June 25, 2011

I'm not sure about why this is, but for some reason in the summer, when I say "going to the pool", my head decides that it counts as exercise. Like, when I am totally my exercise for the week in my head, I'm thinking, "Well, I went to the pool on Wednesday and Friday." Which would be fabulous if I actually DID any exercise whatsoever when I was at the pool. I do not. I dip in the water a few times, pull my kiddo on a few laps to practice her swimming strokes, and then lay on my lounge chair and read and talk. Seriously, the most strenuous thing I do is raise my arms over my head to hold my book there so that it blocks the sun.
However, I've still been running some, and going to Zumba two or three times a week, so I'm not being a total slacker.
I'm working on cleaning my house, and I set a goal for myself yesterday. I had really been thinking that at some point we would move, that we wouldn't live in this little house forever. But the longer that we live here, the more I think that we're stuck here. So, I decided that if I get the house REALLY clean (which is always my summer goal, but often gets shoved aside in favor of swimming and getting sno-cones and reading books), like lemon-oil-polish the wood sort of clean, then I am going to reward myself by painting the laundry room. Which seems not-so-rewarding in print, but which I am actually really motivated by. My laundry room is currently less than inspiring to me, and I want to paint it a lovely rich teal color, with chocolate accents. That would require tearing off old wallpaper first, but I'm really fairly motivated to do this. And while I'm at it, I think I'm going to also paint the UGLY stairs leading from the laundry room to the basement. I saw a photo of stairs painted to look as if they had a runner down the middle of them - I'm thinking that I could do that in the teal, as well. If I'm going to stay in this house, I might as well do some of the renovations that I've been delaying, thinking that we'd just move away...
Okay, off to Zumba it is. This morning is the weekly "Mom & Me" class, so L gets to dance, too! :)
Then I think that we'll go do the once-a-week run into Hutchinson - buy groceries, run errands, etc. And I think that we might get to watch Ella for the afternoon today. She's the sweetest little punkin'...and I get to give her back at the end of the day, so I don't lose any sleep over her!