Not the Brightest

I hurt a bit the night after the race but overall pretty good. Tuesday morning again feeling okay I decided to try and go to spinning class at noon at the club. I showed up a bit late and the class was full. This is the first time I have hit a full class and was not all that happy about it. But, that is fine so I left and went home instead. Where I put on my running cloths and went out for a run. I did my normal 4.2 mile loop. My thighs were burning and I had a bit of a side stitch. I am guessing that not running for a while and then the race on Monday wore me down some, along with my having to keep healing from surgeries.

I did though pull off a 8:30 pace. Today I took the day off except for some practice of basketball with my daughter. It hurt cutting and running up and down the court. I was thinking of doing some basketball on Thursday morning but now I don’t think so. Give myself another few days for that. This pain thing stinks and it is not an easy thing for me to do since I am not having the pain from running anymore.

Bolder Boulder 2008

Sunday I had a very relaxing day. Some church in the morning followed by a Grad party for the major parts of the day. Sunday night I was a bit excited and a bit nervous to run on Monday morning but I got through the night and even woke a bit early this morning.

I got up and left at 5:30 am to head to Boulder. I wanted to be there early and not rushed so as to enjoy the run. Angel and I were in the same wave so I met her and we talked a bit before the race as she was early also. The start buzzer went off and we started on our run. Angel throughout the race kept asking me how I was doing. I always answered I was feeling great.

At mile 3 I was feeling really good and wanted to take off a bit faster. There was a goal though and that was to get my Colder Boulder 58 minute invite so I kept myself held back and on pace. Below is my splits and time. I ran the whole thing with NO pain at all. Well a bit of tightness in my stomach where I am healing but the original pain I was fighting, The hernia, is GONE. YAY. The next couple weeks as I continue to monitor and heal I know all is going to be good. I am excited to begin picking it up again.

mile 1: 0:08:48.45
mile 2: 0:09:23.85
mile 3: 0:09:50.15
mile 4: 0:09:28.87
mile 5: 0:09:21.84
mile 6: 0:09:09.59
net time:0:57:47.91
pace: 9:19 (based on net time)

Colder Boulder I am coming to win that Crocheted Snowman!!!

Bolder Boulder here I come :)

I just saw a commercial for New Balance Shoes. It started off with this guy sitting on a bench and it says “You broke up with running the other day. Now you see running everywhere and it looks really good.” I was thinking I almost know that feeling. Yesterday’s run FELT really good to be out in the sun, moving along a sidewalk, feeling the body move, watching and observing the outdoors. One difference I don’t wear New Balance shoes but I did put on a brand new pair of running shoes to start my hopeful return.

Update since the run last yesterday. Unlike Tuesday night when I woke in pain and was hurting after my 1 mile run that day. I was a bit tender last night but I slept well and am feeling great today so far. Life and running is starting to look really good again. I can’t wait now to run the Bolder Boulder.

Racking up the miles with Support

Today I was talking to Cubed about my instructing and then I am planning a run today at lunch. As we were talking he brought up just make sure I support everything correctly. This is where if you have seen that commercial where the guy yells I am wearing your underwear Michael comes into play. Cubed offered me his athletic supporter for me to wear while running.

I took and tried to put on Cubed’s athletic supporter but it was too small for me so I had to rely on my normal attire for support. I did go out and got in a 3.3 mile run. I was jogging along looking at the side walk, staring around at sites and it hit me how much I really do like being outside running. I didn’t feel any pain and all feels really good now to see how I feel through tonight and tomorrow. Keep your fingers crossed. I will not run now till the Bolder Boulder on Monday.

I just logged my run and for this month I have now logged in a WHOPPING 4.3 miles.

I am an Instructor

Exciting Day here in Colorado with the tornados and wild weather. We live along the front range and tornados DO NOT happen here as the mountains protect us. BUT today we had a fluke in our weather system. The weather normally travels west to east but today the weather turned and pushed from the south up along the mountains. A tornado hit in the town to the east of us.

Softball practice for my daughter was canceled due to the tornados today. I got home from work and today I been a bit sore. I am planning on running a couple miles tomorrow but now with no softball practice I am thinking hmmm maybe I should run tonight to use up some of the night. I was looking and planning and my daughter said “Dad can you go play catch with me?” I said you want to go do some hitting. She said YES! Once again I am happy she loves the sport.

So she and I load the buggy with the bag of balls and her softball bag and go to the local school and field. I am soft tossing her balls and she is cranking on them. Some friends pull up and ask if their daughter can join us. I say sure bring her over. So now I have a couple girls and we are doing hitting and then some infield practice. My daughter says “Dad do you need to go so you make it to spinning class?” She knew I was thinking about going to that tonight. I said “No I would rather play ball with you and your friend.” My daughter smiled and she knew I was there for her. That makes a dad feel good.

We practice for a bit and it starts to rain again. We rush home getting soaked in the buggy. I am home early enough to go to spinning class and my son decides to join me. I ask the wife if she wants to go to which she replies no, the normal answer from her. So my son and I go.

We get there and again due to the tornados the instructor didn’t make it in. A couple of people leave and I tell one of the personal trainers there I will instruct the class. I have only been to classes for 6 weeks but I can lead. He said awesome. My son ran out and got a CD out of my truck that had a mix of songs on it. I have now instructed my FIRST Spinning class now. I did some sprints, a few hills, some jumps and just went where the music moved me. I taught a total of 5 people of which one was a personal trainer. After the class he said I did great and the other people all said I should become an instructor as they said they felt a great workout. I think Angel would be proud of me!

This is the first time my son has done a spinning class. We got home and he said wow my legs were burning and I was sweating. I said good I must have done it right. I then asked him so who is your favorite spinning instructor to which he looked at me and said “you are and your dumb.” It is then the wife looked at me and said “WHAT? Are you serious you taught the class and over did it now didn’t you?” I just grinned at her and my son was shaking his head. My son then later said do you like getting her all upset like that. I again grinned.

Dumb Dumb

I was excited about yesterdays exercising and movement. Then at 3am this morning I woke in pain. My body wanted to say hey Dumbass but realized couldn’t because that is Gators name. So my body yelled out HEY DUMB what do you think you did yesterday. I know only a few of you will get those references but I hope you find it a bit funny.

So based off of this and Ridiculous chicks post everybody repeat after me. I am Dumb! I am Dumb! Wait I am now Smart now! Nope I am I think I am Dumb again.

Well in the end I ended up getting out of bed and getting some ice and that really helped and I was able to then go to sleep again around 5 and then got up at 6:30 very tired and sluggish from the pain keeping me awake earlier. I am now going to take today off, use some Ibuprofen and see how Thursday goes. I might have to even wait till Friday before I try my first outside test run.

Light in the Tunnel

If you have kids and Aflac is offered to you I recommend you purchase this insurance. I did over a year ago and to date I am about even on what I spend for the coverage and what I have gotten back. Between small accidents my kids get into it keeps me even. OK so you might say I spent that money and I have recouped back the same and that is true. Now add this piece of the puzzle.

As you all know I broke my tooth on my birthday. I had to get a root canal and a crown. In the end to get my tooth fixed the final cost was around $2100. My dental insurance picked up a bunch and my total cost I ended up putting out ended up being $830. Well I turned in all my receipts and Aflac is not sending me a check for $320. This means that between insurance and Aflac I will only have to cover about $500 of my tooth problem. That is much better than nothing for sure. Also that $320 now puts me up a year of fees. AND I still have my MRI and all those bills to turn in to Aflac for my other surgeries etc.

OK today at lunch I decided to sneak over to the fitness club. I did 45 minutes of spinning class and ran it about 80% of what I would have put into it. I had a good sweat and if I was begun to hurt I cut back a bit. When I was done with the spinning class I went and got on a tread mill and slowly brought myself up to a good running pace. I started at 10 minute pace and moved into a 7:30 pace and then backed down. I finished a mile in 8:56 and there was NO pain. A bit of tightness in my stomach but again NO PAIN! There is light at the end of this pain tunnel.

Anniversary Card

Okay I know a couple of people here at my work have read this but I thought it so inspiring and thoughtful I wanted to capture it in my blog. This is an example of the kind of Owner and leadership I work for. I am at my 2 year anniversary for working at this company. The owner writes you a card on your anniversary and gives you a gift card for a local restaurant. I just got my card today and this is what it was signed with.

"Buggy, what a wonderful man you are! Thanks so much for bringing joy and calmness to every encounter that you are part of. I hear great thinks about you. Your willingness to grow and learn helps set an example for others. Thank you!" Isn't that an awesome card? The owner is a special woman and an inspiring leader.

So Cubed is this like a 180 from our past job at the other company?

Softball Cheerleader

Finally, my daughter’s softball team won a game after a dry streak of losing. They build some confidence today back that they can win if they play the game. I as a parent do not mind losing at all as long as they are giving to the game and PLAYING not just floating along. They played better today.

I thought I was going to get into trouble though. Our team has had some coaching and parent issues going on. There was a huge meeting a short while ago telling us parents that we were NOT to coach our kids from the stands. Some of the parents have been doing that along with me some. But for the most part I have been quiet about it and trying to keep my daughter in the sport. As I told the parents had we kept my daughter on the team she was on she would not be playing next year and burned out. NOW she is like last night begging to go hit more balls and sad when it is not time to play. I think I am winning keeping her in the sport first.

Well today I must have been feeling better. And yes I am a whole lot less pain then yesterday etc. The coaches this morning asked if I wanted to play, meaning help with warm ups. I said yes please just tell me what you want me to do. So I did some soft toss and then I asked if I could do a little infield work with the girls before the game started. The coach said yes you can. So I did a bit. Then I was seeing how the umpire was calling signs and was giving the coaches and kids some advice on how to play the ump. Meaning she was calling outside pitches as strikes. So step up closer to the plate so the girls could see the pitch better and what do you know they started hitting.

My wife kept calling me back to my seat saying “you can’t be doing that remember the meeting?” I replied yep I do, but I can’t keep watching the same thing happen over and over with no corrections to help the girls learn. I at this point do not think anything bad came of it and we were playing better.

I was even moving around though the parents more and was chatting and keeping them cheering. One of the parents that were in trouble from sideline coaching made a comment to me to be careful I will piss off the coach and get in trouble like them. I replied yeah I know but see I let you do it in the beginning and now that you’re in trouble I am taking over. I learned from your mistakes AND by the time the coaches get bad at me now the season will be over. Thus I end when it is done anyway and smiled.

One of the grandmas there looked up at me and said I am doubtful of that happening. I smiled and the other parent asked her why is that? The grandma said because he, meaning me, has a good line and with the women coaches he will be fine helping them from the side. Then she proceeded to say you got me smiling when you I saw you in the parking lot the day before and you, Buggy said, “What is a hot looking woman like you doing standing alone in the parking lot?” I think this 86 year old grandma sees through me. I told that parent I am not sideline coaching I am cheerleading with the right words to tell the girls where to move. Such as I would yell “Great play and try Checkers, my daughter’s nickname, next time move a little closer to the base and you will have that tag perfect.”

I am not running today though I am excited. I jogged out of the ball park to the car to get some stuff today and I could feel the incisions in my stomach. I could feel some tightness and something weird in my lower stomach where the mesh is, BUT the good thing is that a month ago when I jogged through that same park I didn’t make it half the distance to the parking lot and I was in pain. I am hopeful I am on the way. Woohoo.

Softball

Okay made it a day without running Ney. Lol. This is of course due to a couple of factors. That I will explain for you.

Today was a jam packed day I got up and started working on an old computer I had in my garage. The reason is there is this gal I know that has an older yet pc running Windows 95. With that the machine only has a CD ROM and thus she can’t do any backups of her data and it won’t print and no USB’s and the software just plain stinks. She is also newly divorced and losing her job with 2 kids. So I am being a nice guy rebuild an old machine for her to help her and even more so help out the kids as they need it for school projects etc.

Then headed out around 9:30am for softball games for my daughter. Her team is struggling right now so made for a long day with losses. The first game they lost 13-1 with my daughter being the only girl to cross home. The second game ended 8-1. The third game ended 8 -0. The last game ended at 4:30pm.

We then had a graduation party to attend. We ended up leaving that party with our friends at 7:30. At this point I have still not been home. As soon as I got home my daughter said “Dad, you don’t have to if you don’t want, but can we go hit some more balls?” How do I say no to that so we went to the local school and hit another 150 balls for hitting practice.

Games again start at 8am tomorrow morning so it is basically now a go shower and head to bed mode.

As for me today has been a bad day for pain. I have had this stomach and side pain all day. Just picking up soft balls tonight was hurting to bend down. SO No running for today.

Doctor 2

I have been to see Doctor 2. He checked out everything again and said everything was looking good. I asked him about running the Bolder Boulder and he thought about it a bit and then said it should be fine. He recommended a short run before then to see how things felt and to ice down afterwards yet. He recommended I be careful also to not go out running to fast since I have not for a while I might have a tendency to go to fast. I said yeah right not this guy.

I was in the office attending a leadership class today. We were on a 10 minute break and it was over. I suddenly remembered something I was supposed to do and took off at a jog through the office. The whole time I was jogging I NEVER felt any stomach pain. That is awesome and I am excited.

I want to go out for a small run now and see how things feel BUT I am not. I am going to make myself wait through the weekend at least. No promises but I am aiming for maybe Wednesday trying a bit of spinning with little resistance and then maybe Thursday a 2 miler and see how things go.

So everyone I am trying my best to hold off and continue to keep healing first. But with the last couple small trots with no pain I have to say I am starting to get a bit of excitement. Enough so that I have now pulled out my brand new Asics shoes I had up on the shelf from my birthday a couple months ago. I even laced them up and put them on tonight giving them a bit of a walk around the house in preparation for wearing them VERY SOON.

Last night I picked up my Bolder Boulder race packet. My number and racing chip is now sitting on the bench in the garage with my new shoes all ready for me. Does this mean I am thinking of coming out of retirement?

Surgeon Cleared

According to my meeting with surgeon here is what I was told. I had an indirect hernia of the inguinal canal. The second hernia was in the femoral canal. There is such a thing as a direct hernia of the inguinal canal also. The patch of mesh he put in me covers all these areas. On my right side I cannot have a hernia again. The mesh is about 9cm by 14 cm in size.

He checked me out and didn’t feel any more hernia. He said he clipped the patch in place to hold it for the 1st couple days so it doesn’t move. Now a week later if he went in he would have to remove tissue and all to get it out. My tissues are already embracing the mesh and it will incorporate into just being a part of my body. He told me that in 5-6 weeks I will probably be walking along and feel like something in me broke. Don’t worry about it as that is the tissues that are healing now are tight and will release all at once in that area. It is just the scar tissues and such relieving being tight and all is fine.

We then discussed that for the next 3 months it is not unlikely I will still feel occasional shots of pain. He said that other then the above I am free as far as he is concerned to start resuming my workouts as I feel okay. I asked about the Bolder Boulder and he said if I feel okay to run it then it is fine and won’t cause any issues with what he has done. I still have to get the okay from Doctor 2 though which is tomorrow afternoon.

Some Fun and Thoughtful Thoughts

Hmm my daughter is growing up. The other day she came up to me and said Dad here is another reason women are tougher than men. We cut ourselves all the time while shaving our legs. I agreed with her and as she walked off with her hair in a towel I chuckled thinking how cute she is with her thoughts. I also had to think DANG when did she start shaving her legs?

Last night I ended up in resting mode pretty good. I watched the Celtics beat Labron and the Cavaliers to take a 3-2 lead in the playoffs. This then led into the Lakers and Jazz game which the Lakers now have a 3-2 lead. The Lakers game though since it is on the West coast starts later and thus makes for a late game to watch and it was a close game the whole time. The problem is at one point I got really sleepy and snoozed off in my recliner. When I woke my son looked at me and laughed. He chuckled out that he and I was having a conversation and my words went to blob blobity blob blah blaaa, and I was sleeping. I guess I was tired if I was talking and then was asleep.

I was sitting here at my desk which is at the bottom of some stairs where people go to a top level to work. Cubed used to sit up there until he was one of the people I moved on Monday down to the same floor I am on. He just came in and started walking up the stairs. I hollered HEY and he stopped and came back down. Sheesh, I have to remind him where he sits now, good thing he has me for a friend to watch out.

Today I have my first follow-up for my hernia surgery. I am not sure how he checks on things as it is all inside and unless he left the camera in there and it works via Bluetooth when I am in his office I imagine all he will do is talk to me and see how I am feeling. I will have to tell him I am still having the pain I was having before the surgery in some ways but also last night I did trot diagonal across a larger street and I didn’t have the immediate pain I had had with jogging before. I am hopeful the other pain is still related to some nerves upset and the other one I didn’t get has been helped. Keep your fingers crossed. 11 days till the 10K race I am signed up for.

Updates

Well today I think I figured out that I over did it yesterday. I went to work and we had to move people around some. Nine people to be exact. They all did a great job moving their stuff and I didn’t have to but then some people use key board trays and those needed moved along with computer holders for the desktop machine users. I think I counted I was under either unscrewing or screwing those in place for the users 9 times. Then I went home and worked. Last night was a concert for my son at the High School and I went and made it about half way and was in enough pain I left and came home to rest.

Now lead into today. I was wiped at work this morning. I felt like someone kicked me in the stomach. I finally went home at noon and laid down for a while. When I went back to work I felt better. After work tonight I been sitting and relaxing all night. I felt really good for a while tonight and ummm started thinking about spinning and running again. Then I got up for dinner (Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwich) the pain hit and I remembered why I was laying down again.

I have also got my appointments for 1st follow-up made. I see one doctor on Thursday at 11:15 and the other doctor at 3pm on Friday.

Just talked to my sister and she is doing well. She did get another small infection that she is now fighting. Should not be too bad though and she is still home and healing also.

Too MUCH Time on my HANDS

I hate having this kind of down time while healing. I have too much time to think about life. At least the days before I was hurting and wasn’t thinking, today was a bit different.

I thought I would share some of my thoughts I have had lately. Have you ever watched people around you and wondered how they got there and why they are there. Today the kids, wife and I decide to go t the park for a mother’s day picnic. We ate there and then walked over to the play ground area. OKAY this was not a very bright idea as I ended up hurting and needing to come home a bit sooner then I wanted but I did observe some things.

I watched other families there and wondered some more. How did the people meet? Are they happy? Why do they live here? Why are they at the park? What about other people doing the same thing in another city in America? How about Europe or the Middle East? I think that the majority of people in my little park and around the world all want the same thing I do. To be happy and to live life with people they love around them. We all, humanity, strive in the end to find those people that get us, loves us, and to be surrounded by those people in a safe and secure environment to live happily.

I watched the movie Good Luck Chuck which also played on these thoughts. Chuck in the movie was supposedly cursed to never find love. Women that were with him would then fall in love with the next man they dated and find their true love. Chuck was also looking for that love of his life while each person used him to find theirs.

To add to this I been thinking about the Vasectomy I got. Did I do the right thing? I think I did as I think about raising a kid for the next 20 years again and the responsibility of that. I don’t want to start over but there is a small piece of me thinks that a part of me is gone. It is hard to explain other then something that makes me, me is now gone and the ability to create me again is gone. Does that make sense? Probably not but since it is my blog I get to write what I think anyway.

I am the kind of person that normally has a ton of things going all the time. It keeps my mind occupied and busy with the tasks at hand and thus not a lot of time to think about life. If I think about life instead of the tasks at hand what will be the outcome? Would I make different decisions? Some might argue this is bad and others might argue this is good. I would like to know your thoughts.

Happy Mothers Day

This surgery seems to have knocked me down a bit more then I had expected. I was fully thinking that Friday I would have to make myself stay sitting to heal and that Saturday I would take it easy but go watch my daughter play softball and Sunday be pretty much sore but back to normal. Well I was wrong BUT even being wrong I think all is going very well. So here is the next update.

Friday I posted that I was down most of the day. Still just lying on the couch and watching movies with Vicadin and ice packs. Saturday decided to not go to softball fields and stayed home. I was able to get some work done but then when I was done I was ready to lie down again. I did decide to go off the Vicadin though so I took my last pain killer at noon. I made it till bed time and then took 800mg of Ibuprofen which I think is a much better way to manage pain and start getting off the big pain killers. I have not had any now since last night and I am not in any real pain now so going to go without if I can.

Last night I slept for almost 2 hours on the couch around the 8pm hour. I finally made myself wake up so that I might be able to sleep later when I went to bed and though darn it I will be up all night again. WRONG. I went to bed around 11 and almost immediately fell asleep. I woke to turn over around 4am and then was out again until after 8am which I was again trying to make myself wake up. I do not sleep this much and it is kind of freaking me out. I don’t sleep this much normally and when I do like I have been the last 4 days I start to feel lazy. I think today will be a bit harder to keep me downMy wife told me to shut up this morning and catch up on sleep since I am normally way behind. I can’t disagree but it does feel weird to be so tired.

I have done some more reading now on the hernia and the Vasectomy. Both have similar requirements for recovery. NO exercise or strenuous activities for a fortnight. Since when do they still use the word fortnight. I went and looked it up. A fortnight is 14 days. WOOHOO my next planned major exercise is a 10k run that is 18 days after the surgeries. I should be good as long as I can do it without pain. :)

I just talked to my sister and she is telling me she went to the movies yesterday. I was like CRAP am I a baby with my surgery. She said remember she is 2 days ahead of me in recovery. She had her surgery on Tuesday. She also added that she doesn’t have to go to work and can rest when she wants all the time where as it is more important I rest a lot right now these few days because I will be going back to normal working life and need to be back to normal so much faster. She is a sweetie.

I would also like to wish all the moms out there Happy Mother’s Day.

I am ALIVE

I knew I would be but thought it was a good title.

I slept well the night before the surgery. That is good and gave me a good starting point. I showered and as I said in my previous post I was a bit nervous. Some of the thoughts in my head were what happens if there is a problem? Did I tell everyone around me something that I thought was special about them? Did I really want to go through with the second procedure of being fixed and not having the ability to have kids from this point on? Though I had the questions I knew all was going to be fine and away we went with my wife driving me to the hospital.

Once there I checked in and they had me put on the funky backward facing dress. I had to write a YES on my side was the surgery was going to be. I thought that was funny because I didn’t really have a clue except for what the doctors had told me. I thought doesn’t the doctors know what they are suppose to be doing on me? Were they going to forget and go off my YES? In any case there I now sat with my wife, my mom, and my dad all of them watching me being prepped with the IV and doing paper work. I said my goodbyes to them and the nurse rolled me away.

They rolled me into the surgery room where the two doctors were standing there like a receiving line waiting for me. The nurse said okay move over to that bed, I lifted myself up slid into the other bed and the next thing I remember is some nurse asking me how I felt to which I said I HURT. I do not even remember lying down on the surgery table and wonder did I fall over backwards?

They let me wake up for a bit and I was holding my stomach thinking how bad this hurt when another nurse stepped in with my cloths and she started putting my underwear and pants on. As soon as she had me dressed I was sat in a recliner and moved to another room where at this point my wife and mom came into see me. My wife said I looked like I was about to cry and was green in color. They then shuttled me out to the car and hauled me home. It is weird having all this done to you while you really don’t know what is happening. Talk about trust issues that for that 4 hours I had really no clue who or what was around me and that each and every person that was, had, for the most part my best interest in mind. Just think how easy it would be to shove me aside and I would not have ever know any thing again.

I laid at home all day yesterday on pain meds hurting. I am laying around for the most part now for the next few days while my stomach and all heals. I have now learned after the surgery that there was the original hernia they were going in to fix and there was a second hidden hernia under my pelvic bone.

The doctor even took pictures of my hernia, the inguinal canal; the pelvic bone is in the picture, and the mesh patch they put in me to fix this. The pictures are quite amazing. Also there is this piece of fatty stuff in one of the pictures that apparently the doctor took out of me. With this picture I can now prove

Today is the Day

I am waiting to leave to head to the hospital for surgery. THIS SUCKS and Iam so not wanting to go. But I had pain last night so I know it is right. :( I am not a happy camper right now.

Sister back in Surgery

If you all remember my sister was in the hospital for over a month at the beginning of this year. She had surgery to rebuild her pelvic floor the day after Christmas. It was a rough time getting her through that. Well today she had surgery for a hole in her bladder, something to do with fixing her colon next to the bladder and a huge hernia from the last surgery and her stomach.

I went down to see her after work tonight and she was really drugged up and I could tell struggling again. I went into her room and she was out asleep caused by the drugs. I sat for a while just watching her and she finally looked at me recognized me and then raised and dropped her hand near me. I put out my hand and held her hand for a while. She lay there holding my hand mostly out and I just watched her for a while. She finally woke in pain and they gave her some more drugs and she was out again. She is not expected to get out till Friday.

As I was watching her I started thinking about my own surgery on Thursday. I should be in for my surgery and be home in a few hours. I have begun to start thinking about it more though and seeing my sister with her complications started making me think more. I am not too worried about my surgery but there are still some thoughts in my mind.

No Sleep Weekend

What a weekend. Friday night was fairly uneventful. I enjoyed wine night with some friends. Then got home to my daughter off with a friend. So the Wife, Son and I went to dinner. While at dinner a subject of sexual nature came up. I made a small comment that my son picked up and commented back. The wife was asking what was going on but we both just shut up. Later in the evening when the wife was not around I asked my son his thoughts. She shared them and I said yep it was true and then we laughed. In a way it is fun to know we can have guy talk as he is growing up.

The rest of the weekend I need to put into times as it all runs together as you will see.

7am Saturday I drove to my parents house where I loaded my truck with plywood material to haul to Cheyenne
9am drove to Cheyenne to my sister’s house. I worked all day framing on an addition on her house. 4pm drove back home
5:05pm showered in 5 minutes and went to see and get pictures of my son and his Prom date.
6:30 Wife and I had drinks with my son’s date’s parents.
8pm met other friends for dinner.
9:15pm get home to change cloths again.
10pm drive to High School to participate for After Prom Party
11pm taught high school kids how to play craps all night
3am Sunday started finding leftover food at the party.
3:30am got to bed
7am woke up and crawled out of bed
7:30 drove downtown to volunteer at a friend’s aide station and to cheer on friends running a race.
10am left and drove back to Cheyenne to frame more. We completed the whole second story of the addition.
3pm working on prepping for the rafters on the second story and a board I was standing on that was nailed to some studds kicked out from my feet. Good thing I was holding on as I could have fallen mayby 15 feet hitting walls etc on the way to concrete. I was hollering for help, people were scurrying but I hands were going to giveout before they could help. Then calmness sunk in and I straddled a stud in the wall and slid down to the lower wall like a fireman saving myself. That gets your heart pumping by the way.
6:45pm Drove back home
8:30pm took a shower
10 wrote this and posted.
10:15 Went to bed to try and get enough sleep to go to spinning class tomorrow morning.

I need more than 4 hours sleep and do that kind of work. AND not anytime to get in any abs work outs. :)

What I am Reading

OK I am not reading that book but I am reading that blog. Thought I would be silly. :)

I had a nap last night

See Bunny and Early I seem to have plenty of stuff to keep writing about. The funny part is as boring as it all seems to me I am amazed, astounded and surprised at all of your support and caring. It means a lot to me.

Gator I do count those as abs workouts. I keep them in a different private log.

Ney to be honest that kind of workout seems to take the pain away. I am thinking it changes the area of the hernia. I been working to keep up that exercise as much as possible.

I went to see the show Annie last night. Not as bad as I expected. While at the show a guy that was doing some server upgrade work at work texted and called me. Talked to him during intermission and then got a text to stop in when I could. I came into work around 10:30pm. I had 2 separate friends helping also via remotely to get our server fixed. At 1:30 I went home slept till 5 got up went to spinning class and back to work. We now have our server back up and running fully.

The upside to last night was as I was leaving and crossing the street from the show I looked on the ground and found a $20 bill. So no sleep but I made a $20.

Positive Lessons

I have learned a few things through this cut back in running. For history I started running for my health. One day I was walking into work up a slight incline from the parking lot and was out of breath. I looked at my family history of heart attacks, obesity, and men dying early in life and didn’t want that to happen to me. I decided then that I was going to live a long time and enjoy life and exercise started creeping into my life.

Weight loss was a byproduct of the running and my attempting to become healthy. After losing 60 pound the thought of gaining it back became important and I began watching my weight more and striving to keep the weight off. Well not running now for over a month I have been actually maintaining a lower weight then I was when I was running. What is up with that? I think the spinning and other methods of keeping healthy is covering for me.

The next step for me through this is to get myself fixed up and then decide to again run for the fun. Bring back a mix of running, spinning/biking and basketball. Do it all for a healthy lifestyle, enjoy my friends in all those arenas’.

For the fun of it below is my work out log for the month of April. See I have still been keeping busy.