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One Hundred Pushups or Bust

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I haven’t been making enough time to go to the gym lately. I’m frustrated by my lack of desire to go, but it is what it is. Instead of the gym I spend my time going to the park with Courtney and Riles..and sometimes working. In the end, I’ve started to feel lousy. I’m sleeping terribly and my eating habits are in the toilet.

So given all of this I thought I’d give the One Hundred Pushups regimen a go. I did the initial assessment and placed in the middle of the road (27 pushups if you must know). I thought getting back into the rhythm of working out would help me feel better.

So today was day three of a six week plan to get you up to doing 100 pushups. I easily did 62 this morning. I’m let down that it isn’t harder for me to do. I was hoping it would help energize me, but it hasn’t. It’s honestly been too easy. I’m going to continue until I can do 100 a day but I think I’ll get there sooner than six weeks.

Ideally, I’d like to establish a 30 minute routine that I can do in the morning. Since I’m an early riser I think my time would be better spent working out than surfing the web. Regardless, I think our gym membership will be canceled soon.

The Story So Far

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So what have you been doing this summer? I’ve been everything but blogging. :-) My usage of Facebook and Twitter has really worn into my desire to blog. But after living on one sentence updates for the last 2 months I’m feeling the need to be more “verbose.”

This summer has been filled with projects, as usual. We rebuilt our hazardous deck. It was quite a learning experience. We’ve gotten closer to finishing up the kitchen floor and we reclaimed half our garage back with a bit of organizing.

Riles has started to come into his own. Over the summer he’s gained an opinion, that differs from ours most of the time. His vocabulary has skyrocketed and he’s starting to string words together. I’m convinced he’s a genius, but I’m sure all parents think that. Do you know what he’s talking about when he says, “Tree!….Monkey!….Tina!” I do. He’s trying to convince me our trees have monkeys in them because Tina told him a few weeks ago about the monkeys in the trees. Yeah, genius.

Other than that it’s been a quiet summer. I caught a Luther the Devil show a few weeks ago. It’s always nice to see their show. It’s good to see the crew again.

There’s other stories and information that needs to get told. I’ll tell them in time. But for now, I’m content to let this broad stroke of a summary cover what we’ve been up to.