Home Workout enthusiasts - week of May 27

[cniles]

Hey there!

Wonderful weekend - we were with tons of friends, ate tons of food and I did ok on the beverage front! I did Stepboxing on Sat before we left... Nothing else until today!

Today I did Time Crunch... something or other from the FIRM. Some weight and ab work. Not really motivated today but needed to do something. I hope to have more energy to do some cardio tomorrow. We're winding down - 6 1/2 more days of school- woo hoo!!!

How was everyone's holiday weekend?:)

[Valerie226]

Stacy I wrote 2 detailed descriptions of the granite process and both disappeared into cyberspace for no reason.

Our weekend was Ok. we did a really nice ski saturday. cool and sunny, and we cut some great turns. yes, we are still up to our ears in snow. this will be a very late year for mountain activities. the other two days we did yard work. one landscaping project we finished for now & it looks very nice, a huge improvement. we have some big projects going on and need to get them done... a fix-the-drainage and maybe-a-deck project in our front yard. the kitchen project is ongoing, waiting for the new island and then will proceed with the granite.

I haven't done anything spectacular. the yard work has been pretty intense but most is done enough for now. I've been doing treadmill/elliptical and yesterday did Muscle Max for the first time in a while and am feeling the results today. some sore spots!

About the granite... go to a granite yard( at least one) to see slabs. the little 3x3 pieces you see at HD and Lowe's is only a hint of what is available. It's all expensive so if you're spending this much at least make sure you look at the choices. there is some amazing looking stone, some of it way too wild and colorful for my very subdued tentative decorating sense. we are getting one called juliet. It's tan, brown, cream with some blue flecks. It has a flowing pattern that is visible but the colors are quite subtle. the cheaper granites ( still not cheap) have a consistent overall pattern so the whole piece looks uniform. if you have only small sections that won't show a "big" pattern these make more sense.
Corian is expensive and in the kitchen it scratches and gets scuffy looking fairly quickly, IMO. I didn't like the colors of manufactured stone like zodiac or silestone. We are doing an island and then some small pieces of countertop along the wall around the sink and cooktop.

there seem to be a variety of ways to buy granite. you can buy the stone and look for an installer/fabricator you like. the granite showrooms we looked at had a list of recommended people. the place we picked has their own installers. we didn't check with HD or Lowes since I didn't like the color choices.