The place I take my belly dance class at is having an all day running clinic on Saturday. It says any experience welcome. I don't run, yet. But I think it would be interesting to learn about stretches, training schedule, nutrition, foot/shoe evaluation etc. A person could take one subject or all three. So I am thinking about going. I will ask about it at bellydance tomorrow and see if I would stick out like a sore thumb or not.
Got my latest track club news. There is a 2 mile walk in the next town over mid April. I think I'll sign up. There is another one held by the club on April 9. It is a two mile or six mile walk/run. I'd do the two there too since I need to get in better shape.
More calves are hitting the ground. Now if only spring would show up!!!
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Wedding
Despite it all I still lost .4 which is the size of a New York bagel I was told. I have no idea what a NY bagel looks like so means little to me :).
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Foot Talk and Clothes Hunt
I see I didn't mention the talk I went to. Mostly old people there, couple of older runners. Must have been advertised beyond just the ITC. Anyway, it was interesting. I asked my questions and was basically told I wear my shoes too long and to go see a Dr. about my arch pain. Well, that isn't happening right now as we are one of the millions that are insurance free so I will just have to figure it out for myself. I probably do overwear my shoes though. I think we all do.
I don't know if it was worth the trip over there though. Maybe. Maybe not.
Saturday I went to a model horse show run by the 4H. After I went looking for clothes for my brother's wedding. I have given up on that. The one store that has decent plus size was closing and down to three racks. I went to the mall and looked but nothing tripped my trigger. Well, a few things in the normal size did but they would never do for me. So I guess it will be the same old same old, if I can find it.
You see, my house has been gutted for over a year and everything I own is piled in the back room. I never expected it to go on this long or I would have done a better job of arranging things. But I was told to hurry up, now is the time as husband is thowing things into the trash rather than boxing it or putting it upstairs. So I just piled it all in the back room (which is the size of a walk-in closet) and shut the door. I can't hardly open the door now because it is so full and some fell forward. All my clothes are in there as are my art supplies, a lot of dishes etc. I have been living with no table to sit at, no furniture to sit on in the living room besides husband's chair. We don't even have electricity in that half the house (living room, both bedrooms), the wall plaster is gone and in its place is yellow insulation bats. And here it sits...over a year now. It is depressing! But I haven't the money to hire someone to finish it so I have to wait on someone who is perfectly content with the way it is. He has his chair, his newspapers or sits on the stairs to read when it gets dark. Me, I have the bed. I live on the bed. It is DEPRESSING!!! And if I say anything...
I don't know if it was worth the trip over there though. Maybe. Maybe not.
Saturday I went to a model horse show run by the 4H. After I went looking for clothes for my brother's wedding. I have given up on that. The one store that has decent plus size was closing and down to three racks. I went to the mall and looked but nothing tripped my trigger. Well, a few things in the normal size did but they would never do for me. So I guess it will be the same old same old, if I can find it.
You see, my house has been gutted for over a year and everything I own is piled in the back room. I never expected it to go on this long or I would have done a better job of arranging things. But I was told to hurry up, now is the time as husband is thowing things into the trash rather than boxing it or putting it upstairs. So I just piled it all in the back room (which is the size of a walk-in closet) and shut the door. I can't hardly open the door now because it is so full and some fell forward. All my clothes are in there as are my art supplies, a lot of dishes etc. I have been living with no table to sit at, no furniture to sit on in the living room besides husband's chair. We don't even have electricity in that half the house (living room, both bedrooms), the wall plaster is gone and in its place is yellow insulation bats. And here it sits...over a year now. It is depressing! But I haven't the money to hire someone to finish it so I have to wait on someone who is perfectly content with the way it is. He has his chair, his newspapers or sits on the stairs to read when it gets dark. Me, I have the bed. I live on the bed. It is DEPRESSING!!! And if I say anything...
Stress=Jelly Beans
I looked at meeting, down two pounds! Then I put on my glasses, oops, that is POINT TWO. Oh well. Better than a gain I guess. I used to think the point whatever was kind of a non-number but when I am losing weight by the point number it is important. Better than "you stayed the same" I guess.
So yah, down 12# now. I don't feel it. Certainly don't look it. So I hope it is true. I am having a hard time with it right now. Stress at home is escalating with husband being a crab, cussing at me about things no one has control over. My sister is griping about my brother's "sudden" decision to get married. She needs time to plan. Plan what? I am sorry but just go with it and have fun. What is it with people? Does no one know how to have fun anymore??? And now the weather is back in the dumps with this sleet/snow storm and high winds so I can't even get away from my husband. I am just all too tired of it all. Everything seems like a struggle.
I ate a small bag of jelly beans last night after meeting. I just didn't care. They didn't even taste good. They were to go to a swap person I have from my forum but instead I ate them. Blech. I am back in that funk where I don't want to be home. Why, to be around Mr. Cuss Mouth?
I called my Mom. She is sounding better than she ever has since my Dad's passing 11 months ago. She told me she and he had a rough patch like I am having and that you eventually get over it and resettle into a new relationship. Well, at this point I don't feel like I have a relationship. I feel like I live with a roomate who wants a mommy AND to be the boss and not have to think of anyone but himself. I just feel safest gone or hiding out in the bedroom staying out of his way. What I think or feel is not important and I don't even waste my breath trying to explain it anymore. Why? To be ignored or cussed at? What kind of love is that?
So yah, down 12# now. I don't feel it. Certainly don't look it. So I hope it is true. I am having a hard time with it right now. Stress at home is escalating with husband being a crab, cussing at me about things no one has control over. My sister is griping about my brother's "sudden" decision to get married. She needs time to plan. Plan what? I am sorry but just go with it and have fun. What is it with people? Does no one know how to have fun anymore??? And now the weather is back in the dumps with this sleet/snow storm and high winds so I can't even get away from my husband. I am just all too tired of it all. Everything seems like a struggle.
I ate a small bag of jelly beans last night after meeting. I just didn't care. They didn't even taste good. They were to go to a swap person I have from my forum but instead I ate them. Blech. I am back in that funk where I don't want to be home. Why, to be around Mr. Cuss Mouth?
I called my Mom. She is sounding better than she ever has since my Dad's passing 11 months ago. She told me she and he had a rough patch like I am having and that you eventually get over it and resettle into a new relationship. Well, at this point I don't feel like I have a relationship. I feel like I live with a roomate who wants a mommy AND to be the boss and not have to think of anyone but himself. I just feel safest gone or hiding out in the bedroom staying out of his way. What I think or feel is not important and I don't even waste my breath trying to explain it anymore. Why? To be ignored or cussed at? What kind of love is that?
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Later
I swear I heard a Robin but I haven't seen it.
Got my hour of fighting snow in while walking more fence. I took the snowshoes along though and that made a world of difference! Had to dig a whole bottom line out of the snow that was plowed on top of it. A ceramic fence insulator is broken off a post so I'll have to get another and replace it. Meanwhile I wound the line up onto the line above it for now to keep it off the ground. I've got 2.2k volts on the line now which is better than the .06 I was getting. It is a start. What I need is my fencer back from husband which is large enough to handle the amount of line I have. I was sick of loose cows though and since he didn't want to be bothered with the fence I put my high powered one on so even if the wires are draining somewhere there is till 5-6k on the line to keep those boneheads in. But with spring on its way he is going to have to get his own so I can have mine back.
Well, now it is blowing rain, looks like sheets of rain which is kicking up a ground fog. Ugh. Do I want to drive an hour in the dark in a fog????? ARGH!!
Got my hour of fighting snow in while walking more fence. I took the snowshoes along though and that made a world of difference! Had to dig a whole bottom line out of the snow that was plowed on top of it. A ceramic fence insulator is broken off a post so I'll have to get another and replace it. Meanwhile I wound the line up onto the line above it for now to keep it off the ground. I've got 2.2k volts on the line now which is better than the .06 I was getting. It is a start. What I need is my fencer back from husband which is large enough to handle the amount of line I have. I was sick of loose cows though and since he didn't want to be bothered with the fence I put my high powered one on so even if the wires are draining somewhere there is till 5-6k on the line to keep those boneheads in. But with spring on its way he is going to have to get his own so I can have mine back.
Well, now it is blowing rain, looks like sheets of rain which is kicking up a ground fog. Ugh. Do I want to drive an hour in the dark in a fog????? ARGH!!
Happy St. Patricks Day!
Will I see a Robin today? Perhaps. Usually I do by today. Rumors are they are south of us but none here yet that I have seen. Maybe today. It is to be nearly 50!
I skipped meeting this week. I had been in town earlier but it is so small there is no place to wile away three hour before the meeting unless one wants to eat. And I just couldn't justify driving the half hour back for meeting. So no official weigh-in this week.
I have been very off too. It is like I just can't get with the program. I don't know if it is the weather, working the one day (and having two other post offices calling me this week to cover for them), my body being beat from the Shuffle, the calf problems (more on that in a minute), time change or what. I am just totally out of it! After a month of being focused and feeling good about it I just am in a slump.
The bathtub calf is still alive. She is back on her mother but I checked on her and I think her mother is dry (no milk). She's always been a good cow so why no milk is beyond me. So husband (they are his project) is bottle feeding it and we are watching and hoping all the working over that calf is giving her mom that milk will come in. Cows are born trying to die. It is frustrating.
Anyway, she was in the bathtub because it was frigid outside the day she was born and she wasn't regulating her own temperature. Husband thought her last year's calf (he didn't get her weaned off...live and learn) sucked Connie (mama) dry of the colostrum so we also had to find, buy and feed the calf colostrum. It made for a really long Sunday for me, LOL as I was the one driving all over creation to get the colostrum. Anyway, calf looks good, is up and working up though she still looks like a newborn. She has a sibling born a few hour later with no issues and that one looks older already.
Here are some pix...
My exercise yesterday was walking a section of fence several times in knee deep snow. Nope, not smart enough to take the snowshoes figuring really, what could possibly be wrong with the fence? Well, how about broken wires from deer, broken fence insulators, lines buried under 3' of snow and ice? 1 1/2 hour later I was roasting to death, legs soaked and hurting despite knee high boots I still haven't found where it is shorting out. And every day it is warm is a day everyone gets a lot more frisky and stupid. So it needs to be done NOW!
Ok, so big plans for working on ME today is tonight there is a track club program being put on at the Borders book store at 7pm. 7pm is really late for me because I have the hour drive back then BUT it is on foot and ankle injuries and preventing them. Then the speaker, a podiatrist, will evaluate our feet! Yes! I am kicking myself for spring cleaning two weeks ago as I threw out all my old shoes and really, they would have been good to see a wear pattern. I never throw anything out. You know how it goes. Anywho, my feet feel back to normal but for a dull ache where I have been having issues. I am glad for that because it will be easier to point it out. So I do need to scrub my tooties before I go...
I skipped meeting this week. I had been in town earlier but it is so small there is no place to wile away three hour before the meeting unless one wants to eat. And I just couldn't justify driving the half hour back for meeting. So no official weigh-in this week.
I have been very off too. It is like I just can't get with the program. I don't know if it is the weather, working the one day (and having two other post offices calling me this week to cover for them), my body being beat from the Shuffle, the calf problems (more on that in a minute), time change or what. I am just totally out of it! After a month of being focused and feeling good about it I just am in a slump.
The bathtub calf is still alive. She is back on her mother but I checked on her and I think her mother is dry (no milk). She's always been a good cow so why no milk is beyond me. So husband (they are his project) is bottle feeding it and we are watching and hoping all the working over that calf is giving her mom that milk will come in. Cows are born trying to die. It is frustrating.
Anyway, she was in the bathtub because it was frigid outside the day she was born and she wasn't regulating her own temperature. Husband thought her last year's calf (he didn't get her weaned off...live and learn) sucked Connie (mama) dry of the colostrum so we also had to find, buy and feed the calf colostrum. It made for a really long Sunday for me, LOL as I was the one driving all over creation to get the colostrum. Anyway, calf looks good, is up and working up though she still looks like a newborn. She has a sibling born a few hour later with no issues and that one looks older already.
Here are some pix...
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| Bathtub calf. Good thing I scrubbed all that tile! |
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| Bathtub calf working it. Too bad mama ain't cooperating! |
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| Second 2011 calf, doing it right. |
Ok, so big plans for working on ME today is tonight there is a track club program being put on at the Borders book store at 7pm. 7pm is really late for me because I have the hour drive back then BUT it is on foot and ankle injuries and preventing them. Then the speaker, a podiatrist, will evaluate our feet! Yes! I am kicking myself for spring cleaning two weeks ago as I threw out all my old shoes and really, they would have been good to see a wear pattern. I never throw anything out. You know how it goes. Anywho, my feet feel back to normal but for a dull ache where I have been having issues. I am glad for that because it will be easier to point it out. So I do need to scrub my tooties before I go...
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Change in Breakfast and Upcoming Foot Eval.
Husband made oatmeal this morning.
Could have knocked me over with a feather. Just oatmeal in a bowl with water microwaved and way too much of it but sure was a change from his usual bunch of eggs, cheese, sausage, ham and toast.
I informed him he needs to eat a little protein too to help it stick.
Today I want to try and find steel cut oats and make the crockpot recipe I saw on WW. It claims to make 8 or 9 servings and claims to reheat nicely. Sounds good to me and husband will get a better breakfast than his usual handful of striped shortbread cookies.
I am so glad I joined the ITC. This Thursday they are having a podiatrist come in to explain foot injuries at the Borders. Then afterward he will evaluate feet! I need that as my one foot always aches under the ball and down into the arch when I walk. Yes, part is weight but at the first 5K I wore two pair socks and they were fairly snug to support it. Worked good for the most part except a couple times my feet felt like they were numb. Too much. Yesterday I didn't and it hurt. So I need a foot eval, shoe recommendation and see if perhaps taping will help. Here is hoping for good weather at 7pm as it is an hour drive there and home.
I may even paint my toenails (after I scrub the nastiness off my feet. Shave at least my ankles too, LOL. A bit hard with a calf in your tub.)
Could have knocked me over with a feather. Just oatmeal in a bowl with water microwaved and way too much of it but sure was a change from his usual bunch of eggs, cheese, sausage, ham and toast.
I informed him he needs to eat a little protein too to help it stick.
Today I want to try and find steel cut oats and make the crockpot recipe I saw on WW. It claims to make 8 or 9 servings and claims to reheat nicely. Sounds good to me and husband will get a better breakfast than his usual handful of striped shortbread cookies.
I am so glad I joined the ITC. This Thursday they are having a podiatrist come in to explain foot injuries at the Borders. Then afterward he will evaluate feet! I need that as my one foot always aches under the ball and down into the arch when I walk. Yes, part is weight but at the first 5K I wore two pair socks and they were fairly snug to support it. Worked good for the most part except a couple times my feet felt like they were numb. Too much. Yesterday I didn't and it hurt. So I need a foot eval, shoe recommendation and see if perhaps taping will help. Here is hoping for good weather at 7pm as it is an hour drive there and home.
I may even paint my toenails (after I scrub the nastiness off my feet. Shave at least my ankles too, LOL. A bit hard with a calf in your tub.)
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