I feel naked!!

Yesterday, we were cleaning like mad because Dana is done with all the drywall in the hall and Cassidy's room. Hey, I just realized that when this project is done, that whole end of the house will have been remodeled. That's pretty exciting!

Anyway, since I was in so much dust and cleaning supplies, I was washing my hands alot and putting on lotion. So I took off my engagement ring so it didn't get filled with lotion. I forgot to put it on last night before bed, and again this morning. I feel really weird without it.

Working on a Saturday

I'm working today trying to catch up. Like that ever happens. Anyway, before I left the house, I told the kids to unload the dishwasher and reload it for me. Almost every night when I get home, I mean, every night when I get home, I have to do these two things before starting dinner.

So I just got a text from Cassidy:
Do we have to reload the dishwasher too

My reply:
Yes!

You would think I'd asked them to recover the furniture!!

NEW BLOG

I started a new blog to journal mine and Dana's attempt to lose weight and get healthy in 2009. You can access it at the link below, or if you click on "View my complete profile" to the right, there is a link there as well. I didn't think everyone would want to hear constant updates about P90X or our diet, so now you have the choice to check in or not.

http://www.amysdietjournal.blogspot.com/

A little more randomness

First of all, is randomness a word? I don't know, and I don't feel like looking it up. Spell check didn't stop on it, though.

Did you know that both of my kids are named from Grateful Dead songs? Cassidy is a bona fide Dead song; I think Katie Mae is an old blues song. HOW IRONIC!! It just came up on my iPod! Not the Dead version. but another really bluesy version I found. I decided last night that when she gets married, both versions will be played at her wedding. Along with my dad and Cassidy singing K-K-K-Katie.

Anyway, the lyrics didn't have anything to do with my (our) choice of names, I just liked them both. I think the best line from the two is from Katie Mae.

She walks just like her daddy's got oil wells in her back yard.

That's Katie Mae all right!!

I said I would blog about our exercising. Well, this morning. . . yoga. . . we didn't do it. Going to bed at 10:30 and getting up before 4:30 and doing yoga. . . that's just too much. And aside from the hot chocolate I had because my throat hurt, and the small bowl of Cap'n Crunch, I've been very good. And considering there's a box of Cap'n in the house and it's Thursday, that's saying a lot. The Cap'n is my nemesis. We'll be back at it tomorrow. I need to go to bed by 9:00!!

Like a Phoenix from the Ashes

Get out your Birkenstocks, patchouli and long skirts. . . The Grateful Dead are going on tour this summer!!

And they will be in Chicago on May 5. And you can bet the Dixon's will be there!!

Jerry and Pigpen may be dead, but The Dead live on. The rest of the guys are getting together this summer for a 19 city tour. And luckily one of those cities happens to be Chicago. It will be one of their last shows with the tour ending at Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, California. If I could, that would be the show we would go to. We saw The Dead there. . . probably in '94.

What a long strange trip is certainly has been. From my pseudo-hippie days in California, to my shoe loving present, it has been strange and great. We've done so much in our lives, living in California surely changed us. You just don't know what life is like in California until you've lived there. We were friends with some truly old hippies and they were the most sincere people I've ever met. They truly would have given you the shirts off their backs.

We were even in attendance at the Jerry Garcia Memorial they had in Golden Gate Park in 1995 -- I was pregnant with Cassidy. Can you believe we had the camera, but no film??!! It was unforgettable. We went down to Haight Ashbury afterwards and there were hippies all over just kind of milling around. Everyone seemed to be in a fog, and I don't think it was drug induced. Can you believe there is a "Ben & Jerry's" on the corner of Haight and Ashbury? At least there was 13 years ago.

P90X - Day 2

No, I don't plan to update you on a daily basis, but wanted to let you know that we got up at 4:30 this morning. And I wasn't much happier about it. Dana kept telling me to smile, which only makes me more mad.

We have a set of scales in our office at work (part of the wellness program) and I just got on them. It's 3 pounds lighter than yesterday!! WOW! Only a day and a half into this and I've lost 3 pounds. . . . I'm sure it's clothing. I was wearing a jacket yesterday. But it's still nice to see it go down.

So today was Plyometrics. Dana always says "What's Plyometrics" and I always say "Jumping around." I don't like jumping around at all, much less at 4:30 in the morning. Jump squats. . . jumping jacks. . . Airborne Heisman (as in Heisman Trophy pose) and my favorite the Marie Catherines.

Remember Mary Catherine Gallagher from SNL? No, not the finger sniffing, but the lunge with her arms up in the air. . . kind of her "tada" move. Yeah, we do that, too . . . sort of a jumping lunge. It's tons of fun.

I'm definitely feeling yesterday. I can still move, but some things like scratching my back and getting dressed are a little difficult. Yesterday was arms and back, and my arms know it today!! Tomorrow is arms and chest, followed my Yoga on Thursday. I'll probably blog about that one, I'm not a fan of Yoga!!

Until then. . .

P90X - Day 1

You've seen the informercials with the amazing results, we all have. Dana and I aspire to look like those people.

We purchased P90X a few years ago before our trip to Mexico. The trip was about 90 days away, and we thought we could do it. Well, that lasted about one month and we threw in the towel. We did see results that were similar to those in the infomercial at the 30 day mark. If you notice, the most dramatic results come between 60 and 90 days.

So we got up at 4:00 this morning and worked out for an hour. (And if you know me, you know I AM NOT a morning person.) This program is some serious working out. I truly believe that if you did the entire program, you would look like the people in the infomercial. I took it easy this morning, but even 4 hours later, I could feel my poor body noticing it. We'll see how well I'm getting around tomorrow morning. When we did this the first time, Dana actually woke me up in the middle of the night because he couldn't move his arms. SERIOUSLY!!

Many things have motivated us to do this. One is the fact that Dana keeps seeing the infomercials on early morning TV. For me, it's the fact that my "fat jeans" fit. (Ladies, we all have them!!) And not only do they fit, but they're actually getting a little tight. If I were brave enough, I'd post my Day 1 pictures on here, but there's no way I'm doing that! I am so incredibly out of shape it makes me sick!!

Wish us luck. Hopefully making this post will motivate me to keep at it. Nothing else seems to, not even my reflection in the mirror. Perhaps when this is all said and done, I'll tell you my original weight. . . but we'll see about that!