**ONE DAY AT A TIME** SEPT.10 thru DEC.31

It is not French

My mother spoke French, and I did six years of it at the university. It is odd that, having two Master's degrees, all I was to do is personal train. I am getting bored of working out at home, but dear daughter has so many accidents on my cars that I would never be able to pay the insurance.

Today is some kind of step, and I thought about doing the step portion of Low Impact Circuit. Sometimes, I get bored and I stop a workout in the middle, and I stil another one in. I have to do legs today.
 
Catlin I hope you can get insurance one day Thats terrible!
Did u preorder xtrain! That may help u with the home exercise. I get like that and thats y I go jogging. I only do 2 or 3 miles but that is all my foot allows anyway.
cathy I hope you are doing well.
Jane I know u r going thru alot right now. But if u can let me know how u are I understand how u may be feeling. And nothing id say can ever really help. But I do miss hearing from u!
I went for a fast jog of 1 and a 1/2 miles today im not finished so bbl to give more of a check in.
 
Right now

Because of the hurricane, gas is a terrible problem. If the economy ever gets better, I hope I can afford a car. Today I did about 90 minutes of cardio, and I even began to do the part where Christi Taylor puts the step verical. My right knee started to bother me, so I stopped to ice it.
 
Where are all of you wonderful people?

I did too much cardio on Saturday, and I was so tired on Sunday I could not work out at all. I began MMA Fusion, and it was so hard I stopped after twenty minutes, and I started another MMA workout.
 
Oh id love to know ur opinion on those MMA wo.
I did crossfire and HC yesterday. Sore today I hadnt done CF in a while boy I could tell it.
Well today is rest day but I did yoga relax and an easy toning for upperbody just to feel movement. It was nice.
 
Renee, glad to hear from you

I have three of them, and they are very good. The easiest one is MMA Kickbox, and while it is fun, my heart rate does not go that high. One that is harder is MMA Boxing, and it had all the jumping around these ropes. I did not order the ropes, as I am alone, and I have to be careful with money. I do my workouts on a rug. MMA Fusion is so difficult that I had to stop yesterday after twenty minutes, and I switch to MMA Boxing which has the jumping. Of course, step is the best, and I also have Christi Taylor step, and her workouts are great, especially the older ones. I would sell my Firm workouts on Ebay, but, last year, I was in the hospital with pneumonia for two weeks, and I was flat on my back for over a month. When I was better, I offered to send two workouts that were really late out to the buyers, and I explained how sick I was. The buyers were extremely nasty, and they gave me negative feedback. I had had perfect feedback on Ebay, and now it is only 98 percent. The post office near me also close, and now the only one open is about five miles away. I do not wish to try to sell anything with feedback like that, and I can't get to the post office anyway. I buy enough on Ebay, because you can get things cheaper, and I also use every antiaging thing know to man, and when I was in CVS, a man told me that I looked 38. It was a great compliment, but I look older than 38. Ah, vanity.

To his Coy Mistress
by Andrew Marvell


Had we but world enough, and time,
This coyness, lady, were no crime.
We would sit down and think which way
To walk, and pass our long love's day;
Thou by the Indian Ganges' side
Shouldst rubies find; I by the tide
Of Humber would complain. I would
Love you ten years before the Flood;
And you should, if you please, refuse
Till the conversion of the Jews.
My vegetable love should grow
Vaster than empires, and more slow.
An hundred years should go to praise
Thine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze;
Two hundred to adore each breast,
But thirty thousand to the rest;
An age at least to every part,
And the last age should show your heart.
For, lady, you deserve this state,
Nor would I love at lower rate.

But at my back I always hear
Time's winged chariot hurrying near;
And yonder all before us lie
Deserts of vast eternity.
Thy beauty shall no more be found,
Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound
My echoing song; then worms shall try
That long preserv'd virginity,
And your quaint honour turn to dust,
And into ashes all my lust.
The grave's a fine and private place,
But none I think do there embrace.

Now therefore, while the youthful hue
Sits on thy skin like morning dew,
And while thy willing soul transpires
At every pore with instant fires,
Now let us sport us while we may;
And now, like am'rous birds of prey,
Rather at once our time devour,
Than languish in his slow-chapp'd power.
Let us roll all our strength, and all
Our sweetness, up into one ball;
And tear our pleasures with rough strife
Thorough the iron gates of life.
Thus, though we cannot make our sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run.




Andrew Marvell

Please don't mind me posting one of my favorite poems here. The theme is that we should seize life while we can and enjoy it, as death comes all too quickly.
 
Wow! Deep..
But I have to say I think about these things often. How fast my life is going.. How fast my moms life went. I always try to enjoy and make memories. We need yhem to life day to day and we need them to keep r loved ones close in tjought after they are gone. But also when it comes r time the memories I think help us to cross over to the next somehow. No matter r beleifs I think memories help during that time.
Well not sure what ill do today. Bbl to let u know.
Jane my prayers are still woth u.
Cathy I hope u r good!
 
Life goes much too quickly

Today I did Step Moves on an 8 inch step, and I was sweating so much. All my calls are hangups today, but dear son did come over. I think I will ice my right knee before doing lowerbody. I still love Lower Body Blast, and it is one of Cathe's better lower body workouts. It is odd, but when I am into a difficult step workout, I forget that my back hurts.
 
Awh Catlin that is wonderful DS came over! That is always nice to see ur kids!
Wow congrats on 8in.i love step moves so fun. I still cant get a couple of moves real well. But it is fun.
I did low impact stwp today and ab work.
 
I admit

I admit that I messed up a few portions of Step Moves as the choreography is so complicated. I like step much more than kickboxing, but I have to crosstrain, and I should not do step every day as much as I want to. I love Lower Body Blast, and I like doing my lower body much more than my upper. I ordered the Trisets workout in order to get another upper body workout. DS was upset about his father, and my ex can be a real jerk. My kids are 25 and 27, and they are still not adults.

I also have to vent this here, and people on my floor; I live in a condo building. They sold me a car that would not start after two weeks, and then they refused to do anything about it. The woman is 4'10", and she weighs almost 200 pounds, sits smoking all day and looks like Jabba the Hut from Star Wars. I tried to be nice to her once, and I gave her a pair of athletic shoes that were not right for me, and she cannot even walk the perimeter of the parking lot which is probably less than a quarter of a mile. I feel that I was robbed, and now they won't drive me anywhere with my giving them money.
 
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Dang Catlin that sucks! Do they have a lemon law there? So sorry about that! Yeah I had to laugh out loud Jaba the hut lol. I can imagine it too.
Way to go on kickboxing not getting heart up. I agree if we are punching it doesnt me either I like when we do the kicks and jumping jacks. But my feet cant jump much so thats y I love step. I can raise the hight and just step and my heary rate goes up and its easy to control if I need it to go down I keep going but use less arms etc. step is a Godsend. However I have to not do it as the only thing either cause my knees. Lol
 
Dear Renee

The lemon law does not apply for a private sale. If I had a car or somebody to drive me, I would sue her in small claims court just to get her skank cousin to give up the name of the person who sold me the car. It was his mother's car, and his name is not on the title. Now I am going to work out, and then I will have to probably walk a mile to the grocery store to get the stuff I need. Jabba the Hut cannot even walk a quarter of a mile. Dear daughter said she looks like the penguin from Batman, but I think the Jabba the Hut name is better. I know I am being cruel, but look what they did to me.
 
Lol. No u arnt cruel it is cruel for her and him to sale,a crap car! I think of fat bastard pn austin powers lol. I know what u mean.. I dont say stuff like that normaly cause I know how hard it is to lose but I get mad I have been skinny and I worked hard to do it then gained and I wo like crazy my body seems used to it and wont let go of any weight I regained. Im not big but chuncky and get mad at times at people like my niece,who is 300 pounds and claims she cant lose when,after a meal she will eat donuts not one but two or three. And I do not eat crap but cant lose for real. If she take a small step and went for a 10 min walk everyday shed see a difference.

Im so sorry u have to go through so much. I hope it gets better for u. I am mad myself about the car! Lol.
Im thinking of u.

Jane plz post u r ok. Lov ya my heart goes to u n family
Cathy I haope u are ok!
 
I am so angry

I am so angry it is crazy, and after my workout, I have to walk almost a mile to the grocery store. I do not have that much to get, but I need to get a case of Powerade for my workouts, and that will be very heavy. PT sessions are slow, but they are always slow at the end of the month because close to the first, people are paying their bills. I managed twenty minutes of MMA Fusion today, and I am going to add two minutes every time I do it. It is the hardest kickboxing workout I have ever seen.
 
Mon. was a walk
Tue. was a walk & light weights
Wed. company
Fri. company

Renee & Caitlin great on your workouts this week:)
 
CATHY! I been missing u so badly! What happened? R u doing ok?
Im glad ur still working out.
I tried to find u on fb but I dont see u on there anymore either! I hope ur ok I have been so worried.

Catlin I was thinig of getting fusion.
 
Hi everyone, I'm sorry that I've been MIA, but the illness & death of my mother really kicked the starch out of me. I'm still not working out, & this is the first day I've been back on Cathe's site. Just wanted to drop in & say Hi & thank you all for your prayers & thoughts during this difficult time for me. Hopefully, I'll get back on track soon, but right now, I'm still so tired I can't see straight & I think it's best that I not try to push through this fatigue. Thanks again, ladies, & BIG HUGS!
 

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