First off, it’s been brought to my attention that someone has set up their site to automatically post excerpts from my site. While the Fair Use clause in the copyright law does allow for this, it also states that a commentary must also be included, which this lazy shit isn’t doing. So, unless you are reading this at A Web Site Created by Babs, please note that it is copyright 2008 A Web Site Created by Babs and is most likely being used without permission.

Secondly, no weight loss this week, so I didn’t bother to include the ticker. While I did get an hour of cardio in this week, I never seemed to have the time to fit in the strength training. And my toe would start to bother after each workout. As Town Day has been and gone I can now focus on things like exercise and housecleaning and hopefully the rest of the weight will come off. I will cry if I get stuck at another plateau!

Well, I lost 2.5 pounds this past week (down to 165). My two intentional days off, coupled with my forced days off (due to fracturing my pinkie toe), resulted in a slight gain over the weekend. No biggie, though. 2 pounds is really the max I want to lose in a week anyway.

I got in an hour and a half of cardio. This does not include warm-up or cool-down time. I also performed two sets of strength training. After blowing off things for several months this is a much needed improvement.

I had to take today off for the aforementioned injury. My toe doesn’t really hurt anymore. It’s just swollen and starting to bruise, so I figured I’d play it safe. I’ll see how it looks tomorrow and decide if I should resume my workouts.

I had originally planned to make weekly posts about my losing weight and getting into shape. I still do, and was going to make my first entry this past Monday. But between the holiday weekend resulting in a 2 pound weight gain I wasn’t exactly in the mood to write about it, even if I did want to bring up my new regimen.

Today is a different day, however. I began a workout schedule of 30 minutes of cardio 6 days a week and 3 days of strength training (Prevention magazine is a wonderful source of inspiration for working out). By yesterday I was beginning to wear out, even though I had already been working out 3 days a week previously (30 minutes, 60 minutes, and 45 minutes, respectively). I took yesterday off and went to bed early last night. This morning I decided to weigh myself, just for shits and grins, and learned I had dropped 4 pounds.

Let me at those Cakesters!

If this trend continues I fear I will have to increase my calorie intake. Yes!

Wednesday night I arrived at color guard practice to learn our captain/instructor, Sandy, had quit, due to “irreconcilable differences”. I’m wondering if we can impeach our Board, Manager and President. Over the last two years the corps. has lost a good many members to other alumni groups, so the last thing we need to drive more away. But what do they do? They piss off an important staff member. One who could take at least half the guard with her. I can only think of two reasons that would be severe enough to make Sandy quit. One is that she’s being forced to write a whole new show for the guard, the other is that they let Ellie back. Either of those would probably make the rest of the color guard leave. We tried the whole new show thing last year. It was HELL! We weren’t given ample practice space, let alone ample practice time, so stress ran amuck. We made it clear to the Board we weren’t going to do it again. As for Ellie, well she’s a fucking bitch that nobody wants to work with. 😀

Thursday Amber T. Pusscat scared the beejezus out of me when she went hiding under the Teen’s bed for a day, after a night of spewing and shitting everywhere. I have no idea what caused it, but she is obvioulsy feeling better now. Both this morning and evening she jumped into my lap at meal time to remind me she hadn’t been fed, yet. I’ll have to keep a close eye on her to see if she’s getting into anything that I’m not aware of.

Thursday night Glenn secured himself a part-time job at a local liquor store. Yes, the alcoholic will soon be spending his nights surrounded by booze. *facepalm*

I received an email from Sandy last night. Apparently those irreconcilable differences were reconcilable after all. She’ll be back next week. I just hope they caved, not her.

My wrist is now wrapped up in a nifty wrist brace because the combo of color guard, hand washing clothes, and surfing the internets has wrecked havoc on it. It is much fun trying to weight train with it on. Not. I have no choice, however, because the free weights put stress on my wrist, too.

I found this in my email this just a bit ago: http://www.savetheinternet.com/blog/2008/02/25/comcast-blocking-first-the-internet-now-the-public/ I didn’t think Comcast could sink any lower. Sadly they have proved me wrong. I think it’s time we vote them off the planet.