2011

Going strong

I was just wondering if someone out there might do me a solid and add a couple more hours to the day. In return, I promise to put them towards reaching my October goals. I swear that I won’t use them for sleeping, Facebook, or Twitter. Only for reading, stretching, or choreographing a class, be it Zumba or pole. I’ll be waiting. You can reply here.

It’s a good thing that I love my job because it gets crazier by the moment. Yesterday, in combination with four meetings, I started training my replacement. Apparently, it wasn’t widely known that she was starting today. Umm, oops? I don’t think that it’s my responsibility to make those sorts of announcements. Which is why I didn’t. Surprise!

There are some other things in the works regarding the goings on at work, but they aren’t definite just yet. Let’s just say that I may have more than originally thought, sooner than originally planned. At least they like to keep me busy and they respect my fresh. Any time that I have even an inkling of disappointment or disgust, I just remember where I was a mere two years ago and that makes me overwhelmingly happy to have what I have now as opposed to the nightmare I had then. Pass the peanut butter.

About those October goals…..P90X is still going swimmingly (I just wanted to use that word). Into week 2 now and feeling good. I won’t lie, I was extremely sore over the weekend. Between doing legs and then a gazillion pull-ups, I was walking around looking like, oh, um, Frankenstein. Oddly enough, the only thing that fixed me was getting back to the exercise on Monday. (I know there’s scientific reason behind this, tyvm have a cookie.)

Day 4 of the month and I’m tackling 1/4 of my pole teaching goal. I revamped my class structure to make it a little more up-tempo and a little bit more difficult in the stretching and conditioning. “This is Level 2, people. Come on!” ~ that’s my Tony Horton impression. Since I’m poling today, I’ll get one of my stretch days in today. I’d like to get a class in as well, where I do work on my skills, but that may not be in the cards for today. I do still have to put together a playlist. We’re either going 80s Hip-Hop and R&B or Hair Metal. Bwahahahaha, my musical tastes are ridiculous.

Reading is going slowly because one of the books is just a difficult read. The writer writes like I do…too many damn words to say things. At least I’m not as repetitive as she is though. I hope. I will still finish the both before the end of the month.

Zumba, I hope to work on you this weekend. But there’s housecleaning and yard work to be done also. Why is it again that I can’t clone myself?

Alas, my time has run out for this brain dump. Until later….

Hello, October!

I love the first day of the month. Why? It’s new contacts day. Putting in brand new contacts feels like they just aren’t even there except that I can see.

First of the month is also a great time to make some goals. New Year’s resolutions never work for me (or anyone else, probably), so I’m going to go with just some things I want to accomplish in October.

Continue on with the P90X. One week in and I’m going strong. Strong and sore.
NaNoPlaMo – otherwise known as National Novel Planning Month. I’ll be trying to head on back to Mrs. C’s eigth grade English class to outline the book I’ll be writing in November.
Zumba – I need to put together at least one class so I could sub in emergencies.
Teach/assist at least 4 classes
Read two books that have been sitting on my shelf. Both start with ‘w’.
Stretch! Try for 3 times a week.
Pole. Home or studio, but at least 3 times a week.
No minds

This is probably a ridiculous amount of things to try to accomplish in a month, but, as I was recently told and will paraphrase to fit here, I need to just do and stop thinking so much. I’m off to do.

So let it be written…

So let it be done!

Yeah, so, if you happened to go to Bellmar Junior High (not middle school), then that phrase ought to ring a bell with you. I mean, we watched Ben Hur/The Ten Commandments (when that was still allowed)/The Blue and The Gray/The Bridges of Madison County at least once a year and sometimes more depending on what the teachers felt like doing. It isn’t as bad as it sounds though because back then, teachers actually did some teaching and they worked movies into their curriculum rather than just throwing on a movie because they weren’t feeling like teaching. Good times.

In other news: SUCCESS!

Last night I taught my first pole class. Pretty sure that my students enjoyed their time and I’m pretty sure that they’ll be looking forward to coming back to the studio. I still have some work to do to get the class where I want it (longer warmup, music change, switch up the moves), but for a first time out, it wasn’t bad at all. 🙂

Day 3 of P90X brought Shoulders, Biceps, and Triceps. And we dare not forget Ab Ripper X. This morning before beginning, I was a little sore. I’m guessing that by this time tomorrow, I’ll be feeling some major muscle pain. Fortunately, I have but to observe class on Thursday and try to refrain from busting out tricks while my body adjusts to this new pain that I’m bringing it. Dear Glucosamine: GET IN MY BELLY!

There you have it. That’s my 15 minute brain dump. Not much, but enough. Besides, if I just keep writing here, I’ll have nothing left for my book! 😀

Peace, love, and hair grease!

Beams of Light

That’s what I see this morning. I have a great big sunshine tapestry (thanks, J!) hanging in my window and the sun is coming in behind it. Love it.

It’s a short one today because there is much to be done. Work, work, and more work…which I love, and then teaching my first class tonight. Somewhere between work and going to class, I really ought to paint my fingers and toes but we’ll see.

Cardio X showed me that I’m not in the horrible cardiovascular shape that I thought I was since I run out of breath if I try to walk and talk at the same time. Room for improvement? Always. But hey, I won’t be too tough on myself since it’s day 2.

Also, lottery gods? Couldya please? Doesn’t have to be multi-millions. $100K would be great right about now. That would allow for several things that would allow for several things. Yes, sometimes I talk in circles, but I know what I mean.

I’d love to stay and chat but I still have to go eat half a grapefruit before my breakfast is complete. Go make your day a positive one!

PS. I’m about to start reading “Women Who Run With the Wolves”. Have you read it? Did you like it?

Here I go again

Yes, boys and girls, it is once again time to Bring It! P90X style. With only about 3 months until the second incarnation of this sheer torture is released, I thought it would be a great time to tune up for it with the first program. Once again, I’ll be running the Lean program as I’m not overly interested in bulking up like a gorilla. Again.

Day 1 – Core Synergistics

So, either I’m not as terribly out of shape as I thought I was, or it’s just the P90X trickery of thinking, oh, this won’t be so bad. Seeing as how I’ve done this before, I know it’s gonna be bad. But the results are SO worth it. As much as I love the kickboxing, it just won’t do everything that the X will do. I’m very excited to gain the strength back that I had after the last round.

The most difficult part, for me, of the X, is eating. There’s so much food to be eaten! I’m not following the diet to the letter because I have additional workouts. I have to eat a little more so that I don’t collapse. This morning wasn’t too tough because I was actually hungry. Realistically, this isn’t more than we would eat on a Sunday morning, it’s just different….and a little more health conscious. It is suggested to have all of these different things, but I find it easiest to just pick a breakfast and a lunch and have it all week and then switch it up.

This week, breakfast includes: scrambled egg whites with baby spinach and Roma tomato, a glass of skim milk, half a grapefruit, and a cup of coffee. This week’s lunch: turkey sammiches with a couple of Wheat Thin flatbread crackers. Let’s not forget some snacks: lowfat mozzarella and protein shakes. That’s a lot of food throughout the day and then there’s dinner. It sounds like a lot, but there will be times where I’ll still be hungry. I love it!

And then there was everything else.

Work is still trucking right along. My replacement has accepted and now we just wait for the HR processes to do their thing. My position has to be posted internally as a technicality and then I think the offer letter goes out. I’m guessing that she’ll start in another week or two, max.

The pole apprenticeship is rawkin out. Tomorrow evening, I’ll be teaching my first class. I’m still in the preparatory phases on that one although I have it roughly mapped out in my head. The playlist for class is done. I just hope that my new students enjoy the style of class that I want to give to them: calm, relaxing, empowering, and fun.

Looking forward, there’s more work, more working out, more pole, more food, more football (HERE WE GO STEELERS, HERE WE GO!!), and more writing..hopefully.

Some of the ladies in my pole community were discussing not only NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) in November, but also the less official NaNoPlaMo (National Novel Planning Month) in October. I’ve known about NaNoWriMo for several years now but haven’t participated. I think this is my year. Why not be able to say by my 38^th birthday, “I wrote a novel”? Technically, I think I may be slightly cheating because I’ve started this novel, but I really want to finish it and have people reading it on the beach on vacation.

Now that you know way more than you wanted to about what’s going on in my life, I’ll be signing off. Until tomorrow…..BRING IT!

2011

Going strong

Hello, October!

So let it be written…

Beams of Light

Here I go again

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