August 09 Check In ***Thursday 6th***

[Kathy36]

Good morning ladies..

Getting us started today...

Workout rotation says to do biking today. But, I will probably hop on my elliptical instead! Today is our library day. We will be doing that this afternoon...

Ok, time to get the kids up and started with the day..

Talk to you later..

 

[jojobean]

Hi Kathy and all that follow! Enjoy your elliptical today. If my tires have air, I may do the scheduled bike ride on Saturday. Should be fun.

Beth, I hear ya on the Lasik. Are you wearing glasses now or is your vision good enough to go without? Mine dropped to less than 20/60 in the eye that needs the procedure. I'm really having trouble reading signs when driving. Sometimes I regret doing it, but I'll have a definite opinion after I see how this all goes next week. Right after the enhancement (my first Lasik didn't improve my vision enough and I had to go back) I was 20/20. It was amazing! Lasted only a couple weeks. Then my vision in my right eye started getting funky cause of the cell growth. If I'm 20/20 again in that eye after this I'll be happy. My left eye wasn't corrected all the way so I can read without glasses. Yes, five retainers. Luckily our orthodontist hasn't charged us for all of them - he's really good about stuff like that. But, I'm sure it's going to get to a point where he will. DH says he saw it somewhere in the house - but we cleaned really well before the party last weekend and didn't find it.

Well, I did my first Insanity workout today. I did the plyo cardio circuit one. The jury's still out. I loved it up until the last set of drills with the push-ups and in and out abs stuff. I hate those kind of things cause I can barely do them! But, I guess that's the point, right? You know how when something is built up so much, like a movie or a book and you're expecting it to totally blow you away and it's just "OK". Maybe if you hadn't heard all the hype you would have like it more? Cause your expectations were so high? I think that's kind of how I felt with the workout. It was intense, but I think I work just as hard with an Imax or an itread. But, it was the first workout and I'm sure doing 4 or 5 of them a week would be tough. I am excited to start the rotation - I'm not sure when yet though. Oh, I'm not sure how long till I can workout after the eye thing. I'm thinking 2-3 days and then just light stuff. Not sure if I'll continue with the August rotation or move to Insanity right away.

I think football finally caught up with Colin last night. He went to soccer practice with Jameson and the coach needed another player to make even scrimmage teams, so he asked Colin to play. This was right before football. So, he played an hour of soccer, then went to his two-hour football practice. The poor kid was exhausted when he came home. I didn't even make him shower - I told him he could wait till the morning. He said the coaches picked out all the lineman last night and he wasn't one. Yea! He said they started with all the kids over 100 pounds and went down from there. Well, Colin is lucky if he's 70, so he was safe.

Chris, hope you are enjoying beach?

Beth, did you decide when and where you are going yet?

Waves to Hottie and Vilma!

This weekend DH is taking Jameson to a soccer tournament in Rockford for the weekend, so it'll be just me and the rest of the kids at home. I told Ian he could have a friend sleep over, since we'll have an extra bed.

I'm rambling....must go!

Joanne

 

[hottiescientist]

Hey guys -- eventually I'll read up on all the threads to catch up. My mom was great my husband was not. I don't know what i'm going to do but I did the really stupid thing of not working out for the last week which probably could have kept my spirits up. But that's all going to change today. I had intended to IM2 (my go to feel good workout) but Joe wanted to go in together so I think its going to be an elliptical run at the school gym...and....maybe...starting 1RM testing because I ordered STS! My mom gave me some $$$ to spend on MYSELF and I ended up buying it from Jen at Advanced Workouts who gave me a sizable discount so yay, STS in a couple days. Eek, I have to do all those 1RMs!!

Kathy -- I would love to do biking again but when the heat dies down. I would hop on the elliptical too -- in fact that's what i'm planning to do!

Joanne -- what's all this lasik talk? If we didn't get the house this year we were going to get me lasik since my vision has held steady for years. I'm pretty good in one eye and really bad in the other. I totally know what you mean about the hype though...I hope it meets it. Sounds like your boys are so athletic! Poor child must have slept hours last night!!

Ugh, dealing with everyone asking me where the hell I was for the last couple days...

 

[ShyWolf]

Hi all!

I'm still dealing with the sickies but thank goodness for motrin if it wasn't for those darling pills I would be out for the count

I've not worked out since Saturday and I'm getting quite anxious about it but it's been one hellva crazy busy week. Taking kids to various appointments, blood tests yada, yada, yada. I just want to be able to sneak away for a bit and catch up on some sleep

As of today, I am now an official returning college student lol thank goodness all my credits from when I was in school for nursing still carries over so I just need to focus on what the curriculum needs extra for the program I'm going into.

Having no financial assistance sucks big time oh well. The bill has been paid for tuition & books and now I just need to wait until the end of the month when classes start.

Looking at my schedule it looks like I'll be doing the 4am wake ups to get in my workouts before I need to get the kids up and out for school and the family will need to chip in more around the house as far as household duties. They better or this place is gonna get sloppy.

Also last night I didn't sleep much at all since my youngest got bit by a nasty fire ant and her entire left foot is swollen, red and painful for her. Poor thing was crying last night. So at the moment she's soaking her foot in an oatmeal bath I had to go and buy. So far so good as she says it doesn't hurt so much - keeping my fingers crossed that this stuff does the job. Oy!

Joanne good luck w/ the Lasik. I had mine done 3 yrs ago and thank goodness so far so good. Hmmm about Insanity, I was curious about those workouts but not really interested in all that jumping. Please keep up your reviews as depending on what you think I may want to put it on my wishlist.

Hottie thats so neat that you'll be getting STS soon- Good for you

Kathy sounds like a nice day you have planned Library day sounds so lovely - I have been so busy with painting and errands that I've had no time to read

Big Hellos to Chris & Beth

 

[bitmover]

Hey everyone! Sorry for the late checkin -- our internet at home completely bit the dust. Larry thinks it was partially flakey because the box would get hot (it's in our attic, and it gets really hot up there!). Well, now the thing still sort of says it's booting, but Larry said it smells like fried equipment up there and it's just dead, dead. So, I'm at work now wrapping up a few things and we will leave tomorrow. We got a book on California lakes from our friends last night, and after looking at that, Larry says we may as well just stay in CA -- looks like some really good places to explore. We're taking the canoe.....

Joanne, I also had each eye done with a different prescription -- one distance, one close -- so that I wouldn't need reading glasses. So, I never wound up with great distance vision and it seems like it's just deteriorated. I do not wear glasses because I have none that would be the right prescription -- I just can't read things very well!! Signs on the roads and whatnot...

Wow, Colin must have been so pooped! Good for him. Hopefully he will not burn out! And yea on the no lineman!

Oh, and yes I know what you mean about the hype. My experience with the preview disc was that my hrm showed it was no better, and maybe not as good as, an imax or a cc run. But, I also told myself that maybe if I kept up better those numbers would be better, but I just couldn't make myself do it!

Vilma, a fire ant?! Yikes! How are you feeling? Better? I hope. Crazy about 4am workouts. I'm getting really nervous about having to get back on that early schedule for school!

Hottie, that's very cool about STS!! When do you think you'll start it? I think Chris wants to do another go around in Sept. Just fyi......

Ok, I'd better get things wrapped up..... this may be it for me for a week or so. Oh, yeah, forgot to mention that I did ME this morning and I think I will have nice doms from it. Those endless bicep reps in that one kill me! And I was so done by the time I got to abs but I made myself go through it.

Seeeeeya!