Hug Point

Hugging at Hug Point State Park, OR on our mini-moon trip down the oregon coast.


Playing a hopscotch of sorts with myself making foot prints playing in the sand.

It's been a really intense, brain draining week at work. i've certainly learned tons, most of it feeling like research and not directly applying to solving the problem at hand at the time ... until 2 days later and i'm like "oh, i know how that works, i can do that!" but it's left me kind of worn out.

fall also happened practically over night in the last week. i feel like i missed too much of summer to wedding planning this year. and it's already fall!! i secretly love this time of year though. it's time to start lifting some weights and heading to the gym. i love lifting, it makes me feel strong and buff. it's also shorts and fleece weather now. yay! at least the sun is still shining. as the days get shorter my commute seems to feel longer. it it possible the SR-16 stretches in the winter months??

Fluffy Tia

Jen snapped this just before the ceremony.
It totally cracks me up.
Tia in a big sea of princess-like-fluffy-white-girly-ness displaying a nice collection of scars and scrapes down her arm earned from a variety of different bicycle related crashes over the years.
yup, you can put the tomboy in a dress with face paint, but you can't take the tomboy out of the tomboy. :)

what you don't exactly see in this picture is me completely slumped in a wooden kitchen chair in the bathroom w/ my feet propped up at head level on the sink. It was just after this when i said something like "I think i have to pee again, do you think it's just pre-race jitters? or do i really need to go again?!" b/c trying to go pee while wearing a sea of princess-like-fluffy-white-girly-ness is truly a team effort. (Thanks Team Bridetribe!)

Operation: Team Lean

Team Tia and Andy have set out to become Team Lean.

Our goal: lose 100 pounds by next summer. That breaks down to about 70 pounds for Andy and 30 for Tia.

Why? Because we are too fat to race in our current state. We feel pudgy and unhealthy. We are tired of whining about our clothes feeling tight, and Tia refuses to buy new "fat clothes". We both like to go fast on our bikes, and we feel like slugs on them right now.
Doesn't that sound like a lot? Yes, but we've both done it before, no reason we can't do it again (and make it stick this time). Andy topped out after college at 425 pounds. Tia at 215. (Can you believe that?!) Being fat sucks, and we're not going there again!
How did this happen? Wedding planning is stressful. We both try to eat (and drink) our stress away. and we've been too busy to ride our bikes much the last couple of months. That all compounds to FAT!

How will we accomplish our goal? lots of hard work and determination is the short answer.

Next 2 Weeks Goals:
1. Institute bedtime.
1a. The alarm clock in the living room will go off at 10pm indicating that it's time to get showered and start unwinding. We really need to get in regular, good sleep every night.
2. Start eating at consistent times each day.
3. Get in the habit of going to the gym twice a week. Start weight exercises w/out any real weight
3a. Andy is working on getting his gym membership switched to they Y so we can workout together.
4. Dust off the bike, pump up the tires, and starting getting some regular exercise.
4a. Just regular human being exercise at this point will be an improvement. Don't need to have a mindset of "training" or even "working out", just some good exercise is an improvement at this point.
5. Increase veggie consumption.
5a. The more veggies we eat, the less junk we tend to eat.

Fred and George

 

I snagged these guys out of a huge pirate chest full of kiddie toys at a restaurant in Newport. After sticking them to the windows of the car and making them dance around on my fingers while I made up songs about octopus-y-pies and jelly-fishy-doos, they finally came to rest on the dash for the remainder of the trip. I declared they needed names, and Andy creatively came up with Fred and George (left to right).

It really is too bad that I'm so difficult to entertain.

We're back!

yay!
wedding weekend was awesome (and exhausting!).
the oregon coast was gorgeous!
and we were so happy to get back to our home last night - our own space - our kitties - our dirty laundry - our jobs ... oh wait.

we found a little tia-tribute on my friend becky's blog last night. i laughed till i cried (multiple times) as andy read it to me. it's 98% fact. except i think the business card said "The man you've been looking for". but i seem to have lost it in the last decade, so we'll have to rely on our memories. :)

will try to post some pictures later this week! but no promises .... i'm ready to spend some more time on my bike and start hitting the gym. and the vortex of tia-time often keeps me from getting everything done. :) hehe.