I know, I know

I said that I would be putting that small messenger up on the site last week and I didn’t. I am putting the blame on my tech guy. At any rate I may put it up this evening but doing the solo parenting gig can sometimes be a challenge so we’ll see.

I may go with my sister-in-laws idea and name it “Lou”. I think she likes that name (it is her middle name). For those who don’t know, my name isn’t really Lou but when I was born my dad always called me Lisa-Lou instead of my real name (Elisa). It was then shortened to Lou. He only calls me Elisa when he is mad at me (not that often anymore)

Thinking maybe that is how I developed my affinity to nicknames. My dogs always get nicknames- probably why they are always such bad dogs- they have no idea what their names are!

When I was in college I had a Lab named Bailey. My roomates and I always made up different names for her. They went something like this-

Bailey- Little Pupskins- Little P- Peedle Deedle- then finally “P”

I had another dog named Duke and one time I was camping with a bunch of friends on Lake Travis in Austin

-calling my dogs in from the lake “Dukey! P!” One of my girlfriends said, “do you have any idea what you are saying??”

Ok so moving on.

I am so sore. I want to climb into the tub and soak for an hour or two. Once again- solo parenting doesn’t really allow for that.

A couple weeks ago I got so bored with my workout routine. To the gym, elliptical, weights, run the track. Repeat. Repeat.

I thought maybe I needed a new gym. Then I ran into one of my neighbors there and she suggested that maybe I needed a goal.

Yeah! Perfect! A goal!

“Maybe you should train for Race for the Cure.”

Oh. Of course I was thinking something totally selfish like a six pack before bikini season. Sigh.
Then I thought that maybe I just needed to take it outdoors- after-all it was warming up.

But yesterday it was time to get back into the routine. And it was raining.

Then I got the best idea- new music for the iPod. Never doubt the power of music on your workout. Sounding like some lame fitness instructor I know. But it worked.

Here are my favorites of the ones that I added- and I save these to get me through the last 15 minutes because they never fail to get me to step it up a notch.

A little less conversation a little more action (which I think if the Blue Jackets ever ditch machinehead this should be their new theme song- of course it probably isn’t “tough” enough for hockey but the lyrics are perfect)

Here is a cool Nike Commercial with that song

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Then sticking with the old school theme I added

Ring of Fire– Social Distortions version of the Johnnie Cash song. Love it. Added Ball and Chain too.

And the one I save for the very end is my favorite song right now.

Foo Fighters- the Pretender
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If that doesn’t work you can watch it here. 

Love. David. Grohl.

So that combined with the fact that Mondays I get to work out for 90 minutes instead of 60 means I am having trouble today. Ouch.

And I will leave you with my all time favorite Chili Peppers song. This is the song I like to listen to when I am done. I Walk the track and listen and think.

Even if you don’t like rock or the Chili Peppers you will like this one. It’s mellow. It’s good.

I can only find one video for it- plays the song and shows the words. Worth a listen.

Love Anthony too.
Say it now cause ya never know.
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