Welcome to August!
Where has the year gone? I am not sure if I ever posted that my goal/word/new year resolution for 2019 is Self Care! I have not been doing very well with that, so way back in July, I decided, I had better up my aim. I decided that on 1 August, I am going to start doing yoga again. My left knee has been bothering me a lot the past few months. I noticed that it feels better when I do some stretching.
I want to Thank my California Sister-In-Law, for introducing me to Yoga with Adriene. I LOVE going to the gym and doing yoga live but with my current job, I don't get to do that so much anymore. Adriene allows me to do yoga at 4am or 4pm, any day of the week! She also has some downloadable yoga, so when I go camping this weekend, I can still do yoga. Woo Hoo!!!!! Today was my 8th day of yoga.
In 17 days, I am going to be dropping my oldest off at her university. I have been doing well with that, honestly. She is so grown up, I am so proud of her and her choices. I am going to miss her like crazy, but if I did my mom job well, she will return.
In 11 days, my son starts his Junior year of high school fall sports. He hopes to run cross country and play soccer this fall. He wants to focus on tennis this winter, to play again next spring. I am looking for tennis pros to help him out. (My youngest told me that he was complaining about not being in a club sport like she and the oldest were. He stated that his athletic career was all washed up.) Boys?!?! I guess he is all washed up at age 16. This also made me think about how I need to be around at home more to guide this poor mis-guided son of mine. Still time to teach him a few lessons before I send him out into the world.
I am still doing massage at the Wisconsin Athletic Club two days a week. I celebrated 25 years of being a therapist back in February. I have been thinking a lot about how much longer I want to do that. I have not come to any conclusions. I am still a Resident Aid at a Senior Living community. I am not loving this job, mostly due to the hours and the other staff. Some changes have occurred and I am going to ride them out, for now. God willing I can find a job with better hours for my family life.
Thanks for reading,
AnnMarie
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Thursday, August 8, 2019
Sunday, January 8, 2017
Just signed up for a challenge
Happy Week Two of 2017!
How did week one go for everyone? Remember I said I was going to blog more? Sorry, time was not on my side, and the basement is cold, and ... I was lazy and thought about posting several times. I just didn't do it.
I also said I was going to start my better eating plan too. Well, I found some candy and cookies and fell flat on my face off that wagon.
This morning, before taking my gymnast to her first meet of the season, I was trying to catch up on emails. I subscribe to too many blogs and things, so I get behind in my reading/looking at them. Today, for the first time in a VERY LONG TIME, I stopped and read a few that I have just opened then deleted. Today, I read the post/email from Another Runner Mother. I think reading it before made me feel bad because running was causing me pain, so I stopped back in August. So, I didn't want to read all about other mother runners doing what I couldn't without pain. Today I sucked it up and read the post. Today was the last day to sign up for some of the fun training stuff they offer. Last year, I was very tempted to sign up for their heart rate training program. I was tempted because many of the mothers were saying they were able to run pain free.
Today, I took the plunge and signed up for the STRIDE INTO THE NEW YEAR Challenge. It is a 35 day run, walk or run/walk plan. I just printed it off and am putting it on the fridge when I get done posting this.
Today, my husband and I also got signed up for his companies insurance incentive program. They have a new fun app to track your workouts and join challenges and stuff. So, my "rally age" is 47, same as my real age. With my Running program in hand, and my calendar a bit empty this month, I hope to lower that age before lets say April!
Some of the challenges I signed up for were to do Yoga twice a week. Something I want to do for real, so hopefully this will help. Declutter for 10 minutes. This I want to do for real every day, the app says once a week. Again, something I need/want to do anyway. Eat more fruit and veggies. Get enough sleep. Do something creative. This is a fun app. Rally is part of our insurance incentive, does your company do this?
PeeWee is in bed and waiting for me to tuck her in. Best get to that...
Off N Running,
AnnMarie
How did week one go for everyone? Remember I said I was going to blog more? Sorry, time was not on my side, and the basement is cold, and ... I was lazy and thought about posting several times. I just didn't do it.
I also said I was going to start my better eating plan too. Well, I found some candy and cookies and fell flat on my face off that wagon.
This morning, before taking my gymnast to her first meet of the season, I was trying to catch up on emails. I subscribe to too many blogs and things, so I get behind in my reading/looking at them. Today, for the first time in a VERY LONG TIME, I stopped and read a few that I have just opened then deleted. Today, I read the post/email from Another Runner Mother. I think reading it before made me feel bad because running was causing me pain, so I stopped back in August. So, I didn't want to read all about other mother runners doing what I couldn't without pain. Today I sucked it up and read the post. Today was the last day to sign up for some of the fun training stuff they offer. Last year, I was very tempted to sign up for their heart rate training program. I was tempted because many of the mothers were saying they were able to run pain free.
Today, I took the plunge and signed up for the STRIDE INTO THE NEW YEAR Challenge. It is a 35 day run, walk or run/walk plan. I just printed it off and am putting it on the fridge when I get done posting this.
Today, my husband and I also got signed up for his companies insurance incentive program. They have a new fun app to track your workouts and join challenges and stuff. So, my "rally age" is 47, same as my real age. With my Running program in hand, and my calendar a bit empty this month, I hope to lower that age before lets say April!
Some of the challenges I signed up for were to do Yoga twice a week. Something I want to do for real, so hopefully this will help. Declutter for 10 minutes. This I want to do for real every day, the app says once a week. Again, something I need/want to do anyway. Eat more fruit and veggies. Get enough sleep. Do something creative. This is a fun app. Rally is part of our insurance incentive, does your company do this?
PeeWee is in bed and waiting for me to tuck her in. Best get to that...
Off N Running,
AnnMarie
Monday, September 1, 2014
Labor Day?!?! WHAT?!?! NNNOOOOO…..
From Wikipedia…
Where did the summer go? I cannot believe today is the first day of September. There were so many things we were going to do and now school starts tomorrow. With that means a new swim season, a new soccer season and Dancing Princess would like to try Gymnastics. (I may have to change her name here. LOL!)
Last month, I quietly decided that I need to stop pretending to be training for a run and just get out the door already. I put myself up to the challenge of running one or more miles every day for the month. And I DID IT!!!!! WOO HOO!!!! 31 days in a row I logged at least one mile, usually a little bit more. I also did a few races in that month too. Yesterday, I ran a 5k for a church festival. It was a small field and I placed 3rd over all! What the????? It was my 10th race for 2014.
So, today is our last day of summer vacation. My oldest two are not very excited to start a new school year. My youngest, cannot wait to get back into it. We got to meet their teachers last week. My oldest, will be an 8th grader and is in a couple of High School classes. I am officially worried about that! One is Spanish, they started 7th grade in the freshman book. That's cool. So this year they will finish that book and she can take Sophomore Spanish as a freshman next year. When she got her schedule we both saw Algebra 1 on it. We still are not sure if that is a mistake, but the teacher seemed pretty nice. He is a HUGE Brewer Baseball fan. The floor in his classroom is laid out as the field. That's kind of comforting too! LOL! We will see in October where she is and how it is going.
The other two kids will be fine. My son, is starting in a new self driven program. I pray that he gets his work done and we don't have too many fights about it this year. I know it will be good for him and he will do well.
OK, getting back on topic...
As for me, tomorrow they all get on the bus and then what? I hope to get into a running routine. I really want to get back into the gym and meet up with a trainer a couple of times a week. Maybe I will get back into that treadmill class I loved last summer?!?! I really need to get into a yoga studio about 3 times a week to get these tight hips loosened up.
September Goals: Last month was run at least 1 mile a day. I am going to continue that streak. I have been complaining about my diet for forever, so I am going to cut out dairy this month. Dairy makes my mucus membranes go bonkers! In 2001, I read a book written by Marilu Henner called TOTAL HEALTH MAKEOVER. I had seen her on the Today show promoting a different book. I got this one from the library and read it cover to cover. When I got to the chapter about Dairy I had an AH HA! moment. She talked about the "dairy sludge". And how as humans cows milk is not properly digested. It is also produced to bulk up baby cows. I had a couple of flashbacks reading this chapter.
FLASHBACK #1: I was in kindergarden when I had to have my tonsils taken out and tubes put in my ears. This book said that kids drinking cow milk tend to get more ear infections! AH!
FLASHBACK #2: Drinking cows milk tends to get the mucus in your body to build up and go crazy! As a kid, we moved to a new town, new school. My classmates used to sing song "AnnMarie Frances Ihm, oh great ball of Slime!" I always felt like my nose was running. I have a very nasally voice, that I notice when I am not on dairy, isn't as nasally! FLASHBACK #2.0: As a senior in High School, we did a class night where they jokingly predicted where we would be in 10 years. They predicted that I would be the new Wendy Whiner on Saturday Night Live!
FLASHBACK #3: In college, I ran on the track and Cross Country teams. I used to spit for distance. You know the big loogies you really got to work up to get out of your throat. I had team mates ask me to teach them how to spit! Seriously, I really did! How embarrassing. I was also always doing a Farmer's blow on a run, year round, I always had a runny nose. This I know now is from the dairy.
So, I stopped eating Dairy back in 2001. Replaced it with some nasty alternatives or just didn't eat it at all. Then of course over time, it crept back into my diet. I have been pretty flemmy on runs this year. I can't take it anymore. So, bye bye dairy. Was at the Co-Op last night stocking up with some yummier alternatives. So here we go, Welcome September!
Off N Running,
AnnMarie
Thirty days hath September is a traditional English mnemonic rhyme, of which many variants are commonly used in English-speaking countries to remember the lengths of the months in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Here is one version of the rhyme attributed to Mother Goose:
- Thirty days have September,
- April, June, and November.
- All the rest have 31,
- Except February alone,
- And that has 28 days clear,
- And 29 in a leap year.
- Thirty days have September,
- April, June, and November
- All the rest have 31,
- Except for February.
Other sources list the Mother Goose version differently:
- Thirty days have September,
- April, June, and November;
- February has 28 alone,
- All the rest have 31;
- Except leap year, that's the time,
- When February's days are 29.[1]
Where did the summer go? I cannot believe today is the first day of September. There were so many things we were going to do and now school starts tomorrow. With that means a new swim season, a new soccer season and Dancing Princess would like to try Gymnastics. (I may have to change her name here. LOL!)
Last month, I quietly decided that I need to stop pretending to be training for a run and just get out the door already. I put myself up to the challenge of running one or more miles every day for the month. And I DID IT!!!!! WOO HOO!!!! 31 days in a row I logged at least one mile, usually a little bit more. I also did a few races in that month too. Yesterday, I ran a 5k for a church festival. It was a small field and I placed 3rd over all! What the????? It was my 10th race for 2014.
So, today is our last day of summer vacation. My oldest two are not very excited to start a new school year. My youngest, cannot wait to get back into it. We got to meet their teachers last week. My oldest, will be an 8th grader and is in a couple of High School classes. I am officially worried about that! One is Spanish, they started 7th grade in the freshman book. That's cool. So this year they will finish that book and she can take Sophomore Spanish as a freshman next year. When she got her schedule we both saw Algebra 1 on it. We still are not sure if that is a mistake, but the teacher seemed pretty nice. He is a HUGE Brewer Baseball fan. The floor in his classroom is laid out as the field. That's kind of comforting too! LOL! We will see in October where she is and how it is going.
The other two kids will be fine. My son, is starting in a new self driven program. I pray that he gets his work done and we don't have too many fights about it this year. I know it will be good for him and he will do well.
OK, getting back on topic...
As for me, tomorrow they all get on the bus and then what? I hope to get into a running routine. I really want to get back into the gym and meet up with a trainer a couple of times a week. Maybe I will get back into that treadmill class I loved last summer?!?! I really need to get into a yoga studio about 3 times a week to get these tight hips loosened up.
September Goals: Last month was run at least 1 mile a day. I am going to continue that streak. I have been complaining about my diet for forever, so I am going to cut out dairy this month. Dairy makes my mucus membranes go bonkers! In 2001, I read a book written by Marilu Henner called TOTAL HEALTH MAKEOVER. I had seen her on the Today show promoting a different book. I got this one from the library and read it cover to cover. When I got to the chapter about Dairy I had an AH HA! moment. She talked about the "dairy sludge". And how as humans cows milk is not properly digested. It is also produced to bulk up baby cows. I had a couple of flashbacks reading this chapter.
FLASHBACK #1: I was in kindergarden when I had to have my tonsils taken out and tubes put in my ears. This book said that kids drinking cow milk tend to get more ear infections! AH!
FLASHBACK #2: Drinking cows milk tends to get the mucus in your body to build up and go crazy! As a kid, we moved to a new town, new school. My classmates used to sing song "AnnMarie Frances Ihm, oh great ball of Slime!" I always felt like my nose was running. I have a very nasally voice, that I notice when I am not on dairy, isn't as nasally! FLASHBACK #2.0: As a senior in High School, we did a class night where they jokingly predicted where we would be in 10 years. They predicted that I would be the new Wendy Whiner on Saturday Night Live!
FLASHBACK #3: In college, I ran on the track and Cross Country teams. I used to spit for distance. You know the big loogies you really got to work up to get out of your throat. I had team mates ask me to teach them how to spit! Seriously, I really did! How embarrassing. I was also always doing a Farmer's blow on a run, year round, I always had a runny nose. This I know now is from the dairy.
So, I stopped eating Dairy back in 2001. Replaced it with some nasty alternatives or just didn't eat it at all. Then of course over time, it crept back into my diet. I have been pretty flemmy on runs this year. I can't take it anymore. So, bye bye dairy. Was at the Co-Op last night stocking up with some yummier alternatives. So here we go, Welcome September!
Off N Running,
AnnMarie
Sunday, March 2, 2014
Day 6 of 45...
Whew, what a week! I am on the bike again today. I am thinking about the past few weeks and realized that I have not been updating everyone on my successes and pitfalls very consistently.
I started my 45 day challenge on February 10. I was doing well, I guess, until last weekend when I got a flu bug or something. So, I restarted my challenge on Monday February 24 with a 45 minute ride on my beautiful Felt bike. I shared my tragic flu story with my Monday night client. We decided to do an 8:00am yoga class on Tuesday. She announced at yoga, that she was going to join me on my challenge and that was day one for her! Cool I have someone to be accountably to, awesome!!!!
When I went home to tell my husband, he replied, "You're doing a challenge?" Seriously, I don't think he listens and HEARs me when I talk! Anyway, today is day 6 for me. My butt bones are not too sure what to think about sitting on that seat, but my legs are loving it!
I have not added more yoga as I wanted to. I have not gotten to a chiropractor or figured out what is bothering my butt. I did roll it out on the ball and that seemed to help. So I'm going to add rolling daily to my list.
*NOTE: Written on March 1, and posted March 2, so today is day 7 of 45. Off to yoga at the gym…
Off N Running,
AnnMarie
*NOTE: Written on March 1, and posted March 2, so today is day 7 of 45. Off to yoga at the gym…
Off N Running,
AnnMarie
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