Friday, March 30, 2012

Where's the cinnamon bears?!!

Looking at the calendar I see that we are about 5 days away from closing on the house. To be honest I am totally freaking out!!!! Granted it's kind of what I do in these situations. DH is really good at making the overall plan and letting me know where things need to be and when they need to be ready, but that usually leaves all the logistics to me. Normally not a bad thing as I do the planning thing well. But dealing with the number of people that one has to deal with and the amount of information that is required to get a house to the closing stage it seems like there is always a half dozen things that need to be taken care of. On top of all the regular things that need to be taken care of in a household of 4. . . I know people who would probably handle this much better than me and have their kids totally organized, but I think this is why I'm only supposed to have 2 kids.

On the exercise front I'm doing good. I signed up for a half marathon on the 9th of June in downtown. I'm really excited about it but I'm also nervous because I have a TON of training to do before I will feel close to ready for that. But my mileage is going up weekly and with the weight training I've been doing I feel like I'm getting fitter overall than I have been in a long time. I'll just have to plan a really cute outfit to run in! (New outfits make everything better). I've also lost 5.5 lbs so far. The food side of things is still where I struggle. I feel better since giving up all the flour, pasta and rice, but I still love candy. I am very picky about the candy I eat, I am head-over-heals for chewy candy; gummy bears, cinnamon bears, etc., those are my favorites! If I could break myself away from those I think I'd be doing a bit better. Not that I like to make excuses, but it does get harder to train when you've been technically sick for the last 7 weeks or so. . .

In the middle of January I went to the Dr. after being sick since before Christmas and found out that I was sicker than I though I was. She gave me a couple weeks of antibiotics and said that she hoped it would take care of everything. I'm not sure whether it did or didn't but a few weeks ago I was sick again (not sure if it was the initial infection that was not cleared up or another issue), have another sinus infection and am about to finish a 3 week course of antibiotics. I think that this infection was caused by my allergies, thank you early summer! I really do love this warm weather but this issues that it creates with my immune system are just ridiculous. Unfortunately it's not just my immune system that is going berserk. A couple weeks ago L started acting out really bad, through trial and error we figured out that he was having asthma issues and needed his inhaler a couple times a day. After a week of that his eyes were turning so red by the end of the day that he looked like he'd been at Dead Festival all week. After a call to his pediatrician and picking up some more allergy meds, L is doing much better. Today was the first day in more than a week that he got through the whole day with NO TIMEOUTS, none. It was amazing quite frankly. I had to call my own Dr. and get some stronger allergy meds of my own, but they seem to be working so I'm happy about that. I do have a really hard time with L having all of these issues. . . On the one hand I can recognize when he's having issues and it's easier for me to pick out what some of the issues are, but the reason that I can figure them out so easily is that I have the same issues. It seems that he has inherited my "Autoimmune Tri-fecta" (as one of my Dr.'s called it) of asthma, allergies and eczema. Makes me feel a bit guilty really, as if I could have done something different and saved him from much of the hassle that these issues can cause. . . Guess all I can to is make sure he understands that he has to have good health insurance!

So, like I said I'm a little stressed and it's probably starting to show. If my hair ever grew out far enough without me coloring it, it would probably be grey. . . If it actually did grow out that way, I could just leave it and make a statement!

Saturday, March 3, 2012

Victory is mine. At least right now.

At the moment I'm feeling pretty good. I went to the gym yesterday to work out and remembered that I'd forgotten to weigh in for the 90 Day earlier in the week. Thinking it was time to get the dreaded event over with I found a trainer and stepped on the stupid thing, otherwise known as a scale. I was pleasantly surprised to look down and see that I'd lost 3 lbs. since last week. 3 lbs!!! As I was feeling quite happy with myself I got on the treadmill and finished my scheduled workout in less time that I though it would take! This put me in a good mood for most of the day yesterday. One of these days I am going to learn that almost no matter what time the kids go to bed they are going to wake up some time around 630 or 7am. Ugh.

To up my mood a little more I decided to follow the training schedule and go for a nice long run, to spite the fact that it was snowing and windy outside. Sometimes you just need to hit the pavement to get that happy feeling going. I am proud to say that I completed my long run, all 6.2 miles of it, including some hills that happened to be on the route. Since the half marathon I signed up for is not until June I have some time to increase my distance. Admittedly I am not setting any land speed records, I would probably classify myself as a speedy turtle more than a slow rabbit (it just sounds better).

I am enjoying some chocolate right now. All work and no play makes Kari very cranky.