Signed up and ready to work.

Yesterday Robin and I signed up for a fitness challenge. The grand prize is a cruise for 2. We'll win it. :)
We've been visiting the gym more regularly than I ever have before and paying the money for a trainer has its benefits, but this will be different as we will need to devote ourselves to a different thought process on living, sleeping, eating and activity. All this in the midst of our continuing preparations for our upcoming move. Well, if you're going to do something .. might as well throw in all the chips !

Work (work at work, that is) has always been a particulary challenging obstacle to staying in any kind of regular routine. Starting your work shift at a different time each day keeps you on your heels and never seems to give the chance to develop a daily regimine of exercise, meal planning, or consistent sleep. Sometimes we work 5 shifts in 4 days, each with a different start time and occasionally an 8-on, 8-off, 8-on rotation, It's difficult to say the least but that's the way it's done and why we get the big office and the big paycheck.
To overcome that hurdle and develop a consistent diet and fitness plan will be tough ... but we are both pretty committed to improving our current state of fitness and losing some weight.
Hope you'll pray for us in our endeavour over the next 12 weeks.
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The weather has thrown a bit of a gauntlet down for outside work the last couple of days. You know, the old "it'll-be-cold-and-wet-and-blowing" thing so you can't get much work done outside? Oh yeah, and the tornado thing .. there's that too. But undaunted, we've managed to gain a little more progress outside and this afternoon should be a great opportunity to actually fininsh up some things I thought I'd have finished about 3 days ago. The porch decking is done and the banister is almost completed. Then stain and paint and we'll call it good. We've only a few more things on the exterior lost and we will feel presentable to prospective buyers without compromise.

The garden is even sprouting some carrots!