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Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Childhood Lessons

I have worked in daycare type of setting taking care of kids for most of my life. One of the lessons that I taught all my kids was to clean up after yourself. You have to clean up the room at the end of the day or throw away your snack stuff and clean the table before you can go play. I always wondered why this was so hard for kids to grasp. I apparently never took my own advise. I have realized in the past few days that I don't think that I really ever learned that lesson. My parents could tell you that I never cleaned my room as a kid. I usually just stuffed the laundry or toys under my bed. Once they got me to make my bed I would sleep on the top of the covers just to avoid making the bed the next morning. I think I learned to be cleaner when I moved to college because I was in such a small space with someone else. I did better but not much. When I moved into my own place by myself it was hard to really keep my new place real clean because no one ever saw it but James and I. I got into some real bad habits. Once we moved to Austin we have always said "this apartment will be different, we will keep it real clean." That has never happened! I decided this past week that the TIME IS NOW to start really keeping things real clean. I have struggled with putting things up once I got them out. I feel like a 2 year old having to sing that terrible song "Clean up, Clean up, everybody everywhere." Good song for a 2 year old but you would think that would be an easy habit to start back up. I hope I pick it back up....or start it soon! I wonder if there are any other lessons that I thought I learned but never did?

Sunday, September 21, 2008

Slow Down and Think

I have realized this week that I just never stop. My schedule runs like this: Get up at 7:00 am, Workout at 8:00am, Shower, Breakfast at 10:30, Leave for work right after 11:00, Come home about 9:00, Finish working out, Bed. For the majority of the days of the week this is my schedule. I have just enough time to see James and that is about it. I finally made it to the end of Saturday which is the first night of my weekend! I did my workout and then I stopped. I took all day on Sunday to do things that I wanted to do. Most of them being unsuccessful but I did. I even made it out to Starbucks for a little reading and journaling. I have been missing out some joyful times by being so busy. Starting right now I am going to slow down. Stop and smell the roses every once in a while. Start enjoying life all over again!

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Feeling Old

Tonight I feel old. I know that 25 isn't old, but my body feels old tonight after the plyo workout for P90X. I think I have felt every single jr. hight, high school, and college injury I ever had. There are two injuries from my past that are haunting me these days. The first is my left knee. I don't even remember when I started having issues with my knees because I was so young. I know that it came to a peak during a high school basketball games where I "jammed" my knee during a rebound. I ended up breaking a little piece of my knee cap off which they ended up cleaning up during a scope of my knee. They also did a little cutting and sewing of my tendons on the sides of my knee. I never really did all the rehab that I should have done and in turn I still have issues with my knee. The other is my right wrist. I don't really use my wrist in plyo but I do in almost all the other videos. I tore the triangle fiber cartilage doing who knows what at summer camp. It was not a problems that could be totally fixed so they did the best they could. I tweak it every once in a while and it hurts. I feel old because I have to reminisce about old injuries because I am now dealing with them all over again. I sure hope to feel young again after I finally gain some more muscle.

Monday, September 15, 2008

3 years and Counting

James and I recently celebrated our 3rd wedding anniversary and I thought I would have a little fun with our rings. The summer before James proposed I was working at Hidden Falls Ranch as a camp counselor. I had the opportunity to hang out with some great people and do alot of great things. Just about every weekend we would go into Amarillo and go hang out. There was one other counselor that had a boyfriend that was steady at the time and they were thinking marriage, so we made several trips to the mall to do some ring shopping. James and I had just really started to get serious at the time so my mind was not on that train of thought , but looking sure was fun. I found a ring that was unique but it didn't have right cut of diamond that I wanted. After being away from each other all summer we decided that fall that this could be it. This relationship could be the one. We spent some time talking and looking at rings for fun. We couldn't decide on the same cut until we found the same ring that I had found that summer. The cut grew on me and I fell in love with it. When James went to go and buy the ring in Lubbock they did not have the ring in the right size. The store in Amarillo did have the ring in the right size and they said they had had the ring for quite a while. We think that I could very possibly have the same ring that I tried on in Amarillo before we were even thinking of marriage. Could be true, might not be. I would like to think so, kinda makes me thing even more that there was no better choice than James for my husband!

Saturday, September 13, 2008

DNA Removal

Finally...the start of my weekend! It has been a long week on the phones for me. I think that I am finally settling back in to the role of phone agent. I must say that I miss my days of MobileMe chat support days. It is easy to take people yelling at you over chat than the phone. You can laugh at the people using ALL CAPS TO SHOW THEIR ANGER OVER NOTHING. It is harder to keep your calm on the phone and not take it personal.
On another note: P90X workouts are going well. We missed yoga and one ab workout. The other work outs are going great though. I started to use the bands for my pull ups which actually allows me to get a workout in. I didn't know that my muscles could be so sore in my back! I think that I am gaining muscle just about everywhere and hopefully losing some inches. I have been pouring sweat after every workout (dna removal as tony horton says) and that is making me feel like I am getting the hand of what he is asking of me.
As for my weekend: I hope to try a new church tomorrow. We haven't really been back to church since the JCB stopped playing there. It is time! I think that we will be going to Hill Country Bible Church but I am going to look into a little more before we head out tomorrow. I hear they do alot of church planting. I am very interested in the dynamic of the church plant. Maybe we can get involved with another plant in the coming days. Also looking forward to some good hang out time with James, we don't get much time together these days unless we are working out. I seem to say that alot.....maybe we should look at our priorities????

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Losing!

I lost 4 pounds during the first week of P90X. It is better than gaining weight and I am pretty happy with that number. The second round of chest and back was real good. I started using the bands for my pull ups instead of using the pull up bar. I am getting a much better workout now! It also allows us to keep the pace up because we are not waiting on each other to finish. I was able to increase my push ups on all but the DiveBombers. Those are just hard! I have to gain some more muscle before I will be able to do those. I missed my morning workout today so I will be doing Plyometrics when I get home from work tonight. I am looking forward to seeing if I gained any muscle from last week.
We had a little bit of a carb heavy meal last night for the first time since we started. Neither James or I slept well and we felt terrible when we woke up. I am going to watch that from now on. I was sleeping so much better.

Saturday, September 6, 2008

End of Week 1

Tomorrow is the end of week 1 of P90X. It has been good. The workouts are hard but I am enjoying the feel of sore muscles. It has been a while since I have felt all the muscles I have. The nutrition part of the plan is not what we were expecting. We are doing a very modified version of the meal plan. We are still going by the portions for the most part but changing some of the food choices. We will be getting on the scale tomorrow but I am not expecting any weight loss. In fact I am readying myself for some weight gain. From other blogs I have read that you don't start losing weight until after the first 3o days. You have to gain muscle before you lose weight.
I am glad we have started this! It has been good to work out again and to work out with James.

Thursday, September 4, 2008

Creative Portraits





I took a self portrait by candle light and thought that it would be great to have a pictures of James as well. Sorry if this is too much skin for you! I think that James' is better but I got to be behind the camera for his and in front for mine with the self timer. I can't tell you how many times I blew that candle out!

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Sore Muscles and Crazy Blenders

We have done 2 full videos and the ab video for P90X as of now. My muscles are sore but I am feeling pretty good. Tired but good. I am not used to having only protein. James and I were/are trying to do the meals just like they want you to, but have found that to be to much food and lots of prep time. The food so far looks good and has tasted okay. Our blender threw soup up all over the kitchen, so it is not a big fan of the food. We are going to look at the nutrition part a little more and see if we can make it fit our schedule and tastes a little more. This is going to be an interesting 90 days though.

Monday, September 1, 2008

Shopping & Day 0 Pictures

We went shopping for our new menu that goes along with P90X. I have never bought so much food in my life! I am not very familiar with the food that we will be eating. It is a lot of soup and fish. I will spend most of today chopping vegetables and making soup for the rest of the week. Not sure that is how I want to spend a day off but I think it will be worth it in the end.

On another note. We start the program today so we took our day 0 pictures last night. I am not going to be the brave sole that posts those pictures. I don't want to have to look at them until I can show some improvement. We have done the fit test and I passed everything but the pull ups. I can't do any pull ups. I was borderline on the abs but I think I will be just fine.

Off to chopping veggies........