Feeling Gooooooooood!

My "friends" and I have completed 8 good sessions together, and I have set aside one day a week for playing Wii games with the kids!  I did get me a heartrate monitor and am seeing very good things!  Using the equipment feels so good!  Today I hit the 15 minutes I had been doing on the gazelle and wasn't ready to stop!  So I did 5 more!  Then I did my weights for toning.  I really do feel better, not that I felt bad before.  I just know that I'm doing good for myself!  I don't dread using the equipment, I look forward to it.  I feel like I finally found the right balance for me.  Kerrie uses the equipment some too and loves it. 
Russ and I are managing to talk or chat daily even when life has me running hither dither and yon.  It sure lessens the feel of the distance to have that connection.  I hope it helps him feel more part of things here. 
If I can manage to be home for a few days I plan to get more things done in the craft building next week.  Time will tell on that I guess!

First Week of 2011

WOW!  This week went by quickly!  I was trying to add in several new things this week to my newly revamped schedule, but didn't quite get all of it.  Will add more next week and continue with things done this week! 
Now I 'd like to introduce you to a new friend of mine: Gazelle

 As well as a couple of older friends with whom I'm getting reacquainted: weight machine and ball

I decided that it was time for a healthier me!  All this week I have all been using either our juicer for fresh juice or our vitamix super blender to make a whole food smoothie.  I also accomplished working out 5 times this week if you count putting the gazelle together....and I do so.... *smiles*!  I am feeling better than I have in years!  For once in my life I don't dread working out and don't feel like "working out" is a dirty word like "laundry" is!  (No pun intended honestly!)  I am truly enjoying spending time with these friends of mine. (something I NEVER thought I would hear myself say!)  Between juicing and getting my body moving, I really do notice an increase in energy and general well-being.  I'm not after looking like some supermodel, I just want to be healthier. 
My new VERY flexible schedule keeps me on track and focused.  I began on Sunday night a new journal.  I planned out Monday and wrote down the things I wanted and needed to accomplish in the order I desired.  I did not put any times on these items just a list.  At the end of the day I wrote out the results of the day and then planned Tuesday.  This is turning out to be an amazing motivator for me and it's keeping me accountable to myself. 
What a great way to start of a new year!  Well my glass of whole juice smoothie is all gone so it's time to tackle the rest of today's list!  Blessings!

Mykhal is 15!

I just can't believe time is flying so fast!  He is now almost as tall as I am and wearing the same size as his daddy!  Then there's the fact that he often eats like a horse!

He is really enjoying his new stereo and new mp3 player.  He also recently got a fancy new phone.  Kids just grow up too fast!  And we just won't talk about what that does to me!