5/9/09

May 09, 2009

My update for the past week is not too bad. I have been under the weather for the past few days so I have only worked out 3 days this week. They were good workouts though, I will push harder this week. I want to rave for a bit about my now 10 year old son. I swear, he never ceases to amaze me. First, he won the spelling bee last week as a finalist, he was 1 of 4 and the second one to win. Then Thursday of this past week he went up against the 4th and 5th graders, he is in 4th grade and he won again. He is one of the finalists for his school and he will be going to another school to compete later this month. He has 2 trophies now for the spelling bee. I am so incredibly proud of him.

I passed my math for nurses test (I didn't take the class and needed to test out of it), and I have now met all the requirements for the RN program. I am soooo excited. Now I just have to wait to see if my grades are good enough. They give points for certain classes and a few of mine come from over 10 years ago when I was a lot less focused but most of the grades are A's. I will find out in about 1 month if I am in for August. I am also going to meet with the people who are helping me to get money for school Monday. They are also going to help me get a job (so they say). I have not dropped the CNA class just yet and I am not sure if I am going to. I need a back up plan incase they can't get me a job. I passed my test for phlebotomy so I am technically a certified phlebotomist but I don't think I will be able to get a job that will be flexible enough for me to do nursing school with clinicals.

For the week ahead I am planning to do a protein train (sort of). I am going to focus on protein for all my meals. I have been pretty good this past week about having a protein shake for breakfast. I am considering having a few days of just shakes because I feel like I need to get back to basics. If I find that to be too difficult then I will do 1 protein rich meal per day and shakes for the rest of the day. I have been suffering from a terrible migraine this week. I have been basically laying around all day since Thursday. I couldn't even stay at my night class, I left right after the lab. So, I am going to set my exercise plan a little low for this week. I will aim for 4 days at the gym. If I can't get to the gym 4 days then I will make sure that I do some activity somewhere for any day I don't make it.

I should count my grocery shopping as exercise yesterday, I had to carry everything by myself cause my son was at school. I had 2 (24 count) cases of water and 2 gallons of milk, and several bags of canned goods for the house. I made about 6 trips from the garage to the house and then up 2 flights of stairs to my apartment. So, if I count that then I worked out for 4 days this week, 3 at the gym and then the groceries.

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