Another day in NJ done. My co-worker from England left today for camp for the summer. She was a lot of fun and will be missed and remembered throughout the summer. She was our motivation for this summers fitness plan and we plan on shocking her with our progress when she comes back. With her leaving this means that I will have the room to myself for a couple weeks until the new staff makes it in. I liked our unspoken agreement that there was not any chit-chat at night or in the morning. We had a nice little routine going that allowed each of us to wind down for bed and get woken up and ready for the day in the morning. I will have to explain this little system to the new girl when the time comes. I am excited that I now have the nice big bed in our room and my feet will no longer hang off the edge. I have organized everything and now just need some little things to put on the walls or dressers to liven it up a little bit. It looks a little empty at the moment.
Our morning started off with a nice 2hr clean of one room in the house. We did floors and baseboards and dressers and windows. I'm thinking it was a good idea that we started with this room because there are about 15 windows and that makes for a lot of blinds to clean. It took forever and we have decided that nobody can go in that room...ever! lol. Too bad this is how every room will be by the end of this cleaning spree. After that one room we had lunch and then headed out for shopping for things needed around the house. Found some new sleep/walking shorts for $3, super exciting. This whole adventure took about 6hrs of the day. We came home and had some dinner. There was high intentions of cooking dinner tonight but we were all too worn out to attempt, so it was a nice easy dinner night. Then it was off on our 3 mile walk, since we hadn't walked enough today. We have made the rule that it doesn't count as our daily walk if our tennis shoes aren't on. So as long as we don't wear our tennis shoes on our outings we will not have the excuse of walking all day to get out of our 3 mile walk. I think we have also decided that our little path that we have been taking might be more than 3 miles. I walk at a pretty fast pace and we were walking fast for me. Poor Laura (co-worker from Scotland) she has short little legs and I pushed her pretty hard tonight. Anyway, it took us right at an hr to get through. We will have to try to measure it somehow in the next couple days. It will work for now but once the travelers start coming back in mid-June we will have to cut it back to no more than 30 min.
By the time the cleaning, shopping and walking were done we were exhausted. I don't think I have ever walked this much. But it will all pay off in the end I hope. Still pushing strong for getting in shape by the end of the summer. Tomorrow's plan is to get through a couple more rooms and then take a picnic down to the beach and spend the afternoon soaking up the sun. I am really excited about tomorrow afternoon. I am getting some pretty interesting tan lines already though. None of my shirts hit the same...lol. Who knows what I will look like when I make it home. Tonight is a quiet night and we are all headed to bed pretty early.
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