6 posts tagged “health”

Francers

My sweet friend Star made me the CUTEST layout for my new site, so I'm going to start blogging there soon. (I will link y'all up shortly ;) I'm so excited! I love the layout, and I told her that I'm NEVER going to take it down! It's just what I wanted... So perfect! Thank you again Star!<3

In the meantime, I guess I'll give my two or three Vox followers an update... ;) (I will be updating Vox, don't worry. I like their QotD feature, and I like posting photos from my cell phone. I also like the Tweet Log, or whatever you call it!)

My "big news," which I already shared via Twitter, is that I got a new job. I'm actually really excited about that! The organization is really great, and I feel very fortunate to have received this opportunity. I start on Monday, April 14th, and I'm a bit nervous. It'll be a big change for me, but I'm looking forward to it.

However... I have so much to do before Monday. I really feel like I'm going crazy over here. I really want to "deep clean" my apartment... lol. My mom is still spending the night (she's asleep in my bed right now!), and I haven't really had the chance to get everything in the order I like. I'll clean off the kitchen table, and then she comes over at night and dumps her bags and whatever else all over the place! (I love her very much! And it has been fun, but I'm trying to organize here!) I also have a lot of photo projects that I need to finish and have approved tomorrow... Ahh. I'm sure everything will be okay. I just need to BREATHE.

The fitness/health thing has been... going. I'm still quite obsessed with SparkPeople.com, but I'm slacking in some areas. My goal was/is to walk/jog/run 100 miles in April, and I'm getting behind! Hopefully I can catch up this weekend.

Okay, I'm going to try to get some sleep now. Good night :)

Okay, not really. I just like that song a lot. It does really suck to be sick though!

I couldn't sleep at all again last night. The congestion/my knees have got me so down! I ended up going to my mom's house around 4:30 a.m. (I know she must feel so lucky to have a daughter that just barges in at any early hour of the morning!) I brought my cat with me, too! I was able to sleep most of the morning once I got there, but I'm still feeling pretty crappy.

Tomorrow I'm going to force myself to workout. Not for two hours though! I just don't think I'm going to get better unless I am active and start moving!

(I know I'm dramatic.)

I miss having a website. I might need to purchase a new domain.

Okay, yesterday's crazy two-hour cardio session was definitely one of the stupidest ideas I've come up with in awhile.

Last night was HORRIBLE. I was so exhausted, and I wanted to sleep, but I couldn't. I just tossed and turned until around 6:00 a.m. when I drove to my mom's house, took some Tylenol PM and slept for three hours on her couch. I went back to my place pretty early, and I've been on the internet ALL DANG DAY watching tutorials on YouTube. I'm such a bum.

So yeah, there was definitely no ass kicking at the gym today! I canceled tomorrow's session with my trainer, because I am pretty sure I'm not gonna be feeling so hot by morning, but we'll see. I just hope I can sleep tonight :(

I've been feeling under the weather for the past week. I think my last workout was Monday, when I had a training session. (I might be wrong? Maybe I went on my own on Tuesday? I can't remember.) My allergies have been killing me, and on top of that, I've had this throbbing pain in my knees. Going up and down the stairs at my apartment was causing me enough problems, so I decided to avoid the gym for a few days.

I've become one of those people who gets moody and irritable when I can't workout. I feel so lazy and disgusting and unproductive. HATE IT.

So today I woke up and got ready for a workout. However, the deadbolt latch on my apartment door BROKE and I found myself locked inside my apartment. I called my mom, and she came over and tried to unlock the door from the outside. (I tied my key to my printer's USB cord and guided it down to her, lol). Absolutely no luck there. I finally ended up calling my landlord, and he said he could send someone out on Monday or Tuesday. I don't think he understood that I was locked in my apartment, but I said okay and hung up. Then I got out the screwdriver and whatever other tools I could find and banged the hell out of the lock. Still, no luck. I called my landlord back, and he was here in 20 minutes with another man. After about 1-1/2 hours, they kicked in my door and then used an electric saw to remove the lock. Whoo hoo!

I don't know if being locked in my apartment had anything to do with it, but I had an amazing burst of energy as soon as I was finally able to get to the gym! Seriously, I worked out for close to two hours. I could have kept going, but I had to tell myself, "This is a super way to get burned out -- FAST!!" Plus, with my knees not at 100%, it wasn't the best idea in the world. I felt really good when I got home though.

I plan to wake up early and kick some major ass tomorrow :)

I blogged about my fitness goals a few weeks ago, and I've been sticking to the plan pretty well, with just a few bumps. Nothing too major, since I did lose 12 pounds since my last official "weigh-in" with my trainer ;)

I do have a confession though... I've been cheating on the Elliptical with the Treadmill. BIG TIME. The Elliptical can kiss what's left of my big butt, because I'm seriously in love with the Treadmill. JOGGING IS FUN! I think I like it, because I can challenge myself - on pretty much a daily basis - to go further and faster each time. And since I've never been a jogger, there's a lot of room for improvement. It's so much fun!

I'm doing a 5K in a couple of months and a 10K toward the end of the year. (We'll see what next year brings!) It'll be good for me. I need something to focus on right now. I always need something to focus on, really... Something to get excited about. Life gets boring when there's nothing to look forward to.

I would also really like to start hiking this year, but I don't have anyone to go with, and I'd rather not explore the mountains on my own, haha. Maybe I'll find a hiking group of some sort.

That's all for now :)

What's the best book you read this year?

Skinny Bitch

Kim Barnouin