Another Slow Day

• What: Treadmill
• Distance: 0.8 miles
• Duration: 20 min
• Calories: 119

I want to go to bed. Have to take Julia to swim lessons early in the morning.  Did an easy walk on the treadmill and now off to shower and snooze.

Slow Day

• What: Treadmill
• Distance: 1.25 miles
• Duration: 30 min
• Calories: 180

Slept badly, ate so-so, exhausted from working the church thrift store and doing some shopping with Julia (clothes for her, groceries). I am feeling all out of sorts and PMS-y. But I kept up the food log and I actually wrote down the tiny walk I squished in while watching Paul play Guitar Hero. Yay me.

Life’s good.

Things here are going well and calming down. We actually sat down to eat as a family for dinner today. Yay!

I’ve still got a lot of work to do before earth Day, and I still feel like I’m racing the clock, but I’m in the home stretch and it’s like you just have to let it go after a point and let it be… whatever it will be.

You know?

Eco-activist Diet?

Oh, lord, where does the time fly?

Been working my behind off with event planning. Did you know I’m an eco-activist? yes? No? But surely you know Earth Day is around the corner?

One of my “babies” is turning 1 on Earth Day — a full year of providing “Organic Children’s Gardening” classes for youngsters in the downtown area.

So we are celebrating the planet and our first year as a self-sustained little program running on donations alone. Big deal to me.

And I’m secretly hoping we will have another reason to celebrate — winning a grand in supplies with a garden grant!

And I found out we might get listed on an index of local earth Day events elsewhere and be given more publicity through that. And a friend hooked me up with a magazine who might cover us.

So it’s like we’re coming out of the closet and I feel sick to my stomach with stress.

And I’m supposed to be helping with my daughters school dance thing.

And I have a 5K race event to plant trees at a local teen rehab shelter and in haiti.

And I’m doing a girl power thing as well for mother’s day in honor of planet earth and women everywhere.

Run, run, run, call, mail, email, meet, plan, stress, fret, e-mail, call… That is the eco-activist diet. I can’t sleep well. My husband says I talk in my sleep. I’ve lost 8 lbs.

I don’t recc. losing weight this way but pleeeeeeeaaase cross your fingers my Earth Day things and Girl power things come together ok!

Waiting…

I am sitting here waiting for the delivery of our new dishwasher. (The old one finally died.)

I can’t remember the last time I had the time to just…. sit. It feels weird.

On the family front — we’ve endured this year’s flu thing for three weeks before everyone was well again. I’m still lingering.  Paul’s been really busy with his music. I’ve been really busy with fundraising. My committee life is rearranging too — I’m fading out as secretary on two committees and coming in as co-chair on another.  Julia turned four and is really busy with her friends, her playing, her artwork, and we’ve been shopping preschools for fall. She liked them both so much she wanted to stay right there and then.  I have to make arrangements for her shots and so on.

On the health and fitness front,  I have not been taking my Glucophage full strength and I’m feeling better. I was getting wiggy. I don’t know if maybe I’ve improved to where I don’t need it so strong? But I don’t have an actually appointment til April… so a drag to wait. Call it an unofficial adjustment of my meds then.

I’m down a few pounds though I’ve had to miss gym some while getting through the sick wave in my house. I plan to go tonight alone since I’m missing this morning to let the dishwasher in.

I’m wrapping up a nutrition study class that has been interesting but I’m not sure that I’d take again in this format.

On the growing front… I took a spring garden class as a refresher, I’m reading an organic lawn care book, and the tiny church garden I planted with the kids is sprouting:

The house garden has to get another bed planted over the weekend if I can get Paul to give me a hand. I gaev away a bunch of seedlings because I had too many and I still have a lot so I need that bed to put them in. Julia and I planted tomato, onion, sugar snaps peas, and eggplant already.   I want to get the rest out.

The strawberries started giving us fruit and she’s having a good time finding them. Here was the first of the season:

Updates…

Julia turned four this week and we celebrated with friends and family yesterday with a backyard party. It went well — we did about the same as last year with food, activities, guest list, etc.

My abs are sore from Friday’s workout — it was really good abs/shoulders day. Small problem with a hip flexor acting up. Julia has a cough this morning so I may end up having to go to gym on my own at an ungodly early hour so she and Paul can just carry on sleeping. (Sick kids aren’t allowed in gym daycare.)

Today I want to do some work on my garden… we plant soon.

Weekend

The weekend was just a blur.

Felt better Friday so I went in to see Emily — another trainer. I’m getting bored of all these “orientation” type workouts so I’m going to try to stick with her as much as possible. I don’t want to meet another trainer and then start the getting acquainted thing all over again! (There’s been some scheduling conflicts and people transferring around so hopefully that is settling down now.)

We did a 30 min. legs routine and I can’t remember now if I did any cardio after that.

Dropped Julia and my parents and we went out to dinner and the bookstore Friday night. It was cozy and we got a chance to talk. Paul had a Merlot with his dinner but I went off and had a martini for fun.

The next day Paul had work and then concert stuff to play in and do sound for. The concert was fun. After cleaning up we took him to dinner (not as fancy) and Julai babbled a mile a minute over why she was jealous Daddy played in the concert. She used to having him for herself on Saturdays and having him gone all day was bothering her.

He ran sound for church the next morning while I was helping with coffee hour so time got away from us. You can tell, because the house looks terribly messy. Just run home and rush back out for a few days with no time to put things back.

Just got home from gym — an hour long weights workout for backs and biceps. It was excellent — really felt like I was doing some work there. Probably will be sore later so I’m going to try to interst Julia in some kiddie yoga this afternoon to help stretch me out and then we have to scrub down the kitchen and living room. Have to get the mess back in order.

Sick Again!

When we last left our heroine, she was busy doing more trainer sessions (more plyometircs, whee!). She spent the weekend baking, hanging out with mom friends, and then running a church bake sale that pulled in over $250. Tired, she went home to nap. And when she awoke… the trouble began…

Headache, stuffy nose, cough, chest congestion, the works. UGGGGGHHHH!

I canceled tomorrow’s session with trainer but I haven’t yet canceled Friday’s. I’m sort of hoping this will go away by then but if not, I’m going to have to can that one and reschedule for later.

Saw doc today. Dr. B. seems to think it isn’t quite a sinus infection, though it could become one. He still thinks it is allergies. I don’t, because Paul had this nagging cold thing for almost two weeks and he’s well. At first I thought it was allergies too because Claritin helped clear it some and I had been cleaning the garage and figured it was from kicking up dust.

Anyway… I’m down and out.

Plyometric Workout

Life is busy. Don’t want to list it all but trust me… very busy. And with Julia’s birthday coming soon, we’re busy getting ready for that also.

Yesterday I went back to my trainer appointments. I’m still a bit sniffly, but I think that’s alelrgies now rather than sickness. Julia is well, so she can go back to gym daycare. So off we went.

I had a new guy — Marc. Nice enough but not as bubbly as Nora was. I get Emily next week, so we’ll see how she is.

MArc had me do a plyometrics workout.  The first was 10 reps on each side where I step up on an aerobics step with two risers while bringing a 4 lb medicine ball up and down.  I would hold it out in front of me and slightly raised, and when I stepped up, I had to bring it down to meet my knee.

After that it was curls with 5 lbs dumbbells and then shoulder presses. Still doing 10 reps per side while I kept stepping on and off the aerobics steps. In between exercies, go up and down the stairs.

It wasn’t too bad, but I’m completely out of shape and post-holiday — even worse.  I felt kind of gross for an hour afterwards and I’m out on my inhaler prescription. So I probably need to make an allergist appointment and get a check on the ol’ asthma. (Ugh. Hate going to allergist!)

Had a massage later that night — Carla told me my shoulders were tight.  No surprise there!

Crazy

It is crunch time. I feel like I’m at the head of war command every time I go into the kitchen and stand in front of the white board each morning… getting the day’s game plan into my head and planner.

Paul’s off to band rehearsal tonight — he’s playing in three holiday services. Originally he was just playing New Year’s.

I stayed up til 2 AM knocking out most of an (invented) angel costume. Now I have to stick the top to the bottom skirt part and figure out how to attach more gold ribbon to it so it sparkles more. Then I have to get Paul to find gold spray paint so we can paint the pizza box from last night and transform it into angel wings. I have a white beaded headband that will have do — I can’t be bothered about wiring a halo.

I thought I was done making christmas pageant costumes but since Paul got involved for playing that service too, Julia got recruited as a last minute angel.

I want to put in an order at Publix for my share of holiday feasts. I’m simply not up to cooking.

But… still hit the gym yesterday for cardio.  I still haven’t had a fight with my spouse. So… another week and it will be all done. Tick tock tick tock….