Good morning everyone!
Dagmar, how is the cat doing this week?
Meg, I hear you on the taxes. That big bonus I got at work went straight to paying the taxes! Sorry about the delayed weight gain -- what was that acronym we had again? Delayed Fat Onset Syndrome or something?
Rabbit, congrats on your son's birthday! Ouch about the glass, that sounds pretty painful.
Bill, you are so right. We've got temperatures in the mid-70's forecast for this week, and DH and I are really concerned that all the plants will start to bloom and then get zapped by a late frost in the next couple weeks. Last year our peach tree got totally zapped and didn't have a single flower! Plus we've already planted out a bunch of cool season crops.
Dagmar, I really like charting my weight. Even better is calculating a moving average -- that sort of gives you an idea of your weight trending without all the fluctuations.
Hi Ward! Have fun at spinning!
Megan, you are one busy chick. It seems like you get stressed out a lot because you are doing so many activities. I know you love all of them, but have you ever thought about reducing your commitments a little bit for sanity? Maybe doing all the community theater, chorus, AND weight lifting competitions (and whatever else you do) is just too much. Could you perhaps arrange it so that next year during the weight lifting training you don't have a role in any plays? Or something like that?
Michele, I bet it is sodium. Have fun on your cruise, it sounds totally fun!
Exercise has gotten off this weekend. My wrists are acting up, so I took the weekend off from anything that might irritate them, which includes my scheduled bike ride and swim. Taking this week off from weight training as well, partly for my wrists and partly because I'm doing a 5k this weekend and don't want sore legs for it. I'm going back to basics -- every time my typing break reminder tells me to take a 5 minutes break, I'm stretching and doing soft tissue massage on my arms, and hoping they will get back to normal (well, "normal" still hurts, but just not this much) soon. Bought a new heat pad too which I can use at home.
In other news, my company is moving to a new building in June (just down the street from our current office). This is good and bad. The bad part is that our cubicles will be smaller and there will be much less privacy (which probably means less 3FC
). The good part is the building is newer, the furniture is newer, and the new building has a MUCH bigger fitness center! Currently we have one 3-station weight machine (lat pulldown/row, leg press, bench/shoulder press), 1 treadmill, 1 elliptical, 1 recumbent bike, a rack of dumbbells + 1 bench, an incline ab bench, and some swiss balls and steps. The new fitness center will have a full set of weight machines, a smith machine + plates (so I can finally do barbell squats!!), dumbbells + benches, 6 treadmills, 3 recumbent bikes, 3 upright bikes, 6 ellipticals, a back extension apparatus, swiss balls, steps, and an area for group classes. Woohoo!