Buddy is sick again and didn't want to walk

Last night, Buddy got into un-popped single-serve microwave popcorn. We're not sure how many packages - they were shredded. And he ate most of it.
Dave discovered it when he woke up. Buddy had pooped on the floor - and Dave got him to go out where he pooped a lot more. And it was fully of popcorn kernels. Yuck! (He offered to show me where it was so I could see and I said "no, that's ok"
Just to make me feel included, Buddy began vomiting up food mixed with popcorn kernels - so I did get to see much more than I would have liked.
He acted happy to go outside on the leash but only wanted to get in the car. (I kind of wonder if he was saying, "Take me to the vet, please" Instead, I took him to the parking lot for the BPA trail. We began walking - slowly - until a little dog on a leash walked toward us. Buddy barked and barked like he always does, except he had very liquid grossness spitting out his rear as he barked. He walked a bit more and then wanted to go back to the car.
So much for walks where he could get rid of more popcorn. We had several more bouts at home.
I did call the vet and when they called back, I was told he should be better by tomorrow afternoon.
I sure hope so. He's acting very "puny" and doesn't even want to eat.
It's very hard to see.
I never left him home alone until Dave and I went out for our walk this evening.
Buddy was asleep on my bed on a pillow when we got home.

Better at the exercising than the blogging about it

I guess if you have to be better at one than the other, I'm glad I'm better at the exercising!
This past Sunday, Daughter Rachel (I only have one daughter, but that's her name) ran in the Disney Princess Half Marathon. She's been training in her own fashion for a long time.
I'm really proud of her determination and her success at doing it her own way.

I started getting another cold last weekend. It sure feels like I've had a lot of those over the last 4 months! I think this is the third. I did a little research and determined that walking is still ok. I shouldn't try to get my heart rate  up but a normal walk works. And so I did. Every day!

I say I got the 10,000 steps but most days, in order to reach 5 miles, I need closer to 12,000 steps. (I should have told them I was 6 ft 2 instead of 5 ft 2!)

Today is my longest work day 8 hours there (paid for 7.5) and at least according to yesterday's desk schedule, I'm on the desk 3 hours this morning, then set up and do story time, and another hour on the desk towards the end of the day. Busy. Sometimes, I get a lot of walking in when I'm on the desk - it all depends on what kinds of questions people have for me. And if I have time to get up and walk around the library to see who might need help - and visit with the folks in the comfy chairs.

And over the weekend there is a Lenten retreat. My plan is to get a lot of rest when I can, go to sessions as they work out, sleep at home, go back and take Buddy walking - try to keep him out of trouble. (Last night, he got into a box that contained some orange bean bags I was going to donate away. He chewed through the plastic to get to them and ate beans out of one of them!!!! Others had holes in them.)

I left my fitbit at home today!!!! Aaaaa

I've done really well at wearing my fitbit everyday. And I've hit 10,000 steps very consistently and not only that but hitting the 5 mile goal.
But today.... I got up at 5am to take my daughter to the airport and went back to bed when I got home. I stayed in bed til 11!
While I showered, I plugged in my fitbit. Checked it once - not quite charged and proceeded to leave home without it.
Between staying in bed all morning and not wearing it to work - where I was on my feet for an hour on the desk and another 2+ hours setting up, running, and taking down our Lego program, I missed the recording of steps and miles.
My daughter once said to me "Even if your fitbit doesn't know you did it, your body still knows" Those are words of wisdom for today.
So my today goal was to hit a recorded 5,000 steps and 2.5 miles - half-way to the real goals.
As of this minute - I have 6,010 steps and 2.6 miles. Yay!
I still have 4 flights of stairs to do which will also increase steps and miles.
Again, I'm proud of myself - I'm working really hard at reaching these fitness goals.
And a shout out to Fred Meyer for letting us walk round and round on these rainy, cold winter evenings.

The groundhog predicted an early spring

Hi All!
The last post about my back hurting might make you think I quit or took some time out. But nope! I'm still plugging along - walking, lifting heavy things and sprinting once a week!
I feel really proud of myself - other than a random day where I was awfully busy, I've even hit the 5 mile goal.
My hardest thing is the calorie burning! Fitbit decided I needed to burn 1921 calories a day.  At 60 years of age, a woman and about 125 pounds, I've only been able to do that about 4 times. I kept telling myself it didn't matter, but I found it disheartening.
When we were at the emergency vet with Buddy the dog the other night, I discovered that I could indeed change that number. First I moved it to 1500 calories and decided that was too easy. I checked my averages and that was about 1800 calories so I changed it to that.
I still don't hit that every day but much more consistently! And that feels much better.
I'll share one story from yesterday.
I did a story time in Enumclaw, a small town East and South of me. Afterwards, I walked around the very cute historic downtown and ate lunch in an awesome restaurant - The Mint! I had a delicious salad with balsamic tomatoes and house-made blue cheese dressing, and a bacon jam cheeseburger which was AMAZING.
The sun was shining! The setting was beautiful - Mount Rainier in view, cute shops and this awesome lunch. What a gift from God!!!!
I found a recipe for a primal bacon jam which I'm hoping to make tomorrow morning!!!!