A weekend of awesome.

May 272011

What’s up, ya’ll?

I’m happy to say that first week of re-energized awesome has been quite successful so far, and we enter into my first weekend of awesomeness.

What’s on the agenda?

The big thing is a party at my Mom’s house on Saturday. This will be the first major party of the year, and these are usually marked by alot of people, and a TON of food and booze.

Yeah, buddy!

This will also be the first people since my parent’s got the hot tub, which has been installed right next to the pool. Should be fun times!

Anywho, my goal for the weekend is to enjoy myself, but not go overboard. I drank enough last weekend to last a few months, so I don’t need to go crazy this weekend. Food wise, I’ll eat, but I won’t pig out. If there is anything extra that I want I’ll pack some up and eat it later in the week.
There are currently no plans for Sunday or Monday, but I really need to get some schoolwork done. I have about a month left in my semester, and two more assignments to do, so I need to get cracking. I also have a huge ass work report that is due by June 1st, so it’d probably be a good idea to try to knock that out. :P
Workout wise, I’ll be doing my lunchtime workout on Friday, and if I have enough time on Saturday before the party I’ll try to knock out a run. Although honestly, my Mom’s offspring are usually the errand bitches at these things, so that’ll be a workout in of itself :P I want to try to get some larger workouts in on Sunday and Monday, since I’ll have a bit more time. :)
And that’s all I got. What’re your plans for the weekend?

Gone swimmin'!

Jun 042010

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I’ve always loved swimming. 

I’m not the best swimmer, and I really didn’t even learn how to swim until I was 15, but I still love it.  Still though, I have a love/hate relationship with the pool.

My parents have a pool, and when I lived at home I would swim constantly, except for when people were over, or when my parents had one of their huge summer parties.  When I was a member of the Y, I never used the indoor pool, despite the fact that I would have loved to be able to swim in the autumn and winter.  My old apartment had a pool, but if my landlady was home or if someone was working on the yard (it was a basement apartment), then I wouldn’t go anywhere near it.  This apartment has a pool, but all last summer I never used it.

Why?  Well, I think it’s the same reason alot of people don’t like the pool, or beach, or whatever:  I didn’t want to be seen without my shirt in.  My flabby stretchmarked gut, my moobs, my pale skin, I thought all of that was best left under the shirt.  I didn’t want to be seen, I didn’t want to be looked at, I didn’t want to be made fun of, etc…etc…

With that said, the apartment pool has opened for the summer, and yesterday, I went swimming! :)

And yes, I took my shirt off.

That isn’t saying that the gut, moobs and paleness aren’t there anymore, and it’s not to say that I’m proud of my appearance right now, but I am learning that I need to worry less about what people might think and do what I want to do.  I’m also realizing that more often than not, those people are probably more concerned about how THEY look then about how they look. 

So yeah, I have alot of work to do, but I think I can now add swimming to my workout routine, and be okay with it.  Plus, I like the smell of chlorine, is that weird? :-P