July 09 Checkin *****Happy 4th Weekend

[Kathy36]

Good morning ladies...

Happy 4th of July!!!! We are headed to our town's 4th celebration this afternoon and then they shoot fireworks off. We live so close we can sit on our back deck and watch them..

Anyway, day 2 of the July rotation today for me. Cathe has Powermax on the schedule. But, I just did that one at the end of last month. So, I am going to do Step Works. I didn't get to that one since my foot was acting up that last week of June..

Chris: I read yesterday's thread and the boys did great with $12.00..My sister and I used to have a lemonade stand when we visited our Grandma..We don't like dealing with the fireworks crowd either. Luckily, we can see them from our deck!

Beth: I love going to the pool or park and hanging out and chatting with the moms...

Have a great day everyone!!

 

[Boingo1]

Hey Girls!

Happy 4th of July!!!

We didn't go to the fireworks last night, even the traffic going past our house annoyed me! They whined a little about not going. There were a few years we went to a neighboring town to sit WAY up on a hill, so we could see the fireworks in the distance (no sound, that's how far away we were). But it was nice, no traffic, just a few people.

Kathy: Seeing the fireworks from your deck sounds like the PERFECT way to see them! Have fun today!! And have fun with Step Works!!

Beth: Your "Pool Day" yesterday sounded nice! The boys are excited today because greg put out the sprinkler! Simple things, I tell ya!

So yeah, the boys think they're going to set up a Lemonade Stand EVERY day to rake in the money. I'm telling them the neighbors won't fall for the same trick twice! LOL!... I kidded them about giving me the money to pay for damage. the little poops!

Vilma: Hope you're feeling better today!! It has to suck to be sick on a Holiday!

Hottie: Have fun at your Painting and Pizza party today! Wish I could come!

I think I'll do a Turbo Jam in a few ... if I don't bail out. It's Saturday , so I get in this blah mood. Plus greg works Sunday night and it's going to make for a harder monday... *sigh*

 

[bitmover]

Happy 4th!!! Kathy, that's the best way to see fireworks -- I'm so envious!! We used to be able to do that in SF -- if not from our living room window, we could just go up the hill a short way. I think we're going to skip it -- did I say that already? Chris, thank goodness for your cute little inserts, because that's all the fireworks I'll get! I'll have to show the boys your posts.

Chris, do you get holiday pay tonight at least? I would think so -- maybe hold that thought to make the day better!

I did Jillian's NMTZ again this morning before mailing back to netflix -- though that is one of the ones I decided to buy from the totalfitnessdvds sale. I liked it again this morning -- maybe better than the first time. Good thing since I ordered it!

Help me with this..... when I was chatting with the moms yesterday, at one point someone said something about a couple of other moms being in great shape ("buffest woman on the mountain" or something like that), and it seems no one ever notices that I am in pretty decent shape and it bugs me! I probably shouldn't let it bother me, but it does. After STS and everything, I feel like I still don't have much definition. I just look big. Any thoughts? Quit eating chocolate I guess, eh? You think I just need to get my body fat percentage down? It's probably easier to quit being bothered by the lack of comments! Silly, I know.

Ok, and on that note.... I'm off to make blondies or brownies (whatever I have ingredients for) and get ready to go to the 4th "party" (it's just three families getting together). Have a great day -- Chris, I hope work is alright for you.

Hello to Hottie, Vilma, and Joanne. Vilma, are you feeling better today?

-Beth

 

[Boingo1]

The boys are not cooperating with me to do a workout this morning. ... They're crazy and fighting and running amuck!! So I think I may have to skip it. I don't feel much like sweating right now anyways. But then I wonder if it makes me more grumpy if I DON'T work out...

Beth: I actually went to Amazon.com yesterday and put 3 of Jillian workouts in my cart. I have a $25 GC, AND they're just $8 each. I think I may just go for it. ... You're funny about my smiley fireworks! Yes, call the boys over:

Hey, I bet the moms just figure you're naturally fit looking, without knowing you work out! And i KNOW you don't look "BIG". You nut, you!! I actually have major body image issues. I just feel "fat" and I know in reality I can't be, but it doesn't cross over to my mind alot of times. ... And I also know my eating sucks sometimes, and if I could clean it up nice, the muscles I have would show more too. Though I think my arms are pretty defined, esp after STS.

Maybe I'll wash my kitchen floor for my workout today!

 

[hottiescientist]

Just wanted to drop by and say Happy 4th! My painting and pizza party is just me and Joe but that's ok. It honestly took more effort to set everything up for the painting than it is FOR the painting. So the first couple hours I was regretting not paying someone to do it and now I'm happy we're doing it ourselves...but we're almost painting the same color over the old one! Different finish and not as yellow but pretty damn close! It's a little painful but I'll be happy once we add the red later this weekend. ohh but I'm eating terribly. Joe and I each ate our own medium pizza plus chips plus ice cream plus much worse. It's almost like we think we're 16 and actually can take this caloric hit! No workout yesterday due to painting...it's sort of like aarm and calf workout, right?

Will write personals later...

 

[bitmover]

Chris, $8 on amazon is better than totalfitness -- go for it! I have to vacuum and wash my floor, too. Dreading it! It's hard to work out with the kids awake sometimes (another reason I try to get up early and get it done). Maybe you can run around with the boys to add to that "floor" workout you're getting!

Hottie, painting is hard work, but I'm glad it's feeling rewarding at this point -- and yes, you're working that upper body!

Ok, blondies in the oven -- I need to do the floor work and then wash veggies & fruit.

Thanks for the fireworks!!

-Beth

 

[Kathy36]

Chris: Thanks for the fireworks..Love them!! Great buy on your new workouts!!

Beth: I agree with Chris!! They probably think you are naturally fit!! Or maybe jealous!! YOu look GREAT!! Have a fun time at the party..

Hottie: I agree setup and cleanup is more work then the actually painting. And yes painting will get those arms and back a workout! You will probably feel it..

Ok, I did Step Works today..Then we walked over to the city's celebration (about a mile) and then home again...Later we will sit on the deck and watch the fireworks..

have a great night..

 

[bitmover]

Is everyone sleeping in? I slept a little late, then did cc #1, about a half an hour of running that is, and then I did an hour of stretching -- I flipped things today (instead of an hour of running and half an hour stretching). I'm feeling good!

You guys are sweet -- I wasn't fishing for compliments yesterday -- really, I'm just frustrated that I work so hard an it seems people don't notice. Whatever -- I shouldn't be so vain!

I hope everyone had a nice 4th -- Chris, how was work? The "party" we went to was very nice -- fun -- lots of laughs. The kids had a good time, but played inside on video games almost the whole time. Not exactly like the 4th of Julys I had growing up. Sigh. We got home fairly early and finished up the Pink Panther with Steve Martin (had started it the night before), and toward the end of it we heard fireworks starting and we could actually sort of see them (teeny) from our back yard. The kids didn't seem to mind not being there, so it all worked out.

Well, the scheduled 5k is next weekend, but everyone voted for camping, but now Larry thinks he needs to go visit his mom in Florida (who's birthday is Friday). So, it's all up in the air! The bummer is that if he goes to Florida, then we'll stay home (I'm not going camping without him -- sorry!!), Travis and I want to run the 5k, but I'm not sure what I'll do with Dylan while we're doing that -- the 1k he'd run is after the 5k. I was going to have Larry bring him up later. I'm sure I'll know people who aren't running who are there that Dylan could stay with. I guess you can see what I want to do!

Hope you all have a nice day! I think we have housework/projects on tap! Maybe some skating later (certainly!).

-Beth

 

[Kathy36]

Hey Beth...and everyone else to come!!

I am here. We just got back from church and we sat down for lunch. NOw, I am going to let my food digest and then Muscle Endurance is on the schedule for today...

 

[hottiescientist]

Hi, my personals are coming a day late. It's hardly been a weekend for us due to the painting which I did the majority of the work due to Joe feeling tired whenever I ask him to do something. But this morning I asked him to just finish up the trimmings since most of the PAINT is on the wall. He's a slowpoke but I got in a workout. The first half of Imax3 plus the second half of Imax2. I think some of these w/os are psychological for me. My legs were shaking again at the beginning of Imax3 -- man that first blast gets me each time. I think that's what i'm going to do work up to doing Imax3 in its entirety. Nail down the first half until my body gets familiar to it and just keep on adding intervals until I get it all. I tacked on Ab Burner to at the end which Joe joined in with me. He was ncie because he was impressed with how much stronger my core is now. Sweet.

Beth -- if you're a big, I'm a house. I agree with Chris -- they just probably assume you're fit and they've always seen you that way. Was the other person ever big? (or they're just evil mean people and just jealous of you. ) I hpoe you figure out what to do with Dylan...that's so cool that they want to run with you like that. You couldn't get me to run 5ft when I was their age. I just stayed inside and read books like a good little nerd. Now they're video gaming...that sounds like me!

Kathy -- it sounds like you had a great time for 4th of July. We didn't see anything, just kept on working and Evee just went crazy with all the noise. Go have fun with ME! I don't have that one but I'm sure it'll work you!

Chris -- I'm sorry that the boys prevented you from working out. I hope they were nicer about it today. I definitely know about feeling grumpier if you don't work out though (and how when I feel like crap I don't work out even though working out will make me feel better but instead I eat crap which makes me feel crappier -- evil cycles!).

Ok, into the shower and maybe a trip to HD. I have a huge experiment at lab today and I need to decide when I'm going to go in for it...

 

[Boingo1]

"HI"!...

Had a good night at work last night! But I feel leary about tonight, because you hardly EVER get 2 good nights in a row! I watched the fireworks over the city with one of my co-workers, a 19 yr old hispanic guy. I hate to say it, but he's such a nice "kid", I feel very motherly towards him. (Since his mother is actually YOUNGER than me! ) But it was a great place to watch them, I wouldn't have mind taking the boys to work with me (if i'm not actually working ) to watch them one year...

Beth: Your workout today sounds PERFECT! I'm jealous! The weather has been the best for running lately, cool, 60's, sunny in the morning, and I turn green with jealousy when I see all these people running by my house or around the park The stretch sounds wonderful! We know you weren't fishing for compliments, but you get them anyways! You deserve them for all you do!! I got a nice compliment last night from an orderly I was chatting with ... I was telling him about Hershey and how much I LOVE chocolate. he asked me if I run or workout, because he wondered how I stayed so thin loving chocolate so much !

Hottie: Yay for getting all that painting done AND for IMAX 3 !! Even part of that is tough! I remember how you conquered IMAX2 that way too!

to Vilma (hope your head is ok!) , Kathy (ME is a toughie!!) and Joanne (hope you're enjoying your weekend!!)

 

[bitmover]

Back..... Hottie, interesting to mix up imax 2 and 3 -- I don't know if I would have ever thought to do that, though I think I really like the second half of imax 2 -- maybe because I know the end is coming. Well, and who can't like pina colada? I cannot remember imax 3 well enough to remember which parts I dread the most.

I guess we just couldn't let you be the only ones painting on 4th of July weekend. I'm covered in paint at the moment -- we were painting boards for the rink (so we don't lose the puck off it all the time). After an hour or two into it we decided on another approach, so I think we're done for the day. Crazy! Did Joe get the color part done? How's it look? Must be exciting to see it!

Chris, glad to hear you had a nice night at work and that you got a nice compliment, too!! Maybe this week will be the exception to the rule and you will have two nice nights in a row.

Kathy was ME? I keep meaning to go back and do that, but still haven't. I guess I did part of it with the BC/ME combo I did. I think I may tackle the pyramid total body workout tomorrow.....

Today's workout was great, but I think I need to go roll my hamstring -- between the run and being in awkward positions for painting, it's screaming at me!

-Beth