Lunges & Layoffs

Lots to blog about today!

I took a rest day from the gym Wednesday for two reasons:

1. My body was feeling pretty tired from my double workout (swimming in the a.m., workout in the p.m.) on Tuesday.
2. I had to make 3 calls that had me on hold for nearly 2 hours: 25 minutes with Comcast, 18 minutes with Linksys, and then a grand 52 minutes with Comcast again. By then it was 10 p.m. and I was pissed off and tired!

Our router or something is totally messed up in the house...4 days without Internet now. I am leeching off of the neighbor's connection right now.

A lot of people were let go at the studio my company rents from today. This doesn't affect my company at all; we just pay them rent to use office space and the studio, so we are not affiliated with/linked to them. But I've worked alongside these people and I of course felt really bad for them. The atmosphere was very depressing. It made me realize how thankful I am to have my job and to know our company is actually growing right now. My thoughts and prayers go out to all the people having to deal with being unemployed. I hope things turn around soon.

Yesterday, a friend of mine shared her blog with me and I ended up reading every entry back to the first one. I met Morgan when I interned at WIFR and she was the evening producer there. She was an awesome mentor and helped me improve my broadcast writing, more than she realizes probably! : ) I absolutely love her blog I want mine to be more like it. I like how she shares what's going on in her life in addition to food and fitness, and includes a LOT of photos as well - and recipes! I recommend reading it!

Tonight I went to a class at the gym to mix things up, "Body Works Plus Abs." I don't go to this class much because I like Boot Camp on Mondays a lot better, but I missed this week's. I hate the first 5 minutes of this class, because the "warm up" is step aerobics, which I think are so lame. I hate them. First of all, I don't feel ANYTHING when I do them. My heart rate probably increases by 1. I feel like I'm 60 years old doing something really low impact, I can never coordinate the steps right, and I always look a dang foo'. Haha. OK done complaining about this small portion of the class!

The rest of the class is really great though. The reason I try to do one of these classes a week is because I can never get myself to do squats or lunges on my own, I always quit after 2. These classes force you to do them. The lunges always kill me. We also did a lot of arm and back work; my hands were hurting by the time I let go of my 5 pound dumbbells because we were gripping them for about 40 minutes. Oh, and we did WAY too may plie squats which are for your inner thighs. I could hardly get back up after awhile.

By the way, fellow bloggers...anyone know how to insert a photo exactly where you want it? When I click on the photo icon, it always inserts it at the top of the blog and I have to drag it alllllll the way down...very annoying.

Finally, I got a super cute workout top on sale at Kohl's this week, so I took a picture of it. OK, and maybe I want to show off my progress a bit too : )

Post-workout. L'il bit gross. Definitely have lost some inches around my waist. I measured this morning. I'd tell you how much I lost but that requires me digging my notebook out of my laptop bag and I don't quite feel like doing that right now! Today was my weigh in and my weight stayed the same. Not surprised since I couldn't workout last week. But glad no pounds gained and glad I got back on track this week.

Alright well that's plenty o' bloggin' tonight. Gotta get up for a workout in the a.m. since I go up to the boyfriend's place tomorrow after work.

Goodnight!