London Quilt

Here is a pix of the quilt I made for J and T while they were here. It is on an earlier post, but this one shows it on their actual London bed!!!

This past week....

major busy week at work... but pretty satisfying!!!

pretty busy fitness week as well...

Crossfitted 4 times - and the highlight was yesterday when I attacked Michael again and bested my time by 1 minute 20 seconds! To remind those interested...

Michael

3 rounds for time of

800 m run

50 back extensions

50 sit ups

It is one of the few WODs I can do in the prescribed way. So I am still on the board and proud of it!!!

checkitout

Here is my team crossfittin'

http://www.crossfitvallejo.com/

I took my work team to CrossFit for a team build. Li and Phil at CF gave us a private lesson and developed a WOD for us. It was great fun and everyone was a good sport about it although some kept up better than others. We went to lunch after and then we all called it a day.

I did get worried later in the day ... thinking that I may have wiped out my team in just two hours...so I called them all. I couldn't reach one in particular and got really worried as he was struggling a bit after the WOD. Anyway, he finally called me back - he had gone home and taken a nap!

They recovered and some are even interested in joining! Passin on the CF cheer.

to keep you seeing what is real

love this...

I have this rotating theme on my Google page - I would highly urge you to do this. Everytime I open it, I get something different. Today it was this one.

then and now

shoulder press...
then 44

now 53 (but coulda done more)

back squat

then 65

now 93

deadlift

then 115

now 163

like it or not

I like...

a clean car
sewing on Sunday morning
watching a good movie with my husband



I don't like...

BK commercials (so tasteless - in more ways than one - and racist)
not feeling well - not necessarily connected with the prior list item
those chas schwab cartoony people commercials

mano mano

It has been a long time since I posted...as Goldie has been quick to point out...not that she is hot and heavy with the postings either but I am accountable.

February - bit of a hectic month but not a hecka lot to show for it. I was crossfittin at a regular clip until I hit a week of travel. First week I missed since October so actually not bad at all. Back at it this past week - and last night did a grueling WOD of 5 rounds of up n back lunges while holding a 9 lb bar bell and 21 burpees. Did it in about 24 minutes which beat some of those that did it the same way. hurting tho. doesn't help that I am a bit under the weather.

I have a big week coming up... going to interviews that will get me into a program that could eventually get me into a different job (District Manager - better bonus - better pay - fewer stores -more direct leadership). That happens on Wednesday. Then Wed night I go to a dinner and Thurs to a meeting with a diversity group that I am on. At the dinner and meeting are some of the folks that will have interviewed me so if I bomb, that will be a bit uncomfortable. I am thinking it would be better not to bomb so as to avoid the uncomfortableness altogether.

will let you know.

Olivia and I at Crossfit

Saturday Olivia and I went to Crossfit -

here is what we did....
jumproap for 5 min
then in a team of three, we did
100 push presses
100 push jerks
100 burpees
for time.
we did it in a bit over 20 minutes.

we are sore today.

ran

a 5 K ..
took me 40 minutes
but I did it

a recent meeting...

me taking a break from it....

more valentines

I was looking for old fashioned valentines that were a bit more diverse ... but most were like this...

or this...

silly me, if they do exist, google has a hard time finding them. So, I thought, racy might apply...

and, while I could not satisfy everyone,

I thought this one might work for in a pinch to represent sexual orientation diversity

A bummer V day card...

Petit Chaperon Rouge

and heeeeeeeeere's Nyia...

haiku by nancy

trip is cancelled
how happy
that has made me

not looking forward to this week

too much travel
too many deadlines
too much stress
too many reports about
too much stuff

by the way, J

I made the big board with my "Michael" time!!!

someone said use of quotes signifies a lazy mind...

(a quote in and of itself)
nonetheless, I still love them...

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--

as attempts to find out something.

Success and failure are for him answers above all.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Hey J -

I did....

Michael

Three rounds for time of:

Run 800 meters

50 Back Extensions

50 Sit-ups

in 33:30!!!

End of January

Retrospective....

J and T were here for holidays - so much fun..miss them so!

There is a fairy tale - I think it has something to do with swans and an unrecognized princess - where the UR is knitting or sewing something that needs to be completed and thrown over the swans so they won't perish by stake burning. Huge sense of urgency to get it done, lots of pressure, very time bound kind of story. She does it and they LHEA*. Same sense of urgency without the stake burning possibility but, hopefully, the same LHEA ending with this that I made for J and T while they were here....

*Live happily ever after

C had a bday! 25 and beautiful. smart, funny and together as ever. I am so proud of her.

Back to work - need I say more - but I am thankful that I am working. So many are not.

Stayed true to fitness intentions - crossfit at least 3 times a week/paleo dieting without many diversions or distractions. J, I do miss you at the gym - you made me try harder, go faster, lift more and so on.

We all waved goodbye...

or at least one did

And said hello...

And were happy!

But first there is the glory...

then there is the work

and a lot of work there is.

I do have hope.

That same historic week included a bday for the Lo! A very big 6!!! A joyful, happy, beautiful, adorable, smart, funny and amazing 6!

Then J had a birthday! January is busy. We sent him a bunch of videos of us wishing him a happy one - the good ones and the outtakes. We could just see him smile and hear him laugh as he watched them!

Just got back from a week long trip to Minneapolis for work - it was zero degrees, that's right, no degrees!! Blippin cold and, of course, I only have California weather gear. I survived but am glad to be back. I was reminded of how unhealthy business travel really is. I did do some of the cross fit warm ups while I was there and did try to eat healthily - but it was not easy. I really do understand how I blimped up the 18 months I was on the road!!!

That was January - I am off to crossfittin!

Yesterday it was lifting

WOD January 30 2009
Complete as many rounds as possible 20 minutes of:

95 pound Thruster, 5 reps

95 pound Hang Powercleans, 7 reps

95 pound Sumo Deadlift High-pull, 10 reps

only I did 22 pounds and did it 16 times.

Looking forward to today....