Salt & Pepper

Salt & pepper shakers on a mirrror with some HDR processing. I kind of dig this one.

P90X Week 1 Recap

Day 1 - Chest & back.
Do some pull ups. Now some push ups. Now some pull ups. Now some push ups. Go throw up. Done? More push ups....and so on and so on. Then do a 15 minute ab routing with over 300 different kinds of crunches. If their goal was to establish that this program was no joke right from the start, they did it.

Day 2 - Plyometrics.
Your feet don't touch the ground for an hour. Jump. Jump and spin. Jump and twist. Jump sideways. Jump diagonally. Watch out for the cat's tail. My daughter didn't know whether to laugh at me or shoot me in the ass with a tranquilizer dart.

Day 3 - Shoulders and arms
Who would have thought that a solid hour of military presses and curls would be an "easy" day?

Day 4 - Yoga X
I'll admit it. Before this session, I thought yoga was for douchebags. I stand corrected. Watching me, with my complete lack of flexibility, struggle through 90 minutes of this torture must have been tantamount to watching a monkey fu*k a football. Kind of funny, but mostly sad. I have a new respect for yoga.

Day 5 - Legs and back
Brutal. My pipestem-like legs weren't ready for 58 minutes of lunge and squat variations. I may have crapped my pants at one point.

Day 6 - Kenpo X
This was actually a lot of fun. High energy, cardio-centric martial arts moves. Lots of kicks and punches. Looked funny as hell when I watched it back on tape in fast forward.

Tomorrow morning is back to chest and back. Fahhhhhhhhhhhhhkk.

P90X

After 2 months of "vacation" from exercise I decided it was time to get my ass moving again and work off the Sam Adams and cheeseburgers I've been stuffing into my face. When I went on hiatus I was getting sick of my old routine of weights and cardio and wanted to try something new. Then I heard about a program called P90X. It's a 90 day program (6 days a week) that consists of 12 different workouts ranging from resistance training to plyometrics to yoga, etc. You can "YouTube" it to see the results some people are getting. It sounded like what I was looking for so I bought the DVDs and got it started this week. They're all run by a professional trainer who is, admittedly, a little bit douchey but I'm telling you....the workouts are no...fucking...joke. I hurt in places I didn't know existed. I'm going to try to chronicle the first month to give people an idea of what this program is like.

HDR Plant

Lunch Time

One of my new favorites...

Breast Feeding

This one doesn't even need a caption...

Lyla Marguerite

"I got my face pressed up against the nursery glass. She's sleeping like a rock. My name on her wrist wearing tiny pink socks. She's got my nose, she's got her mama's eyes. My brand new baby girl, she's a miracle. I saw God today"

-George Strait

2 Years Later...

Returning to Candlewood Inn to celebrate our 2nd anniversary and our impending arrival.