Day 357 (day 7 / week 50)

Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house,
not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
in hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.

The family was nestled all snug in the bed,
and mommy was still awake,
doing push-ups and reverse crunches instead.

lol.

Seriously though. It's hard to do the exercise thing during the holidays with lots of family and a little kid, so I ended up doing something before bed. That's what I did for exercise. 3 sets of 10 push-ups and 2 sets of 25 reverse crunches.

As you all know, I miss Pebbles (my dog that we had to give back, that now has a happy home with someone else). Deep in my heart I want a pet, but I won't ever go find one. I was talking with God yesterday and in my heart I said that I would never go looking for a pet again. I thought the only way I would ever end up with a pet is if one found us (what are the chances of that happening, right?).

Today (Thursday December 24, 2009) a cat found us. The poor thing was skin and bones and just begging for attention. We were going to the grocery store and this cat approached my hubby and practically jumped in the car. It was the funniest thing. This was someone's family member at some point, because it's wearing an orange sweater, has been de-clawed but is totally emaciated.

When we got home from the store (45 mins later) the cat was still there. My son fell asleep in the car so I got him out and put him in his room, and as I came out of the hallway this cat was sitting in the middle of the living room. I have never seen this cat before today--it just totally welcomed itself into our house and home.

We went out searching for posters of this lost cat, looked on craigslist and local classified ads, but we haven't found a thing. She used to be someone's family member and it hurts me to think that she could have possibly been abandoned (so many animals in this area are being left behind w/ the foreclosure of homes). She stayed in the house and purred at our feet.

We ended up leaving again so we gave it some tuna, put it outside and left for the night. When we got home a 4 hours later, it was gone so we just went to sleep, somewhat relieved (and missing Pebbles). Funny cat.

Anyway Merry Christmas!

I can do this. I am a star.

Day 277 (day 4 / week 39)

I keep thinking today is Monday. I also keep thinking that it's the 3rd. Monday the 3rd. Wow, my brain is waaay off lol.

I did my work thing today. It was extremely busy. I had 5 isolation rooms, and 6 total cares (12 patients total--always). That means nothing to you, but it's a lot of work. Lifting, moving, transferring, turning... Non-stop. I started doing my vitals at 7am and before I knew it, it was noon already and time to do the afternoon vitals. Busy busy day. Good thing I prayed before work for harmony, because despite my very busy/stressful day, I didn't feel stress, or pressure. I kept humming and singing throughout the day, and just did my thing.

I also took the stairs.

Early this morning when I was gathering linen to bring to a patient, I was wondering why the heck my arms were sore. That would be because of yesterday's concentration curls. I forgot about those. Sweet. I forgot how sore muscles feel and how rewarding that feeling is, because I know what it's from. My plan is to do some tomorrow after work (too soon to do them today).

Off to bed. Hope you had a great day and made it count! It's the best thing you can do considering that it's almost the end of the year! Just think, if you do something now, you'll be ahead of yourself for the holidays. They are coming up fast!

Good night :). DLTBBB.

I can do this. I am a star.

Day 210 (day 7 / week 30)

Today I got out early to walk and decided to walk for 60 minutes since that was all the time I had before my hubby had to leave for work. I don't have any routes that take 60 minutes, and I didn't want him to be late, so I just walked for 30 minutes and turned around (assuming it would also take 30 minutes to walk back).

Well during my walk, a young lady ran passed me and I immediately thought to myself, "I can do that" so I did. I ran like the wind. If my hubby was behind me, he would have yelled, "Run Forest! Run!" (No wait...that would have been me, if I didn't look like a crazy person yelling it at myself lol). I started off pretty slowly and clumsily but then decided to pick up my feet (always a good thing) and I felt like I was flying! I cut 20 minutes off of my time, because I got back to my neighborhood with a little over 20 minutes to spare.

My heart rate monitor was being wonky...it said my HR was jumping from 112 to 165 so whatever. That was frustrating, but I was flying so I couldn't be bothered with the nonsense numbers. lol.

I rapped around and came in through a different part of our neighborhood just to kill some more time and I got back after 55 minutes (3 miles).

Do you ever have a feeling, like when you are talking to your spouse/friend/someone, where you didn't get an answer from that person, but then God answers it for you, sometime later? Well last night I was thinking about this clothes box/pile that we have in the corner of our room. It's clothes that the Monkey Boy and myself have grown out of (in my case shrunk out of lol). I asked my husband, "do you know where I can take those clothes tomorrow? I'm tired of looking at them." He said, "I think there is a drop off station by Albertson's or Smith's somewhere." I'm a little anal and don't care too much for wild goose chases so I asked, "which one, the one on Buffalo?" he says, "sure," which is his way of saying, "I don't know." I shrugged and kind of wished to myself that I knew exactly where to take the clothes.

Well today when I got back from my walk/flying session, I was saying my good-bye's to my hubby and noticed this little yellow bag pushed up against the house, where our garage would be, if we had one (it was converted into a room that we called the wasted space room). I grabbed it and it was from the vietnam veterans, and they were looking for clothing donations--pick up time is THIS MORNING. Isn't that funny? In the last few months that we have lived here, I have never gotten anything for a donation pickup so that just warms my heart, that He was listening and He answered my question. God really does answer prayers. :)

Off to take a shower.

Make today count. Go flying! Run like Phoebe on Friends. If you haven't seen that episode here is a snipit from youtube. It's broken up so you only get the running part of it. So funny!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfaztVg4kaA

Make it count!

I can do this. I am a star!