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Monday…another Monday

So, yesterday convinced me.

I’ve got to start working out.

I mean it…really!

I’m achy and exhausted from the morning’s rehearsal and two music sets.

I was sweating and winded by 9:10. Between the early morning - hope everything works out ‘cuz this is all the practice we’re gonna get…and we may have to “wing it” rehearsal, the 800 degree lights, the adrenaline, the nerves because my voice was weak, the spiritual aspect of working so hard to inspire people to worship, the fact that I’m old enough to be the rest of the band’s mother….

Well, anyway, the point is that this morning I feel like I’ve been hit by a truck. Advil is my bff. Coffee is my other bff.

The Bowflex needs to be my bff…followed by pilates, fluidity, “The Firm”, 30 minute abs…and anything else I can find on late night infomercials. I need to find some new obsessions…

So, this is it. Today’s the day. As soon as I finish this blog, and my coffee, and the Advil kicks in…seriously! I AM NOT JOKING!!!

I’m gonna get so buff that all my friends get worried about me and tell me I need to relax and take a break…and they take me to lunch that’s really an “intervention” because I’m just way too obsessed with exercise…and they send me to one of those fancy “retreats” to learn to go through just one day without having to work-out for hours and hours….

Okay, so maybe my dreams are a little lofty…and frighteningly dysfunctional - But, I’m just trying to make a point…where was I? Oh yeah, TODAY IS THE DAY!

Of course, I do have a standing rule that any commitments I make on Monday are open to further review when I’m a little less delirious and a little more sane…

So, I guess the bottom-line is: I’m starting to get seriously ready to begin contemplating a paradigm shift in my attitudes and/or behavior as it relates to my lifestyle - visa vie: sedentary vs. obsessively active.

And I am unanimous in my decision! :-)
Peace.

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on February 11, 2008
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Temperamental Tuesday

Traditionally, Tuesdays have been slammed - staff meetings, band practice - but today is different. It’s still crazy busy - just different. There are deadlines and errands, and since the “office” is spread out among the staff’s homes, it’s a little more time consuming to sign letters, etc. - someone’s gotta get in the car and drive. And since the staff meeting took place yesterday, there’s no meeting today, so…

…I guess I had gotten used to one kind of busyness, and it’s hard to get used to this kind.

Plus, it’s freezing (I know it’s probably in the mid sixties, but I still have a wool sweater and scarf on today!). The cold always makes me move slower…I just wanted to spend the day sitting by the fire in my bathrobe - but…it just wasn’t meant to be.

After car-line, we’re headed out to Moss Park - we’re working on our “C3 Day at Moss Park” - I think I’ll take my camera…the red eyed cranes out there are gorgeous.

I do have the 5K that I inadvertently agreed to “run” on my mind, too. Last night, I walked the distance of the race…I wasn’t able to try to run any of it because, well…it was still light outside and my artistic ego can’t take that kind of humiliation…

But, tonight I’ll just try to walk it faster. We better get a treadmill, or I may never run it until the actual day of the race - maybe the race will take place in the dead of night, and there will be a city-wide power failure, and everyones’ camera batteries will spontaneously go dead…maybe. (I can dream, can’t I?) Oh, how did I ever get myself into this!!!

Okay, so this has just gone from “Temperamental Tuesday” to “I think I’m gonna have a panic attack and hyperventilate and die Tuesday”, but maybe I’m being a tiny bit dramatic…maybe.

I’m gonna go now before I inadvertently agree to any more torturous activities…

maybe I should call this “Drama Queen Tuesday” - it’s my blog, I can call it whatever I want.

peace out…

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on January 15, 2008
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Finally…

…when the alarm went off this morning (we slept in a little, so it went off at 6) - anyway, when I heard it, my first thought was, “Finally! I slept through the whole night!!”

From 11pm to 6am - that’s more than a full night for me. Yippee!!

Of course, it would probably take a month’s worth of nights like that to repair my insomnia, but I’m going to concentrate on the positive. And, maybe, tonight I’ll get to sleep by 10 and sleep ’til 7…Maybe!

By the way, the “tattoo” in the pic below (”Where’s My Fainting Couch”) is not real…

It looks like I’ve been talked into my first race. But at least it’s not ’til April - I will definitely need that long to train so that I don’t hyperventilate and die…or at least embarrass myself really badly. Were doing some kind of “group run” and Amanda is the slave-driver captain…I think she’s met her match with me…

We’ll see…

I’m not sure if sitting on the couch, blogging - while eating cheese toast and watching “Millionaire Matchmaker” is in the training regimen, but…

…oh well. I slept through the whole night so it’s all good no matter what. :-)
I guess I should go clean the laundry off of the elliptical machine…

peace.

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on January 11, 2008
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Just Another Happy Wednesday…

(…to be hummed to the tune of “Manic Monday” by the Bangles!)

So, I’m still not in the “swing of things” for the new year. I keep thinking that I should be more focused, more “resolution” oriented…it is January, after all! But I still feel like I’m on vacation from the real world…I’m still staying up way too late, eating poorly, and feeling groggy all day - and the weather is not helping, at all!!! They say it will feel like it’s 20 something tonight!!! That’s insane…

How can I possibly arise with the sun, all chipper and brilliant, have an uplifting quiet time, do pilates, make sure my home is beautiful, clean and peaceful…bake bread…sew clothes from scratch - okay now I know I’m thinking of some other domestic diva - …I’m lost at “arising with the sun”, much less baking and sewing from scratch (I did try those things back when I thought it was in the job description - before I realized that people would rather eat and wear things that weren’t homemade by me…) - Anyway, I digress…where was I? Oh yeah, how am I supposed to be all domestic diva-ish when it’s 20 stinkin’ degrees!!!

Oh well, maybe if I would exercise, then I would warm up - I thought all this weight I’ve gained over the past two years was supposed to keep me insulated! And what about that whole global warming thing? Helloooo!

So, this is even more random and ridiculous than most of my ramblings (but at least I alliterated my “issues”)!

Anyway, Happy Wednesday - I’m making jambalaya tonight - and cherry pie (don’t hate - I’ll have a field green salad, too - and I’m just celebrating my RESOLVE to start tomorrow…)

…just don’t ask me how I’m doing with my diet and exercise - I have blood sugar issues, and I could snap at any moment!! Fair Warning!

(I am still looking for a 1/2K that I can run…I get winded just thinking about it! :-) )

Have a Happy Wednesday!

Peace.

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on January 2, 2008
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