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I joined a gym almost 2 years ago.  I attempted a spin class twice.  The first time I didn’t expect to complete much so I did an easy 15 minutes of a 1 hour session.  Months later I decided I had been working hard there and was gonna try another go at it.  I wanted to do like everyone else was, standing, increasing speed, resistance, etc.  Well, I left after 10 minutes almost in tears.  My knees were killing me.  I have bad knees from childhood years being a major tomboy and stuff.  I haven’t been in the spinning room in over a year.  Yesterday I wanted to do something different there as I’m getting bored doing the same things day after day.  I asked honey if he wanted to spin with me so we agreed on a half hour because he had bowling so we still had to shower and go eat.  Well, I almost cried again. This time not because I couldn’t do but becauase I WAS DOING IT!!  Don’t know if it was because they recently got new bikes (seats are nice and comfy, didn’t hurt my butt) or if it’s me.  I was peddling faster, standing, upping the resistence.  I wasn’t doing it as long as everyone else was along with the instructor but I didn’t care I was doing it nonetheless.  I kept my heart rate anywhere between a 133 and 156.  At about the 25 minutes mark honey asked me if I was okay because my face was so red (I suffer from Rosace so my face turns really red when working out) and I didn’t look good.  When 30 minutes had gone by I thought about going longer but decided not to push it as I was getting very wore out and didn’t want to over exert myself.  Maybe next time I decide to spin I’ll add 5 minutes. 

It’s been an unseasonably warm fall (of that’s ending soon) here  so yesterday instead of going to the gym honey and I decided to go for a bike ride.  We had to make a couple of stops on the way home so by the time we were ready to go it was almost dark so we were just going to go around the block, approximately 2 miles of wooded areas and fields.  I was cruising down a hill and knew I was going to have to turn onto our road shortly (it was dark by them and no street lights) so I began slowing down (new bikes I found out don’t stop you they only help to slow you down) when I hear a rustling in the woods and knew immediately it was deer.  I grab the brakes harder and about 20 feet in front of my two rather large deer fly out of the woods (the second one was closer to me by the time it came out of the woods) and they were going so fast that the second one lost its footing on the other side of the road when it comes to a slight downward spot.   My honey was farther behind me and he thought I was as good as trampled.  Needless to say we wont’ be taking any more evening bike rides.  It just goes to show that you don’t need to be driving to hit or be hit by a deer. 

I would like to thank everyone who left me words of encouragement and thoughts of prayers for the blog I wrote on my father’s passing.  I never expected to get one comment let alone 9 from complete strangers. THANK YOU EVERYONE.  I was very touched and so was my mother when I told her about them all.  I know he’s in a better place and no longer tired, hurting and sick. THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART. 

My mama lost her best friend yesterday.  My father had a heart attack right in their living room and they couldn’t revive him. His heart has been getting weaker as the years go on but you’re never prepared.  She’s a wreck. They just got back from a cruise and were planning on taking a cruise in April to Hawaii for their 50 anniversary and were doing it in April because they knew he might not make it to their 50th.  They had 47 years of marriage together, 4 kids, 6 grandkids and 2 greatgrandchildren.  My 4 year old grandson is a  high-functining autistic and my father was always worried about his speech but fortunately he began speaking much better this past year so he got to him hear talk relatively clearly.  My 3 year old granddaughter is very smart.  My daughter showed her a picture of “grandpa” (so she knew which she was talking about) and told her that grandpa was dead and up in heaven with her cousin.  She understands what that means, that she won’t be seeing him anymore.  Thankfully my baby brother still lives at home so he will be there with mom so she’s not completely alone.  They were bestfriends, they did everything together.  Once we were all grown and on our they started taking a cruise once a year which they deserved because I remember when my little brother was born (he’s 4 years younger than me) my father was working 2 full time jobs to support us all and he eventually quit one because my little brother was afraid of him because he didn’t know who the strange man was.  Once he was home more they have had a very close bond.  But not to fret, my father was tired of always hurting and being sick (he had been in and out the hospital a lot the last few years) and now he’s with his brother.   So now in the last year we have lost my fiance father (he passed away July of last year), my brother in law’s mother (she passed away August of last year) and now my daddy.

Then last night my mother tells me she has to watch her sugar and what she eats because protein is beginning to drip into her kidneys.  This is exactly what has happened to my boss and now he needs a kidney transplant and dialysis because his kidneys are only functioning at 10-16% (see prior blog about my boss).

Working on my father’s estate is not going to be easy (that’s the sucky part of working for a lawyer right now) but at least everything will be explained by me and not some stranger.  We’re not doing anything with that until later next week.

My fiance and I have a relationship like my parents did.  We do just about everything together.  We shop together, prepare meals together, clean the house together, work out together, drive to work together.  He, like my father was to my mother, is my best friend. I can understand what my mother is going through.

I’m rambling now, so I shall end this.

Take care everyone and remember to live everyday to its fullist with your friends and family, you never know when something will take them away.

Had a nice weekend, got to go see my beloved Buffalo Sabres in their last pre-season game.  Honey and I are hoping somebody he works with has some season tickets they can’t use otherwise that may be our one and only game.  Just about every game is sold out, with the exception of single seats and a few of the higher priced games we can’t afford to go to, which of course is when they play the Toronto Maple Leafs. Those are ususally really good games.  If anyone remembers last season with their game against the Ottawa Senators when Chris Drury was hit in the face and the BIG BRAWL ensued at the next face off I WAS THERE!! Man was that sweet.  We were up the upper level (way up) and probably that was the best place to be since everyone was on their feet for at least 20 mintues cheering.  Yeah, I’ll admit I watch hockey for the fighting.  But more than that too.  I was raised watching hockey because my fan was the big fan.  Since we won’t get many, if any, hockey games we are going to try to get season tickets to the Buffalo Bandits (indoor lacrosse) they are quite good too and they’re fans are something else, it’s an experience going to one of their games.

Okay, so I buy alfalfa sprouts to put on my turkey sandwich to “volumectrize” it.  If you’ve read Volumetrics you know what I’m talking about.  The package says it’s 1 serving.  No, I don’t think so.  That’s a lot of sprouts, I think I took maybe 1/4 of the package.  Not sure if I really liked it but it was different than a plain turkey sandwich.  Something I’ll have to get used to.  Maybe I’ll buy some whole wheat pita and try my sandwich that way.

DelMonte Fruit Naturals - has anyone had these?  The local grocery store has them on sale so I look at the container and see 70 calories.  Seeing as they were in a little cup with a peel off top I just assume (never assume anything) that it’s one serving.  WRONG!  It’s actually 2 servings at 70 calories a serving.  Okay, I need my fruit so I have the whole thin with my lunch.  But now that I know it’s 2 servings I can split it up at home.  But that’s okay cuz now instead of  having them for 10 lunches I get 20 lunches, YES!!  Good thing is even if I have a homemade meatball sub for dinner I still come in pretty well under my upper calorie limit, provided I have a relatively light snack after dinner.

Our Monthly Weigh In - Honey and I have decided to have a weigh on the 1st of every month but I think I need to change it to the first Monday of every month because if the 1st falls on a Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday it will mess up having it consistently in the evening after we get home from the gym.  Wednesdays and Fridays are bowling nights so we’re not home until 11 or after and Saturday and Sundays we don’t go the gym.  

Okay, lunch is over, have to get back to work.  

To Be Cont…..