Feeling good

I'm feeling pretty good at the end of this week.

First, I only worked 51 hours this week and yes, that's good for me! I applied for some different jobs just today but I feel like I'm in a good place...simply taking it one day at a time, trying to stick it out as long as I can, but not feeling tons of pressure either. I even painted my finger nails black this week and wore it to work which is a big no-no. It was my way of rebeling I think :-P

Second, I started using Google Calendar based on my friend's recommendation. She started this blog about organizing and simplifying and... well... just check it out for yourself because I can't really do it justice. So anyway, I started using Google Calendar to make to-do lists and schedule which day of the week I'm going to tackle particular tasks. It's helped me feel organized and with a plan of attack. There are plenty of nights where I come home and do nothing because I've worked a 13 hour day so it go figure that having it on the calendar doesn't mean you have the motivation to miraculously do it. But at least I don't have all these "to-do's" running around in my head. And my house is cleaner right now than it's been in a while and I practiced the piano this week- both positive outcomes from my new calendar!

Finally, I've had some great workouts. I've eaten like poop (Jimmy John's, cupcakes, donuts, you name it) but my workouts haven't really been affected so that's good. I had my shoulder press PR a couple nights ago, kicked my butt with the guys earlier in the week finishing only 10 seconds after they did, and had another strong workout toda.

Push Press
5x5x5x3x3x3
65-65-75-75-75-80

I blogged about this before, but we don't have enough weights to do 85 or 90 pounds, you have to go from 80# to 95# unfortunately. We need to buy some more change plates. That's why I stayed at 80# since I didn't feel up for going to 95#.

Then I did 5 rounds of
1 clean & jerk 80#
7 ring dips (feet on the floor)
10 knees to elbows
Time = 10:45

My time is sucky but I blame it on the knees to elbows. To me, those things are entirely a hand workout. I cannot do 10 at a time even though my abs/core feels fine. My hands hurt sooooo bad when I do them. It sucks major so I keep stopping, shaking my hands, then doing a few more. I get the oddest blisters right in the dead center of my palms. Not cool.

Tonight we're going to dinner with a bunch of other couples and tomorrow morning we're going hiking with some different friends then following it up by going to the zoo... so we have a busy weekend!