviously is not working as my hunger has not decreased one iota. I will probably end up chewing on my sheets.......
Semi Running: In all honesty I can't call what I do running because 1) I am not fast and 2) I walk time to time....but here goes the rundown for the week: Monday 8 miles consisting of .25 mile walks then .75 run on the machine of death and boredom a/k/a the Treadmill, Tuesday 3 miles probably spent at least .75 of that walking...maybe a little less. Thursday...now that was depressing...5 miles and lots of walking. I don't know what was wrong with me because I was way worse then usual. I believe it may be because of the 8 miles on Monday so this weekend I will definetely do my long run so I am not stuck with making it up on Monday. The plan for me is to be fresh for the Thursday Climate Run. Thanks to Tink and Turtle for staying back with me and not getting frustrated because every time they turned around to check on me I was walking. Of course when they turned around I had to start running again...Perhaps they should have run backwards the whole way to keep me moving. No running today other then the small bit in Power Hour and my hope is to do a long run on Saturday morning...early so I can actually have a Saturday.
Swimming: Wednesday...I swear I worked harder at swimming. I told my friend Jill...she looked skeptical.....hahahahah everyone should have a friend that will call you out when you are slacking. My favorite Jill swimming quote, "Waa, get moving".
Hunger: I am suffering from unending hunger. I think my stomach is eating a hole in my body. I am eating plenty believe me but I am like a bottomless pit. That is one of the reasons I am up at this awful hour of the night. I woke up hungry...can't eat...want fudge, want cookies...want anything sweet. Can't eat...trying to take my mind of hunger by blogging...it is not helping...I am wondering if the Candy Cane ink pen in my pen jar would taste good. It is a long time till breakfast....sigh
Okay I am going to bed because this obviously is not working as my hunger has not decreased one iota. I will probably end up chewing on my sheets.......
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Slacker on Sunday, Motivated on Monday
8 miles on Monday (on the dreadmill). 1/4 mile walks 3/4 run (okay a slow run but a run never the less.)Over and over and over again for 8 long dreary mindnumbing miles. I go slower because I am going longer and have to build up my base miles. This morning just 3 miles and lifting...good thing because those 8 wore me out. Ate good yesterday (really good) but woke up in the middle of the night thinking I was going to perish from hunger. My stomach was actually cramping. I ate 2 banannas and went back to bed and then felt okay till I had to ice down my stupid diabetic foot. There is nothing worse then having to slap a bag of ice on your foot in the middle of winter...the summer...great...the winter...AGGGGGGG. Ooopsss got to go to the Y and then off to work to earn my bread and butter...I mean earn my cauliflower and apples.
Saturday, February 24, 2007
Slip Sliding Away
Busy week:
Monday: Took the Girls to Olan Mills (this is family code for Mammogram). The girls' pictures turned out well...look to see one on our 2007 Christmas Card. Last year when I took the girls to Olan Mills the photographer said that the girls were very photogenic. That made me positively giddy AND then she said, "They are very fatty and those are the ones that take the best shots" My hopes of being compared to Jessica Simpson were once again DASHED!
Tuesday: Good day at the Y. Treadmill for 5 1/4 miles. 1/2 mile of which was warm up walking...slow but steady plodding.
Wednesday: Blah pool day. I did not drown and I managed to make it thru the first 20 minutes of class without getting my head wet. That was noticed by a fellow workout buddy and she informed me that I was slacking in the pool.
Thursday: I have rejoined the CLIMATE RUN TEAM. It was slick and I fell twice. Once before I even left the parking lot and I was walking! The other was probably at mile 3 or 3 1/2. The first fall was on the back side but the second fall I fell frontwards...skinned my knee and now it has a tiny little bruise but one that I proudly display as my "Workout Injury". It was around 5 miles. I had to walk numerous times because I have been a slacker and have not been running outside that often (mostly inside on treadmill). Note that I did whine and complain the entire 5 miles. My complaints were as follows: It was slick, I was tired, I could not breathe, my legs felt like lead, it was hard, the route was too long, I did not know where we were going....waa waa waa. I feel sorry for Leo who out of the kindness of his heart stayed back with Ms. Pokey AND had to listen to me whine and complain. The others despite the ice made awesome time. I feel bad when I hold people back but I am oh so thankful for the people that patiently plod by my side.
Now you might ask why I started the climate runs again. I will tell you PEER PRESSURE. The very thing I spent years teaching my children to ignore is the very same thing that got me out running. I guess I would jump off a bridge if all my friends were doing it.
Note: I may still be a teacup but I am NOT a cupcake.
Okay enough about that...finished my day up on Thursday by having years erased off my appearance by dousing my head in brown dye at the hair dresser. Nothing makes a woman feel better then coming out of the hair salon with the gray banished from her head.
Friday: No spinning because this is the week in between sessions. I went to sign up and was told there were no more bikes available so now I am at the mercy of the slackers not showing up for class so I can grab their bike. I did go to Power Hour and Julie did a class that she called "Arms to Die for" By 10:00 yesterday I could not even use my stapler and I was reduced to sucking my coffee thru a straw to avoid picking up my coffee cup. So my legs are sore from the climate run and my arms are sore from Friday so I am pretty much crippled up. Ended my day by Baby Adam coming over to see his Grandma and Grandpa and he was all kinds of happy. He is over his cold now and feeling good. We got out the toys but what he really likes is when I lay on my back and hold him up in the air but unfortunately for me he is teething so holding him over my head is similar to standing in the rain forest.
Saturday: Had planned to do spinning. But realized that quarterly tax time is looming and I have nothing compiled. I have to bake a birthday cake, wrap a present, and make a birthday dinner for my husband and somehow get to the grocery store. Not to mention I am wallowing in filth and desperately need to clean my house.
Sunday Agenda: 8 1/2 mile run walk, church, nap and whining.
A couple new pictures of my guy are getting posted. Hopefully Ty and Carissa will be over tonight so I can get some pictures of my best buddy and the little princess. Spring Break is coming up soon so I will be taking a day off so I can do a something with Ty. Perhaps Chuckie Cheese?
Quote of the Day: "Come on Kim if you fall again you can quit...if we let you" By Jeff after my stating that I was going in to do the treadmill when I slipped and fell in the parking lot.
Monday: Took the Girls to Olan Mills (this is family code for Mammogram). The girls' pictures turned out well...look to see one on our 2007 Christmas Card. Last year when I took the girls to Olan Mills the photographer said that the girls were very photogenic. That made me positively giddy AND then she said, "They are very fatty and those are the ones that take the best shots" My hopes of being compared to Jessica Simpson were once again DASHED!
Tuesday: Good day at the Y. Treadmill for 5 1/4 miles. 1/2 mile of which was warm up walking...slow but steady plodding.
Wednesday: Blah pool day. I did not drown and I managed to make it thru the first 20 minutes of class without getting my head wet. That was noticed by a fellow workout buddy and she informed me that I was slacking in the pool.
Thursday: I have rejoined the CLIMATE RUN TEAM. It was slick and I fell twice. Once before I even left the parking lot and I was walking! The other was probably at mile 3 or 3 1/2. The first fall was on the back side but the second fall I fell frontwards...skinned my knee and now it has a tiny little bruise but one that I proudly display as my "Workout Injury". It was around 5 miles. I had to walk numerous times because I have been a slacker and have not been running outside that often (mostly inside on treadmill). Note that I did whine and complain the entire 5 miles. My complaints were as follows: It was slick, I was tired, I could not breathe, my legs felt like lead, it was hard, the route was too long, I did not know where we were going....waa waa waa. I feel sorry for Leo who out of the kindness of his heart stayed back with Ms. Pokey AND had to listen to me whine and complain. The others despite the ice made awesome time. I feel bad when I hold people back but I am oh so thankful for the people that patiently plod by my side.
Now you might ask why I started the climate runs again. I will tell you PEER PRESSURE. The very thing I spent years teaching my children to ignore is the very same thing that got me out running. I guess I would jump off a bridge if all my friends were doing it.
Note: I may still be a teacup but I am NOT a cupcake.
Okay enough about that...finished my day up on Thursday by having years erased off my appearance by dousing my head in brown dye at the hair dresser. Nothing makes a woman feel better then coming out of the hair salon with the gray banished from her head.
Friday: No spinning because this is the week in between sessions. I went to sign up and was told there were no more bikes available so now I am at the mercy of the slackers not showing up for class so I can grab their bike. I did go to Power Hour and Julie did a class that she called "Arms to Die for" By 10:00 yesterday I could not even use my stapler and I was reduced to sucking my coffee thru a straw to avoid picking up my coffee cup. So my legs are sore from the climate run and my arms are sore from Friday so I am pretty much crippled up. Ended my day by Baby Adam coming over to see his Grandma and Grandpa and he was all kinds of happy. He is over his cold now and feeling good. We got out the toys but what he really likes is when I lay on my back and hold him up in the air but unfortunately for me he is teething so holding him over my head is similar to standing in the rain forest.
Saturday: Had planned to do spinning. But realized that quarterly tax time is looming and I have nothing compiled. I have to bake a birthday cake, wrap a present, and make a birthday dinner for my husband and somehow get to the grocery store. Not to mention I am wallowing in filth and desperately need to clean my house.
Sunday Agenda: 8 1/2 mile run walk, church, nap and whining.
A couple new pictures of my guy are getting posted. Hopefully Ty and Carissa will be over tonight so I can get some pictures of my best buddy and the little princess. Spring Break is coming up soon so I will be taking a day off so I can do a something with Ty. Perhaps Chuckie Cheese?
Quote of the Day: "Come on Kim if you fall again you can quit...if we let you" By Jeff after my stating that I was going in to do the treadmill when I slipped and fell in the parking lot.
Sunday, February 18, 2007
Candy Bars, Snow and Frozen Sports Bras
Busy busy. I don't understand how I have no children at home anymore but I have less time? Have I become inefficient?*though my husband would argue that I have never been efficient* Have I become lazy? Who knows? All I know is that I need to clone my self to get everything done.
Updates:
New Job: Well sorta of new. Started the end of October. It is a high paced job with lots of room for growth. It is interesting and there is always something new on the agenda. I have also discovered that when your brain is over 40 it resents having to learn new tricks.
Workouts: Lacking since October but I have kicked in again. Back to spinning and running and power hour. Last Sunday though I ran out of time to run so had to squeeze something in Sunday evening. Ended up squeezing in a 8 1/4 mile walk. (why a walk see paragraph below re: overeating) Yes, that was 8 1/4 mile that was not a typo. Thru the snow I tromped....People in this town are lazy and alot of them do not SHOVEL their walk despite the snow removal ordinance that calls for snow removal within 6 hours...so now they have a lot more to shovel as between Tuesday and Wed we got 17 more inches...and walking in snow tires a person out very quickly....okay back to workout talk. I have made peace with my having to walk/run the mini. I am training but I do not feel that my body will be in the condition it will need to be in to run the entire 13 miles. Training continues..... Thursday I did a solid hour of slow running (and I do mean slow) I kept it between a 12 and 13 minute mile. I figure speed is not the thing for me right now on the long days I just need to keep moving. Okay so that is it for workout..aside from letting you know that I LOVE SPINNING.....
Kitchen: My dear dear husband has installed a new countertop, kitchen sink and backsplash in my kitchen. In addition, he put down new tile and put wainscoating up on 2 walls. I did not know what wainscoating (and not even sure I am spelling it correctly) was on account of my lack of inner Martha so he had to explain to me what wainscoating was. I then informed him I would not like it. He said I would and put it up anyway. I like it! That is annoying that he is almost always right when it comes to decorating. However, he was wrong ONE time when he was painting the outside trim. Other then that he has been right everytime.
Grandchilden: What sweethearts. Baby Adam spent Friday night with us. Poor little guy has had a cold for over a week but he is clearing up. He still has trouble sleeping because of stuffiness but he was not grouchy when he got up at night. He was just all stuffed up and needed to be upright. He can roll over and gladly showed off his new trick for Grandma and Grandpa. He also loves it when Grandpa says :"Adriaannnnnnn". What can I say we were watching Rocky! My daughter brought over some cute toys for him to play with but Grandma said he needed to play with measuring spoons, measuring cups and plastic cookie cutters. He also sat in my portable high chair for the first time. Aunt Denise bought it at a yard sale. It has a tray and the seat straps on a regular chair. It is nice because I don't have this big bulky high chair hanging around. I am posting pictures on flickr..please check them out. Poor baby he has his own Paparazzi and probably has retina burn from all the flashes.
***Someone has a birthday coming up soon*** Hint: He is cute, funny, smart...that should be enough to give it away....final hint his name begins with the letter "T". This special person also needs to make time on his social calendar for someone who loves him that would like to take him to see a movie. And special kudos to him for his awesome scrabble playing skills.
Carissa: Got her first taste of Grandma's homemade mac and cheese. She ate it with great gusto....She also seemed very interested in scrabble but I think she did not want to build words as much as she wanted to yank the board off the table and watch the cubes fly everywhere.
Overeating: Yes a topic just on that. I have determined there are several situations that I should not be a part of
1. Carryins: I ate like a pig last Sunday afternoon at our church carryin, which explains why I was walking 8 1/4 miles instead of running. Baptist woman can cook! Oh and so can Pentacostal, and Catholic woman...not sure about Jehova witnesses or Mormans...perhaps they should have a carryin and invite me so I can inform you of that. We also had a work carryin...guess what....those woman can cook too (they must be of the before mentioned faiths). I did very well at this carryin. My boss made a soup that was healthy and low fat so that I could enjoy the luncheon too! There were cookies galore and it took ALL my mental willpower to stay out of the cookies, breads and cupcakes (not to mention the dips and chips and crackers).
2. Being snowed in: For some reason being snowed in increased my appetite by 1 million percent! Mix that with a little PMS and you got a receipe for disaster. I will not mention the number of candy bars I ate. Candy Bars are forever banned from this house unless it is for the holiday exemption. It is a good thing the city buried my car under a pile of snow because at least I got some calorie burning. But I think I would have had to shovel every walk in Lafayette to break even calorie wise. I was a very bad girl that day.
Further thoughts on overeating: You can't just hide food from me...its got to be locked up. For some reason when Jerry hides things I just accidentally come across it. NO truely that is the case. One time I was looking for my slippers and was on my hands and knees looking under the bed and I glanced over and on the very lowest shelf of his night stand was a plate of cookies shoved all the way to the back. Now normally that would be a safe and secure place because 1) I never dust 2) and when i do dust I usually only dust the shelves people can see when they are standing upright!. Ialso found the little mini candy bars in a basket on top of the fridge being conceled by a loaf of bread being on top of them (plain white bread which I never eat), but I was looking for my glucose meter and thought Imight have thrown it on top of the fridge. So I was on a chair looking at the top of the fridge and there they were! So I found them....so I ate them. One time I found a can of nuts in my husband's clothes closet...okay granted I was deligently searching for those nuts but I found them. I have yet to find the giant box of fish crackers that he hid but even if I found them at this point they would probably be stale as I bought them in November.
I need to get a bank safe and install it in the house for food!
Dogs: Boring but of interest because the vet told me that Lizzie had lost weight and we had to keep and eye on it. Yes, she is active. Yes, she eats. This is a first in our family. No female (human or animal) in our family has ever ever been told by a doctor that there is a weight loss problem and that they would need to eat more! Usually both doctors and vets say to us "Too fat...need to get some weight off"
Quote of the week:
"MY SPORTS BRAS ARE FROZEN IN A LUMP" spoken after pulling my sports bras out of my gym bag after it had been left in the subzero weather all day.
Please see the pictures posted!
Have a great day!
Updates:
New Job: Well sorta of new. Started the end of October. It is a high paced job with lots of room for growth. It is interesting and there is always something new on the agenda. I have also discovered that when your brain is over 40 it resents having to learn new tricks.
Workouts: Lacking since October but I have kicked in again. Back to spinning and running and power hour. Last Sunday though I ran out of time to run so had to squeeze something in Sunday evening. Ended up squeezing in a 8 1/4 mile walk. (why a walk see paragraph below re: overeating) Yes, that was 8 1/4 mile that was not a typo. Thru the snow I tromped....People in this town are lazy and alot of them do not SHOVEL their walk despite the snow removal ordinance that calls for snow removal within 6 hours...so now they have a lot more to shovel as between Tuesday and Wed we got 17 more inches...and walking in snow tires a person out very quickly....okay back to workout talk. I have made peace with my having to walk/run the mini. I am training but I do not feel that my body will be in the condition it will need to be in to run the entire 13 miles. Training continues..... Thursday I did a solid hour of slow running (and I do mean slow) I kept it between a 12 and 13 minute mile. I figure speed is not the thing for me right now on the long days I just need to keep moving. Okay so that is it for workout..aside from letting you know that I LOVE SPINNING.....
Kitchen: My dear dear husband has installed a new countertop, kitchen sink and backsplash in my kitchen. In addition, he put down new tile and put wainscoating up on 2 walls. I did not know what wainscoating (and not even sure I am spelling it correctly) was on account of my lack of inner Martha so he had to explain to me what wainscoating was. I then informed him I would not like it. He said I would and put it up anyway. I like it! That is annoying that he is almost always right when it comes to decorating. However, he was wrong ONE time when he was painting the outside trim. Other then that he has been right everytime.
Grandchilden: What sweethearts. Baby Adam spent Friday night with us. Poor little guy has had a cold for over a week but he is clearing up. He still has trouble sleeping because of stuffiness but he was not grouchy when he got up at night. He was just all stuffed up and needed to be upright. He can roll over and gladly showed off his new trick for Grandma and Grandpa. He also loves it when Grandpa says :"Adriaannnnnnn". What can I say we were watching Rocky! My daughter brought over some cute toys for him to play with but Grandma said he needed to play with measuring spoons, measuring cups and plastic cookie cutters. He also sat in my portable high chair for the first time. Aunt Denise bought it at a yard sale. It has a tray and the seat straps on a regular chair. It is nice because I don't have this big bulky high chair hanging around. I am posting pictures on flickr..please check them out. Poor baby he has his own Paparazzi and probably has retina burn from all the flashes.
***Someone has a birthday coming up soon*** Hint: He is cute, funny, smart...that should be enough to give it away....final hint his name begins with the letter "T". This special person also needs to make time on his social calendar for someone who loves him that would like to take him to see a movie. And special kudos to him for his awesome scrabble playing skills.
Carissa: Got her first taste of Grandma's homemade mac and cheese. She ate it with great gusto....She also seemed very interested in scrabble but I think she did not want to build words as much as she wanted to yank the board off the table and watch the cubes fly everywhere.
Overeating: Yes a topic just on that. I have determined there are several situations that I should not be a part of
1. Carryins: I ate like a pig last Sunday afternoon at our church carryin, which explains why I was walking 8 1/4 miles instead of running. Baptist woman can cook! Oh and so can Pentacostal, and Catholic woman...not sure about Jehova witnesses or Mormans...perhaps they should have a carryin and invite me so I can inform you of that. We also had a work carryin...guess what....those woman can cook too (they must be of the before mentioned faiths). I did very well at this carryin. My boss made a soup that was healthy and low fat so that I could enjoy the luncheon too! There were cookies galore and it took ALL my mental willpower to stay out of the cookies, breads and cupcakes (not to mention the dips and chips and crackers).
2. Being snowed in: For some reason being snowed in increased my appetite by 1 million percent! Mix that with a little PMS and you got a receipe for disaster. I will not mention the number of candy bars I ate. Candy Bars are forever banned from this house unless it is for the holiday exemption. It is a good thing the city buried my car under a pile of snow because at least I got some calorie burning. But I think I would have had to shovel every walk in Lafayette to break even calorie wise. I was a very bad girl that day.
Further thoughts on overeating: You can't just hide food from me...its got to be locked up. For some reason when Jerry hides things I just accidentally come across it. NO truely that is the case. One time I was looking for my slippers and was on my hands and knees looking under the bed and I glanced over and on the very lowest shelf of his night stand was a plate of cookies shoved all the way to the back. Now normally that would be a safe and secure place because 1) I never dust 2) and when i do dust I usually only dust the shelves people can see when they are standing upright!. Ialso found the little mini candy bars in a basket on top of the fridge being conceled by a loaf of bread being on top of them (plain white bread which I never eat), but I was looking for my glucose meter and thought Imight have thrown it on top of the fridge. So I was on a chair looking at the top of the fridge and there they were! So I found them....so I ate them. One time I found a can of nuts in my husband's clothes closet...okay granted I was deligently searching for those nuts but I found them. I have yet to find the giant box of fish crackers that he hid but even if I found them at this point they would probably be stale as I bought them in November.
I need to get a bank safe and install it in the house for food!
Dogs: Boring but of interest because the vet told me that Lizzie had lost weight and we had to keep and eye on it. Yes, she is active. Yes, she eats. This is a first in our family. No female (human or animal) in our family has ever ever been told by a doctor that there is a weight loss problem and that they would need to eat more! Usually both doctors and vets say to us "Too fat...need to get some weight off"
Quote of the week:
"MY SPORTS BRAS ARE FROZEN IN A LUMP" spoken after pulling my sports bras out of my gym bag after it had been left in the subzero weather all day.
Please see the pictures posted!
Have a great day!
Tuesday, February 06, 2007
2 Hours is a long time
I did my 2 hours on the treadmill Sunday morning in 6/4 minute intervals at a faster pace then the week before where I did blocks of time...then I walked 15 ran 50 and walked 45. This time I moved the speed up and did intervals of 6 minutes run/4 minutes walk. My treadmill did not like doing 2 hours and it was making all sorts of sounds. I don't know if it was in protest of me being on it or that 2 hours was even too long for the poor machine. Next week I will do intervals but I will likely change them to .75 mile intervals and .25 walks and do 2 hours. The next week I will do 2.15 hours. My goal is to be able to go for 4 hours by then end of March/beginning of April. The mini is scaring the crap out of me. I have spent many hours contemplating selling my spot to some lucky person...then the crazy Kim steps in and talks me out of it.
My week:
Friday: Game night with my friends from the Y. Great Fun
Saturday: Grocery shopping at 6:00 a.m. Home to read my Giant Manual for work. To Walmart to buy Mom a bday present, home to make cookies and homemade mac and cheese, fish fry and games at my daughters, and kept my neices overnight.
Sunday: Up and 2 hours on the treadmill...go Kim go. Got the girls up and ready..which I forgot how hard that was...thank goodness for my husband who makes Sunday morning breakfast every week. To church where I valiantly fought the sleep virus. Home to pick up the girls stuff, dropped them off, picked up my sister and Mom to go out for Mom's bday lunch...back home where I promptly laid down on the couch and did not move for the rest of the evening...I did not even go to church..I could not move I felt like a rag doll. I more or less watched the Super Bowl...when my eyes were opened.
Monday: No Y sigh.....finished reading my giant manual so I could turn it into work.
Tuesday...sitting here typing need to get my lazy rear out the door to the Y.
My week:
Friday: Game night with my friends from the Y. Great Fun
Saturday: Grocery shopping at 6:00 a.m. Home to read my Giant Manual for work. To Walmart to buy Mom a bday present, home to make cookies and homemade mac and cheese, fish fry and games at my daughters, and kept my neices overnight.
Sunday: Up and 2 hours on the treadmill...go Kim go. Got the girls up and ready..which I forgot how hard that was...thank goodness for my husband who makes Sunday morning breakfast every week. To church where I valiantly fought the sleep virus. Home to pick up the girls stuff, dropped them off, picked up my sister and Mom to go out for Mom's bday lunch...back home where I promptly laid down on the couch and did not move for the rest of the evening...I did not even go to church..I could not move I felt like a rag doll. I more or less watched the Super Bowl...when my eyes were opened.
Monday: No Y sigh.....finished reading my giant manual so I could turn it into work.
Tuesday...sitting here typing need to get my lazy rear out the door to the Y.
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
I SUFFER AND NOT SILENTLY
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
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
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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