Home Sick

For the first time in a LONG time, I am wishing I was back home in Nebraska.  Today, my family is having a party to celebrate my papa’s 60th birthday and my grandma and papa’s 20th wedding anniversary.  We were supposed to be there.  I had the time off.  But we didn’t plan accordingly, and realized that we weren’t going to be able to afford the trip. *sigh*  Talk about a let down and being a bit frustrated.  I should have just gone by myself, but at the time I didn’t want to go without Jacob.  I kinda wish that I would have gone without him now.

It’s hard to plan for trips with Jacob though.  He never wants to fly, and he is insistent on driving.  That means that instead of buying an airline ticket when we have the funds for it, we just continue to not budget the amount that it would cost for gas for the trip and therefore when it’s time to go, we don’t have the money.  We are both really bad at budgeting.  Him more so than me.  I’m going to see how far I can get away with putting my foot down on the no flying thing.  I don’t want to turn it into a fight by any means, but seriously… He is REALLY putting a damper on planning by refusing to get on a plane.  It’s pretty ridiculous.

I’m trying to do stuff to keep me occupied today so that I don’t think about everyone back home getting together.  I’m pretty much the only one in my family that isn’t there.  How sad is that?  All I know is that we HAVE to go back at some point this summer.  And I will go with or without Jacob.  Forget wasting two days in a car.  I want need to see my family.  It’s been 2 1/2 YEARS since I have seen ANYBODY in my family.  That’s just INSANE!

On the upside of waiting until this summer, at least I will have a few more months to keep working on dropping some lbs.  I’ll be looking pretty good by then if I keep up with Cross Fit and good eating.  Did I say in either of my earlier entries this week that I’ve lost 13 pounds total so far.  Probably (hopefully) more now.  I usually weigh in at Christy’s on Monday nights before Bible study, but this week, we do not have Bible study.  So I’m going to anxiously wait it out until the next Monday and see how much of a loss I will have for a two week period.  Would it be crazy if I lose another 10 pounds in these two weeks?  I’ve been keeping my goals/expectations reasonable though and typically just expect a loss of 1-2 pounds per week.  I know that I have a good chance of losing more though.  As long as the number keeps going down, that’s all that matters.

My endurance is getting better.  I currently don’t run at all and instead get on the rowing machine when a run is part of the daily work out.  I’m finding that I am able to go quite a ways now before I get winded.  It’s feeling pretty good.  Today’s work out was as many rounds as possible in 30 minutes doing the following things:

400 meter row
10 push up things using a bench (I can’t remember what they are called.  LOL)
15 wall balls
10 box jumps
15 sit ups

We also did a 600 meter row for warm up before stretching.

I didn’t quite make a full three rounds on this work out.  I made it three times through on everything except the last 15 sit ups.  Not too bad.  I need to keep working on my breathing and pacing myself so that I can push through more rounds.  But regardless, I’m way farther along now than I was 2 months ago when I started Cross Fit!

Think I may go take a nap.  =)