Stuffy nose, day two.

Still sick. Lazing on the couch is apparently not fixing me as fast as I had hoped. No matter, I don't really feel all THAT horrid except first thing in the morning and...now, actually. Day's winding down, I'm exhausted! Sinuses feel about a thousand times worse than they have all day... Oh, who doesn't love a good cold???

Maybe my recent weight gain is just pounds of GUNK stuffed up in my head. That's certainly what it feels like.

Anyway, at Little Miss' naptime today I felt pretty good, though hungry, and so:

TODAY
30 minutes Wii Fit "aerobics" - mostly rhythm boxing and super hoola hoop, with some stepping to warm up. I'm addicted to rhythm boxing - SO much fun! Anyway, I worked up such a good sweat today I left footprints on the balance board. hahaha GROSS!
45 minutes yogilates

Wii Fit measures
Weight - 179.0 lbs
BMI - 28.77

Sooooooo...seriously, besides the head cold I don't know what's so different this week that I keep gaining weight. I'm not overly concerned at the moment - weight does fluctuate all over the place day to day, and in women different times of one's cycle have an effect (aren't you boys just all so darned glad you had a chance to read that?? LUCKY!!!). If Auntie Flow comes to visit in the next few days we should have our answer. ;) hahaha OR if the snot-brigade LEAVES and I'm suddenly that-much-closer to a "normal" BMI (GARBAGE!!) then WOW apparently snot has quite the weight to it!!

Regardless of what the measurements are showing let's just all pray for me that I can fit back into a few of my clothes such that I have something to wear to school when it starts up again next week! ;)

Illness blows....my nose!

This morning I woke up to the sounds of Little Miss crying, waiting for one of her wonderful parents to come and rescue her from the prison that is her crib, and felt as though my head had been run over, back and forth, back and forth, by a mack truck throughout my sleep. Thankfully, with Mr. Man working later hours this week he's happy to get up and spend time with Little Miss, so he did this morning, and instead of getting up to go for a run with my incredibly over-stuffed-with-snot-and-gunk head I went back to sleep.

I know, I know. It might sound lazy, but I HATE having a cold. I want a cold to get in, do it's business, and get the HECK out as soon as possible, so I spend as much time as possible when I'm sick doing as little as possible so my poor ailing body can fight the good fight against whatever on Earth is infecting my innards and causing them to leak out my nose.

Too bad yesterday I didn't know I was going to be sick today, or I would have gone for a run then. Huh. One of those hindsight's 20/20 moments, I guess. Maybe I should just start overacheiving a bit regularly and run EVERY DAY, so then when I have a sick day, or week, it's not such a big deal. And maybe I'd be oh so wicked-uber-hot faster, too. Huh. What a novel idea. Work begets results. Who knew??

I think I'm really onto something here!

In the meantime I won't bore you with the tale of how Little Miss and I messed up my Wii Fit goals and Mr. Man made it worse and then fixed it - I didn't get to tell you about my weight gain yesterday as we were trying to outsmart the Fit and get my goal set back as something feesible instead of a BMI of 0.85 with a weight of 5lbs. Serious. It was weird.

TODAY:
45 minutes yogilates - I watched the first 20 minutes or so of the intermediate workout today to see if I think I'm ready. I think with the cold and the whole...yeah I'm not ready to try and do that stuff yet. I'll need Mr. Man to be on standby to help me get out of some of those moves! I don't think my legs will ever be that flexible! BUT I'm going to give myself another good while on my beginner DVD and then actually TRY the intermediate. One day when I'm NOT sick. Maybe my birthday.
A whopping 15 minutes of Wii Fit aerobics - light, low intensity, got my heart going without killing my poor stuffy head. And I do LOVE the hoola hoop game, and the rhythm boxing makes me feel tough. ;)

Wii Fit Measures
Weight - 178.6 lbs
BMI - 28.70

Boo for being heavier, BUT it's just a scale so doesn't really matter. We'll do another picture of the spare tire next month and see how the progress is going that way. My darling friends tonight tell me I look good - Mr. Man must have paid them good! ;) hahaha KIDDING! I KNOW I'm hot. ;)

Monday, Monday

So it's Monday. The weekend was a write-off for exercise, as it often is, but I DID make an effort to NOT eat like the pig that I can sometimes be known to be. I was never in danger of being thought of as one of those girls on a date who doesn't eat. I could out-eat most of the boys. Ever heard of Fuddruckers pound challenge? Piece of cake. ;) Well, actually, 1 pound burger, bun, large chili fries (I hate chili, by the way), a fountain drink, and wowzers that's not a small sundae. I totally earned that t-shirt, though, and yes, I most certainly AM man enough!

Mr. Man, I don't think I mentioned, graduated with his BSc in Compuer Science this past spring (HOORAY!) and pretty quickly got a job which rocks my socks, BUT because of the nature of the company and what he does his hours are a little bit all over the map. A couple weeks ago it was 7am-3pm, last week 10am-6pm, and this week we're at 11:30am-7:30am. Anyway, so it's difficult to get the swing of things routine with his highness dropping in and out whenever BUT, TODAY, with the darlin' not having to be at work 'till almost noon we had a good morning. :) There was enough time to sleep AND hang out before he had to get ready for work, which is OH so nice!! So with THAT said:

TODAY:
Ran WITHOUT my BOB stroller first thing this morning, because Mr. Man was home!! Started the running a wee bit closer to home than I usually do, ran the ENTIRE path, there AND back, no breaks. Took about 25 minutes. I wanted to die. I've decided that the path THERE is mostly slightly uphill, which means coming BACK is easier, but by the time I get to coming back I'm OH so dead friggin tired from running uphill all that way.... And apparently, as awesome as my stroller is I can run an eensy bit further without pushing it along. Who knew?? And obviously, when I wasn't running, I was walking either TO the path, or on the way home. Walked about 25 minutes - out for 50. (I definately did something faster today because I went the exact same route I always do and shaved about 10 minutes off my time)
45 minutes yogilates.

Wii Fit Measures
Weight - 176.4 lbs
BMI - 28.34

Laaaaazy, yet productive.

So today was good. I didn't almost accidentally kill anyone, though I was a wee bit apprehensive about Little Miss eating peanut butter n' jelly JUST IN CASE she's got some hidden peanuts-cause-death thing no one told us about which as she's still alive appears to be a non-issue...AND she didn't eat like, ANY of the sandwich, grrrr, and I dealt with a bunch of laundry and I tidied the kitchen...and I watched a LOT of t.v. I had a very Friday day. Which is fine and dandy, 'cause it's Friday.

Tonight's game was good today, too. We won 4-2 (I would post if we lost, too, but we haven't since I started this thing...I PROMISE we lose sometimes, just not recently!) against the league like, coordinator guy - always satisfying to beat the team of the guy who has all the everything to stack his team. Oh if only he'd taken some of OUR players. At least when he yelled at our players he was just kidding, and we yelled our kiddingnesses back at him, so it was all good. LOTS of fun. And it looks like this year, for a change, we're actually going to get a team together for indoor which is OH so exciting! Usually everyone says they want to and then they all back out - but this time we're taking their money early, threatening not to give it back, and people are STILL chomping at the bit to play wit us, so I'm thinking it's going to work out - YAY!

TODAY:
45 minutes yogilates
1:20 soccer (I was off twice, figure in total that's 10 minutes off two 45 min halves.... I feel like I need to be uber thorough in my reporting to the cyber that is space)
Lots of lounging and T.V., but mixed with folding and putting away laundry, tidying that kitchen of mine, AND hanging out with the one and only Little Miss.
Wii Fit Measures (and NO, I didn't actually get up and weigh myself uber early as I threatened...these are from about 3:30 which is what time I get to it after Little Miss takes a 2pm nap instead of a noon nap):
Weight - 177.0 lbs
BMI - 28.45

BOOYAH!

Okay, just have to warn you, BUSY weekend loaded with family stuff starting tomorrow, so I'm going to do my darndest to be an active cat but I may not get to posting about it. So sad for all you lovely people out there who I know spend your whole days waiting for the evening to come so you can come and see what wonderful tales of my exercise I've written for you...but I think you'll get over it.

MUAH!

OH yeah! And I just remembered, I TOTALLY knocked this chick over on the other team tonight! It was a thing of beauty. She even had the audacity to have the same name as me and she was a super obnoxious player - hey, I'm not usually catty on the field but she was annoying - and then she was wide open with the ball so I ran at her, OBVIOUSLY with the intention to get the ball, and I think she thought she was tougher than me or something so she lost the ball and kinda' jumped at me or into me or whatever and she TOTALLY fell flat on her....yeah that. It was beautiful. The ref called me on it and everything! There's a serious sense of awesomeness and satisfaction after knocking someone over in sports. Why is that???

The Fates are against me

So the week started with a way-too-busy and sleep-deprived weekend and has been non-stop ever since. Before today I'd only managed 9 minutes of yogilates the whole week, and Mr. Man was SO nice last night to point out that TODAY is Thursday! WHERE did the whole week go?!?!

Yesterday was not a BAD day, but it was one of THOSE days, you know? All the LITTLE things went wrong. Like, I went to pay tuition expecting a huge line and paid $2.50 for and hour's parking and went and there was NO line, which was nice, but I was all done on campus in 15 minutes! Hello, where's my $2.50??? Stupid metre. Then I went to the bank machine in the grocery store to deposit a whack-load of cheques from my work over the weekend, put my card in the ATM and...nothing. The screen was completely blank. I DID get my card out, but no deposit. THEN Little Miss wouldn't take her nap 'till 2:30 (same today - what is WITH that child?? I TRY to be regular with her! GAH!) THEN I got a message about working last night and that maybe we wouldn't have to but oh-wait, had to JUST IN CASE people came, so couldn't get it done during the afternoon, so had to spend nap-time getting ready for work, which was fine. Then drove Little Miss to my pals' house so they could watch her 'till Mr. Man got home from work so I could go to work, and on the way there was a bicyclist right where I needed to turn right and a car on my bum...soooo I pulled FAR over to the right, BEHIND the cyclist so as not to cut him off and cause him to drive into the side of my car while still prepping for my right turn AND ever-so-considerately getting out of the way of the wonderful human being(s) in the vehicle behind me...AND they passed me, honked at me, and flipped me off. WHAT THE HECK?!?! OH and the best thing is that right before I left for work last night I got a shipment in of work stuff and the box is FULL of all the wrong stuff because apparently I mistyped the same thing THREE TIMES when ordering it. AND I need it by next Tuesday and it won't get here in time now.

Yup, it was one of THOSE days yesterday.

So I did NOT get out for a walk, a run, a jog, I did not get time to take my body test on my Wii Fit (it surprisingly didn't scold me today - it usually does. Maybe it thought it would go easy on me since I've just previously been scolded for missing three days over the weekend...yes, I'm a trooper).

TODAY...
has been better. Except the weird nap time thing. I do EVERYTHING I can to make Little Miss' days the same and last week we were all about noontime naps - you may have read about it: I LOVE NOONTIME NAPS!! THIS week....no idea. She's all over the place. Today she fell asleep drinking milk from a bottle at 2 and I put her down and she WOKE UP and stood up and was all HI-MOM!-I'm-SO-ready-to-play-now, so I picked her back up, did a round of the house hoping she'd doze back off, and she didn't. So I put her down and left her screams, and it took her 40 minutes to doze off and a good extra 20 to be completely out of it. INSANE! I'm going to have to wake her for dinner!!
I DID take the opportunity, finally, to get in 45 minutes yogilates
And this morning we went out for a run. Funny story about that - ran a little further today and thought I was going to die, and as I was JUST finishing my last strides of "running" my little old man friend from the other muddy muddy day, when I FIRST ran the whole path, was right there, fixing his car!! So Little Miss and I stopped to chat. EXCEPT I had JUST stopped running, and hadn't walked it off yet, so my poor little heart's beating twenty-trillion miles/minute and I honestly thought I was going to pass out. So here's Mr. Chat-It-Up going on about how he can't fix his car at his condo because it's not allowed and the only thing I'M thinking is, dude-I-hope-you-have-a-cell-phone-to-call-911-'cause-I'm-going-to-pass-out-and-you-can't-lift-me!! I hope I wasn't rude to him when I finally figured out something that at the time seemed a good way to get back to moving - I can't for the life of me remember what it was - and then Little Miss and I made our way SLOWLY back home. I honestly thought I was at least going to puke, if not collapse, let the stroller full of baby roll away from me into the dam-outflow in the river, and come to and wish I was dead.

Yup. It was a REALLY good run today. Note to self - they're serious when they recommend you take a few to "cool down" - remember to do that. ALWAYS.

Wii Fit Measures
Weight - 177.7
BMI - 28.56

Maybe tomorrow we'll see some progress...I'll get up SUPER early and weigh myself! hahaha

Yikes - Four Days

So I kinda' dropped off for a few days - Little Miss we think MUST be teething, which of course means I'm not getting any sleep AND it was a busy weekend anyway so regular exercise habits were completely thrown out the window. It was kind of sad. Wii Fit reprimanded me today, so no one else has to :P

Great weekend work-wise, though, in case you were all wondering. And today was on its way back to normal. Little Miss is still sleeping a bit funny, so like, NOT sleeping as much as she should, but Mr. Man and I seem to be working it out okay.

TODAY
Went for a run on the path. It was muddy today - lots of rain last night! But that's okay, just makes it fun to hop over puddles and push the stroller through and splash up my legs.... Yup, that's FUN.... My shoes were stark-white 'till I ran through the mud last week. OH well. Anyway, did THERE the whole path, and BACK...probably 3/4 of the path. I forgot to look at my watch, so can't report on that. Walked whatever I didn't run, and was out a little under an hour.
9 minutes yogilates (Little Miss woke up...didn't get it all done, obviously).
Wii Fit Measures:
Weight - 177.7 lbs
BMI - 28.56

Go CHIMPS

Okay, first off, what the HECK?! The coach for the other team tonight was SUCH a nice guy, then he got frustrated and yelled across the field at our best player, called her an idiot, swore so loud a spectator on the other side yelled back to "watch your language", and yeah, was just being ridiculous. Like, DUDE! It's ladies soccer! This stupid league doesn't even have PLAYOFFS for pity's sake - who CARES if you win or not?? Half the league have never played before and the rest of us have been playing forever! GET A GRIP!!

What a loser.

Now that THAT'S out - too bad he'll probably never read that, eh? GROW UP! - SO much fun tonight! Soccer is fun when we play well and we DO happen to have a team of pretty good players so when we play well we win. I really don't care all that much - as I said, there's no playoffs so it doesn't count for anything other than kicks and giggles - but it's a nice bonus. And tonight we won. We played AWESOME. We played a team of girls younger, thinner, faster, and we beat the PANTS off them! It was awesome. I played SO good...most of the time. hahaha Anyway, final score 6-3. HUZZAH!!

TODAY
45 min yogilates
2 45 min halves of soccer...one five minute rest sooo 1hr25min soccer. (Yeah, my poor old-lady back is KILLING me).
WiiFit Measures:
Weight - 177.7 lbs
BMI - 28.56

Yes, that's right. I weighed myself at the usual time and I magically lost that mysterious 2.6 lbs that was hanging around last night. CRAZY! I've always known my weight fluctuates all over the place, but that seems like a lot in a day. I should take the tests alternating, afternoons and nights, so we can see the progress yo-yo all over the place, eh? Back and forth, back and forth.... Wow, sometimes I think I amuse myself a little too much.

I need to take a shower.