I fell off the workout wagon; well I didn’t fall so much as I leapt. Oh, I am still going to boot camp but I haven’t been to the gym like I know I need to be.
I grew tired of it all, I was frustrated that I wasn’t seeing the results I wanted to and gosh darn-it, I felt lazy.
So I didn’t go, I thought “I deserve a break” and have been allowing myself to continue in complacency. But that isn’t going to cut it. That’s what got me here in the first place. That’s why my life became an easy excuse of watching others live their lives, and you know what? It sucked. I also let others influence my workout when it didn’t gel into what they wanted to do. So basically in the past few weeks, I haven’t let others derail me, I just jumped feet first off the wagon.
Then I watched the Biggest Loser the other night and they showed a group of Texans completing a 5k. Now if you have been reading on here for long you know that I have a love/hate relationship with 5k’s. I have completed 2 and been the last one in both. The first one I ever tried I only did the 1mile section. But there were people out there putting one foot in front of the other and completing a big-ole milestone for them. I saw myself there and I was embarrassed with my current lack of drive.
This phoning it in thing I’m doing isn’t just hurting myself, it’s of no use to others around me as well. So yesterday I had a prayer meeting with Danielle and decided that some things need to change. Sure I went to boot camp yesterday morning and had a halfway decent workout, but it could have been better. I could have dug harder. So last night, even though I was “tired” I went back to the gym and dug in and did my hour of solid cardio. Proudly I burned 969 calories, not to shabby. So no more complacency, no more excuses. If I have time to sit on my tail and watch tv I had better have put my gym time in for the day.
That’s all, thought I would share.
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Right now I have a very cool deal going at Groupon for Hello You Cards
$12.00 for 10 custom cards. I don’t talk about Hello You Cards on this blog very often, but this is pretty exciting and actually a pretty sweet deal. Shipping is included and won’t expire until next year, so it’s perfect to stock up on a few unique cards for those special people in your life, and for Christmas Card season. Anyway let me know what you think and I hope you check it out.
Seeing these guys tonight….
Before seeing this group… sigh…. I’m a lucky lucky girl.
We all know that I’m not perfect. In fact I commonly fall on my face, make weird noises and laugh oddly. Last night my dad said something that is still processing itself.
Growing up when we went of vacations with my sweet Dad a majority of them were camping adventures. We hiked, slept in a tent and cooked outside for a week at a time. The mountains are Dads chosen time and his idea of the best vacation. There was a hiking trip that now lives on in retold stories. My younger sister did NOT want to hike at that moment and was vocally telling everyone. Before we know it she has picked up a rock and launched it at dad’s head. Once it makes contact she takes off in the other direction realizing her mistake. But not before we see dad reach down and launch a rock (that was in no danger of hitting any person) in her direction and we hear Deidre screaming, “I want to hike, I’ll hike Daddy” at the top of her lungs. It’s been a funny antidote since…. Well after the smoke cleared.
Now speed forward to last night. I have family dinner night every Tuesday with Dad and Deidre and we cook and watch Biggest Looser. We have decided recently to start doing something active before then, well frankly because we all need to. Last night I was TIRED, and GRUMPY… probably beyond grumpy and decided that someone needed to know it. Unfortunately that someone was Dad and even though I could feel myself doing it, I rained on everyone’s parade. Later after I got over myself and stepped off my high horse I sorta apologized to Dad. To which he responded…
At least you didn’t throw rocks at my head… well not real ones anyway. That statement hit me in the face.
I sucked all the fun out of the evening. I was hateful and spiteful and I’m not proud of it. I use to be that way all the time. If I wasn’t happy, no one should be. But I’m better than that. May I be more aware of throwing verbal stones at others… They hurt even more.
So as we delve more and more into social media and networking and the like I am constantly befuddled. I stated earlier that I live my life out there. I blog (obviously, cause that’s what this is), I tweet, I facebook and I’m sure I will do something else as it becomes the new next best thing.
But what are the rules? In “real life” which even that line becomes more and more fuzzy every day there are social rules that we are all use to and for the most part follow. For instance, if someone says “hello” we respond back. (for the most part)
But lets say on Facebook someone asks to “friend me” and I accept the request… is it then my job to post on their wall “thanks for being my new friend even though we have known one another since before we could wipe our own butts!” or is it up to them?
Also, that friend that we really only have on facebook is constantly updating their status with all his or her depressing information… ie. “i’m so sad….” “life stinks….” “I am so sick…still… again…let me tell you about all my various aches and pains and allergies.” However in the real world when asked how I’m doing I respond “fine” unless it’s a good friend who I know I can actually talk to and will care about my response. I think other people do the same.
I tweet but randomly have complete strangers respond to something I have said. A few months ago I innocently tweeted that I wanted to lie to sparkpeople.com (a place I have used to keep a running total of calories) about a rich meal I just had. Any one that follows me on twitter knows that I’m sarcastic a good portion of the time and that I was joking, however I recieved a tweet from a stranger chidding me and told me that it would be a horrible thing to do and would devalue the actions of others who use the same site. AGH. In my real world that conversation would/should have never taken place. Or I went to see a movie recently and tweeted before the film started that I was about to watch it alone (it was a percieved scary flick), luckily at that moment I turned my phone off and didn’t check any messages until after the credits were rolling b/c again, some stranger decided he needed to send me a message with the ending. AGH!
So here is the question, finally. Are there rules of decorum with Social Media Outlets? Are there rules on how we should govern ourselves and generally behave? Or has it simply become a free for all? Thoughts?
Starts back today! I’m ready to go. Come a ways from my first class when I thought I would die during the assesment… Looking forward to seeing everyone they have become part of my routine and I like routine somedays… (don’t tell Donita… I’ll deny it)
I also love that I get to spend quality time with my little sis. We have fun in our class and it’s something we can share.
It’s Monday again… but more on that later.
I was working away in the office yesterday afternoon. It had been a looooooong day and I was tired. Had met my super awesome workout friend at 4am (yep we ARE crazy) and then I heard the shoes. My little sister has squeaky shoes that I have missed hearing come down the hall since we finished out bootcamp this week. No worries we start back on Monday. But I heard her coming down the hall and then I had the best afternoon pickup EVER
Dad and De had been to R’gate to complete some auto maint on his orange box. Luckily they love me and decided to treat me to GREAT coffee or my personal summer favorite – Iced Chai. I’m a spoiled girl and that fact was evident once they entered my favorite bux. The barista’s behind the counter new what I drank and even included a note on my cup.
Let’s just admit for a moment that I’m a lucky lucky girl. Thanks everyone, you made my day brighter.
Is it just me or has the world become smaller while getting bigger?
I blog, I Twitter, I Facebook, I have a Flickr account, Myspace… LinkedIn, GoodReads…. and the list goes on. I put my life out there for the masses to read… well all 5 of you and it puts you in a vulnerable place. I edit myself to work appropriate conversation a good deal of the time. I hide myself in humor that mocks me. But that’s how I am. I’m random and it shows.
Some of my friends are people I have met online while trying to find local people. I regularly twitter to people who live no where close to me. And I like it. I like that I can meet people I may never get to see face to face, but that I can talk to about the frustrations of scale envy and workouts. I love that I can support and be supported by others on twitter by simply posting “off to bootcamp whoot!”
I like that I can google information and people (not stalker like people, c’mon) but that I can be educated and aware of things going on. I enjoy living my life on the outside, and that my world while growing is becoming a little bit smaller.
Expect more intelligent conversation on this later, it’s an idea I am still pouring over.
I love the title of my blog because sometimes it’s 100% true. A dear friend just sent me texts asking about decafe beverages at “the bux” and of course I knew the answer. I love coffee and almost everything caffinated (except for mellow yellow ugh). Just thought I would share that little bit of information with you tonight. It made me smile.
