Shots Fired at Coastal Carolina University

Albert called last night to tell us the campus was on a lock down. Some one shot a nineteen year old student in a university owned apt around 7:30 Tuesday evening. The call scared the heck out of me. Granted the shooting was in the evening, it was off campus, targeted one person only (as far as I can tell)and Albert was miles away. But an on campus shooting brings up terrifying images of dead children. While I thank God that my son and his friends are safe someone's son is dead. I bet those parents love him just as much as I love Albert.

Month Ending Goal

I up too 100 4th step pushups daily. I ususally do 25 or 30 at a time which means i need to do 3 or 4 sets I order to get my 100+ in. Since I'm ready to stay at 100/day for now, I've started working on form, making sure my butt is down and I move slowly and go down as far as I can. I'm proud of what I'm doing but it is more fun being laz. In March I move down to the third step.

Doing Myself Proud

I am pleased witah myself. I am turning into the stair push-up champ for the 61 year old chunkettes. I have done stair push-ups every day (but one) this month. I started out doing two sets of ten and last night I did 4 sets (30,25,28,16) for a total of 99. Way to go girl.

Stair Push-ups

For a little over two weeks I've been doing stair push-ups. I stand on the first floor, put my hands on the fourth step and do full body push-ups. It's not as easy as it sounds. But it is a lot easier then floor push-ups. So far today I've done two sets of thirty and plan on a set of twenty to twenty five before bed. The tough thing is soon I have to move down to putting my hands on the third step. It is a start.

Family

So this morning, I spoke eloquently to my husband and son, about how brave and daring I was. How I was charging off through the bitter cold to save the world by placing library books on shelves so the public could find them. They laughed me out of the house. In other news I've been fascinated (in an icky sort of way) with on online flame war between a Harvard educated blogger and a street wise blogger. Not surprisingly the Harvard education trumps the street smarts. What does surprise and sadden me is harshness and pettiness of some of the comments by supporters especially on the Harvard side. Nothing wrong with taking sides. But some of them sound so gleeful with the anticipated downfall of the other side. That's just sad. Maybe we never leave high school.