Wahoo!!!

There is joyous news!! I have been exercising since April and I have finally reached a point where I can now run for two minutes without being so out of breath I can't do anything else!!! YES!!! No I haven't lost the weight yet as my exercising hasn't been as consistent as it needs to be, but lately I'm trying harder to be better at it and to my surprise I'm getting better at it. For those of you who know me (which not a lot of you do as you failed my quiz on FB!! J/K) , I hate running. Even in high school when it was mandatory to pass the fitness tests in gym, I hated it. It has never clicked with me. My mother was an avid runner when I was younger, even competing in a few marathons. My thinking has always been "why run when you get there by walking." Yes I am lazy. But now that I'm working out more and starting to see my body slowly become more toned, I shall continue my quest to be in better health. My new personal goal as it say in the scriptures "to run and not be weary." Hopefully that will be me in one month!!! Fingers crossed!!

Love Hate Relationships...

I am currently having a love hate relationship with my Active that I got for my Wii. For those not familiar with the Active it is a new exercise game that was designed for the Wii that comes with a resistance band and a leg strap to hold the nunchuck. It has you doing resistance training, running, lunges, boxing, dancing, in-line skating with Wii balance board and other activities. I love that it makes me sweat, but I hate that it makes my body ache. J says I need to just keep at it. That's kind of hard to do when I want to do the exercises, but I hate the way it makes me work, but then again it's good for me, but I hate sweating.. etc etc etc. To every good there is a bad. So when I combine this with the Wii Fit, I would do nothing but workout all the time. Thank goodness for other needs like having to be on FB, cleaning the house, watching TV or even just playing with A. SO how do you handle your love hate relationships?

Fall TV

Soon the new Fall TV season will be upon us. I can't wait. About the only thing that has been exciting to watch this summer, besides SYTYCD, was the series Merlin on NBC. Since I love the Arthurian legends it was fun to see it be reinterpreted. J enjoyed watching it with me. I hope that NBC brings it back next summer!
As far as the new shows, I'm not really sure what is going to jump out at me. I'll admit I'm curious about "The Vampire Diaries," "Flashforward," and "V." Yes I know, "V" is technically a new show, but they are trying to do for it what SyFy did for "Battleship: Galactica."
Old shows I'm excited about would be "Supernatural," "Smallville", "Heroes", "Chuck", "SYTYCD", and "Dancing with the Stars". I'm sad that "Chuck" won't start until March, but hopefully NBC will have to move it up due to other shows that are not so great that they have to cancel. On "Smallville" I am happy that they are finally done with the Lana and Clark. I hate that they have made Lana seem like Clark's ultimate love. I feel like they did that particular story line to DEATH. I don't see why the writers felt they had to bring her back for this season at all. It really wasn't necessary. SO anyway.. I'll get off my soapbox now.

Roof is done!

So this last weekend my husband got to work on our roof. Luckily we didn't have to take everything off and put it back on, but we still had to have it re-shingled. It's now a dark gray. So pretty much the whole outside of our house is brand new. Now we just have to get started on the inside. I feel like we are going to be in this house forever. Not that there is anything wrong with the house, really. I just find myself getting restless when I live in the same place for more then five years. We'll probably stay here until J has achieved his Electrical Engineering degree. Who knows how long that will take. He's been working hard and is taking harder and harder classes. He's anxious to finish up at SLCC and then move on to the U. He keeps telling me that once he starts going there I'm going to have to change my loyalties to the U instead of the Y. All I have to say is "Fat Chance!" I love being a Y fan. Not that I have gone to the Y for college myself but my parents went there and met there. So for me, it's all good. Guess that loyalty would fall under the "traditions of my father and mother" because being a Y fan is all I know. I remember we would be out on a trip somewhere and the car's radio would be playing the game whether it was football or basketball. Ahh.. the memories.