Fitness Friday - What I have (or haven't) been doing this week

 Hello and Happy Friday, everyone!  Are you as excited about the weekend as I am?  I have mixed feelings about it this week.  Yay for the time off and getting lots done and having a blast doing it, but boo because the hubbles will be elsewhere this weekend for his Army gig.  :( Boo, indeed.  I have big plans for the weekend, though.  I hope to do the weekly cooking/baking/preparing, maybe squeeze in a workout or two, do some meditating and relaxing, and hang out with my family/maybe a few friends.

It being Friday and all, I thought I'd borrow a page from Linsday at The Lean Green Bean and try a "Fitness Friday."  Huzzah for illiteration!!!
What I've done this week:  On Monday, I got up and did this Bodyrock workout.  (You will notice a theme, as I do Bodyrock every morning.  The variable is the afternoon routine.)  This, I hope you will note, is a major accomplishment for me!  I had the day off, and I STILL got up early and did a workout.  Go me!  It was admittedly accompanied by the latest episode of Keeping Up with the Kardashians, so it wasn't totally good for me.  What can I say, I'm human!
On Tuesday, I repeated Monday's workout. 
On Wednesday, I did this routine in the morning and in the afternoon I went to "deep sensing yoga" with my mumsy. 
Yesterday and today I repeated the Wednesday Bodyrock workout.
I haven't done any afternoon routines, for all my good intentions.  I blame this in part on my shoulder and also The Ginge being sick.  It's hard to workout when you're running cups of tea back and forth to a sick person and cleaning up the trail of tissues after them everywhere they go. *sigh*  Also, my shoulder has been bothering me lately, and I don't want to press my luck too far.

I'm thinking I'm going to try to keep up Fitness Friday and What I Ate Wednesday as much as possible.  I really want to make this an interesting, readable blog, not just a smattering of scattered thoughts pecked out like thought-vomit.  Maybe having a couple constants will help this endeavor.  I'm not sure, yet.  But the least I can do is try, right?
The reason I tried blogging in the first place is my torrid on-again, off-again love affair with writing.  I'll go a week just furious with inspiration, and then a month languishing in depressed no-man's land.  Then manic writing, again.  I thought a blog might help me be more regimented with my writing.  So far, not-so-good.  But there's always tomorrow, right?

I'm reading a book called Reading Like a Writer.  It's fantastic so far!  (And appropriate reading, considering that that's what I'm going to school for in the Fall.)  The author made an interesting point.  Never once do you hear a writer say "I want to make awesome plots, and think up great characters!"  When you talk to a writer about what he/she would like to improve in their craft, it's mostly technique or skill that they're looking to tweak.  The author said that she was counceling one writer who hit the nail on the head: "I want to write really good sentences."
Uh!
YES!
Amen!
That's what I want!  To be able to put beautiful words together into even more beautiful sentences!  Write enough of those, add in a dash of plot (because plots, characters, ideas, come naturally to creative types - that's not what we have to work on) and you have yourself a book.
Writing great sentences: my life-long goal.

Ok.  I know this post was a bit long-winded, for which I oppologize.  See you Monday, hopefully with some weekend pictures to share (but probably not because I'm too lazy to keep my camera/phone always on hand, and too forgetful to take pictures of really entertaining things that happen to me).
For now, here's a snap of the Queen, herself.