owd - operation wedding dress

so a lot of my friends have already heard me talk about owd, and some of you have not. operation wedding dress (owd for short) was contrived one evening when i realized that there were just not enough hours in the day to get everything done that needed to be done, including working out in order to fit into a gorgeous white dress that will make everyone ooo and ahh.

and since i'm living at home until we get married, it's hard to work around everyone's schedule to be able to walk on our treadmill which was at the time housed upstairs above my sister's room. every saturday morning i would walk around 9 am, and, man, i would hear about it when she finally woke up about 2 pm about how i woke her up... now trying to be the peacemaker in the household (i'm sure mom and sara will laugh at that) i decided to beg, plead, cry, negotiate, and manipulate (just kidding to 3 out of 5 of those) to get them to let me move the treadmill downstairs to our den. in the den, i was pretty sure that i would disturb no one while walking at any hour of the day. once they gave in, and my dad and i hoisted the humongous thing down the stairs and in the den - operation wedding dress was born!

i've decided to get up every morning (ok, maybe not EVERY morning) at 5 am, walk for an hour (while watching previously taped programming since nothing but saved by the bell episodes that i've honestly seen about 200 times each is on - thank you, dvr), cool off for a few minutes, take a shower and get ready for work, and then carpool my happy little butt to work. i LOVE the fact that when i get home in the evenings, i dont' have to worry about walking another mile or feeling bad for not doing anything because i have!

some days i have a hard time getting myself up in the morning, but with the help of my fabulous fiancee (who i call EVERYDAY at 5 am in order to wake him up for work), he helps to motivate me out of the bed that early. i'm still working on making it a daily habit, but i'm going to try as hard as i can between now and march (when i am finally going to allow myself to be able to browse and try on wedding dresses)