What I'm Reading This Week #30
Happy Final Friday of July everyone! I will not be sad to see this month in the rear view. The Mr finished the HOA minion's job by checking on the basement wall crevasse of missing mortar pretty much every waking hour after he "filled" the hole. I gave him a bamboo skewer to see if it hit the long bottom we saw with the camera. Nope. source When he poked it, it drained away. Every hour, he'd do the same and it kept emptying. I had him check to make sure it wasn't pouring out the front of the house and thankfully it wasn't. But if you figure that water has been etching away at the stairstep crack leading from the top of the hole then that goes down the entire length of the wall , so it had a long way to travel. In the end not only did the Mr use one quart of the filler but had to buy another one and used 1/3 of the bottle before it finally started leveling off!! If we'd left it to the HOA dude, an eighth of the bottle woul...
It is nice to see how consistent our exercise has been. There is no doubt whatsoever that the workout is our lifestyle now. I like the fact that we don't even question it. When I get home from work it's just a given that we will be going down to work out. I think that is really the key to the success because if we allowed ourselves the choice, we know how that usually went before. Go us!
ReplyDeleteit is a lifestyle definitely...but there are days when its not..but I know I can go back to it!! im not letting it all go...
ReplyDeleteI've really just started my Journey and It really is a life style. I had my day off yesterday and I woke up this morning feeling bloated and wanting to do nothing but go for a long walk but I had to go to work.. BOOO! So when I get home I am hitting it hard... I am so glad to finally have seen the light.
ReplyDeleteFor quite a while it was an ingrained habit if not truly a lifestyle. Then I had to give up my Curves membership and never really did find a good replacement. Exercise became pretty sporadic and random after that. I'm working hard this summer to get back to that point.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for sharing this. I'm at the '30 mins a day' place you were a couple years ago. I've been getting at least 500 fitness minutes a month which has been my goal. I'd like to be more consistent but I sometimes take a week or so off. It's my biggest challenge. 30 mins really shouldn't be that hard. Maybe I need to get a calendar myself!
ReplyDeleteI definitely need to get to that place where it's just always part of my day. Things have been so crazy lately that I've completely stopped working out. Ugh! I admire how you've stuck to your workouts for so many years!
ReplyDeleteYou know, I did so great when we first got Finn and I hit my numbers every single week, and then some. But once I started my full time job and my hours were longer, I really lost my focus. It's a terrible excuse, but I think I just haven't mastered balancing out my day. I'm far better off exercising in the morning, but I haven't forced myself to do that consistently. I've been doing it after work instead, and I just don't feel like I'm getting as much out of it (probably because I'm really dragging when I walk through the door).
ReplyDeleteI applaud you and the Mr. for the length and amount of exercise you do. I have always exercised over the years but my problem has always been consistency. I would be gung ho for 6-9 months then slide off. I lived in California for most of my life, so I incorporated exercise by walking every where I could. When I moved to Arizona I found that I couldn't do that anymore because of course, the heat, but everything is so spread out!
ReplyDeleteThe past 2 years I have committed to doing 30 minutes 3 days a week (I also hate doing it :-). I find that I always do more then that but still struggle the last two months of the year...this year, I am going to try to change that!!
I wish I knew what was holding me back, Mrs. It's not "not knowing." I have the knowing part down pat. It's the doing. I'm just not DOING anymore and I hate that. I am so proud of you both. SO proud.
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