I have completed 9 of 27 and/or 6 of 24 workouts. So I am both 33% and 25% through the workout.
I finished week 3 tonight. I haven't decided if I am going to repeat week three for a fourth day or go on to week 4 as scheduled. I feel ok about week 3, but just reading week 4 makes me feel like death could be a very likely result of the workout. I really need new running shoes and that ipod shuffle that I left on an airplane last year. I also think I need an ear bud custom fitted for my right ear. I have tried out 3 different sets of ear buds and the lefties are all perfect fits but the righties just won't comfortably stay put.
I have yet to announce to you all that I got a new job! Although since I know who each of my 6 readers are I feel like by now you all know. I will update more about it soon.
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
I Was RUNNIN'
Lame title, I know. Did you know to read it in Forrest Gump-speak?
Well I started running and it has been suggested more than once that I use the blog as a form of accountability. So let's hope this doesn't lead to me telling guilt based big fat lies about my athletic endeavors!
Anywho I am doing the Couch to 5K (C25K) program. I have done it before and it worked well but I got a little distracted after a month. When you read the program you think, "90 second intervals, big woop." Well it is a big woop for me!!! This time around I skipped week one and I feel good so far, so I think that was an ok call on my part. It is a 9 week program with 3 workouts a week. It says not to do them on consecutive days, but since I'm off work I am using this week as a little kick start and my body is just going to have to deal!
I figure there are 2 ways to measure this, I have either completed 5/27 workouts OR 2/24 workouts. I know I technically have not done 5 workouts, but I feel like it wouldn't be completely unfair to still get credit for being able to bypass week 1, right?? I mean if it makes me feel better and keeps me motivated, what's the harm? So, I have completed both 18.5% of the program AND 12.5% of the program....but NOT 31% of the program. You follow?
Maybe I should wait till my brain comes down from the workout to rationalize all of this! Oh, and I have zero plans to run a 5K, I just want to weigh 1xx pounds and/or wear a size y.
Well I started running and it has been suggested more than once that I use the blog as a form of accountability. So let's hope this doesn't lead to me telling guilt based big fat lies about my athletic endeavors!
Anywho I am doing the Couch to 5K (C25K) program. I have done it before and it worked well but I got a little distracted after a month. When you read the program you think, "90 second intervals, big woop." Well it is a big woop for me!!! This time around I skipped week one and I feel good so far, so I think that was an ok call on my part. It is a 9 week program with 3 workouts a week. It says not to do them on consecutive days, but since I'm off work I am using this week as a little kick start and my body is just going to have to deal!
I figure there are 2 ways to measure this, I have either completed 5/27 workouts OR 2/24 workouts. I know I technically have not done 5 workouts, but I feel like it wouldn't be completely unfair to still get credit for being able to bypass week 1, right?? I mean if it makes me feel better and keeps me motivated, what's the harm? So, I have completed both 18.5% of the program AND 12.5% of the program....but NOT 31% of the program. You follow?
Maybe I should wait till my brain comes down from the workout to rationalize all of this! Oh, and I have zero plans to run a 5K, I just want to weigh 1xx pounds and/or wear a size y.
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Summer Happenings
So obviously I have neglected the blog. Let’s move on.
This summer is already half way over! I’d say I’m sad but after a month of 100+ temps and zero rain I am kind of looking forward to the Houston "winter."
So I have picked up a new little past time since my last update. I had been thinking about taking tennis lessons for a while and I finally got a couple of girls on board to take them with me. So for the last nearly two months I have been taking lessons o Weds night and practicing 1 other night each week. I don’t know if I would recommend picking up a sport like this in the heat of summer, but I figure it will just make it that much more nice in a couple of months.
As far as my skill level, well let me fill you in on where we were starting from. At our first lesson Amanda, Jimilee (JL) and I walked on to the court, our coach, Gary, said hello and inspected our racquets. To Amanda – “looks good”, to Kori – “umm, is this a junior racquet?”, to JL – “whoa, whoa, whoa lets just put that down right now. That is what we call an antique; you would hang something like this on the wall. Here now use my spare.” All of this said with his adorable little St. Lucian accent. Once we were through cracking up about our racquet issues he asked us about our skill level. Amanda – Level 0, Kori – Level 0, JL – Level 0. At this point he turned to the two men that had been in his beginner’s class for a couple of months and said “Congratulations guys, you have just been promoted to intermediate. Please move over to court #2.” Note: We had not even swung at a ball and it was that obvious that we would be needing some special attention!
I think we have all greatly improved since then. JL got a new racquet, I am picking up my new one tomorrow. (He said mine was ok to use for a little while.) We recently picked up a co-worker's wife so there are now 4 of us in the class. Before we had the solid fourth in our class, we noticed each week we seem to have a new straggler and then they never return...I can't imagine why not!?!? First there was a young Asian guy with his Dad there. He didn’t play, they just observed the lesson for about 10 minutes and then disappeared. Hmmm. The next week we had Badminton Theo. He was pretty young too, maybe about 18, and he had a badminton background and braces. Badminton Theo and I were paired up and I was very envious of his gracefulness going after the ball, pointing his back toe as he lunged and swinging…that is until I heard Coach Gary’s comments of “Ohhhh, there’s that badminton background.” The last straggler we had was a young woman from Bermuda, Tiffany, she and I were paired up as well. We were buds by the end of the lesson, to the point where I could call her Tiff. She was going back to Bermuda for a few months and then moving here to be with her bf/finace in early 2010. Hopefully we'll see her again...actually hopefully not, I don't think I'll keep paying if I'm still a beginner after 7-9 months!
Note that I was always the one paired up with the stragglers! Amanda and JL decided at Lesson 1 that anytime Coach Gary said "Let's partner up," they would run and grab each other like little girls claiming a hopscotch court, silently making the point that they thought I was a bad tosser (it's part of a drill we do, don't ask). BUT, I have a feeling those thoughts are a changin' as I have been approached a party of that pairing about changing some things up a bit. Mmmm-hmm! I would also like to note that despite my merry-go-round of partners I was the first to get 3 out 3 on our front, front, back drill and then again on the back, back, front! BOO-YA!!!
So that is tennis so far. Oh, I have not yet bought a skirt, I am saving that as a reward for getting promoted to intermediate. At this rate I'll probably be getting something from the Adidas' 2012 collection!
Other summer happenin', I joined a book club and had a birthday but I'll save that for another, very soon to come, entry! Thanks for your patience :)
This summer is already half way over! I’d say I’m sad but after a month of 100+ temps and zero rain I am kind of looking forward to the Houston "winter."
So I have picked up a new little past time since my last update. I had been thinking about taking tennis lessons for a while and I finally got a couple of girls on board to take them with me. So for the last nearly two months I have been taking lessons o Weds night and practicing 1 other night each week. I don’t know if I would recommend picking up a sport like this in the heat of summer, but I figure it will just make it that much more nice in a couple of months.
As far as my skill level, well let me fill you in on where we were starting from. At our first lesson Amanda, Jimilee (JL) and I walked on to the court, our coach, Gary, said hello and inspected our racquets. To Amanda – “looks good”, to Kori – “umm, is this a junior racquet?”, to JL – “whoa, whoa, whoa lets just put that down right now. That is what we call an antique; you would hang something like this on the wall. Here now use my spare.” All of this said with his adorable little St. Lucian accent. Once we were through cracking up about our racquet issues he asked us about our skill level. Amanda – Level 0, Kori – Level 0, JL – Level 0. At this point he turned to the two men that had been in his beginner’s class for a couple of months and said “Congratulations guys, you have just been promoted to intermediate. Please move over to court #2.” Note: We had not even swung at a ball and it was that obvious that we would be needing some special attention!
I think we have all greatly improved since then. JL got a new racquet, I am picking up my new one tomorrow. (He said mine was ok to use for a little while.) We recently picked up a co-worker's wife so there are now 4 of us in the class. Before we had the solid fourth in our class, we noticed each week we seem to have a new straggler and then they never return...I can't imagine why not!?!? First there was a young Asian guy with his Dad there. He didn’t play, they just observed the lesson for about 10 minutes and then disappeared. Hmmm. The next week we had Badminton Theo. He was pretty young too, maybe about 18, and he had a badminton background and braces. Badminton Theo and I were paired up and I was very envious of his gracefulness going after the ball, pointing his back toe as he lunged and swinging…that is until I heard Coach Gary’s comments of “Ohhhh, there’s that badminton background.” The last straggler we had was a young woman from Bermuda, Tiffany, she and I were paired up as well. We were buds by the end of the lesson, to the point where I could call her Tiff. She was going back to Bermuda for a few months and then moving here to be with her bf/finace in early 2010. Hopefully we'll see her again...actually hopefully not, I don't think I'll keep paying if I'm still a beginner after 7-9 months!
Note that I was always the one paired up with the stragglers! Amanda and JL decided at Lesson 1 that anytime Coach Gary said "Let's partner up," they would run and grab each other like little girls claiming a hopscotch court, silently making the point that they thought I was a bad tosser (it's part of a drill we do, don't ask). BUT, I have a feeling those thoughts are a changin' as I have been approached a party of that pairing about changing some things up a bit. Mmmm-hmm! I would also like to note that despite my merry-go-round of partners I was the first to get 3 out 3 on our front, front, back drill and then again on the back, back, front! BOO-YA!!!
So that is tennis so far. Oh, I have not yet bought a skirt, I am saving that as a reward for getting promoted to intermediate. At this rate I'll probably be getting something from the Adidas' 2012 collection!
Other summer happenin', I joined a book club and had a birthday but I'll save that for another, very soon to come, entry! Thanks for your patience :)
Friday, June 12, 2009
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Oh Yeah, I Have A Blog
Just kidding, I didn't forget I had a blog. This is still a new element to my life and working it into my routine wasn't as easy as I thought it would be. My plan was to try to get at least a post a week out and I planned to do that at work when I got bored. Well, work hasn't been very boring over the last month and that directly affected my blogging. Sorry friends.
The good news you didn't miss anything too exciting! I just read my last post to see where things left off, so I'll start there. I have since found out alot more about that one job opportunity that didn't work out. It all reminded me of how soap opera and incestual the agency setting can be. Long story short is they told me they were moving forward with 2 other candidates, but what really happened is they didn't land the client they were hiring for. I don't care that they didn't land the client, I care that they made me think that 2 other candidates were better than me and made me second guess my awesomeness! So annoying. I took a 6 week job search hiatus.
Fortunately things at my current job have stopped getting worse and I am actually in a much more stable environment. ALOT of changes have been made over the last 2 months. The biggest one being that we moved offices. This was my not-blogging excuse for a solid 3 weeks. I have started to dabble into the job hunting again but not nearly as aggressively.
My personal life since April 11th has involved:
- My sister moving into her first apartment and me sending the majority of my furniture to Cleveland to furnish said apartment.
-Me panicking and throwing a fit that said sister was ungrateful for such a kind act.
-Babysitting my youngest sis and busting in her biggest teenage moment to date while the 'rents were U'hauling, rather Penske-trucking, the stuff up there. No details allowed on here though. Sorry.
- A trip to Dallas to see 5 of my leading ladies!
- A sunny and relaxing Memorial Day weekend
-Glamma Pat purchasing a SmartCar and getting her own apartment
- Lots of crawfish in between all of that!
This was just a boring recap post, I'll be back again soon I have made getting back on track blog-wise my June resolution!
The good news you didn't miss anything too exciting! I just read my last post to see where things left off, so I'll start there. I have since found out alot more about that one job opportunity that didn't work out. It all reminded me of how soap opera and incestual the agency setting can be. Long story short is they told me they were moving forward with 2 other candidates, but what really happened is they didn't land the client they were hiring for. I don't care that they didn't land the client, I care that they made me think that 2 other candidates were better than me and made me second guess my awesomeness! So annoying. I took a 6 week job search hiatus.
Fortunately things at my current job have stopped getting worse and I am actually in a much more stable environment. ALOT of changes have been made over the last 2 months. The biggest one being that we moved offices. This was my not-blogging excuse for a solid 3 weeks. I have started to dabble into the job hunting again but not nearly as aggressively.
My personal life since April 11th has involved:
- My sister moving into her first apartment and me sending the majority of my furniture to Cleveland to furnish said apartment.
-Me panicking and throwing a fit that said sister was ungrateful for such a kind act.
-Babysitting my youngest sis and busting in her biggest teenage moment to date while the 'rents were U'hauling, rather Penske-trucking, the stuff up there. No details allowed on here though. Sorry.
- A trip to Dallas to see 5 of my leading ladies!
- A sunny and relaxing Memorial Day weekend
-Glamma Pat purchasing a SmartCar and getting her own apartment
- Lots of crawfish in between all of that!
This was just a boring recap post, I'll be back again soon I have made getting back on track blog-wise my June resolution!
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Waiting To Exhale
So, I have been very consciously absent from blogging lately. I kept kind of waiting to have something exciting to share, but nothing has happened!
I had a pretty exciting job opportunity developing, but I squashed that at the 2nd interview. I have never blown an interview but I am pretty sure that is exactly what I did on this one. I was over-prepared for the interview and wasn't natural at all. I had researched the agency and client so much I didn't have any questions and I had very artificial and prepared conversation ready. Oh well, I guess these are the times I benefit from taking rejection abnormally well. And by that I mean that I am well aware that there is nothing wrong with me and clearly it's the woman I met with that has the problem!
On the weight loss front I am still just hanging at my 10lb loss. With bathing suit season basically here I hope to kick into gear again. The half bag of jellybeans I ate today should be a good start, right?!
Other than that not much to report for now. I'll be back more this week, I just wanted to drop a post so you didn't think I had forgot about youKelsey readers.
I had a pretty exciting job opportunity developing, but I squashed that at the 2nd interview. I have never blown an interview but I am pretty sure that is exactly what I did on this one. I was over-prepared for the interview and wasn't natural at all. I had researched the agency and client so much I didn't have any questions and I had very artificial and prepared conversation ready. Oh well, I guess these are the times I benefit from taking rejection abnormally well. And by that I mean that I am well aware that there is nothing wrong with me and clearly it's the woman I met with that has the problem!
On the weight loss front I am still just hanging at my 10lb loss. With bathing suit season basically here I hope to kick into gear again. The half bag of jellybeans I ate today should be a good start, right?!
Other than that not much to report for now. I'll be back more this week, I just wanted to drop a post so you didn't think I had forgot about you
Friday, March 27, 2009
Bouquet Toss Update
Since my blog did kick off on this subject, I thought I'd give an update. Here are pics from The Toss at Ashley's wedding. As you may remember from this post, I was drunk off cajun seafood and who knows what else.
I don't know how large or clear this pic will post, but in the pre-toss I am up front staying warm with a black wrap and bourbon and diet. The other girls look ready and I am pretty sure wandered to the front of the crowd because I felt like that was the bridesmaidly thing to do.
But, don't you worry I have another wedding this Sunday night. Yes, third wedding of 2009 and it's not even April. What's even more strange is that all three of my 2009 weddings have been Christian/Jewish unions! AND, the only half-official date I've been on this year was with a nice young Jewish boy. What is God, or should I say G-d trying to tell me here?!?
I don't know how large or clear this pic will post, but in the pre-toss I am up front staying warm with a black wrap and bourbon and diet. The other girls look ready and I am pretty sure wandered to the front of the crowd because I felt like that was the bridesmaidly thing to do.
Now, I need to preface this action shot and let you readers know what I already knew at the time, THE TOSS WAS THROWN! Obviously it was literally thrown, but also Ashley had promised to bouquet to a damsel that believed this might be that little push she needs to get a ring and have a wedding in time for 2009 tax breaks. I knew I didn't have much to reach for so it looks like I did my best "Oh, it's not coming this way, but where is it gonna go, darn it I wish it had come this way, not really, that was a lie!" Clearly I also took an unconscious reflex step back as I seem to disappear into the crowd and the girl that was behind me is now in clear view.
But, don't you worry I have another wedding this Sunday night. Yes, third wedding of 2009 and it's not even April. What's even more strange is that all three of my 2009 weddings have been Christian/Jewish unions! AND, the only half-official date I've been on this year was with a nice young Jewish boy. What is God, or should I say G-d trying to tell me here?!?
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