August 09 Check In ***Weekend 1rst-2nd***

Kathy36

Cathlete
Good morning ladies..

Oh my!! August already!! Ok, today I am going to start Cathe's August rotation. So, I am doing MIS for my workout....

I was reading the blog about the road trip. It sounds so fun! Wish I was there..Tonight is also the big McCartney concert for hubby and I..Looking forward to it..

Now, time to get my day started..
 
Hi Ladies!


I am back from internet hell for now anyway.... seems I can get online early morning but then it soon goes down . This truely sucks eggs.


Today I have a 60 min. iTread on tap.

I've been finding lots more to do around here since I can't get online as I would like. I've started the painting process here :p I should be done w/ our master bathroom today, then onto the laundry room & kids bathroom. Been getting my son ready for his cruise trip too that he's going on this month with his friend & parents - lucky bum lol

I've also decided to go back to school so I start the end of this month. I'm a bit nervous but excited too. I've decided not to do my nursing refresher course at the moment as I was 'talking' to the NC state boards since there is no school close enough maybe when we move into Raleigh I'll go back into nursing but for now I want to do something different so I'll be taking some courses to get started on working behind the scenes in the lab. That's always interested me also. As long as everything goes well I'll be busy and will actually get out of the house more yippee!

I see that Cathe has posted the August rotation - Thanks Kathy for reminding me ;) I need to go update that thread before I get cut off from the net. I know every summer we have this issue and once we go into late August/ Sept it gets better.

Kathy MIS enjoy working those muscles :)

Big Hellos to Chris, Beth, Hottie & Joanne!


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HI ladies..

Vilma: Congrats on your decision to go back to school. That is exciting news for you!! Good luck..I don't envy you the painting though. Hope your internet problems are solved. We get that now and again too. Very frustrating!!

Ok, I am back...I finished MIS. It was tough...I was struggling today. Maybe I didn't let myself wake up enough. Oh well!! I feel I got a great workout. I lifted about what Cathe did on that workout....Now it is time to vacuum and do a little cleaning around here..
 
Good morning! I couldn't find the thread at first because I was looking for July!! :D It is hard to believe it's August......

Vilma, nice that you've gotten some stuff done around the house and yes, very exciting about going back to school!! I guess we knew you used to be a nurse, didn't we? but I had completely forgotten. Good for you! And yes, your son is lucky! Where is the cruise?

I am trying to have my Cathe road trip experience. :) I did the first premix on step blast, which is 41 minutes. Larry wants to take a walk up the road, but he's in the middle of some work thing, so here I am. So, we'll do an easy walk and then it's PUB for me. I just watched the intro because I couldn't remember if I wanted my step out still and she described what I had forgotten (duh, it is called pyramid afterall) and now I'm afraid! ;)

When I was doing step blast I was reminded of the thread that was a poll for your favorite Cathe move. Do you know she took all of those moves and incorporated them into the step routine at the road trip? She is amazing!! (well, maybe not all, but maybe all because there are a lot of repeats, I think). Anyway, it was so fun being in the room doing step at that point, because she'd call out the move and everyone would cheer. So much energy there -- I was not feeling that part this morning!! And, I'm sore in the upper body again from my kbell on Thursday, so this PUB workout will be interesting......

Kathy, I hope you guys really enjoy Sir Paul tonight -- how exciting, and how fun for you. You'll have to tell us about it.

Hello to everyone else -- maybe I'm double posting, and by the way, Chris, I think it was you who owed me the beer the other day! ;) Have a good one!
 
Hey Everyone!

It is August, isn't it?

Rabbit Rabbit! :p

I had MM on my schedule for today, but since next week starts with MIS, I did a circuit instead, LIC. My back is sore from sleeping on it weird. It didn't hurt with any of the moves, but it's just sore. Ugh. Anyways, LIC was fun, and flew by. I've been watching a few of the step classes on the RT Webcam, pretty cool!:D! At first I couldn't believe everyone was in sync , but then, Cathe is an excellent cu-er, just in her videos, she's one step ahead of it so you can follow her.

kathy: WTG on MIS! I will let you know how it goes for me on Monday! Yes, please give Sir Paul a big wave from me! That is going to be so exciting!! He will do Beatles songs too, no?

Vilma: That internet sounds so crazy there.... But I know what you mean, you do end up getting more done when you can't play on it. Sounds like you've been keeping busy!! Cool you'll be going back to school. From the sounds of it, is it for Medical Technology?

Beth: The RT looks so freakin cool! I told my boys about it last night, because I was watchign the Step Class, and they said, "Why don't you go?"... like I could just get in the car and GO! Wish it was that easy!! I watched some of the Step Class this morning, and then went and did LIC and totally imagined myself there. It was cool , but almost pathetic in a way! LOL!... Have fun with PUB today!! I really did enjoy it last week, I know you will!... Hey, we should just do double beers!

Hey to Joanne!... I was thinking of you last night. We watched "Marley and Me" and I remember you saying how it made you sad and how you felt it mimicked your life . It's weird, because I read the book and I didn't feel that way, but watching the movie I did. Some of the events and emotions were so familiar and it made my heart hurt. I bawled like a baby at the end, and it really made me miss our first dog. Wished I didn't see watch it... :(

The chaos and fighitng in this house are actually making me feel like i want to go to work. And it's pretty certain I'll be on another floor tonight too.. It's looking pretty nice compared to this crap :mad:
 
whimper, whimper...... oh oh oh -- that PUB killed me! My arms are fried!! I matched Cathe, almost! Actually went heavier on shoulders cause I forgot she starts with 3s. But on biceps I just couldn't keep up at all. I tried, but when it got to the heaviest I dropped, quite a bit! The only saving grace was that it seems as though they all were really struggling too. I skipped the abs -- have been doing a lot of abs lately it seems. Anyway, this is proof to me that I need to go back to splits and more Cathe work, as much as I enjoy the total body stuff.

Has anyone been watching some of the streaming stuff? I have caught only a teeny bit here and there. Fun!

We didn't have our walk yet -- breakfast now, and then maybe a walk.
 
Hey you guys are slacking!! :D Good morning! Chris, how was work? Hopefully all went well.

I did PLB this morning -- this time I did dumbbells for the 12 and 10 counts and left my barbell heavy for the 8 count -- worked out pretty well that way. That ball work is tough -- Chris you had asked about barre workouts -- the ball work in PLB sort of feels the way barre work makes me feel -- really gets in there deep, if that makes sense.

I think we're going to be heading out on our road trip Thursday, so have to make the best use of my days leading up to it -- not sure how I'll adjust. And, I really like the looks of the August rotation, so I may slide it out a week to hit everything -- we'll see! I'm always adjusting, it seems, as you know.

Hope everyone has a great day -- we may head to the beach..... we sort of need a nothing day. Larry cleared a bunch of plants yesterday so we can plant citrus, and then we moved all the very heavy potato bins to the garden so we could get them on the drip irrigation for when we're gone. It was about 24 bins, I think! Very heavy.....
 
P.S. Joanne, Chris and I were watching the streaming video from the RT yesterday and apparently they said that Cathe will be doing one in Chicago! I told Chris we ought to meet up there so we can all meet and be at a Cathe RT -- wouldn't that be fun?!
 
Hey Girls!!..

A little change in plans this weekend. I noticed while looking at my work schedule that I was off, as requested , on Saturday , the 8th... BUT , they didn't give me off the SUnday the 9th!!! :mad: So I looked at the staffing for tonight, and they had on an extra nurse, so I asked if I could have TONIGHT off and they worked it out for me! Somehow, doing just one night is less tiring than the 2 in a row. You can take ANY patient for ONE night, it's hard to go back to work to patients that are difficult to take care of (and I had one of those last night). So I'm OFF! heheehee!

Hey Beth: Funny, I think for the first time I actually did PLB with the barbell all the way through. Except for the deadlifts. The ball work IS killer on that one, I agree!! Not my favorite. ..... So are you not starting the AUG rotation , then, Beth or not? I didn't understand your post. OH wait, you mean you'll just make up the workouts and get them ALL in, even if you miss a day? I'm going to start this week, and then just wing it around the days we're away (I think they will be Wed and Thurs). I could probably slide it out too to make them up, and work out on Sunday. ...... The RT stuff yesterday was cool to see!!

Kathy: Did you make it back from the concert??? Or did you become a Paul McCartney roadie/ groupie??? Hope you had fun!!!

YES! Joanne, you got room at your house for me and Beth and Vilma and Hottie???? ;) Seriously, maybe we could work something out. That would be TOOO freakin cool. Though if it falls on a weekend, I'm kind of sunk.... we'll definitely see !!!

It's nice not to have to go to work, but it's raining AGAIN, and the boys are cooped up , and DH is getting cranky, again... ick.
 
Chris, yes, I meant that I like the looks of the Aug. rotation so much that I may just keep doing it as planned even if we are gone a week. But, I was thinking that if I do IMAX 3 tomorrow as planned, I just might be able to squeeze in GS for Tues/Wed/Thurs, but maybe that is nuts because my arms are still really sore from yesterday! :) I'll figure it out......

And yes, I wondered if Kathy had been whisked off by Paul, too. :)

I'm pretty sure the RT would fall on a weekend since that's when most of us have off. Hmmmmm. It would be so very cool if we could all meet up for it, don't you think?!
 

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