walking & housework max

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I thought I'd have workers here today so I got dressed in my jeans and shirt instead of workout clothes. Found out at 8:15 they won't be here until tomorrow but by then I was already going full force on housework (the kids leave for the bus just before 8:15 and I'm already doing stuff while they're eating breakfast and getting ready to go) so I just stuck with that. I did my weekly home blessing hour (www.flylady.net) plus a LOT of other miscellaneous cleaning and LOTS of decluttering. Between last week and today I managed to completely unbury my husband's workshop which had become completely obliterated with boxes, packing materials and outgrown kids clothes among other things. I found the floor and swept it over the weekend and uncovered his workbench today. He was totally shocked and very happy about it! Because we're having the ceiling in our family room and kitchen painted tomorrow DH had to declutter a table in the family room. That led to where is he going to put the stuff and I showed him a bunch of old training manuals on a shelf he could probably get rid of also in his workshop and FINALLY he got rid of manuals from Excel classes he took 10 years ago plus other ones from communications classes he took 13 years ago!!!!! Being the good wife I am (and desperate to get rid of them before he changed his mind) I ripped out the pages to recycle them for him. I also took a 45 minute pretty much leisurely walk this afternoon too on the trail that was built here a few years ago along what was an abandoned railroad track. It was an absolutely gorgeous and relaxing way to welcome my favorite season. I would have walked longer but I had to get home for the kids' school bus. I wasn't wearing my HRM but between the walk, the housework max, carrying lots of stuff up and down the basement steps and of course tearing up a ton of books I'm sure I had a decent calorie burn! :-)

I'm not planning on a workout tomorrow. I'm not sure what time the guys will be here but they will be very busy so hopefully they'll be here early. Wednesday I'm going on a walking field trip with my DD's class to the local fire station and then working so probably no workout then either. Thursday should be a good day if there isn't more work being done then. I know they're trying to do everything tomorrow if they can. I'm starting to really feel good finally. Comparably little coughing last night finally and very little this morning, all day and this evening. If my schedule agrees I'm going to try and get back into my regular workout routine as much as I can next week and hopefully the tail end of this week too.