On sabbatical

I haven't been to the gym in about a week. I know, I know. I've been on sabbatical ok? Learning new things, acquiring new skills...even though really the only thing I learned was that perhaps the look on John Locke's face when he got hit by Desmond's car was really his realization that he's aware of both time lines - past Locke and island Locke (that's some Lost theory for those of you not in the know). So that counts, right? Ughhhh fine, so it's been more like a hiatus. Regardless, I haven't been going. But, why?

Well, I was away this past weekend in Illinois doing some productive wedding planning, and then the week came and I suppose you could say I had some things come up, and so I was unable to go. That, and Aaron was going to be home later Wednesday and tonight so someone has to let poor Cam out of his crate. Oh and tomorrow, no that won't work either. We're taking some pictures Saturday and we need outfits! Hmm...to color coordinate, or not to color coordinate?....

But..I have trainings booked for next week and I refuse to let another span of time this long happen again. I love going to the gym, really I do. And any significant length of time away from it means bad things for my body and muscles - Bobby loves doing lunges, ergo, I love doing lunges. (bullshit theory, because I effing hate lunges). But the more time I'm away from my normal routine of shredding it at the gym, the harder it will be once I go back. And if I'm going to continue my new pattern of losing 6 pounds every two weeks, I better get my tushy back in gear.

Sidenote: For the past two weeks I have substituted my coffee drinking with green tea drinking. At first, I'll admit, I was a bit panicky. How will I get my day started? And what about the caffeine headaches? Ahhh the caffeine headaches!! So, why the switch? Well, my palette is not "refined" enough to drink straight black coffee. I think people who are able to do that don't have tastebuds. Because if they did, they'd know how awful it is. So when I drink coffee I add one or two hazelnut single serving creamers...they make the coffee delicious....and fattening. Those things are not good for you. And powder creamer I just think is so unnatural it freaks me out, so no thank you to that. But the green tea has been working out really well! I drink Yogi Tea's Green Tea Kombucha (caffeinated) and it's really good. It's got hints of spearmint and plum, it tastes so good in the morning time. And it's less caffeine than coffee - one tea bag is about 30mg of caffeine as opposed to the 90mg you get in a cup of coffee. So I may not ever go back to drinking coffee...but I do have a gift card to Starbucks that says otherwise.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I've had a good day, and a bottle of white wine chilling in my fridge that I'm going to break out the fancy glasses for.