I was so excited last night that I did not fall asleep until almost 2:30 and was up at 6:30 and hit the snooze alarm until 7ish. That was a really bad bad decision...
I got up in what I thought was plenty of time to get all my morning things done...what was I thinking? I was tired after not enough sleep and was functioning in s-l-o-w m-o-t-i-o-n. I had planned on making myself a healthy smoothie and sitting down to enjoy it, then getting Nathan up and dressed to take him to the sitters. Well you know what they say about the best laid plans. I got dressed and headed to the kitchen to make my smoothie and apparently there was a party in the kitchen and no one cleaned up after themselves, so there went having counter space make my smoothie ( I was a little nervous about trying a fruit and veggie laden liquid breakfast before hitting the gym anyway, know what I mean), my body is used to a diet cherry pepsi and what ever bag of cracker/chip/pretzel is open. I go to get Nathan up and moving and he is not in his bed and that means that Dad let him stay up really late watching movies and playing video games. Rick fell asleep on the couch as well (probably right after the snack and video fest), so I knew that Nathan would be tired this am and be slow moving. (I found out tonight that "the boys" were up until 3 am!) Well Nathan popped right up when I reminded him that he was going to the sitters and gets to see Harley as well. He is zipping around and very happy to be up!
I go to grab my keys and I can not find them! Looked for 20 minutes (I build some extra time in my schedule until I get it in gear) and they can not be found and are probably under the dishes on the counter....grrrr. Well I grab Rick's keys, start the car and everything starts moving! His settings are in his key and the gas pedal is moving, the mirrors are adjusting, the seat is moving back and down....I am not amused! I reset everything to as close as I can get to what I like and we are finally off. I drop Nathan off and he walks into the house like he does this every day and I am left standing in the front door courtyard without a hug or so much as a "see you later Mom". The sitter must see my need for a hug, so she hugs me and says have fun at the gym (really, fun?) She says to call if I need anything and I tell her to do the same, thinking I will have to hold myself back from checking in every 42 seconds. I get back to the car and get in and hubby's #$%^&* key resets everything to his preferences again!! It is going to be a long day.
I get to the gym and find a spot and sit there for just a minute to gather my courage to walk through those front doors and into New Beginnings. I grab my earphones, water bottle, phone and the bleeping keys. I sashay over to the doors and exude a confidence I really do not feel. I go to find the scanner to scan my membership card and DOH! I have hubby's keys and no membership card. So me who is trying to be as inauspicious as possible, has now created a bottleneck at the check in...grrrr. So I get checked in and put one foot in front of the other and make myself keep walking. I find a stationary bike and settle in to cycle along with Regis and Kelly. I program in my stats, put in my earphones and settle in for a 30 minute ride with the very perky Kelly Ripa. Well Kelly and I did not get much time together as the man who sat next to me had a visitor that chatted and chatted and chatted, and was quite loud. No matter how high I adjusted my volume and no matter how far I tried to push my earphones down into my ear canal, I could hear nothing but this chatty woman! I learned she is a cat lover and has many cats and that one of them is quite sick and the vet has told her that the cat will tell her when it is time for the "cat to go". I kept chanting go away, please go away in my head, chanting in her direction, but she did not seem to be getting the message. I really hope that the cat fares better than I did! So finally my 30 minutes are up and I look at my stats expecting to see that it shows that I rode the equivalent of the state of New Mexico and burned hundreds of calories, as my shirt was damp and my legs felt like they had just auditioned for a Jello Jigglers commercial with Bill Cosby. Well it seems that New Mexico is only 4 miles, much smaller than I anticipated! I did manage to keep my heart rate at an optimal rate for the entire time and I burned a whopping 76 calories, so now I am going to be able to have that carrot after all! Are you kidding me? I am sticky, damp and had to listen to the demise of a cat and I only burned 76 calories?!?!?! This is going to be a long journey people!
I decide that I will try the treadmill for another 30 minutes so I go and plug my info in and start walking and walking and walking. Did I mention that I was walking? I am all by myself, feeling good, walking up hills, making the incline steeper and feeling good. Then I get a treadmill neighbor, a sweet grandfather in 1970's shorts that I really wish left more to the imagination...I think that I will bump up my incline a little more and show grandpa how hills are done. Well that cockiness was oh so short lived as "leave nothing to the imagination grandpa" starts to run and I mean RUN! I slowly guide my finger to the incline button and decide hills are over rated anyway. I get a new neighbor on the other side and she is toned and sculpted and molded to within an inch of perfection (translation: she has a great doctor). My 30 minutes are up and I look at my stats and while I am happy they are better than biking, they are still less than what I expected. I walked 1.4 miles and burned 216 calories. Hey it is a start, right? I try to navigate off the treadmill between Barbie (who by the way would lose in Julia's no plastic throw down, if you know what I mean) and showing the goods grandpa, so as not to fall and to look as cool as I can. My legs feel like they are made out of rubber bands as I walk to the water fountain to splash some water on my face. I met up with another lady who has the same thought and we talk about how sticky we are and she says she hates it, yet she knows how good it is for the body and my response? "Yeah, my bra is all wet" Really Kelly, my bra is wet? OMG! At least she laughs and says hers is too. Thank goodness I only have to see her everyday now.
I have done an hour of cardio and decide it is time to hit the machines. I love doing the machines and head right for my favorite leg one. I have gone to the gym sporadically, very sporadically for a while and have learned what I like to use. I do the super leg press and I set the weight at 90 lbs and do 100 reps, I then move to the chest incline and am feeling good. I like the weight I can put on the machines and the amount of reps I can do. I even had a trainer tell me that they were impressed with what I was able to do. I was feeling good, I had a bit of a pep to my step and sashayed to the next machine, set my weight and settle in to work my arms. I happen to turn my head and catch myself in the mirror, yet I did not know it was me at first. I really wish they would give you sunglasses at the front desk that would prohibit the mirrors from showing your reflection, as my mirror was saying "objects are larger than they appear". It was not pretty, let me tell you! I decide to move to another machine and am getting ready to leave when a parent from school comes by and starts chatting while waiting for the machine next to me. Great! Now I have to stay in front of this mirror, work out longer and chat all at once, and with a wet bra!
I have worked out now for 2 hours and decide to head for the car. CRAP! I really need to find my keys! I hate hubby's settings in MY car...lol I head for the post office (it is on my way) so that I can buy an envelope with a stamp so that I can pay for the RoadRunner MFP. I should be in and out of there in 5 minutes. I get inside and there are about 12 people in front of me. The line seems to be moving, so I am not going to get annoyed. No sooner than I say that, one of the two clerks closes his window and goes to lunch!! Are you kidding me? OK, so I think 10 minutes now, no biggie! Well I will not go into details, but I was in line for 42 minutes!!! I hate the post office.
I go get Nathan and he had a blast! They played football, tag, played with Harley, chased the cats, watched cartoons, ate the fruit I sent over, ran around the back yard. He can't wait to go back tomorrow! That makes me feel so good. I can continue going to the gym and he can have fun while I am taking time for me.
We get home and all of the sudden I am so tired. The no sleep last night, the gym today and all the energy spent changing the settings in the car (lol) have made me very tired. I also drink about the equivalent of a ponds worth of water and know that I will pay later in my swishing down the hall to the bathroom. My plan is to sit with Nathan for a bit while he shows me some moves on a video game and then go take a shower and see what we want to do. Well I sit and promptly fall asleep! Nathan was OK with that as my nap equaled more video game time...lol Note to self, NO sitting the rest of the year!!! We did not do anything else as when I went to get up, my body screamed in protest and it had gotten smokey outside again due to the fires in AZ. I have yet to shower, so I am going to do that right now and take a handful of Aleve...
So there you have it, 1 day down, 364 more to go...
I got up in what I thought was plenty of time to get all my morning things done...what was I thinking? I was tired after not enough sleep and was functioning in s-l-o-w m-o-t-i-o-n. I had planned on making myself a healthy smoothie and sitting down to enjoy it, then getting Nathan up and dressed to take him to the sitters. Well you know what they say about the best laid plans. I got dressed and headed to the kitchen to make my smoothie and apparently there was a party in the kitchen and no one cleaned up after themselves, so there went having counter space make my smoothie ( I was a little nervous about trying a fruit and veggie laden liquid breakfast before hitting the gym anyway, know what I mean), my body is used to a diet cherry pepsi and what ever bag of cracker/chip/pretzel is open. I go to get Nathan up and moving and he is not in his bed and that means that Dad let him stay up really late watching movies and playing video games. Rick fell asleep on the couch as well (probably right after the snack and video fest), so I knew that Nathan would be tired this am and be slow moving. (I found out tonight that "the boys" were up until 3 am!) Well Nathan popped right up when I reminded him that he was going to the sitters and gets to see Harley as well. He is zipping around and very happy to be up!
I go to grab my keys and I can not find them! Looked for 20 minutes (I build some extra time in my schedule until I get it in gear) and they can not be found and are probably under the dishes on the counter....grrrr. Well I grab Rick's keys, start the car and everything starts moving! His settings are in his key and the gas pedal is moving, the mirrors are adjusting, the seat is moving back and down....I am not amused! I reset everything to as close as I can get to what I like and we are finally off. I drop Nathan off and he walks into the house like he does this every day and I am left standing in the front door courtyard without a hug or so much as a "see you later Mom". The sitter must see my need for a hug, so she hugs me and says have fun at the gym (really, fun?) She says to call if I need anything and I tell her to do the same, thinking I will have to hold myself back from checking in every 42 seconds. I get back to the car and get in and hubby's #$%^&* key resets everything to his preferences again!! It is going to be a long day.
I get to the gym and find a spot and sit there for just a minute to gather my courage to walk through those front doors and into New Beginnings. I grab my earphones, water bottle, phone and the bleeping keys. I sashay over to the doors and exude a confidence I really do not feel. I go to find the scanner to scan my membership card and DOH! I have hubby's keys and no membership card. So me who is trying to be as inauspicious as possible, has now created a bottleneck at the check in...grrrr. So I get checked in and put one foot in front of the other and make myself keep walking. I find a stationary bike and settle in to cycle along with Regis and Kelly. I program in my stats, put in my earphones and settle in for a 30 minute ride with the very perky Kelly Ripa. Well Kelly and I did not get much time together as the man who sat next to me had a visitor that chatted and chatted and chatted, and was quite loud. No matter how high I adjusted my volume and no matter how far I tried to push my earphones down into my ear canal, I could hear nothing but this chatty woman! I learned she is a cat lover and has many cats and that one of them is quite sick and the vet has told her that the cat will tell her when it is time for the "cat to go". I kept chanting go away, please go away in my head, chanting in her direction, but she did not seem to be getting the message. I really hope that the cat fares better than I did! So finally my 30 minutes are up and I look at my stats expecting to see that it shows that I rode the equivalent of the state of New Mexico and burned hundreds of calories, as my shirt was damp and my legs felt like they had just auditioned for a Jello Jigglers commercial with Bill Cosby. Well it seems that New Mexico is only 4 miles, much smaller than I anticipated! I did manage to keep my heart rate at an optimal rate for the entire time and I burned a whopping 76 calories, so now I am going to be able to have that carrot after all! Are you kidding me? I am sticky, damp and had to listen to the demise of a cat and I only burned 76 calories?!?!?! This is going to be a long journey people!
I decide that I will try the treadmill for another 30 minutes so I go and plug my info in and start walking and walking and walking. Did I mention that I was walking? I am all by myself, feeling good, walking up hills, making the incline steeper and feeling good. Then I get a treadmill neighbor, a sweet grandfather in 1970's shorts that I really wish left more to the imagination...I think that I will bump up my incline a little more and show grandpa how hills are done. Well that cockiness was oh so short lived as "leave nothing to the imagination grandpa" starts to run and I mean RUN! I slowly guide my finger to the incline button and decide hills are over rated anyway. I get a new neighbor on the other side and she is toned and sculpted and molded to within an inch of perfection (translation: she has a great doctor). My 30 minutes are up and I look at my stats and while I am happy they are better than biking, they are still less than what I expected. I walked 1.4 miles and burned 216 calories. Hey it is a start, right? I try to navigate off the treadmill between Barbie (who by the way would lose in Julia's no plastic throw down, if you know what I mean) and showing the goods grandpa, so as not to fall and to look as cool as I can. My legs feel like they are made out of rubber bands as I walk to the water fountain to splash some water on my face. I met up with another lady who has the same thought and we talk about how sticky we are and she says she hates it, yet she knows how good it is for the body and my response? "Yeah, my bra is all wet" Really Kelly, my bra is wet? OMG! At least she laughs and says hers is too. Thank goodness I only have to see her everyday now.
I have done an hour of cardio and decide it is time to hit the machines. I love doing the machines and head right for my favorite leg one. I have gone to the gym sporadically, very sporadically for a while and have learned what I like to use. I do the super leg press and I set the weight at 90 lbs and do 100 reps, I then move to the chest incline and am feeling good. I like the weight I can put on the machines and the amount of reps I can do. I even had a trainer tell me that they were impressed with what I was able to do. I was feeling good, I had a bit of a pep to my step and sashayed to the next machine, set my weight and settle in to work my arms. I happen to turn my head and catch myself in the mirror, yet I did not know it was me at first. I really wish they would give you sunglasses at the front desk that would prohibit the mirrors from showing your reflection, as my mirror was saying "objects are larger than they appear". It was not pretty, let me tell you! I decide to move to another machine and am getting ready to leave when a parent from school comes by and starts chatting while waiting for the machine next to me. Great! Now I have to stay in front of this mirror, work out longer and chat all at once, and with a wet bra!
I have worked out now for 2 hours and decide to head for the car. CRAP! I really need to find my keys! I hate hubby's settings in MY car...lol I head for the post office (it is on my way) so that I can buy an envelope with a stamp so that I can pay for the RoadRunner MFP. I should be in and out of there in 5 minutes. I get inside and there are about 12 people in front of me. The line seems to be moving, so I am not going to get annoyed. No sooner than I say that, one of the two clerks closes his window and goes to lunch!! Are you kidding me? OK, so I think 10 minutes now, no biggie! Well I will not go into details, but I was in line for 42 minutes!!! I hate the post office.
I go get Nathan and he had a blast! They played football, tag, played with Harley, chased the cats, watched cartoons, ate the fruit I sent over, ran around the back yard. He can't wait to go back tomorrow! That makes me feel so good. I can continue going to the gym and he can have fun while I am taking time for me.
We get home and all of the sudden I am so tired. The no sleep last night, the gym today and all the energy spent changing the settings in the car (lol) have made me very tired. I also drink about the equivalent of a ponds worth of water and know that I will pay later in my swishing down the hall to the bathroom. My plan is to sit with Nathan for a bit while he shows me some moves on a video game and then go take a shower and see what we want to do. Well I sit and promptly fall asleep! Nathan was OK with that as my nap equaled more video game time...lol Note to self, NO sitting the rest of the year!!! We did not do anything else as when I went to get up, my body screamed in protest and it had gotten smokey outside again due to the fires in AZ. I have yet to shower, so I am going to do that right now and take a handful of Aleve...
So there you have it, 1 day down, 364 more to go...
