BEST Story Ever.  I have to put this first, because I’m going to bore you with the rest and you might stop reading before the good stuff.  (If there is anyone reading…knock, knock…anyone out there?)  Anyhoo, I was out shopping at Wal-mart today and lost my car.  Long story.  So I’m wandering around in the parking lot trying not to look stupid, but feeling really stupid at the same time. Also, trying to look confident and move quickly so I don’t look like an easy target to some criminal mind.  I was wearing my exercise clothes because I meant to work out earlier in the day, but didn’t.  No makeup–hair in a pony. A car pulled up beside me with two men inside.  It scared me and I took off walking the opposite direction as fast as I could without running.  The passenger rolled down the window and tried to talk to me, but I kept going…faster.  Then he got OUT and start to shout to me.  “Ma’am…”  I turned on my heels to look at him.  He was a marine in full dress blues.  The back of his car had an official government plate.  I relaxed a little.  “How old are you?” He wanted to know.  I was shocked…kind of a rude question for a lady my age and we’ve never even met.

“36,” I said.  His jaw dropped to the pavement.

When he recovered he asked, “Do you know anyone ELSE we could recruit for the Marines?”  Marines?  He was going to invite me to be a marine…but I was already near retirement age for the military, bwa ha ha.  It made me feel good and when I told my dad he gave me a high 5.

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Yesterday I had my second ballet class. I’m the one on the right.  It was tough and I have a lot of practice to do–especially to learn to spot a turn and not get dizzy, lol.  I’m growing more flexible which is super exciting to me.  I’ve been stretching out every day and started to wonder if I was just maintaining a balance of flexibility.  The strength training makes me less flexible and I thought the stretching was only working to keep me as flexible as I was–but, no!  I’m actually getting better.  That is encouraging me to keep it up.  It’s little things like being able to touch my toes without bending my knees that get me excited, lol.

Today is a bit of a blur.  I worked out at 3pm and did strength A from the July WOM.  My shoulders are the weakest part of my body and I really feel them in planks, push-ups, reverse planks etc and this workout has them all.  Hopefully by the end of the month it will be a piece of cake —I can wish and keep working at it.

Two of our air conditioners broke this week.  My attic was over 100 degrees (where my kitchen is) and the second floor with the bedrooms were close to 90.  Thankfully we have a basement that keeps cool, but cooking didn’t sound good at all.  So for dinner last night I bought deli pizzas from Aldi and grilled them.  I ate 1/16th of a sausage pizza and then some pieces of sausage that Grant picked off his piece.

(I forgot to eat the cantaloupe, but someone in the family got it :).)

Cold foods sound best, so I ate a few meals of cold cereal (but chose a protein rich variety.) And shakes and puddings.  Lunch was  a pig (turkey pig) in a poncho (low carb tortilla) and dinner was leftover grass fed sloppy joe meat on a tortilla with the rest of the broccoli salad from the weekend.