August 3rd, 2009 by Missy

Talk about depressing. Compare the last time we did measurements…

…to today.

August 3rd, 2009 by Missy

Happy birthday to me!
Happy birthday dear Me!
Happy birthday to me!

Had lunch with Dan today (yes, three slices of Pino’s pizza is awesome for losing weight.. but it is my birthday, right?) and then did some shopping with Katie. Bought a dress that doesn’t fit, but had better fit soon. Bought a jump rope. Read a couple more pages of the book that Dan picked up for me last night.

It is kind of funny about jumping rope. I swear I can remember jumping rope forever and ever as a kid, but I doubt I could jump for more than a minute, now. Anyway, seemed like it would be at least semi-fun and you can get a great workout in not a lot of time. I was planning to run in the mornings after I drop the kids off at the bus, but if Dan is going to run with me when he gets home from work, then I don’t really want to run in the mornings as well. So, yes.. jumping rope! We’ll see how that goes.

I’ll probably post my measurements after Dan gets home and has a chance to do them for me. They’re going to be pretty pathetic compared to the last ones that I posted. I really have gained a lot of weight.. I’m up to 146ish right now. Very depressing. Ah well, guess it’ll come back off.

August 2nd, 2009 by Missy

I’m sooooore. We ran again today (around a dirt road back behind the horse riding school across the street, which was nice.. no glue smell like on the normal route). Well, Dan ran and I slogged / walked. Anyway, my.. hips?.. are sore, and my butt too. I’m so out of shape.

Experimented with some Udon Noodle Soup, but it didn’t come out as well as I’d hoped. I buy these “Annie Chun’s Noodle Soup Bowls” and they are ridiculously tasty, but they cost like $5 each, which is ridiculous. Hopefully with some more experimentation, I’ll end up with something tasty and not as expensive. The one I just made was definitely too salty, and the noodles were slimy. I was expecting them to be the fat, round udon noodles, but instead they were kind of flattish, and not at all what I had been wanting. Also, the bok choy stems needed to be cooked longer and it needed more red chile pepper for sure.

July 31st, 2009 by Missy

Must.. stop.. being so lazy! I haven’t worked out in a while now, and it is really start to get to me. I’ve definitely put on some weight that needs to go back off, but mostly.. I’m just feeling lazy. I’m not sure what it is, but I just keep eating and eating and eating lately.

The kids go back to school on Thursday, and I’m planning to start running again once they start school. We’ll see how that actually goes. I also have plans with my grandma to go to the mall (too hot outside for Grandma) three times a week and walk. I doubt it’ll really be that much exercise for me, but it is better than sitting on my ass all day, and it will certainly be good for Grandma. I need to get back into some weight lifting as well. I was up to 5-6 pullups at one point, yet now I’m back down to one..

Unfortunately, my iPod has bitten the dust. It appears to have sustained some water damage (splashed being near the sink?) and I am not at all happy. It is JUST outside of the warranty period, so I’m pretty much out of luck. I ordered a new one and it arrived today — took me about forever to get my iTunes set back up and organized since it disappeared when Dan fixed my computer. I absolutely hate having to spend the extra money on a new one, though. I’m still sort of hoping that the other one can be fixed somehow, and then I can give it to Anya or something.

Anyway, not much really to say.. just that I’m hoping not to be so lazy. If I were really serious I’d probably start working out right now instead of waiting until the kids start school next week.. but what can I say?

February 8th, 2009 by Missy

Well, we are thirty days in. I started at 138lbs and I am.. up to 139. Dan started at 162 and is now at 152. Does this seem unfair to anyone else? He gets 2400 calories a day and I get 1800. Recently (starting yesterday, actually) I dropped my calorie limit to 1700.

Here are the measurements for Day 30 for both of us.

I’m really kicking myself for not doing measurements on Day One.

February 7th, 2009 by Missy

So browsing around the internet tonight, I came across this:

“I’m trying to lose 15 pounds by eating healthier food and exercising. The trouble is that I happen to love fried food. I’m thinking of buying a deep fat fryer to cook vegetables, like tempura, for dinner. Is there such a thing as light oil or is fried food going to be too high in calories to be worthwhile?”

I mean, seriously.. who would possibly think “I’d like to lose weight.. time to go buy a deep fryer!”? Yes, adding vegetables into your diet is a great idea when you are trying to lose weight, especially if you aren’t the kind of person who normally consumes vegetables.. but how can you even begin to delude yourself into thinking that deep fried vegetables are diet food?

On a P90X note — tomorrow is our first thirty days completed. We didn’t take a full set of measurements on Day 1, which I am seriously disappointed about. I’ll post our Day 30 measurements, though, so we can at least compare those with Day 60 and 90 and beyond, or whatnot.

February 1st, 2009 by Missy

Well, we finally sat down and started doing some painting tonight. The black and red are just blocked in with some base colors at the moment, so ignore those. The only thing even resembling “done” at the moment is the gold. Unfortunately, I think it is looking rather.. rough. And it does NOT photograph well with flash so Dan and I had to spend about forever finding a decent setting to take the picture with sans flash.

Anyway, I’m not sure if this is going to stick or not. I really like the idea of the gold armor with the black cloth and maybe some red accents but.. yeah, don’t know if I can pull it off.

January 31st, 2009 by Missy

I did a pullup, I did a pullup! I did a chinup too, actually. Yes.. one of each. Whatever though, I’m all proud of myself ^_^

Also, my awesome and sexy husband bought me a heart rate monitor (and yes, I do always post with some kind of praise for him when he lets me spend lots of money). It is a Polar F6, and I also ordered a spiffy sports bra and transmitter from NuMetrex so that I don’t have to wear a chest strap. I wonder how long it will take before he decides that he wants one, too. I suppose he probably won’t, since he never likes to spend money on himself.

January 27th, 2009 by Missy

Sosleepy. Honestly, I’ve been sleepy for like two weeks now. Dan and I started P90X on January 10th and I’ve been tired since then. The problem, I think, is more staying up too late than the working out. It feels like we have no time anymore. By the time we workout, cool down, eat dinner.. the day is almost over! We generally stay up fairly late anyway, but we’ve been staying up later lately (yes, I know saying later lately sounds stupid) and I’m.. so.. sleepy!

I should just take a nap, but once again it just feels like a waste of day. Not that I am really doing anything at the moment (aside from posting this blog and staring at my monitor), so I’m not sure what the opposition to napping is, exactly. I do have things that I could be doing..

I have a dress that I want to sew for Anya, but I need to go to JoAnn’s to get a zipper and some ribbon or edging. I could be painting some Warhammer figures, but I’ve decided that I’m only going to paint when Dan is home (I don’t want to keep hobby swapping.. so daytime is for sewing and Dantime is for painting).

Speaking of painting — I’m in the mood to paint some Sisters of Battle models. I stripped down my old ones (well, Dan did actually.. he says I am too delicate to touch paint thinner ^_-) and they’re just kind of.. staring.. at me right now. I have absolutely no idea how I want to paint them. Everyone and their mother paints red / black / white for SoBs and I don’t really feel like going with any of the color schemes in the book. I’d kind of like to do red and gold, but gold power armor (and gold tanks QQ) would just be AHHHH. I could paint red power armor (and, thusly, tanks) but then where does the gold fit in? I don’t want to give them cloth of gold habits or anything. I suppose they could have red armor, white habits and gold accents (gold inferno pistol? LOL).

Sigh.. hopefully something will come to me when I break out the paints. Maybe I’ll just paint them pink -.- And use a fluffy bunny as their Order symbol. Ordo Lepus or something.

January 24th, 2009 by Missy

I seem to say this quite often, but it has been a long time since I blogged here! Rattributes and Sewpbox have been more active, but Exquisite Turmoil has been down-right neglected! Spring is in the air (not really, but hey — we’ve got the air conditioner blowing) so looks like it is time for a change!

I’ve got a new theme up (I’ve been taken with this style of drawing lately, as seen by Sewpbox’s theme) and I’ll be starting up the blog again! Not sure why, exactly, I need three blogs.. but I have them anyway. Rattributes is obviously for all things rat. Sewpbox is for my sewing projects and will soon also be housing knitted items as well. I may just make Sewpbox my “domestic” blog (sewing, knitting, embroidery, possibly cooking) and keep Exquisite Turmoil as a personal blog.

Only time shall tell.