I have been SO sick this week. It's like my body just completely shut down for a couple days. Of course, it didn't happen until after I packed all my running things in my bag to come to Mom and Dad's for Christmas etc. - WHAT a pain!! Little Miss picked up the cold from goodness knows where, shared it with me, and we shared it quickly through my whole family with the exception of Bravo. Lucky Bravo!! Poor Mom put on Christmas feeling the worst of all of us - we love you Mom!!
ANYWAY, so there's been a great lack of exercising but lots of Christmasing (MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!).
AND for Christmas Mr. Man and Mom have teamed up together to poor resources and buy me....A TREADMILL!! I'm SO excited. We've spent a huge portion of today online researching what I'm going to want/need....Anyway, I'll definitely keep you updated on that as it unfolds, but YAY!!
Okay, so prayers that the rest of my cold clears up by Sunday because I'm singing in a choir on Sunday night - performance was postponed due to super-snow last week (thank-goodness as I couldn't speak...) and have a couple solos, and currently sound a little too hoarsely-mannish to pull it off.
No stats today to post - we're still not home. Should be home tomorrow, so maybe we'll get to that stuff. ;)
Self-photo-shoot
Okay, so I took some pictures of me this morning to show off the new hair and the rapidly healing (and still gross) face. Of course ALL the shots would be better if taken by, well, anyone else, but here you have it. ;)
THIS is the 'face' shot - note the huge crater on the nose (less shiny than it was on Tuesday, thank goodness! It's quite embarrassing in the middle of a final to have your nose start running from THE OUTSIDE!!!) and the beautiful yellow bruising up around the used-to-be-third-eye stitching....there's ONE more, much smaller crater on the other side of the nose, too, but it's so negligible I haven't taken any pictures.
AND a hair shot - yes, Geaka's crazy. hahaha I'm not all that fussy about my hair - I just want it to work for me and be fun. SO we took off some length and added an orange skunk-stripe along the middle.....sometimes I ABSOLUTELY love it. ;) (THANKS, Geaka!)
Hey, if you think this hair is crazy, you should have seen the blue we did last January.....
WAY too much fun. :) I was happy to cover it up, though, when the time came. AND I'll never do blue again.
TODAY:
Ran 5K on the treadmill FASTER THAN EVER! Ran the whole thing at 6mph (the treadmill's in miles - sorry for the back-and-forth with the units of measurement!) or greater and did it in 30:25. Best before today was over 31 minutes. BOOM baby!
I took yogilates with me to do, but between Christmas shopping (YAY I LOVE CHRISTMAS) and studying (YAY ONLY ONE FINAL LEFT) all my time seemed to just evaporate. We WILL get this whole schedule thing down pat, eventually.....
THIS is the 'face' shot - note the huge crater on the nose (less shiny than it was on Tuesday, thank goodness! It's quite embarrassing in the middle of a final to have your nose start running from THE OUTSIDE!!!) and the beautiful yellow bruising up around the used-to-be-third-eye stitching....there's ONE more, much smaller crater on the other side of the nose, too, but it's so negligible I haven't taken any pictures.
AND a hair shot - yes, Geaka's crazy. hahaha I'm not all that fussy about my hair - I just want it to work for me and be fun. SO we took off some length and added an orange skunk-stripe along the middle.....sometimes I ABSOLUTELY love it. ;) (THANKS, Geaka!)
Hey, if you think this hair is crazy, you should have seen the blue we did last January.....
WAY too much fun. :) I was happy to cover it up, though, when the time came. AND I'll never do blue again.
TODAY:
Ran 5K on the treadmill FASTER THAN EVER! Ran the whole thing at 6mph (the treadmill's in miles - sorry for the back-and-forth with the units of measurement!) or greater and did it in 30:25. Best before today was over 31 minutes. BOOM baby!
I took yogilates with me to do, but between Christmas shopping (YAY I LOVE CHRISTMAS) and studying (YAY ONLY ONE FINAL LEFT) all my time seemed to just evaporate.
Short and Sweet
SHORT post, but I want to stay (read: get back) in the habit of telling you about my activity levels for the day so....
TODAY:
Ran 5K on the treadmill at Mom and Dad's. Took my time, and didn't separate my warm-up time from the running time - by the end I was too out of it to do the remedial mathematics problem I needed to find my 5K time so no word on that. I ran most of it at 5.7mph soooooo definitely slower than I have done it. Didn't want to go too insane since last time I ran at all was on Saturday with Mi outside in the ridiculous weather. ;)
ALSO got the new 'do for the...well, whatever. hahaha Every now and then Geaka (my super-awesome-amazing hairstylist and friend extraordinaire) and I get bored and do something different, and today was the day. It's pretty neat. Will post pictures, when we get around to it. ;) Shorter (I LOVE short hair, much to Mr. Man's chagrin...poor boy!) and definitely....FUNKIER. (Last January we did blue streaks - TOO much fun! This isn't that wild.)
TODAY:
Ran 5K on the treadmill at Mom and Dad's. Took my time, and didn't separate my warm-up time from the running time - by the end I was too out of it to do the remedial mathematics problem I needed to find my 5K time so no word on that. I ran most of it at 5.7mph soooooo definitely slower than I have done it. Didn't want to go too insane since last time I ran at all was on Saturday with Mi outside in the ridiculous weather. ;)
ALSO got the new 'do for the...well, whatever. hahaha Every now and then Geaka (my super-awesome-amazing hairstylist and friend extraordinaire) and I get bored and do something different, and today was the day. It's pretty neat. Will post pictures, when we get around to it. ;) Shorter (I LOVE short hair, much to Mr. Man's chagrin...poor boy!) and definitely....FUNKIER. (Last January we did blue streaks - TOO much fun! This isn't that wild.)
Hollywood, here I come!
Okay, FIRST off, I have to tell you this post is going to be a little bit off topic. Secondly, I'm NOT working out today. No way. Too woozy. And finally, have I ever told you about my bumps?? THEY'RE GONE......
I just ate a HUGE sandwich in an attempt to satiate my need for some sensory input other than the smell of burning flesh....
Let me back up a bit.
This morning, when I woke up, I had bumps. Yesterday, bumps. For as long as I can remember I've had bumps, though Mom says that they showed up sometime while I was in the wonderful pubertal stages of life. Not only did I start to notice boys but I also grew bumps with which to deter them. Huzzah, justice. One lovely person pointed out my largest nose-bump and said "wow, that's a big mosquito bite." Another pointed and asked if it was a zit. Those, though, are the only two times I can think of where the bumps were really an 'issue'.
Then, while pregnant with Little Miss, a new bump. A HUGE bump. A third-eyeball-sized-and-located bump. I LOATHED this bump. I poked it, I poked my eye with it, I tried, desperately, to POP it. Recently, about the bump, people have been asking, in shock and horror "what HAPPENED to you?!" They expect a dramatic and cool answer like I got in a fist fight, but all I can say is "hormones." I'm so tired of the bump explanation. World, the answer is hormones. Stop asking. Not that I MIND asking - I really don't mind 'rude' questions, I just really really mind the bump.
The nose bumps were never, as I said, really an issue for me. When I was younger Mom offered to arrange for me to get them off but I didn't really see the point. Surgery just to smooth some bumps?? Seriously?? No thanks. PLUS how many other people to you know with an awesome built-in-witch-mole for their hallowe'en costume?
The Third Eye? HATE HATE HATE it. It was in my peripheral vision, it could hold up Mr. Man if he leaned over to snuggle with me, it looked like a giant zit, or, apparently like swelling after a good fist to the face. It was big. When my dad finally learned of my dislike of the monstrosity he let me know how he felt about it - he jokingly went at it with a strap wrench. Last time I walked into his house he greeted Little Miss, and then looked at me, considering, and said "yeah, it's time to get that THING taken off..." hahaha I really doubt if you haven't seen it if the picture above does it justice, but there you go.
Because the Third Eye was big, growing, and new, I asked my doctor about it. She had a couple of not-so harmful theories - cyst, fat deposit, whatever - and referred me to a plastic surgeon. ME. Plastic surgery. UGH! I felt so VAIN!
Mom came down to go to my first appointment - we'd been lead to believe I'd have the thing off at that first visit after a greeting from the doc. Apparenty he was behind schedule, so it was a meet and greet, and Mom asked about my nose bumps, too. He checked me all over, said, no problem, and we scheduled my very first ever surgery of any kind. ELECTIVE, COSMETIC surgery. I half expected Britney to waltz through at any moment...
Well, today was the day. It's done. It's over. I am bumpless. I look like Frankenstein at the moment, blood and ooze and stitches all over my face, and feel, well......WEIRD.
(Our camera is missing, so this is from Mr. Man's blackberry - excuse the extra-grossness because it's not as fantastic a camera as our actual camera....)
It was surprisingly traumatic. Mr. Man came with me and was allowed to stay only for the most painful part as the good doc shoved needle after needle into my not-so-fat-full-cushion-free face - yeah, hurts A LOT more to get a needle in your nose than in your arm, just FYI. Then, when my nerves were JUST about out of control Mr. Man was booted out of the room and the good doc got to work. I was PETRIFIED. I'm one of those ones who watches HOUSE with my eyes closed the whole episode. Just the THOUGHT of taking something sharp to slice through my skin was making me FLIP. Seriously, my fear of labour and childbirth had nothing on my fear of this ridiculously small procedure. Definitely the most excruciatingly terrifying thing I've experienced, and I have not been free of new scary moments in life.
Pathetic, I know.
I was first off worried the freezing wouldn't numb everything. Boy was that silly! The only thing I felt was pressure, until the pressure became pulling - it felt like he was pulling as hard as he could while I struggled insanely to keep my poor unwilling eye crammed SHUT - I did not want to see ANY of what was going on! YANKED and YANKED, scraping sounds....sounds like kindergartners' scissors hacking at construction paper, all the while my poor eye fighting with all it's tiny-muscled strength to stay shut. Then it was done.
The NOSE bumps, though, now that was COOL! There was such immense relief when the third-eye came out and was stitched up, I watched the nose procedure! He literally burned them off with this like, metal hook thing - just scraped it back and forth until it was all nice and smooth. I had to blink a lot because burning flesh makes quite the amount of smoke - who knew? And it reeks - hence the dire need for a sandwich earlier. Thankfully the odor has died down, though we've ordered pizza for dinner to fill the house and my nostrils with the scent of something aside from the cauterized wounds on my nose.
And that's that. I'm bumpless!! In a few weeks my wounds will have all healed and I'll be as normal-looking as I'm going to get!!
I CAN'T BELIEVE people have plastic surgery 'regularly'. I will NEVER NEVER NEVER have anything akin to a face-lift, tummy-tuck, lipo - all those things all we women joke about getting that our famous friends do without batting an eyelash - NEVER. OH mi gosh.
But I am glad to be rid of my bumps. :)
I just ate a HUGE sandwich in an attempt to satiate my need for some sensory input other than the smell of burning flesh....
Let me back up a bit.
This morning, when I woke up, I had bumps. Yesterday, bumps. For as long as I can remember I've had bumps, though Mom says that they showed up sometime while I was in the wonderful pubertal stages of life. Not only did I start to notice boys but I also grew bumps with which to deter them. Huzzah, justice. One lovely person pointed out my largest nose-bump and said "wow, that's a big mosquito bite." Another pointed and asked if it was a zit. Those, though, are the only two times I can think of where the bumps were really an 'issue'.
Then, while pregnant with Little Miss, a new bump. A HUGE bump. A third-eyeball-sized-and-located bump. I LOATHED this bump. I poked it, I poked my eye with it, I tried, desperately, to POP it. Recently, about the bump, people have been asking, in shock and horror "what HAPPENED to you?!" They expect a dramatic and cool answer like I got in a fist fight, but all I can say is "hormones." I'm so tired of the bump explanation. World, the answer is hormones. Stop asking. Not that I MIND asking - I really don't mind 'rude' questions, I just really really mind the bump.
The nose bumps were never, as I said, really an issue for me. When I was younger Mom offered to arrange for me to get them off but I didn't really see the point. Surgery just to smooth some bumps?? Seriously?? No thanks. PLUS how many other people to you know with an awesome built-in-witch-mole for their hallowe'en costume?
The Third Eye?
Because the Third Eye was big, growing, and new, I asked my doctor about it. She had a couple of not-so harmful theories - cyst, fat deposit, whatever - and referred me to a plastic surgeon. ME. Plastic surgery. UGH! I felt so VAIN!
Mom came down to go to my first appointment - we'd been lead to believe I'd have the thing off at that first visit after a greeting from the doc. Apparenty he was behind schedule, so it was a meet and greet, and Mom asked about my nose bumps, too. He checked me all over, said, no problem, and we scheduled my very first ever surgery of any kind. ELECTIVE, COSMETIC surgery.
Well, today was the day. It's done. It's over. I am bumpless. I look like Frankenstein at the moment, blood and ooze and stitches all over my face, and feel, well......WEIRD.
(Our camera is missing, so this is from Mr. Man's blackberry - excuse the extra-grossness because it's not as fantastic a camera as our actual camera....)
It was surprisingly traumatic. Mr. Man came with me and was allowed to stay only for the most painful part as the good doc shoved needle after needle into my not-so-fat-full-cushion-free face - yeah, hurts A LOT more to get a needle in your nose than in your arm, just FYI. Then, when my nerves were JUST about out of control Mr. Man was booted out of the room and the good doc got to work. I was PETRIFIED. I'm one of those ones who watches HOUSE with my eyes closed the whole episode. Just the THOUGHT of taking something sharp to slice through my skin was making me FLIP. Seriously, my fear of labour and childbirth had nothing on my fear of this ridiculously small procedure. Definitely the most excruciatingly terrifying thing I've experienced, and I have not been free of new scary moments in life.
Pathetic, I know.
I was first off worried the freezing wouldn't numb everything. Boy was that silly! The only thing I felt was pressure, until the pressure became pulling - it felt like he was pulling as hard as he could while I struggled insanely to keep my poor unwilling eye crammed SHUT - I did not want to see ANY of what was going on! YANKED and YANKED, scraping sounds....sounds like kindergartners' scissors hacking at construction paper, all the while my poor eye fighting with all it's tiny-muscled strength to stay shut. Then it was done.
The NOSE bumps, though, now that was COOL! There was such immense relief when the third-eye came out and was stitched up, I watched the nose procedure! He literally burned them off with this like, metal hook thing - just scraped it back and forth until it was all nice and smooth. I had to blink a lot because burning flesh makes quite the amount of smoke - who knew? And it reeks - hence the dire need for a sandwich earlier. Thankfully the odor has died down, though we've ordered pizza for dinner to fill the house and my nostrils with the scent of something aside from the cauterized wounds on my nose.
And that's that. I'm bumpless!! In a few weeks my wounds will have all healed and I'll be as normal-looking as I'm going to get!!
I CAN'T BELIEVE people have plastic surgery 'regularly'. I will NEVER NEVER NEVER have anything akin to a face-lift, tummy-tuck, lipo - all those things all we women joke about getting that our famous friends do without batting an eyelash - NEVER. OH mi gosh.
But I am glad to be rid of my bumps. :)
Congrats Big Momma!
TODAY Big Momma became not-so-big Momma - the BABY came!! Godzilla 1&2 have a baby brother!! SO huge shout-out and congrats to the whole family and THANKS for calling us! We feel so loved!!
Of course, that means we're shopping for a new identifying term for previously-big-Momma 'cause, well, you've seen REALLY pregnant people and then suddenly NOT pregnant people. She's not so big now! hahaha Man oh man, good thing my friends love me instead of finding me the world's most insanely tactless and offensive person...
ALSO today, was the biomechanics final. FANTASTIC - what a way to start off my finals! I'd bore you with the tale of yesterday and the studying-fiasco that resulted in hardly any studying and no run (booooooooooooooooo) BUT I've vented that one off a couple times verbally and really, I'm tired tonight. I know, I know. I'm always tired and my posts are sucking lately. I'll get better. One of the ideas behind this is to add some helpful/useful information for people to steal for their own sleves, and not just me rambling on about nothing for no reasons BUT, again, lately....TIIIIIIIIIRED and honestly can't be bothered. hahaha Again, no offense. It doesn't mean I don't love you few readers of mine.
ALSO today Mi and I went for a run OUTSIDE in the BLISTERING cold and wind and snow and ice - we lasted outside for 20 minutes - no measure how far we went, just around this section of the campus umpteen times - it's hard to move quickly on ice..... Then we went inside and toured around this maze-like confusing part of campus for our remaining 10-15 to make our 30 minute 'run'. It was COLD and WINDY and miserable, but we had fun, I think, and it was great to get out. I mean get out running, not to get outside. The outside part sucked.
I haven't weighed or measured myself so nothing there to report, sorry, but I DID take a nap today and get some of the more difficult-to-shop-for Christmas shopping out of the way. :) The stress is minimal. Good day.
Of course, that means we're shopping for a new identifying term for previously-big-Momma 'cause, well, you've seen REALLY pregnant people and then suddenly NOT pregnant people. She's not so big now! hahaha Man oh man, good thing my friends love me instead of finding me the world's most insanely tactless and offensive person...
ALSO today, was the biomechanics final. FANTASTIC - what a way to start off my finals! I'd bore you with the tale of yesterday and the studying-fiasco that resulted in hardly any studying and no run (booooooooooooooooo) BUT I've vented that one off a couple times verbally and really, I'm tired tonight. I know, I know. I'm always tired and my posts are sucking lately. I'll get better. One of the ideas behind this is to add some helpful/useful information for people to steal for their own sleves, and not just me rambling on about nothing for no reasons BUT, again, lately....TIIIIIIIIIRED and honestly can't be bothered. hahaha Again, no offense. It doesn't mean I don't love you few readers of mine.
ALSO today Mi and I went for a run OUTSIDE in the BLISTERING cold and wind and snow and ice - we lasted outside for 20 minutes - no measure how far we went, just around this section of the campus umpteen times - it's hard to move quickly on ice..... Then we went inside and toured around this maze-like confusing part of campus for our remaining 10-15 to make our 30 minute 'run'. It was COLD and WINDY and miserable, but we had fun, I think, and it was great to get out. I mean get out running, not to get outside. The outside part sucked.
I haven't weighed or measured myself so nothing there to report, sorry, but I DID take a nap today and get some of the more difficult-to-shop-for Christmas shopping out of the way. :) The stress is minimal. Good day.
Bring on Biomechanics
So I am in finals. I'm hiding out at my mom's again today so I can study for my biomechanics exam tomorrow morning - that's right SATURDAY morning - with hopefully less distraction from the Little Miss. We've had a wonderful week playing normal-stay-at-home-mommy decorating for Christmas, playing games, cleaning the house (it really needed it after this semester!!)....I think I'm totally ready to be a mom! hahaha And it only took 15 months.... ;)
LAST NIGHT:
Played soccer. We lost, which is becoming a normal thing for us. I played like a bum, too - got stuck playing forward which I detest, so spent most of my time running around aimlessly feeling like an idiot - I feel so lost when I'm supposed to stick to the front half of the field! hahaha OH well. Still fun.
TODAY:
Nothing yet, but I've brought all my running gear 'cause I know there will be a point part way through the studying today where I'll be looking to blow my brains out and so I'm hoping I'll resort to running 5K instead of searching for a shotgun. Usually works pretty good. Hopefully after the exam tomorrow I'll find another five minutes and let you know how today's run (and tomorrow's - that's currently the plan at the moment, that Mi and I are going to hit the track after our exam) goes.
Okay, enough for now. I have some more notes to print and then some trigonometry to learn! Oh joy and rapture....
LAST NIGHT:
Played soccer. We lost, which is becoming a normal thing for us. I played like a bum, too - got stuck playing forward which I detest, so spent most of my time running around aimlessly feeling like an idiot - I feel so lost when I'm supposed to stick to the front half of the field! hahaha OH well. Still fun.
TODAY:
Nothing yet, but I've brought all my running gear 'cause I know there will be a point part way through the studying today where I'll be looking to blow my brains out and so I'm hoping I'll resort to running 5K instead of searching for a shotgun. Usually works pretty good. Hopefully after the exam tomorrow I'll find another five minutes and let you know how today's run (and tomorrow's - that's currently the plan at the moment, that Mi and I are going to hit the track after our exam) goes.
Okay, enough for now. I have some more notes to print and then some trigonometry to learn! Oh joy and rapture....
DEFINITELY slacking
Okay, so classes are over, obviously and thank GOODNESS. BUT that means my schedule's all out of whack so I'm having trouble a) making the time and b) staying motivated to work out right now. I was going to go for a run yesterday outside when Little Miss took her nap but it was snowing when that finally happened and then she didn't really ever fall asleep (Mr. Man was home, by the way - I wasn't just ditching her).... Anyway, anything I write will be a more-or-less pathetic excuse BUT I'm still wonderful. hahaha
I DID run while at Mom and Dad's over the weekend, but ran out of time so never made it to post.
Little Miss is "napping" again, today, which means she's in her crib, throwing her toys around, and she just yelled 'YEAH! Ya!' I think in an effort to make sure I know she's nowhere near sleep after 30 minutes in there, lullabies playing, bottle drained, clean diaper, snuggly blankie....
Anyway, so no exercising to report BUT my house is super tidy and all decorated for Christmas! YAY! hahaha
I DID run while at Mom and Dad's over the weekend, but ran out of time so never made it to post.
Little Miss is "napping" again, today, which means she's in her crib, throwing her toys around, and she just yelled 'YEAH! Ya!' I think in an effort to make sure I know she's nowhere near sleep after 30 minutes in there, lullabies playing, bottle drained, clean diaper, snuggly blankie....
Anyway, so no exercising to report BUT my house is super tidy and all decorated for Christmas! YAY! hahaha
