selfinspired

I’ve been doing the APK WODs posted on the website the last two days. Well, actually, there haven’t been any WODs posted, so I substituted them with ones posted earlier in the week. I think I’ll do that whenever this happens.

Anyhow, one of my daughters did one of the WODs with me and killed it while I was still lagging behind. Mind you, this daughter is only eight and was hacking up a lung the whole time because she’s getting over a cold. In my defense, she also does gymnastics so I’m thinking that gave her a bit of an advantage over me. ;) In fact, she had gymnastics later in the evening yesterday after we’d done the WOD and she ended up doing almost the exact same warm up there that we did at home for APK!

Well, here’s to the beginning of my APK journey. Cheers!

I’ve really dragged my feet on this one, but mostly because I have been waiting for my bf to be ready to join me. He’s said quite often how he would like to join me in doing this (I think partly because it’s promoted by CrossFit, and he does CrossFit), but he hasn’t exactly made that leap. I can’t not eat paleo any more, though, so I’m doing it with or without him. I feel like crap eating all of the things that paleo isn’t, and I don’t want to feel this way anymore. I’ve eaten gf brownies simply because they were made for me and I felt guilty not eating them. Or I’ve felt silly making myself a separate dinner because the bf cooked something non-paleo, or requested something non-paleo. Well, I told him I couldn’t do it anymore and that I was going paleo on the 1st. Cliche, I know, but it worked just fine for me when I went gf three years ago on the 1st. So, here it is, day three and I’m doing just fine. I’ve had a few sweets cravings here and there, but nothing major … nothing I haven’t been able to easily overcome. The bf, on the other hand, has broken paleo half a dozen times since the first. I don’t care, to be honest, as long as I’m not made to feel pressured to break it too. So far, so good.

I needed to back up all of my pictures on disk to my external hard drive. Well, after three years of saying I was going to do it, I finally did. Most of them anyway. So as I was going through my pictures, it hit me how I spent last five of six years living in the moment. Enjoying life as it happened. This last year, however, I haven’t done that virtually AT ALL. I think that’s perhaps the single biggest reason why I haven’t been feeling at all fulfilled for almost the entire last year. More so the reason than the whole life long goal thing. So what does that mean for 2012? Live more in the moment again! Oh, and take lots of pictures of it so if I ever go through this kind of slump again someday they might re-jog my memory of what it is that truly makes me happy. ;) I deserve it and my kids do too.