Txbatman, I very much enjoyed reading about your bat exeprience. What is a Disney Christmas Carol Amtrak train?

tkrik, I wish you well on your move-in. When my oldest moved into a dorm, she as on the 4th floor, no elevator. But, there was a university Christian Club of young college students who hauled everything up to the 4th floor for students!! maybe you will be lucky too.

I swam 1/2 mile in between the rain bands of remnants of Ts Ana-- I didnt want to chance the full mile because there has been on and off lightning today. I sure miss the mile (I"m a bit OCD about doing a mile a day),b ut , a 1/2 mile is decent swimming too.

I havent done anything since monday. Insomnia is driving me nuts and I'm too tired to go treadmilling.

Might go walking tonight or tomorrow, probably need to take a nap first. Good thing the gym my dad and I go to is a 24 hour one.

Erin, I hope you get that much needed nap.

tkrik, thanks for the words of support Its still rumbling out there, so I hope its clear in the a.m. to swim...

Don't beat yourself up for only doing 1/2 mile. The fact that you can do 1/2 mile is fantastic. Maybe this evening the weather will be better and you can do the other 1/2 mile. It is also great that despite the weather you still went out and did what you could.

http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/...aroltraintour/

It is an AmTrak train touring the country to promote the new Disney remake of Dickens' A Christmas Carol. The train is all decorated up with graphics from the movie, and inside they have static displays showing how they made the movie. It is an animated movie, but they used real actors and models for alot of the scenes and then converted it to animation using computers. They also have a small theater they set up where you can watch a "making the movie" short film.

I was just along for the ride as my in-laws are big train buffs and my BIL is very into computer 3-D graphics design. They have a setup at the end of the train where you can stand in front of a camera and it takes your picture, then you pick one of the characters and it basically inserts your face into the character using the same animation they used to make the movie. It is really oriented more towards kids, but it was interesting to me as well.

hey all,
about to go take a short walk since there is a few less rain drops dropping... short in case it gets downpouring again.. been raining all day!! maybe some yoga tonight, to stretch, my back is full of spasms last two nights and hurting by day. hugsss,sarah

Because I was exhausted from my trip to my niece's house, I didn't have the energy to exercise Sunday - Wednesday.

But I bought a basketball at Menards yesterday, so this morning I bounced it down to the park and shot some hoops for 20 minutes. That's a tough workout! I dribbled the ball a lot and worked my way around shooting baskets from several positions. I made a basket in all but one spot, and I even made a couple of "hole in ones" lol. I used to be fairly good at playing basketball even though I'm short. DH asked me if I dunked any shots, lol.

Then I came home and it was cool enough and wet enough to pull lots of weeds. I did that for an hour and 40 minutes and then came inside and had a healthy, gluten free lunch (that's another thread, lol.)

I'm tired but I feel great now since I exercised and it was FUN!!

Wow Wiz, what a workout! Basketball is so much fun too. Its a great idea. Ill remember that one.

Hi sabimax, I hope the rain cooperated, and sorry to hear about your back.

The train sounds like a great thing to visit txbatman.

I swam a mile this morning. Its very relaxing.

I still havent gotten to the gym since monday. Didnt get a nap yesterday, didnt sleep till 4 or 5am this morning, no nap this afternoon. Went out with a friend to BK for dinner.

Hoping to go walking tomorrow night tho, fridays are good days for my dad and I to go wandering around on the treadmills and other exercise equipment at the gym. We wait till around 8 or 9 and then go and get our choice of any of the machines because the big crowd is gone by then. Dont do a huge workout or anything, but we can actually do more with the other machines because there isnt a crowd or a waiting list waiting for a machine.

I was hoping to win Powerball last night, I want to build a house with it's own workout room in it. Then my dad could use that whenever he wanted to, and wouldnt have to pay the membership fees. Oh well...