January 10 Checkin New Years Day****

[Kathy36]

Happy New Year ladies!!!!

We enjoyed watching some of the New Years Eve shows last night. The kids love to stay up to midnight. Not much going on today. We went to mass last night for today's Holy Day. I am spending today getting the decorations put away and the house cleaned up and back to normal..

Workout today will be one of the terminator or hardcore Extreme segments. When Cathe posts the January rotation, I will start that on Monday since Sunday is my rest day...I need some cardio and weight work today..

Ok, time to start the day!!!

Be back later..

 

[bitmover]

Good morning, Kathy, and everyone! Happy New Year's!!! I saw some of your posts yesterday just before I left.... glad to see you liked the boxing, Chris -- I can't wait to try it! I guess I'm officially on a cardio recovery week, so I can do lots of shock cardio once I'm back with a dvd player!!

We stayed up til just about midnight last night, but no big fanfare, and then slept horribly all night long. Saw a little of the parade at breakfast -- a first for my kids and Larry, I think! -- and now we're back at my mom's. We played a really fun game last night that I think was called Buzz Word. Very easy to jump in and out, good for a big group.

I got up and ran on a treadmill this morning! Was not anticipating running, so I had only my regular workout shoes, no running shoes. Not great, but it was ok. I did cc #2 so it was about a half hour. I doubt I'll have time for a workout tomorrow, and Sunday may be dicey as well, we'll see.

Hope everyone has a relaxing day for the first of 2010. Chris, rest up for work this weekend!!!

 

[hottiescientist]

happy new year. my mother turned 60 today. (she was born on 1/1/50) it's a little weird...I've been so sick for so long the days have just merged. Anyway, I found out that my dinner inviting 2 possibly 4 people have turned to 6 people so I'm freaking out a bit. I'm still coughing a bit. I keep on trying to tell Joe it's because I think the heat is on for so long in the mornings that it dries me out but ::shrug:: he doesn't like it cold. I really want to try and get a workout in but we'll see. We just finished Assassin's Creed this morning too. Great game...totally not appropriate for children. Between the english and italian cursing (I now know what more of the words that come out of my boss's mouth means now), the gore, and the sexual references, it was more like a developed R rated movie. Oh, and I figured out a new "room" for evee. Remember my bedding nightmares? Well, we've let her take over the couch because I was going bat$hit trying to find a bed that would give her comfort that she wouldn't chew. But I think I got something working...I took an old fitted bed shit and I basically gave her complete coverage around her crate by letting the fitted parts hug the crate but before I did that, I put her super plush dog bed filling underneath the sheet. then I covered up with all her blankets (she has a habit of taking out her blankets out of the crate and playing with them in living room and then leaving her crap all over the place...like a child!) and now it's like she has her own designer room. I'm like a ghetto martha stewart!

Oh, I hope I can get through today!

 

[Boingo1]

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010, CHECK IN BUDDIES!!!

Had a pretty good night at work last night. It's funny, I had a 51 yr old woman patient, who was very whiny and dramatic and wouldn't have been my choice to spend time with. But at midnight, I had to wake her up to take an antibiotic. She woke up and I asked her if she wanted to watch the ball drop. We put her TV on, and she was so grateful! She was so happy to watch it, and she grabbed my hand and got all teary eyed with HAPPINESS. It totally warmed my heart. She was really very sweet. *sigh*

But staying up all night working, has made me tired and weary. i slept 4 hours and let the sitter go home earlier (it was her birthday yesterday and we baked her brownies and the boys made her cards, she said it was the only recognition of her birthday from anyone... how sad is that?).

I guess I'm going to go crank out my last MESO 3 workout: Biceps, Triceps, Shoulders!!

Gotta put on my thinking cap for bringing something healthy to work for a snack on Saturday night...

Sunday, we are going to have ONE last day of take-out...and then will have to prep something on Friday/Saturday to eat on Sundays... To save money AND calories!

Better get to it!!!

BBL!

 

[jojobean]

Hi all! Happy New Year!! I'm so pathetic - I didn't last till midnight. Ian woke me up at 11:55 to say Happy New Year. I was just going to take a nap, but never got back up! Jameson stayed over at a friend's - it was weird not having him here, but he had fun.

No workout today - I'm still thinking about trying to fit in MMA Boxing - but it's tough with the kids here. We'll see. We were going to go to Costco later, but it's closed. Gee - an exciting New Year's Day, huh??

I've really been in kind of a funk - I think it has a lot to do with my dad. Not sure, it's not like I think about him being gone all the time, but I just feel a general malaise and sadness, almost a depression, I guess. And, I'm feeling like all I do is work and take care of home stuff - never anything fun. I was talking with DH this morning and I told him I want to do more stuff this year, go out, see friends more, go on a real vacation. We talked about going to New Orleans with the kids over spring break and renting a nice cottage in Michigan this year (instead of the bare-bones ones we had last year). He's going to think I'm nuts - he's been sleeping and I've already researched the New Orleans hotels and found a cottage that looks beautiful and is just down the road from where we stayed last year on the same lake. I feel better now that I have something to look forward to. Not sure how we're going to pay for it all , but we'll figure it out somehow I guess!

Chris, how sweet about your patient. Isn't it hard to take care of them sometimes, then they are discharged and you don't know how they are doing? It seems like you might (not you in particular, but any medical professional) get attached to them and want to follow up or something, but it's probably frowned upon to do so, right? It's funny - I've seen several of Caityn's nurses in stores or church and they remember her and ask about her. One had her for her first surgery six years ago. I saw her in Costco - she looked so familiar, but I couldn't remember who she was but she remember us. She was so happy to see Caitlyn doing so well and looking so healthy. That's so sad about your baby sitter. Didn't she recently have a baby? I remember you saying she was pregnant, I think.

Hottie, wow, your mother is so young! Happy birthday to her!! What are you serving dinner? Too funny about Evie's bed! I'm sure she's loving it. Just wait - kids can make much bigger messes! But, you can make them clean it up, usually!

Beth, glad you made it safely to your mom's! When is the wedding? Good for you for getting in some treadmill running!

Kathy, didn't you just do BodyMax2?? You are a machine!! I forgot about today being a holy day - we didn't make it to church. Jameson's CCD teacher is such a stickler about not missing any masses - I hope she doesn't give him a hard time.

Joanne

 

[Boingo1]

Hey again...

I got DISC 36 DONE, Bi's Tri's and Shoulders! In spite of my lack of sleep, I got into it and really enjoyed the weight work. I'm kind of sad and almost lost feeling now that STS is over again. Last time, I swear, I lost the nice muscle tone I had built up (upper body) with STS. What the heck do you do to maintain it? Keep lifting heavy, ya think?

Tomorrow I think I'll try out 30/30!

Kathy: Hope you enjoyed your workout today! Our Christmas stuff may stay up until Monday. I do still love the lights.

Hottie: Hope your dinner goes well! And yeah, what are you serving?? The bed for Evee sounds perfect, you are a good mommy! Not sure if Greg has Assasin's Creed, I have a feeling he does. Would never let the kids play it!

Joanne: I doubt I would have stayed up until midnight if i wasn't at work either. Usually we snuggle up and the kids watch some boring cartoons/movie, and I fall asleep to it. It's always nice watching the ball drop though. But I truly wish Dick Clark would give it up. His voice just freaks me out and he looks a bit like Frankenstein , God bless the guy for keeping it up, but I think Ryan Seacrest is ready to fly alone! ...... I do wonder about some of my patients that I grow close to. Although with Oncology, we end up seeing a lot of the patients back. (not always good) or hear about how they're doing so well by the oncologists that follow them. ...... I think after the holidays is naturally a bit of a let down, and even moreso for you guys losing your dad. The plans for taking family trips sound GREAT!! It always feels good to get to spend time together doing FUN stuff. and AWAY from home. good for you, Joanne!

Beth: Good for you for getting on the TM at the hotel!!! Esp after a crappy night's sleep. I never sleep good at hotels either. Just weird beds, and sounds, etc. is the wedding tomorrow? Did Larry take his motorcycle? Hope you all have fun!!!

My 10 yr old (middle son), Alex, was so hyped up today, he was going CRAZY when I got up, wanting his friend to sleep over. I couldn't do it, though. Greg and I have tonight off (and since I got little sleep, I have a low tolerance), and then work 2. the idea of his friend sleeping over with all the shanagans turned me completely OFF! but he did talk me into his friend coming to play. they were so obnoxiously loud and crazy, I was happy I made that decision. Then his friend's mom comes to get him, and asks Alex to go out to dinner with them (!!) AND to sleep over THEIR house. Wow. I felt bad , because they are always taking Alex places and he's always sleeping over there. but i let him go. And now I sit here feeling a little guilty, because it is SO quiet and calm here now. Zach and Jake don't usually fight or get loud together. It's so nice for a change! (esp after this week). What a bad mom I feel like!

 

[hottiescientist]

Wohoo! I got Step Moves again in! I think I got it. I was debating between that and Athletic Step but I decided to sort of nail down the choreography. I actually took Joe's advice on something. I'm sort of against taking cough drops because I always thought it was a bad idea for coughs because all it does is just numb you and prevent from expelling the mucus out but his point was that my cough had turned dry and that it was coughing for the sake of coughing and irritation from coughing. So I took two cough drops before I started working out and it numbed it enough to help me hold it down while I worked out. I needed ONE coughing break but it was short lived. Oh, I like that workout a lot. It's uber fun and I got the hops and skips and claps and it was just totally fun. Joe was sweet and said I made it look easy (despite my visibly trying not to cough)!

You know, if you were in front of me and said my mother's young, I would have said relative to what and I would have promptly got a smiling slap upside my head for that. But we're totally predictable that way.

What I'm cooking? Well, I'm cheating but my mother supplied me to cheat so it's ok. I'm making my lamb curry from scratch and slow cooking it -- no restaurant can really replicate it. It's a bengali blend to begin with (which isn't common in restaurants) and its been honed from my mother's side of the family. It's pretty unique (and AWESOME). I'm making my yam thing because it's glorious and some basmati rice, well because I'm asian. But I'm ordering some tandoori chicken and claiming it as my own because I'm too sick too make it all! Besides, I don't have a real tandoor (clay oven).

Chris -- that sounds great with the patient. We have to curb back our take out bill as well. You know what's weird -- I've continually been able to save more than my friends because I've been cooking ever since I left the house. Our graduate stipends are such crap that I couldn't ever see wasting it out on take out -- frankly, I'd rather have one gourmet meal a year than every week having take out. Anyway, I find out the other day that I'm the only one with the exception of another wife on the floor of the graduate student who cooks. No wonder their stipends barely cover anything. I think it's the easiest place to save money...you know, I remember watching Alton Brown on Good Eats talk about how getting kids to cook is a fantastic way to bond and give them life skills. Maybe you could make the boys cook for YOU once a week! Or is that a pipe dream?

Joanne -- I'm sorry you're feeling down. I understand that you could feel that way (without really understanding if that makes sense). I know what you mean about having fun though...I think I mentioned that the SD RT is the first real vacation Joe and I are taking and it's like 3 days. The people at lab said that it may be best to take a real vacation so I could come back strong because I've been looking so frazzled lately but I'm afraid to take time off blah blah...I dunno. If we hadn't bought the house, I'd be planning a ski trip with my friends up in SF but we did, and now I'm getting inundated with emails about our tasks in the wedding. They're talking about dresses and I don't know how to say, "um, guys...can we make this decision later...because we're not sure yet...but I may have a bump in my belly?" Oh, and we have to have that talk too and I had wanted to go some place before we started trying but I'm not sure. I have enough miles to go to Europe...neither of us have ever been. But I was hoping for the Euro to get weaker so being in a hotel didn't hurt us so much. New Orleans sounds AWESOME. I would love to go their once during Mardi Gras.

So, Joe is making some ham...because he feels like it. I don't know how a traditional ham is going to go along side indian food but...sure....