Cabin Fever

Downtown Omaha during the 4 day snow day

This snow is driving me a little crazy. I have not been to the gym in way too many days. I have only been to the grocery store once this week - as opposed to the usual 3 times by now. I baked cookies, bad idea. I have shoveled four times in as many days. I have eaten my body weight in crappy food, putting the ka-bosh on my weight loss goal. My core temperature hasn't been back to normal since Monday night. I am not a cold weather person. I want a beach. I want warm sunlight. This sucks. However, the snow is beautiful. It's rather calming when I'm not out there trying to clear a path for the mailman. The snow means only one thing: winter. Winter brings Christmas time! I really don't care about the holiday itself, but I am freaking excited for all the together family time. My oldest sis comes home in just about 1 week. Last year, I was in a bad place and couldn't get into the Christmas spirit. I think that is why I am so excited for this year. I can't wait to have my entire family around a fire in mom's house with a drink in hand. I am excited to see how happy people get when presents are opened. I can't wait for my only plan to be just be. Luckily, I have the best job ever and after next Thursday, I have absolutely nothing to do until school is back in session. Woot!
With all the off time, there is a huge project on the docket. Zach and I are slowly getting the house ready to put on the market. First on my to do list is the basement. I want to at least get some paint on those walls. Ideally, we would have new carpet installed. That may be wishful thinking, along with new counters in the kitchen. In a realistic world, I'll re-do the floors in the kitchen, deep clean the house, and paint lots of rooms. I cannot wait. If we don't get the house sold, at least it will be a little nicer for us. The slight problem in my plan, though, is Zach's youngest brother moves in with us next week. He will only be there for the duration of Christmas Break before heading back to Lincoln. It will be weird having someone else in the house again. We'll see. Hopefully, I didn't bite off more than I can chew with the home renovation!
Last topic of conversation: workouts. They have been few and far between since my last post. Partially because of the snow. Partially because I like finding as many excuses as possible to not have to workout. Either way, what I have been able to do, I've enjoyed. I feel like I am getting stronger every day even without being at CFO. Shoveling is a great workout. Screw the pansies with the snow blower, however I am asking for one for my Christmas/New Year's/Valentine's Day present. I did front squat 3x3 up at UNO and got plenty of weird looks - almost asking if I needed help finding an elliptical. They felt really good. I might have been able to go heavier, but without someone watching form I wasn't comfortable doing so. I got up to 142. I was pretty excited. Hopefully, this means my 1rm clean will be that much better. I participated in the Lumberjack WOD. It kicked my ass. It was 17 degrees, I think, when we started. I did not finish and was 100% OK with that. I am trying to get into a groove of running a few miles a week. In March I start training for my sprint triathlon. I am also working on core strength, not doing thousands of sit ups but lots of planks. Today's WOD of double unders on the minute looks like a lot of fun! I can't wait to try it.