Money, where did you go?

It's been a busy weekend. What with, closing on our new house! We did end up getting the keys on Friday and so my husband jumped right into things. We had a company come out and fill the propane tank (SUPER EXPENSIVE) and the paint guys were out Friday evening to start patching holes and then on Saturday they were painting the ceilings and we had a guy come out to assess our water softener...turns out it was shot and we had to buy a new one...not the greatest news, but the guy was able to replace it that day! Things are moving along. We went appliance shopping today...HOLY MOLY...we're going to drop a pretty penny on all of the appliances.

Crappy camera phone picture of our new house...it doesn't do it justice though...and we need to do some landscaping.

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I went to the gym Saturday night. I know! I'm shocked too! lol I didn't really want to at all, but I went and I'm so glad I did. Since my foot is still VERY painful I rode the recumbent bike again. I brought my new Garmin Forerunner along this time so that I could track my heart rate (not that I have any idea where my heart rate should be) and my calories burned. I rode for 30 minutes (32 if you count the 2 minute cool down) and did what I guess is called intervals? I did two laps at a level 6 and 70 RPM and one lap at level 10 and 80 RPM. My heart rate got up to 129 at its highest. I'll have to look up what my "target heart rate" should be when working out. I was a little bummed afterwards. I felt like I had worked out pretty hard and the bike's monitor guesstimated that I burned 241 calories...when I checked my Garmin it said I only burned 146 calories!!! What a let down...I felt like I burned 1,000!!! I was happy with how much I pushed myself this last time so I think I'll keep with this routine for a week or so and then start to increase it somewhat.

I'm really hoping that my foot starts to get better soon! I was in agony walking around the appliance stores today...hobbling around behind my husband. A friend of mine who is a physical therapist said that she would meet up with me and give me some tips on how to help it heal. I'll be really bummed if I am offered the Crim training scholarship and cannot participate because of my foot! Guess its a good thing that I signed up for my first 5K in October! I really do want to give running a try and it makes me very angry that I went and injured myself the FIRST time I went out on a walk! Who does that??? My husband makes it a point to rub that in too.

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I'll be starting my 12 week weight loss challenge next Friday, but I still did my "normal" weigh in today (and I still plan to do my personal weigh in on Sunday's). I was back up to 235 lbs.!!! I'm really starting to HATE that number!!! I better not see it again after this week either because for our weight loss challenge we have decided to have a prize for the winner. We will each bank $5 in a pot and then if we gain or even just stay the same we have to add another $1 to the pot! With all of these house expenses I can't afford to gain or stay the same. : ) What a motivation, right? I can't wait to see how we all do!

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One last thing...

I've been completing some of the things on my 30x30 list and I thought I would share what book I'm currently reading. I just got done reading Little Bee by Chris Cleave which was my pick for this months book club meeting, which is this coming Tuesday night. So I've moved onto another book, Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger. She wrote The Time Traveler's Wife, which I LOVED!!! I'll let you know how I like it when I'm done. I'm only about 30 pages in so far, not enough for any judgements.