Our 1st snowstorm of the season!
Today was such a screwed up day. We were hit with our first snowstorm of the season…in March! We’ve been wearing capris and sandals for the past 3 weeks! This weather is retarded. My work let us out an hour early yesterday because the weather was so bad. Well I was prepared and brought my gym clothes with me just in case they let us leave early. I stopped in the gym on the way home and got my workout in. This morning I woke up and nothing had changed. The weather radar looked exactly the same as it did when I went to bed last night! Unbelievable, this storm was not moving anywhere. The ice is so thick on everything. Our small tree in the backyard is half the size and kind of split down the middle from the weight of the ice and all the trees are just hanging to the ground and the branches are snapping off in the wind.
I really didn’t want to travel to the Y when the base gym is only 2 minutes away. So I called the base to see if they were even open and they said they weren’t opening until 12. Well that totally sucked because I go at 10 on Saturdays and then I go grocery shopping after at the Commissary on base. Then we found out the Commissary wasn’t opening until 1 either. So we hung out at home until 11:30 and then ventured out in the storm like a bunch of fools to the gym. We got there and we were the only ones there! Awesome! Three other people showed up and that was it. I could only work out for an hour because my husband had to go home and get ready for work so I decided to go later to the Y after the storm passed. Well I ended up getting stuck in a huge ass snow drift and luckily there were two guys right there with a big 4×4 and a tow rope and dragged me out. We got home, fed everyone, got my husband off to work, started to get my stuff together to go to the gym and then I hear this really loud electrical humming noise and then an explosion…no power! The main transformer in our subdivision exploded for all the ice. I called my husband while he was driving to work and told him so he came back and went to pick up wood and some emergency supplies just in case we didn’t get our power back for a few days. Power came back on about 2 hrs later so my step-son and I went to the gym to finish my workout.
So my day has been totally screwed up because I’m not eating at the times I was supposed to be eating and not eating the food I’m supposed to be eating either. I hate being off my schedule! I was doing cardio and I started to get really light headed so I jumped off the machine and had a sip of my energy drink to see if it would help. I jumped back on and then I felt like I was going to pass out. I lasted 33 minutes and had to get off the machine. So I just sat down on the floor for a few minutes and ate a protein bar. I didn’t have anything to eat before I went so I think I just needed some carbs. I was still so hungry after so I ended up going out for dinner with my husband and had scrambled eggs, a 4 oz steak and….3 pancakes : ( …but damn that was good and I definitely won’t feel like cheating with any junk food tonight!
March 28, 2009 at 10:41 pm
What a crazy storm, and you had a crazy day..weather is supposed to be better this week thankfully, too late for stinking snow and ice.
March 29, 2009 at 9:17 am
Ahh…trying to go to the gym in snowstorms. Reminds me of when I lived in Mass.