Marching on to April.

Okay - this comes a little late, but I got sick over Easter and haven't had a whole lot of energy. Today is the first day I've felt close to human.

So my March resolutions went pretty well. The goals, not so much. So unfortunately, I think that whole concept is out the door, for now at least.

In March I was going to Floss every day and I gave up TV. The flossing went awesome. I only missed two days out of the whole month. Once because I went out with a girlfriend and we didn't get back to my place until 5:30am at which point I just wanted to collapse into bed.  And the last day in March, being sick, I just couldn't face it. I know that sounds weird - but I have so many canker sores in my mouth it's ridiculous. It hurts to drink anything more than flat water. I even have them on the roof of my mouth (that or I irritated it with cough drops over Easter weekend) so there's little that I can eat that doesn't hurt either. I'm a freaking mess right now. It's gross. It is basically just a cold, but it's the grossest, wettest, mucus-iest cold I can ever remember having and it knocked me on my ass. It came out of no where the Saturday before Easter and since we were visiting the BF's parents in the middle the freaking country, I didn't have my neti pot, or Zicam I usually rely on to nip these things in the bud. And boom, by Sunday coming home I was a horrible coughy, snotty mess.  I was at least using the neti pot at home for awhile, until a stupid cold sore erupted in my nose. (I told you I was gross!) and now I can't even use that anymore. I don't even know if I can sanitize it and keep using it after this is gone. I think I just have to get a new one.

I've still been doing my best to work on my April resolutions. Get up early and play with Black Kitty - eventually I will work playing with her in the evening into my routine also -- and I've given up all candy and pastries. My one cheat on the candy thing is Fiber One bars. They're like granola bars even if I do buy the chocolate drizzled ones.  I am trying to get out of the habit of eating donuts and chowing down on candy nearly every day. And I figure if I can replace it with something equally yummy but much healthier for me (so much less calories and fat than those other things) then it's a step in the right direction.

Getting up early has been challenging - my alarm goes off at 7am, and mind you I don't get home from work on a normal day until 11pm.  Black Kitty is actually more active even earlier than that, but I draw the line somewhere. So far I have been getting up at 7 playing with her until 7:30 or a litter after and going back to bed until 9am. I am hoping to start getting to the point where I can push off going back to sleep and only taking a half hour nap right before work.

I have also started Jillian Michael's Body Revolution as well as training for an 8K race. I waited until Tuesday when I thought my cold was starting to calm down. And I am sure that working out is making my cold hang on longer, but I didn't want to put it off any longer. It's only a cold after all, I'm just being a huge baby about it.

So far so good. I do BR in the morning after I'm actually up, and the running in the afternoon before getting ready for work.  The BR workouts like her 30DS or Ri30 are only 1/2 hour long. Though these seem to move faster, she doesn't give you a lot of time in between moves or circuits. And right now my running is only up to 1/2 hour as well. Eventually it will get up to an hour, but not yet. I have until June.

Even though Easter is over here is a picture of my Easter manicure... I felt the need to go girly since I don't have any hair left!

They are meant to look like decorated easter eggs, and the bunny of course.