Buff Badgers Mon 12/19

[lvnascar]

Morning BB's,

Today will be PUB Triceps/Bicep, Abs, and a 30 min. Interval Run. I will be getting my eyes checked today, so I'm taking a half day of vacation.

Sue, Feel for you today with the co-worker. I actually was carpooling with a friend that got fired. That was an awful drive home. x( I was thinking of doing the Aug05 rotation for January also. Have a feeling I will need it after the holidays.

Sarah, love the pics of your son.

This weekend went by too quickly, but I did get most of my shopping in. Only have my niece to get for. Cut-out cookies and some caramel popcorn made. Plus made dinner last night. I made Pork Tenderloin, Potato Pancakes, Buttered Carrots, and Blueberry Pie (DH's fav). I was a cooking and baking machine. :9 Of course I had way more wine than I should have, didn't want to get up this morning.

Have a great day!

Laurie

 

[Pedmom]

Hey Buff Girls!

Sue-good luck today. I know you will be feeling a little stressful, but try to enjoy your work lunch.

Laurie-hey Suzy Homemaker! LOL. Your dinner (and dessert) sounds great! Yum! I finally did my wrapping on Saturday. I don't mind the shopping but I am not a fan of wrapping. I stupidly sat on the living room floor to do it and my back is still feeling achy. These almost 40 y/o bones can't take it anymore!

Not sure what my workout will be today.I think a Firm workout. I hope you guys won't kick me out of the group cuz I haven't been doing many Cathe workouts! It's going to be awhile before I get back to Cathe-i'm not up to the intensity right now. Plus I have the Tracie Long workouts coming, hopefully shipping starts tomorrow. I will be doing a TL rotation for about a month. I need to work on my core and get my back in better shape, and the TL workouts really focus on core work, even in the cardio dvds.

I have to tell you guys how great our little group is! I know we don't post THAT much, but this group is so nice. I got the nicest email last night! Marie knows that I went through a tough breakup a few months ago and invited me to spend Christmas Eve with her family! (Marie I hope you don't mind me telling everyone). I just thought that was the sweetest thing ever! Fortunately I have a ton of family here and will be spending the holidays with them. But it was so nice I just had to say thanks for thinking of me publicly!

Have a great Monday ladies! Anyone else have a short week? We are off on Friday and Monday!
Jill


ETA: If anyone is on Netflix and wants to be my "friend" let me know! I just joined this weekend and am really excited about it. I am one person who will get her money's worth out of it!! My email is [email protected]

 

[sln]

Morning!

Over the weekend, I did Cardio & Weights for the first time. My abs are killing me still. Then on Sunday I did Pyramid Lower Body, and my glutes and hamstrings are talkin' to me today.

Today my rotation calls for Circuit Max. So we'll see if I can fit that in, between dipping cream cheese balls and making cookies. Do a lunge, eat a cream cheese ball, do another lunge, eat a sugar cookie.

We had to cancel our trip to Iowa because Henry came down with a fever and a long car trip just didn't seem like a good idea. Missed the family Christmas :-( On the up-side, got to watch A LOT of cartoons laying in bed with Henry.

I'm pretty much done with shopping except for odds, ends and groceries.

Laurie - great job cooking and baking! Potato pancakes - YUM! And pie, too? Do you make your own crust? That's the part of pie-making that scares me. The crust is everything! My Mom is a crust maestro and intimidates the heck out of me.

Hope everyone has a great day!

 

[chewy15]

Good morning,

Today is a rest day for me. On Friday I did yoga, Saturday I did Circuit Max cardio and lower body only and PUB up only premix, and yesterday I did KPC. Saturday we also did hours of shopping, and yesterday I helped my mom bake cookies, so it was a busy weekend!

Today is eating day at work. I've already had a brownie and some egg nog, and I have some M&Ms sitting here on my desk. Hopefully I can be strong I have a feeling I'm going to eat a lot today.

I'm taking Friday afternoon off, then all of next week too. I'm meeting my boyfriend in Indy on Sunday (he's leaving this Friday), and we'll spend a couple of days with his family. I'm hoping to see some friends from high school while I'm there too. Should be fun. I love vacation

Have a great day!

Ellen

 

[Marie1120]

RE: Morning!

Hi BBs,
Sorry for being AWOL for so long. Life is hectic. I did 12 kinds of cookies between Friday and Saturday and grocery shopping all over town yesterday for this coming weekend.

I did get to read last week but it was usually late in the day so didn't bother to post. So here I am also confessing to my Diet Coke addiction. I have cut down on the caffiene though by switching to caffiene free at night. I am another one that needs to work on drinking more water - just wish I could learn to like it.

Jill - glad you have plans and didn't mind you sharing my invite. An evening with DH's family would help anyone appreciate being alone. I am always so glad to see them leave. Too bad yougest step son might be staying the night. But he may change his mind and decide to go back home to be with his Mommy. Very weird kid although technically an adult - 19 years old. Could be some good stories for our next BB get together!

I would do more lunges if they were alternated with cheese and cookies!

My goal this week is to just do something and then focus on better workouts after Christmas is over.

Sue - I read about what was going on for you today! It must really have been necessary to not wait until after Christmas or someone is a real Scrooge. Still not a good situation for anyone.

We had a neighbor die unexpectedly on Friday so have the visitation to go to this week. Also have someone coming to try to finish up some projects - like fixing the holes in the drywall..... Would be nice to have this stuff done before company but only so much time left.

This time next week things will be over and can start to return to normal! Yeah!!

Have a good day BBs!

 

[Pedmom]

Marie-LOL @ being alone is better than DHs family! I was lucky when I was married--I loved (still do) my ex's family and still see them frequently. I suppose once my boys are grown that will change. Ex's mom and I always sit and catch up at DS16's sporting events. It's fun. We were just talking last night at bowling about how "odd" my relationship is with my ex-h. We like each other! LOL. My bowling friends thought it was "different" that I was talking about a present for ex-h. But it's from the kids! They like to be able to give us a gift. And I'm with you on looking forward to getting past the holidays and back to normal life. I have GOT to hunker down and lose the weight I've gained!

Sarah-LOL @ your baking lunges. I'm sorry you had to cancel your family trip. Is DS better now? One of my friends missed bowling last night cuz her DS is really sick and she didn't want to leave him with a sitter. I love C&W! Were you humming Buttercup all day? I always have trouble getting that song out of my head when I do C&W. It also reminds me of the end of There's Something About Mary.

Ellen-have fun on vacation! We'll miss your posts! I am technically taking vacation next week but will most likely be keeping up on email and phone calls (I work from home and never really get 100% away from work). Plus I dont' want to come back on the 2nd to 1,000 messages!

 

[thea77]

Hi BBs!

This morning was LIS and the sculpting workout on that DVD. I actually feel I got a decent workout in. For the next week or so I figure any workout is better than none!

Sue, good luck today!

Laurie, can you cook for all of us! Just kidding, ;-) .

Jill, we won't kick you out (see above in my post!). Keep it up!

Marie, welcome back!

Ellen, we have a holiday party here on Thursday and I am sure I will be tempted all day as well. Only one more week and the season will be over! Just take little bits of things!

Fairly quiet at work today, hope it stays that way. I work everyday this week, but have next Mon off, then a couple more days before New Years. Hope everyone is doing well!

-Thea

 

[shakeubooty]

Hi, guys. Just a quick post because I need to go home and do stuff...

Well, the deed is done. They fired our webmaster who was doing some things he shouldn't have and had been warned before. Crappy time of year to get fired but they were afraid of giving him more time to do God-knows-what. At least I don't have to worry about keeping my mouth shut anymore but I still feel bad for him. At least he doesn't have a family to support.

Very busy weekend. Did lots of organizing of junk in the basement, wrapped gifts, made cookies and veggie pizzas. Here's how I did as far as workouts go: GS BSB on Saturday, Circuit Max on Sunday, rest day today. Short work week (off on Friday) but lots to do before the holiday break.

I've been following the BFL way of eating for the past week and on Saturday the scale rewarded me (woo hoo!) I'm down 3 pounds from my previous low so down 8 pounds since the summer! Had my free day on Saturday so I don't dare weigh myself for a few days. My next free day will be Christmas day so I'm going to try really, really hard to stick to that. At our potluck today I had a small barbecue, slice of veggie pizza and lots of raw veggies and pickles to fill up my plate. Put some dessert on my plate to take home to the kids. That way I don't get the "Why aren't you eating?" hassle.

Everyone stay warm!

Sue

 

[shakeubooty]

Jill - LOL at kicking you out of our group for not doing Cathe w/o's! I like hearing about other instructors. Haven't bought much else since the Cathe pre-order though cuz I feel guilty about spending $ all the time on exercise tapes.

And yes, I agree we have some very nice members in our little group.