Expect the Unexpected

So today is my little girl's 6th birthday and maybe THAT is why both kids were so pokey getting out the door this morning.....or maybe that's just an excuse.  THIS morning has been FULL of excuses anyway, so why not another.

So getting the kids out the door late throws off my whole morning.  I TRY to be to the gym by 7am, but this morning I didn't even pull out of the school parking lot until 7:15 and need to be back home working by 8, so the internal arguement that ensued was quite entertaining.  The little devil on my shoulder said "You aren't going to get anything accomplished in less than a half hour"  The angel replied "Something is better than nothing, just do the eliptical".  The devil "But the Weight Loss Program you always do is 35 minutes!"  Angel "So do a manual program then!"  I decided to side with the angel and just do what I could in the time I had on the eliptical.  I walked in the gym and decided not to listen to either one of them as there sat all the glorious weight machine.  Normally I'm not a "machine" person.  I much prefer free weights, but I didn't have time to THINK about what I was going to do this morning, so I just grabbed one machine after another and plowed through 30 minutes of rotating between tricept extensions (70 lbs), the back machine....I'm not sure what it's called with a 4 lb ball held to my chest, hip abductor (80 lbs), hip adductor (60 lbs) and chest flies (60 lbs).  No it wasn't cardio and probably didn't do much for my endurance, but as I sit here and type and my arms and chest are quivering just holding my arms in a typing type position and every time I get up my inner thighs and outer hips ache, I know that the devil was wrong.  I CAN accomplish plenty in only 30 minutes.  It may not be what I planned, but it was what I needed.

So Happy Birthday to my baby girl and yay for her mommy!

Happy Tuesday!