Push On!

Well, these past few days have been interesting. I have been sick unfortunately. I guess since the weather finally decided to turn to winter my body decided it was time to get sick. Just hoping I keep it away from Travis and the kids. Monday I had an all day meeting in Hampton. I felt like death. I loaded up on Dayquil and drove to Hampton. I felt really bad for the other 7 or 8 people crammed into a 10x10 room with me. Luckily we got to move to a bigger room and then it wasn't so obvious I was swimming with disease. Good thing I got that flu shot! (sarcasm) Luckily no one caught my tuberculosis (yet) and I got through the day (barely). My meetings in Hampton are usually a nice break from the day to day of the nursing home. They bring us in, stock a fridge full of pop and water, and treat us to lunch. We learn about lots of important stuff DON's do and chit chat about how our job is stressful and rewarding. Usually we order Subway, and I can pick plenty of healthy choices off their menu. Monday, we ordered from some restaurant in town. The menu looked sooo yummy. Croissant sandwiches...quiches....brownies as big as your hand (no joke). I STAYED STRONG! I ordered a grilled chicken salad with light italian. I didn't even eat the crackers that came with it. Honestly it was really good! But those brownies...friends...I hate to turn away chocolate. These brownies were seriously 3"x3" (give or take, I'm bad with measurements) with at least a half inch of thick chocolate icing on top. As if that wasn't enough there was white chocolate shavings on top of the glorious frosting. I held back. I had cough drops for dessert. Good thing I did. Hall's sure knows what to say RIGHT when I 

needed it! Notice: PUSH ON! POWER THROUGH! Bam! Those got me motivated. Aren't they cute? Helpful little buggers they are. But seriously I saw that and was like "Damn straight Halls, I CAN push on, I CAN power through!" I may feel like crap but I can get it done. I did. I powered through and made it through kick boxing.  (with lots of meds and Travis for support!) Granted, I probably shouldn't have pushed myself that hard...because I felt like megadeath afterwards. But, I survived, and here I am again, typing away.

I got through the night with lotsa night time cough medicine. Slept it off. Woke up today feeling so much better. I called into work and slept the day away. I barely remember getting the kids ready for school and sending Travis off to work. Probably best I didn't drive them to school this morning! Once I finally got going I got in my van to pick up the kiddos and saw this:

 There are those 2 naughty candy bars, still in my car. I barely ate anything today...I wanted to eat those. Bad. I ate my protein bar and stared at them the whole time. Do I leave them there to taunt me daily and test my willpower? Or do I just feed them to my kids? (But they won't appreciate them like I will) Or do I save them for a free day?? I tried to pawn them off on Travis, but even he resisted. I think I will leave them there, as a reminder there are things in life that are better than those 2 Butterfingers. Ya know, like not having 2 butterfingers go straight to my ass.

Tomorrow morning is going to be interesting. 5 am kickboxing here I come. Wednesdays are tough for me since I can't do afternoon Farrell's because of church. But, Push on! Power through! And most of all, Put a little strut in it! :) Will do Halls, will do.