So I was asked not to share this before most of our family had been notified and then when they had and facebook was told I didn’t get around to sharing it here. (warning: have I mentioned I’m a geek?) Continue reading
Category Archives: Miscellany
ah-ha! Suck it – I finished the mittens
& celabrating a year in good company
Remember my goal to finish those Raven mittens? Well I did it! Late Saturday evening, sitting next to a fire, tucked away safely in a cabin next to a stormy Lake Superior. Which was throwing 5ft (and much larger down the coast) waves against the rocks for three days straight. This lake never fails to amaze me with it’s power and beauty. Me and my partner (the new owner of the mittens) were there for the weekend to celebrate our anniversary. We spent an exciting Saturday up in Grand Marais, MN watching huge waves crash against the shore, climbing over rocks and taking in the late fall colors. We where also rained on a little. And our nights where spent lounging next to a fire with cheap wine, wondering if a cereal killer was watching us from the dark woods and watching bad cable TV. Continue reading
i have a wide grip on this
Sunday’s are lifting club. I head to a friends garage where a small group of us lift heavy things with help from Mike the coach. He has me on a 5lbs a week increase. So I’m only up to 135 on my dead lift as of yesterday. I did my five sets of five lifts and then at the end used one of the others girls weights, at 185. I just lifted it twice, but I had to know if I could. I think I will make my 200 lb goal.
I have a wide grip too, I’m blaming my short torso. It might be my wide stance too.
Then it was bench presses, which he has me at 60 lbs, I was good until the end when I added 20 more. I could do it! Here my grip is not as wide as it should be.
I know I didn’t listen well, but I felt pretty good about it anyway. Lifting is a simple way to push my self with out leaving myself grasping for breath on the floor.
Then we did pull ups and no. No, I can’t do those at all. Can’t do push ups really either. I have to do them on my knees and I can only do around 25 before I just can’t get up anymore. We did the Chief last Thursday. We had 3 minutes to do as many rounds of 3 power snatches (for which I also have a wide grip) , 6 push-ups, and 9 squats (this is 1 rep). I never thought I would regard squats as a resting period. Then we would get a 1 minute break and then go again. We had 5 rounds of this, I averaged 2.5 reps. The pushups where the worst part for me. The coach suggested I try them with a box under my hands, so you don’t go down as far, it really helped. But I skipped my usual Saturday class because it had more push ups. I keep feeling bad about this, but then I think about push ups and have to admit I would skip it again.
because this is Beautiful.
(warning: beautiful naked woman pictured)
I just have to share this site I came across, called “A Beautiful Body Project” Continue reading
pancakes, my gateway gluten
We try to eat pretty healthy at home.
We try to follow a roughly paleo lifestyle, which for us basically means lots and lots of veggies, good protein (like grass fed beef from a local farmer), low amounts of dairy, no milk (before anyone says anything about calcium, me and my son are sensitive to lactose- I will not not go into what a big ol’glass of milk would do to us, but it isn’t pretty) and if we can help it no wheat. We are pretty loose on the fruit thing too, but paleo encourages no sugar, so only low glycemic fruit and small amounts of it. Continue reading
why am I doing this, the post!
I should explain that I try very very hard not to be a judgey person, and I try to embrace what is beautiful in every body type.
But that being said I am over weight, and a lot of people would be in my position.
I spent five years as a full time student who spend most of her time sitting at a computer doing homework and when not doing that my preferred way to relax was again sitting on a couch with 2 needles and yarn. My sleep schedule was non-existent, I opened a coffee shop at 4:30 am half the week, while staying up to at least midnight to get work done after my child’s 8pm bed time. I considered it good night when I had 6 hours of sleep.
So five years of sitting a lot and not sleeping.So now with the support of a great partner I have started attending a crossfitt gym (or box, you call them boxes).
My goal is not to be skinny, but comfortable in my own skin again. I was a healthy size 10 who could lift around 200 lbs ( i worked in a warehouse) five years ago. By BMI standards I was still considered overweight then! Crazy!
That all being said, crossfit work outs can be crazy, just plain nuts. I don’t know what I was thinking. So I will complain about them for now and brag when I one day finish one of them at RX. 🙂
what does 300 hundred sit-ups feel like?
Well first off, so bad as you might think.
The work out was 300 sit-ups for time, but every minute the coach would yell and we all had to do 3 burpees .
Here is a Burpee Video link to some crazy cross-fitters from another box, sorry the music is loud.
Being the band new wuss to cross fit that I am, my burpees are slow and scaled, and if I tried to do 3 every minute my 25 minute max work out would have been mostly burpees. So I scaled down to 2 and finished in 19 minutes and 48 sec!
After the workout my throat tasted of stomach acid and my legs where shaky.
The day after usually sucks after a tough work out, but I really feel okay? Just a little sore in the mid section.
Weird right?
We’ll see how I am after lifting club today. My goal is to get over 200 for my dead lift before the end of the year.
So, I’m making pasta sauce
So after a couple of years of not feeling the need, I very urgently needed to make red sauce this year. Like lets wake up at 6am in the morning and go to the farmers market and buy those whole baskets of tomatoes right now kind of need. It turned out being more like 9am, but still…
(WHY is it called “red” sauce, i know, I know it’s red. But there has to be more to it. Just calling it red makes it sound very mid-western I guess.) Continue reading