Over the past two days most of my team in NY and I have been in training related to a project we are doing that involves implementing Kanban. The training was really good. I know the trainer and he is very energetic. He didn’t disappoint. The training was very interactive and got everyone thinking. I think it was really helpful and I hope to use a lot of what we learned and apply it to the real world. Its one thing to try something (I have been trying a Kanban implementation with my team for a few months) and it is another to get really in depth info from experts and be able to use it better. I already learned of several ways i can modify what we are doing to improve on it outside of the project we went to the training for.
Month: August 2013
Sick Day And Record Weight
Today is the first day I weighted in under 170. My official weigh in according to my nice Withings Scale was 169.7. That was a big phycological barrier to cross for me.
Today I also took a sick day. I am still trying to recover from my cold.
Test Cake
MC has been experimenting with cake for Teagan’s upcoming first birthday. This weekend she made her first test cakes. One was in a duck mold. it looked horrible but tasted perfect. The other one was a traditional cake that also tasted fantastic. MC is really good at this cake stuff but her decision to start a baking hobby is a challenge since I am dieting.
I was eating so much of that awesome cake that we had to throw out what we had left over after giving away a ton of it.
Another Jawbone UP
While I was away on vacation my jawbone UP broke yet again. Their warranty replacement process takes one to two weeks. They’re very good with giving you a replacement UP’s but it takes forever to get it. I am assuming since I have gone through six or seven of them and I don’t beat them up very much they are having problems with them and that is why they are quick to replace them. While I’m trying to actually lose weight and check my activity every day not having an UP for one to two weeks is very difficult. Because of that I decided to eat the $129 and get another one so I had it when I got home from vacation. I seriously contemplated getting the Fitbit Flex but I opted for another UP. MC convinced me to get another black band one instead of the blue one I was looking at. I’m glad she did because Jawbone I didn’t have any black ones in stock so the replacement one I am getting will be blue.
Our Private Pool Cabana
On our last full day in Aruba we decided to rent one of the awesome poolside cabana’s and relax in style. It was really nice. The free towel service, water and ice on top of the guaranteed shady chairs made the splurge worth it. I can’t see spending money on them every day but since we had the cabana we stayed by the pool a lot longer today. Teagan enjoyed her nap in the shade as well.
It was a fantastic last full day in Aruba. Sad to have to be going home tomorrow.
Dinner on the Beach
Today Teagan took a power nap with me while I walked her in the stroller on the beach. She then took a two hour nap after lunch. We got lucky. The weather continues to be fantastic. For Lunch we walked to the Westin Hotel and grabbed food at their poolside cafe since MC & I did not think that much of the poolside cafe in our hotel.
For dinner we had reservations for a beachside meal right on the water in the sand at our hotel. It was one of the two splurge nights we decided to have on our stay. It was pretty amazing to sit and relax at a table right on the beach. They timed it so we started to sit down as the sun was going down.
The food was pretty good. it was the first time i had a lobster bisque soup. The service was a bit slow but we attribute that to the distance the servers had to travel to get to us! Teagan was very cooperative also. She generally is a fantastic baby and she fell asleep in MC’s arm’s after it got dark but not before she was up way past her bedtime. Overall a perfect day in Aruba.
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