Join me in some exercising fun

So, I just put together an 8 week exercise plan (based on a weight watchers workout) and I thought I'd share with everyone so you can join in if you'd like. Let's all be virtual workout buddies. So, the plan is that on Friday of every week, I'll post the upcoming schedule for the week. The workout week starts on Sunday. Let's post the week's progress on the original workout schedule post for that week. So, on Saturday or throughout the week, go back to the workout schedule posted for that week and give an update.

So, with this you will work out 5 days of the week and have 2 off. You don't have to follow my off days, you can choose which days will work best for you. Most of the workouts are walking. You choose how fast and what terrain. Interval walking is 2 min. fast 2 min. slow. There are some items that say cardio. You can choose what you would like to do for those. For the strength pieces you can choose your favourite strength building activity. For example, I'll probably choose a mixture of pilates and free weights.

I'm also going to have an overall goal for the 8 weeks. My goal is to make every walking piece of the workout and 80% of the additional workouts that are listed. I also think that posting all this will keep me dedicated to the plan.

So, let's get started.

Week 1:
Day Date Plan
1 12/30 Cardio: 35 min.

2 12/31 Interval walking 20 min.

3 1/1 Cardio 35 min.

4 1/2 Day off

5 1/3 2 miles in 30 min. (walk)

6 1/4 3 miles in 1 hr. (walk)

7 1/5 Day off


Happy Exercising!

Happy Christmas!

We had a fantastic christmas up in the cold white north. And it was a white christmas. Yay!! Eric got Rock Band for me/us and basically we played rock band all day. I'm now up to playing medium on the drums. Hope everyone else had a fantastic christmas. Here are some pics, with most of them being of the dogs.

Mr. Big and the Cheat either look really excited or really terrified that it's christmas!


Up close of the excitement.


Here they are with their new octopuss for the year.


The Cheat being cute in his pajamalamas.


Eric and the boys in their christmas pjs.


Oh this one is getting put on the christmas card next year.

Holiday Cocktail Party

So last night was the holiday cocktail party. I'm going to type in red and green to provide some extra holiday cheer to this post.

Here is the glorious food table. For some reason everything was brown or off white or white this year. Strange. Regardless, this is the table before I finished cooking. I get way too excited about the food.



I finally finished all my Christmas decorating for the party. Here is our tree. We're still using the apartment sized tree in our big house. This year I'm going after christmas shopping to get a big tree. I might still put this one up as well because I love it so much! It's a $10 tree from Walgreens, but it has treated me well.


Here's the mantel with Hip Hop Santa and Holiday Barbie. The joke it that Barbie is his ho.



And finally, the horrible banisters needed some cheesetastic decorations. So I came up with this idea to make little peppermints and to hang them there. I attached them to a strand of lights that's wrapped in tinsel. Pretty fabulous.


The party went well. Unfortunately we got a couple of inches of snow so only brave came out. But we had a great time and played alot of guitar hero!

More Snow!

Oh we have even more snow! I'll get a new picture of our driveway. The snow piles on the side are now taller than me! It's definitely going to be a white christmas here.

Last night when I got home, I couldn't pull into the driveway because there was too much snow. While I was inside getting dressed to shovel snow, my neighbor came over and used his snowblower to clear out the drive way for me. Now I know some people don't like small towns because you're neighbors are always watching you, but if they're going to clear out my driveway because they're nice, I'm all about that.

Snow! (Shoveling)

This is after we shoveled.

So we had about 4 inches of snow. Good times. Then it rained and now there's a beautiful layer of ice on top of everything. Luckily we have the element so we were able to initially get out of our driveway without have to shovel it. We had to do this because we only had 1 really crappy snow shovel and we needed to get a better one. So here are some pics for you of snow and shoveling.

Lindsay and her first time shoveling snow. Lindsay is no longer a snow shoveling virgin.

Eric shoveling snow. Oh sexy!

Yay Wireless!

I finally got wireless at the house again. You can anticipate more posts.



Right now I'm taking a break from knitting christmas presents. I'm watching christmas movies and it's snowing outside. :) OH christmas spirit! Both of the pups are snuggled up in front of the little heater. It's soooo adorable!