DH and I walked around downtown Chicago for 3 hours yesterday...legs were achy today, but now they're okay.

I discussed with the surgeon the possibility of weight training or swimming now that I'm 6 weeks post op. He said Nope. Just walkingfor 6 more weeks.
I do sit and lift 8 lb. weights just to get some upper body work. But he said no weight machines.
I'm going to do some light cleaning today; dusting, clean bathrooms, try to clean tile floors with a swifter (although I'm not supposed to do that motion).

I did 25 minutes of TaeBo basic.

I went grocery shopping with my parents. During an ice storm, just before a big blizzard hits on the day before Christmas eve when people normally do their last minute stuff.

I'm going to have nightmares. I'm still dizzy from the crowds of people (and the samples of Baily's Irish Creme that I tasted...I needed those samples tho) People were fighting over fresh turkeys...the parking lot was scary.

Took forever to do the grocery shopping too.

I wanted to go to the gym and do some treadmill, but my dad was tired from the shopping, and the ice rain is starting to get really bad now...plus, my dad said that we got our exercise from dodging all the crazies at the grocery store.

I seem to use everyday chores for exercise sometimes.

Erin,
I know what your talking about...the stress of maneuvering the cart through the aisles actually had me sweating today...I'm not kidding!
I wonder if stress is considered an aerobic activity?

I wish we had that at our store here! I love Baileys!

I didnt even have a cart! My dad had the shopping cart, and my mom was having a hell of a time manuevering the store scooter thru all the insane people and the badly placed displays of stuff. (think she may have knocked something over, but another customer might have been responsible for the thing getting knocked down. At least when mom tried to help pick it up, another customer told her not to worry, they'd try to pick it up if an employee didnt show up. and I saw them actually do it...so at least one person there wasnt totally nuts)

I'm just glad that we only needed a small amount of stuff. Orange marmalade for our bagels, eggs for the cornbread...can of beans for the chili. Baked potatoes to put chili on... Mustard...(oh darn, we forgot the pastrami! we also forgot the ice melt)

Walking thru all those people was so disorienting. I'm still a little punchy from it all, and it's almost 930pm, we were at the store around 4pm.

I was so happy to get out of there, that I volunteered to walk thru the rainy, icy parking lot to get the car and pick up my parents. That rain felt good, even with the ice pellets that hurt when they hit skin.

We went down to Panera for sandwiches and soup after that...one of the employees in there must have been really cold or something. It was sweltering in there. It had to have been close to 90 in there. My dad and I had to take our sweatshirts off...good thing we wear layers and had t-shirts on underneath. It made my eyes weird being in that heat. I dont know if they were baking stuff like mad, or if the heat was malfunctioning. It was super hot. Too hot.

Hi all ...

been doing my arm exercises and some pushups ... and today: my sewing exercises!

stand for awhile - press and cut
sit for awhile - sew
stand for awhile - press somemore

up/down up/down ...

have a great day!!

Our snowpocalypse has arrived. I got bored earlier and walked up and down the stairs for a few minutes to get some exercise.

But now, I'm munching on M&M's. (I was hungry! and the chili isnt quite ready yet) I think I'll have to go walk up and down the stairs some more. Or do laundry...

I wonder if we have anything else to wash that I could do?? I think I did it all already yesterday when I was bored and my dad gave me his laundry to do to kill the boredom.

I danced to a 'rockin' Jingle Bells song!!

Had a late swim yesterday, moved some furniture and kept my arm exercised by putting copious amounts of ferrero rocher into my mouth.