Thank goodness this month is over, I totally failed at Health Monthing.

Still catching up on July…

An improved day on the relationship — morning at the market, then E took a 3 hour nap (clearly, sick), then we took a nice long walk through the neighborhood. Ended up with a milkshake, which I really needed to pre-game for Erica’s deadly caloric party… I really try to avoid “all-you-can-eat” for a good reason (I have no bottom to my stomache, I could have eaten more of all of that…)

Catching up on the end of July so I can start August fresh. Thank goodness for my tracking sheet — I may not have a record of which days I did things, but I do know how many days I did or didn’t do them.

i don’t know why i lost a life point dammit. i went to the gym monday through friday! five days in a row. it’s huge. AND I EVEN WENT SATURDAY.

Congrats to all for another successful month of making changes to improve your health!! Whether you ended with any Life Points or not, you are still making a positive influence on your life by trying!! Whoo hoo!!

great day yesterday, unpacking burns a lot of calories, according to the bodybugg, and I ate just enough to be above starving, trying to counterbalance the ice cream gluttony on saturday… it only sorta worked…

Good trip out with Ted to run errands. Had a bout of crying in the shower. Mood swings…

Aaaah, Sunday, last day of the month.
On my list of things to do this weekend: wash the car. upgrade my laptop to Mac OS X Lion. call AT&T to cancel their service (or let them make me a good enough offer to stay with them).

I did try to call AT&T, but their customer support agents have the weekend off. Good for them. But don’t you hate it when you have all your ducks lined up and you’re all ready to go, and then it fizzles like that? Rats!

Washing the car … upgrading the laptop … a nap sounded much more tempting, so I did that instead. Didn’t even go out to buy cat food, it’ll keep till the way home from work today.

Closed out the month with neither bang nor whimper, just with a whisper.

At a lake with everyone, then to rehearsal dinner (great Greek food!) and to the rehearsal in a garden :) Try to do homework before I went to bed but no such luck.

Drove from Jasper down to Kelowna — out of the mountains :(

Drove from Lake Louise up to Jasper (found out we left our pillows in the hotel in Calgary :‘( ) and busted butt to get me 30 minutes of internet access so I could try to do my homework. Unluckily I needed more than that and couldn’t get it. :( Saw a grizzly!

Drove from Calgary to Lake Louise and stayed in the Deer Lodge — soaked myself in the hot tub and read in the lounge with Kent by a fire until I couldn’t stay up anymore. Knee is not much better. :(

Flew out of Assiniboine back to Canmore in a helicopter — still raining intermittently, but we flew out of the rain into the sun, so we saw a rainbow below the copter :) We had Rocky Mountain Flatbread and dessert flatbread, then drove to Calgary to meet my parents. Stayed up late doing homework. :(

Made it to Assiniboine but got dumped on — and lightning very close! the mountain is covered with mist so we can’t see it :( my knee is killing me. :’(

We continued our hike to Mt. Assiniboine — only 7 miles, but lots of fallen trees were a pain to bypass or scramble over with heavy packs! My knee started hurting like crazy whenever I would step downwards. :(

Started our hike out to Mt. Assiniboine – hiked 11.2 miles and KILLED ourselves. :( but gorgeous scenery!!

Got to Canmore — beautiful scenery — but noisy people kept me awake. :(

am contemplating going on a bootcampish exercise program. there are times that just feels really good. not sure yet, I will know if the mood strikes me. the thought of transforming myself in 30 days sounds very appealing. hmmm.

Wow, the end of the month came up quick!

Got a great workout in. Still need to work on a couple of things but I enjoy what I am doing right now and I am beat today!

So while it was a weird weekend it was a good one in the end. On to a new week and and a new month.

Ok, so I wasn’t prioritizing very well. But now it’s time to get back on me ;) Very happy with a new month!!!

massaged for 3 hours. Ate pizza for the first time post surgery. Was hard work chewing.

Had a pretty lazy day. Got up and did the grocery shopping. Wandered over to the Vitamin Shoppe to see if they had any single-serving packs of whey protein powder. (I’m currently experimenting to see if drinking a whey protein shake before or after weight training helps with muscle soreness. Results are promising, but I’m also learning that there’s a great deal of variation between different brands of whey powder both in how good they taste and in how scary the ingredients lists are. Artificial sweeteners, fake flavors, and weird ingredients abound. Fortunately, so far, the ones with the least objectionable ingredients lists also seem to be the best tasting.)

Did a little more work on clearing out the garage, and did a load of laundry. (Consequence of my more fit lifestyle: it seems like I’m forever laundering sports bras.) Then I curled up with a cup of tea and a book. I need to make time to do that more often.

Calm day – my SO and my dad took the bigger kids to the beach, and I stayed home with the little ones. Didn’t get a lot done but hit all my rules. Nervous and excited about starting a new month with a LOT more rules!