Side tracked...

I ended up home with a migraine . I didn't workout again and I didn't eat to good either. By 1:00pm I was sharing a bowl of cheerios with Natasha. I had no time for it today either. We did 22 MRI scans between 6:00am and 8:30pm. That doesn't leave time for a brake I was lucky to get some water. Anyway just wanted to let you know encase you were holding your breath for some stats. I have another 16 hours shift tomorrow and I am on my way to bed to crash. I have some fasted blood work to do Monday that I forgot all about, so I wont be starting Monday either. Tuesday is my one hour physical hoping they can find out what is up.
That is all for now have a great night.
ZZZZzzzzzz

My turn

I decided to do Suzanne and Monica's hell diet. It is hard for me to drop 5lb in a week, I would like to see if this does it for me. I bought my groceries and will start Friday morning. Lets see if I fair as well as Suzanne.
Have a great night I'm off to bed.

All better

Thank you all for your well wishes. I took some Aleve and laid down for 15 min. By dinner time I was good as new. Today I am meeting my friend Dawn and taking Natasha to the park. Have a great day.

Well, all this sunshine is wasted on me. My head hurts so bad it is giving me a stomach ache. I was going to acutely get my sorry ass to the gym, but no way can I even think of lifting some weights today. Natasha is cranky today and is taking a nap. She went don early and I'm crossing my fingers she wakes up in a better mood. Me and Danny have been on the wrong page all week. I don't know how else to explain it. It didn't help that I ended up going into work last night. With my weekends and then going in Mondays I haven't been home at night for 4 nights now. Just feels like our relationship is a little stressed lately. Tonight is his friend Crystal's birthday, but hoping he comes home after work. When one of the students has a birthday the usually go to the pub across from the hospital. We got to talk a little last night, but it was late by the time I got home from work. Maybe I should see if grandma can watch Natasha and meet up with Danny when he gets out of school on Friday. I know he is extra stressed having 3 exams Friday. Anyway just went off a bit on that and yet didn't say much of anything at all. Man does my head hurt.

On a happier note....I called a new doctors office Monday and they had me come in Tuesday. I was impressed with how quickly they took me. I meet my new doctor. He was very personable easy to talk to. I am going to have a physical next Tuesday and it is going to be the most extensive physical I have ever had. The health question were something like those test you take in high school. I have a form to fill out of over 135 questions. I am also getting blood work done for quite a few things. This will rule out thyroid problem, which is what my mom is concerned about. Who knows maybe they can actually find out what is wrong with me. Overall I am pleased with this new doctor. The best part is the are affiliated with my work which means any test done at the hospital will be written off as professional courtesy. Once I get all this done I am going to have them refer me to a new girlie doctor. This way when or if I have another baby it wont cost me 2,000 dollars.
OK I'm feeling pretty crappy now I think I'll go lay down.

TITLE

I would just like to thank Cheri for pointing out my title was off. HA! Why didn't you guys tell me I said my tits suck. Anyway I meant my title you know the title to my blog entry.
So, what did you think I was going to write about? HA

My titles suck..

Well, last week I think I did good with my eating. My mom was here and the weather was awesome which I am sure helped. We ate lots of salad and took lots of walks. Even with Easter and nights out I made pretty good choices. My goal has been to eat healthily without the 3 hour timing and list of good and bad food. After doing BFL for awhile I felt like I ate more crap. I know that sounds wrong but on free day I would eat stuff I would never have eaten it was to free. Then if I had a bad day it seemed I would munch all day and try to start up the next day. Well when you munch all day for Multiple days you don't lose much of anything. My goal is to make this week just as good as last week. There will be some rain and nobody to keep me company so this week I am on my own. Don't get me wrong I haven't been totally off with my eating these past few weeks. I just feel like I finely found a routine that works. I had days when I felt I ate all day and days I only had 600 cal. I think I found a routine that works for me. If I have a protein snack bar with my coffee for breakfast it seems to hit the spot. It is just enough to leave me satisfied and I don't feel like I want more. I don't know what it is but it seems to keep my appetite in check for the rest of the day. I hope I found my balance.
As for workouts I did a few runs this past week. It felt great and my mom was here so I got to go when I wanted. This week will be harder and I have to adjust my running days because I can not do the long runs on Sunday since I work 16 hours. I also had some shin pain and might have to replace some runs with cycle class. What a bummer I am thinking these shins will never be the same. I didn't lift any weights, but found a new routine I might try. I also want to learn to swim laps. How do you learn that? Do I just jump in and try to free style? Anyone know what I should do? I have a long term goal to do a triathalon sprint. I read about the sprint and the distance is very doable for me. I just need to learn how to swim laps. Learn how to cycle. Get a bike. The running part will be a piece of cake. So, I guess I have a lot of work to do. The sprint is a 20K ride, a 500m swim and a 5K run. Wouldn't it be awesome to be able to say "I did a triathalon"..even if it is a short one. I am afraid if I stick to just running my shins are going to brake.

Other life stuff....

I am looking for a new doctor. My primary care doctor leaves me waiting forever only to return with a print out from webMD. I can do that myself thanks you very much. My OBGYN never followed up with me. He said we would talk over the phone about my test results. Well, he was out of town and I got the reports on my own. I never herd back from him. He has been my doctor for three years and hasn't done any testing to find out why I am having problems with my cycle. I read that 85% of the time they should be able to do some simple blood test to find out why. So, thought it was time for a new doctor. I am going to start with a primary care and see if they want to refer me to a girlie doctor. I found some affiliated with the doctors at my job, which allows me to by pass some co-pays as a professional curtsey. Just another reason for a new doctor. My insurance has a $2,000 deductible, just horrible. We just got the finely bill from Natasha's ER visit and it is over 900 dollars Yikes. OK it is almost 9:00am, one more cup of coffee and then some phone calls. Have a great day everybody.

Exploring

Natasha had coffee time with her mom, grandma and great grandma. She loves being outside and grandma showed her lots of new stuff. We never made it to the zoo but Natasha had fun anyway with the dog, ducks and choochoo train that goes by my grandma's condo.

Good times

Well, I was busy but it was fun. Friday I had to wake Natasha up and get on the road to get Mom from the airport. The flight landed at 8:15am and I live about 55min. from the airport. Luckily due to the holiday the Friday morning rush hour was nothing. We had to go from the airport to my grandma's and then she made us go to breakfast. We got that all done and got ourselves back to my place. I spent the rest of the day baking four bundt cakes. I did the birthday cake the day before and grandma's banana bread had been frozen for a week. Then I had to get ready to go out and deliver 2 of the cakes. Danny got home at 6:30pm and we headed to deliver the cakes. Then we went to Unos for dinner and a few drinks. I wanted to get Natasha a dress so we walked to the store from there. The weather has been great! On our way back from the store we stopped in another bar for another drink. We were home around 11:30pm, I glazed the last bundt cake chated with Mom and went to bed. I woke up the next morning a little dizzy from going to bed drunk and I was tired since I had to be at work by 5:30am. Work was busy since we were closed for Sunday. Danny and my mom came by to deliver the last two bundt cakes. We got out at 9pm and me and my friend from work got ready to go out. I meet up with Danny and we headed to the Locker Room. We had a blast dancing and hanging out. This place does bar flair too, which is pretty theatrical. It was lots of fun. We headed home and Danny remembered he left our tab open. We had to go back so he could close it and get his credit card. We got home around 2:30am and got to bed around 3:30am. Now that I think about it I am not sure how I had the energy for all that. It was a fun time.

Sunday I woke up at 7:45am and hid Easter eggs and put out Natasha, Danny, and my Mom's Easter baskets. Natasha got up at 8:15am. She found half the eggs and then wanted breakfast. I was surprised she did any before breakfast she usually wants her food first. She did great and found all her eggs. Easter was good and Dad didn't go to grandma's with the rest of the family, which made our day. I was tired and got a nap in when Natasha took hers before we headed to grandma's for dinner. Danny hurt his knee. He was having trouble extending and bending it. He woke up that way and wasn't sure what he did. We did a lot of dancing the night before but I know he ran to the car at the end of the night. Hope it heels up quick he is at he hospital working today and has lots of walking to do. They don't get any days off for Easter.

I checked out Melissa's running schedule and it looks pretty fun. I am going to give it a try. I had to read it a few times to understand how they write out the miles to run then the pick ups and intervals after that. It looks like something I might be able to do. I will be planning that for next week. I also decided after over a year to go ahead and buy a heart rate monitor. Hope that helps my training.

Busy..busy..busy..

Well, I have been feeling kind of blahh. Danny has been extra busy and we haven't gotten to do anything together in a long time. He has had three projects and a few tests. He has been pretty much stressed to the max. I had a few obligations this week too, which made it so we saw each other even less then usually. The usually isn't very often to begin with. Today will be a better day for me and Natasha. We are getting out of the house today and the weather is supposed to be great. It's already 50 degrees and it's only 8:00am. Hey it's MI that's good for us, Ha! We are driving to the hospital to have lunch with Danny at 11. Then we are going to my friend Dawn's house. From Dawns we are walking to the park with Natasha and her son Nicholas he is 3 months old. He was the one with his hand on Natasha in the pictures I posted. Then I have to make my cousin Rob a birthday cake, he'll be 22 on Easter. I have 4 bundt cakes ordered for Easter from two girls at my work. I have only sold a handful of cakes and this is my biggest order ever. I'm easily excited what can I say. Tomorrow I pick my mom up from the airport at 8:30am and we are heading right to grandma's for breakfast. My dads family is here but they always want to see my mom. Then Friday night I'm ditching my mom for some out time with Danny. Saturday I have to work 16 hours and then I meeting Danny and his friends for some drinks at the LockerRoom. Then it is Easter and more busy stuff. My mom will be here till next Friday. We have a busy few days coming up and that should keep me out of my funk. Plus I get to see Danny, with my mom here we get a brake. Well, just wanted to check in, seems that lately I think of stuff I need to write out then I just don't post. I guess this is my little check in. Have a great day everyone!! PMA

My home back home....

I'm feeling home sick. Danny went to MA 2 weeks ago and came back more home sick then ever. He hadn't been home in a while and all the memories made him miss it more. My mom will be here Friday and I can't wait. When we moved here we came from a house in Plymouth on a private road by a private beach. Our house is down the street from the ocean, 1,000 feet to be exact. We know that because of insurance coverage on the house. If you live closer then 1,000 feet you must buy flood insurance. We would never need it though because we are above sea level...by a lot. This is my house and the view at the end of my road. We love this cliff, butt it is difficult and slow going to get back up it. The best time to be on this beach is 4th of July. We bring a sheet and lay on the sand and watch fireworks. We can see fireworks to the right from Cape Cod and to the left Plymouth and in the middle our neighbor does a great display every year.

On the road agian....

I got this idea from Jim muscle head blog.
I have lived..
Tacoma,WA
Warren,MI
Frendale,MI
Clawson,MI
Pembroke,MA
Kingston,MA
Kingston,MA..we moved to other side of town
Carver,MA
Pembroke,MA
Plymouth,MA
Clinton Twp.,MI
Clinton Twp.,MI ..Moved in same town

Now that I wrote the list it looks short compared to how it felt. I bet Jess has a big list for us.
So, where have you been?

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I am wicked tired. I did a 5:30am class at the gym and it did me in. It was one hour of drills jump rope, sprints, jump squats, mountain climbers all kinds of fun stuff. My calf is a little soar now and hoping this class doesn't kick up the shin splints. We were on the balls of our feet a lot, which put the strain on my shin. I usually eat breakfast because I'm supposed to, but today I was hungry. It was the hunger that hits you all at once. I did a 5:30 class yesterday too. I like the early classes because I don't always trust myself to get to the gym. When I go early I have no excuse to set inside and miss out. Yesterday I went at 5 and did some weights before the 5:30am cycle class. When it came time to start class the studio was full and I didn't get a bike. I was really bummed since I went early, aghh. That is frustrating. I went and did more weights and then at 6 I went back and found a bike. At least I got 30 min. in and I felt like I worked hard. People often go and do half the class, so I thought I might find an empty bike. I hit my back and chest good and my muscles were soar by noon. I knew I had to get to the gym early because I have been in the sit inside and not go anywhere mood. Danny was trying to tell me to get out of the house. I usually feel better once I'm out. I'm not depressed or down just in a be by myself kind of funk. Not that I am ever alone I always have baby cakes. I told him I had no where to go no earns to run or anything. He thinks I should but Natasha in the day care at the gym and go to the spa there and have a massage. It is tempting maybe I will plan it for next week. I was thinking I should get a sitter for that. I wouldn't want to stop a massage for a diaper change. Anyway if you are still reading my ramble..good for you. If you paused for coffee I don't blame you HA! OK so today I am trying to find Danny a spring coat and picking up legos from grandma. He needs the legos for some school thing and chocolate chip cookies. Yeah so I will be making his class chocolate chip cookies mmm cookie dough wish me luck with that.

Yesterday I pulled out some plastic eggs I bought Natasha. I hid them around corners and on shelves. I didn't even have to teach her to find them. I was getting a basket for her and she was already picking up the eggs and piling them in the center of the room. It was super cute and I think she is wicked smart. I still get amazed at how fast kids learn and well how much new stuff they learn at a time. She seems to be at an age where she learns new stuff everyday. My mom will be flying in for the week of Easter. I am wicked excited I can't wait she will be here for 8 days. Me and Natasha are picking her up from the airport on the 14th. I work Saturday but the MRI department is closed Easter which gives us the rest of the week. She wants to go up north while she is here. My family has a cabin 3 hours from here. It was taken down and rebuilt and is now better then my house. I love to run on the country roads, to bad it wont be warm enough for a swim across the lake. I can't wait to sit by the fire pit at night. I was excited mom said she wanted to go. For some reason I've wanted to go up there ever since Chad died. That will probably be hard for my mom. I know what it is like to loose someone that lives far away and people get used to not seeing them around. Then you come and visit and you are just adjusting to not seeing them. My mom was Chad's favorite when he was younger we all lived here and he went to her instead of his mom. Just 8 days and she's here woohoo. This also means that me and Danny get to go out because mom is an awesome babysitter.

As for the girlie stuff..I got TOM for a day. I was hoping for a full week ha that sounds crazy. Anyway I think since it wasn't a full cycle doctor will still put me on progesterone. I think he is going to have me take a ten day cycle of oral progetserone and that should cycle me kinda like the pill a 21 day thing before it kicks in. Sometimes I think guy have it easy, but I wouldn't want hair all over my body and would hate to go without make-up.

It's fun!

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Let it go...

I think I needed a mental brake. I was doing my challenge and I held off a lot the week of all my tests. I didn't know what was going on and didn't feel all that good. That was fine I was OK with that. Then the next week I struggled to eat clean and didn't get to the gym till Thursday. It made it even worse when I thought about the fact that it was the last week of the challenge. The mental brake came when my challenge ended. I decided to keep up with my meals and workouts. I have been lifting heavy for upper body still that hasn't changed. My legs were feeling huge from my gianormis muscles. Yes, I now there is fat there too. For legs I am sticking to the classes, like strong. We go to failure with high reps. I tried a new class total conditioning. It was great it is high endurance with weights for 70 min. I loved it!! The other new class I went to was 50/50. This is also cardio and weights but incorporated differently and only 60 min. It was good but after jumping rope and jumping on the step I could feel my shins. They have been doing good but when I work on the balls of my feet it really hits them. I noticed this also after I did a kick boxing class. The boxer shuffle did me in. I am going to avoid the workouts that keep me on my toes and hope that running doesn't bring them back. I have only been running two to three times a week and only for 4 to 7 miles at a time. Most of my cardio is done in cycle class. Today I did the 60 min. cycle followed by a 2.5 mile run. It was great and felt like I could have run further but I had to run the treadmill, boring. The sun was out then too I would have loved to run outside, but I had Natasha so had to run at the gym.
The point of all this was letting go of all the pressure I was putting on myself really set me free. My diet is great and workouts are a blast. I also finally found a race for the weekdays. I like to do road races but working every weekend makes it very difficult. The one I am running is a 5K May 3rd. It is one I also did last year. This was the first road race I did since I started running regularly. I was over half way through my first BFL challenge at the time. My goal for this race is to beat my time and to beat Linda (my work partner). She also ran it last year and has been running since. I think Linda is up to a 7 min. mile she gets going pretty fast. I got a pull up bar over a month ago, I love it. You should get one it's fun.

Hello

Danny's got home Thursday. He had a blast. You can read about it if you like.

Danny's my space blog
http://www.myspace.com/kaz62

This is a picture of him at a pub with our brother in law Patrick and a bird named Lori.
I have been busy and have to work tonight. I will try to catch up and check in. This past week was spent setting up a remembrance fund fundraiser for Chad. It was held last night. They did it to off set the cost of the funeral, which cost as much as a wedding. OK got go finish lunch with Natasha I'll check in soon.
All is well.


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