Six Pack!

Because of my work schedule the past week or so, I had to miss a training session.  To make up for it, I saw my trainer yesterday and today.   Yesterday, we worked upper body, and today was lower body.  The end of the session and he says "Time for abs!"  I sat on the ball, a 10 lb weight on my chest, and he says "OK, sit-ups for five minutes straight through."   Well, you can imagine the face I made at him.... but I'm a trooper and get started; while I'm huffing and puffing my way through sit-up after sit-up he chats on about how this is good for me, doing good, keep going, 3 more minutes ... yep, gonna have a six pack soon...."   And without thinking, out slips "Yessss.... Bud Lite Lime"  And Daemeon busts out laughing.  And I keep going "..... ice cold on a hot summer day ...." as I'm still doing the dreaded sit-ups.  Of course, it's harder to maintain a rhythm because I'm giggling like crazy - and dreaming of an ice cold beer! 

But progress in spite of the crazy hours and bad eating habits I kept for the past week - down 1.4 lbs.  I'll take that!   My trainer and I talked about my ultimate goal - he agrees that women need to be soft and curvy, so as of today, I have 49 more pounds to my ultimate goal.  At two lbs a week, 25 more weeks.  That's a very tough goal to reach in that time frame.  But ... you have to have a goal to reach for!  I am using SparkPeople as my calorie counter and reference for tracking my workouts.  It's not 100% perfect, but it helps me maintain my track record.


By the way, I didn't rush home and sip an ice cold beer .... just a bottle of Perrier! 

Work & Blooms

When its time to take inventory in my BigBox store, everything revolves around that.  My working schedule for the past 10 days has been up and down, with long, hard days and plenty of work.  In my position, I deal with all the things that are damaged or broken and need to be returned to vendors.  And the biggest frustration I have is with other co-workers who know for 90 days when inventory will be, yet wait until the last day, the last minute, to finish bringing all of those kinds of items to my department.  Taking all of the inventory processes into account, the time allotted to me to complete my tasks is very limited.  When I arrived at the store this morning, I found I'd been inundated over night with carts and carts full of things. Even though the store tells everyone that the cutoff time is 8pm the night before, that doesn't mean people pay attention.  Needless to say, my first hour into my job this morning and I was snapping at anyone who tried to bring more -- actually, I was snippy with anyone who tried to talk to me!  Not my typical behavior!!  Part of the problem with being that way has to do with the lack of sleep.  I worked a goofy shift of 2-11pm, then turned around and was back at work at 4:45am.  Definitely not enough sleep, or even rest, for this old gal!  I took a 3 hour nap after I got home, and darn if I'm still not feeling sluggish.  

With all the working hours, I've found it hard to get in much workout time -- we shall see what the scale says tomorrow when I see my demon .... errrr.... Damien, my personal trainer.  *laughs*   I missed out watering my cactus yesterday, so after my marathon nap today, I slipped out and gave them all a big drink, and found that one of my newest cacti is growing a brand new bloom!   (Blooms don't last long here, so catching them when they happen is special)

As I'm posting this, I'm listening to a link fav blogger Lloyd Kahn had posted an hour ago: 

The sun goes down on the cattle trail and I'm gazing at the moon
It's roundup time way out west when the cactus is in bloom.

by Jimmie Rodgers.  If you haven't heard an old fashioned cowboy yodel in a while, give a listen here! )