As we all know today was a monday. A monday I did on like maybe 6 hours of sleep last night. Darn not sleeping well. Oh well. We are going to the gym again tonight when DH gets of from work. Joy unbounded. I kind of want to beg off because I am so tired from lack of enough sleep (therefore I am cranky) but I won't. I may not like the gym I may not want to go but I am not going to woose out so to speak. So, work had it's usual ups and downs but over all it was a decent day. And we have a decent workload for tomorrow. In case I haven't mentioned it before I work in a lab. Then it was off to get the children from the sitters and home to make dinner.
For dinner I wanted mexican but I didn't want to go buy mexican because it's never quite the same. Not to mention eating out would add up quick. So for dinner I made beef enchiladas, seasoned black beans and spanish rice. Not the healthiest dinners probably but oh was it yummy. And there are leftovers so I will be having enchilada for lunch tomorrow and DH can take it to work tomorrow also. I decided I was going bake some chicken tomorrow with some smashed potatoes broccoli and some parmesan garlic french bread. Which might be healthier but it still isn't diet food.. I think I might end up having to break down and do an actual diet. :( Hopefully not but we will see, I am giving the gym thing another month and if I still have lost all of zero pounds at that point I will be going on a real diet. Let's hope it doesn't come to that. I hope you all had a nice Monday and that your Tuesdays are even better.
24 May 2010
Week 4 or err 3
This should technically be our 4th week in the gym but because I got sick and therefore lazy we didn't go for week three. So tomorrow will be the end of the 3rd week we actually exercised. I can tell you this I still do NOT like the gym not even remotely. I am not seeing an increase of energy nor am I feeling better in general. All the stuff DH said would happened after week 2. If I haven't mentioned it before DH enjoys and likes the gym.. I told him in jest (sort of) that I think it was his gentics and that there was something unnatural about it all.. Which he in returns tells me it's my gentics and I let him know "normal" people do NOT enjoy and like the gym. But I guess it's not the more horrible thing I could be doing and it's good for my health. Hopefully it'll equal me loosing this extra weight. Which to date since starting this gym thing I have lost a whole zero pounds. Yes that many. Zero... I won't even ask DH because I am sure he has lost something. And when I whined (I admit I whined) about it, he told me I was probably building muscle. So maybe I should be taking measurements for a better idea about whether I am actually getting something out of this. Becuase until I get rid of my mommy tummy I am not going to think I am loosing anything unless the scale goes lower...
On other news I went to a friends tastefully simple party. To those who don't know what tastefully simple is, it's food mixes. Of stuff you could do or make yourself sans the mix but with the mix you can make it using only 1 or 2 other items.. It's not bad food either, it actually tastes pretty good. I didn't buy anything while I was there but I will be ordering some sweet pepper japaleno jam, DH will adore it and it's not something I would be inclined to make myself. Though DH would probably be happy if it was. And the have kosher bacon.. I guess their bacon bacon isn't actually bacon?? I am not a bacon fan. Weird? I know people think I am freak when I say I don't like bacon. Don't get me wrong I don't hate bacon but I could careless if I had it, I don't think it's amazing or tastes great. It falls in the I could take it or leave it catergory and I will probably just leave it. I know 99% of people I meet LOVE bacon, DH included. But if I LOVE any type of food it would be BREADS. I am all about carbs. But trying to lose weight me being smart about the carbs I do eat and not really eating many carbs. :'(
House news, there is no news.. Got another buyer trying to get us to do a rent to own kind of thing.. Ah where is somebody who has the money or able to get a bank loan?? Well going to go relax and then shower before bed. Work tomorrow and then gym tomorrow night... One day closer to my goal right?? Right.
On other news I went to a friends tastefully simple party. To those who don't know what tastefully simple is, it's food mixes. Of stuff you could do or make yourself sans the mix but with the mix you can make it using only 1 or 2 other items.. It's not bad food either, it actually tastes pretty good. I didn't buy anything while I was there but I will be ordering some sweet pepper japaleno jam, DH will adore it and it's not something I would be inclined to make myself. Though DH would probably be happy if it was. And the have kosher bacon.. I guess their bacon bacon isn't actually bacon?? I am not a bacon fan. Weird? I know people think I am freak when I say I don't like bacon. Don't get me wrong I don't hate bacon but I could careless if I had it, I don't think it's amazing or tastes great. It falls in the I could take it or leave it catergory and I will probably just leave it. I know 99% of people I meet LOVE bacon, DH included. But if I LOVE any type of food it would be BREADS. I am all about carbs. But trying to lose weight me being smart about the carbs I do eat and not really eating many carbs. :'(
House news, there is no news.. Got another buyer trying to get us to do a rent to own kind of thing.. Ah where is somebody who has the money or able to get a bank loan?? Well going to go relax and then shower before bed. Work tomorrow and then gym tomorrow night... One day closer to my goal right?? Right.
20 May 2010
So far this week....
It's thursday and I haven't been to the gym since monday morning before work. We switched hours at work for the season so I have tried to convince DH we should get up and go to the gym so I don't have to stay up late waiting for him to get off to go to the gym. Besides monday it was no dice. He likes his sleep so yeah. Unfortunately I like my sleep also so maybe we will have to compromise. Alternate days or something. I don't know. That's not why I haven't been to the gym, I have this horrid headcold all week so far. Gah.. My headache is down to a dull roar at the moment. But it certainly makes the days lag on. Marion probably would be pretty okay if I called in, if it means she doesn't get sick but I am pretty sure other people would be unhappy about it. Sigh
Let's see in other news we've had a couple offers on the house. Except we don't want to owner finance so we didn't even consider them. On both cases it was the full asking price with a down payment and then monthly payments for the next 30 years... One was a very sizeable downpayment but still. I don't want to have to claim that as income and pay taxes on it for the next 30 years. They would get better APR through a bank. My guess is they either can't get a bank loan but that second one even if they have horrid credit you would think with about a quarter of the loan down (I said it was sizable didn't I??) they would still be able to find some kind of bank loan. Or they are trying to get a loan for something else (like a business? maybe?) and are spreading themselves thin (maybe too thin?).. Anyways I don't want to hassle with owner financing and DH agrees. If we wanted to pay taxes on income generated from a monthly basis on this house we would rent it using our friends company that rents houses and apartments for people. But we don't so we are trying to sale. I don't care if I am stuck living here for another year waiting for it to sale. I will.
Now onto finishing my coffee.. Yes coffee is my friend. :) I hope you all have a wonderful thursday.
Let's see in other news we've had a couple offers on the house. Except we don't want to owner finance so we didn't even consider them. On both cases it was the full asking price with a down payment and then monthly payments for the next 30 years... One was a very sizeable downpayment but still. I don't want to have to claim that as income and pay taxes on it for the next 30 years. They would get better APR through a bank. My guess is they either can't get a bank loan but that second one even if they have horrid credit you would think with about a quarter of the loan down (I said it was sizable didn't I??) they would still be able to find some kind of bank loan. Or they are trying to get a loan for something else (like a business? maybe?) and are spreading themselves thin (maybe too thin?).. Anyways I don't want to hassle with owner financing and DH agrees. If we wanted to pay taxes on income generated from a monthly basis on this house we would rent it using our friends company that rents houses and apartments for people. But we don't so we are trying to sale. I don't care if I am stuck living here for another year waiting for it to sale. I will.
Now onto finishing my coffee.. Yes coffee is my friend. :) I hope you all have a wonderful thursday.
11 May 2010
Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday
So we didn't go to the gym last night. That means of course we have to go do legs tonight. I am so not looking forward to it. My bone right below my left knee is still killing me from last week. I guess I will just have to suck it up. I am waiting for the extra energy they say you have when you exercise to kick in. I only feel much much more tired all the time. I am determined to stick this out, I want to lose this weight I gained having my kids and the laziness that insued. Besides I want to go to outdoorsy things again and it doesn't work well when you are so unfit. I don't understand why it takes so long to get fit but it takes very little to get unfit. Blah. My back is killing me also, but that's nothing new. Now that my whining is down lets move on, shall we?
I am suppose to start taking classes again come fall. I didn't this last term and won't this summer term (darned job. ;-) ) but come fall I will. We still haven't sold out house yet. Hopefully we will get some people to come and look at it this coming week and hopefully somebody will want to buy it. I loathe hate and detest this house. Poor house, it really isn't a bad house with it's decent sized 3 bedrooms and it being newly remodeled. Wait the remodeling is why I hate this house, we had to do it, while we lived there. :-( I will never live in a house that is essentially a gut job again. Maybe some minor remodeling but not the whole freaking house again. It'd have been easier to knock the darn thing done and build a new one. Okay probably not but sometimes it felt like it. It was cheaper to gut it and remodel it because we did it all ourselves, no hiring people out. Good thing DH worked all those years in construction and FIL is a contractor or we'd had to have hired people out. We should turn a nice little profit when we sale it. Even in the current housing market.
I gave up on the weekly menu planning. I shouldn't have but I haven't been doing it. Laziness strikes again. I probably should do that, since I am sure it saved us money, how much? I am really not sure but I am sure it was something.. I am cooking dinner after I get home from work everynight and most weekends and frankly it's tiredsome and I am more of a mood eater. I eat and prepare food based on my moods. Lately it seems like I am rarely hungry if ever so I am just eating the bare minmum. Which generally seems to involve a banana or yogurt for breakfast. Whatever for lunch and usually not all of it. And a veggie and a protien for dinner, something the boys will eat. Dinner is mainly based around what the kids will eat and what's the healthiest for them and I just eat a small portion of it. I think it's because the weather is warming up here. I eat a lot less when it's hot. Probably because I don't want to turn on the stove or oven and add to the heat. Unlike DH I do NOT love the heat. I am more of a cold or mild weather time of person. 70's and 80's work fine for me. I can even tolerate the 90's but when we get into the 100's and the 112, 114's we get around here I want to stay indoors with the ac running. We aren't there yet thank goodness. We are too hit the 80's by friday stay there a bit and then move on into the 90's. The nights are still cooler though eventually we will hit where it's 80 or more degrees out at midnight. I know you all are jealous. Well lunch is over and work is beckoning me.
I am suppose to start taking classes again come fall. I didn't this last term and won't this summer term (darned job. ;-) ) but come fall I will. We still haven't sold out house yet. Hopefully we will get some people to come and look at it this coming week and hopefully somebody will want to buy it. I loathe hate and detest this house. Poor house, it really isn't a bad house with it's decent sized 3 bedrooms and it being newly remodeled. Wait the remodeling is why I hate this house, we had to do it, while we lived there. :-( I will never live in a house that is essentially a gut job again. Maybe some minor remodeling but not the whole freaking house again. It'd have been easier to knock the darn thing done and build a new one. Okay probably not but sometimes it felt like it. It was cheaper to gut it and remodel it because we did it all ourselves, no hiring people out. Good thing DH worked all those years in construction and FIL is a contractor or we'd had to have hired people out. We should turn a nice little profit when we sale it. Even in the current housing market.
I gave up on the weekly menu planning. I shouldn't have but I haven't been doing it. Laziness strikes again. I probably should do that, since I am sure it saved us money, how much? I am really not sure but I am sure it was something.. I am cooking dinner after I get home from work everynight and most weekends and frankly it's tiredsome and I am more of a mood eater. I eat and prepare food based on my moods. Lately it seems like I am rarely hungry if ever so I am just eating the bare minmum. Which generally seems to involve a banana or yogurt for breakfast. Whatever for lunch and usually not all of it. And a veggie and a protien for dinner, something the boys will eat. Dinner is mainly based around what the kids will eat and what's the healthiest for them and I just eat a small portion of it. I think it's because the weather is warming up here. I eat a lot less when it's hot. Probably because I don't want to turn on the stove or oven and add to the heat. Unlike DH I do NOT love the heat. I am more of a cold or mild weather time of person. 70's and 80's work fine for me. I can even tolerate the 90's but when we get into the 100's and the 112, 114's we get around here I want to stay indoors with the ac running. We aren't there yet thank goodness. We are too hit the 80's by friday stay there a bit and then move on into the 90's. The nights are still cooler though eventually we will hit where it's 80 or more degrees out at midnight. I know you all are jealous. Well lunch is over and work is beckoning me.
09 May 2010
HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!!!
Happy Mother's Day to all those wonderful amazing moms out there. :) I hope everybody has a great day.
08 May 2010
Camping, maybe.. maybe not..
I've been trying to convince DH to go camping this coming weekend or the following but so far it's a no go. Too cold in the moutains still according to him. And he is probably right at least for the kids. So I guess we will have to wait and see. But I plan on insisting on camping this summer and fall. I LOVE camping. I am uber big on the outdoors. Maybe you gathered from my talk of 50 mile backpacking trips and rockclimbing. I hope to get to do that stuff again. I guess suffering through the gym with my husband will help with that. Speaking of the gym we are starting week 2 of the gym.
We started at the start of the cycle yesterday which meant we skipped abs and something else I don't remember what DH said. But he wants to do the workouts friday saturday sunday and monday. Adding just cardio on wednesday. Therefore doing nothing on tuesday and thursday nights. Ahh two night of full sleep. lol. We aren't dieting yet.. DH and I are working up to that. Or so he tells me. This is all easing into it according to him. Though 2 hours at the gym 4 to 5 days a week does NOT feel like easing into anything to me. But like I said in my last post this is all new to me. DH says we are going to start a diet and add alot more cardio into our workout in about 2 months. We are just building up some muscle the first two months to help our bodies (mainly mine) burn the fat more effectively when we diet and throw in all that cardio. Time will tell but I am keeping my fingers crossed. It's been a week and I still dislike the gym. I have a feeling in another week I will still dislike it. Contrary to DH's claim that after 2 weeks I will like the gym.
DH and I are probably going to sale our truck to my BIL. He needs a way to get to and from work and we were discussing saleing it anyways so we will see. BIL likes the truck and is driving it now to get to and from places. The catch is he has to ask to use it and tell us where he is going. So on and so forth. It's a little weird have a 17 year old living with us. I guess it's giving us an idea of some of the stuff we might have to deal with in 14 years when our oldest will be 17. I am making a roast for dinner tonight so I must go and get that started. I hope this finds everybody having a good weekend. And to all the moms out there have a HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY! tomorrow. :)
We started at the start of the cycle yesterday which meant we skipped abs and something else I don't remember what DH said. But he wants to do the workouts friday saturday sunday and monday. Adding just cardio on wednesday. Therefore doing nothing on tuesday and thursday nights. Ahh two night of full sleep. lol. We aren't dieting yet.. DH and I are working up to that. Or so he tells me. This is all easing into it according to him. Though 2 hours at the gym 4 to 5 days a week does NOT feel like easing into anything to me. But like I said in my last post this is all new to me. DH says we are going to start a diet and add alot more cardio into our workout in about 2 months. We are just building up some muscle the first two months to help our bodies (mainly mine) burn the fat more effectively when we diet and throw in all that cardio. Time will tell but I am keeping my fingers crossed. It's been a week and I still dislike the gym. I have a feeling in another week I will still dislike it. Contrary to DH's claim that after 2 weeks I will like the gym.
DH and I are probably going to sale our truck to my BIL. He needs a way to get to and from work and we were discussing saleing it anyways so we will see. BIL likes the truck and is driving it now to get to and from places. The catch is he has to ask to use it and tell us where he is going. So on and so forth. It's a little weird have a 17 year old living with us. I guess it's giving us an idea of some of the stuff we might have to deal with in 14 years when our oldest will be 17. I am making a roast for dinner tonight so I must go and get that started. I hope this finds everybody having a good weekend. And to all the moms out there have a HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY! tomorrow. :)
06 May 2010
Gym = Torture?
Okay MAYBE not really (regarding the my title). I am so so so unfit since having my kids. Gone are the days of 50 mile backpacking trips. :( Maybe one day but not for awhile. We got or gym membership Saturday May 1st, for the year.. We went Sunday the 2nd. Mainly because we went to dinner at my BFF's and I refused to go to the gym at 10pm saturday night and turn around and go sunday morning too. So we went sunday did chest and tri's. Which wasn't as horrible as it could be. I am not enjoying the bike and treadmill every single day we go to the gym. But oh well. Monday we went when DH got off at 11pm and did back and bi's (and the treadmill and the bike). We took tuesday off, mainly because BIL wasn't home when DH got home from work and I didn't want to have to wait until midnight to go to the gym. I do have to work in the mornings after all. So we did legs and shoulders last night (and the treadmill and the bike of course). We are taking tonight off I guess. DH says that you need to wait at least a day after doing legs.. The only thing I notice to day is while yes my muscles are a little sore my left knee is killing me. It started hurting last night while doing squats (I loathe squats btw), so I babied it while doing leg presses and everything. So really my right leg should hurt more then the left but the pain in my left knee trumps it.
The whole gym thing is rather new to me. I was fit prior to kids but not by lifting weights at a gym. It came for being on dance team and working with horses. Not to mentioning those 50 mile backpacking trips and rock climbing... But then I got pregnant with my DS#1 and got lazy.. No more backpacking and rock climbing. No more dancing hello laziness and flab.. After I had DS#1 my mom got diganosised with cancer and I spent all my spare time with her and taking her to dr appointments. Unfortunately my mom lost her battle with cancer and then I found out I was pregnant with DS#2. So more flab. Now I am trying to get back or well closer to where I was pre-kids. So wish me luck. And the person I have to work out with is DH. And he is all about weights and gym equipment; probably has something to do with his bodybuilder, dead lift title holder in 3 wieght classes father..
My BIL (who is living with us) has gotten a job. :) Yippie. It's only minimum wage but it's a job and minimum wage is decent for a 17 yr old. He starts on the 13th. So hopefully that all works out well for him. We are trying to convince him to save as much as possible since he will be finding his own place to live by himself when he turns 18 in October. We still haven't sold our house. Oh well, I am sure one day we'll sale it. DH is talking about designing and building our house next time. I don't know about that though. FIL is a contractor and said he would build us a house if we wanted but I guess we will see.
The whole gym thing is rather new to me. I was fit prior to kids but not by lifting weights at a gym. It came for being on dance team and working with horses. Not to mentioning those 50 mile backpacking trips and rock climbing... But then I got pregnant with my DS#1 and got lazy.. No more backpacking and rock climbing. No more dancing hello laziness and flab.. After I had DS#1 my mom got diganosised with cancer and I spent all my spare time with her and taking her to dr appointments. Unfortunately my mom lost her battle with cancer and then I found out I was pregnant with DS#2. So more flab. Now I am trying to get back or well closer to where I was pre-kids. So wish me luck. And the person I have to work out with is DH. And he is all about weights and gym equipment; probably has something to do with his bodybuilder, dead lift title holder in 3 wieght classes father..
My BIL (who is living with us) has gotten a job. :) Yippie. It's only minimum wage but it's a job and minimum wage is decent for a 17 yr old. He starts on the 13th. So hopefully that all works out well for him. We are trying to convince him to save as much as possible since he will be finding his own place to live by himself when he turns 18 in October. We still haven't sold our house. Oh well, I am sure one day we'll sale it. DH is talking about designing and building our house next time. I don't know about that though. FIL is a contractor and said he would build us a house if we wanted but I guess we will see.
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