Another crazy week!

[Guest guest]

I’m taking a break from reading the over 800 emails I

had to catch up on from this week to let you all know how I’m doing. 

Actually, I’m really looking forward to starting school on Monday so I

can have a normal week!  LOL  It’s been nuts around here.  Monday and

Tuesday was instructor training at the gym.  Monday was a full day and mostly

PE games interspersed with the employee manual review and a pasta lunch.  Good

thing it was pasta, because I was still on soft foods only.  Tuesday was

intense as it was a group x 101 review followed by all 8 of us demonstrating

our classes.  I ended up with 2 ½ hours of straight exercise, doing everything

for about 15-20 minutes because the instructors who weren’t teaching at

the time made up the mock class.  Although, those young kids kicked my butt so

I can’t really say it was a mock class.  LOL  I’m the only one over

23 and the only one with experience teaching, so you can pretty much figure out

how the cueing and flow of the workouts went, but I was still worked hard

because they all worked at their fitness level (intense) and haven’t

learned how to give modifications yet.  Sorry, I can’t remember the order

we did it all in, but I know we started with kickboxing and ended with my yoga

class.  In between, we did a ball workout, a bosu workout, a strength workout,

a zumba workout, a circuit workout, and a butts and guts workout.  It was

actually pretty awesome to know that I could keep up with all those kids half

my age, but very tiring when they couldn’t cue properly or give

modification for my issues.  Eventually, I just started doing my own

modifications if they gave something really off the wall (alternating jump

lunges on the bosu for example), but except for a few knee and hip injury

specific things, I did alright.  Surprisingly, I wasn’t sore from it at

all. 

Wednesday I was suppose to have the day off to just lay in

bed and veg, but DH decided that I needed to have some stress in my life

instead.  He had an episode with his blood pressure at work.  Now we’ve

known for a while now that he has blood pressure issues, but its been pretty

much under control with diet and exercise.  Since I’ve been in school

this last semester though, he’s gotten out of the habit of eating right

and exercising.  Said something about being sick of it and I wasn’t here

to push him on it.  Anyway, he works for the sheriff’s department in the

next county, 30 miles away, and when his BP spiked, they had a deputy bring him

home.  Wouldn’t even let him drive himself because it was so high.  As

soon as he got here, I force fed him a banana (potassium helps lower blood

pressure) and took him to the doctor.  He’s on a new BP medicine and it

is now under control, but I’m still checking it 3-5 times a day to be

able to show the doctor next month when he goes back to see how it is reacting

in relation to the  meds and other factors.

Thursday I had to get up early to take him to work since his

car was still there.  This would be fine, but he has to be at work at 6am and

because of the distance, we had to leave at 5am!  So, up at 4am!!!!  UGH!  Took

him to work, came home and got the kids off to school, then went to get a

friend to go to Valdosta to get my school books and do some shopping.  As we’re

walking in the mall, she remembers she has a hair appointment in Fitzgerald—we

were 2 hours away in Valdosta.  So, quick shopping trip and rush back to

Fitzgerald, lol, but at least I got my books for Monday when school starts.  Got

home and relaxed for a little while then ran to pick the kids up to take Bobby to

the dentist (had to get a partial to replace the teeth that were knocked out

when he was hit by that truck a couple years ago), Koti to cheerleading, then

Bobby to his tech school program.  Then pick Koti up from cheerleading and take

her best friend and boyfriend home as they were both having issues with family

members in the hospital.  Long story short, we may end up with a couple extra

kids at our house for a while because their parents are either sick or taking

care of terminally ill relatives.  Finally got to go to bed after picking Bobby

up from his Tech school at 10 pm.  He’s finally got his drivers license

and I’ll be so glad when I get him a vehicle so I have one less person to

taxi to and fro.

Friday, I slept!  LOL  As in I didn’t get out of bed

except to take the kids to school (only because Koti had a project that had to

be transported or they would have walked.  LOL) until 2:30pm.  After I finally

got up, I picked up the kids, ran a few errands, and then we went to the

football game.  It was just a scrimmage, but we had a blast.  Koti is on the

competition cheer team and not allowed to be on the football cheer team because

she is only a freshman (not sure about that rule, but anyway), so she was doing

all the cheers in the stands along with the girls on the field.  My DH had

warned the kids not to expect our team to do too well because the team we were

facing is a much bigger school and usually has a better football team.  Well,

Koti told him that she had told the football team (she’s friends with

most of them because the boyfriend is one of them and she is a cheerleader)

that if they didn’t win, not to bother coming back to school, so they

were going to win for her.  They won!  35 to nothing!  DH was shocked and DD

was proud of her powers of persuasion.  LOL

As I’m sure you noticed there were several activities

of daily living that required movement, but only one day of actual exercise. 

That really sucks in my opinion, so I’m super excited to get started with

classes on Monday.  I’ll be taking martial arts 3 days a week, weight

training 2 days a week, and teaching yoga 2 days a week, so my exercise habits

will be much improved.  It’s just been so crazy that I haven’t had

the time to exercise the way I want, so I’m putting it in my schedule the

easiest way possible, with school.  LOL  I’ll also have several hours a

day while I’m in Valdosta that I will have to kill between classes, so I’ll

hopefully spend some of them in the gym.  Some of them will be in a computer

lab too!

Okay, off to go finish reading all your messages.

Tonya