I know.... I'll throw your scrawny little VT butt in the giant heated pool. That'll put a few lbs on ya.
I am sooo excited now for this trip. LOL!
I totally should be stretching or lifting or something right now... But I am being a good girl. My clothes are all packed and tomorrow at noon I take off work for a whole week. The week starts with a trip to Indiana (tomorrow) to watch my baby girl graduate from college, then I return for Mahler's 4th on Monday night. Tuesday and Weds I do farm work and Thrs I am on my way to Kansas City to press da pink Hamster.
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Ooo, this just makes me teary-eyed remembering doing the same last year. Give her a big squeeze from me.
Congrats on your experience too!
This one I am especially emotional about. My first child went full ride off my paycheck. This one looked at me the day she graduated High School and informed me that I would never pay one cent for her school. She said she watched me her whole life work my fingers to the bone to provide for her and her sister and to save enough money that they could go go school (it was my main priority in life). She said that her college money was to go towards my retirement. She joined Americore right out of HS, earned scholarships and has subsequently put herself through school. I cannot even begin to put into words what this means to me. Both of my daughters are college educated, highly functioning members of this earth. Life is really good....
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I want to DL someone now...wish I was coming to the summit too!
Take care of yourself and that injury, Karla
He he he... Bytsi says I can't DL her. I have to press her or squat her. I know I can squat her but don't think I can press her. If I get drunk enough though, I'll try. LOL!
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Karla - Enjoy the trip, just last week we went to my eldest son's B school graduation. Boy they grow up fast!
I hope your rib feels better soon. I figured that if you were disciplined enough to diet and train, you were disciplined enough to take time off
'cause the first rule of getting out of a hole is to stop digging.
TomK
Thanks Tom and a big congrats to you as well. Isn't it the best?
My problem isn't discipline or no discipline .... It is that I honestly don't feel pain like others do apparently. Alan informed me last night that I need to go back to scheduled rest weeks. He mentioned that we would do some intuitive manipulation of it but net is that schedule rests are in the cards. He claims I am guilty of Overtraining... First David said it, then Noel now Alan. Dammit! Alan says injury/illness is a sure sign. I want to argue but I don't even believe myself anymore now that these three professionals are all saying it. I am very embarassed about all of this and also sad. Just a few weeks ago he gave me the reins and allowed me to avoid the scheduled rest week concept. At the time he warned me to pay extra special attention to joint pains, etc. I go off think'n I got it all handled and I felt really great... but in a few weeks from that time I hang myself with the things. How freak'n newb (brotarded) is that? So there it is. I fucked up. I will take the downtime and go back to scheduled rests until such time that I can actually feel my body when it is not right.
Not sure what my status is right now with respect to diet and rest week. I only know I am not lifting for awhile. It's all good because I am on a trip this weekend (sitting in the freak'n airport again). Hopefully by Monday and my return to Portland I will feel better and perhaps I can do a little run or two if not a lift.
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Sorry about all that.. it's not your fault you can't feel pain the way others can. Or can push through while undereating, where others would have caved in a long time ago.
Just means that you have to schedule those things (rest weeks & refeeds) .. doesn't make you better or worse than others.
Now go & have fun .. an online friend of mine sees her baby boy graduate from University today. I bet your money on it that a lot of tears will be shed.
Kudos to your daughter to pay her own way
Shit ... so what happens when you are barely training and still sick all the time?! I'm totally screwed. Yes, sick again ... sinus infection brewing ... fever, aches, shakes last night. Bah. This a day after the stomach bug. Massive sinus pressure today with green stuff coming out of my sinuses. Not good. I feel like I JUST got over bronchitis ...
Looking forward to Friday ...
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Sorry about all that.. it's not your fault you can't feel pain the way others can. Or can push through while undereating, where others would have caved in a long time ago.
Just means that you have to schedule those things (rest weeks & refeeds) .. doesn't make you better or worse than others.
Now go & have fun .. an online friend of mine sees her baby boy graduate from University today. I bet your money on it that a lot of tears will be shed.
Kudos to your daughter to pay her own way
Thanks for the reminder that it is okay to be different and not my fault either. I really want to be aware and be able to do this by feel but I simply cannot do feel so I'll stick with schedules instead. That is all okay and good.
Graduation was nice. I'll post pics later. Yes there were lots of tears and lots of smiles and laughter. Rest week is going well. I am eating well managed to swim a few times so far. I opted out of the internet for the past few days and that was nice too.
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Shit ... so what happens when you are barely training and still sick all the time?! I'm totally screwed. Yes, sick again ... sinus infection brewing ... fever, aches, shakes last night. Bah. This a day after the stomach bug. Massive sinus pressure today with green stuff coming out of my sinuses. Not good. I feel like I JUST got over bronchitis ...
Looking forward to Friday ...
Julie, I am thinking that there is foundationally an imbalance when you get sick all the time and are barely training. You and I have such different lives. I know when I was in a relationship and had little ones to care for that I could not even begin to workout even occasionally let alone like I do now. You are wise to not push it...
I have my fingers crossed for good health for you for this weekend. It is miserable to fly with messed up sinus. If you still have sinus issues before getting on the plane take any and all medicines that you can to dry yourself out. Then drink, drink, drink H20.
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Oh no she didn't!!! Is that a challenge!?!?!?!? Gonna bench me? Squat me? I'll bring the pink and IT IS ON!!!
This really makes me wish I was going to be there!
Glad to hear the rest week is going well. Of course a rest week with a farm to run is probably a bit more hectic than what I think of as rest.
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Hope you're able to rest without going crazy. I had to force myself to learn rest during my illnesses--I had always been a crazy type a business owner and it was not natural to me.
REALLY looking forward to seeing everyone this weekend!
This really makes me wish I was going to be there!
Glad to hear the rest week is going well. Of course a rest week with a farm to run is probably a bit more hectic than what I think of as rest.
I soooo wish you could come too. I understand though and respect the priorities that you chose. I am starting to relax into the week. It takes me a couple of days to really get into the whole rest week concept but I generally can embrace it pretty well and YES the farm work will have me very busy and with good NEAT numbers for the day. LOL!
Hope you're able to rest without going crazy. I had to force myself to learn rest during my illnesses--I had always been a crazy type a business owner and it was not natural to me.
REALLY looking forward to seeing everyone this weekend!
Hey just took a real quick look and will come back to study this later. I am currently going through some of the AARRs that I have and really starting to digest them. This stuff is starting to make more and more sense to me with each passing month!
I am soooo looking forward to this weekend too! YEAH FOR SUMMITS!!!!
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Karla, I just spent way too much time reading through your log and catching up! Why can I not just pop in on the last page and pretend I know what's going on? LOL!
I'd love to comment more on your struggles and successes re: your cut, but maybe we'll just talk at the summit as I've spent WAY too much time here already!
But the deadlifting Bytsi comment made me ROFLOL cause I just deadlifted my 14yo for 10 reps! He got too floppy after that lol! I told him he needed handles...
Graduation ceremony was fun. My daughter was in the high honors program and seemed to be recognized every minute. I started crying at the first note and did not finish until way beyond the end of the ceremonies. She was taking it all pretty in stride and was sending me silly text messages from her seat the whole time. LOL! I love this kid becuase she is so like me. People call her Karla JR and I call her mini-me. She has this crazy sense of humor that I very much appreciate.
Casey also has a bit of a geek side to her... Just like I do...
I booked a suite in a nice downtown location so I did not have to rent a car. Casey and I spent the first day largely alone. We have not physically seen each other for a few years and when she saw me she could not believe her eyes. Of course she said I was TINY. Dammit! LOL! After initial greetings we went to the market and then walked all over the city I bet I put on 5 or more miles that morning. Her darling husband made sure that she had nothing to do but spend time with her family. I really enjoyed getting to know him better too this weekend.
My parents came in from PA and my Ex came in from LA later in the day on Saturday. My ex and I shared the suite actually and at one point in the weekend he informed me that he thought I should not get any bigger. LOL!!! I LOVE that comment. He thought I looked good and toned right now but would not look so good if I got bigger. Casey thought I looked coo and even said I wasn't all that tiny in a tank top.
To add to the already enjoyable weekend was the tremendous fun of watching my WASP (conservative) parents getting to know the inlaws better. You see, my baby girl did not grow up in a conservative town on the East Coast. She grew up in a bit more diverse setting so when it came time to fall in love and marry it was perfectly normal for her to marry out of her race. So all weekend long I got to enjoy watching my dear parents stetch their comfort zone. My most favorite moment was having a BBQ with the inlaws in a very "not-white" neighborhood. At one point the in laws told us about this dog they had that hated white people. That one made them squrm a little. ROTFLMAO! This is the stuff they make movies out of. To thier credit, they were very good. There were many more moments than I can possibly write about. LOL!
And here is my baby girl and my son inlaw. I grew much fonder of him this trip as I got to actually know him better. He promised me a long time ago that he would make sure that she finished school and he has been very supportive of her. She is off to UCLA to get her phD in historical Languages come December. Such a geek... LOL!
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That avi is awesome! I taught myself photoshop in college. Still use it professionally from time to time. Its not hard to realize how easy it is to manipulate photos even for a layperson...imagine how fast the pros can use it with magazines.
Congrats to your daughter, you should be a proud mama!
Glad you had such a good time with your daughter & family. I hope you are having a blast at the Summit.
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First David said it, then Noel now Alan. Dammit! Alan says injury/illness is a sure sign. 
I want to argue but I don't even believe myself anymore now that these three professionals are all saying it. I am very embarassed about all of this and also sad. Just a few weeks ago he gave me the reins and allowed me to avoid the scheduled rest week concept. At the time he warned me to pay extra special attention to joint pains, etc. I go off think'n I got it all handled and I felt really great... but in a few weeks from that time I hang myself with the things. How freak'n newb (brotarded) is that? So there it is. I fucked up. I will take the downtime and go back to scheduled rests until such time that I can actually feel my body when it is not right. 
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