Welcome Back!

It sure has been a while, and for that I apologize. I have been doing a lot of traveling for work, and it has really taken its toll on me. I went to Florida twice in 3 weeks! The sun was beautiful and refreshing. Just what I needed in the middle of a Midwestern winter that seems like it will never go away.

This sure has been a long year, and its only February. If you ask anyone who knows me well, they will tell you that I like things to happen NOW, not later. Well, these weight loss results are happening later. The numbers have not changed, not even a little bit. My size has, because my clothes seem to be getting larger. Shouldn’t I see numbers dropping?? I mean seriously. But!! I am not giving up, at least not yet. I told myself it would be hard, I told you it would be hard. I know what I am up against. This fat didn’t appear on me over night, it won’t disappear overnight either.

In other news, my friends and I went to a new bar in St. Louis. Well, it’s new to us. It’s a place called Bar5. We sang karaoke! It was awesomely fun. I had a blast! I don’t know what it is about karaoke, but I always seem to have fun doing that.

So, thanks to my friend Brian, I have become interested in bikes; as in bicycles. In about 2 week’s time, I went from having 1 mountain bike that I barely would ride to having 6 bikes in my garage at one time! Oh yes, 6 bikes. I kept my mountain bike, but am considering selling it. I bought a road bike to train on. I bought a Ross Beach Cruiser for my roomy, which is in pieces because I am in the process of getting it cleaned up for her. I bought a 1940 J.C. Higgins (Sears answer to a Schwinn) and then I ransacked my grandpa’s shed for a 1967 Schwinn Racer and my purple Murray Banana Seat bike!

When I told Brian about the racer, we arranged a trade. He LOVES vintage bikes, and has quite a collection. He traded me the racer for a Terranaut Allegro. I don’t know if it was even or not, but he hasn’t said anything so I assume it was pretty close. Its red and it bears the name of my works’ properties in Florida. Our senior living facilities are all “The Allegro at” and the name follows. I thought that was awesome! What a reason to trade a bike, huh?

Of course, it has been too stinking cold outside to ride ANY of them; let alone work on any of them out in the garage. Especially when I know that Lucy will want to sit out there with me. Lucy is my dog. She is the coolest dog ever! She doesn’t know it yet, but in April she is running a mile with me for the Fast and Furriest! Hopefully she can make it. I would take her for walks around the neighborhood. And when she got too tired, she would just sit down. I would keep walking, but she would sit there. I am not going to push her though. I will take her as far as she can go.

Speaking of races… This last Sunday was a race called Mud-N-Gutz. It was a 4k race that was complete with MUD and GUTZ!! Just kidding, it was supposed to be a course that had hay bales to jump and things like that. Sunday morning, I got woken up by a text message asking me to pick up my friends race info for her and her cousin, they slept in. Completely confused, I asked them what she was talking about. Yep, I totally forgot about the race! I signed up, and then started traveling for work and completely forgot all about it. I was so upset. I wanted to do it! But then I looked outside and saw that it was raining and icky, then I didn’t feel so bad. My friend ended up making the race, she even picked up my race t-shirt for me. There is always next year!

I think that pretty much covers what I have been up to… other than feeling bad for not working out as much I should have. But I blame plains and traveling on that. I did use the hotel workout room, but it’s not the same. Until next time!