Whether I like it or not, tomorrow is going to be the day I start back on my lifting. I went into a slump after I hurt my foot during my vacation and, like usual, I've found it hard to get back into the routine. But once I start again I will be back full force.
I had to bring my workout bag inside to change out my workout clothes as this is the first I've been to the gym when It's been legitimately cold and had to switch from shorts to sweatpants of some kind. I purposefully planted my car keys in the side pouch of my gym bag so I don't forget it in my haste.
I always find a great inspiration when friends or coworkers notice my efforts in the gym and I recently talked with an online friend who enjoys the fact that I work out and it's prompted me that much further to work. My partner is great but they could care less whether I work out or not. I do enjoy the eventual comment that the work I'm doing is worthwhile and this person just made me want to work that much more.
I don't think I've lost all that much of my definition. I know my chest has softened some as that is one of the hardest spots for me to gain considering how small I am. I will put some extra focus on it, my back and shoulders as they are my hard-gainers. I can't wait actually.
I've added other focuses in my life as well since coming back from vacation so it will be interesting how I incorporate them as well as my workout regimine. Wish me luck out there, you've all been great and supportive. I appreciate that!
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Friday, November 16, 2007
Battling the Cold
I don't like it when it's cold. Having to scrape the frost off of windshields or at least having to burn gas long enough for the defrost to do it's job. I finally decided to put away my short-sleeves and pull out my long-sleeved alternatives. I had a certain realization while doing this that I don't have a whole lot of winter-type clothes. I've usually made due with a jacket and my short-sleeves. This year is different it seems.
It seems I'm much more prone to cold weather this year. I've already undergone my first head cold of the season and passed with flying colors. My body's been much more sensitive to the chill and have found myself wanting to dress much warmer than I have in many years.
Hoodies and fleece (usually my mainstay), have been increasingly insufficient for me this past week. I've found myself wanting to invest in the things that I've never felt the need to browse before...heavy coats.
I don't think it's because it's getting much colder than any other year previously...I've just felt my body changing. The beau says that an adult's body chemistry starts to change at various points in their lifetime and I think this point in my life is one of those. Not only for the reaction to changes in the weather, but for other reasons as well. Things you were able to get away with all of sudden takes a drastic turn and leaves you "in the cold," so to speak.
I've really been thinking hard about this one coat at my work. But spending over $40for an item of clothing just brings out the skinflint in me. I may just have to break down soon and do it. There's seems to be so much more I can do with that money versus a coat i'll only wear for a season...or with just a few outfits depending on the color.
...I long for a time when I can look at a $40 personal purchase as a drop in the bucket. Until then, the new hoodie I got a few weeks ago will suit me fine. As long as I'm not out too long.
It seems I'm much more prone to cold weather this year. I've already undergone my first head cold of the season and passed with flying colors. My body's been much more sensitive to the chill and have found myself wanting to dress much warmer than I have in many years.
Hoodies and fleece (usually my mainstay), have been increasingly insufficient for me this past week. I've found myself wanting to invest in the things that I've never felt the need to browse before...heavy coats.
I don't think it's because it's getting much colder than any other year previously...I've just felt my body changing. The beau says that an adult's body chemistry starts to change at various points in their lifetime and I think this point in my life is one of those. Not only for the reaction to changes in the weather, but for other reasons as well. Things you were able to get away with all of sudden takes a drastic turn and leaves you "in the cold," so to speak.
I've really been thinking hard about this one coat at my work. But spending over $40for an item of clothing just brings out the skinflint in me. I may just have to break down soon and do it. There's seems to be so much more I can do with that money versus a coat i'll only wear for a season...or with just a few outfits depending on the color.
...I long for a time when I can look at a $40 personal purchase as a drop in the bucket. Until then, the new hoodie I got a few weeks ago will suit me fine. As long as I'm not out too long.
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Back in the Game As Well
So yeah, it's been a while. It's actually been because of particular parts of my personality. When I came back from my vacation trip to Nashville, I hard hurt my foot pretty bad during a sight-seeing walk we had taking and I had been wearing the wrong type of shoes. So upon my arrival back my regular workouts had to be halted because I could barely stand on my foot after dealing with being on it at work.
At this point at work I had also accepted a temporary position at work. During the holidays I am to be acting as the sole merchandiser for our $8million a year store and that's alot of hard work, stress, and pressure. When my foot wasn't hurting, I was emotionally spent from work. Since that time I think I've been to the gym about 3 times. And thus I fell back into the spiral of making excuses for not going to the gym, and even worse taken back on my bad eating habits.
Well, I'm ready to give myself a quick kick in the ass and continue up where I've left off. I hope that you all will welcome me back as I take up the reigns again. I'll post my starting measurements here in a few. I'm kinda scared to take a look considering what I had put in before.
I also think alot of the stress and emotional weight I've been experiencing here at home and at work has been because of my lack of not being at the gym to relieve all that. I've been an emotional wreck... especially in the last 3 weeks or so.
So, I'm sticking to my guns, my word and my future self.
At this point at work I had also accepted a temporary position at work. During the holidays I am to be acting as the sole merchandiser for our $8million a year store and that's alot of hard work, stress, and pressure. When my foot wasn't hurting, I was emotionally spent from work. Since that time I think I've been to the gym about 3 times. And thus I fell back into the spiral of making excuses for not going to the gym, and even worse taken back on my bad eating habits.
Well, I'm ready to give myself a quick kick in the ass and continue up where I've left off. I hope that you all will welcome me back as I take up the reigns again. I'll post my starting measurements here in a few. I'm kinda scared to take a look considering what I had put in before.
I also think alot of the stress and emotional weight I've been experiencing here at home and at work has been because of my lack of not being at the gym to relieve all that. I've been an emotional wreck... especially in the last 3 weeks or so.
So, I'm sticking to my guns, my word and my future self.
Monday, November 12, 2007
Me...Neville..?
Me...? Neville? Really, I guess if I take a step back and see the personality behind his exterior I can see it. I feel I'm a little more decisive on my own beliefs but I do also rely heavily on others. Definitely a surprise to me. I was kinda hoping I was leaning towards Lupin . *cry*
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Sweet Escape
Monday is the only time I REALLY sit down and watch television. Sure I watch a show or two on a daily basis but it's not really a have-to, I have Tivo...I can watch things when I can. But on Mondays... yeah there's no getting around it. Even with it recorded I have to watch this particular string of shows back to back and in their time frame. No questions or I'm disappointed.
It's funny how one will want an escape from the real world at times. To just sit back and temporarily forget all that's going on and dwell in the imagination. Only temporarily though, we can't forget our responsibilities. I connect with these shows in different ways. It's like seeing bits of my personality played our in front of my eyes.
It's even more needed now. This is my first holiday being the sole merchandiser for the store. Normally in the past I've just had a couple of departments or even just one department to work with. Back in the days when we had a Lead for each department. Ah the good old days when each department had a faithful attendant 40-hrs a week. Now with all the full-time and management cuts there's only a sole merchandiser for the whole store. Holiday is a crazy season. Getting shipped tons and tons of items for potential sale to gift-buying individuals. The inventory has been rather okay this round, just the short times between new books and new merchandise and presentations has left minute times to sell through the old (relatively speaking). Ah, the schizophrenic world of retail.
So an escape such as this is very much welcome. Every Monday is my escape day where I put nothing on my agenda after work (unless I decide to go the gym as well) and prepare my day for these shows. A night for me.
I thought about naming the shows but it's all relative. Some may not like or get them and it could ruin the post for some, which would totally miss the meaning. If you all want to, you can guess the shows. ^^ Given what most know about me already some could probably pinpoint them all and give a reason as to why. Anyways, it's close to bedtime. Have a good night all!
Note to self: I've recently found I use the word "really" quite a lot. During essay writing and blogging I find myself re-reading and editing around the multitudes of "really"'s I use. So my apologies if I've missed a couple hundred.
It's funny how one will want an escape from the real world at times. To just sit back and temporarily forget all that's going on and dwell in the imagination. Only temporarily though, we can't forget our responsibilities. I connect with these shows in different ways. It's like seeing bits of my personality played our in front of my eyes.
It's even more needed now. This is my first holiday being the sole merchandiser for the store. Normally in the past I've just had a couple of departments or even just one department to work with. Back in the days when we had a Lead for each department. Ah the good old days when each department had a faithful attendant 40-hrs a week. Now with all the full-time and management cuts there's only a sole merchandiser for the whole store. Holiday is a crazy season. Getting shipped tons and tons of items for potential sale to gift-buying individuals. The inventory has been rather okay this round, just the short times between new books and new merchandise and presentations has left minute times to sell through the old (relatively speaking). Ah, the schizophrenic world of retail.
So an escape such as this is very much welcome. Every Monday is my escape day where I put nothing on my agenda after work (unless I decide to go the gym as well) and prepare my day for these shows. A night for me.
I thought about naming the shows but it's all relative. Some may not like or get them and it could ruin the post for some, which would totally miss the meaning. If you all want to, you can guess the shows. ^^ Given what most know about me already some could probably pinpoint them all and give a reason as to why. Anyways, it's close to bedtime. Have a good night all!
Note to self: I've recently found I use the word "really" quite a lot. During essay writing and blogging I find myself re-reading and editing around the multitudes of "really"'s I use. So my apologies if I've missed a couple hundred.
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Back in the Fray
I know, I know, it's been quite a while since I posted. I'm going to ignore the whole catching up phase of blogging. Although I will say the beau has not made much progress in settling the deal on the house. Supposedly him and and the owner are going out to see the place tomorrow (which I've heard multiple times lately) and determine the work that needs to be done and for what price we'll be renting the place.
Work has been extremely frantic, in fact at times I've felt I'm going to tear my hair out, cry and go crazy all at the same time. Being the sole moves coordinator for seven departments during holday AND peak time for book and inventory changes can be extremely stressful. So I helped myself to a bit of meditation and a tad of drink today. Part of me thinks I need to get out now, the other says just bust through this and it'll lighten up after holiday. We'll see how well I hold up.
TJ went through quite a life-changing ordeal in that she hurt her back right knee jumping off the porch a week or so ago. We took her to the vet and it seems it's a heriditary thing in her dacschund (sp?) lineage. She's going to be fighting problems with her knees and leg joints for the rest of her life. It's so sad to see her hobbling around, not using her back leg. Makes me feel like I've failed her somewhat...but according to the vet it's nothing I could've prevented. It had to happen sometime. Now it's just an ordeal keeping her from dancing or begging. Anything against what we've taught her formerlly to keep her from putting pressure on her back leg joints. I'm currently looking for some doggy steps so that she doesn't have to leap on our bed anymore. She's barely makeing it anymore.
There's been a change in relationship for me personally between the roommate and her boys. She asked us to basically let her boys do as the wish and just inform her if they do anything wrong without putting in our own punishments. So that's how I'm acting now. I've taken a step back and I'm not going to try to instill my values or moral values on them.. They're good kids, but she's a very "modern" parent...talking about things, and giving time outs. Not that her way isn't valid, but her boys are at an age where those things don't mean much. They've learned to agree to things that they're not going to live up to get through a conversation, and to know that being neglected of certain things for a night is not too bad a thing. The biggest thing with me is that they have a certain disrespect for their mother. Don't get me wrong, on the whole they're great boys and awesome when in public places. But put them out of public and they know exactly how to take advantage of their mom. And that irks me to no ends. But upon her wish, she wants us to take a step back and let her discipline the kids. So I'm stepping back from "family" mode and stepping back into the "couple/mom with kids" mode I formally adopted when we first moved in together.
That's it in a nutshell, other than the fact of my studies but I want to cover that in another post, good night and sorry for my absence!
Work has been extremely frantic, in fact at times I've felt I'm going to tear my hair out, cry and go crazy all at the same time. Being the sole moves coordinator for seven departments during holday AND peak time for book and inventory changes can be extremely stressful. So I helped myself to a bit of meditation and a tad of drink today. Part of me thinks I need to get out now, the other says just bust through this and it'll lighten up after holiday. We'll see how well I hold up.
TJ went through quite a life-changing ordeal in that she hurt her back right knee jumping off the porch a week or so ago. We took her to the vet and it seems it's a heriditary thing in her dacschund (sp?) lineage. She's going to be fighting problems with her knees and leg joints for the rest of her life. It's so sad to see her hobbling around, not using her back leg. Makes me feel like I've failed her somewhat...but according to the vet it's nothing I could've prevented. It had to happen sometime. Now it's just an ordeal keeping her from dancing or begging. Anything against what we've taught her formerlly to keep her from putting pressure on her back leg joints. I'm currently looking for some doggy steps so that she doesn't have to leap on our bed anymore. She's barely makeing it anymore.
There's been a change in relationship for me personally between the roommate and her boys. She asked us to basically let her boys do as the wish and just inform her if they do anything wrong without putting in our own punishments. So that's how I'm acting now. I've taken a step back and I'm not going to try to instill my values or moral values on them.. They're good kids, but she's a very "modern" parent...talking about things, and giving time outs. Not that her way isn't valid, but her boys are at an age where those things don't mean much. They've learned to agree to things that they're not going to live up to get through a conversation, and to know that being neglected of certain things for a night is not too bad a thing. The biggest thing with me is that they have a certain disrespect for their mother. Don't get me wrong, on the whole they're great boys and awesome when in public places. But put them out of public and they know exactly how to take advantage of their mom. And that irks me to no ends. But upon her wish, she wants us to take a step back and let her discipline the kids. So I'm stepping back from "family" mode and stepping back into the "couple/mom with kids" mode I formally adopted when we first moved in together.
That's it in a nutshell, other than the fact of my studies but I want to cover that in another post, good night and sorry for my absence!
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