Day 3 (My Little Angel)

At about 2am, I rolled over and noticed that my calves were no longer just a little sore. I thought, “I’m going to have to skip those jumping jacks today.” At about 2:30am, I rolled over and realized that my back was a little sore. That’s when I remembered that I had not just done jumping jacks, I had also done back strengthening exercises. So I thought, “Maybe I’ll just do my traditional 2 mi walk ½ mile jog that has not been losing me any weight.” I fell asleep confident that I had a plan. When my alarm went off at 5am I got out of bed, when I pushed myself up with my arms, they were a little sore, I remembered that I had done those arm strengthening exercises. I went to the bathroom and contemplated my plan. I was NOT going to do the jogging part of my routine. My calves were now so sore that I wasn’t sure I could walk 2 ½ miles now. I put on my knee braces and then tried to put on my shoes. “Ow,” said my back as I bent over to pick up my shoes, “OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!” said my calves as I struggled to get my feet into my shoes. “Ow,” said my arms as I pulled on the laces. “Wow," I thought. "I’m not sure I can walk a mile in this condition. I have a cell phone though, I can always call my husband to come and get me if I can’t make it back home. Oh that’s right, he can’t hear the phone---he always sleeps on his good ear (he’s deaf in the other). Well, I can just lay there until the old (older than me) people start walking. They’ll save me.” I went outside and it was foggy and misty. I decided that I could get run over if I lay in the road under these conditions. I went back inside and realized I only had a ½ an hour to do anything now. I thought, “Well, I can try and do some of the exercises from the other half of the routine that I only got half way through yesterday.” I started to stretch….ooooowwwwwwww………….. I decided to walk when I got home, that way I could be rescued if I need it. Then I decided to look for another online exercise program---this one isn’t working for me. I found one that was free. Sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it? Well, it is. Apparently, it is a guise for on line dating. I didn’t submit the picture that they asked for, otherwise---I wouldn’t have these men wanting to be “my exercise friends.” I think I’m going to have to change my email address.

Again, I got off from work at 7pm. I went home and dinner was waiting on me from my sweet husband who is not aware of this week’s efforts to lose weight and get in shape. I think I’m eating more calories than I’m burning these days. But I digress; I decided to put off the walk until after dinner. My twelve year old, Chrissie, likes to walk with me when she’s awake (she’s not, if I walk in the mornings)—it was 20 minutes until her nightly Japanese anime TV show, Pucca, so she asked me to wait until it was over at 9. By now, I’m getting tired and thinking of blowing it off all together. My calves were still extremely sore. This is when my buddy, Chele txt’d to ask how the walk went. (I had emailed her about my new daily routine and had mentioned my plans to walk this evening.) I thought, “Awe man, I guess I better walk.” Chrissie was as excited about this walk as an Irish setter would be. She got her shoes on and was out the door before I could bend all the way over to pick my shoes up. I gingerly walked out the front door and because of the pain I felt walking down 3 whole steps, decided that I should stretch. That’s when my 80 lb FAVORITE child asked me why I was stretching. I said that I had been exercising and was a little sore. Then my little angel asked me what kind of exercising I had done. To which I responded, “Mainly jumping jacks.” She said, “Jumping jacks?! I do 100 of them every day after school!!!!” To which I responded, “I used to do that when I was your age as well.” We then started our walk. This is when that little spawn of the devil started doing jumping jacks around me in circles while I was trying to walk 2 miles. She kept that up for a ½ a mile!!!!! I finally said, “Now, cut that out.” So she simply started running around me in circles. About this time, I was thinking, “I should have gotten an Irish setter instead of having children.” I then realized that I needed to go potty, I think those jumping jacks shook something loose. I shouldn’t have said anything because my little freak of nature said, “I have to go, too.” When we were about 100 yds from the house she took off running. I thought, “Fine at least she’ll be done by the time I get there.” But no, she had climbed to the top of the tree in order to laugh at my little limping self and jump out of the tree just as I got to the house and beat me to the bathroom. This is when I decided that I have REALLY have got to make an effort to get my walk in when this child is sleeping in the morning.