Kicking Ass All Day Long!

Today was pretty awesome.

My newspaper garden

I was determined to finish my garden and step one was to cover everything in 4-5 layers of wet newspaper. My friend Chris had given me 15-20 Providence Journals thinking that would be more then enough. Well, it ended up taking an additional 23 on top of that! What a friggin' pain in the ass! My hose conveniently leaks from the spigot in two places and from a spot in the hose itself making it pretty much useless, unless my goal is to make a muddy swamp next to my house (which it isn't. maybe a moat would be cool though...) so I had to get buckets of water and wet each section of news paper one at a time. Uck!

I gave up when I was still a few feet away from the fence because I had to get the mulch down before I had to leave for kickboxing class. That went much more quickly and easily. But alas, I didn't have enough of that either! The 8 bags I bought only covered about half of it. GAH! I hope I can find the same brand tomorrow so it's all the same color. I just dumped more buckets of water on the remaining exposed newspaper (I bet my neighbors are thinking "What the fuck is that crazy lady doing in her garden?!") because if it blew away in the night I think I would have a nervous break down. No lie. Tomorrow it will be done and look awesome!

After a hard days work, and before a tough workout I made myself baked salmon and had is with my leftover quinoa salad and some organic baby greens. Amazingly delicious and healthy!

 

Kickboxing class was awesome! I took it at Evolutionary Sports in West Warwick. It's something I always wanted to try but was always too afraid to do. I figured I'd be so out of shape I'd make an ass of myself and people would look at me like I'm pathetic. But a friend's sister got me to go with her and it was a great experience. There were all fitness levels and ages there, the instructor explained everything and I didn't feel intimidated or judged at all! I guess the instructor went easy on us tonight, but I think I could have handled a bit more intensity. Maybe... I'm looking forward to going back. It's going to be fun to punch and kick out my aggression! Mwahaha! I highly recommend it.

I haven't felt this good in months! (Uh, maybe that's because you got exercise Stacy! DUH!) Tomorrow I scrub the deck then power wash it, and finish the garden. Hopefully I won't be completely useless between the back breaking gardening (if you could call it that) and kickboxing class.