Shoes, shoes, shoes.

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Kristi at gritty-sweet posted photos of her shoe collection and challenged her readers to do the same. This was actually a fun project, and I felt the need to warn Tim before he got home to “not be alarmed by all the shoes on his bar.”

I’m not surprised at what I see in this picture. I’ve always been a shoe person. In fact, I recently threw away 13 pairs. Plus, I have 2 pairs I am considering returning. These are not pictured here.

What I learned from this endeavor:

1- When I find a shoe I like, I buy it in every damn color.
2- I really like polka dots. There are 5 pairs with dots.
3- I have a lot of heels, vs flats.
4- I own a lot of black shoes and also a lot of black & white shoes.
5- Singular colors: 1 red (patent, top right), 1 green (espadrille, top left). I did just throw away 2 pairs of red shoes though.

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Monday Again

I went to the gym as soon as I got up this morning. Well after emptying the dishwasher. This past weekend, Tim made corn salsa and marinated some skirt steaks and used every dish in our kitcken for food prep. I didn’t say a word to him, since the salsa was for my family anyway. I just hand washed some of the mess and threw the rest in the dishwasher. Anyway.

I went to the gym as soon as I woke up this morning. Monday morning. Go me! I am finding that if I say “it’s only Monday so I can worry about exercise later in the week” it sets a very bad, I skip an entire week of exercise precedent. If there is any chance to finish a week strong, I find I need to start my weeks strong.

I am sure the 30 minutes on the Cybex and the 25 on the ellpitical will kick up the muscle pain, but I am hoping to head back for hip hop aerobics and a run tomorrow.

Home on the Range

So it’s Sunday and I’m creating a grocery list and planning weekly meals while listening to a saxphone muscian play underneath my window. It’s not so bad. The sun is shining and we are enjoying the cool breezes through the open windows.

I am, however, rather depressed today. Dealing with my family (who I acknowledge I’m very lucky to have) is oftentimes hurtful. We were hoping to spend the day with my family instead they were quiet and rude at our requests, then realized their mistake when we backed out. What resulted was a big vat o’drama that I wanted nothing to do with. And my sister gets involved and doesn’t respect my boundries at all. There’s more to it, but it’s always the same. It leaves me feeling hurt and unwanted – especially compared to my siblings. It makes me want to take a huge step back from everything.

Anyway, this comes on the heels of what was a great week away in San Juan. Tim and I both went into the trip with some preconceived notions but instead we really had a wonderful time. Many of our plans fell to pot as we often decided to just relax our days away at the pool, nap in the afternoon, go out to dinner late, and then hit the casino. I came home with a tan and 1k won at the craps table! Not so bad. We also bumped into Bill Clinton in Old San Juan, literally. The Clintons were in Puerto Rico campaigning for the 55 delegate votes. We constantly kept missing Hillary. First at a speech at the government building, and secondly at her PR headquaters, across the street from our hotel. Granted we didn’t seek her out, but it was funny that we were always 1 step behind.

So now it’s back to the grind. I did not sign up for bootcamp this go-around. I missed the first week because of our PR vacation and although the instructor said he would prorate my price, I am struggling with 2 things. First, he added an additional instructor, an accomplished female trainer/runner, and I just don’t love her. Second, 5am mornings are very tough, week after week after week. He is doing a 9am session in July so that is more appealing. We shall see.

This leaves me to going back to the gym, and with the summer heat fast approaching, I believe I prefer it to bootcamp outside in the heat. This week my plan is to exercise 4 times. Unfortuately if I don’t schedule exercise like an appointment, I won’t do it. This week it’s Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday. 4 hours of cardio and 2 hours of weights. My other goal for this week is to write down everything I eat. Now that vacation is over I’m back to attempting points. This will be my first real points experiment in years. I am curious to see how it goes.