I'm sorry, I'll admit that I almost forgot about you, dear blog. However, just before you fell off my radar, I remembered some of my friends' blogs and that prompted me to remember my OWN blog. So, here I am, after a very nice spring break, getting ready to finish the semester.
About 10 days ago I left for Missouri and got back yesterday! Classes resumed today!! Ahhhh! It's nice to be back in the swing of things, but I'll admit it took a little while to remember how. Breaks like this always remind me of afternoon naps. They're really nice, but more often than not I wake up feeling slightly groggy and a bit disoriented. When I flew back yesterday, I had to take a few minutes to get my thoughts in order and figure out what I needed to do to get ready for the week. This included trying to recall my schedule, classes, obligations, and everything else you disregard when on a vacation.
But, after a successful day, things are back on track. Whew! The only thing that isn't exactly on track is my exercise regime. Yeah, about that, I didn't do everything I had planned while on vacation. That's not to say I did NOTHING--I just didn't do the norm. So, starting tomorrow I'm going to get back in the swing of things. Summer is so close (swimsuits and cute summer clothes!!) and my pretty Easter dress would look so much better on me if I would shed half an inch (or a few pounds).
Last thing to note is I spent my first night alone in the new apartment last night. It was nice; nothing overly thrilling, but it did feel good to stay at my own place. There are still several boxes lying around, but things are organized such that I can walk around and get to what I need. The boxes mainly contain books and winter clothes. They will be unpacked as I go along. I've got the important things: a bed, a bathroom, towels, soap, toothbrush, coffee and coffee maker, bread, peanut butter, warm water and electricity. I'm not sure I NEED much else :)
Tomorrow it's back to working out, eating right and finishing the last 4 weeks of my first year as a college teacher! Yaya!
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Moving right along
These days, things seem to happen really quickly around here. I can't believe it's been almost a week-or maybe a full week-since I last blogged. Last weekend was nice. My mom, dad, and middle sister came to visit. While they were in town, a few of my other aunts (mother's sisters) came to visit as well. We had a nice time catching up, eating, laughing, etc.
Since I've been so busy, I haven't been able to keep up with my workouts as I'd like. I didn't work-out yesterday or today, unless you count moving boxes and furniture into my apartment exercise. Now that I think about it, I don't feel so bad since I did move all that stuff (by myself). Speaking of apartment, it has almost everything in it (besides what I've got here at my grandparents' house, which, admittedly, is a lot). I'm looking forward to unpacking boxes and rummaging through stuff that's been packed away for a year or more. Hopefully I'll have a super cute and ORGANIZED apartment one of these days.
However, that won't happen until after next week. Tomorrow I leave for Missouri (yay!!) to see my boyfriend and some other girlfriends. We'll be spending some time in St. Louis as well as at camp getting ready for the summer. Hopefully we'll also make it to a winery (surprisingly, Missouri has a lot of really nice wineries) and do some hiking. The weather is supposed to be nice and springy :)
I also thought I should do a quick update on some of the things I've been doing for my 30th year project.
1.) I've almost finished the "Hunger Games" series! Great series and I'm excited to see the movie
2.) I'm still working out and although I haven't done EVERY day of P90, I feel good about how I'm doing.
3.) The car purchase may be put on hold since I decided to rent an apartment, but I feel okay about that. Living in my own place (without roommates) has been something I've wanted to do for a real long time.
4.) I've made some big payments on my credit cards and MAY be done paying them off before summer is over. Of course, I've got to do some budgeting since the apartment will bring new expenses.
5.) I've lost 5 of 50 pounds. Not bad at all; I'm actually on track and now that I've begun to lose weight, I'll start losing more if I keep at it.
6.) No work on the writing or publications...yet. (Unless you count blogging!) Recently I've had several people my grandparents' age tell me they knew my biological grandmother and how great she was. I'm thinking I would like to do learn more about her and consider that as a book or document to put together for my mom and her siblings.
7.) I'm a tiny bit behind on the letter writing, but that's okay. At least I'm writing letters.
8.) I'm thinking I'll work on donating money to either cancer research or diabetes research. Right now I'm doing the cancer research since Relay for Life is approaching at the end of the month.
9.) Speaking of Relay, I'll be running another 5K in May for cancer fundraising. Working on more running so I can (hopefully) do a half marathon.
So, that's the update for now. I don't have my list of 30 things in front of me, but I know of those of the top of my head.
Hope you're well! I'll try to give some updates while traveling in Missouri!
Since I've been so busy, I haven't been able to keep up with my workouts as I'd like. I didn't work-out yesterday or today, unless you count moving boxes and furniture into my apartment exercise. Now that I think about it, I don't feel so bad since I did move all that stuff (by myself). Speaking of apartment, it has almost everything in it (besides what I've got here at my grandparents' house, which, admittedly, is a lot). I'm looking forward to unpacking boxes and rummaging through stuff that's been packed away for a year or more. Hopefully I'll have a super cute and ORGANIZED apartment one of these days.
However, that won't happen until after next week. Tomorrow I leave for Missouri (yay!!) to see my boyfriend and some other girlfriends. We'll be spending some time in St. Louis as well as at camp getting ready for the summer. Hopefully we'll also make it to a winery (surprisingly, Missouri has a lot of really nice wineries) and do some hiking. The weather is supposed to be nice and springy :)
I also thought I should do a quick update on some of the things I've been doing for my 30th year project.
1.) I've almost finished the "Hunger Games" series! Great series and I'm excited to see the movie
2.) I'm still working out and although I haven't done EVERY day of P90, I feel good about how I'm doing.
3.) The car purchase may be put on hold since I decided to rent an apartment, but I feel okay about that. Living in my own place (without roommates) has been something I've wanted to do for a real long time.
4.) I've made some big payments on my credit cards and MAY be done paying them off before summer is over. Of course, I've got to do some budgeting since the apartment will bring new expenses.
5.) I've lost 5 of 50 pounds. Not bad at all; I'm actually on track and now that I've begun to lose weight, I'll start losing more if I keep at it.
6.) No work on the writing or publications...yet. (Unless you count blogging!) Recently I've had several people my grandparents' age tell me they knew my biological grandmother and how great she was. I'm thinking I would like to do learn more about her and consider that as a book or document to put together for my mom and her siblings.
7.) I'm a tiny bit behind on the letter writing, but that's okay. At least I'm writing letters.
8.) I'm thinking I'll work on donating money to either cancer research or diabetes research. Right now I'm doing the cancer research since Relay for Life is approaching at the end of the month.
9.) Speaking of Relay, I'll be running another 5K in May for cancer fundraising. Working on more running so I can (hopefully) do a half marathon.
So, that's the update for now. I don't have my list of 30 things in front of me, but I know of those of the top of my head.
Hope you're well! I'll try to give some updates while traveling in Missouri!
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Busy days
I've been horrible about writing here...and I'm sorry for that. But, you know, life is busy and things happen, so our best plans are often changed to something entirely different.
Anyway, I figured I might as well write a little update.
Yesterday I joined the other millions of lease-bound adults by signing on (for the first time ever) to rent my very own apartment! I'm excited and nervous. Plus kinda sad about leaving my grandparents when my granddad is so sick. It is such a bittersweet situation. However, once I found out I'd be coming back to my job next year, I decided it was time to stop commuting an hour to work and get an apartment in town. This will open up so many new opportunities for me to make friends, become more involved on campus, and learn to live solo!
As of right now, the only furniture I have is a bed, t.v. shelf and chest of drawers. I don't have a t.v., couch, chairs...nothing. However, those things will come with time. In fact, I think it will be pretty fun getting to decorate an apartment from scratch! I'm going to spend some time searching used furniture stores and try to get some lightly used retro furniture. I want my apartment to be funky!
In other news, my brother is back home as of today! In fact, he is probably getting ready to land in Louisiana and see his family for the first time in nine months. I'm so proud of him for serving in the military, and also very ready for him to be back home and not in Afghanistan.
My parents and sister will be here this weekend, which means I probably won't be updating too much. Hopefully I'll do some moving and get my bed set up in the apartment. The power has been transferred to my name and the water is on, so as long as I've got a place to sleep I can stay there until I'm all moved in and ready to go.
Workouts have been okay. And only okay, which is disappointing. I feel like I've been so busy that I haven't had time to do the 'hardcore' exercising I'd like to do PLUS all of my other obligations. One day I'm going to learn to say no ;)
How's you, dear reader?
Anyway, I figured I might as well write a little update.
Yesterday I joined the other millions of lease-bound adults by signing on (for the first time ever) to rent my very own apartment! I'm excited and nervous. Plus kinda sad about leaving my grandparents when my granddad is so sick. It is such a bittersweet situation. However, once I found out I'd be coming back to my job next year, I decided it was time to stop commuting an hour to work and get an apartment in town. This will open up so many new opportunities for me to make friends, become more involved on campus, and learn to live solo!
As of right now, the only furniture I have is a bed, t.v. shelf and chest of drawers. I don't have a t.v., couch, chairs...nothing. However, those things will come with time. In fact, I think it will be pretty fun getting to decorate an apartment from scratch! I'm going to spend some time searching used furniture stores and try to get some lightly used retro furniture. I want my apartment to be funky!
In other news, my brother is back home as of today! In fact, he is probably getting ready to land in Louisiana and see his family for the first time in nine months. I'm so proud of him for serving in the military, and also very ready for him to be back home and not in Afghanistan.
My parents and sister will be here this weekend, which means I probably won't be updating too much. Hopefully I'll do some moving and get my bed set up in the apartment. The power has been transferred to my name and the water is on, so as long as I've got a place to sleep I can stay there until I'm all moved in and ready to go.
Workouts have been okay. And only okay, which is disappointing. I feel like I've been so busy that I haven't had time to do the 'hardcore' exercising I'd like to do PLUS all of my other obligations. One day I'm going to learn to say no ;)
How's you, dear reader?
Sunday, March 4, 2012
Zombie 5K
Did the Zombie Run 5K yesterday. It was HARD. I've never experienced mud like I did on that track. Because of the rain, and the fact that the trail used was (already) a muddy dirt track, the whole thing was nothing but sopping, sticky red clay mud. Fortunately, it came out of almost everything I was wearing. My socks are stained and the insides of my shoes have a bit of stain, but overall everything cleaned up really nicely.
It took me 1hr 20min to run the 5K. There were a few reasons it took so long:
1.) The mud. It was like running in slippery sand.
2.) The obstacles (naturally, they'll slow you down)
3.) The zombies (duh)
4.) Trail running (much harder than road and treadmill running)
My average time on a TREADMILL is 45 minutes, so 80min is to be expected with these type of conditions.
The biggest thing I'm taking from this is that I'd like to practice running on trails more. The day before the race I bought a new pair of running shoes (that I did NOT wear on race day). While talking to the salesperson (who also fitted me for shoes and got me a pair that will work best for my stride), we discussed trail running. Apparently it's not only better for your joints (knew that already), but it also give you a much better overall workout. You are forced to use your core and arms for balance, so you're working on full body rather than mostly legs (street running). Plus, it's nicer to be in nature!
I plan on doing more running over the next few months so I can run a 5K without stopping. I'm going to sign up for some 5Ks and hopefully a 10K or two. Maybe by October/November I can start training for a 1/2 marathon.
Now for the not so good news. I missed a workout last week :( For the first time since starting P90, I actually didn't do a day's exercise. That's kinda sad, but I don't fee HORRIBLE. I pushed myself really hard with the 5K, so at least the week wasn't a total waste. However, I've got to keep on track this next week. My family will be in town Friday-Monday. Their visit will be a big distraction; however, I'm determined to keep focused. I may alter my workouts so my sister and/or mother can join, but I'll still do something!
Gotta stay focused!
It took me 1hr 20min to run the 5K. There were a few reasons it took so long:
1.) The mud. It was like running in slippery sand.
2.) The obstacles (naturally, they'll slow you down)
3.) The zombies (duh)
4.) Trail running (much harder than road and treadmill running)
My average time on a TREADMILL is 45 minutes, so 80min is to be expected with these type of conditions.
The biggest thing I'm taking from this is that I'd like to practice running on trails more. The day before the race I bought a new pair of running shoes (that I did NOT wear on race day). While talking to the salesperson (who also fitted me for shoes and got me a pair that will work best for my stride), we discussed trail running. Apparently it's not only better for your joints (knew that already), but it also give you a much better overall workout. You are forced to use your core and arms for balance, so you're working on full body rather than mostly legs (street running). Plus, it's nicer to be in nature!
I plan on doing more running over the next few months so I can run a 5K without stopping. I'm going to sign up for some 5Ks and hopefully a 10K or two. Maybe by October/November I can start training for a 1/2 marathon.
Now for the not so good news. I missed a workout last week :( For the first time since starting P90, I actually didn't do a day's exercise. That's kinda sad, but I don't fee HORRIBLE. I pushed myself really hard with the 5K, so at least the week wasn't a total waste. However, I've got to keep on track this next week. My family will be in town Friday-Monday. Their visit will be a big distraction; however, I'm determined to keep focused. I may alter my workouts so my sister and/or mother can join, but I'll still do something!
Gotta stay focused!
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