The first day
May. 29th, 2007 10:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
muck_a_luckI am in a very first-day-of-the-rest-of-my-life kind of mood today.
I still need to make a few bottles over the next few weeks, so dieting is not starting today, as planned. Dieting will probably start June 11. However, after all the anticipation of today as the first day of diet and exercise, I just couldn't let it go by. So this morning, I did a 15 minute ab routine with TamiLee. Tomorrow Little Sister has a well-baby visit (7:30am), so I will not have time to work out in the morning, so I will probably go visit the weight machine tonight for an arms workout. I plan to alternate abs and arms until June 11. Then I will start the interval step routine. When I no longer feel sore after workingout, I will go another two weeks, then add yoga. I hope to be back to double workouts by early July.
This weekend, someone turned one year older. It's amazing how time flies. She had mac and cheese, pound cake, and ice cream for dinner. Mmmmm. Also, we worked on learing about our cup this weekend. This morning, she drank a fair amount of warm whole milk before dumping the rest out on her tray and playing in it. :)
We cleaned AG33's room this weekend. I sat on the bed with Little Sister and gave directions. That sounds silly, but the place was a disaster, and AG33 really didn't even know how to start. I gave him a lesson in taking the room apart to put it back together. We put all the stuff that wasn't going ot be put away - stuffed animals and ongoing Lego projects - onto the bed. We got all the paper off the desk into a large box (seriously, he can't throw anything away. Wonder where he gets that trait? A HUGE box.) Then we dug out the floor under the desk and got all the art supplies and whatnot onto the desk, for organization this week. We also threw all the udner the desk toys out into the middle of the room for cleanup. Then we dug out under the lego storage bench so that we could move the lego storage boxes back under there where they belonged. Then we scooped up all the legos into the lego storage boxes. Then he went back behind the bed near the arm chair and found all the legos and toys that were back there and put them away. In the process of all this he cleared up all the paper and either trashed it or put it in the paper box. He also took all his sister's books into the hall way, clearing them off the floor (finishing an aborted cleaning project from an earlier date). Finally, we restacked the closet, put away all the empty and partially full lego kit boxes, the LOTR action figures, the Lincoln Logs, and a million other little toys. We also put away the giant pile of legos this shift in junk revealed.
And then the floor was clean.
I still can't believe it. I'm planning to vacuum it for the first time in months when I get home from work.
Also, today Little Sister's birth announcements will got out, with the thank you notes for Christmas.
Oh, don't look at me like that! You know whom you are dealing with here.
Though the fact that these haven't gone out has been one of the things I have come to think of as a symptom of whatever is going on with me mentally. They have been ready to go since December 30, and I just couldn't force myself to take that last step and just put postage and addresses on them and SEND them.
There's a lot of that in my life on various levels right now. It hangs over me, but I can't make it all go away. So the next several weeks are going to be about that, I hope. Getting these bad things out of my life, bringing new good things into my life, and trying to hold onto the things that are important to me. I will be writing, because I have two fic-a-thons I'm participating in that will be due in early July. So hopefully that will let me practice balancing the exercise, writing, and personal business components. I want to be happier, healthier and more together when I look back on August 1.
I chose this icon to represent the businesses of my life...
I still need to make a few bottles over the next few weeks, so dieting is not starting today, as planned. Dieting will probably start June 11. However, after all the anticipation of today as the first day of diet and exercise, I just couldn't let it go by. So this morning, I did a 15 minute ab routine with TamiLee. Tomorrow Little Sister has a well-baby visit (7:30am), so I will not have time to work out in the morning, so I will probably go visit the weight machine tonight for an arms workout. I plan to alternate abs and arms until June 11. Then I will start the interval step routine. When I no longer feel sore after workingout, I will go another two weeks, then add yoga. I hope to be back to double workouts by early July.
This weekend, someone turned one year older. It's amazing how time flies. She had mac and cheese, pound cake, and ice cream for dinner. Mmmmm. Also, we worked on learing about our cup this weekend. This morning, she drank a fair amount of warm whole milk before dumping the rest out on her tray and playing in it. :)
We cleaned AG33's room this weekend. I sat on the bed with Little Sister and gave directions. That sounds silly, but the place was a disaster, and AG33 really didn't even know how to start. I gave him a lesson in taking the room apart to put it back together. We put all the stuff that wasn't going ot be put away - stuffed animals and ongoing Lego projects - onto the bed. We got all the paper off the desk into a large box (seriously, he can't throw anything away. Wonder where he gets that trait? A HUGE box.) Then we dug out the floor under the desk and got all the art supplies and whatnot onto the desk, for organization this week. We also threw all the udner the desk toys out into the middle of the room for cleanup. Then we dug out under the lego storage bench so that we could move the lego storage boxes back under there where they belonged. Then we scooped up all the legos into the lego storage boxes. Then he went back behind the bed near the arm chair and found all the legos and toys that were back there and put them away. In the process of all this he cleared up all the paper and either trashed it or put it in the paper box. He also took all his sister's books into the hall way, clearing them off the floor (finishing an aborted cleaning project from an earlier date). Finally, we restacked the closet, put away all the empty and partially full lego kit boxes, the LOTR action figures, the Lincoln Logs, and a million other little toys. We also put away the giant pile of legos this shift in junk revealed.
And then the floor was clean.
I still can't believe it. I'm planning to vacuum it for the first time in months when I get home from work.
Also, today Little Sister's birth announcements will got out, with the thank you notes for Christmas.
Oh, don't look at me like that! You know whom you are dealing with here.
Though the fact that these haven't gone out has been one of the things I have come to think of as a symptom of whatever is going on with me mentally. They have been ready to go since December 30, and I just couldn't force myself to take that last step and just put postage and addresses on them and SEND them.
There's a lot of that in my life on various levels right now. It hangs over me, but I can't make it all go away. So the next several weeks are going to be about that, I hope. Getting these bad things out of my life, bringing new good things into my life, and trying to hold onto the things that are important to me. I will be writing, because I have two fic-a-thons I'm participating in that will be due in early July. So hopefully that will let me practice balancing the exercise, writing, and personal business components. I want to be happier, healthier and more together when I look back on August 1.
I chose this icon to represent the businesses of my life...
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Date: 2007-05-29 02:55 pm (UTC)Between your unsent notes and AG33's messy room, I feel like I must be genetically related to your family. I hope the determination to work out is a trait I can find in me, too... (Definitely looking forward to walking to work.)
In the meantime, huge congrats to AG33 for getting that chore done, and to you for your exercise plan!
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Date: 2007-05-29 06:08 pm (UTC)I didn't even send out birth announcements after the first one, so you're way ahead of me. And thank you notes?? Please.