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This week we are having to get out of our house for two days or so, due to part of our remodeling project.  Our house used to belong to my husband's grandmother, and it got to the point where she really couldn't take care of it anymore, so we took ownership of it, and she now still lives there with us.  It has been a LONG road in that respect!  Firstly, everything about the house screamed 70'S HELL!  Secondly, she was/is totally a hoarder.  You would not believe the stuff that was piled up in that house! But that is another story entirely.  In a nutshell, we eventually convinced her to let us pack up her stuff and keep it in a storage facility while we remodel the entire house.  We are nearing the end of that process, thankfully, but this week we will have to stay in a hotel for two days while they complete the toxic process of reglazing all of the bathroom tile.  Goodbye pink and brown!  BWWAAAHAHAHAHA!  But needless to say, having no kitchen to use has made the whole Paleo thing a bit more challenging, and being in a hotel is going to impede my ability to practice double unders. 
Last night at Iron Tribe, the WOD was as follows:
200 air squats
100 situps
100 kettlebell swings
100 pushups
Good news was that you could attack it however you wanted to.  Rx was 35# bell for women, but I just didn't feel ready to take that on yet.  I really want to master the 26, and really get my body, especially my back stability right on target.  I broke it up into 10 sets of 20 squats and 10 of everything else, and finished in 18:36, which was ok.  Afterwards, one of the coaches said, "Why didn't you go for the Rx, it was easy for you!"  I said I just wanted to be careful, since I had never even used kettlebells before starting Crossfit.   But he's right, the 26# IS getting much easier for me to use.  Honestly, though, I have a hard time imagining swinging a 35# ball of iron above my head with ferocity at this point. 
That's the great thing about Crossfit, though.  You have a hard time imagining yourself doing all sorts of things in the box.  And then you do them.  It's all about breaking those boundaries, and when you do that, you really start building a type of confidence that spills over into other areas of life.
There were a bunch of new guys in there last night straight out of 101, that were pointed out to us at the beginning of class. When class was over, one of the coaches told us to introduce ourselves to the new people.  "Don't be jerks, guys."  My problem is that I am still relatively new and didn't know ANY of the guys in there to begin with, nor did I remember who was new and who wasn't! I introduced myself to one guy, but he had been at ITF longer than I have.  Feeling stupid now.  Not going to make any more introductions! So I guess I was being a jerk.