Lovely song.
Sit, Push & Plank
So, I’ve been doing a 30 day squat and crunch challenge. I have eight days left. My buns…well, we’ll not talk about my buns {is it funny that I just tried to spell about without the o, like abut? Yes, it’s funny}. Suffice it to say that my buns are being toned.
After this challenge, I want to work on my push ups and I would like to be able to say that I can plank for five minutes.
So, I created this:
I know it doesn’t start on the first of a month, but June 13th is the day after my 30 day squat and crunch challenge ends. So, I figured, why not start up with another one?
If I’m completely honest, the sit ups and planks don’t intimidate me. The push ups? Those have me scared. My shoulder strength has always been a bit on the pathetic side so I highly doubt I’ll be able to do 45 push ups by the time 30 days are up. However, I want to work on my shoulder strength, and one of the best ways to do that is to do some push ups. So, they’ve been added to the challenge.
Would anyone like to join me? Please don’t let me suffer alone! 
Playing Cribbage
So, last week, I thought it would be a good idea to teach the boy to play cribbage, which is a card game my brother and I grew up playing. We learned to add this way, though we can now only add up to 31 {just kidding}.
I thought it would be easier for him to hold the cards in his hand, because you’re only dealt six cards. I was right on that count. Part of the difficulty is the amount of rules, and then…and then…the strategy! Pegging is a strategy all its own
He did pretty well the first hand, and I didn’t skunk him. I did help him with his discards and helped him count his points. Towards the end, it started to click.
We’ll play again this week and he’ll probably beat me soon.
I am so glad to be able to pass down this family tradition. I don’t know too many people who know how to play cribbage out here on the Left Coast, but there are a few. I play it every chance I get, which is usually at family holidays, so teaching the boy to play is kind of self-serving in a way. I get to play more and he’ll learn to hold his own at Thanksgiving the next time we are able to be there.
Obviously, from the picture above, he was rather excited to learn
Navi – the new fish
Meet Navi. Navi, meet anyone who may happen across this blog. Wave your fin, Navi. Everyone acquainted? Excellent!
We replaced our old fish, who croaked over the weekend, last night. The old fish, who was dubbed creatively, Swimmee, lasted for two years, which is pretty good for a beta.
The boy decided to name this one Navi, since he is rather blue, much like the Navi people {can you call them people? They have tails so I’m not sure. Perhaps, population is a better word.} in Avatar. Side note: can you believe that movie came out three years ago???? Three years??? Where HAS the time GONE???
So, Navi it is.
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I have been drinking peppermint tea this morning and it’s a bit chilly and foggy outside. It could rain, in fact, and I hope it does. We are in dire need of some moisture. The weather is a bit chilly, but I’m wearing a dress anyway {I don’t care of I’m cold}!
This weekend, I think I’ll take the boy bowling. And we’ll watch a few movies and play some games. I hope the weather is nice enough to wear a couple of my new dresses.
I got up this morning and worked out – I have been trying to get my work outs done in the mornings on the weekdays. I am tired by 9:30 pm but it makes my days go more smoothly. And, I have more time in the evenings to clean the house, play card games with the boy {our current favorite is Mille Bornes}, sort through the piles of paper on the kitchen table {a nasty habit that I don’t like and am trying to change}, and read a book {currently reading Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain}. But man, am I tired! I think it’ll take me a little bit to get used to this new schedule. I could take a nap right now and it’s 9:18 am. Uncool.
Ok, I’d better get going. I have things to do!
One New Dress!
Here’s one of my new dresses! The weather has been absolutely gorgeous so I wore a skirt and lace top on Tuesday and then this today.
I do believe I am on a roll.
I realize this is not a very good picture – I have no full length mirror. But, if I could levitate horizontally, then my bathroom mirror would work just fine. I can’t levitate vertically or horizontally, so you’re stuck with this.
I’m hoping to wear another of my new dresses this weekend – and I’m house sitting at a place that does have a full length mirror. So. Stay tuned.
Dresses
So, I got my dresses {post here}. And all three of them fit, which is miraculous. I wore an older dress that I had purchased last summer earlier this week and today I am sporting one of the new ones. Here’s a photo of me in the old one:
Don’t mind my facial expression – I have no clue what kind of “look” I was going for. Also, I don’t take self portraits well.
I don’t have a picture of the new one, but it looks decent. Just trust me on that one. I am far more comfortable behind the camera, rather than in front of it.
In other girly news, I found my new favorite make up.
This stuff is perfect for my pale, yet slightly yellow skin tone, which has proven slightly difficult to match with a foundation or powder. {Or, maybe they’re easy to match and I was just oblivious – highly possible} I was buying something more expensive, but it made me look a bit sallow and green, due to the pink undertones the powder had. That didn’t work so well. I used up the rest of it and went on a quest to find something less expensive and better suited to my skin tone.
It’s about $10 less expensive and it also comes with the little brush that does not leave little hairs all over my shirt and face. Score.
The weather this weekend is supposed to be lovely, so I’m excited to take the boy down to the beach and look for little tiny seashells, go to a museum, go to the park, and spend a lot of time outside in the sun.
What are you doing this weekend?
Because I’m a Girl, Dang It!
I ordered three dresses. The shock, I know. I can barely wrap my head around it myself.
All of my life I’ve struggled with being feminine. Somehow wearing pretty things made me weak.
I have learned that women have a different strength and are somehow more when they are as they should be. Go figure.
So, I ordered three dresses and they should be here soon. I fully intend on wearing them to work and on the weekends and such.
Would someone hold me to that and remind me that I said that when I’ve worn jeans and slacks for the last six weeks? Or six months?
Please don’t let me go that long without wearing a dress or a skirt or something.
I need to be reminded that it’s okay to be a girl woman. It’s okay {and it’s fun!} to get my toes done every so often. It’s okay {and it’s fun!} to liven up the wardrobe a bit. It keeps things interesting. It’s not jeans and it’s not work slacks.
Here’s to change. Lots of it. May it be the good kind.
