Tuesday - Messed up morning - but Tae Bo

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Hi Everyone,

First - to - if you see the Pick Your Level

workouts at Ross - get them!! The Dozois one

is good - a circuit workout with a functional fitness

flair! Not super hard, but not super easy, either.

I think it could be made more difficult if you went

with the higher intensity modification right off the

bat rather than waiting for her to lead up to it -

can't do it the first time through the workout, but

certainly the next time. The Pilates one is good, too

- I'm biased about workouts lead by Ellen Barrett

though, I like her!

Okay - on to my morning. DD has been getting up at

ungodly hours. This morning it was 4 a.m., I just

CAN'T let her get up that early - so I laid back down

with her and she fell asleep until 6:30 (and so did I!

I'm going to get a small alarm clock for her bedroom

so I can at least get myself up to workout on these

days/nights!) Anyway, due to that, I didn't workout

until later in the morning - decided to have

breakfast, coffee, and do some housecleaning, e-mail,

and work first. Plus, I had a phone call from my poor

friend with the broken feet/ankles - ugh, she's going

to be laid up for another 8 weeks. She actually brok

BOTH of her ankles - one was shattered and needed the

surgery, the other was just a routine break. All

this from falling down one step, tripping on a dog

bone and carrying a load of laundry - I always knew

that housework was dangerous and now I have proof. I

really wish I could take leave from work under the

FMLA so I could go up there and drive her kids around

- they're in soo many afterschool activities and she

has no one to rely on to help with the driving - her

husband/friends have been doing some, but she's

worried b/c it may be longer than 8 weeks before she

can drive again.

Anyway - I pulled out Tae Bo Fat Blasting Cardio this

morning for a change of pace. This one uses the

Bands from the first Bootcamp set. It is a pretty

decent workout - it doesn't ahve the energy of the

Live classes but it is still a good one and pretty

high up there in intensity. I used the bands, but I

recall doing this workout without them and just using

handweights instead and I recall that worked pretty

well. Anyway, after Tae Bo I did 10 Min Solution

Fitness Ball Stretch - DD joined me on her little

ball. SHe also played with my Bands when I was

finished with them. I love her to death, but I'm sure

looking forward to having my " sacred " exercise time

back sometime soon.

We're going away for the weekend, I hope that somehow

knocks her sleep patterns back into something

reasonable. Becuase she gets up so early she wants to

go to bed at 6 p.m., yesterday she fell asleep sitting

up on the couch at 6:30! I hate for her to take a nap

b/c she is really grouchy when she gets up and then I

can't get her to go to sleep at a decent hour. I 'm

hoping that today she'll nap in the car on the way to

or from pre-school, that may be just enough to get her

to stay up a bit later tonight but not so much taht

she won't go to bed or has trouble sleeping. I lucked

out with her as infant - she slept great - but I'm

paying for it now. Although, honestly, I'd rather

deal with a 3 year old's sleep issues than an infant's

- a 3 year old can be reaonsed with to some extent!

LOL!

Anyway, I'm running super late for everything now so I

gotta get in the shower and get her to preschool and

me to my coffee shop (my office away from the office

and my home office - her preschool is far enough away

that it isn't worth it for me to come home, so I camp

out in a coffee shop w/ my laptop and do my work!)

Take care!

Donna

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