Hi Everyone..... Been In Hiding

Hey everyone!!! Like the title says, I have been in hiding. The past few weeks for this month, I have been trying to get all the 2009 taxes done for our accountant before the 15th. Ugh!!!! The other thing was that I started at the Y, planning on teaching one, maybe 2 classes, and now, I have been teaching 8-10 classes, adding more water fitness classes and preparing to be the YSL Swim Lesson Coordinator for the summer. And I only started to take this job to get a free family membership!!!

For all of my followers, I appreciate you all being patient with me, and not giving up on me. I have been working out daily, and if I don't make it to the treadmill/elliptical/stationary bike & I have to teach swim lessons, I get in the pool 30 minutes before class and swim laps before I start.

My food choices on the other hand has been pretty bad!!! Looking at everything that I have been doing so far, I have to say that my food choices is my weakness. I am an emotional eater!!! I LOVE FOOD!!!!! I love the taste of food, how flavors work with the food. I have learned not to use food when I am stressed or upset, but I do let food flavors dictate what I do & don't eat. I also let my husband's emotional eating control what I do and don't eat as well.

For example, we are in Atlanta, GA for the weekend for a Pettibon Seminar, and on our way down here, we just crossed over into Georgia. We had stopped in Hickory, waiting for my new laptop to come in from Dell via FedEx, and we ate Japanese at the mall. About an 1 1/2 after eating at the mall, and back on the road, we drove to an exit that had a Krystal's restaurant (my husband's favorite). He wanted to eat there, even though we ate 1 1/2 hours ago. I stopped and not only ordered his meal, but I ordered a meal for myself. Did it taste good.... Heck ya!!! But was it something that I needed to eat..... Heck No!!! About 10 minutes after eating it, my husband started to complain that his stomach was hurting and he was getting really bloated.

After we ate, we talked about what we just did, and we both knew that it was such a bad idea. All we could do was talk about it, make the changes & move on. He has been real focused on doing the changes because I signed him up for an 8 week boot camp and even though he fought it at first, he has made a lot of changes- involving more exercise. His attitude has changed and he has been more motivating to keep me moving. He even without me having to do this, signed up for 8 week Beach Body Abs workout at 5:00 am in the morning.

Well, I wanted to start back at my blogging, especially since I have on my desktop of my laptop, I can blog right here without having to pull up the full website. If anyone out there is willing to take on this challenge, I need an assistant who will send me an email to say, "Hey lady.... Where's your blog post?" I have noticed that I have been so overwhelmed with everything, that I think I am going to need someone who would be willing to help, remind me to blog & also when I blog say, "Hey, what are you doing? Did you workout today?" or "Did you eat right today?" I hope someone will help me out with that.

Talk to everyone later!!!

Happy Easter Everyone!!

Happy Easter Weekend everyone! The first 3 months have flown by so quickly. I was looking through my planner to see what was already filled in my almost full schedule for the month of April & into May, and I realized at the end of May, that the kids will be out of school. Also, I am two month away from our girls' trip to NYC. I am super excited! Five days- no husband, no kids..... Just us girls in NYC!!! Now, just trying to get tickets to Wicked and figure out what to do for fun that isn't just tourist-y. Anyone who has been to NYC or live/lived in NYC have any suggestions, please send them my way.

This week, my workout has been slow starting, but I pushed through the rest of the week sweating like crazy. Monday, I was stuck at the office, trying to get all the tax stuff together for the accountant. In the middle of last year, we had an accounting software (Peachtree), and the computer it was on was getting "cleaned up." So I put all of our information on a memory stick and store it away. About two months ago, I realized that I had lost the memory stick. Holy crap!!!! I tried to start over with Peachtree, but it was so hard to understand. So I ended up buying Quickbooks, and I had to start over. So I had worked day and night all this week to try and get this done, and Thursday night, I finally got it all done. Phew.......

I finally made it to the gym on Wednesday, and I was pushing hard on the bike & the elliptical. Then I worked on weights & did abs. This week was my first week without Renee, and I was slow going on my own, but I at least I did it. Now, I am working with a co-worker to start taking on some water fitness classes, and creating more intense water fitness classes to really push it.

So, my week has been really interesting, and I am really looking forward to start this next week. Meeting with the accountant on Monday. Now, I am going to talk to everyone later, I have to get ready and head to the Y for my private swim lesson today.