Not pregnant, but expecting.... it's all about the weight

You could say that a woman that is working on baby names, has a finished nursery AND is gaining weight is pregnant,  well... you are WRONG!!  I am working on baby names, I have a finished nursery and I am gaining weight BUT I'm not pregnant...  however... I am expecting... (and might have a psychological pregnancy if you are judging by my weight!).  ha ha... Nahhh I'm exagerating... it's not that bad... I'm not growing a belly... just growing my butt... :)

Anyway, to counteract the psychological pregnancy caused by too many ice-creams,  I tried the diet, counting calories route for about two weeks and... uh... it didn't work.  See, I am a very disciplined person when it comes to pretty much anything... but when I get back from work at 6:00 in the afternoon and I have to wait for about an hour for dinner to be ready (maybe for two if I'm the one cooking) is bye bye diet. I'll eat whatever is at hand...  It's about survival!! :)

So I decided to change the strategy... let's start moving... any sport would work...  and what would be better than running!! I'll just burn the calories!! It's pretty convenient,  you don't need to go anywhere (like a gym) and all you need is pair of running shoes! You see, I have this friend at work who's a sports freak, really.  She's the type of gal who bikes for 7 hours straight and then goes for a short 2 hour run to "cool down"... seriously! So anyway, I asked her how to start jogging and she recommended I counted trees.  Yup... trees.  But not like counting trees to try to fall asleep... this is not sheep... this is trees. 

Next day, I tied Duna to my waist and asked Tavo to count trees with me.  Surprisingly, he happily accepted.  We started jogging on the sidewalk - we counted 3 trees and then we would walk one... (that's the part where we try to re-gain our breath) and then we started over.  That continued for about 30 minutes.  Yes people, you could say we were not in very good shape.  Anyway... everything was going peaches, I even went one step ahead and downloaded this app called Couch to 5K... which is like a personal trainer in your iphone.  Really cool stuff.   We were following our "program" and Duna was loooving it,  until last week when it started raining again.  And if you live in Calgary you know that we've had a pretty wet summer this year.  Uhhh... I don't jog in the rain so we took a weekly break.  

Well the problem is, during the week you eat the calories... and it rained... so today we took the decision that we would bike.  We thought that it would be fun to go from home to downtown and back, it would be nice, we would do it slowly, while enjoying nature.  Sooooo much fun, we would take the bike path right by the bow river, we would see the birds, and take in the clean air.... freak'n 18 Km of clean air!!  18 Km!!! Of course...  we were soooooo smart.  So smart, we forgot to check map quest before leaving...

Ok so let me tell you... 18 Km of cycling for someone that has issues breathing after 4 to 5 trees... is not funny. 

This is me the first time that we stopped.  I was "lost" and needed to take a break to look in the "map"... the distraction did work for a while until Tavo said: You tired? And I said... trying to breath at the same time... Nahhh meeee??? Ya think?

And this is Tavo laughing at me (and telling me "Tu si eres una nena"! - translation: you are a cry baby) and showing me how far we still were from downtown.  See the smile... (??) He doesn't know yet but there will be vengeance!

Finally, after about 4 hours and many more stops,  downtown was at close sight...  this is me celebrating.

Did I mentioned we didn't have any food on our way there? And it was about 3:00 pm with an empty stomach when we got there. 

But the day did get better.  We arrived to downtown and after two bottles of water we realized "A Taste of Calgary" festival was on.  So we did park our bikes somewhere close by (hoping someone would steal them), and bought something to eat.  (By the way... sadly nobody stole the bikes...)

And of course... good negotiator that I am, I did negotiate my way back home in the LRT.  What? did you think I was going to do the 18 Km back? You kidding? Enough burned calories for one day!

Until next post!


LuzM. 

PS. For those of you following the adoption paper's saga,  the Colombian Embassy totally amazed us by sending us the signed docs in less than a week.  So we have the ready the second set of documents, but no translations.  Our "legal representative",  or "international specialist" other ways known as my mom...(or future abuelita) is working on sending the translations to us next week so that we can add them to the originals,  take copies and forward to Alberta Children's Services which is supposed to send them to ICBF.  Hoping all of that will be ready in Colombia by the end of August.  More to come!!