I hate computers, and meaningless assignments.

I have been battling all night with my computer over an assignment I should have been able to whip off in about an hour. I spend hours working on it on Monday only to have to spend hours today.

It's 11:06pm. I have class at 8:00am tomorrow. I for some reason seriously seriously cannot function on any less than 7.5 hours sleep, and that's usually pushing it. It's the weirdest thing; usually it seems a person can go a night or two with 5 or 6 hours and still be manageable and just catch up. Me? If I get as little as 7 hours I'm a walking zombie the ENTIRE next day.

So why am I still up, you ask? WELL I have another project due on THURSDAY (the one I mentioned yesterday, I think, and my darling partner (who I REALLY do love to bits) is working as I type this on our paper, and going to call me any moment now for my thoughts.

I'm going to be absolutely comatose tomorrow. The feeling of death is slowly closing in on me already.

I haven't told you about my exercise for today because I didn't get any in. And I'll admit yesterday I was so bagged after the busy weekend that I buried my nose in a silly book (this assignment was NOT supposed to take so long, seriously) which I THOROUGHLY enjoyed (it took me less than a day - is that bad?) and rejuvenated a bit. Then it's been so much to the grindstone today that I didn't get it in.

So much for my shopping goals. Which, honestly, as we haven't set a date for the shop-a-thon I haven't SET yet because what's a goal without an ending point??

Anyway, I'm now DONE with Thursday's homework for the evening so I'm GOING TO BED and I will be better, if not tomorrow due to the project on Thursday, then Thursday and hopefully forever hereafter. ;)

(Yeah riiiiight.....)

Homework

Hey, just FYI, I thought I'd let everyone know that I'm currently doing a project for my sports history class about George Chuvalo and we've decided to use Blogger for our multimedia portion, so go ahead and check us out!! It should be PEFECT and all finished by Thursday, because that's when it's due. ;)

Will post later about my own fitness pursuits! PROMISE!

Birthday Week

I didn't post yesterday because I didn't do anything yesterday. I mean anything physical-activity-related that I could post about. I put Little Miss to bed last night and then I DIED. Even my beloved yogilates didn't sound appealing, and so I figured it was a good night to take off, so I did. :) It's not going to help me on my shopping outing with Numero Mom-O BUT it was apparently much needed.

SO today, I wanted to start good. I got up and went for a run. Back to my old path. Yeah, apparently when you give yourself a blister as big as the one I gave myself earlier this week you need to give yourself some extra time for it to heal. OR some extra padding in that blistered area. Would have been good to know. The big blister from the other day? It's currently at least double its original size. AND I wore socks today!! I just wasn't all better, apparently! GAH!

And I have to admit, it's really hard to try to lay off the sweets the week of your birthday when all these people who you LOVE are going above and beyond to give you the World's Greatest not-good-for-you food. Bad week to decide to really start to watch it. You will notice that since posting that I'm going to set a goal with regards to the shopping trip that I haven't actually got around to it yet - so HARD to set a goal when eating so much cake and ice cream!! I DO, thankfully, think that birthday celebrations are OVER, so I can get down to business, and hopefully a size or two. ;) hahaha

TODAY:
YES I did get up and go for a run. And despite the pain on my foot half way back I ran my entire path today. I was pleased because I haven't run the path for ages now. Probably since before school started and I got all sick, eh? Anyway, it's been a good while. Ran it with ease this morning, except the blister. Took 26 minutes running. Walked probably about 25 minutes, to the path, back from the path - it's apparently a good little jaunt from home!! And I doubt I was going as fast home as away from with the gimped up foot...

I did NOT get yogilates in today, which I knew would happen but am disappointed about because I missed yesterday, because Little Miss and I went up and met Mr. Man's family (and Mr. Man when he was finally finished work) for dinner (and dessert, and PRESENTS!) tonight.

I think I'm going to go pop this monster-of-a-blister so it doesn't pop itself and kill me tomorrow. I really want to run at least 5K on the track at school, like, NOW, so as soon as the foot's all non-blistered. OH! And I've decided that I prefer, at least for now, running on the track. Boring, eh? See, it's so NOT boring, though, because the whole time I'm running I'm keeping track of my exact distance, counting laps, adding up meters, figuring out how far I've gone. Running outside is just outside. It's pretty and all that, but I have NO IDEA how far I've gone or how far I have left to go. I should check that site that Blue Belle posted - I'll check it out and tell you about it if it's any good. ;)

No Wii Fit measures today - didn't get on. :( I'm gonna' get yelled at! hahaha

MEH

So today. Yup! It was a day. Did LOTS of laundry after school. Huzzah!

TODAY:
Swam 20 minutes between classes (I really don't think on Wednesdays I can squeeze more than 20 minutes in and make it to class on time because my class is SO FAR AWAY from the pool & track! GAH! Oh well.)
60 minutes yogilates
And various other movement-type things, like in my biomechanics lab today we spent over an hour outside throwing balls and measuring. I wasn't full on exercising at ALL but there was definately some activity going on. AND I trapsed all over campus to and from class and work-outs and the computer lab to print something I didn't actually need printed (grrrrrrrrrr), to the car...

Wii Fit Measures
Weight: 177.7 lbs
BMI: 28.53

Maybe it's the birthday cake. ;)

I need a pin

Tuesday. Well, just a day, really. Good day - woke up feeling like I slept enough which never happens on Mondays or Wednesdays when I have class at 8 in the morning. Got up, tidied the house, Mr. Man took me to get my driver's license renewed, made me yesterday's birthday breakfast (he was still in bed sleeping when I left for class yesterday so we postponed!) Anyway, good day, pretty well!! Nothing weird to report on the life-front.

OH, except something WONDERFUL as far as this blog goes - I had some time to visit with my pal Mi before our biomechanics class today, and though I've seen her a couple times so far this school year we haven't had a good sit-down-and-chat since like, Winter semester ended last Spring! SO sad for us! Anyway, having not seen me all summer and since WAY before the conception of this fantastic little corner of the interweb where my weight-thoughts permeate what would have otherwise been space, SHE commented that I've lost weight and look good. YAY! So, IT'S WORKING! hahaha And don't worry - I don't like, LIVE for these compliments or anything, it's just so nice to hear from an ouside source that YES the hard work is paying off at least a little! So THANKS, Mi!

TODAY
I went for a run around the track at school. I intended to go for 5K and see how I did time-wise BUT stupid me FORGOT SOCKS!! SO I ran in my running shoes sockless until I couldn't hack the pain of the increasing-in-size-blister on the bottom/side of my poor right foot, which was 18 laps of the 200m track sooooo...3.6K? It's REALLY sad, too, 'cause except for the bum foot I would have TOTALLY made the 5K EASY (which must mean some of my other training is paying off in endurance ability - SWEET!) at the pace I'd set for myself. But....


Yeah, see the SIZE of that thing?? No WONDER I was gimping it up by the end of the 18th lap!! GEEZE!! First thing I'm doing after I finish this ramble is finding a pin and killing the blister so it doesn't kill itself on me tomorrow and leave me in agony for the rest of the week...

OH yeah! And I was 7 minutes into yogilates when I had a visitor I had forgotten was coming over and so didn't get back to that, either, because I'm up EARLY again tomorrow and felt sleep would trump yogilates for today. OH well!

Wii Fit Measures
Weight: 175.9 lbs
BMI: 28.27

Tomorrow: SOCKS and yogilates! Unless I go swimming...then I don't need the socks.

Happy Birthday to MEEEEEEEEEE

That's right! TODAY I'm officially closer to 30 than not. Mr. Man and I have had quite the discussion about this over the last couple of days anticipating my birthday, and now that it's here I can't deny it anymore. I am on my way to being a grown-up. ;) hahaha

This is actually the first birthday I've ever had where I've felt the need to suddenly start trying NOT to admit my age. I certainly hope I never ever get to the point where I don't want to divulge my age or am tempted to fudge the numbers - that seems SO RIDICULOUS - but 30 is so much closer to 26 than any other number I've been thus far, and that for some reason has me a little weirded out. I'm feeling old today.

Probably the most blah birthday day I've had thus far (we celebrated last night with the parentals and Uncle Brav - my mom and dad and brother - and had OH so wonderful a night. I'm referring specifically to the date on which my birthday falls); 8:00am class, to start. BLECH! Good thing it's my sport psych class and I'm totally jazzed to be learning all about motivation right now!!

Anyway, I went home between some of my classes today; Little Miss is at day care, so I had the whole house to myself!

SO FAR TODAY
60 minutes yogilates :D - it was a nice break at home - put the cats outside, Little Miss wasn't home - BOOYAH free time!!
I hope to get at least 30 minutes of something active in after Little Miss goes to bed tonight, but had a few minutes NOW, waiting for class to start, so figured I'd post. Expect that I'll have done another 30 minutes of something later on. ;)

Wii Fit Measures:
Weight: 175.0 lbs
BMI: 28.13

OH and one of my birthday presents (YAY!) is a SHOPPING TRIP with Mommy Dearest (parental unit numero Mom-O) which I am WAY too stoked about, but I think we're both going to be a little too busy in the near future to get it done SO I'm thinking I'm going to make THAT my uber motivation and see if I can't get some more of this Jelly Doughnut off with a little more speed so I have greater success whilst trying on clothing. I have to get my head around this a bit more and set and actual GOAL, but I will definately let you know! :D

Okay, so I know the numbers don't matter...

But it's OH so nice to see them moving DOWNWARDS! hahaha

TODAY
Did 32 minutes of Wii Fit silliness after putting Little Miss to bed. Advanced step (I can't figure out how to get 'perfects' when I step OFF the board - it's driving me NUTS!), advanced rhythm boxing, island lap run (that was ridiculous - running on the spot for 15 minutes? HOLY BORING already!!) and this fun little candle flicker game which is supposed to have something to do with focusing inwards. Whatever.
1 hr intermediate yogilates (yes, that's right! I'm officially an intermediate yogilateser! Huzzah!!)

Okay, but ONE thing about being an intermediate yogilateser - when he says to do a shoulder stand and put your hands on the back of your hips for support and then the whole on-t.v.-class puts their fingers on/around their rock-hard backs and midsections? Yeah, that's HARD TO DO when the stuff you're grabbing feels like jell-o. The shoulder stand is easy. The holding on to the jiggly parts is HARD.

I guess as these numbers go down so will the level of difficulty. ;) WOOHOO! hahaha

Wii Fit Measures
Weight: 175.3
BMI: 28.17

Definately the lowest numbers since starting. Cross your fingers for me that I can keep it up! Or down, I guess, would be more appropriate... :D

Paranoia

Sooooo I woke up this morning and I felt like GARBAGE. Like, the pain in my belly woke me up kinda' garbage. I got up, dealt with my belly pains ;) went back to bed and to sleep, and woke up again, in belly-pain.

SO I decided I was dying and that the illness gods have it out for me and I'm better from whatever-it-was and now dying from something else.

LUCKILY I managed to make it through the day, and I'm STILL alive. hahaha

I think it must have just been something I ate. AND that I'm uber paranoid about getting sick. I hate being sick. I have too many things to do in a day to be sick. Sick is not my friend.

Of course, there is the off chance that I am still sick with whatever-it-is or have come down with a fancy-schmancy something new in the last couple of days....

ALL THAT said:

TODAY
45 minutes yogilates.
I was up bright and early this morning and felt awake enough to go for a jog, but as I thought I was dying didn't really feel all that up to it. hahaha I'm working on it.

Wii Fit Measures
Weight: 176.6 lbs
BMI: 28.38

Back in Action

Aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh.....feels good to be back. Pray for me to never get sick again. Ever. EVER.

I learned some SERIOUSLY cool stuff today in my sport psychology class about motivation. I swear, whoever came up with this theory was TOTALLY psychically describing me or something. It was inSANE!

Basically one of the theories about motivation is that we, humans, do things to prove that we can do them and that we're good at them. That's it. We do things to be good at them. Crazy, eh? And some of the EXAMPLES my professor used - CRAZY! Why do we play sports? Because we think we're good at them. Why do we try new sports? Because we think we will be good at them. If we try a new sport and we suck at it, or at least that's our perception, we don't do it anymore. In the world of automatic transmission why do we drive stick? Because we want to be good at it. Why do we exercise? Because we want to be good at it.

I betcha' that's why it's so HARD for so many of us to exercise for the sake of weight-loss and fitness type stuff. The results are SO SLOW and hard to see - if you don't see that you're rocking your workouts then....move on and be good at something else!! DANG I just had an epiphany!! I'm SO smart!

Anyway, it was a lot smarter sounding in class. When I actually review my notes and read the chapter on motivation (we weren't supposed to start that today - have you EVER had a prof. who was ahead of the schedule? GEEZE!) I'll be all sorts of intelligent about it. ;)

TODAY
I DID get a swim in between classes today. I'm so pleased! I was worried about fitting a workout in at school on Wednesdays because I have class, then an hour break, then class at the COMPLETE other side of campus from the phys ed department a.k.a. the work-out-friendly-area, then an hour break, and then class. I was trying to figure out how to get from class to the change room, change, have a drippy-sweat-filled 20-30 minute run, shower, change, and high-tail it over to class in either of those short hour periods, and then it HIT me: if I SWIM I can skip the shower and instead of smelling like B.O. I'll just smell like chlorine! HOORAY! So that's what I've opted for. I smell like chemicals most of my Wednesday, now, but it's OKAY because I LOVE swimming. I swam 20 pretty continuous minutes today - had to stop to clear the fog from my goggles every few laps so I could keep my eyes on the clock so I wouldn't be late for class... And in future now I know I can swim longer and still have plenty of time to make it to class so I'll aim for 30 minutes or so. Kinda' depends on how fatigued my arms are feeling that day, honestly. hahaha
NO yogilates - I actually forgot to do an assignment and my T.A. for who-knows-what reason took pity on me and let me send it to her via e-mail, so I spent the evening looking after Little Miss and working on the assignment, and by the time all that was done Mr. Man was home and it was time for togetherness. (Except this post, of course). Tomorrow I have every intention of remembering to do my homework, so I won't have to skip any parts or wholes of my workout.

Wii Fit Measures:
Weight: 177.3 lbs
BMI: 28.49

Even with a week off I've lost a bit - the adiposity gods are losing the battle tonight! MUAHAHAHA!!

I'm BAAAAAAAAACK

Hi hi hi! Have you all MISSED me??

No, seriously. Leave me a note in the COMMENTS area if you've missed me 'cause I love to know that I'm accountable to someone other than myself. People are like, the ultimate motivation. Have you ever noticed that? Ever been for a jog and been DYING to stop but then someone comes around the corner heading for you and you all of a sudden CAN'T stop until you've passed that person and gone around that same corner so you're out of sight because heaven forbid anyone ever see you do anyting sub-super-human. And then once you're past that person and SERIOUSLY going to die, another one comes into view, and you AGAIN push on through it. So let me know if you're reading this stuff because for me you are the ULTIMATE motivation.

I'm getting nicely into the swing of things with school - it's kind of handy that I've been sick because it took the workouts out of the first-week equation so I had time to focus on getting my schedule in order, and I think I've pretty much figured it out. SO starting TOMORROW (check back to make sure I do it!) I'm back to moving. Plan is to go for a swim between classes tomorrow morning (I guess I should check and make sure the pool's open for lap swimming, which I LOVE, by the way) and hopefully I can get my yogilates in after Little Miss goes to bed and before Mr. Man comes home from work. :)

For those who are interested about motivation, I have just been informed that MY original motivator, Shopgirl, and now I have motivated Blue Bell to start up her own blogging efforts for the world to watch her weightloss efforts, so let's keep track of her and help her out! YAY BLUE BELLE!!

Little Miss turns 1

So, my excuse for the jelly doughnut is officially no good. Little Miss turned 1 on Sunday. I no longer have had less than a year to work off the baby fat.

And yes, I AM still sick (my new excuse? GAH!) but I figured it was something to be aware of when I'm ALL better. Hopefully sooner than later.

I'm still alive

Just thought I'd post and let anyone who cares to know that I AM still alive. Apparently I am actually quite sick, though with what I don't currently know, so I'm on a slight hiatus from kicking my butt with the workouts and as that's the SUBJECT of this blog, have very little to write about.

I am on antibiotics and am getting my blood tested tomorrow, and if the swelling in my throat isn't gone in 10 days from Friday just passed then I'm to see the doctor again, so don't you worry - I AM taking care of myself. ;)

And Wii Fit will yell at me when I return to it... SO nice to know someone's tracking! hahaha

SO nice to be so wonderfully ill for the first week of school and my first daughter's first birthday...YAY! ;) ALL that said, I AM still "standing" so, apparently nothing can knock me down!

(Except maybe this weight game....)

Sick AGAIN

So, I seem to have more or less completely recovered from my short-lived cold only to have one day symptom-free and land myself feeling like THIS. WHAT the heck?!?! I have too much to DO to feel like this!! You're not supposed to feel like this on the first day of school! :( This is supposed to wait until a big oral presentation or something, so you have a seriously awesome excuse for turfing your cookies in front of the class or completely losing your voice...... GAH!!

Anyway, before I realized, I think, HOW sick I am today I got 30 minutes in on the Wii Fit - hooray!! hahaha I'm literally going to kill myself trying to fit into my not-so-baggy pre-pregnancy jeans. Awesome.

YESTERDAY, besides my weight being through the roof due to a late-at-night body test (Little Miss absolutely SKIPPED her nap yesterday. It was a long day. Maybe I'm sick now because I spent all my everything yesterday....) was awesome - I found the courage and tried the next level up for yogilates HOORAY! I ripped the living room apart so I'd have enough space to do it, which may or may not have been necessary. Anyway, I did it, I rocked it, it was good.

TODAY:
Already reported 30 mins Wii Fit - REALLY low intensity because though I didn't know I was dying I didn't feel near 100% this morning. AND I probably wouldn't have gotten so sweaty and gross if our air conditioner was working today sooo...OH well.
Walked around campus oodles.
Wii Fit Measures:
Weight - 177.9
BMI - 28.59

Previous to last week, though there seemed to be a bit of an all-over-the-place with my weight this super-cool graph did show a downward trend, which was awesome. As of LATE though, it's just all over the place. Downward trend has been completely erased. I'm as heavy as ever! I'm not really sure what I'm doing differently other than I keep getting/feeling deathly ill and have therefore not been running. Maybe once I can swallow again and I work out my scheduling, I can find the time to hit the trails again, and we'll see if that's my secret.

Two more sleeps 'till school starts...

So it's Tuesday, which I think for most of the munchkins around means school started today! And I know a friend of mine in teacher's college who started classes a week ago, if not two by now...I forget! Anyway, last ones to start, as always, are the undergrads!! And that's ME! School starts up on Thursday. CRAZY! WHERE did my summer go?? The summer I was hoping to spend getting all svelte in??

Thursday school starts. Sunday Little Miss turns 1. OHmigosh, it's almost too much for this little brain of mine to get around and deal with.

Little Miss has managed to uber-cute her way into daycare with our backdoor neighbour, which is AWESOME - I can drop her off when I need to leave for classes, and pick her up when I'm done for the day! I'm sad to leave her, but thrilled that I don't have to use the daycare at school where she'd be stuck with them ALL DAY - "no in-and-out program for 'infants'". Shouldn't a parent be allowed to take care of her kid? ANYWAY....

So I'm looking at my schedule, figuring while Little Miss is in the backyard and I'm on campus I'll have to make use of the facilities between classes because it's going to be easier than fitting it in at home....except there's a few days I think I'm gonna' have troubles. I think as the first week goes by that's what I'll focus my blogging energies on - getting my workout schedule figured out; don't you find that writing things down makes it oh-so-much easier to visualize and handle??

Maybe I'll workout in this hour between classes, go to seminar sweaty and smelly, and then shower in the next hour between seminar and lab.... That sounds like a good Wednesday.

When am I going to do homework??

TODAY:
30 minutes Wii Fit "aerobics" - warm up with advanced step, 10 minutes super hoola-hoop, 6 minutes rhythm boxing twice
45 minutes yogilates
I've been having so much fun with the Wii Fit exercises I haven't ventured back outside for a run since my cold took off. I probably should - I'm sure it does more benefit in the amount of time I give it than does my new favourite video games...

Wii Fit measures:
Weight - 178.8 lbs
BMI - 28.73