My excuses......

So........Last week I was going on about the new me. I'm still on that kick. The next day after doing Zumba, I jumped on my treadmill (like I said I would) and that was the last day I worked out. My son turned 5 on Friday so working out took the back burner. And that is excuse number one.

~1~ Friday instead of working out, J.J. and I did some running around. The night before, we took him to my cousin J's house while Stouty and I did most of the shopping for his birthday party. So on Friday, we went and picked up the final "ooops, I forgot" items. I did some housework and got everything just about ready for the party on Saturday. Then when Stouty got home, we took J.J. to Chuck E. Cheese's. By the time we got home, J.J. was ready for bed and we had 2 cakes to decorate. A plain iced one (not pictured) and a decorated one that Stouty did. So, by the time the cakes were done, it was WAY past our bed time. No work out on Friday.

Stouty decorated this one..It's XLR8 from Ben 10. (or RaceMan as J.J. calls it.)

Saturday was the birthday party for J.J. It was really a great day. It wasn't 500 bazillion degrees outside. There's lots of shade around my house so staying cool was pretty easy for the adults. The kids, well, they had a Slip N Slide and water balloons. I think they had a great time! J.J. got a lot of different things for his Birthday this year. Lots of "hands on" kind of activities. A just a few toys. Needless to say, I've been very busy with him for the last few days. My Aunt and Uncle hung out til nearly 11:30 that night and my dad was in town til Sunday morning. And that was excuse number 2 for not working out.

Sunday I was WHOOOPED. My asthma started kicking in on Saturday night which had me waking up all night long. I spent a part of the morning half-ass cleaning up my house. Around noon the 3 of us were getting pretty hungry and the only thing to make that was quick was Hot dogs. And, to be honest, I was hot dogged out. So we decided to go out to lunch. (we used J.J.'s birthday as an excuse to spend money we don't have.) Being is was his birthday weekend, we let him choose where we were going to eat. He wanted to go to "the place where you can pick your own food." AKA a buffet. So we gave him the choice of Chinese or Ryan. I caught myself trying to talk him into Ryan's because I'm getting kind of burnt out on Chinese. But, no, Chinese it was!! After eating we came home and popped the movie Shutter Island in. I love Leonardo DiCaprio (sp?) but I would not recommend that movie. It was really slow. REALLY slow. And kind of predictable. But whatever. Then we watched Cop Out......Freaking hilarious! I would recommend that one. Now....what was the point of all this??? OH yeah. Another excuse as to why I didn't work out.

Now, here we are on Wednesday. I've been having breathing issues all week and any of you out there with Asthma know that sometimes a task as easy as walking, is very difficult on bad days. I got some Prednisone from the Doctor yesterday. Hopefully by tomorrow I'll be feeling much better and I'M WORKING OUT!