I did my 20 minutes of hip/thigh pilates yesterday, then 35 minutes on the elliptical today. I'm so proud of myself!

Today I did a lot of cooking for tomorrow's Christmas party at my sister's house. So I'll stuff myself silly tomorrow and likely not work out.

I made my famous pasta salad, a gorgonzola/spinach dip and DS is making southwestern eggrolls and a creamy cilantro dip to go with them.

Yesterday had a quick horse ride (token gesture really) and had complete jelly legs when i got off, not nice.
Today just shopping and a Kinesiology appt and playing with new tractor

BB; it's a swim spa, 7ooo litres, under the carport. Has jets you swim against and a spa bit at each corner for a massage.

Ewiz, watch out for that very non Swank food!

Puds, if you ever have apic of it you could upload, I'm curious. how much does it cost? How much does it cost to keep it warm? How cold do your nights get in the winter? If it gets down to 45 degrees at night, will it still be warm enuf the following morning if it's covered and heated? is it the "Endless Pool"?

Here's the one I've got but another maker.
http://www.google.com.au/imgres?imgu...ed=0CCMQ9QEwBA


It has 4 jets and adjustable speed for all four, multi directional, massage jets at the top and 2 bucket seats at the bottom to chill in and get a super massage.
The cover is hard and fits snugly on top, but easy to pull off too.
Our leccy bills aren't that bad seeing as I often heat the water from 20 odd to 30 overnight. Takes an hour per degree to heat. Chemicals aren't dear. Takes a real cold night to cool it past 5 degrees.
Our winter nights are 5 degrees and long summers. I tend not to use it in winter; too much heating and running outside in a cossie aint good for the chest.
I love it. But it's so well insulated that on a hot day, it doesn't heat up beyond a point naturally or absorb outside heat overnight as it were.
It was Aus $20,000. A mighty extravagance.
an endless pool indeed.

Its very tempting Pud. Thanks for posting it.

Give me some feedback here if you would: The winters here sometimes get down to mid forties at night and only up to upper 50s daytime. Do you think this could retain enough heat? And, do you think it would cost more than about$5 per day to heat it?

I swam in the 77 degree pool today and it was 48F air temp: cold, cold and cold.

sorry .. I received the call on Friday about the apartment - they want a co-signer ... hmm, interesting when I'm single & 50 .. that's okay tho - I believe that something better is out there for me then!

in the meantime - I've been cleaning and reorganizing my livingroom and emptied off the library and gave it to my neighbor (he carves ducks, pheasants, etc) ... when I stopped by his apt to return some pails - he had it all filled up with his creations!! it looked better in his place than it did in mine!! I was so happy!!

all day on sunday - I dusted, vacuumed and rearranged furniture ... still debating about unpacking boxes tho ... because I will be moving sometime in April or May .. and the stuff in boxes is just 'fluff' anyways ...

today?? folding and addressing my annual Christmas letters!! (mostly to my tax clients that I started about 10 years ago ... now I have over 150 to mail out!) but - will tell them about my quilt program ... keeps me moving!!

Good job Vonn!

I swam a mile today. I am going on vacay, and will be back SUnday night or Monday morning. PLease kee pthe thread going and support each others efforts!

yeahhh for swimmers, movers and shakers!!

just my work moving around crazy but otherwise maybe yoga tonight.. as my back and shoulders ache.... ache is a mild description...

Merry Christmas to all, hugss to all, sarah

I got run over by a Pride Victory scooter today. (yes. Really...and those things move fast and cant be stopped easily from the front like the scooters that WalMart provides. I can usually stop those with a hand and a little bit of pressure when I'm about to be run over by someone who's easily distracted by shiny things) This was like getting hit by a Mini Cooper or a golf cart.

My neck is back to being in pain, and my arms, shoulders and hands hurt, and I think I turned my ankle and both knees just a little bit. (glancing blow...I got spun around after I put my hands out to try to protect my knees from getting smashed by the front of the scooter)

Learned one thing, I now know why my mom isnt going to ever be allowed to drive a car again. (she's got some seriously baaaad judgement skills) I also know not to stand in front of her when she's on the scooter (especially when she's mad and acting a bit pre-Alzheimer-ish). Maybe I shouldnt stand directly behind her either?

The adrenaline rush and being a bit...ticked after that, and I just locked myself in my room and took a Flexeril and took a 2hr nap instead of going to exercise. I was so mad and not fit to be around people that I would have ticked off a lot of people down at the gym.

I wont be doing any exercise till after Christmas because we're about to get another huge blizzard (we've got freezing drizzle putting a nice icy patina on everything right now...it'll be ice rain by morning) Blizzard isnt supposed to be over till saturday morning.

Only exercise I'll be getting will be climbing up and down the stairs here at home when I really bored. (I've already done all my laundry and put it away...I'm going to be really bored later)

Laundry can be considered exercise, cant it?

Slow day today though I did swim yesterday.
It's been 110 degrees so I've had enough on my plate keeping the animals cool. We've made a start on slashing the paddocks so lots of fence and gate maintenance and walking .

BB; i couldn't tell you. Our leccy bills are usually around Aus$25 a week running a fence, air con, pool and lights. So I suppose it's not that bad on power. It does tend to cool down over winter but if it was more enclosed (like in an outdoor room) it would hold its heat better.