Chillout day..

After my last workout( 300 sit-ups and 50 push-ups) my abs were so soar that it hurt to laugh and sneeze. It sucked, but the pain let me know the I had gained something out of my workout. I can't imagine doing the same workout for at least another day. Today I am not going to workout because I have to go to work shortly and am just tired overall. I hope to get a nice jog in after work this evening if not tomorrow. As far as biting my nails goes, I am guilty of doing so once today already and do not plan on doing it anymore today. With finals and summer on my mind, I am destined to bite a little bit but I will try my hardest not to. Besides, I really will not be biting them at work because that is unhealthy as it gets and I have been striving for good health ever since I started to turn my bad habit into good ones. Peace for today. Jo-E

Sit-ups+Push-ups..

Today I needed to step up my workout session a bit being that I slacked off entirely from a much needed workout. I proceeded to do 300 sit-ups and 50 push-ups. It was not too hard and only took me about half an hour but man do I feel refreshed! Yesterday I found it extremely hard not to bite my nails when I didn't workout. I was guilty of biting them a few times yesterday so today I will try my hardest not to bite them at all. So far I've succeeded at this. Also, I've been trying to overdose on the water. I really want to be hydrated after my workouts and just all day in general. I believe this will keep my health up.

The Struggle...

Man is it hard not to bite my nails. Workouts or not, the struggle to resist the nail biting seems to get a bit harder every day that I don't keep myself occupied. That is, when I fail to work out, I find myself a bit more likely to chomp away. I don't really find it neccessary to work out more than four times a week so what about those other three days then? Well today is one of those three and let me tell you I've caught myself attempting to bite away. Although I've resisted so far( Every time my fingers went into my mouth, I instantly pulled them away) the fact is that the temptation is staring me in my face like a gun to an outlaw criminal. It is simply the struggle to shake my very bad habit. It is just there. Resisting is pretty hard, but so far I am successful in resisting. I want my nails to be longer right now. That is the key. Holla...

Good Habits...

Today will be a pretty laid back day, in that I will take my work-out easier than that of my previous. Today, I will run one mile and walk the other one. I figured I'd get the run out and then walk a sort of reflective mile just to reflect on all the good that I've acheived on my journey to vanishing my bad habit. Overall, I'd say i've been doing pretty well on avoiding the nail biting scenario. Today I don't have to work and plan heavily on getting caught up in this 220 course. I am the publisher for my work group and must post to UNMGOBLOGURSELF.

Consistency is key..

Today, I realized that my goals for shaking my bad habit weren't too consistent and that is why I would go a day working out and the next would be a bland nail biting day. So that said, today I will be consistent and continue my work-out sessions. Today, I plan on doing 100 push-ups and 300 sit-ups. It's been quite some time since I've done push-ups but I'm gonna try to break them into sections of 30 in between every hundred sit-ups. After I write this I will follow through with my goal and just do it. P.S. I haven't bit my nails yet today.

2 miles today...

I followed through with my goals today and ran a complete two miles only stopping once in between the miles. I didn't stop for too long only giving myself some time to catch a breath. It was a pretty intense to me because I am only now getting back into shape. It was very challenging and it helped me have more energy until it was time for bed. I resisted biting my nails all day long which made me feel like I could really shake the habit. It was a great inspirational jog in that I felt like I could really get back into shape and feel good about my body. Great day for my bad habit.

Bad Nerves...

Today was not so good for me and my bad habit, it seems like my nerves got the best of my today. I think its because of the semester coming to what seems to be an extremely fast hault. With finals, spring/summer, and all the other distractions on my mind, today I bit my nails a little too much. In addition, I didn't squeeze in any work-out. In a sense I failed myself with my bad habit today. I had to work this evening until about 10:30 pm and after that I was just lazy. One thing that my previous work-outs helped out on was supplying me with enough energy to last until the night, but today it seems I was lazy almost the whole evening. I lacked that work-out that would've given me that extra umph I needed to be more productive throughout the evening time. I need that energy in the evening in order to work at my job more effeciently. I now realize how important working out is in my life. Tomorrow I will try to run two miles, increasing each mile run by a half of a mile.

Good workouts...

Today was a great day because I actually did a bit of a funner workout today than usual. Instead of doing hard-crunching sit-ups(boring) and jogging(lame), I simply danced around for about half an hour. One may not believe that cutting a rug for that long is indeed tiring, I broke an intense sweat, but very fun. I just turned on my stereo full blast with my favorite tracks and just danced around for my work-out. I used to breakdance, so I kind of incorporated some b-boy moves in the mix. I hadn't danced that intense in quite some time and honestly I think I'll include this dancing work-out in my regular work-out routine. I didn't really bite my nails today, instead whenever I found my fingers in my mouth, I pulled them away instantly, kind of cold turkeying effect of it. Pretty successful day.

Bad Habit updates gone good..

Today was an excellent day for my bad habit because I did indeed resist biting my nails all day long and jogged a tiring one mile and a half( increasing my jog by a half a mile was well worth it). I felt absolutely great after working out, with enough energy to get started on my portfolio cover letter. It was a great feeling and after I got the day started with a mile jog, it seemed the rest of the day went by with ease. My nerves were tired by the end of the day, leaving no time for me to chomp away at my fingertips. This was a good day turning my bad habit into a positive experience. In the future, I will really try to work-out at least five days a week without biting my nails.

Bad Habit Updates..

Today, I found myself biting my nails down until I couldn't anymore. This occurred naturally throughout the day and I just couldn't stop myself from doing so. I did not work out today, and that may be the issue because I was at work all night and had little time to squeeze in a sweater. This is my lack of inspiration to work out which I know is not healthy, but tomorrow will be a better day for my bad habit, for I plan to resist the urge to bite my nails all day long.

Bad Habits

Today, in substitution for biting my nails, I did 250 sit-ups. I just turned on my radio and got to working out. It took me about 20 minutes, and I was doing them pretty fast but I had to take breaks after about 50. I just did 5 sets of 50. It was pretty hard on my stomach, but no pain no gain I guess huh? Now, I feel a bit refreshed and tired but it is definately for the better! I resisted biting my nails all day today, but that my be because there aren't any nails to be bitten. They are already bitten. Oh well, still feels good to be working out feeling the burn again.

Journal for Bad Habit...

My worst daily habit would definately have to be biting my nails. It just happens. I'll find myself in class or out with my fingers in my mouth chomping at my nails. It is a bad habit that I need to kick. Today, I substituted biting my nails for jogging a mile on a track. The results were great. Not only did I feel great after jogging (extremely painful and exausting for its been years since my last mile-run) a mile in so long, I also felt a bit more energetic. Now, I feel tired, a bit too tired to bite my nails which is a good thing. Working out in place of nail biting was a great substitution that I hope to stick with for the bettering of my life and health.

Goals and audience for my writing process...

My writing process post was interesting to me because I don't think that I've ever had to explain my writing process, I just wrote. That said, it took me time to focus on the goals of this particular piece. My goals for this piece was to give in detail exactly what process I go through whenever I sit down to write. I just thought of all the things such as keeping a clear mind and focusing on the topic at hand, that I do when I write. Most of the things that I explained were done without ever thinking about them. It was kind of difficult to write about how I write just because whenever I sat down to write a paper, it came naturally really with no set process. That said, my goals were to give myself a general overview of the things that I do naturally whenever I write. Like I said, I don't really have a set of rules that I follow when I write, I just write. Almost all of my writing has been done just sitting here at my computer desk in front of my laptop and typing away, with proper info on the topic at hand. I do researching when writing on unfamiliar topics and apply the facts with a little opinion. If I am very knowledgeable on the topic at hand, I usually am informed enough to write about it.

Goals and audience for HEADPHONEs article...

When thinking what would make a good topic for our class blog, I instantly knew what may intrigue some of the UNM students. The audience was UNM. I realized that almost every student wears headphones, including myself, and a question popped into my mind that I myself was especially curious about. That was are headphones good or bad for your health or hearing? I wanted to let students as well as all headphone users know the possible effects of using in-ear style buds, which seem to be the headphones of choice for most people around campus. Letting people know that they may be harmful for your hearing health is all I really strived to do. I just wanted to get the fact that they are harmful when used improperly out to a general audience of UNM, college students, and all headphone users out there. I think it is an important issue because so many people have mp3 players with ear buds and they may be damaging their ears. My goal was to explain possibe negative effects of wearing them as well as solutions on how to prevent hearing damage( wear ear-muff headphones, limiting use of headphones, and keeping volumes below medium setting).

Goals and audience for persuasive writing...

I had many goals for my writing on how to write persuasively. They included giving an audience of students, college students particularly, all the info they would need in order to compose an effective persuasive writing piece. That is, what is the topic you are debating about? Does it have two opposing sides because in order to write an effective persuasive piece of writing, two sides must be involved in order to try and persuade ones thoughts toward yours or vice versa. Like I said, the audience was my english classmates and all college students whom are in an English course. A persuasive piece tends to make the reader change his or her mind on the topic at hand. I dug deep into the web to find all the info possible for creating a persuasive piece and explained just what to do.

Goals and audience for diction...

The audience for this particular diction piece were to those students whom struggle with writing styles. Just what tone do you use for certain writings? That is a question that I strived to figure out and further try to explain. I myself struggle a lot with diction and I strived to find any and all the info about diction. My goals included giving people a better understanding of how to use their voice and style for papers. What papers? Academic ones as well as informal ones. I just wanted to give straight forward info on diction while explaining how to write.