Happy Birthday Jen!

Today is my friend Jen's 28th birthday! Luckily for me, I have already celebrated with her; meaning I have already consumed the extra calories required to ring in a new year of life! I am sure Jen is having fun celebrating all week though. I just want to take this opportunity to celebrate Jen. She is such an inspiration for me. She has proven that if you set your mind to something you can accomplish anything. It's not just that she has lost weight and kept it off for a long time now. It's more. She has become an athlete. And although as long as I have known her she has been into working out (remember the kickboxing class she took in college that required her to drink four glasses of milk at dinner!) she has truly become a strong and determined work-er-out-er. I am in awe of her because she didn't just lose weight, she changed her life. And anyone who does that is an inspiration. That is why we started these blogs, so that Jen would keep me motivated and I guess, I in turn would motivate her to keep working hard. And I think it has worked well. She brings me motivation every week. Every time I think: this is impossible, I remember that Jen has been through it, and she has come out a champion! I hope you have a great birthday Jen.

Bad news though, I took two hours of vacation on Wednesday so I could get to the 4:30 Combat class. Well, turns out the class isn't until Thursday. Today's 4:30 class is Step, and I am not about to take that, at least not alone the first time. There's no way I can take vacation time on Thursday to get to Combat class. So it looks like my work schedule will continue to ruin my workout life. I am still taking the vacation time though, I will hit the gym anyway to get some type of cardio in. Tonight I am going to do a Pilates DVD at home. I have no idea what to expect. I have never done Pilates, but I have heard it is excellent and hard. I'll let you know.