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Weekend to now...
Mar. 18th, 2015 08:13 amWeekend was had by all. Well, the weekend was fast but it was mildly productive. I hit the gym for the 3rd time in the week and I changed things up. I hit the training room and did some battling ropes. It exemplifies that I have weekness on my left side in lifting weight above my shoulders. I think every Friday needs to have these to get me in shape. I then did back and core before hitting a brutal rolling mountain setting on the treadmill. I was very tired and then hit home to do housework. We were hosting D&D and the house was….special. We got the front room cleaned, the kitchen (well Mel did that) and we got the family room and bathrooms settled. It was good. I was really tired then and went to get pizza for dinner.
There things turned, odd. Little Cesears’ was having a busy time and I had to wait. It was crowded and the inefficiency of it was driving me batty. Seriously, they were filling orders for people walking out and not getting the things people were waiting for. IT was maddening. Then I got home and everything was too much too soon and I panicked. I went to sit on the couch in quiet and then the kids came in and it took me quite some time to calm down. Well, I made my salad and realized that I had needed to eat probably when I was cleaning and waiting further didn’t make me hangry, it made me panicked. Well, that was new. I ate, relaxed and food really turned the world the right color again. So, strange. Got hugs for Erika when she stopped by and yes, that was good.
We managed to vaguely remember what we were doing in the game from 6 months ago and we didn’t dink around too much. Though our characters were role playing per their stats (we all took INT as a dump stat it seems) we were also rolling like shit so needless to say we were into the adventure 1 hour in game time and half the party was almost dead. But, yanno, we had fun and know better for next game. Even with the pizza and beer flowing strongly I had a big salad with tuna on top and a tiny piece of pizza and 1 singular beer. By 1030 we were ushering folks out the door cause we all were tired too. It sucks to be old gamers (lol). Benny and Inara had crashed about 845pm. They were so cute and just babbled for quite some time.
Saturday we got up about 8, well, Ben got up earlier and I got a shower after I made eggs/toast for breakfast. We got to Oliver’s bday party. It was at Pump It Up across town and we had a really good time. I got to chat with Andrea (Cypher’s Mom) for quite some time. I was also handing out the invites to Benny’s party which is our first big party. What was really funny is Roland and I were chatting before folks got there and the staff thought I was Jenny! Lol. Had to set them straight (twice). I was sore from my workout so I didn’t chase Ben around. He was having a ball going around and doing lots of things. I did go on the slides with Ben and Cypher racing Andrea and I and I managed to rug burn my elbow pretty good.
After that Ben and I went shopping for party supplies for his bday. Star Wars in not in season right now so we got some cupcake supplies and that was it. It will workout just fine. We then hit Toys R us where we splurged on some Disney Infinity for me and Skylanders for the family. Buy 1 get 1 40% off is really good. We got home and after a snack I headed to Grandma’s Spinning Wheel for some me time. I saw with Jimmy and chatted with him on various things while I turned the heels on my sock and MIL’s sock. I also helped just a bit with folks in Vicky’s weaving class. Makes me want to get our big loom warped up. Sighs, all of this inspiration and too much stuff going on. Soon though, very soon.
Got done there and decided on a whim to stop by Lowes to look at grills and ended up buying a new Charbroil, 6 burner 58,000BTU’s of stainless steel awesomeness. The old Thermos grill has really seen better days and well, I’ve been meaning to look. They had a special for free delivery and assembly and I took it. We did find out that Ben had ate two bags of gold coins for “pre-breakfast” since they were out and accessible. He did this with thin mints a week or so ago. Sighs. I guess I need to put cereal bars out for the roaming hungry kiddo. He is 40+” tall and 40 lbs.
Got home for dinner with the boys and then a quiet night of watching Tabletop with Mel and knitting. We went to bed early and I’m not sad about that. Sunday got up and had waffles since mel was in the mood to make them from scratch with blueberries. I got changed and then went out to pull weeds in the yard. It was hella windy. Seriously windy, like 44 mph gusts but I managed to get the front yard to look less like ass before coming inside to get out of the wind. The new grill arrived and it was awesome, the Lowes guys were nice and got things shifted around and took the old one away very quickly.
I then got groceries (Dickman’s ugly steaks!!!) and then picked Ben up for a library trip before we headed to Griffin’s bday party in Rolling Hills Park. It was nice, I chatted with Bridget and Sioux, knit some and Ben played with kites and played Kubb which we may have to get a household set of.
Got home from the party and I was beat but excited to use the grill. I made kabobs of mushrooms, peppers, radishes and yellow squash and grilled up the steaks and some Wisconsin brats. The steak, of course, was a hit. Then after Benton got showered and into bed I relaxed with getting his laundry done and making a trial run of white cake for his bday. I’ve never made white cake. Unless from a box mix but I learned that 1) I should have aerated the dry ingredients like Alton says I should and 2) I should not make buttercream at 930 pm. But its tasty though dense. All good though. Benton had a piece on Monday night and loved it.
Monday was weird at work. I got stuff done but the motivator has been hard to engage this week. Had a lovely discussion on things with friends and that helped me a lot in many ways. I’ve been trying to come to grips with some of my depressions/low issues I’ve had, especially since it seems in my head a switch has just flipped over to “happy”. Its really weird but all I can think is I’m not letting my life run me, I’m running my life and any vitamin imbalance I may have had is finally leveling out. Dunno, it’s a theory but I’m not going to test it. Things are working, I’m happy, I’m back at the gym, I’m being productive mostly and yeah. Better, not perfect but better.
Monday’s gym day I did arms. I realized when I did battling ropes on Friday that I have a lot of weekness in my left arm/shoulder. So I went back to the old pyramid routine of pullups/dips/chin-ups/pushups which basically builds as it goes so the sequence is (1/3/1/3, 2/4/2/6, 3/6/3/9….up to 7/14/7/21 where you then go back down the pyramid). Well I did the 1-2-3-2 for that day and then did bicep curls before doing core work. My planks are getting better, I still hate them but they are better. Then I did intervals on the treadmill with running versus walking on the hard interval. First time I’ve ran in a while. Felt really good. Got home and Mel had dinner ready and it was good. Scribble was quiet but research and scheming happened. Plus watching Bridget and Ashley geek out on fanfic was faboo.
Tuesday, well the motivator is still hard but I’m pushing through. Got home with the boy after getting some final groceries to see that mel had nerfed my dinner plans by putting the meat I was going to use in the freezer. Sighs. But I made do. I made turkey burger that turned out okay, though the next time I need to oil them just a bit to not stick. Instead of doing the things I needed to like laundry (eek) Mel and I had dinner, drank a guineess and watched youtube. Sad but true. I can tell my body is still getting used to me beating it up at the gym. I think this is just par for the course. I will be good after it tonight and get the laundry going when I get back from knit night.
There things turned, odd. Little Cesears’ was having a busy time and I had to wait. It was crowded and the inefficiency of it was driving me batty. Seriously, they were filling orders for people walking out and not getting the things people were waiting for. IT was maddening. Then I got home and everything was too much too soon and I panicked. I went to sit on the couch in quiet and then the kids came in and it took me quite some time to calm down. Well, I made my salad and realized that I had needed to eat probably when I was cleaning and waiting further didn’t make me hangry, it made me panicked. Well, that was new. I ate, relaxed and food really turned the world the right color again. So, strange. Got hugs for Erika when she stopped by and yes, that was good.
We managed to vaguely remember what we were doing in the game from 6 months ago and we didn’t dink around too much. Though our characters were role playing per their stats (we all took INT as a dump stat it seems) we were also rolling like shit so needless to say we were into the adventure 1 hour in game time and half the party was almost dead. But, yanno, we had fun and know better for next game. Even with the pizza and beer flowing strongly I had a big salad with tuna on top and a tiny piece of pizza and 1 singular beer. By 1030 we were ushering folks out the door cause we all were tired too. It sucks to be old gamers (lol). Benny and Inara had crashed about 845pm. They were so cute and just babbled for quite some time.
Saturday we got up about 8, well, Ben got up earlier and I got a shower after I made eggs/toast for breakfast. We got to Oliver’s bday party. It was at Pump It Up across town and we had a really good time. I got to chat with Andrea (Cypher’s Mom) for quite some time. I was also handing out the invites to Benny’s party which is our first big party. What was really funny is Roland and I were chatting before folks got there and the staff thought I was Jenny! Lol. Had to set them straight (twice). I was sore from my workout so I didn’t chase Ben around. He was having a ball going around and doing lots of things. I did go on the slides with Ben and Cypher racing Andrea and I and I managed to rug burn my elbow pretty good.
After that Ben and I went shopping for party supplies for his bday. Star Wars in not in season right now so we got some cupcake supplies and that was it. It will workout just fine. We then hit Toys R us where we splurged on some Disney Infinity for me and Skylanders for the family. Buy 1 get 1 40% off is really good. We got home and after a snack I headed to Grandma’s Spinning Wheel for some me time. I saw with Jimmy and chatted with him on various things while I turned the heels on my sock and MIL’s sock. I also helped just a bit with folks in Vicky’s weaving class. Makes me want to get our big loom warped up. Sighs, all of this inspiration and too much stuff going on. Soon though, very soon.
Got done there and decided on a whim to stop by Lowes to look at grills and ended up buying a new Charbroil, 6 burner 58,000BTU’s of stainless steel awesomeness. The old Thermos grill has really seen better days and well, I’ve been meaning to look. They had a special for free delivery and assembly and I took it. We did find out that Ben had ate two bags of gold coins for “pre-breakfast” since they were out and accessible. He did this with thin mints a week or so ago. Sighs. I guess I need to put cereal bars out for the roaming hungry kiddo. He is 40+” tall and 40 lbs.
Got home for dinner with the boys and then a quiet night of watching Tabletop with Mel and knitting. We went to bed early and I’m not sad about that. Sunday got up and had waffles since mel was in the mood to make them from scratch with blueberries. I got changed and then went out to pull weeds in the yard. It was hella windy. Seriously windy, like 44 mph gusts but I managed to get the front yard to look less like ass before coming inside to get out of the wind. The new grill arrived and it was awesome, the Lowes guys were nice and got things shifted around and took the old one away very quickly.
I then got groceries (Dickman’s ugly steaks!!!) and then picked Ben up for a library trip before we headed to Griffin’s bday party in Rolling Hills Park. It was nice, I chatted with Bridget and Sioux, knit some and Ben played with kites and played Kubb which we may have to get a household set of.
Got home from the party and I was beat but excited to use the grill. I made kabobs of mushrooms, peppers, radishes and yellow squash and grilled up the steaks and some Wisconsin brats. The steak, of course, was a hit. Then after Benton got showered and into bed I relaxed with getting his laundry done and making a trial run of white cake for his bday. I’ve never made white cake. Unless from a box mix but I learned that 1) I should have aerated the dry ingredients like Alton says I should and 2) I should not make buttercream at 930 pm. But its tasty though dense. All good though. Benton had a piece on Monday night and loved it.
Monday was weird at work. I got stuff done but the motivator has been hard to engage this week. Had a lovely discussion on things with friends and that helped me a lot in many ways. I’ve been trying to come to grips with some of my depressions/low issues I’ve had, especially since it seems in my head a switch has just flipped over to “happy”. Its really weird but all I can think is I’m not letting my life run me, I’m running my life and any vitamin imbalance I may have had is finally leveling out. Dunno, it’s a theory but I’m not going to test it. Things are working, I’m happy, I’m back at the gym, I’m being productive mostly and yeah. Better, not perfect but better.
Monday’s gym day I did arms. I realized when I did battling ropes on Friday that I have a lot of weekness in my left arm/shoulder. So I went back to the old pyramid routine of pullups/dips/chin-ups/pushups which basically builds as it goes so the sequence is (1/3/1/3, 2/4/2/6, 3/6/3/9….up to 7/14/7/21 where you then go back down the pyramid). Well I did the 1-2-3-2 for that day and then did bicep curls before doing core work. My planks are getting better, I still hate them but they are better. Then I did intervals on the treadmill with running versus walking on the hard interval. First time I’ve ran in a while. Felt really good. Got home and Mel had dinner ready and it was good. Scribble was quiet but research and scheming happened. Plus watching Bridget and Ashley geek out on fanfic was faboo.
Tuesday, well the motivator is still hard but I’m pushing through. Got home with the boy after getting some final groceries to see that mel had nerfed my dinner plans by putting the meat I was going to use in the freezer. Sighs. But I made do. I made turkey burger that turned out okay, though the next time I need to oil them just a bit to not stick. Instead of doing the things I needed to like laundry (eek) Mel and I had dinner, drank a guineess and watched youtube. Sad but true. I can tell my body is still getting used to me beating it up at the gym. I think this is just par for the course. I will be good after it tonight and get the laundry going when I get back from knit night.
