what's up?

I love how every weekend I attempt to sleep in just a little and then end up getting up before 7:00. Oh well. I guess that is sleeping in for me now:-) Don't have too much planned this weekend...Project Go (local missions with our church) and then lunch or dinner date with my hubby. And then some errands. Wow, what an exciting weekend, lol.

My kitchen is a wreck at the moment. I really should get up NOW and clean it....yep, I should. The other night I ended up cooking 2 dinners for us (yes, I guess I am just that good)....I decided to cook a healthy dinner of "chicken", rice and green beans. You may be wondering about the "chicken". It was actually a soy protein substitue made to look like chicken. I had been toying with the idea of doing a meatless night and I know that you get tons of protein from soy. It looked good in the package, smelled good while it was cooking in the tomato sauce it came with...and then we ate it. ok, so Mike ate it...I ate part of it....and then ended up throwing a frozen pizza in the oven later on. Oh well. I made up for it last night when I made cheesy shrimp and grits. It is one of my favorite meals:-)

I did work out this morning and it felt great. It has been quite a while since I have done anything...and considering I have a half marathon in 5 weeks....ugh. This could be interesting. I think I am more concerned for this race than I was for my full marathon. I have felt so unfocused in that area. I hate feeling out of shape. I know that it's probably not as bad as I think it is...but, heck, it's my opinion that counts in this, right?:-) I had every intention of doing a karate tournament at the end of the month but I could never get to go train with my instructors (who happen to be a couple of hours away) and I won't do a tournament without some serious training first. The last tournament I did was with my brother in Athens, Greece almost 7 years ago so it's been a while. It was the best tournament for us as far as synchronized forms and we actually beat black belts who were higher rank than us. I kind of like having that memory as my last tournament:-)

ok, so work out is complete, I just started taking some new vitamins and looking forward to making some healthy changes....I'm afraid cutting coffee out of my diet is next. There's no time like the present, so I might as well stop today. I will miss coffee. It is so nice to just sit with a cup of coffee and read on a cool morning. Oh, I've got to go! Have to get ready for Project Go!