I Met the 10-Year Old Version of Myself

Well, first, I didn’t meet her…but I wanted to. 

Here’s how it started…I went by Atlanta Bread Company today to pick up some lunch. After I ordered, I look over and there is this young girl who is wearing an identical shirt to one that I recently purchased. 

I sit down at a table next to her, her sister and her grandma to wait for my food. Her sister has this diary that she is trying to open - remember the old school kind that had Lisa Frank unicorns on it with a little lock and key? Awesome. Although this one was purple with a couple of cats on it…Anyway, my 10-year old self looks at her and says: 

‘You know that diary isn’t just for writing.’ 

Sister: 

10-year old version: ‘It’s for recording all of the bad things that happen in your life.’ 

Sister: ‘But I don’t have bad things in my life.’ 

10-year old version: Gone…she’s moved on to something else – grandma. 

Her grandma had dumped out her drink and she immediately walked over to her and said: 

‘Gi-gi, why did you dump my drink out? I was not done with that.’ 

Grandma: ‘It was almost empty, I thought you were done.’ 

10-year old version: ‘No, if I was done, I would have told you I was done.’ 

They all pack up and leave…AND she forgets her coat. 

I seriously felt like I was watching myself, just maybe 20 years younger (actually, only 18 years). :)

I Ate All Your Halloween Candy

Bootcamp: Sample Workout #2

We cranked out another pretty good bootcamp workout last week...I've modified this one a bit but it took us a little over an hour to get through it - it was tough!

(1 lap  = .29 miles)

Walk 1 lap

Run 1 lap

Lunges — Stand straight with your feet together. Place your hands on your hips. Step forward with the right leg and lower the left leg until the knee almost touches the floor. Contracting the quadriceps muscles, push off your right foot slowly returning to the starting position. Alternate the motion with the left leg to complete the set. The step should be long enough so that your left leg is nearly straight. Do not let your knee touch the floor and make sure your head is up and your back is straight. Your right knee should not pass your right foot. You should be able to see your toes at all times. Perform 15 reps on each side.

Run 2 laps

Jumping Jacks With Front Kick - The jumping jack is a classic standby that you can always turn to while doing your boot camp workouts but to add a little more variety to this one, after doing the first jumping jack, stop and do a front kick on one leg. After that, move into a second jumping jack and then perform the second kick. When doing these aim to bend as low as you possibly can down in the movement as that’ll increase the benefits you see.

Run 2 laps

Rolling Plank - Finally, the last exercise to include in your boot camp workouts is the rolling plank. If you want to target your core, this is the exercise for you.  To perform this one get down so you’re into a plank position and after holding for about 10 seconds, flip over so that you’re now with your back to the ground.  At all times the body remains in that straight, table-top position.

Run 2 laps

Alternate Toe Touch — Stand with hands extended out to the sides. Then bring your right hand down in the direction of your let foot. Return to the starting position and perform the same movement on the other side (left hand towards right foot). Perform 20 repetitions on each side.

High March — March in place but raise your legs as high as you can. Perform 15 reps each side.

Double Time — Lie on your back and cycle both legs as fast as possible as if riding a bike. Perform the movement for 60 seconds.

Stretch

 

KickBallin’ - Balls Deep Style

Our kickball season has come to an end…our last game was Wednesday but we, somehow, have a playoff game next Wednesday. We finished the season with only three wins (3-4) – but we still had fun. And we have the best shirts in the league…check it:

 Each person chose nicknames and we had them screen printed on our shirts.

Shane is the ‘Godfather’ (any Old School fans out there?) and I’m Flash 7.1. And, yes, that is directly related to my 40-yard dash time…which, I’m pretty sure, has gotten down to around 6.8. 

Also, after our games, Atkins Park - a local bar - hosts all of the kickball teams for drinks and food. They also have dueling pianos...after a few drinks, Shane likes to get on stage for a little ditty:

Look at sneaky snake trying to play the piano. 

It's usually about 20 minutes after this that we decide it's time to go home...it is a Wednesday for god's sake and we are no longer in college. 

Have a great weekend!

Bootcamp: Sample Workout

As I've mentioned, Jennie and I do two-man bootcamp three days a week. We get pretty loco some days (running a lot and doing crazy exercises...yes, that is my definition of loco) but, more recently, we've been just walking and talking. And when you wake up at 5:45 a.m. to begin a workout at 6:15 a.m. - you want it to be good. 

 This is totally what we look like. Fatigues and all.

So, I did some research (on other blogs, of course...what other resources are there?) and developed the following for our Wednesday workout:

(1 lap=.29 miles)

Walk 1 lap

Run 2 laps

Hop and Pops — Perform five jumping jacks and then drop to the floor and immediately do five pushups. Right back up to your feet for five jumping jacks, down for five pushups. There is no rest between jumping jacks and pushups. Perform a total of 20 repetitions for each. It’s OK if you need to perform a modified pushup (knees on floor). This exercise is not as easy as it sounds so if you need to do fewer reps to start that’s OK.

Run 4 laps

Ski Jumps – Stand with your feet together and keep your knees slightly bent. Jump to the right several feet and then jump a few feet to the left. Make sure to keep the knees and legs together and knees slightly bent. Perform 20 total reps

Run 1 lap

Double Crunch — Lie on your back on a mat. Bend your knees until your legs are at a 45 degree angle with both feet on the floor. Your back should be comfortably relaxed on the floor. Place both hands crossed over your chest. Contracting your abdominals, raise your head and legs off the floor toward one another. Return to the starting position stopping just short of your shoulders and feet touching the floor. Perform as many reps as possible until you can’t perform another.

Double Time — Lie on your back and cycle both legs as fast as possible as if riding a bike. Perform the movement for 60 seconds.

Run 1 lap

Stretch

Pretty good work out! Your arms will definitely be sore!

Birthday Recap

I’m another year older…officially the big 2-8. I’m not necessarily upset by it, but to quote my very intellectual father, it felt like just another day. No older and certainly no younger. 

However, sweet Shane did make it very special by planning a ton of special stuff for us (and he likes for everything to be a surprise…love him.):

Friday – Dinner with the parents at The Vinings Fish Company. Wine and Ahi Tuna – yum. And I got some cash and some more Latisse – yum as well. After dinner, we met up with some peeps for drinks and then went to sing karaoke! We traveled the 20-30 minutes out to Buford Highway to go to Karaoke Melody where you rent your own room and sing karaoke with just your group – we love this place. Stayed out too late and hit the hay around 4 a.m. Yikes.

Saturday – Had brunch at J. Christopher’s with Patrick, my baby brother, and then over to Natural Body for an hour-long massage. So.nice. Came home and watched some TV and some movies and then headed to Studio Movie Grill for dinner and Paranormal Activity 3. First off, the movie was pretty good – I’d give it a B-. Secondly, the customer service at this place was awesome…we will go back just for the sheer fact that they were so polite and courteous to us.

Sunday – Lunch and margaritas with Chris, my other baby brother, and then went shopping – at Target. So, you know that was a disaster…how is it that you go in there to buy fabric softener and come out with a new wardrobe, 15 greeting cards, new Halloween decorations and a bicycle? Whatever subliminal marketing thing they’ve got going on in there totally works.

Unfortunately, there are no pictures…only memories. Hope you all had a great weekend!