Beach

In case you didn't know this already, I loved the beach! I have been dreaming about it daily since we got home. Truthfully I am not sure if its because of the beach itself or the fact that I didn't have anything I had to do or anywhere I had to be. Time was free, it was lazy and it was ours. We have decided we will do another beach vacation, longer and probably to the south. We are considering Florida for a vacation next year.

Here is another beach picture. Sunrise on the beach how wonderful!

100 PUSHUPS CHALLENGE

I found this site on line the other day and was quite taken with the idea. I knew I was going to participate in this challenge along with the 200 squats and 200 situps, but wasn't sure what day I would get started. Today was the day. I did Day 1 of the pushups, squats and situps challenge. I am so pumped about this. Check out this link. http://hundredpushups.com/index.html

With studying to be Certified Personal Trainer I don't believe I can ask people to do these things without doing them myself. How can I help someone get more fit if I haven't done it first? This can be a really good challenge for me to use with clients down the road. I am really thinking I would like to specialise with people a bit older. Not the youngsters but a bit older who really need help learning to eat and exercise correctly. Not that I wouldn't help the younger generation but I think I could be more beneficial to the older population who doesn't want to compete with a bunch of young kids. They may feel more comfortable with someone of my age.

I, of course, also got in 45 minutes of cardio. Today was an easy day, just walking, no jogging. 10 times around the track at the school.

Kids go back to school tomorrow here in our area by the way.

Happy Birthday Sis!

Today is my little sisters birthday. I remember years ago when I considered her a pain. Now she's my best friend. I remember one time we called her a "brownie" it was a slang term at the time, for someone who was a "goody two shoes" always doing things right. she replied that no, she was a girl scout. I wish I had time to write more here but I don't. So this is going to have to be enough for this morning. Anyways, sis. Hope your birthday is wonderful!

oops

Correction to the previous post. Must be getting older. Possibly Alzheimers or a brain fart or something. Last apartment number was 213. Not 219. My daughter corrected me on this. Sorry. Here is a picture of a stingray that a fisherman caught on the beach our last morning there, was awesome to see it.

Fenwick Island

We got home from the beach last night. How wonderful our trip was and how much we enjoyed it. We got to talking about how we had never done these things when our kids were young. Our families had never really taken us on vacations, we never really did our kids. When I was young our vacations were always coming back to Pa. to see family. When my kids were little our vacations were always going to see family in Ohio. I guess maybe its true that we learn and teach what we know. We took day trips often when my kids were little. Kenneywood was a favorite, Geneva Lake, Geauga Lake, Cedar Point, the zoo, etc. I wonder why we never took the kids to the beach. They would have loved it. Turns out my son has gone many times and my daughter and her dad went a few years ago, before he passed away. To bad we couldn't have done it once as a family. We would have loved it. Yesterday morning while turning in our room keys I realised our room number was 219. That is the house number of the last apartment we had before buying our little house. Kind of a bittersweet reminder

Perfect size

I love water bottles. You may know that about me, you may not. However, truth be known I have about 20, all sizes, all colors, different types, some stainless, some plastic, some with sippy lids, some with guzzlers. All different and I love each and every one of them. I have often gotten to the track for my run and wish I had remembered to take water with me. I take it everywhere else. I even carry water to work and we have a Brita pitcher there. This morning I remembered to take water, was glad I did too, got thirsty on that run. Anyways, this water bottle my daughter bought me at the Hoover Damn when we were in Vegas a few years ago. It is the perfect size and the perfect water bottle for my run at the track, not to big to carry to the park, has the sippy lid so it can stay closed while it sits on the bench and it holds about 12 oz. Perfect amount for my run. Thanks Michelle.

A really good day

The day sure didn't start out all that great but it got better as the day went on. I had a real nice couple in the store today. They ended up buying over $9000. That was awesome. Haven't had one that big in quite a while. John's at camp so I decided to stop and get my nails done tonight instead of going over tomorrow while I am off. That means I can stay home tomorrow and get some stuff done. I got my first ever pedicure and it matches my manicure. Designs on the big toes and the ring fingers. Here is a picture and hope it stays nice throughout the vacation. Then more good news, I took the next test tonight for my class and passed with 93%. I have a 96 for the course so far and am on the 6th lesson out of 14. I may actually finish this course someday.

I am still in the process of recording it and have gone backwards to catch up everything I have done, still have 5 more classes to record. Wish I would have been doing this all along, but guess its a good refresher.

Rain, rain go away

Imagine this! Its my day off and its raining again. How depressing. Dark, gloomy, thunder, pouring down rain. Yuck! Today was to have been our neighborhood party. I hope they cancel it. Don't much want to be out there in this.

Workouts will be inside today too. Oh well, maybe it will get nicer yet today. I am going to go make some jello salad to take along just in case. I had volunteered to do a jello salad and a fruit salad. Will at least do that in case. I am sure it will get eaten if we don't go.

Early morning again

its my day off work and I woke up early again. I am enjoying getting up around 5 am and never thought I would say that. Didn't get any exercise in yet, have errands to run today and wanted some housework done. Plus I recorded another part of my text book. I am working right now on recording Anatomy and Physiology 1. I am hoping to be able to get the entire course or most of it on the recorder. I have it playing in the background while I type this. I am hoping it helps me to learn more, quicker, and better.

Exercise planned today is hulahoop. haven't done that in a while, and strength and possibly a walk this after if the rain holds off. Think hubby and I are going out for dinner tonight though

Coffe, coffee, coffee

I've learned alot on the 7 day detox diet. Actually its fairly close to how I eat anyways. Lots of fruits and veggies, 8 glasses of water. those were not a problem, the water is easy for someone with an addiction to water bottles. I think I must have 20 of them. One of these days I am going to post a picture just for the hell of it. We all felt great on the detox. I think the first day without coffee was the worst. From there we drank decaf coffee and the smell and taste of it gave us the feeling that we were having a coffee. That helped me so much. I didn't crave the sweets at all the way I had thought we would. We all did good even with cookies and cake showed up at the store and I almost think its easier to eliminate them than it is to just cut back. I am going to be keeping a close eye on the sweet consumption.

I think this diet helped more than anything to realise how we regularly eat. We were not hungry and when I tracked on sparkpeople, I was always in calorie range. Quite unusual for me, so that is something I am going to watch more closely than I have lately.
My first coffee this morning is fine, but I drank it with 2% milk instead of creamer. I have used creamer for years but have learned its for convenience that I do rather than health.

Another rainy day here on my day off. Figures.