Let's Post our Daily Exercise

Vargadoll: I agree about the Love or Cheer button. Hope you have a good week with rads.

Claire: Thanks for posting your gorgeous pictures.

Ruth: Looks like your snowbirds friends had to dig out their winter clothes.

Hi Everybody! I fixed a big Easter lunch on Sunday (ham, turkey, deviled eggs, potato salad, green beans, sliced vegetables, rolls, and heirloom cake) and have been eating leftovers every day. Yum! I've been walking/running faithfully.

North Dakota is not necessarily quiet, but the nice thing is that you can get to somewhere quiet real quickly if you want to!

I cleaned house all afternoon (including spot shampooing stains on the carpet), went to yoga, and actually made a compliment worthy dinner when I got home. No rest for the wicked!

Nats glad you are on the mend. LB kind of in the same vein - I have been watching The Royale Family again on Netflix and I looked up Caroline Aherne and come to find out she died of lung cancer and when I watch it now all I see is them all sitting on the couch smoking and the full ashtray, the whole show they have cigarettes going ughhh. Ruth it must not be too cold by ND standards as none of you have gloves on Add me to the list who wish we had a love and cheer emoji.

Wanted to go to Body Combat tonight but got home too late to make class so I just did a Body Combat Express and a Sh'bam in my living room 'On Demand' then found out a guy I love was subbing U Jam at a gym near me so went out and did his class.

Dear Pat, I am so sorry to hear that you are losing a dear friend. Here is a poem I turn to at times when grief is too heavy to bear.

The Thing Is

by Ellen Bass

to love life, to love it even

when you have no stomach for it

and everything you've held dear

crumbles like burnt paper in your hands,

your throat filled with the silt of it.

When grief sits with you, its tropical heat

thickening the air, heavy as water

more fit for gills than lungs;

when grief weights you like your own flesh

only more of it, an obesity of grief,

you think, How can a body withstand this?

Then you hold life like a face

between your palms, a plain face,

no charming smile, no violet eyes,

and you say, yes, I will take you

I will love you, again.

((Hugs))

hugs, Pat. I am so sorry for your loss.

Octogirl

Pat I am so sorry, your son coming will be of great comfort to you. Beautiful Falconer.

Last night did Sprint and U Jam then added to extra steps by pushing a cart around Costco, I only went in for milk but a few other things happened to fly into my cart - why oh why can I not resist buying workout clothes, my drawers are overflowing I need to purge but always justify with "oh I may wear that again"

Yoga this afternoon with a friend

LB: Always good to read a new report about what we already know!

Ruth: I know that sundae was good.

Cheryl: I feel your shopping pain. I met my sisters at a mall yesterday. One sister was going clothes shopping for an upcoming family wedding and my other sister and I were tagging along. So who ended up buying something? Only me, of course! (Walked into a Vera Bradley store that was 50% off everything in the store and then an additional 20% off)

Mall shopped/walked yesterday with my sisters. Walked/ran today after the rain today.

NatsFan, how are you feeling? Was thinking about you last night, as we had the game on here. (The Cubs game). I never watched much baseball but my DH has loved the Cubbies since the 80s. He used to listen to them on the radio but since they've been doing well we get to see them as there isn't as much cringing as there used to be. I hope you're recovering with your leg up in front of baseball games. Thinking of you.

Octogirl- I forgot to say that the marathoner you posted about, Katherine Switzer, lives in my neck of the woods. She is a beautiful "nasty" woman! Not that I know her, but I've seen her profiled in our local news every so often.

Ruth, you're brave to sub in the spring. Here's something for the back of your mind; perhaps there is a MS English class who would want to partner with mine to share writing. If you think of it when you're there next time, and you want to ask, that would be awesome. I remembered the author of the book I read- Kathleen Norris. She wrote about them Dakotas in a way I can't really forget. However, it created a limited view. My students would also benefit from a broader view. This year is nearly over, especially for me since my recon is May 30, so it would have yo be for fall

Lilac- thanks for the post and reminder. Up early to get some chores done and then off to yoga.

Thinking of you, Pat.

Falconer, what grade would you want to partner with? We are 6th-8th. Four of my subbing days in the spring are really actually fun days for me. I have a cool talk about Abraham Lincoln that I do for both 7th grade Houses when they are talking about the Civil War & I do the same for the 8th grade Geography classes; but I talk about Theodore Roosevelt, concentrating on what his time in the North Dakota Badlands meant to him (he said he would have never been president but for the time he spent here). It's a win/win/win because the teacher can take a day without doing sub plans, I can get paid for something that I would gladly do for free, and the kids get a day without homework!

I will do 'something' to exercise today, but haven't decided on the 'what' yet.

(((Pat)))

VelvetPoppy: you sound like me when I take steroids for a sinus infection! Your church will make a lot of money due to your energy.

TH: Sorry you had an injury. Glad you are mending and able to get out for a stroll at the forest preserve. I bet it was beautiful.

Pushed mowed for 75 minutes today - luckily dh was home to help me. Then I stayed in the yard for another 2 hours pulling weeds, trimming, etc.

Thinking of you, Pat.

Hope you are doing better, TwoHobbies.

Falconer, I will PM you.

Wonderland, my sister says it is too broiling hot in NC right now.

I did an hour of toning & took a walk. The weather is supposed to take a turn for the worse tomorrow......the 's' word (snow) was even mentioned by one forecaster!

It is 30 degrees with a brisk wind, so I am staying inside too! I did a DVD called Cardio Dance Party and am now going to read a book while watching the Minnesota Twins.....too lazy for any projects (other than maybe dragging my winter clothes back out ).