Well, glad ya found your membership card, even if it cost yas some stress- not finding it would have cost even more stress.

It's great you decided to go to the game- its those little unplanned times with family that are really special.

Sometimes I think car places try to take advantage of women- I guess I'm lucky my hubby is a mechanic and he takes care of most of the car schtuff.

I'm glad everything worked out.

Thanks for stopping by. I love the dog in your avatar. Is it yours? My MIL used to have a dog just like that. Her name was Pepper.

The dog in the avatar is the only Australian Shepherd they had to choose from. They come in many different coats- that one pictured is a blue merle . . but there is red merle too, as well as red, and a black.

My dog looks like the one in this link. His name is Finnegan.

http://www.awesome-aussies.com/templ...mg/breed-2.jpg

Awe. I love dogs of all types! I guess yesterday my own dog didn't like what the groomer was doing and nipped her. I hope it's ok because she acted a little weird about it.

Yesterday's exercise: 60 min. treadmill, 3.5 miles, 346 cals. + 50 min. toning exercises and on the total trainer

Exercise total for 3rd part of challenge: 306min. (5hr 6 min.)


If I could count the hours I've spent (and will spend) staining windows and a door, I'd be over the roof with the exercise min!

Today's agenda is: breakfast, workout, stain, shower, take dog to vet (he needs booster shots and I just want to make sure everything is ok since he "bit" the groomer yesterday.), home for dinner, another workout (hopefully) and relax...whew! I will need another break next week to recover from "spring break".

Hey Sweetpea... good job on the working out!!! We're so awesome with this challenge thing... I know I've said it before, but I'll say it again... the ARC is totally what has me in my working out groove. I just keep you and Angel in the back of my mind when I don't want to go to the gym or I want to finish off the entire carrot cake after dinner...

And I wouldn't be too worried about your dog nipping the groomer... I'm actually surprised that dogs don't do that more often. If someone held me down to bath me and then cut my hair, I'd be doing a hell of a lot more than nipping, that's for sure! Also make sure he/she doesn't have any nicks... we had an incident with a groomer and my grandmother's dog. The woman raised a fit that Herbie nipped her until we found two nicks on his side and realized he probably bit her when she accidentally cut him with the shaver.

Awesome exercise routine! I plan to increase mine too, but just "restarting" and doing 30 min 3x a week for now, and will build up from there.

I need to get my dog in for his boosters too. He just turned 3 in March. What kind of doggie do ya have?

Hi BG - yeah he has a few razor burns. She said it happened when she was working with his feet.

I am working out more than ever with the ARC challenge. Just wish it would produce better results. I'm eating well too. So don't know what gives except that I'm losing inches - at least the "pant-o-meter" says so.

Yeah when I started back 3x 30 min. a week was my goal too. I'm just doing more because of the challenge now. I usually go for at least 30 min. 5x w/o the challenge, but I'm definitely going to up that amount after the challenge to aim for 60 min. 5x a week.

I have a "schnoodle" - part schnauzer and part poodle.

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Just got done on the elliptical and some leg exercises:

47.05 min., 3.75 miles, 455 cals, 6274 strides. I was going for more min. on the elliptical, but I kept feeling this sting in my shin. I think I have a pinched nerve there.
After getting off the elliptical I did some leg toning exercises for 8 min. And some super stretching for 5 min. I am going to try for some upper body stuff later on.

Exercise total for 3rd part of challenge: 366.5min. (6hr 6.5min.)

Your really doing an AWESOME job!!
Keep at it and surely the scale will catch up to you.
The Pant-o-Meter is by far the best way to measure things! hahaha

You pupster is a cutie!

I love dogs in general too- my hubby calls me a dog expert because I know so many different breeds, but it's only from watching dog shows on TV and doing alot of research on different breeds before choosing my Finnegan.

Well the scale isn't cooperating!

I love dogs too. The only dog show I generally have watched is the Dog Whisper. But I haven't watched it in awhile.

The scale is my enemy! I am not happy with it at all. I've been working out super hard for two weeks now, and nothing!

I'm going to have to do more weights I guess and eat super clean.