four days, one two three four, bwahaha

So, I have done four days in a row on the gazelle. I am hoping to go seven days at 15 minutes a day and then up it to 20 minutes. I feel pretty good at 15. I am sweaty, but not exhausted. My legs were pretty sore after the first day, but by the time I stepped on the gazelle on day three, they felt fine. No soreness today at all. I think the gazelle is good because it is not just exercising my arms and legs, but is also cardio. I need to burn some fat, not only build some muscle.

This is rally all I gotta say today. This post is mostly a place-marker for me. I like to try to keep track of my progress.

two days is a pattern, right?

I did do the 15 minutes on the gazelle yesterday! I didn’t post about it then, but I did it! It was only 1.2 miles this time, but I expect it’ll fluctuate some. My legs were a bit sore, so I am not surprised it was slower. I will make a point of doing it this afternoon/evening too. I feel a lot better about doing the gazelle walking exercise than I do about the dvd stuff. The ballet one hurts more. My ankle and foot really ache when I do it, the muscles need to be built up a little more before I can get into that one. The yoga one? Honestly? Boring as hell. I like the calm and the stretch and the thought of all that poise and balance and potential limberness, but it takes forever and you never really do anything and the lady who teaches it is creepy looking and weird. I’ll go back to it soon, but not today.

I also got my co-op basket yesterday. Let me see if I can remember what was in it…

1 head of lettuce
1 lb bag carrots
1 bunch of kale
1 red bell pepper
4 oranges
7 bananas
5 apples
1 cucumber
1 pint of strawberries
4 potatoes
2 tomatoes
1 cantaloupe
1 bag of mushrooms

I think that’s everything. I wish we’d stop getting cantaloupe. I hate those things. I hate the smell even, to me they smell like something over-ripe and almost rotten. *shudder*

I haven’t actually moved into cleaning anything up yet. I have been visiting our friends with the new baby a couple/three times a week. Plus trying to cook dinner a bit more often. Plus trying to exercise some. Plus, I don’t know. I am lazy. I don’t like cleaning.  I don’t like having a mess either though. So, I just have to find a day to motivate myself. Today isn’t looking good for it. But maybe tomorrow.

 

travel thoughts

I tend to stress out, majorly, about traveling. So, even though I have known for 13 months already, I have been avoiding thinking about the upcoming trip to New Zealand. But now that it is only 2 months away, I need to start planning. I have to figure out what to bring and how much money and if I should pack books. I always take books when I travel. I love to read. But, now they charge for baggage and I am hesitant to pack books. I don’t really like e-readers, so I am not going to buy one, but I wonder if I should try to rent one or borrow one. Can you rent those? That way I can read on the trip without packing too much extra. We have to eat in New Zealand. I don;t have a clue how expensive that will be. Part of the time, we’ll be in a condo and we’ll shop at the grocer and cook in. And some of the time, I think we’ll be in a B&B where at least ne meal is usually included. but, we’re still going to end up eating out a LOT. I am worried about affording that. Also, I don’t really know what to expect weather-wise. I think I’ll just pack layers so i can change my mind mid-day if necessary.

We leave on Mar 27 and come home on April 17. So, I think it will be early fall, late summer there. I am usually hotter than anyone else, so I suppose I will not need to pack too warmly. Oh, except my husband plans to go to a GLACIER. That might be chilly. Does that mean I need a winter coat? Oh, gods, I hate travel. Ok. We’ll be gone 3 weeks. So, I need to pack enough clothes and money for that long. I can probably do laundry pretty easily somewhere, so I really only need about 5 days worth of clothes. Maybe? I wonder how common self-use laundry facilities for the public are in New Zealand… I guess our condo is for a week, so I need to think about eating out for 2 weeks. That’s a lot of meals. We can maybe eat semi-prepared stuff that doesn’t need refrigerating and that is inexpensive from grocery stores. I know here, you can buy lots of deli stuff like chicken salad and hoagie rolls and canned or bottled drinks that you can then eat later as a picnic or something.

Hubby is planning the activities. I am letting him do that. I was overwhelmed with the input I had in Scotland. And Hubby and I want to see and do mostly the same stuff. It is honestly easier and more relaxing for me if he acts as my travel director. I think we fly into Auckland and then leave there almost immediately. I believe that we go back there for the last few days of the trip and then fly out of there to home. I know we rent a car. I know we have a night scheduled to sleep on a ferry or something at some pint. Maybe to see a fjord? Or a sound? Or the glacier, I have no clue. I know we go as far south as Christchurch. I know we are going to see a lot of LotR sites and what-not. I know we ae going to a Maori museum. I know we are going to a forest of super-huge trees. I think we go somewhere called Rotorura?

Hmm. I need to get him to send me a written list of proposed stuff. Anyway, this is all just me musing about travel. It is finally time for me to stop hiding my head in the sand and start focusing on how to make this trip and survive with my mental health intact. I can do it. I have traveled far before. I have traveled long before. It was like 9 hours on a plane to Scotland. We were there 2 weeks. I enjoyed it once I got there. I can do this. There is no reason for travel to freak me out.

tarred and feathered

I haven’t been keeping track at all of what I’ve been eating lately. But I do plan to get back to that. I finally got around to walking on the gazelle today. I did it for 15 minutes and clocked 1.4 miles. It is small, but I was sweating like an athlete. I hope the more sweat means the more fat off. I think I can do 15 minutes a day for a few days. Once I can do that without feeling like my knees are too weak to stand after, then I will increase my time.

I went to visit my sister on Saturday. We mostly hung out and didn’t do anything major. Although, I did make it to a hair salon and I got a new perm! I kinda like it. It’s fairly curly. I’ll try really hard to remember to take a picture soon and post it. Feel free to remind me if you really want to see one. I tend to forget stuff. We also went to a karaoke bar for her friend’s birthday. That was much less fun for me. But my sister seemed to have a good time. She saw a lot of her friends there and danced and cheered on the singers.

I need to seriously clean my bedroom. It is the messiest room in my house. Which is saying a lot actually. Shit seems to just accumulate in here. I need to start downstairs though. People see downstairs. I need to get some hefty bags or some good-sized boxes and do a huge charity clean-out. I have way too much stuff. For instance, about 8 years ago, I thought I wanted to get into embroidery. So, I bought a bunch of patterns and paraphernalia. Then I started going to college instead and never actually did the embroidery. I recently gave the thread/floss away, but I have a large basket full of other embroidery stuff that I have no use for. I have no intention now of ever getting into that. So, I should finally ditch those things instead of continuing to hang onto them.

I think I can. I think I can. I think I can.

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Also, my ankle is feeling better and I plan to get back to the yoga starting tomorrow. I also plan to start a walking routine using the gazelle. I absolutely have to lose some of this weight and get into shape.

We leave for New Zealand at the end of March. I have to be able to do a LOT of walking. So, less weight, more muscle.

I got nothing to say these days. I will try to get my act together and do some real blogging this week.

Love you all!!

my ankle-osaurus is endangered

I have no idea what I ate today. We went to brunch and I ate some of a lot of stuff.

Hubby’s 40th birthday was Saturday! I planned a surprise party for him, but it was a holiday weekend and hardly anyone came. Though, it was a laser tag party, so the people who did come had a great time. It was at a bounce house place near where we live. The back room is full of huge bouncy castles and bouncy slides and stuff. They turn the lights off so folks can play laser tag in the bounce buildings.

Hubby wanted me to play too, but I knew I wasn’t really up for it. After all the tag was over and we were almost ready to leave, I agreed to go in and climb the super fun bouncy castle and slide down. You have to do it without shoes. As I was climbing the bouncy ladder part, my weak ankle turned right over. It was quick and not too painful, so I thought I’d gotten lucky. I only went up and slid down the one time. I immediately came back to the party room and put my high tops back on. But, I am not so lucky. My ankle ached during the night and when i woke up in the morning it was swollen and quite sore.

So, I am back to wearing the stupid bulky ankle brace. And I am back off of doing the exercise until I can bend it more comfortably. It makes me angry to have such a weak joint and to be restricted from doing so much. I honestly thought one climb up the bouncy castle would not be a big deal. I am not sure yet if I was being delusional or if I was just not as careful as I could have been. Walking on a surface that is full of air and unstable and doing it in socks instead of shoes was obviously not a good plan. I am so mad at myself for getting re-injured.

Hubby and I went to see Zero Dark Thirty. That was really good! I love Kathryn Bigelow’s work anyway, Hurt Locker was so awesome. And I adore Jessica Chastain, The Debt is one of my favorite movies, plus she was really the best one in The Help. So, I knew I would like it, but I was still a little surprised that I really felt so much during the course of the movie. There isn’t a lot of action, the is a lot of politics, and it wasn’t a subject I paid a lot of attention to when it was in the news. So, it could have gone differently.

I paused my George RR Martin re-read. I got half way into book 2, A Clash of Kings, and it was just so angsty. It isn’t even the most angsty one, but I didn’t want to accidentally trigger a depressive episode. I put it down for about a week. I am going to pick it back up tomorrow and finish this volume out as quick as I can.

Not much else going on. I had a migraine on Thursday and it was pretty debilitating. The pain was gone on Friday, but the after-effects were still strong. I felt normal on Saturday, but was busy about the birthday stuff and just didn’t get around to blogging. I’ll try to do this again tomorrow.

i love tv

Today I consumed:

1 liter of water
1 green apple
1 pear
1 banana
3 slices whole wheat bread
large bowl Honey Bunches o’ Oats with
whole milk
some crab dip
some tortilla chips
a lobster pot pie

I did the yoga dvd this evening! It was tough. I exchanged info with a girl who used to be into ballet and yoga and who also has knee and ankle difficulties. She advised me to use the yoga dvd only until I feel strong with it and my ankle. She said ballet is tougher on the joints because it isn’t as gentle or slow. So, I’m gonna do that. THANK YOU J IN FL!

I watched an episode of Supernatural tonight. Oh, it was angsty. I finished watching season 5 of Big Bang. Hopefully tomorrow I can watch some more of Merlin season 5. And when that’s over, season 6 of Big Bang. I picked up the 2 seasons of Pushing Daisies and the first season of Suits. I hear good things about them and am looking forward. We taped Arrow on the dvr. I am not sure I care enough about it to watch though. I don’t really find the story or the characters compelling. I want some quality shows! I want the seasons available of Breaking Bad. I hear so much great stuff about that show! Did it end or is there going to be a season 6?

I’m watching Stephen Colbert right now. not his beast episode. Jon Stewart had Jessica Chastain on a bit ago. She is pretty and in a movie that looks so interesting! Zero Dark Thirty. I want to go see it now! I also want to see Les Miserables. We went out to see it recently and ended up at Gangster Squad instead. It was decent. I love Emma Stone and I was very pleasantly surprised by Ryan Gosling’s performance. I hated the first three movies I saw him in, but have really enjoyed the last two.

Ugh. It’s late and when this show is over I should sleep. HUGS