Water Aerobics

This blog is starting to turn into my exercise, weigh loss journal. There hasn't been a helluva lot of weigh loss lately but I keep plugging along. I know it is because I am too lazy to cook a lot of the time and because I like those snickerdoodles at Starbucks. Anyhow, I was lying in bed this morning thinking I'll exercise later but I knew I wouldn't do it unless I got up right then. So, I made it to water aerobics. To anyone who thinks water aerobics is for wimps, you're kind of correct in that it is better on the joints and doesn't overheat you but it is definitely exercise. I've found it is something I can do even if I have a sinus headache because the cool water feels good on my head.

Who needs the gym?

Who needs the gym when I can run my ass off at work? I had to work an extra shift this week because one of the other supervisors was on vacation. We were flat out busy as hell with all sorts of craziness going on in multiple areas. Some of those hallways can be pretty long and I was speed-walking all day yesterday through those hallways. I can't count every day at work as aerobic exercise but I'm sure as hell counting yesterday as exercise.

Water Aerobics

I made it to the gym today. When I first started going, I discovered that I enjoyed water aerobics but my carpal tunnels became inflamed from using the barbells so I stopped for a while. I like water aerobics; I'm the least obese in the class. I don't get as overheated in the pool. But being only 5'1" I have to be careful not to bounce my way into water over my head and get water up my nose...very unattractive. Helga, the German aerobics instructor, is quite a taskmistress (and not in a good sort of whips and chains way). I can't understand a damn word she says because her accent is so thick. OK, her name isn't Helga but I since can't understand her I made up a name. I don't much care for changing clothes in the locker room. I've always been kind of shy about that but will do it if I have to. I know, I know, guys romanticize about women's locker rooms but it's not like Porky's (remember Kim Cattrall). Most of the women in there are pretty average or fat and flabby. I like that in a gym; I don't have to set my goals too high.

What a Girl Won't Do to Avoid Exercise

I was going to go to the gym today. Honest, I was. I was getting ready to take a shower so Mike and I could go play at Ikea when I was suddenly hit with that really bad psycho sinus pain that makes me nauseated, panicky, and makes my legs shaky. I haven't had that since May so I thought maybe I wasn't going to be blessed with that kind of pain anymore. At least I wasn't at work this time and could go to bed with an ice bag on my head and a Lortab in my stomach. God I was nauseated. I laid there rubbing my feet together until I fell asleep. I've always done that; rubbed my feet together as a kind of self-hypnosis when I'm in pain. The nurse in me always tries to diagnose what the hell just happened but its impossible. I do know that I get pain with big barometric pressure changes and there is storm coming. Thank heaven the pain is better now and what the hell, it got me out of going to the gym. I tried going once when I was having mild to moderate sinus pain but I got so nauseated that I've decided that idea sucks worse than exercise.

One day at the gym down two to go...

I am constantly looking for an excuse not to go to the gym. Yesterday, I didn't go because it was my first of four days off and I decided I was allowed to rest. In my defense, I have a mild sinus infection and had been working with fevers and pain the last few days (more than my usual), but frankly if I let that stop me I'll never go because I have pain and fevers pretty much every day. I want to go at least three times this week; my week starts on Saturday because that's how our payroll works. Anyway, this morning I had a protein-fruit smoothie and went to the gym. Hooray for me! I am finding I have to work harder on the treadmill to get my heart-rate up. When I started at the gym in February the damn treadmill kept slowing itself down because it thought I was going to have a heart attack when my heart-rate went above 150. Now I'm going faster than before with a heart-rate in the high 130's-low 140's. I still can't run on that thing; I'll fall on my ass.

Bear Lake

We're spending our weekend at Bear Lake (UT). We call it our weekend but it's actually Sunday, Monday, Tuesday. Those are Mike's regular days off. My days off vary because I negotiate with my co-workers and we have to have 24/7 coverage. We belong to a campground association called Camperworld. There are 10 campgrounds in Utah that we can use, one of them is at Bear Lake. I put the link there because we forgot to bring our friggen camera. The lake here is the most beautiful blue. The blue is because of limestone in the water. It looks as if the lake has been dyed aqua. I'm a bit bummed that we forgot our camera because it's so beautiful here. But we'll be back again.

We went to museum in Montpelier (ID) today. It was about the Oregon Trail. It was different than your standard pioneer museum in that they did kind of a vignette where they pretended we were families going on the trail. It was hokey as hell but Mike liked it. I think it would be fun to take grade school kids.

Can't take the girl out of the desert

I'm melting. We have a swamp cooler instead of air conditioning. For those of you unfamiliar with the desert, a swamp cooler is a large box on our roof with a big fan and a little teeny copper pipe that drips water into the filter. It usually cools the house by up to 20 degrees because our usual humidity is about 10-15%. This last week we've had lots of thunderstorms and the humidity is 73% this morning. I did not sleep at all last night except the time I was dreaming that I was at a truck stop with no clothes...another story altogether. If I wanted to live with this kind of humidity I'd move to Texas.