Hello all. It felt so good to wake up at 7 instead of 5 and to be off! I cannot wait for summer! I walked Baxter this morning. It was freezing cold because of the wind, so we went the opposite way to have the wind to our backs instead of our faces. Then I did Xtrain D3, Burn Sets Chest, Back and Shoulders.
DH is off and we are taking the boys to see the Lego movie this afternoon, so I am glad I got my workout in already. I may take Baxter for another walk after the movie if the wind dies down.
Yesterday we went to my parents' house for dinner. It was a bit depressing for me. We were playing Go Fish with the boys, and my mom kept forgetting how to play. She kept thinking we were playing a different game. My younger DS was laughing thinking she was fooling around. My older DS is picking up on it though, and he seems to realize it is serious, although he hasn't come out and ask me anything yet. Then after Go Fish, my mom wanted to play Scrabble with me. We used to play it all the time and she used to be a wiz at it. She was playing words like "tie" and "at". She rarely had a word with more than three letters. On top of that, she kept trying to put words down that didn't connect to any letters on the board. It was just depressing. I feel sorry for myself and my kids, but I feel even worse for my father who witnesses it every day. I can tell it breaks his heart and he is such a strong "man's man", old school, you know? They are going to PR for three weeks next weekend. I hope it does her some good to go out and socialize. I don't know though :/
Anyway. . . sorry to be such a downer. It just gets to me sometimes. I guess the good news is that this all motivates me to stay healthy and keep working out and maintain my weight. I never want to be diagnosed with something like this. I don't want to retire after giving my blood, sweat and tears to teaching, which is becoming increasingly more demanding and degrading to me (I feel anyway), only to then not be able to enjoy my retirement and make the most of it. I want to be active and still be able to keep up with the kids, I guess my grandkids, haha.
Belinda- I cannot believe you are on Meso 3 already. I am thinking I am doing Xtrain 90 day rotation, but just weights, adding my own cardio. Then I think I will do 4 DS for at least two weeks, gym styles for two weeks and then maybe 90 day undulating rotation with STS. Not sure. . . I know that I got away from heavy lifting for a bit, hoping to get some pounds I put back on off, but it didn't work. I think going back to lifting steadily and switching it up will do the trick better. I saw the informercial for P90X3 again this morning. I can't buy it though. Trying hard to keep the finances straight, lol.
Cookie- I'm glad your shoulder is getting better. Are you off this week too? I really needed this break. Even with the snow days. . . no one understands it, but I'm sure you do. I am happy that at least when I go back I won't be doing a stupid module with a billion mistakes in it. I really will be happy in April when the stupid state test will be over and done with. I think that stresses me out the most. My students are so low this year. I worry what their scores will do to mine! Isn't that awful!?! I feel as though I am beginning to resent my students that are low performers. That
is awful. This is not why I became a teacher
I have to remind myself daily to remember why I do this and that it has nothing to do with stupid scores, but it is getting harder and harder not to focus on it. It is the white elephant in my brain!
Deb- Trisets gets me winded too, the lower body one anyway. I think it is because there is no rest between sets because we move from one muscle group to the other. It is a great workout, the music gets to me sometimes though. I have to tune it out.
Waving hello to Melissa and Amelia!
Kristin
