My chest is on fire!

Wow my chest is on fire this morning...but it is a good feeling. I worked chest and tris last night and hit is pretty hard. I am really enjoying my workouts and the time with hubby. As always, our time in the gym is not only important to us but also "our" time. No kids, no dogs, no phones...just us and the weights.

It is nice because we have a 30+ mile drive to the gym each way and it allows us to spend time talking about our workouts, retirement, our search for property to buy, what we want to build, our daughter and tons of stuff. It gives us time to laugh also.

I am going to change up my workout exercises and add some different ones, just for the chance. I think I am going to throw in some romanian dead lifts, cable crossovers, reverse crunches, more skull crushers and more lunges. That is not the big issue for me right now as much as my diet is...it is getting warmer and I tend to eat less. This is not good as I want to be eating more! Trying to force down a minimum of 2800 calories a day is near impossible. But I will not give up...I will eat more each day.

I got a new picture of my grandson in the mail yesterday which tickled me. I am amazed at how much he has grown. It is now time to start my birthday shopping for him as he turns three on April 17th. YAY. Son is doing well back in NC and I miss him. But I am very proud of him also.

More later...back to work here.

Some great workouts have been happening!

Hubby and I have been hitting the gym hard...we have had a great Leg workout on Tuesday, Wednesday was a day off and last night it was shoulders, traps and Abs. I love working my shoulders and traps.

I did 3 sets of everything I did, hit is hard and lifted heavy. I did overhead barbell presses, DB lat raises, DB front raises, DB shrugs, Knee ups, twisted knee ups and straight leg knee ups. It felt great!

Tonight is Back and Bis...I love working my back so this will be another great night. I am still struggling with increasing my caloric intake and getting the food down. Eating clean and trying to cram 2500 - 2800 calories down per day is not easy. I wish there was some way I could stimulate my appetite during the warmer weather. Sounds like a new research project for me.

This weekend should be fairly relaxed but next week is going to be crazy! Thursday is a trip to the VA hospital with hubby and then drive to Washington state and load up the remainder of our stuff there. Whew! Then the fun part starts...unpacking and sorting through all of that stuff.

More later...

Things as usual are heating up with the military and finally I have made some headway in getting hubby's retirement pay corrected, the VA has finally made a decision and I can now start getting his medical care taken of again. I also learned that in a very short few months, he must be put back through all of the horrid testing he went through before getting out of the military. I am not looking forward to giving him that news. They have no idea how upsetting it is to continually be tested over and over for the same thing...of which nothing has changed since 2003! He worries me some days because of his depression levels but, we will fight our way through this as well. Eventually, maybe, one day they will just stop this ridiculous stuff and fully retire him so I can finally stop getting some normalcy into his life again.

Our anniversary was a bust with sitters pulling a no show...but we had a nice evening at home as a family and are making plans to spend at least one evening by ourselves soon. Meanwhile everything is status quo...still trying to sort through the gunk to find our new life after the military. The more the days pass and the more soldiers I come across who have been royally abandoned by the military, the angrier I become over it. Their medical treatment botched, the discharges and retirements botched and getting little assistance after they leave active duty. It is just so wrong in so many ways. Not all of them have wives who are still there and supportive and some never had wives. It is very sad indeed.

Well onward and upward...tomorrow is another day!

Finally an update!

Well 2007 has not been off to a snappy start. So much has happened, so much has changed and a major loss suffered.

We are still in Oregon and now have a cute little place we rented, hubby is wonderful, Cheyenne is in a neat school and loving it and I am embarking on a new enterprise here at home. But on January 30th I had to say goodbye to my 13 year old wolf. He had an inoperable bladder tumor and I had to have him put to sleep. I would not see him suffer or be in pain yet, it was one of the hardest things I ever had to do. I was with him the entire time and right to the end. Even after he was gone, I stayed there with him, finding it hard to hear the thought of leaving him. He has been cremated and is in a nice box on a special shelf with his lead...so I am adjusting to him being physically gone.

Hubby and I are still lifting weights and embarking on a new bulking cycle so I will get even BIGGER....yay. I have my eyes set on a competition in October in the bodybuilding division and if I am not ready I will try for the Emerald Cup in the spring of 2008. Marriage is great, retirement great & frustrating and hopefully freedom from the fight with the Army will appear somewhere on the horizon.