Weekend Update & Independence

I just had 4 days off of work and did not get much of a chance to read very many blogs – I am so behind. So if you haven’t seen a comment from me lately, I’m sorry – I’m trying to catch up but there’s a lot of action going on out there and I’m missing some of it.

I spent all of Thursday with Ron while he waited for appointments. He needed a driver and had two appointments – one in early a.m., and one later in the day so I had an entire day of waiting around. Fortunately I knew this ahead of time so worked out on my third NRoL4w workout first thing in the morning.  I did not eat all that well because we ended waiting longer than normal for these appointments. I brought a bar and apple with me but still didn’t eat every 3 hours like I would have liked. I did not log everything either that day but I know I was on the low side of calories.

Friday I wasn’t able to get to Yoga in the afternoon, so again in the morning I made sure that I got some interval training in first thing in the morning. The afternoon was spent picking up children from their various schools or homes. Ron’s youngest had an incident last week where it was important that he was picked up from the office so that his father could talk to the school about the incident… Let’s just say the boy was in deep trouble. So after talking to the counselor, our strategy of “bad” cop and “good” cop theory went down the drain. We had a new plan of action to try over the weekend. Then from there we picked up my Grandson. I love that little man. Each time I see him he is more grown up and says the coolest things. Since we had a bit of discipline issues to deal with the older boy, mostly talks, the weekend wasn’t as relaxing as I wanted it to be. There seemed to always be a tension in the air and I didn’t like it much.

Saturday I did my Wk 2 NRoL4W Workout B and upped the weights. I’ve finished reading the book and now know a bit more of what I should be doing. Week 1 really wasn’t done correctly but close enough. I want to read the book again as there was some theories in there that I found interesting and want to look more into. I think they will be good blog topics as I could use other folks opinions on some of what I took from the book.

One of the things I really need to work on is eating enough food on the weekends. I have to start treating Saturday and Sunday like it is a week day and eat every three hours like I do weekdays. I get messed up because I exercise at different times on the weekend. And I spend too much time moving from one object to another and forget to eat. And for some reason, this weekend I didn’t drink enough water. Sunday I did no exercising at all and was it ever hard. I was sore from my ST workout on Saturday so all I wanted to do was walk on the treadmill but I also knew my body needed a break of sorts. I spent the morning cleaning, then found a book and sat by my fireplace and read while the kids watched a movie. It was a nice day (sort of). The sort of is because Mr. Sandra woke up moody and when he is moody, I can “feel” it and it throws me off. Makes me not want to be around him so I hung with the kids downstairs. I am one of those people that is like  a sponge and I can take on other peoples mood physically (I know – sounds weird).  I don’t like negative people because of that, they don’t make me feel good, their vibes rub me wrong. They don’t even have to talk, I can just feel it.

Through various blog posts of mine, I have mentioned that I do not have a vehicle. When I left my Ex, he kept the vehicle we shared because he bought a house close to where our acreage was and I was moving back to the city. It was easier for me to take the bus and train to work so it made more sense. I was all about making the split as easy as possible so I let it go.

When I met Ron, he had his own truck as well as a very big GMC Yukon. I drove that for quite a few years but the steering was becoming defective and it showed up in the winter the most. To me it was unsafe as you don’t want to mess with your steering when in icy road conditions. So about 2 years ago I parked it in our back yard and haven’t driven my own vehicle since. I used my daughters, Ron’s or got taxied around for the last two years.

So on Friday, I bought my own vehicle and can now do all the classes at Good Life Fitness that I want at whatever club I want because I no longer have to depend on someone’s vehicle being available or getting a ride there and back.  I had to make sure that I could financially afford it because if, and this is just an IF, Ron and I do not last long term, I needed to be able to afford it, my mortgage and other debts all on my own wage. Buying this truck is going to make it pretty thin but it can be done.  I pick it up tonight at 5:00 p.m., I feel like a little kid in a candy store – I’m so excited.

I hope everyone had a fantastic weekend and an even better week. I’m going to be driving myself around to a few Zumba, Body Jam or Body Pump classes (along with the Hot Yoga).

Ttyl

Sandra