I’m not avoiding the workouts, but I am avoiding the keyboard.
Thurs morning is a blur. I went to the gym – Stairmaster and full body workout with weights and medicine ball – that’s all I remember.
Thurs night was karate. Worked on Penon 1 for over 20 mins. If I can perfect it, I’ll learn Penon 2 during this forms rotation.
Fri I skipped core class because I was a bit achey in my back and shoulders and felt like I needed yoga. I did 2 yoga classes I had DVRed.
Fri night I went to the Mommazine launch party with a couple of girlfriends. We all wore great tshirts from tip top living, to help promote the great woman who makes them. The guest speaker was the author of 365 Nights: A Memoir of Intimacy. She gave her husband intimacy every day for a year as a 40th birthday gift. She spoke about finding balance and a connection, and how that had a greater effect on all other aspects of her life. She opened with, “Raise your hands if you thought to yourself, ‘I’m going to get married and never have sex again,’ or ‘I want to have kids that never leave the house’.”
One tip from Charla (the author): Have your babysitter arrive an hour before you think you need to leave for where ever you’re going. Tell her, “Here’s the pizza, here are the rented movies, here are my kids. Now I’m going to go finish getting ready.” And then sneak back to your room and have sex with your husband before you go out. Then what you guys eat, drink, do or say won’t effect intimacy later in the evening.
She was a great speaker because she was so REAL and accessible. Her book is not about sex, it’s not raunchy – or in her words – it’s not salacious.
Saturday morning we went to a friend’s bat mitzvah at synagogue. After the kiddush luncheon I drove up to a friend’s house in Clearwater Beach with my girls. We played Mah Jongg, chatted a bunch, made dinner and went to see “The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1)“. It blends Greek mythology with modern day tween adventures. Wendy had to read it the summer before 5th grade, and all 3 girls in our house (that includes me) ended up reading and enjoying it. Alice actually breezed through the whole series. The series was written for the author’s son, who, like the book’s hero, was diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia. The movie has some great creepy characters, and Percy encounters many dangers throughout his adventures, but overall the movie is not very scary – young kids should be just fine in the audience with an adult’s hand nearby. And it’s great for big kids to watch Percy find the strength he needs to overcome all the challenges that he encounters (with some help from his friends). I also love that he is very respectful to his mom and is not ashamed to show he cares for her.
Today is Sunday and first I got all the cleaning taken care of, made enchiladas, did the grocery shopping and recycling with Brian, then more cooking, and now I am chilling for half an hour before my friend brings her kids over for dinner and some Wii time so she can go out for V-Day with her husband. She’s taking Wendy home with her to sleep over, and Alice has a slumber party to go to, so Brian and I will have some alone time tonight and tomorrow.
I’d like to congratulate my friend who had her salacious photos on display at MUSE II art & BODY ART Party @ ARTpool Gallery. (You know who you are, hot stuff…) And congratulations to me for killing off my to-do list this weekend. I might even find time to do my nails tonight!
2010 goal update: 3160 crunches, 79 minutes of plank remaining.
