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Just an area for what I’m doing on an everyday basis.

Not Feeling Too Well

Posted on Saturday June 21st, 2008 by Pauline | Comments Off

I’m just not feeling too well.Â I don’t know why.Â I started off ok this morning, but when we were headed to REI I started to feel nauseated.Â Now I get motion sickness, but this is only 30-45 min so as long as I’m sitting in the front facing forward I’m all good.Â But I was feeling as if I was getting the beginning of a headache/migraine.Â I haven’t had a migraine in years and usually my headaches are from dyration or sinus, but they don’t make me sick.

I took it easy when we were at REI, spent some money.Â =) We are trying to pick up little things here and there.Â Part of the issue is for some of it, we are not sure what to get…such as what cooking things…Â There is so many different things and so much different info….it is mind boggling.

Then we went on to Torrid, about the only woman’s store that I can find stylish shirts that fit.Â My poor husband, I would not normally bring him….I usually buy clothes, take them home, try them on to show him and return them if they aren’t to our agreement.Â It helps to have someone who isn’t trying to sell something to you and wants you to look good for opinions.Â =)Â But the store is 30-45 min away.Â So he brings his iPod, watches a movie and sits on the bench in the store and I try to find things as quickly as possible to try on for him to give his opinion.

By the time we left, I thought I was doing ok, but a few miles from home….yuck.Â I had to laydown for a little bit and cover my eyes.Â I feel somewhat better, but not fully well.Â I didn’t even go tanning today or for my walk….which sucks. Â I love going for my walks.Â I’m debating on taking a tyenol pm to help me get over this and I don’t care to take those, gives me that drugged feeling in the morning.

I pretty much spent my day playing catch up on work.Â I had gotten busy yesterday so got none of my work done.Â I still need to put our laundry away….probably work on that tomorrow and try to finish this mess around my desk that I almost had done Thrusday before bed.Â Getting my nails done Friday really slowed me down…..but they were really needed.

I had a bunch of news stories that I wanted to rant and rave about….but I don’t feel well enough for them.Â =(

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My Boobie hurts.

Posted on Wednesday June 18th, 2008 by ToRn | Comments Off

I pulled a pectoral muscle while bench pressing 200# last week, I felt it when I did it and being the smart guy that I am, I just kept working out since it wasnâ€™t that bad, just something I thought I could work though and since we donâ€™t go to the gym on the weekend I thought 2 days of no lifting would take care of it.

I felt it somewhat on Monday as I worked out, but again, nothing too bad at the time but later Monday afternoon I sneezed (which lately is too common of a thing thanks to my allergies and the pollen count in OR is the highest in the nation this week) and when I sneezed I thought I blew my right boobie off, it hurt that bad!

Of course itâ€™s a “deep” muscle so I have trouble even getting to where it hurts to rub and so far Ben Gay isnâ€™t doing too much, so I just need to rest it I think. I didnâ€™t lift at all Tuesday and today I tried to bench 135# which has been my “warm-up” weight and I could still feel it so I gave up after just 4 lifts and will take the rest of the week off from the bench press which totally bums me out since I can actually SEE THE DIFFERENCE WHEN I LOOK INTO THE MIRROR!

Since last summer when I weighed 236# I have lost 29#’s total give or take, I am now 205# to 207# depending on the time of day. It has been so long since I have been able to see “definition” on my own body that itâ€™s freaking me out when I look in a mirror.

A few weeks ago I had to go to the bathroom at like 4-5am and when I was walking out to go back to bed, totally still 1/2 asleep, I caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror as I turned out the light and had to stop and turn the light back on and stared at myself for a few minutes totally amazed that I am once more in a “athletic” condition, I can still lose 5-10 more #â€™s but that would be my limit.

I am once more COMFORTABLY wearing my old jeans sized 34/34 which is down from my 36/34 that I have had to wear for the last 5 years or so. So I am making progress and I am pleased. I still want to get in better shape with better endurance with my first goal of being able to run 2 miles nonstop on a tread mill daily.

Right now the first thing I do when I get to the gym is 30 minutes on a treadmill, I walk a fast pace for .5 miles as a warm-up and then try to run as far as I can in .25 mile increments, the best I have done is 1.75 miles nonstop running (which I just did last week), but normally its walk .5 miles, run 1 mile, walk .25, run .25 to .5 and finish out the time walking until I get my 30 mins in and then I go lift weights.

There are a few women we see most days running on other treadmills and both can run 5-10 miles without thinking about it which I am jealous off, but at the same time I am not sure I want to do that. When I run more than 1.5 miles most of the time my feet and knees ache for a few days after, to the point that the next day of running I have issues even running at all, which has been my frustration since its pain and pain hurts, but it adds to the mental part of it since running has never been my favorite thing to do, so if mentally I am â€œnot thereâ€ I canâ€™t run, or lift for shit and those days piss me off like nothing.

Just wanted to brag with this post I guess, I think I look better than I have in years, I just need to start tanning again since this cracker is bleach white

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So-So

Posted on Tuesday June 17th, 2008 by Pauline | Comments Off

I sucked on the treadmill today.Â I went to a different one so I could see the TV better when I’m running, because I moving around too much to read and the machine felt totally off.Â So it sucked.Â =(Â I’ll pay for it tomorrow….it is work the legs day with my trainer.

Felt off the rest of the day.Â Doesn’t help that it stayed pretty overcast and chiller then the last few days.

It was great to see the Celtics win!Â I really wanted them to win and in Boston, even though I hated seeing them lose in LA.

But that wasn’t as enjoyable as it should’ve been.Â Â Sandi called and ZachÂ is in the hospital.Â They don’t know what is wrong except that the ER think it is his brain, they have him on a breathing machine and the CAT scan didn’t show anything so he was going for a MRI.Â He had headaches last night and got sick today and was glassy in the eyes….then the hospital was like you need to get your husband here.Â That is not a normal thing…..Â Â =(Â So my thoughts have been with her and the family.

Â A white rose I found on my walk.

From our hanging plant

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Nice & Sunny

Posted on Monday June 16th, 2008 by Pauline | 1 comment

The weather has finally gotten a little better for now….still 5 degrees chillier then it should be.Â It won’t be that chilly if our house faced east/west and got some direct sun……so we have to turn on the fire place/heat sometimes just to feel comfortable in a t-shirt.Â But at least we have been getting some sunshine…..thankfully.

I made sure I got out of the house this weekend and went for walks.Â I hate being inside and chilled, when I can enjoy the sun an get warmed up.Â Â When looking up local parks online, I found out that we had small trail in the next neighborhood over.Â That is so cool….something different and less chance of people.Â It is actually on our road, but our road has about 50ft that blocked off and grassy before it continues.Â It looks like that wooded area has been there for awhile.Â The trees are tall and thick, there are wild rose berry bushes, buttercups daisies and little white flowers everywhere and it is dark like an older area should be.Â It is surrounded by neighborhoods, so you can hear them sometimes, but it is still nice.

Wild Roses

Mt Hood from our road, in the next neighborhood.

Â I spotted a rabbit!

I have more pictures from walks in the neighborhood.Â Got some of some beautiful white roses….but I think I have posted enough for today.Â =)

Â Al Gore backs Obama for president

**I totally forgot to watch this.Â =(Â But I did watch it online.Â =)Â I’m wondering if Gore is going to start campaigning on his behalf.Â I would love to see that.

Fight The SmearsÂ

**I’m getting sick a tired of all the lies that are posted about him, I get sick of those emails that are sent out spreading the lies.Â It is crap spread that is started from shit spreaders and racist. The stuff goes around so much that people think that it is true.Â Fox News plays into it big time….gggrrrrÂ Hello….he has opened his life up long before he throught of running.Â He is the only one that has been honest…he admitted that he “inhaled”Â He has 2 damn books about his life…..that sold like hot cakes and you know who was buying them?Â WHITE people!Â If he was racist, they won’t have been buying them…and if he had been muslim, who the hell cares….the Constitution does not require that you have to be a jesus lover….

There are good muslim and bad muslim….just like christians….KKK anyone?Â Actually until the state of Israel was founded by extremist zionists, who debilitated went about destroying muslim/jewish/christian relations among families that have worked together for centuries.Â If anyone actually reads and studies history you would learn that they did use to work together in peace and with respect.Â There was an extremely revealing article in The Nation about that when they were reviewing a book.

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Chilly Weather & Pics from the Oregon Coast

Posted on Wednesday June 11th, 2008 by Pauline | Comments Off

I know it has been a bit since my last post.Â Been feeling blah and so really had nothing popping into my head to write about.

My legs are hurting from today’s workout.Â My trainer really pushed me today.Â I finally made some progress over the weekend weight wise, not much but something.Â Which is a good thing, because I was getting really pissed.Â It was like damn it, I’m watching my diet and working my ass off….gggrrrÂ This is the part that sucks on getting old, harder for your body to bounce back…annoying as hell.

I was trying to find an article that was posted yesterday on a local news site but I can’t find it.Â =(Â It was about the funky weather we have been having and that most folks are calling june-ary.Â It has been about 10degrees below normal.Â It is suppose to be in the 70s with some dry weather but it hasn’t been happening….hell, Government Camp and Timberline got snow yesterday and none of the snow from this winter has melted.Â Usually there is grass showing, but it hasn’t been happening up there.Â It has been crazy.
Told Harold that everytime we move funky weather hits.Â All the hurricanes that hit a month after we moved to Florida, the extra rain, floods and mudslids that hit the West and North of Portland last fall.Â I actually think it is Harold’s fault….when he lived in Washington years ago, they had snow and winters they almost never see……lol

I’m so looking forward to the next few days, it is suppose to be dry, sunny and in 70s.Â =) I don’t want a repeat of the major heat we had a few weeks ago, just want to be comfortable with the windows opened…..that isn’t too much to ask for, is it?

Â Seaside Sunset