830 calories today!

Thursday I went to the state fair here in SLC with my daughter's class, and walked around in the hot sun for 3 hours.  I figured it may not have been the best ever work-out, but I still counted as burning calories that wouldn't have been burned normally.  After the field trip, I grabbed some lunch only to run out of time for the gym that day.  Last Friday I had just gotten going on my killer work-out, about 25 minutes in... and I had the alarm on my phone go off telling me to remember my vet appointment for my kitten's 2nd run of vaccines.  Had to abort my plans for a good long work-out...  I'd already killed about 240 calories by the time I stopped and went out to my car, so it wasn't the end of the world. 
Today's work-out was awesome though.  I tried a new one of the work-out options on the elliptical machine.  I chose "Hill Climb" which is apparently increasing tension throughout with short bursts of low tension.  It was not an easy work-out, but I burned about 650 calories for my 60 minutes which is a little more than usual.  Then I switched to the recumbent bike and did another half hour plus 5 minute cool-down.  I ended up with about 180 calories burned for it because I was taking it pretty easy on there.  But, this is my best calorie burn in one go thus far.  :D
I also managed to read about three chapters in a parenting book.  Still working on "Kids Are Worth It," "Parenting With Love and Logic," and "Positive Discipline" in an attempt to learn something about how to do this parenting thing better.  Today I read three more chapters from "Kids Are Worth It."
I think tomorrow, I may just come home after working at the school and do a yoga video instead of trying to do another killer work-out at the gym then back to the gym on Wed for another long workout like today.  I think that might be a better system for me...  intense calorie burn every other day, stretching, flexibility, strength the other days.  I'm definitely still figuring this stuff out.