Fri Jul 3, 2009

Happy Pre-Fourth of July!! Looking forward to an afternoon of MEEEE time! I lent Dan my Cherry Corolla S with AC for his work trip today so I'm car less and looking to accomplish some things around the house. Not that they are all SUPER constructive- but I'm including ones that make me happy too. :)

Got a workout in today at the open gym at CF2260. It was just Dan and Pat and myself. We worked on deadlifts. I'm really excited because this week was sort of a breakthrough week for me. I worked with the small bar again today, added weight to it. I was deadlifting 45lbs! Seems small but coming from ONLY working with a light as a feather PVC pipe, this is progress. It felt pretty good, don't want to over do it- so kept with the same weight, but I tried to do more reps near the end. I FEEL STRONGER. Afterwards when we were focusing on items we wanted to work on, Dan challenged me in my double unders. "Show me 50 double unders in a row and I'll buy you dinner". I tried so hard! The highest I got to was 40, but wound up completing something over 200+ in the time I attempted them. (And... I still think he'll take me to dinner! ;)

Now I'm gonna finish the last 50 pages of the most HILARIOUS book, Confessions of a Shopaholic and do some chores around the house. I also have the movie Donnie Darko I want to watch and return to Netflix. Started working on my budget for the month.... gotta say, I WILL be budgeting A LOT! No excess spending, as I ultimately can not afford it. So glad I have paid for belly dance for the next 9 weeks, have 4 used books (including shipping costs) coming in the mail for $15 total and many other activities to keep me preoccupied! I'll definitely find a new Christy over the next few months.... Excited, nervous and willing. I'm looking forward to our Huntington Beach vacation July 18-21 and REALLY working towards doing it on a dime- because that's pretty much all I've got :) New way of doing things, as I say!