December 18th, 2006 - 8:53 am
» training log: 12/10 – 12/16
12/10 Sun: 25 min jogging – gym
12/11 Mon: riding
12/12 Tue: jogging & weights – gym
12/13 Wed: 55 min C&S – ABS
12/14 Thu: rest
12/15 Fri: riding (lesson)
12/16 Sat: 30 min yoga
Gym tally: 4
Oh the struggle that was working out on Saturday. I wanted to do nothing but lie on the couch all morning, waiting till it was time to go out to my parents’ where we’d finish making holiday treats then proceed directly into diabetic comas. (Last week we did sugar cookies — which, incidentally? BEST sugar cookies I’ve ever eaten, seriously good — and gingerbread men and spritz and the aforementioned Korova cookies; Saturday we rounded it out with chocolate fudge, chocolate-dipped pretzels, cornflake wreaths, lemon bars, and my coup de grace: caramels. I made the first attempt at the caramels at home, where they went from too soft to toffee-hard in the blink of an eye, so I tossed the whole batch and tried again at my parents’, where they came out pretty damned perfect, much to general astonishment. Or personal astonishment, anyhow.) Um, anyway, my point before the litany of butter and sugar — I should’ve done something more strenuous, but the thought of anything other than Baron Baptiste’s gentle and uplifting yoga left me cold and lying uselessly on the couch, so yoga it was.
I’ve never been much of a New Year’s Resolutions kind of person, but the beginning of January marks an end to holiday insanity (and a beginning to work insanity, but I find it best to ignore that until it’s actually happening, and longer if I can manage it), so I’m going to try to lay down a more defined exercise program then. And cancel my gym membership, because right now it’s just making exercise boring and stressful. My goal is to not feel fat for my San Diego trip in March, assuming it happens. My other goal is to sew a dress for the opening reception. Not that I’m holding my breath on any of it: trip, non-fat-feeling, or finding time to sew. But I am crossing my fingers.
bryce said: December 18th, 2006 at 11:43 am
Dude, stop with the “should’ve” before I beat you down. ;-) You’re exercising, and that’s good. Better to do yoga and riding than to spend your time watching the discs of 24 that you’ve gotten from Netflix. Not that I know anything about doing that.
Stephie said: December 18th, 2006 at 12:31 pm
Oooooh, do you know what kind of dress you want to make? Will there be pictures?
Man, that makes me so nostalgic for all the times we covered the hall outside your dorm with sewing…
rachel! said: December 19th, 2006 at 2:05 pm
I haven’t decided exactly what kind of dress I want to make, but I’m thinking knee-length, sort of an A-line skirt, scoop or v-neck, princess seams, probably cotton? So it’s semi-casual — not a party dress or anything. (Though I did just discover I wound up with three of the wraps from Mel’s bride’s maids dresses, which I think might be just enough fabric to make a more evening-wear-ish dress of the same length.)
As for pictures, the likely scenario is I’d promise to try to remember to take some and then forget.