To dye or to die?

Tonight I am in charge of the Young Women's activity for all the Young Women in my ward at church. I gave the girls 5 choices on Sunday to rank from favorite to least favorite (cake decorating, tie dye, physical fitness, service, and something else that has eluded me at the moment). Tie dye was far and away the winner, so that's what we are doing tonight. I've got all the supplies ready to go, instructions on hand, extra white socks for anyone who forgets to bring something to dye...now I just have to survive the evening.

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To Waddle or...

Posted by Amanda: Well, I had the aforementioned personal training session this weekend and let me say this much - it's a good thing it was free! He KILLED me. I can hardly walk today - and the session was 2 days ago. I'm pretty much miserable. If he was trying to convince me to purchase more of these lovely sessions, he's INSANE. I'm in pretty good shape, all things considered, so to push me hard enough that I can't even go back to the gym 2 days later is just sick and wrong. ha. I can't even cross my legs without the aid of my hands.

Which brings me to the bright side of things. I was talking to Geoff on the phone a few minutes ago and informed him that I definitely needed a "soda run" today. My soda run is a 10 minute break from work where I dash over to the nearest gas station and get a giant refill of Diet Mountain Dew. Well, I told him in no way could it qualify as a "run" today since it takes me 5 seconds (counted as 1-one-thousand 2-one-thousand, not 1, 2, 3). He laughed on the other end and said, "Yes, more of a soda waddle."

Indeed.

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Golden Girl?

Posted by Amanda:

I finally caved. I've been travelling (admitedly sporatically) from the new apartment to 24 hour fitness for over a month now. It really hasn't been too bad. I even started going in the mornings (complete with showering and getting ready for work at the gym). However, the time had finally come to bid the 20 minute (40 round trip) drive to 24 hour fitness goodbye.

I printed my 1-day trial pass to Gold's Gym and took the 4 block walk to Gold's. I used my trial pass and did my usual workout.

Pros:

Not very busy (and I was there during the busiest time of day)

Individual TVs on the cardio equipment

Lots and lots of classes to choose from (I'm definitely going to do kickboxing and step)

No college student traffic

Cons:

Small, cramped cardio area (although because the machines weren't all in use, you didn't have to run too close to the strangers)

Indoor tennis court access NOT included in membership

Not open 24 hours (at least not this facility)

A locker room straight out of the 1970s.

So, I'm officially a Gold's Girl now. Tomorrow I have a meeting with a personal trainer for a fitness evaluation and planning session. Great, I REALLY love it when strangers weigh, measure, and evaluate my fitness.

I hope to reach my final goal weight (and have at least a shadow of a 6 pack) by my anniversary in August.

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3 down...

Posted by Amanda: Well, three doctors later and I'm not feeling any better. In fact, Geoff was kind enough to share his most recent cold with me - so, if anything, I'm feeling worse. At least this time my illness has a name. I guess shingles had a name, too.

Anyway, the dizziness (vertigo), nausea, blurred vision, and trouble speaking (at times - still rare) are all still present and accounted for in my life. My lastest doc has me on another 2-week experiement. I'm skeptical that this one will work, either, but at least it buys me two weeks before I have to go back to the docs office.

Outside of my newfound love (scoffs) of the inside of a doctor's office, I don't have much to report.

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iPhone - technology's gift to man

Posted by Geoff: I have been experimenting with some new software as of late and have been really enjoying this simple yet complex piece of work. Blogging from the iPhone may not be the quickest means of getting ideas accross but it is certainly the most mobile. I am trying to figure out what goes in my blog and what goes in twitter, it's a tough cookie, becuase everything feels long when you are typing it on a phone yet I am certain I have surpassed my 140 character limit for twitter.

So the wife and I watched Valkyre last night with tom cruise. I was suprised how intense it was, considering we all knew the outcome of the movie, and how much I couldn't atop watching. Tom looks pretty good with an eye patch on, maybe he should be in the next pirates, Pirates IV: A Newer Hope - perhaps the pirate story will live on.

Blog over.


-- Post From My iPhone

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Long Weekend

Posted by Amanda: Oh, how I love a long weekend. Geoff and I had a fun one. Friday night Geoff's usual softball game was canceled because of the holiday, so he went to see Star Trek on the IMAX with his dad and brother. While they went to the movie, I decided I wanted to try my hand at cake decorating. I've been interested in it for quite awhile now, but had always wondered what the heck I'd do with the cakes. I decided that I didn't care what happened to the cakes, I just wanted to give it a try! I baked two cakes an Ice Cream filled (homemade ice cream), buttercream frosted "funfetti" cake and a 3-lawyer chocolate cake covered with marshmallow fondant. Stephanie came over and helped me for a few hours (which was much appreciated, considering sometimes it takes two brains to solve the problem of how to pick up fondant circles after they are cut out).

Saturday we had our niece's (Kate) 1st birthday party. Unfortunately Geoff got called into work early so we didn't get to stay for very long, but we brought along Rubio and he had a great time. We got him an extendable leash so he can have some free reign when we go to parks and such. He's adapting to it nicely.

Sunday was our other niece's (Hayley) baby blessing. It was the first time we got to see her and it was great. The whole family was there and it had been awhile since we'd gotten to see everyone all together, so it was a nice day.

Monday Geoff and I got up and went out to check out any Memorial Day sales. We didn't find much, but did buy a few things here and there. Then we came home and Geoff worked on repairing his desk and I made another cake (not photo worthy, but I'm learning!).

So now we are back to normal life and I've got a pledge drive starting this weekend. Hopefully it will yield good results! I love my job and I hate it when I'm not reaching my fundraising goals.

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Family Photo

Posted by Geoff: Apparently I have some good ideas in my head. I have been asked by a few anonymous sources to blog about my ideals and interests. While I do have some interesting ideas floating up and around there, I often feel a bit confined about expressing them. My writing is fairly mediocre and my spelling is boardering upon ignorance (-ance, -ence, who knows... probably someone out there) but the masses may have what the masses want... I am pretty sure however, that the masses just want to be stable (octuplet... or I used to think that was the most stable until one electron ran away) to gain or lose that excess electron holding them down. There is no other electron here, no answers to life's deep questions, no affixing of desire or stability, just some non-sensical, non-realistic rantings and ravings. So I digress. Or perhaps converge... you can never be sure what is the real meaning. Topic line? I suppose it could elude to what adventure you might be participating in but it could never really hold the whole truth just something to pull you in with.

So I was watching some cnet.tv this morning as I do fairly regularly, that techy stuff puts shivers down my bones, when they said what the website of the week was. They showed some pictures that gave them dramatic effect (effect, affect, another one of those writing conundrums) and it pulled me in like a plant to sunlight. Well, I must have not been the only sap pulled in by the suggestions of the tech bound media because there servers were down and I could not log into there site to fullfil this need I never knew. Welp (this is a word I use from time to time when I am getting bored of the idea or concept and you can imagine it is like until a very quick 'well' or a lengthy awkward 'well' [the kind you use to sum up the end of a conversation]) persistance pays off, at least this time it did, (often it only lengthens the pain of waiting) and I was visually stimulated that erupted some course laughter from deep within my belly. We all have them, those photos that make you sweat looking back on them, the ones that leave a sore spot in your mind, or perhaps something that never leaves the developer envelope because they were all just that bad. I think if we could all just stop time and look at how our families interact it would be hysterical. When we are at our either most relaxed or most stressed out moments we are around family. Imagine family gatherings where Uncle Jim makes his famous 'fart' joke and the expressions on everyones faces at that moment, Aunt Sandy makes the face that discribes how many times that dumb joke has left her husband's lips, or Jim's older brother letting out a belt of laughter encouraging Jim's immaturity, or perhaps the most insecure of all, the visiting cousins girlfriend who makes a face of hesitant jest. These moments are what define a families relationships... or not... All I really know is that I need to go now... visit the website... http://www.awkwardfamilyphotos.com/ - There are some pretty funny ones...

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