Hi, Folks!
It's a Fabulous Friday in my world - how about all of you?
In addition to my full-time job, I take on a lot of freelance web content creation work. I am not a morning person, but I have found that my optimal time to work on some of my projects is early in the morning - like 6 AM - before I head out the door to my full-time job. (Where I'm at now, by the way, on my lunch break!)
This morning, I was working on a few little articles, in a house that was very quiet for the first hour. Then, at 7, the house woke up. The cat started whining, the dogs wanted to be let out, and Catherine woke up and started kicking the heck out of me.
And that made it a fabulous Friday because I can just picture, actually here and born in just over another month - going through the same routine! Mama will get up to write for a bit, baby may nap in her pack and play for awhile, but eventually she'll wake up and want my attention. I love looking forward to that!
Have a great weekend, ya'll!
Tiffany
Weekend Plans/Goals
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Goals
Just so you don't think I'm too big of a slouch for being behind in posting, here's a look at my weekend plans/goals:
Friday, early AM: Article writing time for a client
Friday, later AM & early PM: work (at office) including meetings
Friday, later PM: Debate tournament, rounds 1 & 2, Plano Senior High School
Friday, even later PM: catch up on Dem Convention posts + writing arts. for a client
Saturday, early AM: Article writing time for a client (do we see a pattern? Early AMs are my new writing time.)
Saturday, later AM & most of PM: Debate tournament, Plano Senior High School
Saturday, even later PM: book blog posts + writing arts. for a client
Sunday, early AM: Article writing time for a client
Sunday, early PM: Call planned for another project
Sunday, later PM: Girls Night - friends coming over for pizza + movies
Monday, early AM: Article writing time for a client
Monday, later AM: Hang out time with husband - yay!
Monday, PM: Dinner with Patti, helping her son/his GF move
Tuesday: Back to work/writing/etc. Fun times!
I have a debate tournament next weekend as well - Grapevine. The following weekend, I'll be competing in the Toastmaster's District Humorous Speech Contest, having won at my club level. And after that...we have childbirth classes each of the remaining weekends of September. Yahoo! Is it October yet?
Have a great Friday, ya'll!
Friday, early AM: Article writing time for a client
Friday, later AM & early PM: work (at office) including meetings
Friday, later PM: Debate tournament, rounds 1 & 2, Plano Senior High School
Friday, even later PM: catch up on Dem Convention posts + writing arts. for a client
Saturday, early AM: Article writing time for a client (do we see a pattern? Early AMs are my new writing time.)
Saturday, later AM & most of PM: Debate tournament, Plano Senior High School
Saturday, even later PM: book blog posts + writing arts. for a client
Sunday, early AM: Article writing time for a client
Sunday, early PM: Call planned for another project
Sunday, later PM: Girls Night - friends coming over for pizza + movies
Monday, early AM: Article writing time for a client
Monday, later AM: Hang out time with husband - yay!
Monday, PM: Dinner with Patti, helping her son/his GF move
Tuesday: Back to work/writing/etc. Fun times!
I have a debate tournament next weekend as well - Grapevine. The following weekend, I'll be competing in the Toastmaster's District Humorous Speech Contest, having won at my club level. And after that...we have childbirth classes each of the remaining weekends of September. Yahoo! Is it October yet?
Have a great Friday, ya'll!
Dem Convention Wrap Up
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Life
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Time to Write
Howdy, folks!
I owe you my reaction to the Convention from days 3 and 4 - so sorry they aren't done (or even started!) yet. Chris got back from his 4-day trip to Canada on Wednesday evening and then last evening I came home from work not feeling well and so I'm a bit behind.
Since it's the start of a new school year, I have a contract for this evening and tomorrow to judge a debate tournament at one of the local high schools. Fortunately, tonight's schedule has me done at 8 (some of my Friday night judging experiences have lasted until midnight!) so I should be able to get home and get caught up blogging then!
Happy Friday!
Tiffany
I owe you my reaction to the Convention from days 3 and 4 - so sorry they aren't done (or even started!) yet. Chris got back from his 4-day trip to Canada on Wednesday evening and then last evening I came home from work not feeling well and so I'm a bit behind.
Since it's the start of a new school year, I have a contract for this evening and tomorrow to judge a debate tournament at one of the local high schools. Fortunately, tonight's schedule has me done at 8 (some of my Friday night judging experiences have lasted until midnight!) so I should be able to get home and get caught up blogging then!
Happy Friday!
Tiffany
Weight Gain and Pregnancy
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Weighty Wednesday
We're all different in our body compositions and how much weight we gain during the normal course of a pregnancy. Since we got pregnant, I've had people tell me they gained 5 pounds (they were overweight prior to being pregnant) all the way up to 70 pounds. Supposedly, you aren't supposed to gain much weight in the first trimester, moderately in the second trimester, and then a pound a week in the third.
Well...
Yeah, my body doesn't work like that. I gained something like 20 pounds in the first trimester - granted, I was about 10-15 pounds underweight, but yikes! Then I gained about another 15 in the second trimester. We're talking holy cow territory where my legs started hurting just to walk since I had gained such a percentage of my body weight. Now in the third, I've barely gained any weight at all. I think I'm up 3 pounds in 5 weeks.
I know that just through delivering baby, I'll lose quite a bit of weight, but I'd anticipate I'll still have around 15 pounds to lose afterwards. I plan to go on the P90X exercise plan once I'm about 4 weeks post-delivery.
How about you, readers? Did you have a specific exercise plan in mind for post-baby? Care to share what it is?
Well...
Yeah, my body doesn't work like that. I gained something like 20 pounds in the first trimester - granted, I was about 10-15 pounds underweight, but yikes! Then I gained about another 15 in the second trimester. We're talking holy cow territory where my legs started hurting just to walk since I had gained such a percentage of my body weight. Now in the third, I've barely gained any weight at all. I think I'm up 3 pounds in 5 weeks.
I know that just through delivering baby, I'll lose quite a bit of weight, but I'd anticipate I'll still have around 15 pounds to lose afterwards. I plan to go on the P90X exercise plan once I'm about 4 weeks post-delivery.
How about you, readers? Did you have a specific exercise plan in mind for post-baby? Care to share what it is?
