quote:Originally posted by dean: SO if my cholesterol is too high its all Amy, Kim and David's fault!
Nice try, bub. Who did the ordering, humnnn?
Someone, make me get back to fighting with Powerpoint. I have a slide presentation on "Science in the Preschool Classroom" to give tomorrow night, and I'm still not happy with it. But instead of settling down and finishing the stupid thing up, I've: 1. Cleaned my desk. 2. Nagged my boys about their rooms. 3. Looked in the fridge around 10 times. 4. IM'd my sister. 5. Read the Message Board. 6. Cleaned out my tote bag. 7. Threw out some disgusting celery found in the bottom of the produce bin. 8. Told the boys to solve the argument over ping pong scoring before I think up a really unpleasant chore. 8. Called my co-teacher to see if she got her petty cash reimbursement, (she did!) so why didn't I? 9. Proofread an essay for my son that really could use some improvement. Sent him back to do edits. Yes, I am the meanest mom in town.
Ah, can you stand the excitement?
Back to work.
Amy in MA "Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not." --Ralph Waldo Emerson
Posts: 8838 | Location: Newton (outside Boston), MA | Registered: 17 June 2001
All this talk about exercise is making me tired. I think I shall go and take a nap!
So far today I went to synagogue services this am, then had breakfast there (not anything on anyone's diet!) with my friends. I had told my daughter that I would help her out today with a little child sitting, starting after Karlie's Sunday school. So I did a bit of shopping (at Whole Foods, Dean) and got mostly healthful things then returned to the synagogue to pick up Karlie. We hung out for a few hours at my house, and then I took her to the Y for a swimming party; my daughter will pick her up from the swim party.
I had planned to go to the movies today, but it seems less and less appealing to put my boots on one more time. At Whole Foods, I bought some salmon and all I need to do is gather the energy to cook it. My favorite way is just to poach it in the microwave. I also bought some more of the Vermont mozzarella di bufala, which tastes great with some Umbrian olive oil I have. So if I just poach the salmon, maybe I can have that tomorrow and the cheese tonight. Life is full of difficult choices.
Now -- a nice skim latte and then a nap. I mean an accidental nap -- the kind where you lay down to read or watch tv and fall asleep.
Ciao from my own personal snowbelt. M
Posts: 7050 | Location: Montclair, NJ, USA | Registered: 16 March 2003
words of wisdom to live by from Stephen Sondheim's The Frogs {The chorus is singing a prayer to Dionysus...} Dionysius "A hymm to me, the god of wine..." Xanthius (His slave) "I thought you were the god of drama?" Dionysius "I am the god of wine and the god of drama. A little wine will get you thru a lot of drama"
Posts: 4614 | Location: Casa del Fenicottero Rosa, Silver Spring, MD USA | Registered: 06 August 2002
words of wisdom to live by from Stephen Sondheim's The Frogs {The chorus is singing a prayer to Dionysus...} Dionysius "A hymm to me, the god of wine..." Xanthius (His slave) "I thought you were the god of drama?" Dionysius "I am the god of wine and the god of drama. A little wine will get you thru a lot of drama"
Posts: 4614 | Location: Casa del Fenicottero Rosa, Silver Spring, MD USA | Registered: 06 August 2002
Dean, tomorrow will be your last day with the trainer? Will she write a program for you to follow without her?
I haven't used a trainer for quite awhile, but I don't think that I would have been so successful without one in the beginning.
I used to have a trainer that liked to use medicine balls and various other things like a disc that looked like a frisbe, but had bumps on one side.
You reminded me of using the ball for sit ups. I used to use it for crunches, but got out of the habit. I still use it, but I put my legs on it with my back on the floor.
Today, I:
- Ran 3 miles (I'm working towards 5) - Bench Press 2 sets - Incline Bench 2 sets - Bicep Curls (barbell) 2 sets - Supine Tricep Push Ups (barbell) 3 sets - Seated Row 2 sets - Lat Pull Down 2 sets - Flys 3 sets - Overhead Press 2 sets - 50 crunches on the machine - 30 sit ups on the ball - 120 crunches legs on ball (I pull my knees toward my face while I crunch)
I didn't get to do the Decline Press because a group of smelly guys were hogging it.
Oh for cripes sake!!! You guys are making feel like I should feel guilty.....which I don't, am just thinking about it. Took a lovely walk here, at the ocean for about 2 hours today, in weather that required nothing more than a light sweater. Then, brunch, sitting outside on the terrace. Big sunshine, NO Snow or strenuous excercise.........no, I don't feel guilty. I don't want to live in the cold, so I don't. Now we're planning an early evening movie...Big Fish...anyone seen it? Ciao, Cheryl is sunny California..
quote:Originally posted by Mizz Eve: Dean, tomorrow will be your last day with the trainer?
No I see her once every 10 days or so.
quote: What is a Romanian Lift?
Its a Romanian dead Lift (or as Kay says, What am I doing lifting a Dead Romanian?):
I use dumbbells at home, a barbell at the trainers. You bring the weight to your thighs with your hips and stomach tight. Keep your weight to your heels and your butt out behind you reach down and bring the weight down to below your knees, keeping your back straight (I look up while doing this part). Breathing uot, bring the weights up by straightening up and tihtening your hips so you don't flex your back. From the neutral position, srug your shoulders and then go to tiptoes. COme back the the neutral position. Repeat 11 times.
words of wisdom to live by from Stephen Sondheim's The Frogs {The chorus is singing a prayer to Dionysus...} Dionysius "A hymm to me, the god of wine..." Xanthius (His slave) "I thought you were the god of drama?" Dionysius "I am the god of wine and the god of drama. A little wine will get you thru a lot of drama"
Posts: 4614 | Location: Casa del Fenicottero Rosa, Silver Spring, MD USA | Registered: 06 August 2002
I saw Big Fish a couple of weeks ago. It's great! I say this even though I fell asleep for the last 1/2 hr. It wasn't the movie's fault, I just tend to fall asleep in theaters. My friend loved it and recounted the entire bit that I missed line by line.
So, a Romanian Dead Lift is just a Standing Dead Lift with shoulder shrugs and tippy toes added in for confusion Good for you Dean, most guys cannot/will not do dead lifts. What about squats? Do you do them with the rack, the ball, or free form? I use the rack, although I've done them with the ball and dumbells too. I absolutely detest lunges and dips.
quote:Originally posted by Mizz Eve: What about squats? Do you do them with the rack, the ball, or free form?
Squats are off the program at present. I did them in a one leg squat to a press with barbells. Right now I am doing more strength moves and less balance.
words of wisdom to live by from Stephen Sondheim's The Frogs {The chorus is singing a prayer to Dionysus...} Dionysius "A hymm to me, the god of wine..." Xanthius (His slave) "I thought you were the god of drama?" Dionysius "I am the god of wine and the god of drama. A little wine will get you thru a lot of drama"
Posts: 4614 | Location: Casa del Fenicottero Rosa, Silver Spring, MD USA | Registered: 06 August 2002
quote:I like dips!! Just last week I made a fabulous Hummus
Oooooooh hummus! I make hummus too. I also make great tapenade (sp?). Appetizers are about the only things that I can cook. Speaking of dips, Target is now carrying some really good, really inexpensive crackers that are perfect for dips and cheeses. They've now replaced my Carr's water bisquits.
p.s. will the new msg board boldly named "Eve" have a spell check feature?
Re spell check: You mean for biscuits? (Anyway, it wouldn't know the difference between eave and eve, spell checks will never replace one's mother beating one around the head and shoulders about its and it's and their and there and quite and quiet.)
Posts: 2054 | Location: Suburban Philadelphia | Registered: 08 July 2002
That is why I cannot spell - my mother never beat me (although, she did make some projections about what my life would come to...). I didn't think about our two Eve's - the new message board software and our own Mizz Eve. Yes, it is called Eve; no it does not have a spell checker.
Eve was supposed to be released in December, but I read on their message board that the CEO (Ted) and another employee (Rosemary) just had a baby - sleepless nights can delay a release I guess!!
We are almost done with our sleepless nights. Spike had his stitches and drain removed and in another couple of days, when the wound is completely healed, we can let him outside. For now, he howls for about an hour solid, then gives in and uses the litter box.
One time we let him go out when a wound was not completely healed --- but that maggot story is for another day!! Good night everyone!!
words of wisdom to live by from Stephen Sondheim's The Frogs {The chorus is singing a prayer to Dionysus...} Dionysius "A hymm to me, the god of wine..." Xanthius (His slave) "I thought you were the god of drama?" Dionysius "I am the god of wine and the god of drama. A little wine will get you thru a lot of drama"
Posts: 4614 | Location: Casa del Fenicottero Rosa, Silver Spring, MD USA | Registered: 06 August 2002
Geezzz...You get a little touch of the flu bug, stay in bed for just one lousey day, and look what happens. Two whole pages of group blog to try to catch up on. Saturday evening I started feeling a bit 'peckish'. I'll spare you the details of my Saturday night. Sunday I spent almost the entire day in bed. If it was the flu, I got lucky. Because it really was only a 24 hour thing. Maybe the flu shot made a difference. This morning I couldn't wait to be vertical again. You know, nothing wears you out more than laying down all day. My back was killing me. Got up at 4AM and came up to my office to clear away all the work I was planning to do on Sunday. The good news is that I still don't have my appetite back yet. We had an ice storm yesterday, and the weather man is planning a snow storm for tonight and tomorrow. It is days like this that make me grateful to have been officing out of my home for the last 14 years. Doru, Frasier is so cute. Does that hedgehog of his squeek or grunt? Our Angel had a hedgehog that grunted. She absolutely loved it, until we bought her a Canadian Goose that sounded even more realistic. Dean, my SIL's mother is a personal trainer in Ft. Lauderdale. She specializes in helping women get in shape after menepause. She sent me one of her DVD's as a gentle suggestion. I haven't even taking the shrink wrap off yet. I'm so lazy. All the snow pictures make me homesick. So I thought I'd dig out one of my own. Here is the view of the Niccone Valley from our front door on a hazy summer afternoon. And then the same tree with the snow coming down.
Deborah Horn
In a previous life I was an Umbrian sunflower farmer. I'd like to do a past life regression and stay there. ----------------------------------- www.petsburg.com
Posts: 5108 | Location: St. Louis, MO | Registered: 04 September 2001
I wish I could figure out how to put more than one picture in a post.
Deborah Horn
In a previous life I was an Umbrian sunflower farmer. I'd like to do a past life regression and stay there. ----------------------------------- www.petsburg.com
Posts: 5108 | Location: St. Louis, MO | Registered: 04 September 2001
quote:Originally posted by dean: Maybe you and Steve should stay in different rooms on these sleepless night.
Thanks Dean, but I turn 49 on Wednesday (or forty-farking-nine as I like to say - oops, can I say that here?) - - that possibility is way past (the kids part, not the other).
Our chatter is up again this month - we just went over 11gb of traffic for January on the message board alone (over 10gb of traffic on the web site too). We were at these rates back in September, but then it dropped a bit.
Hope you're feeling better, Deborah. And happy birthday, Pauline!
Here's a short (fairly poorly translated, sadly) article about the Boston-Haifa preschool project I'm involved with, and some photos taken in Israel. I'm at the left end of the first photo; and in the middle in the second. Boston-Haifa Preschool Connection
Amy in MA "Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not." --Ralph Waldo Emerson
Posts: 8838 | Location: Newton (outside Boston), MA | Registered: 17 June 2001
As the Patriarch, you are obliged to tell us when your birthday is (was)!! And thanks for the 29!!
We are not celebrating my birthday because on Friday we are flying to Hawaii for a month - and will celebrate there (a nice dinner out, I think). Not too shabby...
I promised myself I would pack this weekend, but caught up on some client work instead (which is good). Steve always say, how hard is it packing for Hawaii, just throw in a t-shirt and shorts (and 10 huge computer books for him). Men...
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Good for you Dean, most guys cannot/will not do dead lifts. What about squats? Do you do them with the rack, the ball, or free form? I use the rack, although I've done them with the ball and dumbells too. I absolutely detest lunges and dips.
(Anyway, it wouldn't know the difference between eave and eve, spell checks will never replace one's mother beating one around the head and shoulders about its and it's and their and there and quite and quiet.)
