Random Thoughts

My daughter is now the age where everything she sees on TV she wants. I do not have the luxury of cable or satellite at home but on vacation she is watching a lot of Nickelodeon and Disney. I love the cartoons but HATE all the stupid commercials. All I have been hearing all day is “Mom I want!” This is very frustrating and makes me want to put my foot through the TV.
I Netflix all her cartoons at home through streaming and am becoming even happier about this decision daily. I don’t mind a few commercials here and there but there are so many it is ridiculous.

My Mom is wonderful and sent me to get a full body massage today and foot soak. It was AWESOME!

While the massage therapist was massaging my upper arms and I was cringing in utter pain, she revealed something to me, that I already knew but it is now more apparent being told by someone else.

She said that she was barely touching me which meant I was dehydrated. I know this already as I pee like a race horse so I tend to avoid drinking. I am also taking Enablex to help with my over active bladder, which also make me dehydrated.

Some how I need to figure out a way to carry water with me constantly so I do not get dehydrated. I know that dehydration also slows your metabolism down so why don’t I drink? Probably out of shear habit. I need to break this habit. Any suggestions are welcome.

This is harder then I thought to keep up the work-outs while being gone. With the 2 hour time difference, and infant that does not sleep through the night right now, and taking time to visit, the work-outs are taking a back seat.

I put my pants on yesterday and they were a little snug around the waist and this depressed me all night long. I am NOT stepping on the scale as I don’t need to head into an even deeper depression, ugh; I am so frustrated right now.

I still want to try and do the exercises throughout the day and I think that the too tight pants might finally be my incentive to just do it.

It is so hard to eat on the right track too. It is not like I am eating out every night but with the 4th of July BBQ’s, alcohol, and treats; it does make it harder to keep on the healthy track.

Here goes one more try to get back on the band wagon.

If you are lucky enough to have a child under 1 year that sleeps every time you go on vacation than I envy you.

My 10 month old has had trouble sleeping through the night for the two and a half weeks we have been on vacation. We are on a two hour time difference which has not helped, but his allergies have been so bad that the poor guy can’t sleep.

Last night he finally did for 11 hours! When I heard him this morning, as we are in the same room, my first thought was “damn, not again.” I then looked at the clock and it was 7:30 am and my second thought was, “wow, seriously?” I feel so much better today and so does he.

I hope that he does this again tonight. I have broken down and now give him Zyrtec in the morning and Benadryl at night. They tell you not to do this but I don’t know hoe else to control his awful allergies out here in the dessert so I am and hopefully he can have some relief. Sleep will definitely help too!

Since it is so hard to take more then a few minutes at the same time with my work-out I have created a “Vacation work-out” sheet in Excel. I will try and attach it, feel free to print it off.

I have listed everything that I would like to do in one day and my goal is to do 1 or 2 exercises at a time and just fit them all in when I can. Maybe if I do not stress so hard about doing it all at once, I can get back on the exercise track.

If there are any exercises you would like me to explain better let me know.

My strategic plan is to print this sheet off and keep it in my pocket or purse and mark off sets as I do them. I can just leave a little mark for each and be done with that exercise when I reach my set goal.

Let’s shoot for some more weight loss now! I feel horrible. Even though I am not gaining, I am not feeling good with the maintenance.

I could not find a way to attach it so here it is copy and pasted from excel

Exercise                                               Reps Sets 7/2/2010 7/3/2010 7/4/2010

Push ups                                                  10 2
Standing squats                                        25 2
Lung squats                                    25 each side 2
Plank crawl                                              20 2
Jumping jacks                                          30 2
Jump rope                                               30 2
Squat jumps                                            15 2
Butt kick jog                                           25 2
Downward facing dog mountain climb     20 2
Plank jumping jacks                                20 2
Stair run-up + down = 1 rep                   10 1
Arm curls with 5 pounds                         15 2
Tricep curls with 5 pounds                      15 2
Chest fly’s with 5 pounds                        15 2
Chest press with 5 pounds                      15 2
Rowing with 5 pounds                            15 2
Squat and bring weights out in front in V 15 2
Power jog in place 3 minutes                    5 1

Kind of a messy paste but you get the idea.

OK so it has been really hard being on vacation and keeping up with my exercise and eating routine. I have not gained anymore but have not lost either. I am picking my battles and not going to beat myself up about it but am going to try and get back on the “losing train.”

Have a couple ideas in my head on how to keep up on the exercise routine but have not totally implemented the ideas yet. I am hoping to post that later today or by tomorrow at the latest. I need free time, but it is hard to take when you have not seen family in forever and you want to be around them.

See you in a few!

Wow, it has been crazy around my world. Packing like a mad woman to move. Husband is doing all the grunt work while I am in Utah. Boise tomorrow for 2 weeks, then Canada, Vegas and back to Utah.

I ran our 2 flights of stairs while I was packing over a dozen times a day but still was up 2 pounds when I weighed myself on Tuesday when I got to Utah. I guess this really shows how fast food can put that weight on even with working out.

Happy to say that as of this morning, Sat, I am down 3. I am feeling better about that as I was very depressed about the 2 gain so if I look on the bright side I am down 1 since my last post about weight.

My goal this trip is to lose at least 10 pounds. I am not sure what that will be in inches, but will figure it out as I go along.

It is hard to keep gong when you are moving and traveling so here goes a good try.

So the other day I was doing a garage sale and I had my step daughter Meagan come over and help me watch the kids.
I came into the living room and my son was crawling around, smiling and having a great time. He kept chewing on something and neither me nor my step daughter could find what was in his mouth.

I picked him up and put his back to my chest and with my free hand I dug around in his mouth until I found what was in there…..a lady bug, yes you heard me, a lady bug. The lady bug was still alive, crawled up my finger and then flew away.

It was so funny because while we were trying to figure out what was in there, Brahnan was laughing and smiling and making it harder. He would shake his head and chuckle and now we know why. The lady bug must have been tickling his mouth while crawling around in there. It is pretty gross but pretty darn funny. He was upset when we took it out for a couple minutes too.

So I initially said that we had at least 60 days to be out of our house after the bank bought it back at the Sheriff’s sale. That is not untrue but I am learning a couple more things that I was not aware of before.
Having an eviction on your record is definitely not a good thing when you are looking to rent a house, which most people do after a foreclosure. It is definitely smart to stay in until the Sheriff sale but don’t wait until the bank gives you notice or if any buyer gives you notice. It is actually and “eviction notice” they give you and that looks really bad when renters run your background check. Leaving willingly looks a lot better.

So this is my week; tonight dress rehearsal, Friday and Sat. dance concert Friday and Dat. Day from 7-4 garage sale (since we are downsizing to half we have to sell about everything). Sunday is father’s day and more packing. Monday last day here to pack and Tuesday I fly to Utah for 6 weeks and my husband has 2 weeks to move us out to a new house. Hmmmmm, what shall I do with my free time!

Very stressful busy week and cannot wait for Tuesday night when I can walk in my parents door and say, good night! Mind you we get there at around noon Mountain time but I am pretty sure after this week and me on the plane by myself with 2 kids 4 and under, I may sleep from noon till the next day!

SCREEEEEEAAAAAAAMMMMM! This too shall pass, right?

OK so the house was bought by the bank and we have 60 days. I am stressing with the time line because I am going to be gone almost all those 60 days and my husband will have to move us. I have almost exactly one week to pack our entire 2000 square foot house. So my positive thinking, per my last post, has been “sucking.”

However, I do have a new outlook and even though it feels like we are hitting rock bottom, I feel like I am going to bounce up before I skin t hose rocks. Reason…Not really sure but I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

Even though I was terribly busy packing today I did take time to do a craft with my 4 year old, which I do not do enough, and this made me relax and we had a good time. I posted pictures of her and the craft on my other blog:
http://btrbb.blogspot.com/2010/06/house-is-sold.html

The flowers we made turned out really cute and she is super excited which made me feel good.

Second thing that took my mind to a better place was my 9 ½ month old son. He is so cute and today he held his bottle for the first time. Yes I know, those of you that are not parents are thinking, “big deal.” But honestly it was a monumental moment of triumph and me and my husband actually smiled and laughed for the first time in just over 2 weeks. See here is the boy’s very first moment of the bottle holding moment