It seems like MANY of us have had some craziness in life right now.... we shouldn't let the "need" to be reading/replying/posting here on the DIS add to the stress.... this is supposed to be for FUN and FRIENDSHIP and SUPPORT! RIGHT??
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I totally agree with this statement. We all have our weeks of craziness, or just not feeling like posting, and there should be no stress about it. We need to make the dis a stress free zone. A place to destress when we can but definitely no stress if we can't get on in a bit. Ths dis absolutely is for fun, friendship, and support!!
We had another great party yesterday. I went a tad over on the points I wanted to use but not too bad. Ryan got his DS and 5 games to go with it. He is in heaven right now. I told him this wkend he can play as much as he wants as long as when I ask him to do something he listens. Then starting monday it is no more than 1 hr per day of video and TV. He also needs to keep doing well and behaving in school or it gets taken away. He agreed! Gosh I really feel like a mom now.
Sometimes I cant believe that I have two kids and my oldest is 6. I still feel like it was just yesterday I was a kid myself.
I guess that is being young at heart. either that or just coming to terms with the fact that I am indeed getting older and I became an adult 14 years ago.
We have another "party" today. Just my in laws and dh's nana coming over. So at least it will be relaxing. I am going to get out and run in a short while. Tomorrow will be 2 weeks since my last run.
The break is over. Back to the grind.
Have a great sunday!
Hope you got a good run in yesterday. I wrote out a training plan for my training, and converged the mfm and galloway plan, and I'll send it to you and Lisa, to show you. It's not on the computer, but I want to type it in. I wrote out a calendar over 2 pages, and am going to use it as a log, and check off of the runs/cross training.
Glad Ryan was thrilled with his party and DS. Michael got his a couple years ago, and during the first week, I thought I had made a mistake and it was all he wanted to do, but the novelty wore off, and he really doesn't abuse it, and goes weeks without using it.
yesterday is a bit of a blurr and I can't remember if I posted about it or not. Anyhoo....We pulled off 3 parties. Colby and Hunter had their friend parties in the same time frame, but had totally separate activities. Nick and His girlfriend helped with the games. I had the pirate adventure set up for the older kids so that pretty much ran itself. DH followed them around taking photos and making sure they stayed on track. We managed to keep the kids busy. The older group had cake and ice cream while the younger kids opened presents then they switched. The last kid was picked up at 4:15 which gave us 45 minutes to quickly pick up and vacuum through. I finished glazing the ham, cooked and mashed potatoes and had everything finished by about 5:15. We ate around 5:30. I think we had around 30 people. We haven't had a big family get together in a long time so no one was in a hurry to leave. The last guest left around 8:30 and then I had to drive Nick's girlfriend home which is an hour and a half round trip. I'm very glad to have that day behind me, the kids were totally happy with everything so it was a success. Today I'm hoping to get all the halloween decorations put away and a few misc totes sorted through.
What a fun and organized party planner you are. Sounds like an awesome day. Your bedroom looks amazing and so peaceful. I picture it in a little seaside bed and breakfast and you can hear the waves out the window. Now, who did the pooh drawing? So cute. We love the animation class, but haven't done anything with the drawings yet. The frames you made are so cute.
I did mean to post yesterday, but I didn't. Not sure where the day went. Thanks for understanding everyone!
I studied for over 2.5 hours yesterday and a hoping to do at least that today. My goal for today is the 2nd chapter of geometry, 2 grammar lessons, and some science. I have also been adding in some really basic math because I was making careless errors when I did this stuff the first time.
to everyone who needs them.
Hope everyone has a great day.
CC
Here's a hug for you too, since I'm sure that studying has got to be draining.
and here's a drink for you when you can take a break.
Keep up the great work, CC.
IWell, I might be the only person, but I HATE the time change. It will take me a long time to get used to it. I am going to have to make a huge effort at work to go outside for a few minutes to get some sun, or I will be fighting SAD. And our dogs just do not understand that they were supposed to sleep in today.
And--wait for it--I have not exercised at all this weekend. This could possibly be the first weekend since Jan 1 that I have not worked out.
It's actually been a nice mental break. I was trying to explain it to our friends last night--I think when we are training for an upcoming race I feel a lot of pressure to stay on task. Well the next race we have officially scheduled is Princess. So this was a good weekend to take a little break. And I have exercised 240 minutes so far this month, so I'm not a complete slacker.
Have a great afternoon!
I won't be too fond of the time change tonight when it's pitch black out after work, but I did enjoy sleeping in yesterday. Do you take vitamin D. I've heard that can help with sad, and I just read in a magazing that overweight women with low vitamin d have more abdominal fat, and when trying to lose weight, if you get enough vitamin D in the weight comes off quicker. My vit d was low last winter when I went to the doctor, and I had started taking it, but as with other vitamins, I forget a few days, and then it's weeks. I'm going to pick some more up and be faithful about taking it this winter.
Congrats on taking a full weekend off from exercise!! Hope you enjoyed it.
Hi ladies! I'm sorry I haven't posted in the past few days. I'm still here and I'm doing fine, but I just haven't had anything much to say. I guess I'm in a quiet kind of mood.
With my race coming up in 2 weeks, I did my last LONG training run yesterday. The last 2 or 3 miles were HARD and I was in considerable pain for the rest of the day. Most of that pain is gone now, aside from just ordinary muscle soreness. I've been doing 4 minute run/1 minute walk intervals but I think I'm gonna monkey with that a bit over the next week and see how it feels to run shorter and see how it affects my overall time.
I also want to remind everyone to send in your WIN numbers. I have only heard from TWO people so far!
Y'all have a great week!
Whoo hoo, you did your last long run. I would think that's got to be the hardest, even harder than the race since you'll be so pumped up with all the other runners. You are going to rock it, Connie! Glad you're feeling better and just a little sore now. I'm sure in 2 weeks you'll be ready and awesome!! I've been doing the 4/1 intervals too, and have been playing with walking more. I can keep a 15 min pace with just walking, and about 14 with the 4/1, but reading the galloway plan, he seems to encourage shorter intervals. Did you follow a specific training plan? How long was your longest run? I'm just starting the princess training now.
Thanks for the win reminder. I'll pm you my numbers.
Connie, I just want to say enjoy the taper/recovery period and good luck with your race!!!!
ALSO: Sad and embarrassing as this is, I seem to have LOST my tape measure. DS had a tree measuring project and we took it out on a couple of expeditions and I just have no clue where it landed. I am sure it will turn up one of these days! Thanks for keeping the numbers for the WIN!!!
Hi Corinna. I think of you often as I start training for my first half. You are such an inspiration to me.
Just popping in to say hi. I am pooped for some reason. We are having roasted vegetable fajitas for dinner tonight. The veggies are roasting in the oven and smell so good. Tomorrow we are having roasted veggie pizza with the leftover veggies. How's that for planning ahead?
Mike is working on his resume and I am just chilling out. Definitely going to the Y tomorrow. My eating was not great today. I am going to have to really watch it for the next couple of weeks, because I am definitely doing some stress eating. Hope everyone is doing great!
I love having dinner planned for the next night. I tried to make more of a plan for the week when I shopped yesterday, so by the weekend, we aren't down to frozen pizza.
Tracey- Glad the party went well, and nice job getting the exercise in.
We were up nice and early today. We were both tired last night and went to bed early. The cub scout trip was actually pretty awesome. The house of 7 gables is 342 years old, and the boys actually listened and were very interested in the history of it all, and looking at how it was built. There's a secret staircase that we took up to the second floor, and it we pretty tiny going around a corner. A friend of his came over after and they played all afternoon, and I got some cleaning and organizing done. Then we watched the Hannah Montana special. Shhh, Michael is a closet fan. It was good.
Off to get ready for work now. Have a great monday!!
Ryan wants to start football this summer which involves practice 4 nights a week until school starts and then only 3 nights a week with games on saturdays. It honestly makes me cringe. I hope things slow down for you soon.
Hopefully I don't remember the starting number correctly.
at the same time. I hear you there, but that's a good thing.
