How Out of Shape Am I?

I've always prided myself of being a relatively fit person. I keep a very active lifestyle. I replaced the basketball and track in high school with hiking, mountain biking and walking in college. But trying to get activity started post partum is turning out to be harder than I could've imagined. I had to give up my regular power-walk routine when I was about 7 1/2 months pregnant due to back pain, and I just haven't had the time or energy the first couple of months after giving birth. But last week the hubs bought me a bitchin' new Schwinn for my birthday. Banana yellow with white trim. So today I decided to give it a little test run around the neighborhood...and I was pathetic. I only made it about a mile before I started seeing stars. My legs started burning and I was completely out of breath. I guess they don't call the neighborhood Alamo Heights for nothing. I barely made it home and now my head is spinning and I've got jello legs. Please excuse me while I retreat to the enjoyment of the feeling of the cold bathroom floor on my face.

Happy Earth Day!

"Treat the Earth well. It was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children."

--Kenyan proverb

I have an Earth Day resolution in lieu of a New Year's one. I will no longer use individual use plastic bottles. I have a metal reusable water bottle that I've had for several months, I've just been too lazy to carry it around with me, but no more! I will put forth real effort. And while I'm sure that my discontinued use of water bottles isn't going to save the planet, it's a start. What will you do?

For My Favorite Yankee

How Sweet It Is

This morning, after a bottle, a burp, and a little silliness on my part, Ezra smiled for me. She gave me a big whole-face smile, a little giggle and everything. And it was divine.

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

The Good:
Last night Ezra slept from 10:00 p.m. to 3:00 a.m, then from 3:30 to 8:00 a.m. Not too bad, I don't think I could ask for much more from her at this point.

The Bad:
She farts like a man. I mean like between the two of us, no one is going to believe that sound didn't come from me.

The Ugly:
Apparently pregnancy brain is replaced with post partum brain. When I was pregnant I would do little absent minded things like look at my calculator to see what time it was, instead of my cell phone. Calculators don't tell time, silly! Now I feel like I'm walking through a haze of needing to do everything...all at once. I don't know how else to explain it. Ezra started day care on Monday, and since returning to work I feel like on top of the fifty things that I need to do to get caught up at work, I need to hold, feed, and take care of my baby all day. This makes it extremely hard to focus on any one thing. And I'm sure the lack of sleep and the caffeine aren't helping the hazy brain. I now know why many women don't return to work after giving birth, it goes against everything that your mind, heart and even body tell you that you should be doing. Seriously, my arms feel empty all day.

America's Next Top Model

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