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ODAAT – 36 of 366

Christy — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:12:55 +0000

My oldest son treated us to McDonalds after church today. He just bought us burgers, but I like that he was willing to do it.

The prompts for today were either “in a dish” or “10am” – I was at church at 10am, in Sunday School in fact so I had no idea about that one till later in the day. And no idea what I could take a picture of that would be in a dish.

So you’re stuck with the golden arches today.

ODAAT – 35 of 366

Christy — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:31:21 +0000

Going off prompt again today, our church is going to have a Family Game Night tonight. This is our contribution to the evenings festivities. I enjoy when we have a game night at our house. So I am hoping tonight will be just as fun.

I’ll be curious to know what families show up, it appears a lot of families are sick or busy. Families today just don’t stop and take the time to spend time together – they usually are just too busy. Our family included.

So here is to a night of fun.

Week 5 complete

Christy — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:02:13 +0000

Week 5 has come and gone and I am happy to announce that I was able to run for the full twenty minutes, without stopping. Mind you, my calves were killing me when I was done. I am glad I am resting tomorrow because I am sure I will be feeling the effects of running for that amount of time tomorrow. I so wasn’t sure I would be able to do it. For someone who has not run in over twenty years o her own free will, taking on this program has been a challenging one. But I feel like it isn’t nearly as impossible as it seemed just a mere six weeks ago when I thought I’d try this program.

I still do not have the speed yet, but right now I am just focusing on the moving part. I am sure the pacing will come along naturally as my body is willing to be pushed harder and harder. I read a quote earlier and this morning that was my hesitation – “It always seems impossible until it is done” – I kept putting off my running because I was so sure I wouldn’t be able to do it.

But I am glad that I just gritted my teeth and did it. While I was jogging, I just kept focusing on the 5 minute intervals on the clock. I would tell myself jog for 5 minutes, if you need to stop it’s okay. Then the five minutes would be over and I’d tell myself it again. I was giving myself permission to fail, but then again I kept saying just 5 minutes, you can do this!

Along the accomplishing impossible things, I am also happy to report that I am no longer in the 230s, I now officially weigh in at 228.8, I even have proof. I am so happy to be seeing those numbers continuously dropping.

ODAAT – 34 of 366

Christy — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:47:07 +0000

Today’s prompt comes Fat Mum Slim, it was “Hands”.

So I enlisted the help of my kiddos. I had to teach Jorja how to make a heart with her hands. Cauner and Jayson weren’t quite sure what I was doing, but I told them to humor me.

It’s amazing how quickly they are all growing. None of their hands are small anymore, but each of these hands is capable of doing so many great things. And with that, they have definitely captured me heart.

ODAAT – 33 of 366

Christy — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 02:29:35 +0000

Just a quick post, today I had a couple of options for my daily prompt – but honestly neither one spoke to me. One was “words” and the other was “makes my heart sing” – *sigh* I honestly had no clue how to capture either of those in photo form, so I went off prompt and just took this picture out my bedroom window as the sun was setting.

I said a prayer of thanksgiving for another gloriously beautiful winter day, it is still winter. Or at least it will be for 6 more weeks according to Punxsutawney Phil, but with a winter as mild as it has been, I’ll take it!

I ran 8 minutes… wait what?

Christy — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:57:18 +0000

So I have a minor accomplishment today, I thought all this week I would be running for 5 minute intervals and walking for 3 minute intervals – running for a total of 15 minutes. I didn’t even bother to check what day 2 would be when I hit the start button today. I did my warm up, then thanks again to Slighter and his awesome playlist he made, I know when to start running. I heard the prompt to jog and proceeded to jog. When five minutes came, then six I thought did I miss my cue to walk? I hit the home button on my phone and saw that it said jog 8:00 – wait what? I hesitated for a brief moment and just kept jogging till I finally heard the cue to walk again. When it said walk, it said to walk for five minutes, then I was going to be running again for eight minutes. Which was actually good because I was getting antsy from walking – I can’t seem to explain it, but I am really more content with the jogging. o.O <--- this is my eyebrow cocked face

When my workout was complete, I checked to make sure I hadn't jumped to week 6 - nope as you can see from my screen shot I was on week 5 day 2. So I peeked ahead at day 3 and about fell over. Week 5 day 3 I will be running for a total of twenty minutes - 20 minutes? I'm nervous because I am really used to stopping after well now eight minutes – but 20 whole minutes. I’m trying to not discourage myself, because I was amazed that I kept pushing myself for the eight minutes, when I did it the second time I was actually disappointed that my running time was over. We’ll see what Friday brings us, I’m excited and nervous all at the same time to get this accomplished.

ODAAT – 32 of 366

Christy — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:43:23 +0000

February is here and you know what that means: hearts, red, chocolate and flowers – oh my!! So this is what I came up with for today.

I set the shower on hot to let my mirrors fog up, then I drew hearts on the mirror. Never got a clear shot because DUH my camera phone lens kept getting fogged up too, lol! Then I played around with several apps on my phone, then tweaked in photoshop. This is the end result

ODAAT – 31 of 366

Christy — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:47:03 +0000

Today’s prompt was “tiles” – we headed to the library so the kids could check out some books. Cauner is working on a research paper, so I was teaching him how to find his book using the Dewey Decimal system. We also have to figure out where a specific section was in our library, so we did a lot of walking through the aisles.

I was pretty fascinated with the carpet’s design. I really wasn’t focusing on it too much, but liked that it had a unique pattern.

It’s been 31 days since I started this project. And it’s been a pretty busy month.

ODAAT – 30 of 366

Christy — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:44:33 +0000

Yes, it’s another picture of my cat, Akasha. Can’t help it, she is quite photogenic!!

The prompt for yesterday was “Mirror” – so I was playing around this afternoon sitting on the floor in front of my mirror trying to come up with a great picture, when Akasha walked up to the mirror and I snapped her picture.

She like my kids is pretty used to seeing me with my phone/camera in my hand. She also makes an easy subject to capture on film.

ODAAT – 29 of 366

Christy — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 02:10:23 +0000

Yesterday’s prompt was “the written word” – this could be interpreted in many ways. I personally chose my Bible.

The picture is from this morning during our Sunday school lesson on giving generously. Definitely a lesson we all need to remember, even in this tight economy. I know there are always going to be those who need something more than I do, I just need to remember to let go of what I deem important in order to help others.

I will be digging deeper into His word here soon as I will be leading a Bible study with some of the ladies from my church. We will be studying the book of James.