Basics...a 47ish mexican american mom of 3 girls (12 (violin, flute, baseball), 15(soccer, drama, band), 21) living in the western wayne county subs, live and die with the Detroit Red Wings, hockey such an amazing sport, requires so much more skill than other sports and it keeps MOVING! Hate baseball for the very reason that you have a little action but most of the time you're WAITING for something to happen. sucks...Back to basics, married over 20 years to BeatTheTrain, Andy. Lots of people may know him, he is semi famous. He's a spin instructor at LA Fitness, Allen Park on Monday and Livonia on Tues/Thurs. He does have a few groupies, but mostly people who enjoy his style. Work in the county government for the paycheck/benes/vacation time but I help manage a ballet folklorico dance group that the girls dance/teach with. I also am a TV show snob...I love/hate television...I get hooked on shows that are inevitably dismissed because they are too good and interesting for the american veiwing public who continue to make honey boo boo a show to be watched...a topic for another day or 3. Which is seriously why I thought to start this blog...so much to vent...so here we go...
im in a vicisious cycle....no energy to workout leaves me with no energy...shit. I love my xbox kinect game YourShape:Fitness Evolved 2012 and I have been getting up at 5am ish to get a good 45 min to an 1hour in before work for almost 2 years, but this week has left me with no motiviation. its always hard in the month of may. hockey, 3 birthdays, cinco de mayo performances, sports schedules all collide with each other AND THEN rolls over the regular chaos of everyday. no dinners made only bought or whipped together from boxes and cans, shopping lists written in dust on the tables and tvs, floors even the dog wont lick only laundry is getting any attention and only because people need clean underwear. got some dishes done and a little order back yesterday but the piles are lurking in the bedrooms since i merely shifted the crap from one room to another...my go to stragegy for feeling like i have accomplished something, one room looks pretty good while you close the doors of the other.
i got to get back on track need a super strong workout with my yourshape for kinect. 3 wallbreakers, 1 extreme toning, full cardio boxing class and full yoga!! Saturday morning is the goal before i take bell to relay for life. Got to get back into the rhythm. I can really feel how it has changed me over the last couple of years. Since I graduated high school I have not done anything physical. More couch potato than anything. mostly because the pregnancy weight came off on its own. But got the kinect for the kids, picked up the exercise game for no reason. kids used kinect a little for the dance games but once i realized I didnt want to waste 300 bucks, I started using the exersise game. All I can say is...FUN! & HOOKED. Been doing it for a while, still love it. Maybe gonna add Nike training for kinect. It has really changed my energy for the better and this week feels like it used to. Sluggish and irritated. The late night hockey is killing me. Bring on the Eastern Conference! Then we only have to see that time zone in the FINALS!!!
Completely switching brain levels, maybe Mario can cut and color my hair...I should call him. I haven't colored my hair for at least 15 years. Its always been a beautiful brown, grey free. Recently saw a friend who noticed the increasing grey. Sad for me..so here I go to join the old people in denial.
Ok, so i will try to get the ideas and thoughts off my soul onto this page and sometimes it might even be a little clever, a little humorous or downright shit. And then...
Hi Christina! I had to write because I believe things happen for a reason and not by chance. I was searching for the meaning of Spin with Beatthetrain and I came across your blog. Yes, I am one of Andy's "groupies". My first spin class was with Andy. I learned his style. I continue to take his spin class. He might be semi-famous but I think you are more famous than he is. He has the recognition because he is in the spotlight. He is a performer. You are behind the scenes, working, taking care of the house and kids, and managing a dance group. You are the foundation of the family. Andy would not be able to be Andy without you. From what you express I see a beautiful lady who is tired and thinks she is not good enough. A woman, who can't get it all done, who isn't fit, who is old? Really? I see a woman who is a supermom, trying to do it all, a woman who sacrifices herself for her family, a woman who is beautiful and shines from the inside out. Your values are to be admired. Remember, you can look like a supermodel but exterior beauty comes and goes, unless you have surgeries like supermodels. Your interior beauty grows as long as you continue to nourish it.
ReplyDeleteSome suggestions from experience:
Take your vitamins. Double up on them if you have to. They really do help. There are times when I can't even lift my hands over my head.
Find a workout partner. They will motivate you to workout when you don't want to. It is a great release of tension and it gives you more energy.
Go see Mario and get your hair colored. Being old is what you make of it and just because you are doesn't mean you have to look it. It will rejuvenate you. Every time you look in the mirror you will feel refreshed. It's buying a new dress or a new pair of shoes. It doesn't change who you are. It just makes you feel good. If it makes you feel better I have black hair and have been dying my hair since my 30's because every time I talked to someone they felt the need to interrupt the conversation and let me know I had one white hair on my head.
Remember to laugh.
I leave you with one thought: If you did not have dust on your tables to write your lists could you find you pen and paper? And then.....could you find your list? I guess the dust on the tables is not so bad, along with everything else.
A woman who sees herself in you
Frances