Friday, February 29, 2008

Bummed Arm

Well hello Friday! Jordan and I are having a pretty busy week. Doc called me on Wednesday morning! It was wonderful...he says that all is well, and is ready for me to start sending him things! Thats great to hear, I feel like it means that he's getting settled in a little more! I worked out with my trainer on Wednesday and it went really well! She's challenging me more and more each session, and I love it! I'm really dissappointed by my shin splint! Its pretty much refusing to let me do anything on a treadmill. Its an old injury, and it basically hates running, power walking, anything like that. There's nothing you can do for it but stretch it out, and it will never go away. Its really annoying me because everything that I read says that running is the only way to get rid of belly fat and excess weight. I think that maybe once I have lost more it will hurt less though. Its an "impact injury", so the less weight I have impacting it, the easier it will be! (or at least thats what I have convinced myself anyway) :) On my way home from the gym I was reaching around on the backseat trying to find Jordan's MP3 player that she had dropped, and I came across the Valentine's Day card that Doc had bought for me but lost! I'm so glad that he lost it, it was unexpected and made my day! It was the sweetest card he's every bought me! Other than the fact that it made me bawl my eyes out while driving on the freeway, it was just the best thing ever!

Yesterday I wasn't able to go to the gym. I babysat a little 11-month old boy for a friend of mine who was in a jam for a sitter. Today I cannot go to the gym because my arm is killing me! You know that feeling you get after you've slept on your elbow wrong, where you can't even extend your arm all the way? Thats what I have...I'm thinking about getting an ace bandage or something for it! I HATE NOT GOING TO THE GYM!!! I am going to do some leg lifts and lunges and ab stuf here, but still, I HATE not going to the gym!!!

I have made a new grocery list to help my healthy lifestyle! I'm not a big veggie eater, and I don't like salad, so its challenging. But I can do it! I'm going to go on the hunt for a salad dressing that I like, because so far I don't like any :(. I KNOW, I'm a picky eater. I need to find one that low in calories and tastes like McDonalds Sweet N Sour sauce...I'm sure I would like it on a salad then! :) I'm getting lots of fresh fruit, poultry, fresh carrots, I'm even going to try to remix some broccoli and see if I can like it! The truth is that Doc makes a really great point when it comes to me not liking things. (I really hope he doesn't read this, I would hate for him to know that this actually sunk in! LOL) He tells me all the time, "Tammy, do you think I like broccoli? HECK NO I don't! But I eat it anyway....just eat it!!". I know you shouldn't force things down your throat all the time during diets because you will get discouraged, but broccoli isn't THAT bad, and it has millions of benefits. So I'm going to take his advice and just do it. Eventually I'll get used to it, and it will get easier to eat it more often. I'm also taking his advice about the rowing machine, it really is great cardio workout to substitute for the treadmill. MAN I hope he doesn't read this! :)

Now I'm off to the base to get some paperwork stuff taken care of! OH the joys of paperwork, it seems I get to enjoy them at least once a week for something or another! Hopefully Doc will call soon so that I will be able to ask him what to do for my arm...maybe I'll just take his advice about that too! :) Have a great weekend ya'll! :)

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Hello week...

Wow! Monday is already over? I'm just amazed at how fast the time is going by! We are almost through our first MONTH of this crap-o deployment! WHOOHOO!!!! I pray and pray for the time to fly, and God is hearing me loud and clear!

Doc emailed last night. It was his typical, 20 word maximum email! He is a man of few words, but I cherish every single one of them. He's been very busy, and hasn't had time to call in a week or so now. Hopefully we'll get to talk soon! He had taken some pictures Iraq and I was glad to see this place that he will be in for another 6 months. From the pictures I definitely think he may have exaggerated JUST a tad about how "fancy" his living quarters were! :) I'm sure its leaps and bounds from how it use to be though! He only tells me things like that to help me sleep at night anyway. :)

Well, Jordan and I are off to the YMCA for our daily workout! I have my personal trainer (Madeline is her name) working with me tomorrow, so I need to make the most of today....who knows how I'll feel Thursday!! HA! Once again I would like to give a HUGE shoutout to primetime television....without American Idol and the new Law & Order SVU on tonight, I just wouldn't look forward to Tuesday at all! :)

Monday, February 25, 2008

I think I just had my first bad day...

It really wasn't that bad. I'm just whining. It was the first day during this whole deployment that I woke up in a really bad mood. I made it 3 long weeks, so I knew it was soon to come.

It started at 4AM on Thursday night (technically I guess it would be Friday morning). I woke up to cramps, the kind where you pull your knees to your chest and rock in the fetal position and it still just throbs. I went downstairs and took an Aleve, and 30 minutes later they were still there. So I went back downstairs at 5AM and took a second one, finally by 5:3o I felt sweet relief! I don't know why some women get them TERRIBLY and others don't get them at all but MAN those things suck! Doc hadn't called in 3 days, and he usually calls on Friday mornings around 6AM, so I contemplated just getting up for the day...but I decided that I wanted more sleep, even if it was only 30 minutes! I would still wake up in a better mood because I would wake up to that voice that makes my hearts skip a beat.....but I didn't. He didn't call. He STILL hasn't called. I'm sure he's busy, I just made the mistake of gettting myself all psyched out for something that wasn't even guaranteed to happen. Either way, it sucked.

I got out of bed at 7:30 AM when Jordan woke up, and thats when the cramps hit me. Not menstral cramps, the Aleve took care of that. Body cramps. Every muscle in my body felt like death. I had started meeting with a personal trainer just the day before, so I kind of figured this was coming! She's basically a female version of the Terminator. She's awesome though! I mustered up the energy to go get Jordan and SLOWLY walk downstairs to make breakfast. While I was scrambling our eggs I checked my email, thinking maybe Doc had emailed. He, of course, hadn't. And neither had my babysitter....I had a Dr.'s appt. that day and she had confirmed with me weeks ago that she would be there. I had emailed her as a final reminder a couple days before, and she still hadn't responded. This worried me, as the last couple times this happened she didn't show up! We ate our breakfast, and with only a couple hours until my appt. I called the babysitter. No answer. I could clearly see where this was going. "You've got to be KIDDING me" I thought!!! An hour later I called her from my home phone and she finally answered. She was having an emergency and wasn't going to be able to make it. She had a great reason to not be there, but seriously, could this day get any worse?

I decided that God's plan for Friday was simple. He was saying, "Tammy, clear your schedule because today you're going to lay on the couch and watch Law & Order SVU and relax". Like a good servant, I abided His plan to the fullest! Jordan and I stayed in our pijama's all day and played and giggled the day away. Jordan fed me her goldfish crackers while I laid on the couch, and her and I cuddled a few times. I love her innocence. At a couple different points I just broke down and bawled my eyes out, and I guess she just didn't know what to think of that, but she laughed uncontollably at me! I guess she thought I was trying to be funny! I cried harder, she laughed harder! Eventually we were both laughing!! It was exactly what I needed. She is so amazing :)

When I woke up on Saturday I was still feeling a little down, but there was a social on base for spouses and families of those deployed, and a couple of my new friends were going! I decided that sitting around feeling sorry for yourself doesn't really help, so we went to the social. We had a blast, and I have been back to my normal bubbly self ever since! Now I'm ready to get some rest and wake up fresh tomorrow to go back to the Terminator and my workout! Please keep my muscles in your prayers! :)

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Welcome to my new blog! I think the old one died...I don't really know what happened, just randomly the site doesn't exist anymore? Oh well! Here we go with a fresh blog!