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Just a bunch of babble.  I’ve been stuck here at 221 lbs for quite some time now.  For now I just want to get to 199 out of the 200’s.  Of course since my father’s passing in October honey and I haven’t exactly been hitting the gym like we should and I get burned out going there day after day that I have to take a week or so off which doesn’t help me any.  I’m getting one of the bedrooms upstairs cleaned out and set up so I can take a tv and dvd player up there and do dvds when I get burned out from the gym.  I do different cardio everytime I there but I still get burned out.  We don’t get home until after 7:00 p.m. when we go there after work.  It’s a 1 hour drive from there (we both work near the gym) to our house.  Oh well, I will survive.  I need to get back into lifting which is what I love more than cardio. 

I have my grandson only this weekend which I am looking forward to.  He is on the low spectrum of autisum and he’s an absolute joy to have around.  He’s talking so much better now and he’s actually so smart for his 5 yrs.  On Thanksgiving at my sister’s house he was playing with some toys my brother-in-law got out for him and he wanted the lights on the motorcycles to work like the lights on the helicopter.  My brother-in-law told him the lights don’t light up.  Well a few hours later my grandson bring him the motorcycles with the lights working.  My brother-in-law was totally floored. He thought they didn’t light up but that little professer found out they did. 

It’s cold here and we’re expecting snow (YUCK) tomorrow through Friday.  We have a winter weather advisery out where I live so by the time we get home Thursday nite we could have up to a foot of snow.  YUCK, DOUBLE YUCK.  If you can’t tell I hate snow.  I am even born and raised here and I still hate snow and cold.  Mainly the cold, especially the wind chills we have here.  We’re expecting another large load of wood  so that means we will be  unloading the trailer and stacking it in the garage in possible a lot of snow.  YUCK.  I know my fiance will tell me I don’t have to help but I’m the type of person to leave him out there by himself.  Besides I love that physical type of stuff.  It’s better than going to the gym. 

Okay lunch is over.  Back to work. 

I had last week off.  It was my last vacation week for the year so I had planned on doing some relaxing etc.  I was gonna get the house work done Saturday and start my vacation(?) Sunday.  Friday night we get home from bowling around 11:30 p.m. and well, I’m starting to get a sore throat.  The PBA (Professional Bowlers Association) is coming to town the week I’m off and we I always end up getting sick the week they’re in town.  Saturday I don’t feel good, don’t do much, but I do help honey unload wood off of the trailer and felt a little better after getting fresh air.  Sunday same thing.  Monday, I must still not have felt good because I don’t even remember it.  Must not have done nothing.  Tuesday I’m half asleep and hear a “thud” outside.  Honey worked Monday and Tuesday we were off so he’s not there.  I jump to look out the window and see SNOW!! YUCK!!!  I think nothing of it thinking snow just fell off the roof.  When I finally drag my butt out of bed and look out the kitchen window I see large branches laying in front of the garage.  Oh, great, heavy wet snow, leaves on the trees, branches coming down on the garage.  I have to go to the garage to get wood for the woodburner but first have to drag the branches out of the way.  In the garage that’s all you can hear is the tree creeking in the wind.  Luckily nothing falls while I’m out there.  I have to keep going out on the porch to clean the snow off of the satellite dish.  The one time I do this is when I was going to go take a shower.  I slip on my boots and I’m wearing a sweatshirt and sweatpants.  Go out and clean it off, go to come back in THE DOOR IS LOCKED!! Without realizing it I locked the door and pulled it too far that it shut enough to latch.  Now, I live in the country.  The nearest house is about an 1/8 of a mile away on top of the hill.  If the porch hadn’t been wet I probably would have walked out on it bare foot to clean the dish off.  So off I trounced in the heavey wet snow and wind to the neighbors to the extra key they have or our house.  Thank god she’s home.  I get the key, warm up a little and trounce back home. That was Tuesday.

Wednesday honey and I volunteered to work at the TQR (Tour Qualifying Round) for the PBA Tournament.  This was supposed to be fun I thought.  He was gonna do scoring and I was gonna be a runner, taking the scores to the tournament director.  They had 6 scorers for 36 lanes and 1 runner (me) .  This bowling alley is 58 lanes so it’s rather large.  Each scorer had 3 sets of lanes to watch.  There were 3 bowlers on each lane.  All the scorers had to do was write down the final scores of each game.  (I could have done that, but we were originally told they would be hand scoring).  I had to pick up the scores after game (there was a total of 7 games) and take the sheets to the office.  I was on my feet going back and forth non-stop for 4 hours.  Nice workout but no time to stop and rest or get a drink.  No lunch, didn’t feel good, throat hurt.  By the time the 7th game was over I was so dehydrated I thought I was gonna pass out.  I sat down and honey got me a bottle of water.  Never made it to the gym of course, I felt ill the rest of the day.  We did however spend an hour or so at the mall just walking around (slowly) because we had a time to kill before we went to dinner and he bowled in his league that night. 

Thursday I was supposed to come into work because my boss had something important he needed done and I’m the only one who knows how to do it.  Wake up in the morning, I ain’t going no where, could barely talk and felt like crap.  Honey tells me not do anything today and just rest.  I even ended up taking nap in the afternoon which I never do.  I was supposed to do more volunteering on Thursday at the tournament.  Nope, have no energy to stay on my feet for 4 hours again.  I got tired just walking from one end of the house to the other.  The only thing I did Thursday was wash some dishes and I didn’t care the house was a mess.  Yup, I’m sick. 

Friday, I slept for like 11 hours Thursday night/Friday morning.  Felt much, much better.  I went into work to do what I had to do and then did a little extra cuz I’m like that.  I abosolutely love where I work and he’s nicest guy anyone could ask to work for.  I tell him he doesn’t need to give me anything for coming in.  I’m not a money person.  I dont’ care about money.  I tell him every time I take off if there’s an emergency I will come in .   He’s done so much for me the 16 years I’ve been it’s the least I can do.  After I’m done we go the bowling alley to watch the round of 16.  It was much nicer being a spectator than a volunteer.  If we had had the money we would have gone to the TV Finals on Sunday. 

Saturday I make chicken soup and work on the house.  Sunday we did some stuff outside and checked out how many branches did come off the tree from Tuesday.  Since the tree is on the side of the garage hadn’t noticed until we walked towards the back.  There’s a huge branch that will probably have to cut into pieces where it lays.  I dragged the rest out and put them in a pile. 

So I’m still a little congested and but it is that time of the year for me and my sinuses.  Haven’t been to the gym in 12 days but between moving and stacking wood and carrying wood into the house and cleaning on Saturday and Sunday and the 4 hours on my feet on Wednesday I got workouts in.  Wednesday I could feel it in my thighs and butt from walking and standing for 4 hours and when I was walking it was a fast paced walk, not leisurely. 

Wow, okay, I’ve rambled enough.  If anyone is still awake and followed this thank you.  Have a great week every one. 

Next week honey and are off from work and the PBA (Professiona Bowlers Association) is coming here and we are volunteering to work the tournament and will be with the Pros on Wednesday and Thursday (I think that’s what he told me).  I gues Wednesday we are doing scoring (luckily it’s all computerized because I don’t get it and honey keeps trying to explain but I just don’t comprehend) and Thursday he said something about locker room prep.  Anyways, I get anxiety over issues involving stuff like this and am extremely shy, etc.  To me these people are celebrities, even the locals who are on the tour.  I watch them on TV every week during bowling season.  So I will somehow have to keep my composure and  possible have to mingle with this people and not have an anxiety attack.  But, the good new is I GET TO GO SHOPPING!! I told honey I have to go buy a nice pair of comfy pants and top since I either have my work clothes or cruddy sweats I wear at home or my going out jeans but no nice casual clothes.   I also have to make sure not to drink too much water so I don’t have to go to the bathroom alot especially if we’re keeping score.  It will be an anxiety filled 2 days but it will also be fun and well worth it.  A big accomplishment for me to do something like this. 

My fiance bowls on Wednesday and Fridays nights so I have only about a half hour at the gym because we have to go get dinner before bowling.  Yesterday I decided to do another half hour of spinning and it didn’t go quite as well as last week.  Legs just didn’t want to move, heart couldn’t get up.  What I was feeling last week at a heart of 155 I was feeling like yesterday with a heart rate of 146.  But I know every week will be different (I plan on doing this every Wednesday now).

Today, though I had to go do banking for work so I on the way back I took the stairs back up.  Office is on the fifth floor and I counted the stairs once and there’s approximate 100 or so.  My new cellphone has a stopwatch so I started it and began my climbing.  I did it in  1 minute 27 seconds and whatever the 24 is (1:27:24).  I give myself a new weekly challenge on Thursdays to walk up stairs and try to better my time, even if its by a second that will be an accomplishment for me.  I’m also going to wear my heart rate watch because I know my heart rate was up in the 150.  Maybe, just maybe, I should make it my challenge to time myself to go up to the 7th floor which is how many floors are in the building (will have to do a stair count first).  Will have to think about that one.  I was huffing and puffing by 5 so maybe I shouldn’t push it just.  I’ve decided to do a half our HIIT cardio at the gym and then do my weights at home instead of 1 hour of cardio and not doing weights.  I really don’t like using the machines and don’t like going to where the “big boys are” to use the freeweights.  I also hate the big mirrors but I know they’re there so you can watch your form.  I have to have honey put one up at the house so I can watch my form.  Everyone take care and have a great week.