Category Archives: Health

Surprising Things I’ve Accomplished This Year (specifically given that it’s been a corona-year)

  • Checked two new states (North Carolina, Mississippi) off my list
  • Missions trip to Haiti
    • Three “airports” in one day
    • Landing & taking off on a dirt runway
    • Attending/walking in a Haitian funeral processional
    • Ate goat for the first time
  • Iguanas in the wild (in Miami… they chased me away from my lunch)
  • Finished unpacking all boxes from moving end of 2019
  • Started packing up to move again
  • Attended nephew’s high school graduation
  • Vacation to San Diego
    • Lodging at the fabulous beachfront Tower23
    • Riding bicycles to Mission Beach
  • Completed “Visual Communications” course through Sophia Learning
  • Put more than 10,000 miles on my car
  • Ran three trivia nights before the world shut down
  • Read 29 books
  • Successfully began intermittent fasting (lost 8 pounds and dropped my A1C from 6.1 to 5.4!)
  • Watched multiple full series on Hulu and Amazon Prime
  • Achieved level 40 and then level 41 on Pokemon Go
  • Applied for 66 jobs
  • Got hired for exciting new position with city of Clinton, Iowa!
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Things You Do NOT Need to Feel Guilty About Right Now

  • Feeling depressed or anxious
  • Being tired
  • Missing the people you used to hang out with
  • Seeing the people you used to hang out with
  • Clinging to your family
  • Not being able to spend time with your family
  • Sending your kids to school
  • Not sending your kids to school
  • Having a cheap face mask
  • Having the most expensive face mask that exists
  • Not having a job
  • Wishing you didn’t have a job
  • Loving your job
  • Hating work-from-home
  • Loving remote work
  • Fearing the uncertainty of the future
  • Being sad about the world around us
  • Being angry about the world around us
  • Being closed off from the world around us
  • Eating at home
  • Eating out
  • Picking up food to eat somewhere else
  • Going for walks/runs/jogs
  • Cocooning at home
  • Not being able to concentrate on reading
  • Reading more books than ever because you have nothing else to do
  • Being unproductive
  • Being so productive people around you complain
  • Sleeping late
  • Not sleeping well
  • Doing whatever it is that you need to do to survive or even thrive

Cookbooks on my Bookshelf (As proof that at one time in my life I actually did cook on a regular basis.)

  • Lickety Split Meals for Health Conscious People on the Go (Seriously the best, go buy it.)
  • Oh Deer! The Venison Cookbook for Beginners
  • Sunset Wok Cookbook
  • Fix-It and Forget-It Cookbook / Feasting with your Slow Cooker
  • 4 Ingredient Recipes for 30 Minute Meals
  • Three Ingredient Cookbook Volume II
  • Fat Free Living Cookbook
  • Miserly Meals
  • Pampered Chef All the Best
  • Low Fat Mexican Recipes
  • Betty Crocker Great Pasta
  • Food for the body and for the soul
  • Treasured Recipes / Far & Near Missionary Fellowship
  • Magazine issues: Taste of Home’s Quick Cooking
  • Magazine issues: Kraft Food & Family
Lickety Split Meals for Health Conscious People on the Go — I am not a paid representative, just a person who used this book every single day for years. By far the best cookbook I’ve ever owned in both the way it functioned and the recipes it provides. Do yourself a favor and go buy this right now!

Summer Programs You Can Join at Two Rivers YMCA

  • Swim With Craig – English Channel Swim Challenge (May – July)
  • Summer Camp
  • Swim Lessons / Private Lessons / Adult Lessons / Camp Lessons
  • Safe All Summer – Family Fun Day (June 10)
  • Learn to Row, Rowing Clinic (June 19-22)
  • Body Combat / Body Attack / Body Vive / Body Flow
  • Tee Time – Family Fun Day (July 15)
  • Slim Down Challenge (June 5-July 30)
  • Grynd, Advanced Hard Rock Yoga
  • Dodge Ball Clinic (July 10-13)
  • Pickle Ball Clinic (July 17-20)
  • Aqua Ex-Stravaganza, free water exercise classes (June 10)
  • Boy Scout Swim Tests (June 10)
  • Running Clinic (June 12-15)
  • Tumbling
  • Tae Kwon Do
  • T-Ball Clinic (July 24-27)
  • Paddleboard & Kayak Rentals
  • Going Gaga, Gaga Ball Tournament – Family Fun Day (August 12)
  • Personal Training
  • Silver Sneakers
  • So much more….

Water Exercise Classes You Could Take at the Two Rivers YMCA

  • Aqua Zumba
  • Water In Motion
  • Shallow Water High Energy
  • Slow & Easy (Arthritis class)
  • AiChi body/mind/spirit class
  • Aqua Combo (Deep & Shallow, high energy)
  • Fluid & Flexible (for Fibromyalgia & other joint & muscle pain)
  • Multiple Sclerosis cool water class
  • Deep Water High Energy
  • Day’s End Warm Water Workout (Deep & Shallow)

Classes You Should Take at the Y (if you live in the Quad Cities)

  1. Lifeguarding (Earn your certification) 
  2. Boot Camp Combo (Land & Water)
  3. Les Mills Body Flow
  4. DREAM Basketball (for youth)
  5. Superhero Training (age 3-6)
  6. Preschool Arts & Play
  7. Adult Swim Lessons
  8. Family Zumba
  9. Les Mills CX Worx
  10. Silver Sneakers (Seniors Range of Motion)
  11. Aqua Combo (Shallow and Deep Water Ex)
  12. Deep Water Ex – 4 pm Tues & Thurs (the one I teach!)

 CHECK OUT THE Y’S FALL PROGRAM GUIDE HERE