Nothing much doing

Not a whole lot going on... I've felt like I'm a day ahead of myself all week- hate that! Today totally felt like a Thursday.

Today was busy at work- our first state tests are next week!! Yikes!! It's tough for 3rd graders in VA; they're the youngest to take the state tests, and they have the most to take. It's very stressful for the teachers. We'll all be happy when they're over! (June 5th...)

I jogged today- did day 1 of week 7, a 25 min jog. I was supremely slow, but I'm still trying to get a handle on my lungs, etc. So I was happy I did it, at least.

Anywho- this was a quickie. I'm off to get some rest.

xoxo

Incredibly gaining bleh

Today's been kinda crappy. The weather was awful, and there were roads flooded everywhere. I was stuck in traffic right near my school- a coworker spotted me and motioned for me to follow her (love her for that). We were 20 min late. Had I stayed the course I was following- I would have been 90 min late, like everyone else! Yikes~

My kids were acting really snotty/rude today. I had to make some phone calls home. Bleh.

So last week, I worked out Sun, Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs, Fri & Sat. Yay! However, I'm somehow up a bit this week at weigh in. On Saturday I was down 2lbs from last week, and then today, I was up 4! Then I worked out at the gym (walked for 10 jogged for 20 and then lifted for 60), and was back down 1.2 of the 4. I don't know. I guess that puts me at a gain of 0.8 this week.

I'm going to try not to stress over it though, because I'm doing things that are good.. working out is good.. my body will eventually comply.. I hope.

Do any of you watch Gossip Girl? (Can't believe I just publicly admitted to watching it, lol) It's such a guilty pleasure for me! I like that they are patching up (parts of) S's past- I was so sad how they were screwing up her life! I don't think that was too much of a spoiler if you watch it. But yeah, I do <3 that show, and the finale is next week...

xoxo

Lazy Saturday

I haven't posted in a while, work has been all consuming.  This week was teacher appreciation week, and I have felt very appreciated. I have received flowers, plants (I will try to take a pic of the orchid and insert it, it's gorgeous!! Any advice as to how to keep it alive will be much appreciated!!), cards, food (of course), and these little smiley face papers where the students had to complete the sentence "My teacher makes me smile because...". It was all very sweet. This school year has been great, especially compared to last year where I was miserable on a mostly daily basis. What a difference a year makes. One of the cards I got from a student ended with "I'm so happy I'm yours". Enough said.

So I'm sitting here watching Fight Club (god Brad Pitt is yummy, even beat up, haha), digesting my bagel & iced coffee (fave!), attempting to find the motivation to do things. It's a bit challenging!

Weight loss this week... I'm not sure what my body has been doing. At one point, I was up 6lbs since Sunday! Yikes! I think I'm back down some of it- dunno what is going on. I've worked out every day this week, though 2x have only been for 20min- sometimes it is what it is. I'm back at trying to do my c25k. I've been doing week 6 this week, so tomorrow I will attempt a 25min jog. My lungs haven't been super cooperative, but they are working better than they were in the recent past.

My plan today is to go to the market to pick up my necklace. I went last weekend to buy it, but she didn't have the matching earrings. She said she'd make them for me and that I could come back this weekend to pick them up. Yay. The weather is iffy, so hopefully she'll be there. We'll see! Then I need to head to the gym. Later on I want to stop at the mall. There are these super cute tank tops at the Express, and I have a 15 dollar off coupon, so I plan to pick up a new color (maybe the green one). I also want to hit up H&M. Should I spend money? Eh? No. But... haha.

Hope everyone is having a great weekend.

xoxo

Here's the orchid:

Here's my calendar counting down to the concert on July 13th:

Moving On

I'm mad at the scale. Or my body. Probably both. I logged the gain- 2.6 lbs, even though I'm not sure how it occurred. I didn't eat badly this week, and I worked out 1more time than the previous week when I lost that amount.

So, it's logged, and on we go. It'll be down next week.

Don't you hate how if you see a gain, after you've worked hard, you don't really want to work harder, you just want to eat something bad for you? Well, hahaha, maybe that's just me. I didn't though, so, that counts for something. I avoided the calling for Mexican takeout.

This week is teacher appreciation week at our school. Each day has a different theme. Today was "give your teacher a card" day. My favorite was a haiku (I love haikus, haha, I actually won tickets to a Justin Timberlake concert once by writing haikus!!!). Here it is:

Second grade was bad
My teacher was always mad
You make third grade fun

Now, mind you, almost all of my kids had a bad year last year, so, they're very thankful to be in a more positive environment this year. The little girl who wrote the haiku is bringing me salad w/grilled tofu on Friday (luncheon day), because my kids know how I roll. :)

xoxo

Pity Party Stops Here

I've been having a bit of a pity party for myself the past week or two. Sick and tired of being sick and tired, mostly.

But the party stops here.

I have new goals, a new spirit and a new commitment to myself. Because I'm worth it.

My favorite band ever (rock band from NYC) is playing at my dad's club on July 13th. That's exactly 10 weeks away. In those 10 weeks, I want to lose 10 lbs, basically, I want to be under 200. That's my goal. I want to find a super cute top so that I can get my pic taken w/the lead singer (drool). I made a calendar (omg, it's so cute- it's got the bands picture on there, and blank calendars underneath for the next 3 months) and I'm going to track my work outs and good eating days on it. I also got a cute new zebra striped notebook to keep track of my food for the next 70 days. Wow, that sounds like a long time but I KNOW it'll fly by. I'll try to take pics tomorrow.

My goals are to eat between 1400-1800 cals a day, taking into account days that I work out. I'm going to allow 1splurge day a week. I want to work out 6days a week. 3 jogging, 1-2 turbo jam, 1-2 weights/strength training. It's a lot. But, I want it.

I like having something to look forward to. (The weekend before might be a girls weekend at the jersey shore, too, we'll see!)

I went out tonight to the track and jogged week 6 day 1 of c25k... 5min warmup, 5min jog, 3min walk, 8min jog, 3min walk, 5min jog, 5min cool down. It didn't go as well as I would have liked, but I finished. My lungs were a bit burning-ish by the end, but, I persevered. Hot.

I'm not sure what to expect w/the weigh in this week. Last Monday, I was surprised by the loss, considering it was my period, etc. But my body has been out of whack. I think it should be right around the same #, give or take 1/2 a pound.

Alright, I'm off to get some rest. Hope everyone is doing well. Have a good Monday (and a good FIT weigh in, if you're in FIT w/me!)..

xoxo

Thoughts about nothing, give or take

I went to a meeting today at a neighboring elementary school about a masters program that they'll be potentially offering at that school (through a private University in VA). There are lots of pros and cons. The pros: close to work- less than 1/2 mile down the road! Great deal- they're going to charge $295 per credit hour. That's sooo cheap! Done in only 11 months- Fall 08, Spring 09, Summer 09. Did I mention the price? The cons: It's every other Thurs/Fri (6pm-10pm) and Saturdays (9am-4pm). It's a Christian University. Don't get me wrong, I have no issues w/anyones religion, it's just that personally, I believe firmly in the seperation of Church & State. They were like, "yah, well, if you bring up biblical things or quote scripture in your lessons (for the kids), we won't have a problem and we'll encourage discussion". I pushed the issue and they said that if we have the cohort at the Elementary school, then they will leave out "faith based" instruction, but if we have it on their satelite campus, then it's fair game. I'm interested if it's out, but not if it's in. Does that make any sense?

Anyway, we'll see what happens. It's definitely the right price. Plus, apparently VA offers 1,900 dollars off your tutition if you attend certain private Universities- and this is one of them. I'm all about the price, aren't I? Hahaha... (PS- the coursework does sound interesting!)

My body is currently crazy fluctuating in weight. I think I'm up 5lbs since Monday. Stinks! I blame TOM. We'll see what happens w/the rest of week.

My lungs still aren't right. I need to get back to running, but it's been pretty difficult. *Frustrated*

At work today, a woman was talking about how children name silly things and show random affection. I was like, well, yes, clearly, because they're children. As part of Fairfax County's 3rd grade curriculum, we get caterpillars (to study the life cycle & more). We have them now, and 1 caterpillar just took forever to grow. This is the only caterpillar my kids named- Carl. They come in daily to look for Carl (he finally grew, don't worry too much!!). They draw pictures of Carl. But the best is at our class meeting, during our compliments & concerns section, Carl received 5 compliments for growing! And 1 concern about how "Carl will be all grown up and will be leaving us soon"- followed by "Carl don't leave us!"

It's nice to see genuine innocence & compassion. I adore my class.

<3

Gettin' my post on

A random update..

Weigh In: 210.4- how? I'm not sure. That's a loss of 2.6 this week. This is a PERIOD week. I usually gain between 2-5lbs. I'm really unsure. I only worked out 2x, and they were pretty tame. Maybe my body needed a break? I don't know... I'm not complaining, and I'll definitely take it, but, just kinda confusing! I don't understand how my body works!

Sickness: Still sick! But slooooowly getting better. I haven't done cardio since Thursday! Wow... so long. I took a few days off to try and let myself recover. I'm going to try to jog on Wednesday. Hopefully it'll be a bit better than the last time.  :( My lungs are no longer squeaking!! That's a plus. But I still need to shake this cough.

Work: Keepin' on keepin' on... It's going to get damn busy within the next 2 weeks or so. VA state tests for my kiddies start around the 20th of May. Oi! Scared and sayin' it!

Other: Tomorrow's my mom's bday. I decided to send her an edible arrangement. Are you all familiar? They're SO cute! www.ediblearrangements.com I figured it was healthy and adoreable and different.

Sorry I haven't posted in forever. I've been here, checkin' in on peeps, just been kinda down because I've been sick. I was so proud of myself for getting into a routine, you know? Then getting sick kinda screwed w/that. Oh well. I'm workin' on gettin' back on track!

Til next time!!

xoxo

That squeaky sound doesn't concern me

Hey EPland..

I went to the Dr's yesterday- found out some new info about my inhalers/medicines and how to use them. I asked him about the noises my lungs were making, among other things. He was like, what, they squeaky noise? Eh? I'm not super concerned... Dude, I am!!! Hahaha... I don't like feeling like I have a squeak toy in my lungs. A lot of you asked me if I was on singulair- the answer is yes, mostly. I was on it regularly and then got off it the past few months. I'm back on, at least for a few weeks. I am back on using my inhalers regularly, and on top of that I have some kind of upper respiratory infection. FUN!

I went out today to try and give jogging a try... bahahaha... I should have realized it would have gone as poorly as it did. I was coughing and squeaking (haha) about 6 min into my jog. Awesome. I had NO stamina. Couldn't handle it. Jogged a bit... walked... did  3 miles in all, but it was mostly walking. I'd say only about 1.2 miles were jogged. Slowly. I'll try again Friday.

It's been driving me CRAZY not to work out!

I weighed in, sort of, on Tuesday. The gym scale is being fixed, gah!! So I was weighed at my Dr's office, and it said 213.4. I'm putting it on my chart as 213 because I was wearing jeans. I never weigh in wearing jeans. I'm sticking to it. Though next Monday, it'll be TOM, and that always ups my weight big time. My face looks fat today even! Bleh!

Otherwise, things are just busy. I'm not sleeping at night, because of the coughing/breathing. I'm not sure what's going on w/my ex. We talk regularly, and we did leave things open ended, as in, there's a chance at getting back together if he works on some things). The other day, he was talking about having kids... like, it just seemed like such a natural conversation for him. He was talking about baby names he liked, and about how he'd like our kids to be raised. On the one hand I was kinda surprised, but on the other hand, it almost felt normal? (Yes, we are still not together...) Strange, I don't know.

Anyway, it's late, and I'd like to try to sleep (maybe I can tonight! I've had about 3ish hours a night since Sunday)...

Hope all are well, I'll try and catch up w/everyone tomorrow!

Be healthy! xoxo

Sick

So since my last post, I've continued to get more sick! I'm so sad. My cough is pretty brutal, I was a bit worried for my ribs last night. Hopefully tonight will be better.

I haven't been able to work out at all, due to allergies/breathing/whatnot. So much for the goals of the week! I think tomorrow I'm going to try to stop by the gym tomorrow, weigh in (yikes, scared) and then see if I can muster anything w/o incurring the wrath of my lungs. Wish me luck.

Sorry I haven't been around much (read: at all), and that I'm keeping this short. I need to go rest some more. I'll try to catch up with everyone soon.

xo

The Sweater Song...

Like Weezer says, "I've come undone..."

I hadn't been feeling super since Sunday, allergies really- scratchy throat, slight cough, etc. Tonight I had to run my week 8 day 1 run. I figured it'd be okay, but I took some precautions anyway.

If you've read my blog from the beginning, you'd know I recently had some breathing problems, which I'd never had before. I ended up having 2 inhalers, couldn't work out, couldn't do anything really. Was miserable. Attributed it to my trailer (work), which we later came to find out the ventilation system was broken. Since it got fixed, I hadn't had any other issues, unless I was around cats.

So to be safe, I took my inhaler tonight, about 15-20min before I ran. I also decided to run really slowly (hardly more than a walk). So I started off, mostly okay, breathing was a little hard? But not too bad. About 26 min into my run (of 28 min), around 1.7/1.8 miles, I start coughing, and my lungs start burning, and my chest is making all sorts of incredibly awful sounds (rattles, other assorted noises). I stop running, and start to walk, because my car was still 1/2 a mile away. :( I make it to my car, take my inhaler again, and try to calm myself down.

That was around 7:15. It's now 11:25 and I can take deep breaths again, finally, without coughing, spazzing and making noises in my lungs.

I'm so upset. I don't understand it. I don't want to have these issues, and I don't know why I do. Is this going to happen every time I get seasonal allergies? Or every time I feel ill? I just feel really frustrated & down about it.

Hopefully I'll feel better tomorrow. I refuse to let this keep me down.

Bah.

xoxo