Camping fun

I am amazed to see that I have 100 readers now. I still remember when I got my first follower, I just about freaked. Now I love it! – Thanks to you all and welcome to my new followers. I am not I write anything really insightful or worth reading but I truly appreciate everyone’s comments and helpful tips. Lately I hate not being about to blog as much as I would like to. However, I do like being very busy at work. Sometimes it cuts into my exercising time. I haven’t been able to go for walks at lunch (weather has something to do with it as well) and a couple of times now it is has been hard to get out of the office on time to get either to Hot Yoga or I’m pushing late for the Personal Training session. But it is what it is, and I’m working through it.

Again I think summer and camping is going to make losing weight a really hard thing for me. Every summer I maintain, and I really was hoping that this summer would be different. On Friday, I made it out to the campground just before my family because they did manage to spend all afternoon vacuuming and steam cleaning our trailer. I Hate MICE!  How they get it, I have no clue.  Last year I stuffed every crevice I could find with steel wool but they are smarter than me and have found another one that I haven’t found yet. When we got the trailer un-hooked and I directed the outside chores, all I had to do inside was put away everything in the bins and the groceries I had brought. It was much nicer than I anticipated.  Usually when we get to a campsite I’m so busy cleaning and putting things away, I get a bit crabby because everyone else is sitting around visiting. Not this time.

Mr. Sandra even came in a couple of times over the weekend and asked what he could do to help me so that I would go outside and relax instead of being inside and putting things away. 99% of the time I do everything by myself because I know where everything should go and I have my methods. If anyone helps me, I spend more time directing than just getting things done (I’m a bit of a control freak too I think). So it may have taken a couple of hours throughout the weekend to get it all put away but I did, and still was able to hang out. Hanging out to them is to just sit around and drink or snoozing. I like to keep busy doing stuff and when I am ready to do so, I’ll grab a book and sit in the sun and read.  

This particular campground is full of seasonal people. Just after my Dad passed, my Mom and I found this place to pull her trailer to and park it. Neither one of us wanted to pull the trailer around without my Dad, so we found a permanent home for it. She kept going there right up until she passed away. Her trailer is still there today and being used. Not in the same lot we had, but it is still there. The people that were camped beside us, came over the very first day and introduced themselves and we have been very close friends ever since. That was almost 20 years ago. It was her birthday this weekend and we have celebrated her birthday quite a bit over the years drinking our faces off. Now that we are older, things have changed and I don’t get out there as much (and the boozing is quite a bit less). But what staying at this campground is a lot of fun for me because I do know quite a few people and it is fun to get together and play games. Which is what we did Saturday afternoon. We played Washoes for a couple of tournaments. What the link shows is not exactly like the pits we were playing with but you get the idea.There were about 30 people playing or so and each of us brought something for a snack (we call it “Happy Hour”).

My concern here is that I still drank a lot on the weekend because a) I was very stressed at work on Thursday about something that greatly upset me. AND b) I was visiting with people I hadn’t seen in about 2 years, therefore Friday night, I had way too much to drink. Which meant Saturday I felt horrible. I didn’t want to exercise at all. I had great intentions of walking for a couple of hours, but all I managed to do was a couple of 30 minute walks with the dog. She got a lot of exercising swimming because we were fortunate to camp beside the lake and she got to retrieve a lot of dummies. But I did not. I’d say over the entire weekend, I walked 4 times for about 30 minutes each time– that’s it! I have to improve on this big time. To be fair to myself this was the very first weekend of camping for me and not all are going to be like this. 90% of them are much more active (fishing, walking) and less socializing.

But I still have to re-focus my little brain and decide what is going to be more important. I also need to find a way to have “fun” without drinking beer. I know a lot of you are probably shaking your head at me because you don’t drink and don’t see how this could be an issue but for me it is. When I get bored, I want to drink, when I visit with friends I haven’t seen in some time, I want to drink. Ok, even if I just saw them last weekend and we are visiting again, I could manage a beer or two. I’m a social drinker.  Summers equal lots of socializing. Therefore I have to fix this.

Well that’s all the news for today. I hope you all have a FANTASTIC day!

Ttyl

Sandra