Ever have a day that feels like a dog is sitting on your head!? I have had just such a day and didn’t even realize that was how I felt until I saw this! These are our puppies doing their puppy thing! This made me laugh out loud though and so I thought it was worth sharing!Originally uploaded by annmariebryant.
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I am an only child. I spent my formative years with my mother (who admittedly will tell you that I raised her as much as she raised me!) and my father, who loved me, but was no Ward Cleaver! I grew up fast. One of my other role models growing up was my grandmother. I hold the utmost respect for both my mother and my grandmother. I look up to them and know that if I am lucky enough to be even a little similiar to them that I am truly blessed. My mom is a meek person by nature. Very smiley, but also very quiet. She doesn’t like to be the center of attention, (so I must get my theatrics from my paternal side) but despite all of that has a very adventerous, daring side to her. She jumps from helicopters and rides four wheelers! She has this amazing gift for capturing moments in time in the frames of a camera that have been powerful enough at times to make you cry! She is strong and smart and funny and caring and kind. She is my mom. : ) My grandma is also an amazing woman! She has a heart of gold and would give the shirt off her back to anyone who needed it! She is warm and strong and makes you want to be a better person just from being in her presense! She is 86 this year and until recently still bounced from one thing to another! She has slowed down some because she has lost several of her closest friends the last couple of years. Her light still shines brightly though and guides me so much more often than she will ever know! I want to grow up to be just like them!
One of the traits that both of these women share and they have passed down in spades is the need to worry! I am now and have always been a worrier! I worry about everything! I worry about my Grandma because she doesn’t seem as bouncy anymore and she has down days. I wish I could talk her into moving in with me! I would keep her so busy! She would love it! She refuses though! She loves her house and her street and her surroundings! I still worry! I also worry about my mom!! She was in a car accident last weekend. It was beyond her control completely, she hit a patch of hidden black ice and spun around before hitting an oncoming car. She walked away mostly unharmed, but totaled her truck and the vehicle of the other family. Her primary concern the whole time was for the other family. She is like that. I was immediatley worried about her, but felt some better after talking to her. I was ok until she sent me pictures of her truck. It put a lump in my throat seeing them and brought tears to my eyes. She is the mother and I am the daughter, but I worry! I worry because of who she is and how she enjoys her life! I will always admire and look up to her for the same reasons though that I worry!
Ok today is day 6 and I have made it through the first week of torture, I mean exercise!! Did I mention I hate this particular program ! LOL I worked out every day this week and did fairly well with my water and food! I am less sore now and am able to sit on the toilet unassisted! : ) So, I would say that is progress! LOL I was unable to resist the temptation of stepping on the scale this morning and have not lost or gained a thing. I am not at all surprised by this because I am aware of the whole fat to muscle heavier thing. I actually hopped off the scale more excited than ever! I know that I will not realistically see any results until about the end of the third week because I know how my body works! I will find the patience somewhere deep within to wait (at that point however if there is not some indication that the prior three weeks of torture, I mean exercise were productive I will run over that dvd with my van several times before melting it! : ) Big grin! Tomorrow will be a stretching workout which my body is begging for and then Monday starts the second pahse of the workout. Everything increases from the reps to the intensity. I also plan on increasing the weights I have been using. This phase will last two weeks and then I will move up to the last phase for the last three weeks. So, here’s to the first week down! Clank! Despite the whining I have thouroughly enjoyed the feeling of working my muscles again. I can feel the very slightest beginnings of things tightening and waking up! I am looking forward to next week! Have a happy day!
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The saddest thing happened today. We had a Valentine’s Party at the skating rink and there was a new little child there. I skated with her and talked to her several times throughout the party. I asked her who and where her mother was and she told me that she dropped her off there!! I asked the little girl how old she was and was astonished to find out that she was only 6!!! Her mother brought her and dropped her without letting anyone know and without even meeting any of us!! Then to make it worse at the end of the party her mother was not there to pick her up. She left her 6 year old child there unattended with a group of total strangers and was expecting her to call when the party was over. The child had no phone with her!! It broke my heart. I sincerely do not understand that in a world where so many bad things happen on a daily basis that a mother would…could do that to her own child?! We were a group of moms (and dads) who happen to be safe, but what if we didn’t question this and that little girl was left standing outside that rink by herself after everyone was gone? Anything could have happened to her!!! People are so unbelievable sometimes!! I don’t even leave my 7 year old alone at a birthday party with MY friends!! Maybe I am over protective, but these are my children!! The most amazing and wonderful thing I have ever done and I do not wish to be careless with that! Tonight when I turn out the lights and shut down the house I will do it knowing that my children are all well cared for and safe in ther beds.
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I did my workout tonight and roller skated for two hours today! My body is feeling very worn out from the newly added workouts! I am still very sore, but am excited about what I am doing! I have to admit though that 40 minutes into my workout tonight I started day dreaming about what exercise program will replace this one at the end of the 6 weeks! LOL Too soon for that…I think not!
I did fair with my water today…only about 60 oz. My food was not bad, but I think I had too few calories. My schedule was nutso and so I didn’t eat at regular intervals either. It is much harder for me to try to adhere to a schedule when I have to be out of the house.
Tomorrow is another full day, so I will have to be creative with both the food and water! Hope to work out first thing in the morning though. I do much better all the way around if I can check that off first thing! We had an unexpected animal emergency this morning and so I spent my work out time in the vet’s office.
I am off to bed now! I am really sleepy!
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Day 2!!
OOOOOUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCHHHHH!
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Well, I did it! I started my new fitness routine today! LOL I put on my cute little work out clothes and popped the dvd into the player and then some how I managed to get through the whole hour and the bonus abs section! I remembered about 4 minutes in why I HATE this particular program so much! The instructor is perky and perfect with what seems to be the inner makings of some sort of inhuman droid! She smiles through 25 minutes of squats and lunges and her favorite phrase is ’two more, ok now faster!!’ I found my new mantra about 34 minutes in…”It is only six weeks! I can do anything for six weeks!” Now here I sit almost 11 hours later and my thighs are starting to burn and curse my name! My abs are getting tight and seem to be making my face scrunch up when I try to do those silly things like walk and sit! This creates a problem in itself because with all this water I am trying to drink I am spending a ton of time in the potty! (which as we all know requires sitting!)
I took my measurements and weighed in, but have decided to hold off on posting them for a little bit. On the up side…I managed to drink 80 oz of water today, had a good food day and took all of my vitamins! : ) Day one down…41 to go!
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…So this morning my 7 year old was looking through and constructing her Valentine’s to be handed out on the big day! She was quiet for a long time and I could tell she was deep in thought about something! Then she says to me, “Mom, don’t you think it would be a good idea if they made a few that said ‘I don’t really like you, but my mom made me give one to you, so here…’ !!” I laughed out loud! : ) Ah, out of the mouths of babes!
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Ok, I thought the best way to get all this rolling was to set some goals! I want to be optimistic, but also do not want to set myself up for failure! I decided to go with a 666 plan! LOL I figured since this is going to be the work out from hell that it was only appropriate! Big grin!
666…
6-being the number of 8oz glasses of water I am going to try to drink in a day
6-being the number of pounds I hope to lose (1 pound a week seems reasonable/doable to me!)
6-being the number of inches I hope to lose
So there you have it…my goals for the next 6 weeks! I will take my measurements and weigh in tomorrow! I haven’t decided how often, if at all during the six weeks that I will reweigh and measure. I guess I will just play that by ear! I watched the first part of the workout tonight! The first week is a dialy one hour workout that includes almost 25 minutes of just squats and lunges…ugh! I can hear my thighs begging for mercy already! Then there is an additional 10 minute abs segment that you do three times a week. Wish me luck…I think I may need it! : )
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Walks in the rain…kisses from puppies…gorillas that smile…setting suns in a pink sky…warm hugs from your friends…fresh baked cookies and milk…sappy songs…the beach…when my mom says I make her proud…a loving look from acrossed the room…the sound of my children laughing…smiles from a stranger…singing off key and not caring…roller skating…walks in the woods…kittens that purr…dancing to the music in my head…bubble baths…Chinese food…chocolate milkshakes…gentle breeze in my face…my toes in the sand…movies that make me cry…lunch with a good friend…the smell of the ocean…hiccups and sneezing…laughing til it hurts…cows…warm, fuzzy socks…my husbands hand resting in the small of my back…thunderstorms at night…pink…fairies…teddy bears…chocolate cake!
