July 1, 2013

  • July Firsts

     

     

    Well, it's a jolly holiday for us Canadians! I hope everyone is in a celebratory mood :) My cousin came down to visit the family yesterday; she was going to go to my aunt's cottage and visit the relatives there but was told there were already fifteen people there and no room for her. Her boyfriend came with her and we went out to eat, and had a nice visit. 

    I had the oddest dream last night. Or this morning really, as I woke up around 5 or so and had said dream after falling back to sleep. I was in Ireland and trying to get the rest of my license (I only have my G2, and thus have one more test before being fully licensed). I made a deal with the instructor that he take me to a parking lot to show me how to drive stick --they didn't have any automatic-- and then take me on quiet roads for my test. I said that if I didn't kill anyone, then I'd get my license... so while we're driving on this dirt road a cyclist comes out of no where and in front of my car. I barely manage to avoid hitting him and somehow managed not to get hit from the cars behind either. 

    The cyclist was made at me, so I bawled him out for zipping from a hidden intersection without checking for cars. He's all huffy, saying stupid stuff like "don't you know who I am?" To which I reply, "Yeah, an eejit" and say he should have learned to stop and look for cars when he was a child. Turns out that he was supposed to head up a cavalcade of cars and thought we were it (when it was really a bunch of cars a bit aggro that I wasn't driving crazy fast and they couldn't pass me). The cavalcade was actually somewhere behind me and some important guy came up to find out what happened. I'm starting to realize he's apparently someone famous, but am too ticked off to care. 

    In apology for nearly causing a pile-up, the cyclist told the minister-type guy to give me an invitation to a party as his guest. The minister guy was shocked because it is apparently a big thing, but I turn it down saying that parties involving invitations are usually black tie and I didn't have any fancy dresses nor was it in the budget to buy one. I was offered a dress be bought for me, but I turn that down too. The cyclist cajoles me to come and so we compromise: he can buy me a white sash to go on my bridesmaid dress to spruce it up a bit as I did bring that with me. 

    He picked me up and when we arrive at the party, it's practically hollywood-red carpet important. There are paparazzi and such there, and I'm asked who I'm wearing. The cyclist says the sash is armani, and having no idea what company made my dress I merely say it is from a Canadian designer and I had it shipped over --which was true after a fashion. It is at this point that I realize the cyclist is far more famous than I even suspected and starting to wonder just who the heck he was. I never did find out because I started to wake up then and was unable to fall back to sleep.

    So the plan for today is to get some editing done, and start my new exercise challenge. Today I'm going to try out my NYC Ballet Workout DVD and see how long it is. I'm thinking that maybe I'll do a video every saturday instead of trying to do it before work on Tuesdays. I could always do it on one of my other days off, so I'll probably switch it around a wee bit depending on my schedule for work and so forth. I am thinking I might do a different video each weekend as mum got two new ones... if she lets me use them. One is "Jillian's 30 Day Shred" and the other is from "The Biggest Loser" trainers, and they sound interesting if incredibly hard. I'll have to also check out the library for others and see if there is anything good there, too. 

    For my daily 30 day challenge I didn't take one from the internet; instead I took parts of various ones and made it workable for me. I actually made two because I changed my mind about one of the exercises. A few of them are from Dr Oz's Belly Workout, and all though there is the possibility that Oz is not a reliable source of health and fitness, the exercises are variations of one's I've heard before so they can't be totally insane. 

    The reason why I made up my own challenge is because I didn't like how the other challenges specified rest days. This past month not one rest day was when I needed it, when I was in dire pain from the exercises or when I had other plans. When you try to switch around the rest days all the numbers got out of whack and I had trouble remembering what day I should be one. That's why I didn't specify rest days in mine, so that they could just be used as needed. Here's the challenge I'm planning on doing, what do you think?

    UPDATE: I have decided that I want to do more cardio this month, so I'll move my above exercises to August. Instead I'm going to do a 20-30 minute cardio video every weekday morning, and the ballet workout dvd on saturdays. 

    SUMR