Interrupted

My Life Thus Far
2011-08-07 20:40:13 (UTC)

It Can Work, If You Let It

Uh oh! It's been about two weeks since my last entry :( I'm getting out of the habit of writing (again). It's not that I don't want to write (I think about it everyday. What I should write - what I'd like to share), but then when evening comes and I finally take a moment to sit down, I'm pooped and usually fall asleep rather quickly. I'm not complaining. Sleep used to be a struggle for me. Now I sleep well consistently, pretty much every night. Such a relief!

Even though I've been busy, it hasn't been because of anything super-exciting (which means you've really only been missing out on the mundane aspects of my daily life). I've been keeping myself busy with work (between my beloved Bremerton Y and a couple days of Victoria's Secret, I'm joyfully employed I'm glad to say). I can honestly say all of the stress has been taken out of life, at least at the moment.

Remember those trainings I had to go do in Tacoma? Well, I'm very pleased to share that I passed my Strength and Conditioning certification with flying colors! I only missed 4 questions, which happened to be the second best score in the class :) The questions I missed were silly little things to miss, like which muscle groups should you focus on when doing a total body workout (the short answer would be the major muscle groups, but the test listed out all of the major muscle groups by name, 3 of the possible answers included minor muscle groups and I just didn't read the answers closely enough). Overall, it ended up being a really positive experience. Even though it was grueling sitting in a class for 8 hours straight, the bonding experience we had as YMCA employees was awesome. And of course in the age of Facebook, we're all staying in touch, even though we work at different branches. I'm totally looking forward to taking more trainings down the road.

After getting the Strength and Conditioning cert. under my belt, Rhonda switched her focus to Fitness Assessments and getting comfortable with that. FA's include doing skin fold measurements with calipers and dimensional measurements with a tape measure, doing cardiovascular and muscular endurance tests, flexibility tests, body composition calculations (both machine and manual calculations) and the like. Hopefully in the fall I'll feel really confident with my caliper skills, because right now I'm just worried I'm going to hurt someone with me rock-hard fingernails when I try to gather a skin fold! I'll get over it though. I'm thinking of getting my own pair of calipers and enlisting friends and coworkers as my unfortunate victims :) Doesn't everyone want to know their body fat percentage?!

Speaking of body fat percentage. Since I was figuring out Rhonda's (she was my first FA guinea pig), I figured I should probably do mine. I didn't do the skin fold measurements on myself (it would have been totally inaccurate). I just used the body comp scale. Needless to say, I'm so far from where I started it's amazing, but I'm also not where I want to be. I want to be down to 20% (which would be considered "healthy low" for a woman of my height and build). Right now I'm just average and we all know I'm not average :) Wow, was that self-confidence I just heard come out of myself?! Crazy.

One of my good friends got married yesterday. Shannell. I don't know if I've ever mentioned her before. We went to dental assisting school together and have kept in touch over the years. He wedding was AMAZING. She and her family have been planning it for the better part of two years and their hard work showed. Down to every tiny detail. Hand-made napkins, table clothes, chair covers, little gifts for the guests. You name it, they thought of it. Snookums and I are thinking of renewing our vows in a couple years (for our 10th anniversary) and I want Shannell and her mom to plan it! Seriously. I'm so happy for her. Mike, her new husband is amazing and I know they'll be happy together. Call me a romantic, but I really feel like marriage is important and it can work, if you let it. Even in this day and age.

Shannell's wedding made me think about my social life. She had well over 200 people there to celebrate with her... I can think of maybe 10 people off the top of my head I'd want to invite to my vow renewal. Everyone else has moved or I no longer speak to them... I need to make some friends. Not intimate dear, close friends. I've got those (even if I don't ever spend time with them). Bottom line, I just need to get better about spending time with friends. Friends are important and I don't mean Facebook friends. Just something I'm thinking about... Note to self: be more social.




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