Thermalgal’s Temperate Mumblings

Feel the burn!

DH and I have started to lift weights loosely based on the Body for Life program. I would like to do it by the book, but “loosely based” is our compromise. I still need a way to get more cardio into my life, but I can’t figure it out with my busy schedule. So, last night was the upper body workout. I had skipped the last one because I had hurt my shoulder and could barely sleep, so I wasn’t even going to think about lifting! But it is better so I’m back on track. Last night I decided to up the weights I was using for most of the exercises. I had been using my little 5 pound weight and DH was using my adjustable dumbbell set. I used the adjustable set a while back for a couple of weeks and have determined that it is a big pain. So, I’m going the individual dumbbell route. I only had a pair of 5 pounders and then one 10 and one 15 pound. So, when we started last week or the weekend before, I just used the pair of 5 pounders I had lying around. Of course for some of the exercises it did absolutely nothing. So, I went out and got a pair of 10 pounders… and I used them for the first time last night… wow, I can feel it! I actually like the slightly sore feeling. It lets me know that yeah, I’m exercising. On a crafty front… last night I started stitching on an RR and realized that my careful planning wasn’t actually that careful. So, I spent the remainder of the evening using Pattern Maker to graph up the bands I’m going to do. Of the original 4 I had chosen, I think only two make it to the final selection. And for one of them I still have some planning to figure out. But it should look good (I hope). I’ve also decided what I’m going to knit with my first batch of homespun. I’m going to make the Sedona Spiral Vortex Bowl from this summer’s issue of Spin-Off. Now I just have to get spinning. I only have the one tiny skein I made a while back. I think I’m going to card up that little bag of scraps I got at MDS&HF in May to make it more varigated… or I could try more food coloring dyeing with the white stuff… decisions, decisions…