How to get in shape in just 2 weeks!!!

Well as you can see the P90X 11 disk DVD exercise program has begun in the our household after hearing that the Porter's have been doing it for 5 weeks. So Greyson and I have finished our first week and it pretty much sucked. It is quite intense.

But to back up, I found out 2 weeks ago that my old college was having a volleyball tournament and was puting together a bunch of old alumni teams. So I started running almost every day in hopes of not completely dying out on the court. If I had stuck with that I think I would have been fine. But then Greyson got wind of the P90X so we started that the week before my tournament. After the third abripperX workout the night before my tournament I noticed that indeed my stomach was feeling a bit ripped. And not in a good way, more of the slightly injured way. So I try to play at the tournament and the very first hit brings me to the ground as a searing pain shoots through my lower abdomin muscles. Determined to hit I tried about 4 more, each ending with me curled up like a baby. So it was tipping and blocking for the rest of the day for me. Those activities only slightly hurt.

Moral of the story: You can't go from a post twin delivery flabby belly to AbripperX without a little something inbetween.

Weather: Tired of the snow. Tired of the rain. Tired of the clouds. Tired of the cold.

Babies: Doing great except for the not figuring out how to sit down from a standing position. Much screeming now occurs every time we put Samia to sleep and she gets stuck standing up in her crib. Piper and I went out and did outside chores today. I can just leave her sitting in the grass and she just stays there and looks around or picks up a pinecone or pats the grass. I wouldn't even attempt that with Samia. She would be eating rocks, dirt, grass, anything and everything. Piper is finally getting better at feeding herself. She still insists on hanging on to whatever she is eating and won't just put the whole thing in her mouth.

Pets: One night Greyson says "Ada has a big red sticker on her leg". Then the next morning, "Uh Mel, that isn't a sticker". I go and look and it is this nasty big, torn open wound type of thing. I am guessing the neighbor dog did it but we didn't have her collar on for whatever reason so it is possible Ada was over on their property. She now has about a 5 inch incision on the her upper leg. They had to go in and trim away the edges of the skin and pull the skin really tight to get it all sewed back together. It didn't actually seem to hurt her much but it sure looked ugly.

Gardens: We have the rototiller from the Dean's but haven't used it yet. We are getting a bunch of raspberry plants for free from a friend so we will have to find a place to put those and figure out some sort of way to keep them upright.

That is enought catchup for now.
-Mel

P90x

It's killin' me. Finished chest and back yesterday; plyos today.

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Website Design (click here to go)

Well. This is it. I built it over the weekend, thanks to mel's quality childcare.

projects

This is what I've been working on lately. It's not my typical style, which is often very machined and geometric, so I think it will go well in my book. I have a poster and a website to do for the event also, although I'm still getting the clients to dig up the imagery I'll be needing. It's a pretty standard problem-getting in their faces often enough so they understand why there is a delay.

I've been putting in time as the City of Stevenson webmaster also, lately doing basic updates to their brews blues and bbqs pages, which is essentially painting with a broom stick.

And my most wonderful masterpieces of all can be found at the recently updated blog

fall

this is a composition I'm working on-my own version of Vivaldi's 4 seasons. This is part of my fall season. I have a rhythm guitar part, and I'll probably figure out the drums on the fly when I get a chance to have actual guitar players. I want this about half again as fast, and some pretty fast chord work.

Happy Birthday Mom

Just wanted to wish mom a happy birthday. Unfortunately I am working and can't be there to celebrate but I think Jenn and kids will be down. Have a good one.

On the road again

Spring is here, at least as far as the fish are concerned. It is field work season again. I have managed to weasel out of most of the away from home field work this year. However I will be gone all of next week at Willamette Falls in Portland doing a study. It isn't that far from home but is just too long of hours (usually 7am - 6pm) to make the trip home at night. I am hoping Greyson will bring the family to visit me at the hotel.

The girls are doing great. We did our last breastfeeding yesterday which was hard for me. I know it was much more traumatic for me to stop then it was for the girls. I just couldn't keep up with it being away from them all next week and then being in Portland for training the following week. The babies are now 8 months old and doing great with their solid foods. They were around 75% for height/weight for their last checkup (I think). Except Piper had 95% for her head. Must be all those brains.

Greyson is busy with watching the girls and doing freelance projects when he can find the time. He has been taking the girls for a run in the jogging stroller almost every day and letting Ada run along.

I have to get out and prune the roses tomorrow. I should have done it last week since this warm weather has caused them to start leafing out already. That is all fro now, we will try to post some more baby pictures on the baby blog soon.

Mel