With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams...

Happy Mother's Day!

I slept in till noon.  Acutally I was woken up at 9 am for a wonderful breakfast that MR made me, and I enjoyed every morsel of it, then I just laid down and went back to sleep till noon.  It was lovely.  I felt a little guilty because I didn't do my kenpo yesterday, and I wasn't going to get it done this morning either.  But I didn't get to bed till 2 am, so I just let myself sleep.

After church, my sweet buccaneer surprised me with home make chocolate covered strawberries!  YUM!!  Maybe kenpo will have to wait another day or two :-)

I slept so much yesterday and last night that I was suprised I didn't wake up before my alarm clock went off.  I guess I was really tired.

I did Kenpo (left over from Saturday when I didn't make time to do it), then chest, shoulders & triceps.  That was a tough workout for me today.  Too many push-ups.  Then I finished up with the ab ripper x.  I'm so happy I only have 2 more ab ripper videos to do before I finish the program.  Only 2 more to go!!!

I'll do physical therapy tonight, which always makes me sweaty and tired.  That should be good enough for one day.

plyo x.   

Headaches are getting old.

Glamor muscles with Tony.  Last week before the recovery phase.  Getting close to the end!

Ab ripper and 30 minutes on elliptical.

yoga, yoga belly 7 times.  Don't do ab exercises every day, you don't work other muscles every day, and you shouldn't work abs every day.  Shut up Tony.

PT in the afternoon.  They've decided they've done all they can do, and now it's up to me to have the self discipline to do their 45 minutes of exercises every day to continue to improve & strengthen while I wait for piriformis to heal.  I just don't see myself being that disciplined.

Pirate's Birthday Today

Legs & Back & Ab Ripper X.  This is the last ab ripper in the program.  I tried to work extra hard for Tony on this one :-)

Someone asked me today how it was coming with the program, and I said "only one week left to finish!"  She asked me if I was really going to just stop doing it when the 90 days was up.  No doubt in my mind.  Yes... I am going to quit Tony like bad habit. 

Cupcakes, Cake, home made ice cream.  I did manage to squeeze in a pb&j sandwich and some snap peas too.  Carb loading for the big run tomorrow.  Gonna be GGGRRREEEAAATT!

They say a picture is worth a thousand words.  So here's a few thousand words...

The day of the big race... just before show time:

And of course after....

By the way, a wet wedding dress is very heavy.  Just in case you were wondering.  I really have no idea what our actual time was.  MR ran behind me and carried the train as we jumped over the fire.  A lady approached us later & showed us a great photo she'd taken of it.  She took down our email address & said she would send it to us.  I'm hoping we get it because it was great.   The mud was tough.  It was too shallow to drag myself through, so I ended up doing the "superman" (Thank you Tony) and MR just shoved me along the entire mud pit.  I just laid there and laughed.

Then, right before the finish line, he picked me up and carried me across the finish line.  I know I was heavy in that dress.  Some guys from behind us were there trying to help.  It was great.  We had so much fun taking photos for people.  The whole time we were there, people would approach & ask us to get our photo, or take a photo with us.  It was really neat. 

There was a costume contest, and depending on who you ask, we took first or second place.  The other first place winners were 2 guys dressed like mario & luigi and one guy dressed up like the peach princess.  On the stage, the 2 men poured a beer over the princess' chest & face while she undressed herself and rubbed "her" chest.  So there was a lot of cheering for that, and I wasn't going to compete with that.  After the contest, people came up & said "you were robbed!" and then offered us their timing chips with the free beer coupon on it.  MR had lots of free beer, so he's pretty sure that he's the real winner.  I just got to smile & model for the camera all day, so I'm feeling pretty special too.  Best part was, there wasn't any cheese involved :-)

My "bubbles" girls from work came & ran the race too.  They both ran with their husbands, and we all had a really good time.  But the best part of the day was the kiss...

This wedding party beat the pants off our first one almost 20 years ago.  Not sure how we'll top it in another 20 years, but we've got some time to come up with something really good.