Ms Elizabeth's Journal, 02 April 2015

Second journal of the day.... Today I'm motivated by screaming thigh muscles. Literally.. screaming. I'm currently resisting the urge to take tylenol because I read it hinders muscle growth. Now I'm wondering where I read that and how accurate I think the information might be. To be honest I don't care what the source was I'm not sure I like muscles at this moment. I need assistance to sit at this point. Why? Because I'm a dairy farmers wife and I think my ability to squat is bionic. You'd think I would learn my lesson by now but I haven't. Yesterday I did 5 sets of 20 rep squats.. so 100 squats. No weights. Yet. I will get to that 100 lb squat sooner or later.. maybe later. Possibly much later. But I will do it.

Plank? I'm at a minute. I can do a minute without muttering curses under my breath. I do however count to 80 in 60 seconds. Apparently counting faster does not actually make the minute pass any faster. Stop watch function on my Iphone? Sucks. So do planks.

Pushups.. I will attempt those today. Maybe. I found myself a muscleless jellyfish after the plank. Literally laying on the floor like a fish out of water. I probably shouldn't have attempted plank #2.. I only lasted 20 seconds. Then I think I said something unpleasant.. before I attempted to get up.. and instead laid on the floor like a muscleless jellyfish.

All in all.. Day 1 was a success! I did things.. I got sore. I worked out on the elliptical for 30 minutes. I did squats again today. Granted they weren't as fluid.. or low.. and they were punctuated by the mouth of a sailor. But.. I did them. Because I kick butt well not really.. honestly I don't think I can lift my foot that high anymore.

My biggest fail was late night raiding of the kids leftover pizza and chocolate chip cookies. *sigh* If I could just duct tape my own mouth I would look one of those dairy queen calender girls. yes.. those actually exist. I think it's just an excuse to put attractive women in plaid, paint on some jeans and then throw on some boots.. but they exist. I've seen them. The farm hand made the mistake of putting one of the calenders in the milk house. I can now proudly say we have a bearded dairy queens in magic marker bibs calender in the milk house. :) Never ever ever put a girls of anything calender up near a woman who recently had a child. Bad things happen.