Finding ONEderland

I need to keep my exercise up and add to it. Making sure I get some in each day. I also really need to start working on getting in much healthier wholesome foods...especially lots more veggies. I am taking three days off at the end of this coming week...with the holiday and all it will give me a total of six days off from work. I plan to get in plenty of exercise and prepare healthy meals.

Posted by Annie at 07:35 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

It's been a crappy week. Work has sucked due to some outages beyond our control. Probably the most calls I have taken in months. I think all that is back to normal now...least I am hoping so.

As far as exercise I have been getting in walks most days and I even got to Curves one day this week. Eating could have been better. I am not sure what my weight...I haven't been sleeping good and due to snoozing in for the morning have been passing up the scale a lot. I will weigh tomorrow and post it.

Thanks for all the comments and well wishings. You guys gave me something to smile about even though the week was pretty rough. Hope everyone is doing well. Off to read some blogs...I am majorly behind on that.

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The rains stayed away during the funeral, in fact the sun came out and I got a little bit of a sunburn because I wasn't thinking about the sun and being careful. Thanks for those that sent wishes for good weather.

My weekend was a good one. We went and watched Next at the movies. I really enjoyed it. I made the popcorn my lunch and was able to enjoy that treat.

Because it rained so much we did not end up going walking until that evening. It was a short walk since it was getting dark but not as short as it was going to be since we had to reroute coming to the house. We ran up on 3 dogs, they looked to be young pit bulls, and didn't want to get close to them. Once we got back home I called and reported the dogs. Now I know the dogs might be harmless but I live on a street with a ton of kids and I didn't want to take a chance.

Sunday's walk was a nice one. The wind was giving us a nice breeze to walk in. We did 45 minutes at Warriors park, around the circle. The mp3 players really helped with that walk as it is one we have done many times. I had to push my DH to keep him from stepping in a pile of doggy doo. He was trying to set his mp3 player to shuffle and even though I was telling him to watch out he wasn't paying attention. Luckily I got him pushed out of the way at the last minute or he might have been riding home barefoot.

The one thing I forgot to get done this weekend was grocery shopping. Luckily I found enough stuff to bring with me to work today. Will have to do some shopping tonight though.

Posted by Annie at 10:13 AM | Permalink | Comments (6)

I had a post wrote out and lost it. I really wish I could figure out some type of program that I could use to upload a post instead of doing it from the webpage. So far I haven't found something like that for movable type. So I will try and redo my post.

We didn't go walking yesterday because of having a nasty thunder storm. It was really close sounding and poured rain like mad. So much it over did the gutters since the trees have been filling them with little bits of seed. Didn't expect that to happen as they were just cleaned out in the fall. Guess we'll clean them out a week earlier than I had planned since when they over flow they drown one of the office windows. Also I didn't cook at home with that crap going on...no standing around electric appliances for me with that kind of booming going on.

I am hoping the storms that come today will wait till much later. One of my co-workers passed away and I will be at the graveside service this afternoon. I hadn't felt much like talking about it till now. I miss him a great deal and I am so thankful to have had him in my life and for the memories I have to cherish because of it. However it hard to loose someone and it's been a sad week because of this even with the good things that have happened. Plus I am finding myself a little angry at times. Of course it is not helping that I keep running the wheels of my chair over my skirt today...I am so not use to wearing a dress anymore.

Posted by Annie at 07:08 AM | Permalink | Comments (2)

I have seen the scale go up a little but it is now coming back down. We are eating at home now each day. I had tried real hard to break my eating out habit but it is strange that it finally got busted cause of a bad experience. We ate out Tuesday at Fatz Cafe for lunch, when I had taken half a day off, and the bun on the sandwich my DH got was moldy all over the bottom. He found this out after taking a bite out of the thing. It so grossed me out that I have been cooking at home ever since and have no desire to allow anyone else fix my food. I know at least I will look at the bread before I serve it to my DH or myself. I guess it's really a blessing but YUCK.

Another thing I am doing that I wasn't sure I would manage is I am wearing sleeveless shirts. I found a couple of cute ones and my arms aren't bothering me. Sure my arms are big and I want them smaller but I don't think they look any worse in these tops than they do in my t-shirts. And it sure feels a heck of a lot better with the warm weather. It really helped how I felt when we walked yesterday. I think this is something that comes with age...I am learning to appreciate what I got. I am still alive, I am still moving and life should be about enjoying everything and not worrying about something I can't fix right at that moment more than what I am.

Posted by Annie at 09:21 AM | Permalink | Comments (5)

We have been walking a lot. Sunday we went for our normal hike around the mountain lake but since this was the first time we had done it this year it really kicked my butt. The good news is I felt much better yesterday because of that walk. I plan on attempting it again in a couple of weeks but making sure I take water with me when I do. The walk normally takes us an hour but it took us an hour and half (the trail mark says it is about a 90 minute hike)....which is still much better than the first couple of times we walked it, about 5 years ago, at 2 and half hours. I know I got dehydrated since I didn't take any thing to drink with me....I know better and will be taking water with me for anything longer than 30 minutes.

I have a lot of work to do to get back in shape. It seems more doable to me this year. Last year when the little flutters in my chest were happening they seemed to drain me down. Though I have had a couple of those in the last month they haven't drained me like last year. I think that might because I am taking CoQ10 supplements....along with some flax and fish oil each day.

Since we did the long walk Sunday we didn't walk yesterday. However we did mow the lawn and did it much faster than we had been doing it. We got it done in 30 minutes, 15 for each of us. Just goes to show how much the mountain hike helped even though it was rough on us...not as rough on my DH as it was on me but still did us both good.

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