Oh jeebus....

So, I just got back from the doctor, and she thinks I may have pneumonia.  I'm not willing to pay for the chest xray right now, so I'm on antibiotics for the pneumonia, plus a prescription strength cough suppressant because it feels like my throat is bleeding.  If I'm not better by the end of the Z Pack, or if things get worse, I have to go back in and probably do the chest xray :(  Let's hope these little pink pills do the trick!

Sick.... Again

So, you may recall that almost exactly a month ago, I got the flu or a cold or something yucky where even my hair hurt.  Well ladies and gentlebugs, it's deja vu because I've got it again.  This time I'm quarantined to the couch so Carey can do the computer work he needs to do upstairs.  This is the only time I'm happy this crappy thing is a sleeper sofa!  This time I have a few extra symptoms:

•  some serious coughing - my throat tastes bloody and raw 
• serious sniffles - this symptom just started this morning and my nose is already raw and burny 
• a huge headache - of course it gets worse every time I cough 
• severe shivers - I just can't seem to get warm most of the time!  I do swing to sweaty hot sometimes though 
• fatigue
• sore muscles

Yup, the whole shebang.  Sounds fun, no?  I'm going to bed as early as I can today and working from home tomorrow in hopes I can kick it faster this time because second job start date is fast approaching!  Not sure when exactly, but as soon as background check is done!  I'm going to the doctor tomorrow, even though I've tried really hard to avoid them since Kathryn's adventure this past summer.  But I'm risking it because there is no reason I should have the same thing within the month.  Did I mention I start/ed my period the same weekend I get sick?  So awesome...

Nailed it!

Hello my friends!  You'll be happy to hear I am now a lady with 2 jobs!  I got the offer yesterday :)  So, first interview was Sunday morning, yes, during the blizzard.  That one went super well which led to the second interview, which was yesterday at 3:30.  After that interview, which also went really well, I hopped in to the pool to work out.  So I'm swimming and swimming and water jogging and doing my thing when I look up and Walter, the AM who did my second interview was standing at the side of the pool.  Apparently the manager wanted to interview me too, so he said as soon as I was done working out, to go back to the office to see him.  Awesome.  No makeup, mangy chlorinated hair - exactly how I want to go in to a final interview!  It still went well and I found out there's really a lot of room for advancement with 24hr fitness, so I'm pretty stoked.  I finished the 3rd interview around 6 or so and got the call with the job offer at 9 :)  Hooray!  Cool benefit - free membership!  Double yay!

I've asked to work the 6 - 10 shift so I can work out before work.  I know I'm going to be uber tired, but I'm so excited about this!  I can pay off my credit cards so much faster this way and I still get to work out.  Plus, I'll have absolutely no excuses!  I'll be at the gym at least 3 - 4 days a week and if you go to the gym but don't work out, that's just a whole new level of lazy :)

Here we go!

Fingers Crossed!

I've been needing a part time job for quite a while, and I decided that I really needed a part time job.  I've been hesitant because I was super concerned about still getting to the gym.  I know I need the money, but I still really need to train.  So, in light of this conundrum, I decided the only thing that made sense was to apply at 24hr fitness.  I applied online and heard... absolutely nothing.  After about a month, I took matters in to my own hands and went directly to the Assistant Manager.  Super convenient he's the one who signed me up, so we have a bit of a rapport.  Unfortunately that's not his field, but he gave me the name of the hiring manager and I had an interview this morning.  It was the shortest interview I've ever had.  She said she knew she wanted me for the team, but that we have to go through all the steps, so I have an interview with a manager tomorrow, just to finalize things!  Hooray!  Keep your fingers crossed that everything goes well tomorrow!

Go old ladies go!

Last night I arrive at the pool fully intending to spend the next hour attempting a back stroke and, if the area was empty, attempting a freestyle stroke as well; follwed by a lot of water jogging and noodle resistance work, etc. etc.  I got goggles, so I can do those without losing contacts now!  Instead, I arrived to find a class had just started.  I obviously couldn't do what I had planned, so I just joined the water class.  Like the last one, I was the youngest person there.  Unlike the last one, I was challenged!  They did some biceps and triceps that got my arms buuuuuurning!  In my head, I was thinking, "Dang old ladies!  You go girls!"  At the very end we did this circuit that, for lack of a better description, was and alternating skip across the width of the pool one way, and a russian type dance the other.  For the Russian bit, we went across the pool kicking up our ankles and touching opposite arm and ankle so it looked kind of like that dance where they squat down really low and kick out their legs...  I hope you're following me on this one.  Either way, it was quite a workout.  My heart rate was going, my inner thighs were working hard, and I was pretty excited. 

Sadly, I got out of the pool, looked down, and my ring had oxidized.  Last time this happened, my suit got bleached or something from the amount of chlorine or chemicals in the pool and I had to buy a new suit.  I went and spoke to the manager so that, if it happens again, I can get a new suit out of them.  I can' go around spending $70 on a new suit every time i take a water class.  Grumble grumble grumble....  they were super cool about it though.  The manager was the guy who signed me up, and he actually remembered me!  He said that if the bleaching happens, just let them know and they'd take care of it.  Hooray for good management!  Now if they can only work on their pool techs...

2 in 1! Booyah!

I did not one, but 2 exercise classes today!  Woot!  I have to say, I prefer the instructor down in the HR area.  The routine up here just doesn't seem as intense as the ones I was going to down south....  I don't know if it would be different, or if there's particular choreography they all have to do, but this one feels more like that silly Hustle class I went to.  Brushing "lint" off my shoulders does nothing for getting my heart rate up!

Luckily Body Pump was awesome.  We did squat jumps so I definitely got my heart rate going there.  All my muscles were trembling by the end of class!

  I should've stayed and done more cardio after Zumba, but I'd been working out for two hours and my tummy was talking to me.  Tomorrow it's time to hit the pool again!  I went out and bought goggles, so I'll be able to do backstroke and to try freestyle.  Here's hoping I don't drown!

A fine line between swimming and drowning...

Ok, so I definitely swim like a 5 year old.  I got water up my nose today and thought I was going to die - no fun at all.  So after a few laps of a pitiful looking breast stroke, I just did water jogging and different water weight exercises.  I need to go get some goggles so I can do backstroke again.  I did pretty well at that for a few strokes until some droplets landed in my eyes and I almost lost a contact.  *Sigh*  Remember when you were a kid and swimming was as natural as breathing and anything but a workout?  I miss my childhood muscle mass!

Back to Body Pump

I finally hit up another body pump class again... plus, I went up on my weight!  Woot!  I realized just how easy I've been going on myself lately and decided that's got to stop.  I'm not going to get anywhere unless I push myself!  SO I upped the weight, which still isn't much, but it's more than I was doing, and let me tell you, I can feel it today! 

I need to start having a plan for going to the gym every day.  If I don't, I just get on a cardio machine for a half an hour and then wander aimlessly and wind up going home.  Before my back went, I was working out hard every day, and now, nothing but fluff.

Good bye fluff!  Hello muscles!...  I hope ;)

Bada BING!

I ran!  Yup, you heard me - today I ran.  Granted, I went back to week 2, Day 1, which, if you recall is something like, run 1.5 minutes, walk 1.5 minutes, but I did the whole program without my back hurting!  Hooray!!!!  So, I'm just going to go from here and try build up a stronger foundation and hopefully do it without the back pain.

I am so excited you guys!  I'm running again!

Just keep swimming

Last night was my first night back at the gym since contracting the plague last Wednesday.  Sad to say, all I did was swim for a bit.  I only made it a half an hour before my little iPod died, and went that went, so did my motivation.  When I have music on I can ignore the fact that everyone can see me in a swim suit and that I swim like a 5 year old.  But without it...  I just don't have the mental barrier anymore.  I was thinking about changing into my normal workout clothes and hitting the stair master, but one of the clubs (the club I normally go to) has been closed for renovations and the club I hit up last night is the closest one, so it looks  like it got all of the "homeless" athletes.  It was packed!  It was difficult to walk around even!  I decided to call it a night and not push things too quickly.  But at least I got active again.  The first step is the hardest :)

Quarantine

Tuesday night, my throat started feeling a little odd, but I figured it was just allergies and went on with my life.  Wednesday morning, I woke up and the throat was a bit worse and I had the achy burny eyes feeling.  Again, I figured it was just my body trying to talk me out of going in to the office that day.  So I put on my big girl panties and ignored it.  By 10am I knew I was out for the count.  At that point I was just trying to get the shit off my desk so I could go home.  Stuff kept popping up so I didn't get out of the office until 2:30pm and by this time my throat was on fire.  I had to constantly sip water to get relief from the burning sandpaper feeling.  To make life better - there was a huge accident at I-70 and Havanna.  It took me 45 minutes to get from I-70 and Chambers to I-70 and Havanna - some 3 to 5 miles or something like that.  By the time I finally got home, I was so groggy and miserable I was on the verge of tears.

I go straight up to bed and pass out until Carey gets home.  And that's where I've been ever since.  I worked from home yesterday and got to sound like Charlie Brown's teacher during my counselings.  All from the comfy-ness of my own bed.  But let me tell you, after 48 hours, that bed gets pretty boring.  We're trying to limit the spread of contaminants, so I'm quarantined to the bedroom and Carey is sleeping on the couch.  It's pretty lonely, I'll tell you that much.  I only go downstairs to warm my cornbags and rustle up some food.  I feel unclean because Carey's not coming near me in hopes he can avoid getting whatever this is.  I don't blame him - I definitely dont want him to get this grossness - but I'm really wanting a hug these days....

Can I be healthy again please?