1/52 - The Project Begins, plus: Yoga beats up Sarah!

So I finally got the self portrait done for week one of my 52-Week Self-Portrait Project. Since I've been madly cleaning my house the past few days I decided to kinda do a housecleaning photo, but in style. Haha. I couldn't quite decide on the photo's, so I did two of them. Here they are: My Sexy Housewife Cleaning in Style photo's! And no, I do not clean the house like this for real. I clean the house in sweats and a t-shirt mainly. But this was fun.  (And I kept thinking that if someone came to the door and I had to run answer it, they'd be mighty surprised to see someone done up like this at 8:45am... haha. Especially with the cleaning gloves on.  Totally completes the outfit, don't ya think?)

As for my day so far... I got up early today, which is a huge struggle for me. I am seriously NOT a morning person. But I got up right after Ryan left for work, so around 6:10am (yeah, I know, ugh) and had breakfast, watered plants, and then did my beginner yoga video. I haven't done my yoga since before Christmas... I used to do it with my awesome sister-in-law Beth, but then they up and moved to England and are having a grand 'ol time, and I'm stuck here in Alberta with no yoga partner. So I haven't yoga'd (as if that's even a word) in months and months... and even though I was taking modern dance the semester after Christmas, sitting around these past two summer months have totally made me lose any gains I had made in fitness by taking that class. So let me just say, that yoga video whomped my butt! Yikes. Oww. Uhhh. *groan* I am so out of shape that a basic beginners yoga video totally owned me. I've really got to get back at it. So I am going to try to get up in the morning with Ryan and eat breakfast and do yoga before continuing my day. And hopefully someday soon it won't hurt so much during and after, and I hope to touch my toes again soon too... I've just got to somehow keep at it. Which can be hard when it's so dang tiring, and then it's discouraging... to see how far I've slipped back again. But I won't ever get fit if I don't do something about, so for now it's yoga, and walking (hopefully Ryan's ankle heals up soon so I have a walking partner) and the occasional bike ride, and I'll eventually move up to the extra yoga and the crazy lower-body workout that are also on my video.

In other news, my house is almost really clean. Except for the spare room. Don't even mention the spare room to me. But everything else is awesome :) I've dusted, vacuumed, wiped, washed, and tidied, and I love having all this space! I can actually sit in my couch! So yeah, been doing good on that, and the eating front is still going quite well, though I did have a bit of ice cream (Jack's softserve, so can you blame me) with Ryan when we went out on Monday... it had been a warm day, I'd gotten a fair amount done. It was SO yummy!! And on Monday we went back to Beerhunters, a pub here in town, for supper... we'd been once before a while ago, and thought we remembered it being really good. And we weren't disappointed. Awesome food. It's a pub, so we'd avoid it later in the evening, if there were any games on, etc... and the service is lackluster, but the food is totally good. So yeah, I got a break from cooking, but other than that I've been good and have been making meals at home too. Look at me go! Hahaha... :D Anyhow, that's enough for now.

How's everyone's summer going? Any big plans for Canada Day? We're just gonna be chill'n and playing board games. Should be good. Have a great day everyone!!