Stretched....

I have been a slacker on updating my blog! I guess I just feel like I have been stretched a bit thin this week - and I don't mean that literally!! ha ha. I wish I did! I have a test today that I am not prepared for. My husband keeps saying "you will do fine - you always say you aren't prepared" - but this time I really am not. I have done okay on eating this week (other than the gallons of cheese I consumed at supper club last night!! YUM) but have not been in the gym one time. I have just been exhausted! This weekend will include much house work and laundry. I have so much laundry that I seriously contemplated taking it all to the laundromat and doing it at one time. Is that horrible? I think it is on so many levels. The fact that I am that far behind is disturbing in itself - the fact that I would be willing to spend money and sit in a laundromat for two hours just to get it over with is a bit troublesome as well. Oh well. Better to do that, sit and read a book and be done, then to be overwhelmed with it all weekend. right??? I can justify anything. I bought some lotion with a self tanner in it yesterday. I applied it this morning and laughed the whole time thinking of my friend Michelle. :) (you will have to go to her blog to catch the meaning.. ) After I finished, Hannah said "I hope you didn't put that on your feet, mom.. you will look wierd".. great. No one told me that. I thought I was doomed then I remembered that there is NO WAY it could look worse than my dreadful Mystic Tan experience from last year.. UGH..
prayers for today: health for my kids; to pass this test; to figure out what to cook for dinner; and to have a productive afternoon at work. :)
Peace!

Easter Adventure

As predicted, I am sore today. It's a good sore though. We went to Church this morning and our good friends Susan and Chasen came with us. We enjoyed the service - We like a more upbeat service and today was just that! I doubt there are many people who can say their pastor took his clothes off during their Easter Sunday service! Before you panic, he didn't strip down nekkid or anything.. he just took his suit off to reveal casual clothes underneath. It was quite humorous. Okay.. so after Church we went to shorty smalls where I ate WAY too much. We started to head home for a relaxing Sunday afternoon when we passed our neighborhood park. Britt said he thought someone was at the park on the ground trying to wave for help.. He slowed to see if we needed to go back, but we decided to go ahead and drive home and walk over to the park. There was a lady sitting on the ground next to a tree asking for help. She said she was waving at cars as they passed by, but everyone just waved back at her.. Well, she began to tell us how she ended up on the ground in the first place. At first she said she didn't know if she had a stroke or what, but she didn't have any feeling in her feet. Then she said she was driving down the road when the car in front of her through a suspicious bag out the window into the little creek that runs near the park. She was convinced it was drugs and called the police. They told her it was probably trash and not to worry about. She decided to go investigate herself and fell when she was trying to get down to the creek. She then told us that she was diabetic and that's why she didn't have feeling in her legs. We tried to get her to let us call an ambulance - and at that point she seemed to make a pretty quick recovery. She asked for help getting up and felt sure she could get to her car after that. I went down and retreived the mysterious bag which did indeed have nothing in it but trash. We walked her back to her car and came on home. I think it was a case of an overactive imagination. I felt bad for her, but then even felt worse about myself because I was suspicious from the beginning. What if she really had been having a stroke? I was leary of even helping her up because you never know who is going to try to sue you for something. That's a sad statement for the society we live in today - that I would think of that before helping someone. I am glad we went to help her though.
Happy Easter!

Workout #3

I went to the gym this morning. YAY!! I increased most of my weights on my circuit training workout so I am sure to feel it tomorrow. I know this sounds crazy, but I just didn't feel like I was as sore as I should have been yesterday after my Thursday workout. I am sure I will feel this tomorrow. They tell you that you should work with a weight that you start to struggle with around your 18th rep. I did that today probably more than my other two workouts. I was just afraid of hurting myself before because I haven't been working out at all. Anyway.. I feel like I am on the right track and set up for my three circuit training workouts per week. I will go again on Monday. Hopefully soon we will be able to incorporate two days of straight cardio in to the mix. Maybe by the time I am 40 I will be able to wear a bathing suit in public without too much shame!
Britt has decided that he is going to attempt to fix the cabinets himself so we can get the stove back in it's place. Maybe we can get that done this afternoon. Elijah has a soccer game today and then we will be hunting Easter eggs. My arms feel like overcooked spaghetti right now and I really want to just crawl in to bed!! YIPES!
Prayers for today: Health for my kids, continued motivation with my workouts, to get my kitchen in order, and rest!!!
Peace

yeah, Not so much...

Thankfully I am not as sore as I thought I would be today. :) I guess that means I didn't work as hard as I should have at the gym. I plan to go in the morning and do it again. Hopefully we can get on the "every other day" schedule soon. I am looking forward to getting in a better routine.
The garage is FIXED!!! yay! We called the people at Overhead Door and they came out today to fix it. Whew! That's one thing marked off the list!
My friend Carole moved to Missouri this week. I will miss her terribly, but am so happy for her and her new job and apartment! A fresh start has to be nice sometimes. One time I moved to a new town for a job. I never really planted myself there though. I guess if you don't let go to what you had before, it's not really a fresh start, is it?
So I have tons of projects going on at my house right now that need finishing in a big bad way. I still have to paint the den, decorate the bar, replace the light fixture in the foyer, clean out the ivy bed (it's awful), get the stove cleaned up and in it's place (waiting on the handyman to fix the cabinets) and THEN I get to strip the wallpaper off the downstairs bathroom where the little dog (who we found a good home for) decided he would go ahead and start that project for me. Now, keep in mind, I was not fond of the Christmas plaid wallpaper in the downstairs bathroom at all. It was, however, in decent shape and way down the line on my list of redos in the house. Now it has been bumped up about 8 slots..
Prayers for today: health for my kids, to find a new Easter outfit, and to have the motivation to get some stuff done this weekend!

No Excuses This Time

We did it. Britt set his alarm and we got up and went to the gym at 6am this morning. My arms feel like jello right now, but I am glad we went. We got home and a few minutes after we got upstairs we heard a horrible noise coming from the garage. At first I thought the bikes had just fallen on my car. Britt went down to investigate and discovered that one of the springs on the garage door had broken. the garage door wouldn't open at all. He had to remove it from the opener, take part of the automatic opener off, then he, Hannah, and I had to manually push open the door and hold it there while we backed the cars out. YUCK. I don't know what it will take to fix that. I already have a stove sitting in the middle of my kitchen - I would say "what next" but I know that's just asking for it. Easter is coming though. Rebirth, starting anew, right?

Power Outages and Other Excuses..

So what was my excuse for not going to the gym? We stayed up too late and couldn't get up in the morning. And what was my excuse for not going this morning? The power went out, we didn't sleep well and we overslept this morning.. I am wondering what it will be tomorrow!!! UGH. Okay.. about the Easter outfit. At first, I was heartbroken. I bought this linen suit that I have had my eye on for a while. I really liked it. The suit was a pretty brown and I got a salmon colored top to go with it (hence the toe polish - he he he). I got home, tried on the pants - and they were TOO TIGHT! ARGH. I was so heartbroken. I thought, I am going to have to go buy a bigger size!!! NOOOOOO!!! That's like torture for the fat girl! To have to go UP a size when you already buy your clothes in the big girl section anyway!!! What the heck??? So I take my pants, go up to the store to exchange for the "Big As Texas" size.. I get my new pants, come home, try them on.. THEY FIT THE SAME AS THE SMALLER ONES!!!! What is this designer trying to pull!! I mean, they fit EXACTLY the same. Then I got mad. I was angry at first to think "great, I thought I found the perfect Easter outfit and now I have to start all over again"..but then I chose to look at it a different way. At least my butt isn't so big that I REALLY needed to go up another size, right??? Right???? ha ha ha. I can truly say that it was the way the pants were made and not because I skipped going to the gym. Not that it excuses me from going to the gym. I will just have to come up with other excuses for that.. :)
Prayers for today: health for my kiddos, motivation for better health for myself, a new Easter outfit, and a peaceful Easter weekend.

How Early?????

Tomorrow Britt and I are going to attempt the early morning trip to the gym. UGH. I detest getting up in the morning. I am glad that Britt and I are doing this together though. It gives us the chance to spend some time together. We don't get many opportunities for such anymore. My oven went out - again. Britt fixed it once but said it was on it's last legs and couldn't be fixed this time. My in-laws came to the rescue. They had a jenn-air stove out in the barn that someone gave them. They brought it down here for us and I'll be darned if it's not nicer than the one I had in here already.. What a blessing! It needs to be cleaned up and Britt is going to have to do some re-working on our cabinets to get the thing in here, but I am happy. I will be happy to have an oven that works and four whole burners to use!! And it's black and stainless - which is the direction I am trying to go in for the kitchen. It's such a hodge podge right now. White fridge, cream dishwasher, stainless microwave, and did have an almond stove but now a black and stainless one. :)
I have a paper due tomorrow that I haven't started. UGH. It's just the rough draft that's due tomorrow but still. I should have had it done by now. I am hoping to have time tomorrow evening to throw something together. I am enjoying being in school but it is challenging to find time to read and get my papers done.
I have class tomorrow, class at St. James on Wednesday, Elijah has soccer on Thursday - another busy week for the Talleys!
I got an email today from a cancer friend. She is one my dearest. her daughter is a leukemia relapse. She isn't doing well. They just found out she has Veno Occlusive Disease. It pisses me off. Chemo is so harsh - it's poison, really. We have to poison our kids to get them better, but sometimes the chemo causes additional life threatening diseases. Lindsey's liver isn't functioning. VOD is very often fatal. This sweet angel has fought cancer TWICE and now might lose her battle because of a chemo side effect. Infuriating. I can't put stuff like this on Elijah's website because other cancer families might read it and his site is for updates on him - not my rants.. so sorry pals who read this. I just needed to get it off my chest.
my prayers for today: Britt to be at Peace with his decision, health for my kids, to find polish for my toes that match my Easter shirt, and a good night's sleep.