Lets Post our Daily Exercise
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Karen: Glad that your training went well today. That's great that your co-worker and you work well together. Stay safe in the snow.
Walked this morning bc I had 3 meetings this afternoon. One was to have our taxes prepared. Ugh. Glad that's over for another year.
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Thanks for mentioning taxes…I do our taxes, and did them early and put them away (as we owe)…but I need to dig them up and look at them with fresh eyes for a final review and send off. Since I teach economics and math, I am the weird one who likes taxes like a math puzzle! …oh, I was a Mathlete in Jr high/high school, I guess that explains a lot…and one final math fun item, tomorrow is Pi(e) Day = 3.14.
It is Spring Break, so I have been working 2-4 hrs a day to get ahead on a few projects, but really enjoying life on a PT work schedule. More time with my mother, able to go to the gym everyday…my school doesn't allow you to move from FT to PT without a minimum 6 months hiatus. I think I would work for several more years if I could go PT.
Be careful in your crazy snow storm Karen. We are in a stretch of 70+ degree days, we won't see the high 50's until next week. TT
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PT would definitely give you a better work/life balance, TT! Good luck with trying to figure it out!
Here's the Wednesday Walking Women rocking a beach theme. I am sharing our breakfast picture because some walked outside & some walked inside this morning.
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Well…the snow is on its way. It has already started snowing. They keep uping the snow totals predicted. Now 10-20 inches is predicted for Denver and more for the foothills. My school district texted everyone at 2:45 saying schools/administration etc are closed tomorrow. Thankful they didn't wait till 10pm!! All the metro area school districts are closed tomorrow. I"m guessing schools will be closed on Friday as well. The last snow day was the day of my surgery - I think it was more due to temperatures than snow!! I wonder if they docked me sick time, but then again I don't care enough to check. I'm sure we will be doing lots of shoveling the driveway and side walk tomorrow. If the snow starts before we go to bed, we'll shovel, but DH thinks it will start later at night. The weather forecast even made the national news!!!
Looking forward to sleeping in past 5am. I'm tired of waking up tired!!!
TT - my spring break is the last week of the month. Enjoy the rest of your spring break.
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Enjoy your snow day, Karen!
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Winter wonderland!! These were taken about 7:00am after about 10 hours snow - snowing all day and into the night. We probably have 12" so far. It's wet heavy snow, so shoveling the driveway will be a challenge! It will take DH and I several goes at it throughout the day. Walking should be fun!!
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Karen, what spectacular photos. That snow is absolutely beautiful. I think it would be fun to try and walk in it because I’m not used to walking in the snow that deep. Looks very challenging.
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That is a Winter Wonderland (although I am glad it is missing us!).
I just got done making some homemade vegetable soup (for dinner, after I get home from Dance2fit and Yoga). I will probably walk with the guys (DH & Bruno) when DH gets home from helping a friend with a project.
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Yikes Karen, be safe. When my mom retired to our "summer home" in the lakes region of New Hampshire, she didn't realize the snow levels come winter…that is what those pictures look like to me. The wet/heavy stuff is back breaking…or heart attack making, be kind to yourselves in the cleaning up.
Got an hours worth of walking in yesterday in the late afternoon of a beautiful, but surprisingly hot mid-70's day here in SE Virginia, off to yoga at lunchtime. TT
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For awhile, I have been thinking I should take some sort of weight lifting class. Well, my DEXA scan shows I have dipped into the osteopenia range (which really makes me made as you know how much I exercise!). Anyway, I tried a class called Interval Strength training this morning & will have to make sure I do some dedicated weight lifting at least twice a week from now on. I also went on a Dog Walk.
*On a happy note, my mammogram was clear. Yea & Whew……
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Yoga & a dog walk this morning.
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Karen: Love your snow pictures! 2 winters have come and gone here with no snow. Maybe next winter…
TT: We are also having 70+ degree weather. One day it even got into the 80s.
Ruth: Oh no! Sorry about the osteopenia. You're being proactive about it.
On Wednesday I went to the doctor to have a heart monitor put on me that I wear for 2 weeks. The nurse literally sandpapers your skin to make sure the adhersive sticks. It takes 21 days to get the results back which makes it the middle of April before I know them.
Dh and I went to Chapel Hill on Thursday. Spent the night and attended a concert with ds and his gf. The Tedeschi Trucks Band is a blues rock band and they put on an amazing show! Derek Trucks was a child prodigy on the guitar. The venue was huge and the crowd was rowdy and fun.
Walked today. Cooler weather comes back next week and need to mow for the first time this year. I'm trying to psych myself up for it.
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Yay Ruth on the mammo! I've been in the osteoporosis range for several years. I keep saying I need to do exercises for my core, but never do. From what I've been told as I've been on Prolia and Zometa, that the best is for the numbers to stay stable - that is considered good, generally you don't move up. but that wasn't the case when I was on AIs. I was osteopenic, then osteoporosis and went on Actonel and improved back to osteopenic. Stopped bisphosphonates when stopped AIs and declined to osteoporosis. Oh well, such is life.
Wonder - good luck with the heart monitor.
PCP called yesterday. Obstructive sleep apnea. He is putting in a referral for a cpap or autopap. I dread wearing one of these. I'm hoping that I can move to a mouth piece that a friend told me about, but I'll give these a try. I have to improve my sleep as I wake up tired and I'm tired throughout the day. DH said that my sleep needs to improve before I develop heart problems from lack of sleep!
Most of the snow is melted. Weather is warming to the 50s and 60s for the next week. This is my last week before spring break!!!! No plans except to sleep in past 5:00am, putter in the house, walk, read etc.
Tomorrow, I'm going to bake hamentashen for Purim which is next Sunday. My son will take some. Not mailing any to Toronto as last year it was a fortune and then my kids got charged duty.
Not much else to report.
Sweet dreams.
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Karen: Sorry you have sleep apnea. I'm glad you're going to give one of the machines a try and I really hope it gives you a good night sleep night after night.
Walked this afternoon and then sat on my tail during a 2 hour zoom meeting.
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Karen, I have two good friends who use cpap machines & the quality of their sleep has improved so much , that they don't even mind the machine aspect at all (and they had dreaded them in the beginning too).
I went to Yoga this afternoon. We had some friends over for dinner. Lots of fun while they were here; but lots of work getting ready & cleaning up!
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;I walked with a friend this morning, and in my quest to do more weight training, tonight I will try a class called HIT (high intensity interval training), which may very possibly kill me!
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Went to my first Zumba class yesterday! Highly recommend - couldnt stop smiling. Great opportunity to take up space and groove your body with other amazing women of all ages! Afrobeats and Latin music made my day!
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Ruth: Have fun in your new class and do what you can.
snm: Good to see you again. I used to take Zumba classes and loved them. Even wore the little scarf around my waist with the shaky things on it. Good music and good moves.
Well, I mowed today. Dh is outside finishing it up. I mowed 3 times for 30 minutes each time with resting in-between. So a total of 1.5 hours. Dh used the weedeater while I mowed.The yard takes a little over 2 hours to complete with a non self propelled push mower. I've got to get my mowing muscles and stamina back up to speed! Ruth, I thought about you while I was pushing the mower up hill with all my strength - it's a strengthening workout for sure! It's been in the 50s today and partly cloudy with a breeze. Good temperature to start off the mowing season!
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snm, I LOVE Zumba!!
Wonderland, that is a lot of mowing!!
My class went fine; I used light weights & did the low impact version of all the moves.
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I went to Zumba last night & walked with the Wednesday Women this morning. We had a smaller group because lots of people are sick.....lots of germs are going around here.
We are in the track of some 'measurable snow'. Boo Hoo!
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Hope the germs stay away from you, Ruth.
Our kitchen has 2 closets. One is very tiny and desperately needs to be painted. I decided that today is the day to paint it. I removed the shelves and could barely stand in it bc it's so narrow. But I'm happy to report that my exercise today has been painting that closet and now I can mark it off my To Do List!
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Always good to get things marked off the list, Wonderland.
We had some wintery weather today & this weekend we are in the path of a major storm…..so, I bought a bunch of groceries & went to 3 exercise classes just in case I'm trapped in my house the rest of the week!
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It's been a LONG 3 weeks! After 6 weeks FMLA, these were long 3 weeks getting to spring break. Since I don't work Fridays, I'm officially on spring break. We go back April 2nd. Looking forward to the time off. Want to putter in the house next week.
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Enjoy your puttering, Karen.
It's back to winter here!
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Have fun on your break, Karen.
Bruno! He blends right in with the snow.
Visited a friend this morning. Walked later this afternoon. Need to get my Easter menu planned so I can grocery shop early this week before it gets too crowded.
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I went to yoga this morning & danced around to a 30 minute Marshall Fitness session on utube. It's snowing now & the start of what might be a multi-day storm…..time will tell!`
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Really wish we had snow. Instead Spring is here for sure! The dogwoods, redbuds, maples are starting to bloom. Daffodils, irises, and tulips are blooming. Trees are budding. As a matter of fact, my exercise today was 1.5 hours of yard work. Dug up big giant weeds that like to plant themselves in areas that are difficult to get to. Also trimmed dead limbs, etc. off the blueberry bushes and lilacs. Great day for doing this. The weather is in the high 50s, clear blue sky. I didn't even break a sweat!
Here is a picture of our cherry tree. My brother gave a little cherry twig to my dd for her birthday over 20 years ago. Look at it now!
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Got a little exercise in today. Took down my St. Patrick’s Day decorations and put up most of my Easter ones. Packed some away last year post Easter and forgot where they are.
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Wow, Wonderland, that is a beautiful tree!
We are at the edge of the big storm so got maybe 5 inches of snow & it's supposed to blow around tonight. Not fun, but not enough to shut things down. I went to my Pound/Barre class this afternoon & am making chili & beer bread right now.
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Your bread sounds delicious, Ruth!
Karen: I hope you're enjoying your break.
Dh and I met my brother, his wife, my sister and her husband and my other sister for lunch today. Had the best time. Came home, took a nap, and then walked. Needed the nap but really needed the walk to wake up! Felt great outside.
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