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I got home late Tuesday nite so I decided to wait until Thursday to watch the Biggest Loser final (we recorded it on TiVo, gotta love it).  Hey, I cheated on Tuesday and went to the end to see who won but I still watched it last nite anyhow.  I actually sort of cried at beginng but didn’t let my honey see me.  Honey has been watching most of them with me and tonite he watched with me.  I think watching what everyone has done, especially the bigger men, has put some thoughts into his head and got him thinking.  Almost 2 years ago he was right around 300 lbs when we joined the gym.  Now is roughly 267-269 and since he’s such  a picky eater his eating habits are not quite that great but he does try.  He switched from regular pop to diet, he’ll only drink diet squirt or diet sierra mist.  But anyways, he did something that was kinda surprising to me.  When we were done watching  there’s an option to keep the show or delete it.  I have been deleting the shows after I watch them to keep space open for other stuff to record.  When I told him to delete he said “no, keep it.”  I asked why and he says “for inspiration”.  WHAT!!?? I just said okay and left it there.  If this is what he needs then we’ll keep it.  After seeing these guys that went close to and over 400 lbs look the way they do now he sees that it can be done.  I keep telling him I’m gonna send him to Jullian.  I have on out little board on the refrigerator in big letters “JILLIAN IS WATCHING”.  I also have something like “do you really need it” written on there to and something else that I can’t remember at the moment.  It makes you sort of stop and think before you open the refrigerator. Over the next week I might see if he’ll let me make him up  a training schedule.  He already has one but I think mine will be better.  I tell him he needs to stop using some of the weight machines and switch to free weights.  He would have much better results using those.  I know because I can’t use some of the machines because I don’t feel that I get as much out of them as I do using free weights.  After the new year and we get the house situated, I’m making one of the bedrooms into my workout room for doing DVDs, we have to get back into our old routine and kicking some major butt.  I would like to take some sort of Kempo Karate or Madarin Kung Fu classes but I am so so so very shy that I could have a panic attack.  That’s why I’m getting cardio kickboxing DVDs.  We’ve been talking about getting a punching bag but have no where to put it.  I have lots and lots of built up aggression that I could have field day on a punching bag.  I will have to discuss putting one in the garage.  Okay, I have rambled enough.  Thanks for reading my rumblings.  Have a holiday everyone. 

The weather outside is frightful (Bette Jo, you’re a couple of hours away from me so you know what I’m talking about) but my office is warm and delightful.  Snow, I hate it.  It’s coming down here and the wind is blowing on top that.  I’m gonna let honey decide if we go the gym for an hour for traffic to hopefully thin out since it’s only a couple of blocks from here or if we sit in traffic.  I think either way it’s gonna be an hour and a half drive home.  It’s ususally almost an hour but this weather is not nice.  I have an apple and granola bar so if we get really stuck in traffic I won’t starve.  It just started snowing when we left at 7 o’clock this morning and some dumbass came flying up this huge hill and kissed a tree on the other side of the road. They were okay.  Ususally it’s the other way around and they come flying down the hill which has some nice curves in it and kiss the tree on the other side of the road.  We almost got hit head on by a truck that came down too fast and he turned the wheel and kissed the tree.  He was alright luckily.   There was also a real bad 5 car accident on our way in this morning but not weather related.  When we were driving by it they had someone in the really wrecked car and I mean really wrecked car covered up with a blanket.  Was trying not freak out.  I had my daughter watch the noon news and thankfully no died but was airlifted to the hospital.  Out of 5 cars only 2 people were injured.   I will be a nervous wreck on the home and I’m not even driving.  Well, boss finally brought something out for me to do YEAH!!!  Back to work it is.  Have a great day and stay warm.

I have got to the most uncoordinated person on this planet.  I don’t know of anyone else that can just fall while walking like I do.  I haven’t done it in a while which is a miracle for me.  Some would say “so don’t wear such high shoes” I don’t wear heels and I can lose my footing walking in sneakers, I did while walking home from the store one day and luckily didn’t break any of the eggs I had.  This morning I’m walking through the mall to the food court to get breakfast, it was before 9 so nothing was open yet and there really wasn’t anybody in there (thank god).  I’m wearing my clogs that are kinda like platform type shoes but I’ve had them for 4 years so it’s not like I’m not adept (right word?) at walking in them.  They are my most comfortable pair of shoes to walk in.  I rounding a corner by the escalator when my left ankle just turns or does something and down I go.  Land hard on my right knee (my knees are messed up to begin with from jumping and falling out of trees etc as a kid).  My face almost kisses the floor too.  These 2 guys just happened to see me and yell “hey, you alright” I say and yes as I’m getting up.  They notice my shoes as I get on the elevator and proceed to yell to me “it’s them heels, gotta watch them heels, hear me it’s them heels” to shut them up I say yes back thinking the whole time “I’ve worn this for 4 years and this has never happened so shut the **** up”  My right knee didn’t bruse as bad as I thought it would but my left foot/ankle/lower shin/lower calf all are very uncomfortable now and it’s sort of hard to put all of my weight (if  I weighed less it might not be so hard) on it so all day at work I’ve kept my shoes off and have only put them on to go down the hallway outside of the office to go to the bathroom.  I don’t think it’s swollen just uncomfortable and throbbing a little bit.  Not doing any cardio today and I was so looking forward to doing a half hour of spinning.  Oh well, next Wednesday for spinning.  Tomorrow’s gonna stink, there’s a heavy snow warning from 7 am till 7 pm so that means I have to get up earlier so we can leave earlier if it’s snowing and tonite we won’t be home till after midnight cuz it’s a bowling nite (see I dislike Thursdays blog).  I’ve complained enough.  Have to go try to walk a little bit, can’t sit here no more. 

Between the beginning of September and end of April I dislike Thursdays.  My fiance bowls Wednesday nights and because we go into work together (we only have one vehicle and we both work in the city) I have to go bowling with him every Wednesday (Friday too but that’s no big deal because there’s no work Saturday).  He doesn’t start until 8:00 p.m. and finishes around 11:00 p.m.  When I get my bowling average above 100 on a consistent basis I might join a team on this league, it’s  a “fun” league so they’re not really competitive, except my fiance who only competes against himself.  It’ s almost an hour drive from there to home.  He bought his house before we met so and he wanted out of the city so he moved way out to the country. So Wednesday nights I get about 5 to 5.5 hours of sleep.  We don’t get home till around midnight and then I have to clean kitty litter (unless I’m that tired and just leave it for one day).  I’m not a morning person to begin with and I’m always in bed before 11:00 during the week.  So here on sit on a Thursday, tired.  We decided to take Thursday as a rest day and not go the gym since we both are usually so tired but today he has to take his mother to the eye doctor at 4:45 and I don’t get out work until 5:00 so I am going to go to the gym until he calls and says he finished with her.  I will probably go upstairs and do some weights and then a nice walk on the treadmill.  Not looking forward to walking to the gym even though it’s only a couple of blocks from work but it is only 25 degrees outside and with the wind chill it feels like it’s 11 degrees.  We’re right by Lake Erie so we get the freezing wind off of the lake downtown.  Can’t wait to get home tonite and start a fire in the woodburner and I will most likely be in bed no later than 10:30.  Being so tired wouldn’t be so bad if I had work to do.  Sitting here with nothing to do makes it even harder.  I try to find things to do so I have to get up and walk around.  If no one was I here I would be walking around just to walk around and keep moving.  Okay I need to close my eyes for a minute or so.  Have a great day everyone!!