Sistah Pat

Seems like they could find a better name for it.  I mean, we’re supposed to have a day off.  They could call it Labor Day NOT!  or Lack of Labor Day. Either way, I don’t plan on doing a whole lot of labor today.

Continued to work on organizing the bedroom yesterday.  It’s amazing how long it takes when you’re pulling all these boxes of stuff out and sorting it.  I found a necklace and watch I’d been looking for.  DH had put them in his underwear drawer.  Took all the drawers out of the dresser and found a blouse that had fallen behind one of the drawers.  In one of the boxes DH put on the very top shelf of the closet I found 3 of my belts, 2 paperbacks, two pair of scissors, a bottle of nail polish, three pair of socks, one of DH’s sweatshirts, a pair of pliers, 3 rolls of scotch tape and a roll of masking tape, and a glue gun.  What do all these things have in common?  They were probably lying around the house one day when DH cleaned it and he grabbed them all up, threw them in a box, stashed it on the top shelf and then waited for me to thank him for straightening the house.  Either that, or they were lying around and the phone rang and somebody said they’d be right over so he did the quick “tidy up” thing.

The scales are showing 169 this morning.  I’ve been hanging around with this guy for a long time.  Wish he’d give it up and let 167 or 168 spend some time with me.  At this rate, I’ll never make it to 150 by Christmas.  Don’t know what else I can do.  I’m watching the calories and exercising.  I know I could do better if I didn’t have to deal with work but I do.  It consumes so much of my time I’m not able to plan meals and exercise as much as I’d like.  Wednesday, for example, I have to give a “Meet and Greet” for the ROTC Booster Club.  I was elected treasurer but Sarge and the Major are freaking out because none of the other officers are stepping up to the plate.  We’ve had a couple of meetings and they couldn’t make it.  Some of the summer activities were cancelled because they didn’t have the support of the parents.  ROTC had seven seniors whose parents were very active but the guys all graduated last year and now the booster club is empty.  My idea was to have a “Meet and Greet” dinner to get parents in and then pitch the club and try to get some help.  My poor DS (chef) agreed to make baked ziti, garlic bread, salad, and sheet cake for the dinner which we estimated to be about 50 people.  Now it looks like it’s going to be closer to 100.  So, I’ll be tied up with that after work on Wednesday and Thursday is our open house so we’re all expected to be back at school from 5:00 to 8:00 for that.  I can do water aerobics tomorrow but Wednesday and Thursday are a wash as far as exercise goes.

I’m not happy about my weight.  I just added the last two weeks to my data and graphed it and I’m really not showing a lot of movement the last three weeks or so.  Of course, that’s about when we started back to work. (sigh)

9:00 a.m. - Okay, I’ve been sitting here staring at this graph for a few minutes and it’s starting to look like a challenge.  I’ve decided this week will be a perfect week.  Every day I’ll find a way to get my exercise in and I’m going to stay around 1,000 calories each day.  In fact, I was supposed to clean the pool today so I thought I’d jog in the pool after I finished for exercise.  Now I’m determined to go upstairs and do the treadmill AND jog in the pool.  Watch our chicklets!  This week is really going to shake things up!

11:15 - Okay!  I kicked ass on that treadmill!  Managed to wring 870 calories out of it and 5.2 miles.  I spent a lot longer at the higher inclines.  Plastered bandaids all over my heels before I put on my trusty old Reeboks because they gave me blisters the last couple of times I wore them.  I can’t help wondering what the corellelation is between the stride of someone who’s tiptoeing to make it to 5′2″ and someone who’s 5.10 or so.  I just can not get the speed above 3.6 without jogging.  Did most of the workout at 3.4 and that pushes me pretty hard. 

So that’s step one in perfect day number one of perfect week number one.

5:45 - I’m tired!  I worked in the garden quite a bit today.  Planted a bunch of perennials and did some weeding and mulching.  I vacuumed the pool and then did laps for 45 minutes.  Not jogging, mind you, but laps.  Don’t know how long it’s been since I did that but it wore me out!  Alternated the crawl, side stroke, breast stroke, and back stroke.  The breast stroke damn near did me in.  My arms are really wussy these days.  The pool was really nice.  It got too cold for a while and we threw the solar cover on it a couple of weeks ago.  Took it off today and the water was 86 degrees.  Perfect!  These 90 degree days the last couple of weeks have really warmed it up.

I’ve still got to fertilize all the flowers and do a couple loads of laundry but right now, I’m just going to sit here a couple of minutes and munch on edamame beans.

8:15 - Well, Okay!  I did a perfect day!  Got all the plants fertilized (I need to stop doing that and let them go dormant but a lot of them are annuals anyway) and got the laundry done.  Ate two veggies burgers for dinner and now I can relax.  Still need to find a couple hundred calories but I don’t think that’s going to be a problem.  I can always find something to eat! :-)  Now I’m freezing and my nails are dirty and my legs are hairy.  Sounds like a nice relaxing soak is in order!