Gym update and other activities

First thought: How exactly does a person do cardio four to five times a week for two months in a row and not lose an ounce of weight? I know I'm not eating more than I used to, so I'm just telling myself that my fat is all converting to muscle, and therefore I'm losing fat, but the added muscle is keeping my weight the same. Jeff hasn't lost any, either, so I'm not too sad or anything. We're going to keep it up.

Second thought: Jeff got to add weight training into his workout about two weeks ago, and I got to add it in this week. Our trainers seem to think that we should be at the gym for approximately two hours five days a week in order to get all our prescribed cardio and weights done, which we think is just ludicrous. We'll keep to our 4 days a week for about 1 to 1.5 hour schedule, with puppy walks on the off days, thank you very much. It makes us feel like we're neglecting the dogs when we're gone from home that much. As Jeff so appropriately said the other night, "The gym is interfering with my lounging around time." LOL Again, we're going to keep going, but it seems a bit silly to expect normal, full time working people with other activities to spend that much time at the gym.

Third thought: We had another summer intern night with people from work last night. This time we spent the evening at All Star Sports, which is a mini-golf, batting cages, go-karts, driving range, arcade and fair ride type place. We got bbq sandwiches provided for dinner, then we joined another couple and their newborn (3 weeks old) baby for a round of mini-golf. We opted for the flooded course (yes, it continues to rain here), in order to better emulate true golf conditions (and to avoid the very long line for the other course). That was fun, and afterwards the other couple took off to rescue their other kids from the sitter. Jeff and I wandered over to the go-karts, where we stood in line for about five minutes before deciding that we really didn't want to wait a couple of hours to ride the go-karts. So, we went over to the driving range and hit a couple buckets of balls for the first time in about five years. That was also fun, be we both managed to injure ourselves slightly by pulling muscles we didn't know existed. It was a fun night, and it was free, which was fabulous.

Fourth thought: The gutter extensions we put on seem to be working. In our continuing tale of rain every day, not once has the sump pump had to work more than once every five minutes or so, so it seems that the water is staying away from the foundation. We're still having some issues with the system itself, so we're going to have a plumber come out to check it out soon. We think it may be vapor locked somewhere, but we're not sure. Either way, the current set-up is working well, and we're not worried about the basement flooding anytime soon. Now if we could only get the stupid storms to come during the day, and not in the middle of the night so we can get a full night of sleep without having to turn on the television to check for tornadoes...