Yesterday was a lazy day. It rained and turned pretty cold nearly all day. It was also my husband's 39th birthday (first one). We got up and puttered around the house, doing some laundry and the like. Husband got donuts - I had one, but then a banana to keep from having another. For lunch, he wanted a DQ Blizzard. I resisted, but had a cheeseburger so I'm not sure it mattered (though I skipped soda and fries so it could have been worse). He napped over the afternoon while I lazed looking through blogs and watching a worthless movie on Netflix (for the record, how do you get a bunch of talented actors to do such a lousy script?).
Later we headed out for dinner toward the end of the MU-KU game (Way To Go Mizzou!). As the Tigers finished off the Jayhawks, we sat down in Colton's and ordered dinner. I had another burger (only ate half) and a side salad (instead of fries - although with the dressing it may have been a wash). I did eat my share of pre-meal peanuts (throwing the shells on the floor = good fun), a few bites of the onion straw appetizer my husband ordered, two of those decadent rolls and drank a Wild West Fling that was so fruity and yummy!
Needless to say, my "Sunday morning naked weight" was up. Oh, did I mention the non-existence of exercise on Saturday? So I vowed to drink some water (not hard with a little cotton mouth) and eat a little better today. After mass, breakfast was a leftover roll and an apple. Lunch was really just a snack (rice krispy treat - oops). Dinner was another batch of that awesome stir fry (red onion, mushrooms, red and green peppers, zuchinni). I'm still a little hungry so I'll probably have something else small and then a big glass of water. My husband and I went for our usual 2 mile+ walk tonight even though it was in the 30's and a little windy. I really need some long underwear! But my core and hands were warm by the end so it wasn't that bad. Nice to get out and spend some quiet time with him. And good to get moving when it was another pretty lazy day. We'll see if any of this was "redemption" for the overindulgence of the previous days and what my "Monday morning naked weight" is tomorrow.
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Friday, November 25, 2011
Official Results + Gratitude
They just posted the chip and gun time results for the Pie Run. I did PR! My chip time was 40:44 so I didn't shave a lot off, but every little bit counts. I might have run a little more without my friend, but I may have walked the walking portions slower, as she is a fast walker. Made me 49/56 in the 30-39 Females and 368/396 of those that marked their sheet as "5K Run" (not 10K or Walk). Lots of room for improvement. Never mind that they guy that won could have lapped me nearly 3 times. Or than 21 of the 10K'ers finished before I finished half that distance. Really, it isn't demoralizing at all! (note sarcasm)
OK, don't wallow Christina. Time to remember how very blessed you are. Today I am grateful for:
- Working for myself so that when I hit a "wall", I can skip out and go shopping
- Little girls sleeping over at someone else's house
- My creative husband that has quite the Christmas display in our backyard
- My son who loves to watch movies with me as long as there is minimal kissing (and a movie with only one)
- My blogger friends and their Friday Funnies
- Chip timing that allows for quick upload of results
- Fast stir fry
OK, don't wallow Christina. Time to remember how very blessed you are. Today I am grateful for:
- Working for myself so that when I hit a "wall", I can skip out and go shopping
- Little girls sleeping over at someone else's house
- My creative husband that has quite the Christmas display in our backyard
- My son who loves to watch movies with me as long as there is minimal kissing (and a movie with only one)
- My blogger friends and their Friday Funnies
- Chip timing that allows for quick upload of results
- Fast stir fry
Shopping = Exercise?
This morning I ate a banana (produce point) and some homemade granola while I read the paper. Then I tried to get a little work done, but I fought a hydraulic model for a couple of hours and gave up (sent an email to a vendor that hopefully can point me in the right direction come Monday). Kids put Christmas lights on the house with their dad while I cussed a few more details on this little site project. Fed the girl and myself some leftover spaghetti for lunch (still debating if the marinara is even a half veggie point) and then she went to spend the afternoon and night with a friend and I went with the friend's mom to go shopping (long after the crazy midnight - 5 AM folks had turned in).
So I was on my feet in Old Navy, TJ Maxx, Shoe Carnival, Target, Walmart, KMart, Ace Hardware (replacement bulbs for my husband) and JCPenney. I scored a few items for people on my list and did manage to buy a gift for my husband's birthday tomorrow (still need to go get a card - doh! - should have gotten that at one of the "marts"). We were gone 6+ hours. Shameful really as the weather would have been PERFECT for a bike ride and tomorrow is supposed to turn much cooler. Darn! On the other hand, my knee is feel tweaked from the run yesterday and kept me up a little last night so maybe better to have a "rest" day today. But surely I burned SOME calories with the traipsing through the stores. Santa will be bringing me a cool running shirt too! :) With a cool little zipper pocket and thumb holes even! And for the low price of $16 - Old Navy SCORE! Still have to figure which (if any) of my "big" items he can bring, but I know I am going to get some cool speed laces and a Slim Road ID in my stocking. Hee hee. I love being Santa!
Came home just famished. I did have a Coke while out, but was excited to dip into my full produce drawer and come out with red and green peppers, mushrooms, zuchinni, and a red onion from the pantry (plus some slightly questionably aged cooked chicken from the tupperware in the fridge) to make a FANTASTIC stirfry that took minutes! This might be my new "go to" meal. It was GOOD! So chalk up a couple of produce points there! I think they are due to be entered in the HBBC spreadsheet so I'd better get at that.
So I was on my feet in Old Navy, TJ Maxx, Shoe Carnival, Target, Walmart, KMart, Ace Hardware (replacement bulbs for my husband) and JCPenney. I scored a few items for people on my list and did manage to buy a gift for my husband's birthday tomorrow (still need to go get a card - doh! - should have gotten that at one of the "marts"). We were gone 6+ hours. Shameful really as the weather would have been PERFECT for a bike ride and tomorrow is supposed to turn much cooler. Darn! On the other hand, my knee is feel tweaked from the run yesterday and kept me up a little last night so maybe better to have a "rest" day today. But surely I burned SOME calories with the traipsing through the stores. Santa will be bringing me a cool running shirt too! :) With a cool little zipper pocket and thumb holes even! And for the low price of $16 - Old Navy SCORE! Still have to figure which (if any) of my "big" items he can bring, but I know I am going to get some cool speed laces and a Slim Road ID in my stocking. Hee hee. I love being Santa!
Came home just famished. I did have a Coke while out, but was excited to dip into my full produce drawer and come out with red and green peppers, mushrooms, zuchinni, and a red onion from the pantry (plus some slightly questionably aged cooked chicken from the tupperware in the fridge) to make a FANTASTIC stirfry that took minutes! This might be my new "go to" meal. It was GOOD! So chalk up a couple of produce points there! I think they are due to be entered in the HBBC spreadsheet so I'd better get at that.
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Happy Thanksgiving!
Are you suitably stuffed from all the good food today? Have you spent sufficient time being grateful for all of the ways your life is blessed? Did you spend the day surrounded by family or friends? Did you get in a good trot (walk/jog/run) for turkey or pie? I hope all your Thanksgiving dreams came true and it was the best day ever!
I slept in a little, but finally crawled out of bed to throw on my clothes and meet Alyssa at her house and then picked up Stacy to head to the Jeff City Road Runners Club Pie Run. We walked around a little to warm up, but the weather was in the 40's so not bad at all. The 10K'ers took off first followed by the 5K runners. I convinced Alyssa to run the first 2 min and then walk a few. She didn't want to run as much as I did, but I had just as hard of a time keeping up with her when we were walking. So we'd run here and there, but mostly walked. Toward the end I convinced her to pick up the pace to pass the 1st grader and his dad that were just ahead of us (his 2nd grade brother and mom had already finished - grr). I dropped Alyssa in the final 0.2 miles when I could see the race clock was at about 40 min and I wanted to be below my 42 min from October. I will have to wait until they post the chip times, but I think I came in just under and set a new PR by like a minute. Took a quick pic with a couple other moms from our school (L-R: Stacy, Alyssa, me, Stephanie and Susan):
Had to head back home pretty quickly to get ready for the day. We headed down to Freeburg and met up with my husband's extended family. We had a fantastic meal (I only loaded one plate, one bowl and one dessert plate). The kids all played - outside and in the gym. It was sunny and warmish (50-60). My son was sweating from running around with his cousins. LOVE IT! The girls did art projects and shot baskets in the gym and played tetherball outside. So nice to see all of the uncles and a lot of the cousins, and their kids. I didn't get the final count, but I'm guessing it would be around 45-50 as the cafeteria tables were pretty full during the meal.
My mother-in-law is the lady smiling on the left, the two men on her side of the table, two across the table and one standing on the right with his hand by his neck are ALL her brothers (she is the baby - missing was her oldest sibling, a sister that lives in St. Louis that didn't come):
Got home and my husband convinced me to go for a walk. We just did our usual couple of mile loop. But a nice to offset at least a little of the food I had. I'm not sure if broccoli rice casserole or green bean casserole have enough vegetables to count as HBBC points, but I did have a bowl of coleslaw with a nice vinegar/oil dressing that probably did. Not bad on the whole. At least I didn't try to pretend pumpkin butter cake was a produce point! LOL
Today there was so much to be thankful for:
- 5k races in late November without any sleet or snow
- running races with friends (especially ones that remember to take a pic)
- mashed potatoes
- pumpkin butter cake
- extended family coming from KY, KS, and all over MO to be together
- church/school cafeteria, gym and playground (rented for free to a big family that doesn't fit anywhere else for Thanksgiving)
- quiet walks with my husband watching a beautiful sunset
Happy Thanksgiving! Gobble Wobble!
I slept in a little, but finally crawled out of bed to throw on my clothes and meet Alyssa at her house and then picked up Stacy to head to the Jeff City Road Runners Club Pie Run. We walked around a little to warm up, but the weather was in the 40's so not bad at all. The 10K'ers took off first followed by the 5K runners. I convinced Alyssa to run the first 2 min and then walk a few. She didn't want to run as much as I did, but I had just as hard of a time keeping up with her when we were walking. So we'd run here and there, but mostly walked. Toward the end I convinced her to pick up the pace to pass the 1st grader and his dad that were just ahead of us (his 2nd grade brother and mom had already finished - grr). I dropped Alyssa in the final 0.2 miles when I could see the race clock was at about 40 min and I wanted to be below my 42 min from October. I will have to wait until they post the chip times, but I think I came in just under and set a new PR by like a minute. Took a quick pic with a couple other moms from our school (L-R: Stacy, Alyssa, me, Stephanie and Susan):
Had to head back home pretty quickly to get ready for the day. We headed down to Freeburg and met up with my husband's extended family. We had a fantastic meal (I only loaded one plate, one bowl and one dessert plate). The kids all played - outside and in the gym. It was sunny and warmish (50-60). My son was sweating from running around with his cousins. LOVE IT! The girls did art projects and shot baskets in the gym and played tetherball outside. So nice to see all of the uncles and a lot of the cousins, and their kids. I didn't get the final count, but I'm guessing it would be around 45-50 as the cafeteria tables were pretty full during the meal.
My mother-in-law is the lady smiling on the left, the two men on her side of the table, two across the table and one standing on the right with his hand by his neck are ALL her brothers (she is the baby - missing was her oldest sibling, a sister that lives in St. Louis that didn't come):
Got home and my husband convinced me to go for a walk. We just did our usual couple of mile loop. But a nice to offset at least a little of the food I had. I'm not sure if broccoli rice casserole or green bean casserole have enough vegetables to count as HBBC points, but I did have a bowl of coleslaw with a nice vinegar/oil dressing that probably did. Not bad on the whole. At least I didn't try to pretend pumpkin butter cake was a produce point! LOL
Today there was so much to be thankful for:
- 5k races in late November without any sleet or snow
- running races with friends (especially ones that remember to take a pic)
- mashed potatoes
- pumpkin butter cake
- extended family coming from KY, KS, and all over MO to be together
- church/school cafeteria, gym and playground (rented for free to a big family that doesn't fit anywhere else for Thanksgiving)
- quiet walks with my husband watching a beautiful sunset
Happy Thanksgiving! Gobble Wobble!
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Swim, Salad and More
I managed to track down a City employee to help me get the information I needed for a project up in Columbia today. More than one actually! And although I disagreed with what they want my client to provide, I think I've found a way to do it that won't cost too many arms and legs. Just frustrated because the City is going so far above and beyond the federal requirements.
So it was great to go to the ARC afterwards and zone out in the water for about 40 min. Unfortunately, all the lanes were taken (x2 people per lane) so I had to chill for about 5 after getting there (and think about the fact that I didn't shave my legs - oops). Then a couple guys finished up and gave me a spot. I got to swim with the old lady that couldn't swim straight (stay on her side of the line) and was doing frog kick back strokes. Dodged most of her kicks, but UGH! First 100 yds felt pretty strong. Many after that felt pretty hard. Started trying to focus on some drills and it seemed to get a little better. After froggy grandma got out and another guy got in, I wrapped up another 400 yards or so and decided I'd had it. It wasn't overall that sucky of a swim, but I just didn't have my heart in it (and I was drooling over the guy's swimp3 player in the next lane - oh, the guy only did like 15 min of swimming - really? you needed music for that?).
Came back to my friend's office and ate an entire bag of salad (3 servings, but even with a little cheese and dressing was like 400 calories). Did a little more work this afternoon and headed back for home to catch up with my husband and kids. Fixed dinner (spaghetti - does marinara sauce count as a veggie?) and then I met up with Alyssa to register for the pie run. Score - by going tonight it was only $20 and we got a long sleeve tech tee with our bib number and timing chip. Yay!
Today I am thankful for:
- helpful City employees who scan and email maps in color and don't charge me
- getting to swim since April on the same $84 pool pass at the ARC (one visit left!)
- bagged salad
- carbo loading
- my first long sleeve tech tee
- low race entry fees
So it was great to go to the ARC afterwards and zone out in the water for about 40 min. Unfortunately, all the lanes were taken (x2 people per lane) so I had to chill for about 5 after getting there (and think about the fact that I didn't shave my legs - oops). Then a couple guys finished up and gave me a spot. I got to swim with the old lady that couldn't swim straight (stay on her side of the line) and was doing frog kick back strokes. Dodged most of her kicks, but UGH! First 100 yds felt pretty strong. Many after that felt pretty hard. Started trying to focus on some drills and it seemed to get a little better. After froggy grandma got out and another guy got in, I wrapped up another 400 yards or so and decided I'd had it. It wasn't overall that sucky of a swim, but I just didn't have my heart in it (and I was drooling over the guy's swimp3 player in the next lane - oh, the guy only did like 15 min of swimming - really? you needed music for that?).
Came back to my friend's office and ate an entire bag of salad (3 servings, but even with a little cheese and dressing was like 400 calories). Did a little more work this afternoon and headed back for home to catch up with my husband and kids. Fixed dinner (spaghetti - does marinara sauce count as a veggie?) and then I met up with Alyssa to register for the pie run. Score - by going tonight it was only $20 and we got a long sleeve tech tee with our bib number and timing chip. Yay!
Today I am thankful for:
- helpful City employees who scan and email maps in color and don't charge me
- getting to swim since April on the same $84 pool pass at the ARC (one visit left!)
- bagged salad
- carbo loading
- my first long sleeve tech tee
- low race entry fees
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Restocked + Gratitude
Seriously, I should have taken a picture of the completely bare (save some old condiments) fridge. But I didn't think about it until after I had unloaded all my groceries. But check out my totally full crisper (plus some carrots that didn't fit and the onions and bananas that don't go in there):
And because all of what goes in, must come out (with a smile, wink and nod to SUAR and other poop-obsessed bloggers), our household was also nearly completely out of these:
All important when holiday carbo loading may include one or more of the following (double batch of rice krispy treats and chewy fudge brownies):
So tomorrow there will be at least one big salad and probably a big veggie stir fry.
Lots of work to get done tomorrow if I can get more motivated than today. I did finish a neat book about the NYC marathon. I enjoyed the stories interwoven to mile by mile descriptions of the course (as ran in 2007). It felt like you were there.
Although I posted earlier today after my 4 mile walk, I forgot to include my daily gratitude. As I mentioned yesterday, I am so blessed. Even through some really crummy times in my life, I know that God is good. Today, I am thankful for:
- my husband returning home from work and deer camp to spend more time with me and the kids
- a clean house (upstairs and down!) and husband who helped get it that way
- breaks in rainy weather than allow you to go for a walk with a friend outside
- homebaked bread (that I didn't have to bake)
- that those rice krispy treats are needed for Thanksgiving so I can't eat them
- the smell of toasting granola wafting in from my kitchen (homemade!)
- colorful produce
- finishing a good book
Not rained out
Woke up to a pretty steady, cold rain. Thought my chances of going out for a walk/jog were pretty slim as I am a weather wimp. But later in the morning (after I had gotten my heart rate up behind the vacuum and scrubber sponge - HBBC points for that?), the rain stopped and it made it up to about 50°. It was kind of windy and still very overcast, but when my friend Alyssa suggested a walk/jog (to try out whether we should walk or walk/jog the pie run on Thur), I couldn't refuse. After getting our schedules jived for a late lunch, I met her at her office downtown and we did about a 4 mile loop (depending on if you believe MapMyRide or Alyssa's car odometer). It had a few hills. We did jog part of it, but not much. And our walking pace declined significantly on recovery from the run portion. So she (and I) aren't so sure we accomplish anything by trying to run. I guess we'll see if I (mostly me anyway) get caught up in the race fever and run part of Thursday's race (which let's face it, the only way I'll get a pie is through a door prize drawing). But we will go to the pre-registration tomorrow night (to save $5). So there you go. Another 5k will be behind me and I have someone to do it with. I think Stacy is doing it too, but she is way faster than me. Alyssa and I are pretty evenly matched.
So far I haven't squeezed in any produce (except maybe tomato soup - trying to figure out if it counts), but I'll head to the store as soon as the kiddos get home. Maybe I can convince them to go for chinese tonight where I can get some veggies in. And after the trip to the store, there will be some fruit in the house that doesn't live in a can.
I'm hoping to make it to Columbia tomorrow. I have some work to do up there and I want to go swim. YMCA membership will hopefully be secured in the next week or so. I think it will be fun to go there as a family. Hope I can get my son more interested in being active.
So far I haven't squeezed in any produce (except maybe tomato soup - trying to figure out if it counts), but I'll head to the store as soon as the kiddos get home. Maybe I can convince them to go for chinese tonight where I can get some veggies in. And after the trip to the store, there will be some fruit in the house that doesn't live in a can.
I'm hoping to make it to Columbia tomorrow. I have some work to do up there and I want to go swim. YMCA membership will hopefully be secured in the next week or so. I think it will be fun to go there as a family. Hope I can get my son more interested in being active.
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