Workin' On My Fitness, Again.

Oh boy, has it been a looong time since I've worked out. On Saturday, our sitter asked if she could take Emery to a birthday party for this other baby that she occasionally looks after. I agreed to let her go, and I found this to be the perfect time to get in a work out. It looked a little something like this:

1. Two mile run

2. Sixty crunches

3. Two 45 sec. planks

4. Sixty leg raises

5. Forty V crunches

6. Sixty squats

7. Thirty lunges per leg (sixty total)

8. Twenty mountain climbers (this is new for me)

For the next two days I was in some pain. It's been a good five months since I've gotten in a good work out. I ran every now and then, but no where close to the distance I was covering before. I kind of feel bad that I've taken so long to get back to it, and even worse that I lost all of that progress. But seriously, it's hard to find time. I know that everyone says YOU have to make time, but for awhile there my days were starting at 5 am and ending at midnight. It was so exhausting, and the last thing I wanted to do was go work out. My body was tired, my mind was tired, and sleep was calling my name 80% of the time. So yea, I slacked off. Hard. But now, I'm trying to establish a routine again.

I had my yearly check up with my doctor, and we established that my anemia is under control as well as those stomach issues I was having. I've been sticking to my medication, and everything looks good. Unfortunately, since we adopted our puppy Draco it's been like having a newborn (only Emery wasn't like this at all so I guess this is payback for never having to go through it). So that tired feeling I keep getting is due to lack of 8 straight hours of sleep. We get up at least three times at night to let him go out, and he also cries A LOT. I'm also guessing my diet and fitness routine have something to do with it too. I've been eating a lot of junk food, take out, and like I stated before my workouts were nonexistent.

So, even though I could barely move after that ONE workout, I realized that I felt better. I was getting that energetic feeling I used to get from before, and I've always been really addicted to it. So I repeated the workout again yesterday. And guess what? Same things happened again! Now, tonight Emery has asked to join me so we won't go as far or as fast, but we'll be out there running. She's also asked to do some yoga tonight. Completely her own suggestion. She saw this DVD I had, and asked if we could do what that lady was doing. So that's the plan for this evening. Slowly but surely we are establishing a routine again! I'm pretty excited about it, and I also have a date with our local gym this weekend. I'll be looking into getting a gym membership again so I can do some weight training. Fingers crossed.

I'm feeling really good about this, y'all. I've missed feeling healthy. And with daylight savings time kicking forward again, it's just in time for me to gain a few more hours of daylight which I could really use. My classes this semester have been pretty laid back so I haven't stressed too much over them. I know I do have other stress in my life at the moment, but doing some type of physical activity before always helped to relieve them so I'm sure it'll help again. Now if only this cold weather would finally go away, things would be pretty dang perfect.

A Night Out

My husband and I hardly ever go out. I know a lot of people would say that we should do it more often because it helps to keep things fresh and interesting. It's also a good way for couples to have some one on one time, especially after they've had kids. Unfortunately for us, we live in a small town. There's really not much to do other than going to the movie theater, bar hoping, or out to eat. And let's just face it, those things get kind of old after awhile. We also live on a very tight budget, so that limits our options even more. In the end we mostly choose to stay at home, or we bring Emery along which turns it into family time. This kind of defeats the purpose of a "date night" though.

Fortunately for us, we were able to have one of our rare nights out last Friday. A friend of my husband's invited us to go watch him play with his former band for their farewell show. Apparently, the members all decided to pursue different projects so they officially decided to part ways. We bought our tickets early, and my mother agreed to watch Emery for that night. We weren't planning on being out all hours of the night, but I packed Emery an overnight bag just in case. We dropped our little munchkin off around 7:30 and made our way out to the bar.

The first thing I realized once I stepped into that place was that I am no longer twenty years old! As I get older, I think the realizations come more frequently. The older crowd stood off towards the back, and on the dance floor while the younger crowd gathered up front. It was weird to see the "line" clearly drawn and I told my husband I felt like we didn't really belong in either section. We were too young to be in the older section and yet too old to be in the younger one. My husband told me I was being silly, so I ended up moving us to the front right along side all of the babies. :-P

Now I'm picky about my country music, but a show is a show. I always like to be at the front, and by the speakers because I love getting to feel that bass running through me. If you don't think country music has bass, think again. We watched the opening band play the last half of their set, walked around and said hello to the people we knew, and then made it back around once the main band took the stage. Once they started to play, you could just tell that this was their last show. The crowd was louder, and more energetic. Everyone was singing at the top of their lungs. It got hot really quickly with all of the bodies pushing up against us, and you could still see a huge line waiting to make it's way in.

We didn't stay the entire set. Since the show had been sold out, and we could still see that line outside, we stayed for a little over half of their set before leaving. We were also up way past our bedtime, and we could feel it! So we opted to head home early in order to avoid the traffic, and grab a bite to eat. We picked Emery up before heading home and were all in bed before midnight. It was a pretty perfect night. I'm glad we were able to go out and have some fun!

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