Frustrating night!

Well I was really pumped about my softball game tonight...until first thing this morning. I get to work and there is an email. "can you pitch tonight?" eh. now I am not one to say no, when my team needs me and so I say, if you need me to I can. So then here I am, pitching, sucking it up really bad, until I finally get the hang of it in the 5th inning...way too late. It was so incredibly frustrating!!!

The highlight of my night in the game though came with 2 outs in the last inning, where I hit a double, over the left fielders head. It was an awesome hit, if I do say so myself. But then I make a stupid move and get tagged out at 3rd...when I didn't even have to run. But not like it would have mattered much, we were down by 6 runs. FRUSTRATING!!!

So that is the conclusion of my night. Then Jimmy comes home from soccer and lost his game and had just about as frustrating of a game as I did. So we are all in great moods...good thing we are overly competitive...so life is fun when we lose.

ok, well I need to go and get to bed because I have to go to work and do the work that I didn't get done today since there was an overturned tractor trailer on 95 and I didn't get to work until 1030! And then on top everything, I have security duty at work, which means that I have to stay at work every day until 5. And I usually get into work at 630 and out by 330 at the latest...so staying until 5 when it is so nice outside is no fun!!

Ok enough bitching for tonight, thanks for listening!!

Until tomorrow...

Adios :)

Pictures!!

This is our Federal Hill Fitness team who ran the Port to Fort race in Baltimore last weekend. It was a 6k run...and a gorgeous day to run. We all had a great time! Doug, the one in the front on the left...came in 7th place overall...he ran the race in under 21 min!!


This is Jimmy and I after the Stadium Trek...as you can see it was a nice day outside :) we kicked some butt on this one too. Thanks again to Jeannie and Sarah for their pledges to help fight Lung Cancer!


This is the diaper cake I made for my friend Susie from work's baby shower. It was a hit! I wasn't able to attend the shower, but I have received many complements on the cake! It was pretty easy to make too.

New Computer!!

We finally got our new computer and I LOVE IT!! It has Window's Vista, which is going to take a little getting used to, but it is pretty neat!! So here I am trying to catch up on a little blogging...since I have been slacking recently.

I am going to do another posting after this of some pictures that I have been promising everyone too.

This weekend has been a whirlwind, I can't believe that it is already Sunday night! Yesterday I worked all day, reffing kickball, it was entertaining...but a long day. Then it was home to take a shower and get ready to go to my friends party. It was fun, we weren't there for long though, then we went to Howl at the Moon with my cousin and her boyfriend to meet up with some of Jimmy's friends from VA. It was a lot of fun. A long night...but fun.

Today after recuperating until about 2pm, I got up and did yard work, LOTS of yard work. I should take some pictures of that too and post them, it looks nice. But now that it is dark, I will have to wait on the pictures of that until tomorrow or Tuesday since I have my first softball game tomorrow and might not get home until after dark. I mulched, laid soil, pulled weeds, sprayed debugger, planted a few plants and got really dirty. It looks great though I need one more bag of mulch to finish up the backyard. Oh and I am going to plant some marigolds around the wood pile and some tulip bulbs around the one tree, but those areas need a little more de-weeding and that is on Jimmy's agenda for tomorrow.

So things on the outside of the house are finally coming together, however the inside needs a really good cleaning. And there doesn't seem to be a large amount of time coming up that is going to allow me to get to the inside of the house...hopefully time will come from somewhere, because sitting here looking at the mess is not helping!!

Next weekend is the 2007 Bay Bridge Run. Where they drive you to the eastern side of the Bay Bridge and then you run across it back to the west side and to Sandy Point Park. Jimmy and I are running it...it is a 10K so a little over 6 miles. We haven't run a 10K since Thanksgiving, so we'll see how good this goes. Last time I signed up for this race, it was canceled because of high winds, guess it isn't all that safe to run across a big bridge in high winds.

I am signing up for 2 mini triathlons this summer to try something new. One of them Jimmy is doing with me and it is in June the other one is in August and it is part of the Iron Girl Series of races. Since it is all female, it is just me, well me and 2 other girls that I know who are doing it too. It should be a fun and interesting experience. So we have a few other running races mixed in there too, trying to keep the summer filled with exercising things to keep my working out interesting and purposeful.

Well I need to get going and post those pics I have been promising then get to bed as I have a long day tomorrow. Work is super busy and I have softball after work with my work team...should be fun and interesting, since I don't know many people on the team...so we'll see how that goes.

Until tomorrow...

Adios :)

The Weekend...

I am so glad it is here...though I am so incredibly busy...that is about all I can say for now...more to follow on Sunday night on the new computer!! Woo Hoo! Have a great weekend all!!

Travelling again...

Yep, back on the road travelling again for work. I usually love travelling, but not when both trips are in the same month and I feel like I never get to see my husband or spend time with him. Plus this time I am an hour and 15 min from home, too far to not drive back and forth every day and too close to make myself want to drive home every night. eh, this sucks.

Since I am back in Northern Virginia, where Jimmy and I met and I lived for 5 years, I know the area and have friends here. I have plans tomorrow night with my sister & brother in law and then some of my guy friends and I have plans with the girls on Wednesday night and Thursday I get to go home...but tonight...nothing.

Tonight is sucking for 2 reasons, one, I was told by my wonderful co-worker/semi-boss that I had to go to this social/networking thing after the conference today that it would last a while. I really tried to get out of it, because our first softball game was tonight and it was 80+ degrees out and gorgeous...and it is only like 45 min away, so completely doable, if I left right from the conference with no social thing...so...the social thing only lasted an hour and I spent the whole time talking to my co-workers and a friend of mine that I used to work with...so no networking at all. And I could have made it to my softball game if my stupid coworker didn't tell me that I HAD TO GO and that it would last a long while!!! I am so mad.

So then I decide to go home and see Jimmy play soccer only to have a message from him on my cell saying that he got a shift at the bar tonight and he is going to be bartending. :( Good for him, because I know he is excited about being able to bartend, but sucks for me, because I wanted to go home and see him! I miss him so much and I have only been gone for a day, pathetic I know.

I guess I am just in a funk and have had enough of my coworkers since I spent a week with them in Texas and now here. I just want to be at home with Jimmy and the doggies. And I have 2 1/2 more days of this boring conference!

So how is everyone else doing? Jeannie? Michelle? Robyn?? I hope you ladies are kicking some butt!! I am paying for this computer usage right now, so I am going to quickly check out a few blogs...I will definitely catch up on the blogs and all when I get home and we have our new computer...sorry for slacking!!

oh!! And I was told by my coworker who went to the baby shower at work (the one that I made the diaper cake for) and she said that out of all of the gifts mine was the biggest hit!! I was so excited to hear that, especially since I couldn't go to the shower. I will def post the pic of the cake when I get home too.

Until...??

Adios :)

The Neverending Spinning Class

Tonight was the night of the never ending spinning class. Yes it was the same spinning class I go to almost every Thursday that is 45 minutes long, but today it seemed like it was never going to end. We did hills, we did sprints, we did hills then more hills...I have never sweat more in my life. I always give Jimmy a hard time, because the rare times that he gets to join me in spin class or any other class, he always finishes up with a pool of sweat under him, tonight that was me. But boy did it feel good. I left there knowing I worked hard and did something good.

I also lifted my upper body today. So all of my workouts got completed and I went to the gym so far 3 out of 4 days this week. Tomorrow I think I am going to run outside, since the gym is on my way home, and I have to go the Dr's on my way home from work, I don't want to drive in Friday traffic back into town, so I think I will run with the doggies or at the park tomorrow. The weather is supposed to be getting warmer so that will be nice.

We ordered a new laptop tonight!! I am so excited, it is another Toshiba. The one we have now is mine from like 4-5 years ago when I was in grad school, it has treated us well. But when I was in San Antonio last week there was a run in with a dog(s) and the laptop, not sure exactly what happens, but the screen only stays up at a certain angle, if not at that angle, it comes slamming down or back. Not good. So that was the last straw...to decide to order a new one.

Tonight I made a diaper cake for a girl at work for whom we are having a baby shower for tomorrow. It turned out really good!! I am going to take some pictures of it tomorrow before I take it into work and I will try and post them this weekend. (I have a lot of picture posting to catch up on!)

One thing I realized in the whole diaper cake making episode is that I have some learning to do before we have a baby...diapers are EXPENSIVE!! Holy smokes. Now I see why my parents used cloth diapers on my brother and I when we were kids.

Tomorrow (Friday April 20) is "Hokie Hope," an alumni-led declaration of a national "Orange and Maroon Effect" day in Support of the Virginia Tech Hokies. (my dad's alma mater) So please wear the colors with pride and support for everyone at VT who was affected by the terrible incident on Monday.

Until tomorrow...

Adios :)

Back to the real world...

Jimmy and I got back yesterday afternoon...and today was day one back to work and the real world...eh. I don't think I was ready, always after a vacation or time away with work, I am never ready to go back to the office, today was no exception.

I didn't go grocery shopping last night like I should have, so today I had no healthy food to take to work for my 6 meals...so I did eat healthy, but just 3 meals today. I went grocery shopping tonight and got all of my fruits and veggies and cut everything up and put them in serving size bags ready for my lunch and meals for tomorrow.

So tomorrow is back on track day, though I did work every every day last week when I was away for work, just not the weekend that I was there with Jimmy. I was back at the gym lifting and doing cardio today and will be there every day this week as well busting my butt to make up for last weekend. So no harm done right? I hope not.

I need to get some sleep so I can get up and get to work, then out of work early to get to the gym since I have to ref tomorrow night...playoffs, so I am almost done with reffing. Bad news though, I just found out that our Thursday night bball league that I was supposed to be playing in starting this week was cancelled due to not enough teams signing up...so now I need to find something else to play to mix it up a little...but I am on 2 softball teams, one on Monday and one on Wednesday, so that will be good once it all gets rolling.

I am out of town for work 4 days next week too...not too far away, just in VA near where I used to live, but far enough away that I need to stay in a hotel, which stinks, meal wise and gym wise, but at least I am back in my old area and know where I can get healthy food and work out. So it should be a little easier. I need to plan better...

Ok...off to bed. Good luck this week all! Hopefully tomorrow night I will get some time to post some notes on the A-Team partners blogs...sorry I have been slacking ladies!! KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!!

Until tomorrow...

Adios :)

Hopefully a better day...

Well, Jimmy is in Dallas. He made it there about 1:30 last night. He is currently waiting on his 8:30 flight. He got our flights home changed to Monday for free, so we have a little more time here together, which will be great.

And get this, he ran into my best friend Megs at the airport in Dallas!! That makes me feel a little better. But what sucks about that, is that Meg was in Dallas last night too and had a hotel room!! If I'd only known...then Jimmy wouldn't have had to sleep in the airport!

What is even more weird, I had a dream last night and Meg was in it...

Well this is a short post, I am heading out to try and find a pedicure place as my feet when I travel get all gross!! Plus wearing flip flops for the first time all season, my feet need a little cleaning up!

Have a great weekend everyone! Here is to a better day!

Adios :)

Not so good day...

Ok...It hasn't been all that great of a day so far. My coworkers and I went out to Howl at the Moon here in San Antonio last night...and I woke this morning to my coworker calling to see if I was alive. Great start to the day. Too much tequila, beer and who knows what else. I don't remember how we got home, tho we were planning on walking since we walked there last night...and I found out today that we did walk home. It is like a 40 min walk...so who knows what I said during the walk home. I hate this. Every time I get really drunk and something like this happens I swear I won't let it happen again...then it does. It is not often, maybe once a year...but still.

So I was INCREDIBLY hung over today all day at work, barely keeping my eyes open and trying most of the day not to puke. Plus, I wasn't all that nice to Jimmy last night when I talked to him on the phone, I didn't remember it, but he filled me in on it this afternoon. I feel so bad. I am such an idiot. I really hope I didn't do anything stupid...my coworkers seemed fine around me this morning and said they had fun, so who knows.

Right now, Jimmy should almost be 1/2 the way here to see me. But there is a tornado warning in Dallas...and he is sitting on an airplane in Baltimore and has been for 2 hours. So he might make it to Dallas tonight, but there are no hotel rooms and he'd have to sleep in the airport because all flights out of Dallas are cancelled for the night. I offered to drive up there and get him, but it is a 4 hour drive and he told me not to. He could get here by 9am tomorrow...I am keeping my fingers crossed. If not, then at least he can get his money back and I can try and fly home tomorrow. This sucks...what was supposed to be a great surprise is turning out pretty crappy.

So nothing exciting to report today. I didn't work out, I ate like crap, I feel like crap and I just want Jimmy here.

Until tomorrow...

Adios

Run in the Sun...

Yes it is 80 degrees here and gorgeous!! I ran to the Y and lifted and ran back from the Y. I know I was going to go right after work, but plans changed. The run there was about 1.5 miles and the same back...took about 30 min, but I got caught at a lot of lights. So who knows how long it would have took, but at least I did it! The sun felt so great!!

So we finished up class early, it went well and we can review the critiques tomorrow, so we'll see what the students thought. But after we finished, we went to lunch to a pasta restaurant. I succumbed....got a REALLY REALLY good pasta dish, with sun dried tomatoes, green pepper and artichokes and chicken, but it had a cream sauce. Eh. I am regretting it now, but what can I do. I only got an appetizer at dinner, smoked salmon, capers, and toast points....so...don't know how good I am doing at this eating while out of town thing. I feel like I am doing terrible. I need to be better tomorrow. If we go out to eat I am getting a salad.

The Riverwalk here is so neat! I can't wait for Jimmy to get here so we can explore.

Not much else to report though...Jimmy did send me an email asking if I wanted to do a race on his birthday (June 10) it is a 7 miler. That will be the longest I have ran since I did my 1/2 marathon back before I even met Jimmy!! But we have done a few 10k's...6ish miles so I think I can handle it...can't keep up with him, but can definitely finish. We'll see.

Well I need to go and get to my room to watch LOST in bed and then get to sleep, so I can get up and get to the gym in the morning...this morning I woke up 10 min before I had to be out the door! Good thing I showered after swimming the night before and was set to just get dressed and go. AHHH! I just realized that LOST is already on...damn this one hour time difference!! Guess I'll just have to watch it on TIVO when I get home. I am so mad!!

Well until tomorrow...

Adios :)

Swimming...and a Scavenger Hunt

Tonight I got to go swimming! I went and got a new bathing suit after work today and got to go and swim some laps, it felt so good. But boy after a while of not swimming, do you lose your endurance for it. But it was great, a nice 40 min of swimming. I did do 30 min of elliptical this morning since I wasn't sure if I would get to swim tonight. So that is a bonus. Probably didn't make up for the margarita I had at dinner tonight, but boy did it taste good!

Ok, now most of you are probably wondering about the "scavenger hunt" part of the title. Well I couldn't post this before today, because my husband knows my blog address, though I don't think he looks at it often. But as you know I am now in San Antonio, well a few months back I bought my husband a ticket to come and stay with me this weekend. I would have normally gone home on Saturday. I arranged for my parents to pick up the dogs, and for someone to work at the gym for him on Saturday. He had NO CLUE!! It was great!!

So to tell him about the ticket I decided to leave a card for him with my cousin at home, and I told him about the card today...to ask my cousin for it. And that card was Clue #1 of 7 clues that I hid all around the house for him to find!! It lead him on the hunt for a surprise...his airline ticket to come and see me!! He called me and was so incredibly excited!! I am so happy! I love doing things for him, because he always does things for me. It is nice to return the favor. I can't wait until he gets here and we have a nice relaxing weekend together, just me and him!

One more thing...I am having a tough time with one of my April goals...the no weighing in...AT ALL. Don't get me wrong, I haven't done it. It is just a little frustrating to now know weather all I am doing, the working out, eating well etc. is paying off on the scale. I know it shouldn't matter, because I look different, feel better and can workout longer and lift heavier weights, but boy do I want to know what that scale says!! Only 20 more days and I can find out!! AHHH!

Well I need to get to bed, tomorrow is the last day of our course and we have a lot to do. 3 more co-workers are flying in tomorrow too. So I am sure they will want to meet up for dinner, so I am going to take my workout clothes with me to work, change before we leave and then Dave (my coworker that is here with me now) is going to drop me off at the Y on the way back from work and I am going to lift upper body and then run back to the hotel. It is a safe area and only about a 2.5 -3 mile jog. So that will be a great pre-dinner workout. And that way I won't hold everyone up for dinner.

Until tomorrow...

Adios!! :)

Pizza and French Fries

Well Lent is over and I DID IT!! I didn't eat Pizza or French Fries for 40 days!! I am so proud of myself, it was hard and there were a lot of temptations, but I did it!! So on Easter the plan was to go and eat both pizza and french fries...well NOTHING was open on Easter!! I totally didn't think of that! So we found out that Papa John's was open and so was McDonald's...pretty sucky pizza and french fries...but oh well. Guess it was kind of anticlimactic. But I am still pumped that I didn't succumb to the yummyness for 40 days!

San Antonio is going good, day one of class went well and I am beat. The gym at the hotel sucks. I read online before I came here that it had a "fitness center" with "free weights", "weight machines", and cardio equipment. Well that is crap. There is a really nice treadmill and elliptical, and a really sucky weight machine (all in one thingy) with no straps, bars or nothing!! So I was pissed...I was supposed to scarily lift legs today and then I ended up just running on the treadmill. So when I got back from class today I asked the front desk if there was another gym or Y near by and there was a Y for $5 a day. SWEET. So I went and lifted and it was great, they even have pool...though unlike the hotel site said, we don't get free access...I think I am going to email and complain when I get home. But oh well. I am getting my lifting in all week now and going to get to swim some...as soon as I can find a bathing suit, as I forgot mine. Hopefully I can find one tomorrow.

So the workout is on, eating is going as well as can be expected for being away from home where I can't cook for myself. So I am going to try and get some extra cardio in too.

It is supposed to be 80 here tomorrow, I am pumped. I love warm weather!

Thanks to all of the A-Team for the positive comments and sweet emails! I will write more tomorrow!! Keep up the great work!!

Until tomorrow...

Adios :)

I have access!!

Woohoo!! Great news, there is a computer here in the lobby that I can use to email and blog. So I am set. Just wanted to give you all a heads up. I am off to bed, as we have a big day ahead tomorrow...and a long one with the first day of class and getting everything set up and all...plus though it is just an hour earlier here, I am beat and am going to get a good nights rest.

Until tomorrow!!

Adios :)

HAPPY EASTER!!

Happy Easter Everyone!! I hope you all have a wonderful day and get to spend time with family and friends.

I am on my way to San Antonio today. I will be gone for a week and don't know how much access I will have to a computer. I am hoping that there will be one in my hotel that I can use at least once or twice this week to blog and catch up. But I won't know this until I get there so if for some reason I am not blogging at all this week that is why. I hope that won't be the case, but if it is will be back online next weekend with tons to say.

This weekend was a good one so far, I was supposed to work Kickball on Saturday and we woke up to find a little snow outside!! I was a tad bit mad, because it is APRIL!!! There shouldn't be any more snow!! But then work was cancelled, because there was a chance of more rain/snow (though it never happened) and the wind chill was out of control. So I got to go back to bed!!

I went to the gym around lunch time and visited Jimmy and worked out. Then came home and got ready for our date. He was taking me to get Thai food, one of my favs, but he has never had it before, so I was hoping he'd find something he liked. He did :) Then we were going to Dave and Buster's to play pool and some arcade games, we are both quite competitive, so that is a lot of fun for us. Well when we got there, there was a huge line out the door! So we both said heck with it and came home, got some ice cream and watched some tv. It was great just to spend time with Jimmy before I left.

Now I am in the midst of packing and just wanted to let everyone know, especially my April Partners so they know I am not abandoning them!! Keep up the great work A-Team and I will talk to you when I can this week.

Have a great Easter and an amazing week everyone!!

Until...

Adios :)

Friday!!

Yeah it is Friday!! I am still in pain. I must be walking funny, because someone at work came up to me and asked me if I was ok, because I was moving a little slow. :) Could be worse I guess, it seems to be getting a little better...I have until Monday, so we'll see.

Today was a great day, work went well, my workout went well, then I met one of my college roommates for dinner and a beer. After that we went out and caught up with a few other friends. It was a nice time and now it is 10pm and I am home and getting ready to go to bed. Kind of lame, going to be so early, but I need it. Jimmy is working at the bar, so he won't be home until late...he is training to be a bartender and is so excited about it! On my way home I swung by Barnes and Noble and bought him 2 books, one of mixed drink recipes and one of shot recipes. He was talking about wanting one so he could study it. So I am sure he'll love it. I'll leave it on his pillow so he'll get it when he gets home late tonight.

Thanks for all of the great comments from everyone!! You all are so supportive. Thank you so much!

Tomorrow night is date night, since I leave for San Antonio on Sunday, Jimmy is going to take me out tomorrow night. I can't wait. Just me and him, it will be wonderful no matter what we do.

I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday weekend and enjoys some time with their family.

Until tomorrow...

Adios :)

PAIN

Yes, I am in pain. The leg workout my husband gave me yesterday has me walking around and acting like a 90 year old woman!! I woke up this morning and went to go downstairs like I do every morning and get my food ready and dry my hair...and I almost sat down on the stairs and scooted down on my butt!! My quads and hamstrings were killing!! All day long, I had to sit down in a chair like a pregnant woman, lean back grab the back of the chair and ease myself in. It was pathetic!! At least I knew the workout did something that is for sure!! I also only had to do lower body lifting once this week (upper body 2x's) so I have until Monday to fully recover!

But tonight I might have not done the brightest thing, I did spinning...yes, my legs were killing me and I got on a bike and was tortured by an instructor...well not really, but that is what it felt like!! It did loosen my muscles up a little bit but now they are back to lots of pain. I hope they are better tomorrow, I usually find after 3 days after, the pain starts to go away. Ah, the pain of attempting to get fit.

So far so good on my April Goals...no scale and no soda and I went to the gym. CHECK!

Now I am doing what I wanted to do, sitting on the couch, catching up on blogging and watching TIVO'ed American Idol and my other shows. It's great!

That's it for tonight. Keep up the great work everyone!!

Until tomorrow...

Adios :)

A long day...

Today was a very long day, as was yesterday, but I definitely wanted to catch up on my blogging tonight...so here I am.

I have come up with my April Goals for the Make Yourself a Priority in 2007 Challenge. Here they go...

1. I am not going to weigh myself the entire month (well the rest of) April. I have become scale obsessed and it is not good. I weighed myself yesterday and it said I was up 2 lbs!! I was so mad, frustrated and upset. Especially since I have been doing the same thing with BFL the entire time and the first 3 weeks I lost a total of almost 6lbs! It was going so great!! Then Jimmy brought up a good point. He asked me "Go look at your BFL book again...does it say ANYTHING in there about weigh ins??" Well the answer is no...it talks about measurements, BMI, Body Fat percentages, how your clothes fit and before and after pictures, but nothing that I could find about regular weigh ins (I didn't look all that hard...I got his point). Since my clothes fit so much better, I can tell that I look different and my muscles are getting more defined...I have decided that for April, that will be all I get to see...are the changes, the physical changes, not the numbers. And hopefully by the 30th of April, when I get on the scale, it will be well worth the wait!

2. I get to eat french fries and pizza on Sunday (WOOHOO!!), but I have decided that I am going to completely give up soda for the rest of April. I usually drink some to stay awake in meetings etc, since I don't drink coffee, but I need to cut out caffeine. I talked to my Dr. a few weeks back about Jimmy and I wanting to start to try and have a baby sometime in the not so distant future and one of the things she said to do was cut back on caffeine. I am going to still have tea's etc, for those times that I need a boost, but no soda.

3. I am going to keep up with BFL and going to the gym 6 days a week like I did in March.

4. I am going to be very supportive and helpful to my Challenge Team all month long!!

Those are my 4 goals for April. When I have time I am going to post them on my blog sidebar as a daily reminder of what I need to do...and not do :)

I am so pumped about my April group...Michelle, Jeannie, and Robyn. I know Michelle pretty well, Jeannie really well and I don't know Robyn at all so it will be great to get to know her. Lets have a awesome April ladies!!! I have nick named us the A-TEAM :) A for April...or Awesome...whichever way you want to look at it!! GO A-TEAM!!

Today I asked my husband for different lower body leg exercises and boy did he give me some. I don't know if I am going to be able to walk tomorrow morning. So I have opted for the evening spin class instead of the 6am one, in order to at least get some stretching in before hand. Wish me luck.

Then after spin class tomorrow night, it will be the first night all week that I can come home, walk the dogs, make dinner then sit on the couch and relax. I can't wait.

I hope all is going well with everyone...keep up the great work. Hopefully tomorrow night I will get around to visiting everyone's blogs, posting some pictures and catching up on more blogging items. With work being so crazy I haven't gotten any real Internet time in, other then some emails.

A co-worker and I are leaving on Sunday for San Antonio. We are teaching a new iteration of our class there and it is going to be awesome! We have worked so hard at it over the past week and it is coming together!! I can't wait to go to San Antonio, I have never been and I heard it is really neat. We are staying right off of the River Walk, so I hopefully can get in some nice runs there. Plus my hotel has a fitness center and I can go use the Y...so hopefully I can swim some too! I love to swim laps and miss it since we moved to Baltimore and I don't have pool access. Plus I need to start training (I'll explain more about this later!). If anyone been to San Antonio and can recommend anything fun to do (or not to do) please let me know!

I need to get to bed...until tomorrow.

Adios :)

Day 1, Week 5, 8 Weeks to go...

Well lets start off with the weigh in...I gained .2 lbs. Ok, now here is where I get confused, because I now fit into a smaller size pants, things fit a lot better, I feel a lot better, my arms and legs are getting more and more muscular...but I gained weight. Maybe a little too much birthday partying, maybe it is muscle, since muscle weighs more then fat. All I know, is I don't like when the scale goes up. Especially when I have been doing so good and losing steadily. Eh. Oh well. Now back to a good week this week. Though I did all I have done every week since the beginning last week. I did work out extra hard last week, maybe I pushed it too much. ok ok, enough thinking about this...on to week 5.

Other then that the weekend went very well, worked out Saturday morning, worked from 10-3 collecting rosters for kickball for BSSC. Jimmy, my mom and I went to Rehoboth Beach outlet shopping on Sunday, Jimmy and I got lots of good deals. I got some cute smaller size pants and skirts for the summer/spring. So all in all a good weekend.

Today Jimmy calls me to let me know I got a package in the mail...from Jeannie!! I got an awesome present from her, (she was my first partner in the 2007 Challenge I got some great things. First off, she sent some of her homemade doggie treats for my pups! And they LOVED THEM!! But before we gave them each their own treat, Jimmy decided he wanted to taste them. Jeannie, Jimmy agrees with you...no need to wrestle those away from the dogs! :) But boy did they gobble them right up!! They were licking the crumbs up off of the kitchen floor! Thanks for being so thoughtful and thinking of them too! Then I got 2 mini Yankee Candles...and anyone who knows me, knows how I always have a big Yankee Candle burning in my house. I just went and got a new one the other day (watermelon...I definitely recommend it!) and while I was in there I was thinking about getting a lavender lemon one...and Jeannie sent me one!! I have it lit in the bedroom as I am typing this. And she sent me a really cool water bottle, with an orange lid..my favorite color! I rinsed it right out and used it for my water for dinner. :) I also got a workout mix CD. I can't wait to listen to it during my workout tomorrow night! THANK YOU JEANNIE!!! Your card was too sweet too...

Tomorrow I will hopefully have come up with all of my goals for April. I can't believe it is April!!

Have a great week all...only a few more days left of the lent challenge!! Keep up the great work everyone!!

Until tomorrow...

Adios :)