Written Thursday:
I’ve always heard of a runner’s high and people have told me that it’s fantastic. I believe them but I’ve never experienced it myself, even in my thin days (I wasn’t a runner). And today is the closest I’ve ever come to feeling it. Not from running (I would die if I ran more than 50 feet! LOL) but from a heavy duty workout. I am so proud of myself. 
I spent nearly 1 hour in there today!! Yay meeee! This is the best I’ve ever done and I left feeling so happy. I was very red from the exertion since I don’t sweat properly but I really worked hard. I used a different machine instead of the Arc Trainer and it was harder but I burned more calories in the same 20 minutes and I felt my legs (thighs) burning way sooner. I’d slow down if I got to burning too much and speed up a bit when I felt ready. My heart rate stayed up in the 140-160 range most of the time which is a great thing. When I finally stumbled off of that (after about 25 minutes) I headed over to the rower and worked on that for 30 minutes. The older man who I sometimes chat with came in a few minutes after I started and hopped on the one next to me and we just chatted up a storm. It’s amazing how much you can tune out when you have someone to talk to- back aching, legs burning, the huffing and puffing. It went by so fast and I was thrilled to actually make it the full 30 minutes. So all told I burned over 400 calories today. Come on, tell me I am awesome…..LOL!!
Ooh! In other ‘I’m Awesome’ news- I totally aced my speech exam. I got a 100% on it. Not one single thing marked on the paper, just the grade scribbled in the upper corner. Cool, no? My math test was today and I was very methodical about going backwards through the problems after I got them worked out. I replaced all the variable (the letters in the problems) with the answer I came up with to see if the equations were balanced and they were all perfect. I am honestly expecting high marks for this test. When I turned in the exam the instructor asked me how I thought I did and I told her I had replaced the variables with the answers and she grinned and said that that was really great, it’s what I should do. So I’m reallllly hoping for a good grade this time. I’m not doing badly in that class but I need to get better than an 82 on my exams to satisfy my own standards. My goal is to get as close to a 4.0 as possible. I think I’m well on my way.
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Never got around to posting the last entry. Got busy with other important things. Like napping. Today has been a miserable, awful day. Poor Samantha woke me up at 5:45 am saying she keeps throwing up. She continued to vomit for hours and hours and then had the watery diarrhea along with it. My poor girl. She is SO miserable. Her eyes and cheeks are sunken and her eyes have dark circles around them. The vomiting has eased and so has the diarrhea but she’s STARVING and crying for food. I have explained to her several times about not being able to eat while she’s still sick but all she can think about is how hungry she is. I feel so, so bad for her. I think she has that nasty Norovirus. She has all of the symptoms. It’s extremely contagious too which has me really freaked. I’m an avoider. If someone gets sick, I avoid them like, well, like the plague. LOL They can’t hug or kiss me goodnight, I won’t touch them and keep my distance. Yes, it sound heartless. But I don’t want to get sick too and someone has to be well enough to keep things going if Dave starts coming down with it. He usually does since he’s a non-avoider- I mean, he’s not heartless. LOL I’ve been obsessive about washing my hands today and using hand sanitizer. I’ve washed everything and anything she’s been sick on in hot water. She’s been through several pairs of clothing and undies today. I am hoping against hope that she doesn’t get worse because the next step is taking her to the ER. And with that child’s personality, it would be absolute hell on everyone!! So we have been giving her sips of Pediatric Electrolyte stuff from Hell Mart every so often as long as she keeps it down. I think we are moving into the right direction because the vomiting has eased up considerably along with the runs. Now I just have to hope and pray no one else has caught it.
I need to go make dinner now for the non-sick in the house. This won’t go over well with Samantha…..
