How do I count this?

Yesterday, Friday, I didn't work out. We got up, made breakfast and drove south to visit my grandmothers. I just didn't get it done. Today, I did work out. Jared didn't join me. He had spent an hour in the garage (it's about 100 degrees outside, not counting how the garage traps heat) and didn't have the energy. Apparently he also didn't have the energy to keep Miles from climbing all over me while I worked out.

We had a nice visit, saw both grandmothers, and played a lot. Miles really enjoys visiting there I think. In other news, we booked plane tickets. For this Wednesday. We are flying to CT to visit my sisters for about a week. Yikes! It's about a 4 hour flight and we have layovers both ways! I have no idea how to keep Miles entertained all that time. Wish me luck! On a positive note, my sister has a girl about Miles' age, so there are lots of toys there.

Day 4

Ugh, is it only day 4? These things get easier as time goes on, right? I'm mostly kidding. I'm still in the "this is relatively new and interesting" phase. I told Jared earlier that we hadn't worked out and that stunk. He said we could after we put Miles down to bed. Then as we cleaned the kitchen I mentioned it to him and he said that he was just going to stretch. I started getting ready to work out and he decided that he didn't want to be "upstaged" by me. :) I told him I wasn't trying to upstage him, just work out. I weighed myself just after the workout, and I haven't lost any weight! I've been weighing myself in the morning, so that might be different. Also, I need to measure myself so I can really see the results.


The pictures are just because I haven't posted any recently. They have nothing to do with anything.

So Exhausted!

I got up this morning and first thing I did my workout! Yay me! I'm hoping to lose some serious weight sooner or later, but I'd better not first admit that Jared is on his way with a pizza. Oops!
Today was the big canning day. I called my neighbor first thing this morning, and her phone went straight to voice mail. I called her when Doris got here, and it went to voice mail right away again. We weren't planning on starting until one, but Doris wanted to start early because she'd have to leave at 4:00. It's a god thing we did because we didn't even get all the berries processed. I called the neighbor again at one, and still went right to voice mail. I hope everything is ok with her. When I was buying jars, I decided to buy enough in case the neighbor had purchased the wrong thing. So, between Doris and I we bought all the berries hoping to be paid back for some, and enough jars to process all of them hoping that we'd be able to take some back if the neighbor bought the right kind. It turned out to be a good thing, otherwise we would have run out of jars way before berries! As it is, we have 75 jars of jam and pie filling, 4 flats of jars, and a bunch of berries left over that we split up.

Day 2

I just finished the work out again. Day 2! Today was harder because I'm a bit sore from yesterday, but there were a few parts that were a (little) bit easier. My left upper arm is especially sore for some reason. I haven't figured that out yet.

Blackberry season seems to be over, so picking our own is out. Boo! I'm so disappointed about that. I talked to Doris and she suggested that we go to the Farmer's Market and see what we could get there. We went by this morning after a fiasco with my car keys, and found large baskets of both blue and black berries for $4 each. We bought 8 baskets! That should be enough for all three of us to end up with a good quantity of jam and pie filling etc. I need to get off of the computer and weigh them so that we will know how many jars etc we need. Hopefully I'll post pictures of the canning tomorrow. I haven't decided if I'm going to pull my camera out and look like a fool in front of my neighbor.

A Beautiful New Day

I started today very sluggish. In fact, recently I've been very tired with no real explanation. General aches and pains. Today I was talking to my sister who's birthday is on the 10th of July. She said that she plans to lose ten pounds between now and then. That is twelve days from now. I can do that - I think. Jared and I are going to try to be there for her birthday (he has a work trip and we'll tack a vacation on to the end). I weighed myself this afternoon, and I'm 8lbs over a round number. No, I won't tell which one, but lets call it round because that is how I feel! I can reach that number by the tenth I think. Eight pounds in twelve days. That's 0.6 pounds a day.

I started by doing "Jillian Michaels - 30 Day Shred." I made it through! I can't say much else for my performance, but I did it. I think I will try to stick with this for the 30 days. I was checking it out online and found a woman who is posting video of herself every week for 12 weeks and she is doing that program. She is on week 8 and looking great! I don't know if I can do this every day for 8 or 12 weeks, but I have to start somewhere! I've been feeling terrible recently, so I have to do something!

On another note, we are going Blackberry picking tonight. I'm really excited about this, although I don't know if my arms will work! I'm already a little sore. I reached way out of my comfort zone and sent an email to a girl that I'm on a volunteer board with and I recently discovered that she lives in the house diagonally behind me. I told her that I was going blackberry picking this week and would can a bit later in the week and asked if she would be interested in going too. Sure enough she said she'd love to go and loves blackberries. She has never canned before and I've only done it once, so my mother-in-law will go picking with us and help us with the canning. I'm so excited. In fact, I leave in a half and hour, and I need to get ready!

UPDATE** I called the berry place just before we left, and...They were closed for the season. I'm so bummed. I thought of this idea before the season even started, and I tried to get it in early enough. Most places said they usually close Aug 15. Rats!

Whiny mood brightened

I was just about to post a very whiny post about Mother's Day, and what a poor one I'd had. Then I clicked to my blogger page and saw three comments including one from a very funny lady who made me laugh today.

Anyway, I won't say that it doesn't matter that everyone is getting sick, or that the day really kinda stunk and the best thing I did was get my house clean, but it's nice to focus on the positive. Especially at the end of the day. Yes, 9:40 is bed time, and should have gone earlier.

Working so hard!

This is what I call progress. Right at this moment I'm vacuuming the kitchen (Roomba), washing clothes (washing machine), reheating coffee (microwave), downloading pictures, and blogging (laptop). All this while I should be working! Oops! :)
Hope your day is starting out as productive as mine!