make-up

Since the meetings at the Y have been every Tuesday morning I have been missing the regularly scheduled tuesday practice times and Thursday is usually a day off- but now Thursday becomes Tuesday's practice.  I hope y'all can follow that.  So today being Thursday, I went in to the gym and got my Tuesday workout done.  It went by pretty quickly. okay, a lot faster than when I'm with the team.  No one to talk to, no one to film, no one to distract or be distracted by.  I got going around 930-ish and started with agility ladder followed by some box jumps from a snatch starting position.

Those two exercises usually go quickly, but today, I got attacked by a box and will have a big ole bruise on my leg- probably just in time for the meet.  The only good thing about being taken out by the box this morning (which is always embarrassing, alway funny (when it doesn't happen to you) and only slightly humorous when you do it to yourself- and that's more of a 'I'm laughing so I don't cry' reaction) was that I was all alone and there was no one there to laugh at me or be able to remind me time and time again about when I fell on my face.  whew. no cameras in there either.  whew.

After i picked myself up I got to work.  Although things went quicker by myself, I would have rather had someone (Ellyn) there with me.  I was doing jerk balances (and I've gotten better and they've been more enjoyable then when they were first assigned in this cycle) progress.  BUT it would have been helpful to have Ellyn there to help me through some of the mental doubt (?) I had about my positions, skill, strength etc.  Having here there not only makes me feel better, but I can talk/think/feel out loud what, today I kept in my own brain.  It was a pretty successful day. and rdls. did them. didn't want to cry when i did them today-- so that's good- or it meant i was doing them wrong. but I think they were okay.

Glitter is Good for the Soul

I've been ordered to get back to blogging. I asked what kind of blogging and I didn't get an answer. I'm sure it's more than just a number and then one sentence.  So I will update y'all with my lifting and life from the past whenever.  this weekend I was in some need of glitter and sunshine.  I found a few blogs that talked about glitter-izing a pair of ballet flats.  it looked fun. simple. easy. cheap. and produced fantastic results.  SO I started out with a brown pair of flats... and started layering the mod podge and glitter mixture, waiting for it to dry and doing it 3 or 4 more times... here's the process...

Brown original on the right and the first layer of glitter on the left

Both shoes with a few layers of glitter

(the white is the wet mod podge)

 Another shot of a dry shoe

 both.

 another shot of both shoes. dry and shiny.

Once the shoes were done... or maybe in the process of drying and shellacking the shoes I needed MORE glitter and I did my nails.  The first round of paint and glitter was "my significant other color" and silver sparkles... then I went with "india mood for love" and purple sparkles!

 I liked the pink better...

 Shoes and nails all together and all sparkled and glitter... made my soul happy! :) And I also made some letters (with glitter) for the Y.  I had glitter everywhere! I loved it. And it helped pass the time and lift my mood.

Lifting has been a little touchy the last few weeks.  I've been getting more hours at the Y and going to more meetings so I can step into a full time position (that allows time for training) and be in charge of a site and group of kids.  Right now I'm just waiting...

This might be important to know.. I have a meet in 3 days. oops. I don't ever pay attention to the meets and when they are until.. ummm pretty much after weigh-ins and when I start warming up.  Is that weird? I kind of feel weird that I don't get excited or nervous or pumped up(?) but when I get in the zone at the meet) I stay there and I'm focused and I perform well and more often than not I rise to the challenge and competition drives me on.  So for 3 or 4 more days I just relax and not realize there's a meet. :) Good thing I got that out of the way!

I have RDLs tomorrow and I'm super pumped.  Gotta cook my chicken between practice and work and work.  Tomorrow is my supa long day. so excited. get money get paid.

77.5 after breakfast.

emotional eating

yep. I'm an emotional eater. wont be posting a weight for tomorrow because it will most likely be through the roof. awesome. thank you emotional eating and lack of self-control.

annnd pause. . .

77.7 again.

really...?!

i do not know how this is happening... 77.7

well, that's irritating.

Same weight as yesterday. 77.2 great. not happy about that.