Christmas has come and gone…New Years is right around the corner.  Amazing how quickly time flies.

We truly had a wonderful Christmas; the boys had so much fun, they said it was the best Christmas ever!  Nothing warms a parent’s heart more especially when you feel like you really had to cut back quite a bit financially. They have been playing so nicely together for the last 2 days; nothing warms my heart more.  They even joined forces today and combined gift cards they received so they could go to GameStop and buy the games they wanted.

Justin, my 9-year old was upset with me earlier; was so upset with me earlier.  We bought a chicken to bake for him for Christmas dinner since he doesn’t like any kind of beef (weird little boy).  Because of time needed to cook everything else, we decided to cook the chicken today.  I fell asleep for almost 3 hours and didn’t have time to make it.  Boy did I hear it!  I broke a Christmas promise L  I felt terrible but I explained that if I cooked to now it wouldn’t be ready until 10PM.  So we made him something else.  While I’m sitting in the kitchen, Nick, my 12-year old is telling Justin that he needs to apologize to me for being rude and not understanding.  It was so sweet to hear and kind of funny to hear Nick lecturing him.  Well, low and behold, before I knew it Justin walks in the kitchen to apologize.  I was thrown haha.  It was real cute…needless to say as he’s walking out of the kitchen he added, “Nick told me if I didn’t apologize he was taking our new video game back to the store.”  What a bubble burster haha.

I did the unthinkable today; I went to the gym.  I hate the gym, never liked it, I get serious anxiety just thinking about it.  My friend Traci got me a 3 day pass so I could work out with this great group of ladies while I’m off this week.  It wasn’t so bad, walking into the gym.  I met some nice people, ran into some friends and chatted for a while.  I lived to tell about it.  The workout was a good one.  I did half of it before I stopped; I’m really in a lot of pain lately.  I called my chiropractor right after I left the gym; I have an appointment tomorrow at 820AM.

The workout today was 100 jump ropes, 90 squats, 80 of something else, 70 of another exercise, 60 lunges, 50 thrusters (but I did deadlifts), 40 sit-ups, 30 kettlebell swings, 20 of another and 10 handstand pushups…which I, of course, did a modified version.  Once we were done, we had to go back up from 10 to 100.  I finished the first half so I was satisfied.  Usually after a workout I feel better, everything loosens up.  Since I was still hurting I did stretching while I was waiting for the others to complete their workout.  I did the tough stretches on the wall, the ones I try to avoid because they are so painful but they help so much and helped it did.  Unfortunately, everything eventually tightens up again but it’s not as bad.  It seems that when my back is this bad everything else hurts as well.  Not sure why but my elbows stiffened up and were hurting overnight and while I was napping earlier; I can’t imagine it has anything to do with my back, maybe it’s the MS or arthritis...oh the joys of getting old.  I can’t wait to get all this testing done so I can get back on a supplement regimen.  It was recommended I stop taking any supplements until all the test results are in.  That meant no fish oil…and I feel the difference without it. 

I think all the burpees I’ve been doing have irritated my back. I really need to be careful with my pushups; I do this snaking motion and I think irritating my back also.  I’ve been working on my core with planks so hopefully it will strengthen quickly so I can get back to where I was and these types of exercises won’t hurt as much.  As crazy as it sounds, I was excited to start doing burpees again; I don’t want to have to stop again.  I’m hoping the chiropractor will say things loosened up from last visit.  He said I was so jammed up last week.

It looks like there will be lots of changes in the New Year for me…I must admit, I am looking forward to it.  I’m a bit tired of a few things and the cycles things seem to get caught up in.  I’m excited to give another attempt to obtain 2 certifications I didn’t follow through on.  2012 is going to be a year of accomplishments for me.  I have lots to focus and work on.  My goal is not to let myself down in the New Year…and not worry about letting anyone else down.