Last night

My plan for yesterday evening didn’t work out quite as well as Tuesday. I did NOT clean up the kitchen after dinner. But we did take the dogs out rollerblading for a little bit. That was fun. It was my first time to rollerblade with the dogs, John’s second. We had bought Cocoa a pinch collar since she pulls so bad on the leash and that helped a LOT. But she loved it since she got to run where as we usually just walk. She loves to run. She did pretty good for the most part except when John would roll past us really fast and she would start running to catch up so she was basically just pulling me down the street. It wouldn’t be as bad if I were, you know, good at rollerblading. We just got them though so we’re both still pretty wobbly. I don’t know how to stop…especially when I’ve got 60lbs pulling me along! Major did really well with John though. He’s usually pretty good on the leash so I wasn’t surprised. I love it how it totally wears them out though. We didn’t go until almost 9pm so they zonked out when we got home and slept great all night. Other than that, I did get in bed about 9:30pm and watch the rest of Twilight. What a great movie to watch before you go to sleep. Such a nice ending.
Speaking of, I think I’m going to start reading the first book again on Monday. I keep thinking about the movie and what all they left out, but I’m starting to forget the rest of the story that wasn’t in the movie, so I want to re-read it and refresh my memory. Plus I’m taking my car BACK to the dealership AGAIN to try to FINALLY get my window fixed so I’ll need something to do while I wait for it. What better than to re-read an awesome book? And I’ll get in a good 2 hours of solid reading time. Nice.

Exercising

I honestly really really really want to know how to reset my internal clock so that I can be in bed at 10pm to be able to wake up at 6am to work out in the mornings. I used to be able to do this quite easily. I don’t know what happened, but now I rarely can get in bed before 11pm and can’t drag myself out of bed until 7am. Now, I want to work out in the mornings because I find it a little harder to try to work out in the evenings, besides our workout class. Since I don’t get home until 6pm, I like to be able to start dinner right away because I HATE eating late (even though it seems to happen more often than not). Plus I’m usually hungry by then, so I don’t want to wait any longer to eat. But after we eat and watch a couple of our shows and clean up the kitchen, I’m not in the mood to work out anymore. I don’t really like working out after I eat, and I’m usually too hungry to work out before I eat! So the best possible scenario would to be to wake up earlier and do my work out in the morning, then it wouldn’t be so bad if I don’t get to exercise in the evening. I just can’t seem to get myself out of bed! I used to be able to easily wake up at 5:45am every morning, now my alarm goes off at 6:30am and I go back to sleep until almost 7am EVERY morning!

For the record, for quite a few months in the recent past I hadn’t slept well at all. I would just toss and turn and never get a real restful sleep. So I attributed my sluggish-ness in the mornings to that. But lately, I have been sleeping much better. I should be able to get up, right? Maybe I’ll just start setting my alarm earlier. Like 6:15am instead of 6:30am, so if I still lay there for 30 more minutes, I’m then getting up at 6:45am instead of 7am. Do that for a couple weeks. Then move it back to 6am, so then I’m getting up at 6:30am. Then slowly make myself not stay in bed 30min. after the alarm. And hopefully make it where my alarm goes off at 6am and I can actually get straight up out of bed. Of course, that also means being very strict about getting to bed early.

I always feel so much better when I start the day off productively. I would love to be able to start walking the dogs in the morning and doing my workout game on the Wii. Maybe then I could actually finally lose these stubborn pounds that keep sticking around. And not having to worry about fitting in exercise into my evenings would free up some time to do other stuff…like clean the house, and do laundry, and play with the dogs. It would be a win-win for everyone! Now to just make it happen!!