Happy birthday to my (little) boy.

Both the guys are home with the flu. I cancelled my weekend getaway with the girls. And my son isn't having much of a birthday!

The big 1-3

My son turns 13 tomorrow. As is traditional in our family, the plan was to take him out to his restaurant of choice. But.....

Last night we were over having dinner with friends. Halfway through the hub gets a weird look on his face and says he needs to go home. Some sort of flu bug hit him like a ton of bricks. Within minutes he had chills & was exhausted. He went home, I got him medicine, and he passed out.

He just called. The school called - the boy is sick too. I need to stop for more medicine. I guess I'll be in the guest room tonight....

Less sore

Recovering nicely from my kettlebell training – enough that I am going to do an easy session tomorrow morning. Until now, I’ve had the week off from exercising!

Going over to a friend’s for dinner. We are having grilled chicken, so I should be able to eat healthy. My salad (for lunch) sounded repulsive, so I bribed myself. After I ate it, I scored a fun size Snickers from a co-worker’s candy dish. My logic was better a healthy salad and a fun size Snickers, rather than going to the café and getting something like French fries!

Anyway, feeling good, going away with some girlfriends this weekend for a “Arts & Sciences” festival – sort of a medieval craft show. Fun!

Old school

Kettlebells have been around in Russia for a long time. Imagine a cannonball with a handle. The beauty of this beastie is that you lift with speed. Remember physics? Force equals mass times acceleration. This guy isn't symmetrical - it moves - and smaller can move faster. But force is force. So you get a kick butt workout with just one or 2 not very heavy kettlebells.

I went and took a 90 minute intro class on Saturday and boy was it fun! Yes, I am totally sore! But it was a great time and I am excited about going back again.

Eating is improving, this weekend felt truly relating, and spring seems like it may be in sight!

Woo hoo!

Ouch

Legs were really sore so I chickened out of spin class last night. Stayed home and consumed calories instead.

Darn.

Life is good - take care of yourself girl!

Blah blah blah....

I went to the gym this morning - it was an okay workout. Not inspired, but I did it.

Ate healthy until the hub and boy called from the ice cream shop and did I want anything? Why yes, a child's scoop of death by chocolate please!

In other words, maintenance. Which would be great if I didn't need to lose 30 pounds..... Oh well, better than a binge and I will pick up some low cal ice cream since I seem to be craving chocolate like a fiend.

in good news, I totally passed on thebirthday cake at the office today! Woot!

Still here

I had a very difficult day at work yesterday, which led to my husband taking me out to our favorite Mexican restaurant – ole! Legs are sore from weights yesterday, butter bean burgers are good (but a tad bland), I am finally going to try out the boot camp class at the gym tonight. Must get the scale moving again!!!

In no particular order

My weekend was pretty decent – it went way too fast though! Had a parent teacher conference to meet the boy’s new teacher Friday afternoon. The principal over there is a weinerheard and we are seriously considering just letting him go to public school next year. Ugh.

I forgot my hair appointment Saturday morning. Gee, are we running on fumes or what?

My grandmother fell out of bed & was rushed to the emergency room Friday. Only 90 year old I know that can fall out of bed and not sustain a scratch. I’m grateful.

Made butterbean burgers for my lunch this weekend – sounded good! I’ll report back.

Went to visit my friend in Raleigh yesterday. The hub had the day off and he decided to go too. She was not having a good day. I hated that, I hope the visit cheered her up a bit.

I went to the gym this morning. I had let the habit fall by the wayside and boy, did I pay for my slackerness this morning.

My doctor says my cholesterol is 201. Not a bad number, but my good guys are low and my bad guys are high. I have made what I think are some good diet changes that will help, but need to review my supplements as well. I think red rice yeast is in my future.

The house is tidy and I got to do some sewing yesterday. It was very zen and nice. I want to do some more this evening since I’m not going to the gym tonight.

The boy had a surprise snow day on Thursday – we had 2.5 inches of snow. Today it is in the mid 60s and I have the windows open. It was so nice this morning I would have rather been outside than in the gym, but I needed to hit those weights!

My weight is okay – in a holding pattern, time to get it moving down again.

Blah

I know I haven't been posting regularly. I've either been busy or just plain overwhelmed. Hub is still working the crazy hours, my medieval thing is over but I am left just tired. Drama over at the boy's school - I will most likely end up looking for a new school next year. Comfort eating means sleeping in means no exercise, gah.

Better

This is a very crazy week. I needed to consolidate all of my NC treasurer reports to send to my boss (done), make some stuff for this weekend (not done), pack for this weekend (not done), deal with last minute details since I am running a weekend long event for 600 (continues to arise), and I was hoping to do my taxes (as if!).

This week is made more difficult by the fact that my mom is out of town – meaning I have to pick up the boy, no help in terms of dishes or helping him with homework either (yes, I am very lucky and I know it!)

However, some nice weather, a focus on eating some very healthy foods, and daily walks have kept me sane. Lard busting of a more serious nature can re-commence next week. This week I just can’t think about that too!

Crunch week

This is a very busy week. I am getting up and walking - the weather is nice at least, so i've got that going for me.

Very busy.