Let me see if I can hit everything...
Kathy - have fun with Cardio Hits. Is Cedie in those workouts? I was still in Sewell back when she made those workouts.
Ivy & Iris - B&G looks fun! Enjoy those workouts.
Lisa - do you like step classes or DVDs more? My school doesn't give many step classes as part of their staff workout program but I found out they actually give classes where they give you class credit (which makes you go, hmm...$65/term for the workout series of classes or $1000/unit for a term for a step class...grrrr). Since I'm on fellowship I don't pay for my academic units but IW as debating about taking the step class for credit.
Chris -- next time you fly by to see Kathy in Santa Monica you can drop by my place too. Though I've pretty much shuffled between the westside, pasadena, or downtown in the last 8 years here so I'm not sure where I'll be in the next year or two.
Joanne, that's really good abot the referral.
Beth, SLEEP. Sleep is good.
So, the problem with being a grad student is that you get stuck on crappy school health insurance which means you go to the Heatlh Center which means that you don't exactly get the best doctors in the world and sometimes that means you don't even get doctors. But anyway, after a little pushing from me the end result is just give my knee a couple more days of rest, what I was doing is fine...so nothing until Thursday at least. It seems that the impact may have jarred my alignment slightly and my kick sorta popped it into place but its just sore.
But in the meantime, I feel like a complete fattie. Seriously, 2.5 days of not eating right and exercising makes me feel this fat and show it up on the scale too - NOT COOL. My husband keeps on reminding me of the 2-day rule though. We're convinced it takes us about 2 days to see the effects of something whether its eating badly or working out really well. So if you ate badly of Friday you'll probably see it Sunday/Monday but not Saturday if you check the scale. Personally, I think its just a line we tell ourselves to not go crazy.
But got the High Step last night. Since I couldn't workout I made my husband workout on Cathe. It was hilarious. He kept on cursing at us NJ girls. He likes his High Step too...He always loves multitaskers so he's excited about having benches for when he lifts weights.
So, what have I been doing as I can't really walk around that much. Well, planning experiments and talking to vendors. But mostly...shopping. DH's bday is later this month so this is what I did...
first I reserved dinner for us here:
http://boheme.globaldiningca.com/ We pretty much go on three expensive dinners a year. One for my bday, one for his bday, and our anniversary. Most of our friends go out a lot more than us but I like going to splurge three times a year big time to a really a nice place than a bunch of not as nice places throughout the year.
Also, I just bought for him (and for me), the Hardcore Series. He's been totally thrilled about Cathe's weightlifiting. And Jen from Advanced Workouts is amazing! I emailed her asking if I could have Imax 3 from the bundle replaced with BM2 since I already had Imax3 and she was totally cool with it. So, I got ten Cathe DVDs for 199-10% to be 179.99 so <$18/DVD. So, I just pushed out a bunch of $$$ but we're probably going to stingy soon until Xmas and the IRS finally said they'd give us the economic stimulus check (we had to show extra paperwork that took forever to process beacuse they questioned one of our credits). So, hopefully it'll all work out.
Ahhh..see what happens when I'm limited to what I have to do in the day? I just blab blab blab....