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I feel like this week my blog has been all about my kids! Here’s another one about one of my children. lol

My middle daughter is 12 and has been complaining for the last few weeks that her foot hurts when she steps on it.  She went to an indoor waterpark with her school a few weeks ago and she said it started hurting when she got out of the pool.  She hadn’t hit it or banged it.  And there was no puncture marks or swelling.  So I thought that she must have bruised it and it just needed time to heal.  Well, last night after her softball game she was complaining that it still hurt to walk on it and I decided to take her to Urgent Care.  After waiting for an hour they x-rayed it, but the doctor didn’t expect to find anything.  Well, he found something.  It looks like her ankle/heel may have a fracture right above her ‘growth plate’ but it was hard to tell from the x-ray if it was a fracture or a shadow from the growth plate so we are still waiting to hear from the specialist.  So she is out of softball for at least a few days and possibly for the season.  But the worst part were all of the "I told you so’s" that I have been hearing from her constantly since we left the doctors office.  Not only do I feel like a bad parent for making her wait so long to take her in (she was still able to walk and didn’t complain about it hardly at all… usually at night after she had been on it all day), but I feel even worse because I want to strangle her every time she says "I told you so"! (btw.. the "strangle" part is a figure of speech).

So both of us are limping around today on our sore ankle/heels!  I think hers was contagious and I caught it from her! So my injury is all her fault! LMAO  Don’t I sound like a mature adult?!

Today’s song is a slightly more mellow song.  I usually play this for my warm up.  It has a very cool beat.  The song is "E-Pro" by Beck.

Somebody cast a spell on my 14 year old last night… she was actually sweet and pleasant and told me "thank you" for putting up with her, then she gave me a hug and told me she loved me.  But not to worry, this deviation didn’t last long.  About 5 minutes after being caught in a "sweetness" spell, she managed to overpower it and beat it into submission.  She then became the snarling, surly teen I’ve come to know and love.

In honor of her, today’s song is by Three Days Grace and the title is ‘Riot’.

Today is the start of Phase 3 (month 3) for P90X so our recovery week is behind us.  It’s a good thing too… any more injuries and I would have been in trouble! .  I am still dealing with the pulled hamstring/glute muscle and the bruised ankle/achilles but I have made adjustments so that I can still get my workout done.

This morning we started with the Chest/Back P90X dvd which we haven’t done since Phase 1.  We were both interested in seeing how far we have progressed in strength over the past month so we were both excited to try this dvd again.  The only problem was that we ended up doing Core Synergistics yesterday instead of having that as a day off.  There are a lot of push ups in Core Synergistics so our arms were still pretty fatigued this morning.  For those of you who don’t know the P90X dvd’s the Chest/Back dvd is an hour of pull-ups and push-ups.  It’s hardcore… and extremely tough!  We actually did really well though.  Both of us showed some pretty good strength increases so we were happy. Chris had better gains than I did, but I’m not holding it against him lol.
But going down to the gym this morning was rough!  I usually have a few hours of recovery between my workouts.  But with Softball and Baseball season starting for our kids, we are having to workout in the mornings more now.  So I may have to change my workouts with my co-worker to later in the day (otherwise I will burn out pretty quickly doing two 1 hour workouts within three hours of each other).  For my cardio I am still doing the recumbent bike to help my ankle heal. But with being so tired from back to back workouts I would not have made it without some good music!  Thank goodness for the ipod!

This is the song that got me through the end of the cardio workout today…

The song is called ‘Click Click Boom’ by Saliva

Shouldn’t "recovery" week mean that your body recovers from all of the abuse you do to it in your killer workouts?  Well, in my case something went awry with my body’s understanding of the word "recovery".  My body obviously thinks "recovery" is a euphemism for "injury" because I have gotten TWO injuries during recovery week.  The first was straining my hamstring/glute tie-in muscle.  And yesterday I ended up doing my workout (Kenpo and cardio… no weights) without shoes because I somehow managed to bruise (internally) the hell out of my ankle.  The muscle between the ankle bone and the heel bone is swollen and super sore to the touch.  Couldn’t handle putting a shoe on at all.  The back of the shoe presses right on the bruised, swollen area.

I wrapped the ankle with an ace bandage this morning and went down to the gym because I refuse to not do anything for fear of falling into old patterns of finding excuses to not work out.  But trying to find something that I could do was challenging to say the least.  I couldn’t do the elliptical machine because the motion of pressing down was excruciating.  So I switched to the treadmill.  I was able to do 15 minutes on it, but was only able to go at 2.8 mph (ugggh) and the highest incline I could do was a 5.0.  So I was trying to think of something else to do and I remembered always reading about Kermane (kbyers01) doing the recumbant bike for cardio.  So I hopped on there and bingo!  I was able to push a little harder on cardio without feeling too much pain.  I still didn’t do HIIT… just steady state.  But I went for 40 minutes.   So I feel a little better.  Tonight will be the P90X Core Synergisitcs dvd, which is mostly core work (well, duh lol).  So my ankle should be okay.  But I’m beginning to think that recovery week is just dangerous for me!   And it’s making me cranky as hell!

All right, I promised my oldest daughter I would post this story as punishment for my evil deeds.  We were driving to the store yesterday and she was telling me that she got in trouble for ‘talking back’ to her teacher.  When I asked why she did that she said that her teacher had been rude to her so she was rude back.  So, being the good parent that I am, I start talking to her about the virtues of ‘taking the high road’, and ‘treating others as you want to be treated’, I also threw in a small lecture on ‘killing with kindness’.  So as I’m giving her all of these life lesson lectures we are stopped at a red light.  It has two lanes going in each direction and we are in the left lane with a big truck in front of us.  The light changes green and the right lane seems to be moving, but not our lane.  All of the sudden the woman behind me starts leaning on her horn and she WON’T STOP.  I look back and point to the guy in front of me (it’s a semi in front of me for goodness sake… it’s not like she couldn’t see it!) and she proceeds to flip me off and lean on her horn again.  Well, of course I’m getting pissed off (okay I’m not "getting", I’m well past that stage) so I point to the right lane and make the motion to go around in the other lane.  I’ll be damned if this lady doesn’t flip me off again and lean on her horn again!  Well, needless to say I lost it and flipped the lady off and started calling her all kinds of vile names in a very loud voice.  I happen to glance at my daughter and she has her arms crossed and one eyebrow raised at me.  BUSTED!  Damn, it is really irritating to be busted by your 14 year old daughter for hypocrisy!  There… I confessed.

Today’s song is Life Is Beautiful by Sixx A.M.  I have this on my cardio and weightlifting playlists.

Today is "Take Your Child To Work Day" (TYCTWD).  Two of my daughters opted to come to work with me this morning.  My oldest is almost 14 and thinks it’s now "lame" to go to work with me .  So, today, I’m really not getting much accomplished; which is a nice way to say I’m getting absolutely NOTHING done today!  I love my children.  I adore my children.  They are my reason for existing.  They bring joy and laughter into my life.  They are sweet and wonderful.  And if I keep repeating that over and over and over they may make it through today intact.

So in light of my current state of mind, todays song is aptly titled "Breakdown" and it is by the group Tantric.  Great song!  This is on my cardio playlist as well as my weightlifting playlist.

Words are powerful.  They can lift you up, or bring you down.  Words make history, and history is created by words.  Words can heal or hurt.  Words can change your life for the better or take you down the wrong path.  Words can create beautiful poetry, and they can also be full of hate.  Words are powerful.  But sometimes words are unnecessary.  Have you ever felt your heart lightened by the sight of a beautiful sunset/sunrise?  Have you ever felt your senses calm when sitting outside on a beautiful day/night?  Have you ever felt complete contentment when taking a solitary stroll through the woods/mountains/oceanside, etc.?  Have you every felt your bad mood lighten at the sound of your child’s laughter?  The beauty that surrounds us and the sounds of happiness, laughter, and goodness are all powerful too.

Sometimes words are unnecessary.  Sometimes we just need to "stop and smell the roses".  Sometimes we just need to see the beauty around us.  Sometimes we just need to hear/listen to the sounds of nature/laughter/music.

Sometimes words are unnecessary.  The following song has no words.  But it is powerful and beautiful and good enough that it is on my ipod workout playlist.  Please take the time to listen… it is worth it.

This week is our P90X Recovery Week, and I am doing the happy dance! The only downside is that there are two days of Yoga X in the recovery week… Uggghhh!  This morning was the first day, and we do it again on Thursday.  And boy did I have a hard time completing it this morning.  I somehow strained the glute/hamstring tie-in muscle and it has really been bugging me the last couple of days.  So the stretching in Yoga really tested it this morning.  Although, I’m sure that it was good for the muscle to be stretched too.  The only thing that I got pissy about was not being able to do my kicks in KenpoX on Sunday.  I LOVE the KenpoX dvd… all of the punching, kicking, and yelling is right up my alley (yep, I’m vicious! lmao).  And my heart rate stays high because I really work hard through this workout (so does the hubby!).  And it really ticked me off that I couldn’t do the kick sequences.  Hopefully, the injury will heal this week.  So next week will will start Phase 3 (month three) of P90X… yippie-kai-yay! 

This weekend I posted a blog about how important music is to my workouts… the songs that I listen to can either make my workout mediocre or ferocious.  I prefer ‘freocious’ any day.  So I always take my own ipod to the gym when I do my workouts there.  And I am very picky about the music that I play.  I have several playlists depending on what my goal for that day is.  Is it a cardio day or a weight day or both?  With cardio, I do several types of cardio… I have steady state medium intensity, steady state high intensity, and HIIT (and once in a blue moon I will throw a steady state low instensity in to switch things up).  So I have different playlists for each of those cardio types.  Most of my weight lifting is done to, "angry" music (although I prefer to think of it as motivational music… it’s just that I like heavier hardcore music for weight lifting purposes).  So I had mentioned this weekend that I would start sharing some of my songs with you.  I love reading about what people have on their playlists.  I can usually find new music that way.

I am the type of person that "feels" the music as well as "hears" it.  Music is extremely powerful to me.  I can feel the beat and it resonates inside of me.  So, not only do I have my work out music, but I listen to music ALL the time.  And I really and truly like ALL kinds of music.  So every once in a while, I will throw in a song that I might not have in my work-out music library, but that I think people might enjoy.  Today, I am going to post one such song.  I don’t really have it in my workout playlist, because it doesn’t move me in that way.  But a couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post about "Choices", and how we have power of our own destiny.  This song is a wonderful song about how you can change your life… you just have to be willing to do it.  This is what I would call a HipHop/Rap song… and for those of you who don’t like HipHop or Rap… please give it a chance and just listen to it.  Open your mind.  You might find that you actually can like HipHop and/or Rap , or at least this particular song… it is a very powerful song.  It also helps to watch the video as you listen to the song because the video does a good job of showing what the song is about.  The song is called Dead and Gone by T.I. and Justin Timberlake.  Enjoy…

I tend to be very picky about what songs are on my ipod for my workouts.  I usually like "angry" music, because it helps me push myself pretty hard and gives me an edge.   But I get bored of hearing the same songs over and over, so I am always looking for new songs to put on my playlist.  However, there are a few songs that I tend to keep on all the time.  This song, is almost always on my warm-up playlist… it has a nice build-up to some of my heavier, hard-core workout songs.  It’s by Marty Casey and The Lovehammers and the song is called ‘Trees’ (The video is a little weird, but the song is good!)
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<strong /> Since I love finding new songs, I thought that I would start posting and sharing some of my favorites… and maybe you will like it enough to download it…

Edit:  I am adding this part to clarify my blog post below… this post is about people who work their butts off, and are constantly trying new things, and putting forth a ton of effort in their workouts, but who might not be seeing the results they want to see, or are confused about some things and mention these concerns or ask questions in their blogs.  And then they receive a less than helpful answer or response back.  This is not about our "rant" blogs, or our "musing" blogs, or our "day to day" blogs. And this post is not about those people who whine and complain in their blogs about not seeing results yet eat crap and barely work out… because if you aren’t putting in the effort and working your ass off and continually whine about not seeing results in your blogs, then I am probably going to be one of those people who call you to task on it.  Again, this is about those people who DO work their butts off and DO put in a lot of sweat, tears, and effort. (okay, on to my original post now) End Edit.

I will be the first to admit that I get a tad over-protective when it comes to my family and friends.  If I feel that they’ve been slighted, dissed, or hurt in any way I become a mama bear who feels as though her cub is being threatened, and I go into attack mode.  I know that my friends can take care of themselves and that they don’t need me to fight their battles, but I can’t help this character trait of mine.  So my friends have learned to shake their heads and tell me, once again, that they can fight their own battles.  And that’s fine… you will just have to keep telling me that.

Why am I bringing this up?  I’ll tell you why.  I feel like I have made some very good friends on this site.  And there have been a few times that I have reacted strongly to comments from other people that have been left on my friends blogs or comment sections.  I go into "mama bear" mode and call the person who left the comment to task for it.  Yesterday, this happened when I read a friends blog and then read a comment that was left for him that I felt was disrespectful.  I tried really hard to calm down… really I did.  But the more I thought about it, the angrier I became.  It wasn’t so much ‘what’ was said, as ‘how’ it was said.  You can get your point across to someone and still be courteous and respectful about how you word it.  Even when someone needs the proverbial "kick in the butt" you can still do that and be respectful.  This person’s comment was stating the same thing that others had stated, but the delivery of the comment was very, very poorly done.  There was no reason for it.  There IS no reason for it!

We are all on this site for encouragment and support.  We should all also be on this site to give encouragement and support.  But I have noticed that there are a few people who seem to take great joy in slapping others down.  And to those of you who do that I say "SHAME ON YOU!"  Didn’t your mama ever teach you manners?  Didn’t you ever learn the concept "treat others as you would like to be treated"?  Or how about, "If you can’t say something nice, keep your friggen mouth shut"? (okay, my mama taught me a nicer way to say that, but I’m still a little ticked off!).  If someone is asking for advice, there is no reason that you have to be a smart ass, or be mean to them in your response.  NO REASON!

I have said in the past that if you blog on a public forum, you should be prepared to receive a variety of responses.  However, nothing should negate common courtesy.  Nothing should negate common decency.  Nothing should negate respect.  If you read something that you don’t like and you can’t respond with courtesy, decency, and respect, why respond at all?  Just go on to the next blog.  Now, on the other hand if you post something inflammatory on your blog, then you should expect to receive some stinging comments back.  Because if you can’t write a post that keeps decency, courtesy, and respect at the forefront, then you shouldn’t expect to get it back.  But I’m not talking about those kinds of posts right now.  And quite frankly, I will freely admit that I actually like reading what I call "cat fights" as long as both parties are keeping it above the gutter level.   But again, those are not the posts I’m talking about right now.

Let me end this post with this… We should all strive to comment in the same ‘tone’ that we would like to receive comments. And hopefully that will be with decency, courtesy, and respect.

To steal another line from Herm…

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