Day 42-Alls well

            Being all alone today should have given me a chance to get a lot of school work done but instead Ben wanted to play. His grandparents had spoiled him yesterday and so he thought I should play with him all day instead of doing homework. I did get some done and even remembered my big mistake from previous Sundays; do not over eat. I kept my calories in check even without any exercise which was good because I also remembered it was weigh in day. The magic number of the day, 195.6, definitely not sad about this. Over all even with the exhaustion I feel like this week has ended well and I am ready to kick butt and take names this week.

Day 41-Rest is the cure

            A night of sleeping without interruptions felt unnatural in some great way and I can only wish the event would become more common. My parents took care of Ben all night and I had to fight to see him today while they were here. It was nice to have others in the house and see Ben playing with someone besides me in the house. There presents gave me enough time to finish Insanity’s max interval plyo this morning and they made Ben so tired I got Kenpo done while he napped right after they left. Getting some extra rest today has me feeling a million times better and I hope I will now be able to get into a routine that will not kill me.

Day 40-Ironicly pleased

            Now today was a very long day preparing for my parents stay for the night but it will al be worth it tomorrow. My day started by sending my wife on her way to a school conference, which is normally not notable but this will be the first time she has been away from Ben for a night. This is the reason my parents came up, I had to announce at the game and someone needed to hold Ben. It did not take much convincing to get them to come up after all they are grandparents. Now I should probably point out that I did my workouts today and even with some left over pizza for breakfast kept under my calorie count. Tonight’s game was homecoming and though the opponent was not much of a challenge the amount of announcements grew exponentially. I had to announce different plaques, royalty, fundraisers, and raffles with only a moment’s notice. Now I can talk, this is why they give me a mic, but I am less a fan of reading out loud and that was my night on speakers. But if it is true that all is well that ends well then all is well because my parents offered to take Ben for the night and take care of him so I could sleep. This is the best gift I have been given a while and that is why I am not sure what I am doing awake now. Must be to excited to get a full nights sleep, ironic.

Day 39-Breaking rules and Breaking down

            I got a lesson in exhaustion today when my son went down for a nap today I thought it would be a good idea to join him. I thought this would be a good idea because he usually only sleeps for an hour but after almost three hours I woke up first. This is one day to ruin your day’s plans. I was not able to finish any workouts today and on one hand the word failure comes to mind but on the other hand I needed to catch up on some sleep. When I was writing yesterdays blog at 12:30 Ben woke up and wanted to play again. Long story short some time in the midst of the volleyball game I was supervising tonight I decided to break my rules and not workout today. This could be looked at as a back choice but as long I finish my workouts tomorrow I will not regret it.

Day 38-Buff Puff

            Another day in paradise and they have yet to create a font for sarcasms. Today went all right considering Ben thought it would be fun to wake up and want to play for an hour at three in the morning. I have had better starts to a day to say the least. But I was able to rock out biceps and back this morning and get some stuff done around the house. But before I could fit in Insanity we had a homecoming event to attend.

            First event of the night, powder puff, and for those who do not know this is flag football for girls. Now the teams were split into grade levels and they competed until there was a victor and the prize? Playing the staff team. Now this was a “friendly” game that would only last one half, but seeing as my wife was on the team things got intense. My wife is a competitive person and it came out strong during the game and I am fairly sure that some students are afraid of her. Long story short they lost 0-1 but if there had been a second half they would have won, they also might have hurt a few key players, but they would have won.

            The second event was buff puff which is where the guys play volleyball. This is more of a round robin tournament and the winner gets to face off against the staff team in a full game to 25, and I got to play. Now my performance was not notable even though we won but what was notable was one move done by the superintendent. When the ball came down in front of him in an “unreachable” way he stuck his foot out to keep it off the ground. Now this normally would not be notable except someone face was in the way of that balls return to the air and their glasses were broken and they were out of the game. I thank God I was not this person. We finished the game went home and I thought I could sneak in Insanity while Kelsey put Ben to sleep. But after a while of trying he was not having it and she needed her rest so I took him and we played until he fell asleep around eleven. This gave me just enough time to finish Insanity’s max cardio conditioning before midnight.