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September 4, 2008
Days 3 & 4, the things we do for friends!
LOL! I am now starting to blame Amy for the way I feel everyday since she peer pressured me into this. :) I'm only joking of course and at the end I'll be thanking her when I have rockin legs and possibly less junk you know where.
Yesterday I definitely hit a wall and was grumpy and snapping in the afternoon and losing perspective a bit. When we went to soccer that evening to watch Andy I walked the track a little bit (which helped immensely with my soreness) and gave myself an attitude adjustment and things are much better now. I have the nasty habit of worrying about what might happen so I've spent a great deal of this week worrying about Andy being woken up too early because I'm gone or how is might disrupt our family life. You know, me being a walking zombie who can barely lower herself down to a toilet because her thighs hurt so bad. Have you ever noticed how low toilets are!!! And why aren't hand rails required by all of them, I have no idea. But after a chit chat with my wonderful loving husband who continued to support this insane adventure, I am letting go of the worry and trying to just enjoy it as much as I can. Or as much as one can enjoy numerous squats, lunges and now sprints. : )
I can't express to you the pain we were in going into day three, I could barely get out of the van! He had stations of circuits set up and after our one minute warm up of jumping jacks and our regular squat presses and other such torture, we hit the stations. These included a minute each of more exciting exercises including side lunges with bands on your ankles, running with a band attaching you to a pole and pulling you back (which looked ridiculous) more jumping jacks, arm exercises, sprints, squat jumps- you name it and basically we did it for a minute. I think that took up like 20 minutes of the workout. What was great about it was that he had to explain some of the exercises which meant we were motionless for a time, it was lovely! I'm surprised he didn't have us running in place while we waited.
Today was more of the same, squats, lunges (are you seeing a pattern here, apparently these are the most effective exercises for your legs!), step ups onto a picnic table bench and turning around and doing dips on the bench as well. Running and then stopping and squatting side ways, walking lunges and then pushups! YAY! We ended today by holding a plank pose on our elbows for a minute and once again I was shaking at 10 seconds. This time he said, if its too much for you then put your knees down but still hold the plank pose. WHY even introduce that idea. So of course the whole time I'm thinking, how long till I can put my knees down? UGH, being competitive is a curse because I generally will not do anything modified. So I spent the last 30 seconds praying for each of the girls and then Andy and I as parents. This worked much better than counting or saying the alphabet which I have also tried this week. LOL
The soreness is going away although extreme fatigue seems to be setting in as I wonder if I'll ever get used to the schedule. Caroline continues to wake up and cry between 12:30 and 1am and even though Andy so graciously comforts her as we are trying not to feed her, I am still awake while he's doing it and have a hard time going back to sleep. If I could just get some good sleep, the 4:40 am wake up call wouldn't be so bad!
We'll see how he caps off the week, I myself can hardly WAIT! (does the sarcasm come through when you read that)
I will post about things other than bootcamp when I can see straight. I am working on the post for the hooded towels- no its true I promise!! But I am stuck trying to make the decision of whether or not to sell some of the more artistic felt designs as patterns. Don't worry I will share the instructions to the hooded towel because that is certainly not mine to sell, but I have designed several themes- butterflies, cars and now ducks and I'm trying to decide if I drew out the templates would people pay a couple dollars for them. Don't know, might just end up putting it all out there for free. I've long since decided the hooded towels aren't worth selling, I don't like to price my own stuff and I don't think I can sell it for $30 which is what it would take to be worth it. I really enjoy doing the intricate designs and spending time on them and don't think I can do a mark up to alot for my creative time. But I could sell those designs and templates for a couple dollars. Hmmmm, see how I've blabbed on my own blog now. Maybe its time for some food.
Until next time. . .
| By JennR | 11:18 AM
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I bet lots of people would pay $30 for those hooded towels - they make the best baby gifts!
You are the woman. I don't plan on standing next to you any time soon!!!
Posted by: Sharon at September 4, 2008 12:48 PM
I have to ditto that last remark - you could definitely sell those towels. Since you make them out of a whole towel, they last well into, or even past, toddler-hood. And mine still looks brand new. A good towel by itself is about $15 - why wouldn't you pay $30 for a hooded one with a great design? While you're at it, you should sell your burp cloths too. The ones you made me were by far the prettiest & they were the best size as well. At home, I used a variety of burp cloths, but in public, it was ALWAYS one of Jennifer's!
Can I just NOT comment on bootcamp? The whole thing is just so over my head.
Posted by: Lisa at September 4, 2008 1:42 PM
you go girl!! i'm very proud of you...you have almost made it through your first week!! you are going to look sooo hot when you are done. andy is going to really be thankful when you get done and his already hot wife looks that much hotter! hahha!! love ya!
Posted by: erin at September 4, 2008 4:45 PM