Working Out...

I have been keeping up with my working out. I have not been as consistent as I should have been but it has been CRAZY! I can't workout during the day and making myself leave the house after bed time is soooo hard. I always feel better when I work out though. So I have been trying to make myself go at least twice a week. I also work out once a week with a trainer (thanks to some birthday money and a gift from a friend) and I also split the cost with another lady who trains with me!!!

I am running mostly. I am trying to get in enough shape to run a 5k in the spring/summer. I would love to do a half at some point in my life. It definitely isn't something in the near future.

Up until tonight my personal 1 mile time was 12:38 but last night I smashed it by 37 seconds!!! That's right I ran 1 mile in 12:01!!!! It was crazy awesome. My two mile time wasn't as good as it has been or should have been but I was still okay with it as well 25:02.

There was a time when doing .5 miles was overwhelming. The sheer fact that I am walk/running two miles!?!?! Well that speaks in and of itself. I like feeling good about myself and I am hoping my Christmas time to have my mile time down under 11:15!!!

Accountability by Picture

This is my bedroom.... Yeah I know crazy right. It will not look like this by the end of today. Picture proof by midnight tonight I promise.



This is my laundry room. I am afraid of the monster that is hiding beneath the disaster. Proof again by midnight of my awesome homemaking skills. (*crosses fingers and prays*)



This is our chore chart. Obviously we have been bad about keeping it up. Our new normal has messed some things up. That all changes this week. Promise.



This is my kitchen. Not to shabby but could be better. It is part of the great cleanup of February 1st.



This is my living room. With two really cute if not messy small people that live in it. Man are they in for a surprise this week... or maybe it is mom. We will be finding out.



I invite you back at midnight tonight to see if progress was made. Accountability by picture I am thoroughly disgusted that I just posted those pictures. But hey at least I am keepin' it real folks. Just keepin' it real.

Pray for me would ya?

Thanks,
*Shay B*

Let's get started...

I don't know why I decided to do this I am not that interesting. But apparently my friends enjoy my blogs and I decided to continue writing them on a specifically made for them site. So I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I enjoy writing them.

I find myself looking at the title of this blog and I am thinking of how my day went...

7:00 am...phone rings Josh is calling to wake me up and tell me to get moving or I am going to be late for work... "okay honey call me in a half an hour to make sure I am awake....

7:30 am.... phone rings Josh is calling ...."OKay seriously honey wake up !!!" All right all right I am awake. Next phone call to the sitter to make sure she is awake (she never wakes up to the alarm clock...) and I get started on my day...

Sometimes I feel like I am the only person in the universe who has to seriously motivate herself to get up in the morning. It is like I am at war with myself... "If you don't do it now you are going to be late"...."You know you have to get dressed the boss doesn't like pajamas."...."It is Thursday" (or whatever day of the week it is) "you can make it through the rest of the week" I am in major envy of all of you morning people. I wish that I can wake up bright and chipper but I don't believe I have it in me...

So Let's get started is more of a motivational thing I think for me... the more I say it to myself the more I seriously get sick of hearing it and I will do whatever it is just to not have to say that to myself again.

I wonder if that is how God feels with me... Okay Shay Let's get started because man do I have a lot of work to do with you. I must frustrate Him as much as I frustrate myself. I try to jumpstart things but I just fail to find the umphhh... in my day to accomplish it. I just hope He doesn't give up on me the way I sometimes give up on myself.

On that note. I am going to say okay Shay let's get started.... cleaning the carpets.

Good night all!