October was an insanely busy month for me, hence the lack of posts.
Oh, by the way, my health experiment was a MAJOR fail. I think I lasted 2 days. It was awful and I'm pretty embarrassed by it.
At the end of the month hubby and I met my family down in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico for my sister's wedding. It was such a relaxing vacation. I did not want to come back to the cold weather and rain (actually, with the humidity in Mexico this time of year, we were actually looking forward to the cooler temps while waiting for our plane ride back). Best part of the trip, J loved it! Mr. I Had a Bad Experience in Mexico when I was 15, I hate Mexico...wants to go back. Success!
Spent our 2nd Halloween in our home. Only this year J had to work late. Good thing I have girl friends that wanted to come over and help me pass out candy. My friend brought her three cousins from Korea with her, and they got so excited passing out candy to all the trick-or-treaters, it was great, my work was done! All the little kiddos dressed up were so cute! I found this post on Instagram regarding health and fitness, where anytime an "Elsa" came to the door, you do 5 pushups. I had 6 before my friends got to my house, so I did 30 pushups by myself. While they were there, 2 more came to the door, so we all did 10 pushups. It was kind of fun to do something silly like that. Also, second year in a row I ran out of candy before the first hour mark. Next year I'll learn, I swear.
Monday, November 3, 2014
Wednesday, October 1, 2014
Health Experiment, Day 1.
I've decided to start a week long experiment on eating the correct portion sizes of my meals, working out every day, and just eating healthier (everything homemade, no eating out, the least amount of processed ingredients as I can with what I have/basically don't spend any money just use what I have).
Notes on this experiment:
-I do not plan on doing this on Wednesday - no workout and I'm going to dinner with my parents and hubby's parents. I may go to the gym after dinner...I haven't decided yet, we'll see what time we get home. I have a 9:30 bedtime :)
-I just came up with this last night, so Monday was not included in my "week". I'm going until Sunday and from there I'll see if I want to extend to the next week.
-I made a plan on dinners I wanted to make late Sunday night and went out Monday and bought all my ingredients I was missing, so it's not like I had all these just laying around my house...so yes, money was spent, but that was before I came up with this experiment for myself.
Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014:
Breakfast: serving size of peanut butter multi-grain Cheerio's (3/4 c), with serving size fat free milk (1/2 c). Beverage: homemade London Fog (1 1/2c. fat free milk, 2 Earl Grey teabags, 2Tbl homemade vanilla syrup) Thoughts: didn't seem like much, but if it says that's a serving size, so be it.
Mid-Morning Snack: organic medium honey crisp apple. Thoughts: 40 minutes before lunch and I'm STARVING. Maybe drinking water will help...
Lunch: leftover from dinner last night - oven baked chili dogs. Granted, this was semi-homemade, as in I bought all the ingredients and just assembled it. Next time I make this (and I will, I really liked it) I will do homemade chili, not canned as I did last night. I also won't forget the mustard. Oops. Thoughts: drinking water between my mid-morning snack and lunch definitely did help curb the appetite. Just a reminder to me that I need to drink more water. They'll be days I don't drink any, so a good day would be 1-2 glasses. I know it's bad, but I'm not a fan...and I've tried adding fruit and it's so-so. I don't do those powders or liquids you can add to your water...I HATE artificial sweeteners and no matter which I've tried, I can always taste the aspartame aftertaste and I hate it. I'd rather drink regular sugar.
Mid-Afternoon Snack: 1.25 cup sliced strawberries. Thoughts: I bought these last night from the grocery store and they're just not the same at the peak of the season (sigh).
Workout: This was the most frustrating workout I've ever encountered and I ended up quitting early and going home. I went to my gym and started with some cardio on the elliptical. My machine started making very weird noises, so I moved to another machine that did a mixture of ellitical movements and stairmaster movements. The log screens kept freezing, so if I hadn't had my heart rate monitor on, I wouldn't have known how long I was going for, etc. That got annoying, so I moved to another machine - a regular treadmill. Couldn't get it to turn on. Once it finally turned on, I couldn't get it to start a program. Moved to yet another treadmill, and everything was great - got intervals going, watching Pioneer Woman on the attached tv, all good. 20 minutes in, and bam! sleep timer and it shuts down. I think, "Okay, about 30 minutes is a good warm up, I can move to the main classroom since there are no classes going and I'll do my pilates workout." {side note: I have the blogilates app on my phone - love it! I subscribe to her monthly workouts and in the app she has links to the youtube videos of her workouts so I don't have to search it while I'm out and about} I get into the room to start my workout and the app won't open because I get terrible data coverage in the gym and they refuse to get wifi for members. I was so over it I went home thinking I'd do my pilates workout there...but eating dinner and watching tv with the hubs was way more comfortable.
Dinner: leftover chili dogs from last night. I had 2 because I was hangry.
Total Calories = 1,694
Notes on this experiment:
-I do not plan on doing this on Wednesday - no workout and I'm going to dinner with my parents and hubby's parents. I may go to the gym after dinner...I haven't decided yet, we'll see what time we get home. I have a 9:30 bedtime :)
-I just came up with this last night, so Monday was not included in my "week". I'm going until Sunday and from there I'll see if I want to extend to the next week.
-I made a plan on dinners I wanted to make late Sunday night and went out Monday and bought all my ingredients I was missing, so it's not like I had all these just laying around my house...so yes, money was spent, but that was before I came up with this experiment for myself.
Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014:
Breakfast: serving size of peanut butter multi-grain Cheerio's (3/4 c), with serving size fat free milk (1/2 c). Beverage: homemade London Fog (1 1/2c. fat free milk, 2 Earl Grey teabags, 2Tbl homemade vanilla syrup) Thoughts: didn't seem like much, but if it says that's a serving size, so be it.
Mid-Morning Snack: organic medium honey crisp apple. Thoughts: 40 minutes before lunch and I'm STARVING. Maybe drinking water will help...
Lunch: leftover from dinner last night - oven baked chili dogs. Granted, this was semi-homemade, as in I bought all the ingredients and just assembled it. Next time I make this (and I will, I really liked it) I will do homemade chili, not canned as I did last night. I also won't forget the mustard. Oops. Thoughts: drinking water between my mid-morning snack and lunch definitely did help curb the appetite. Just a reminder to me that I need to drink more water. They'll be days I don't drink any, so a good day would be 1-2 glasses. I know it's bad, but I'm not a fan...and I've tried adding fruit and it's so-so. I don't do those powders or liquids you can add to your water...I HATE artificial sweeteners and no matter which I've tried, I can always taste the aspartame aftertaste and I hate it. I'd rather drink regular sugar.
Mid-Afternoon Snack: 1.25 cup sliced strawberries. Thoughts: I bought these last night from the grocery store and they're just not the same at the peak of the season (sigh).
Workout: This was the most frustrating workout I've ever encountered and I ended up quitting early and going home. I went to my gym and started with some cardio on the elliptical. My machine started making very weird noises, so I moved to another machine that did a mixture of ellitical movements and stairmaster movements. The log screens kept freezing, so if I hadn't had my heart rate monitor on, I wouldn't have known how long I was going for, etc. That got annoying, so I moved to another machine - a regular treadmill. Couldn't get it to turn on. Once it finally turned on, I couldn't get it to start a program. Moved to yet another treadmill, and everything was great - got intervals going, watching Pioneer Woman on the attached tv, all good. 20 minutes in, and bam! sleep timer and it shuts down. I think, "Okay, about 30 minutes is a good warm up, I can move to the main classroom since there are no classes going and I'll do my pilates workout." {side note: I have the blogilates app on my phone - love it! I subscribe to her monthly workouts and in the app she has links to the youtube videos of her workouts so I don't have to search it while I'm out and about} I get into the room to start my workout and the app won't open because I get terrible data coverage in the gym and they refuse to get wifi for members. I was so over it I went home thinking I'd do my pilates workout there...but eating dinner and watching tv with the hubs was way more comfortable.
Dinner: leftover chili dogs from last night. I had 2 because I was hangry.
Total Calories = 1,694
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
It has been over a month since updating and I feel like this summer is just flying by! I can't believe schools are back in session (in Washington anyway) just next week. My nephews will be starting kindergarten!
What I've been up to lately:
1.) after 6 years, I left my position at a non-profit and went into the construction business. I am the sales coordinator for a cabinet/casework manufacturer. I help prepare all the bids that are sent out. It's such a different path than what I was on, but I'm starting to get the hang of it and am starting to do really well. Hopefully I can continue to grow and learn new things in this new field of mine.
2.) after 5 years and three nephews, whom I love dearly don't get me wrong, I have a niece! My brother and sister in law have birth to their daughter at the end of July. I wish I could fly down to Georgia to meet miss Elena, but sadly I can't. Duty calls. Boo.
3.) football season is now upon us, and I'm anxiously awaiting next week when hubs and I will be at the season opener of the Seahawks season against Green Bay. We lucked out and my parents sold us their tickets, so 1st level baby! So excited for Sept 4th!
4.) the following week J and I will be celebrating our 2nd wedding anniversary. Time is flying by, but luckily this year I remembered in time to get his gift early..2nd anniversary is cotton or china, depending on whether you follow traditional or modern. I have a plan for both :)
And I'm going to stop here. I have to be up for work in about 6 hours and I'm cutting back severely on my caffeine intake due to getting a high blood pressure reading recently. This won't be pretty...
What I've been up to lately:
1.) after 6 years, I left my position at a non-profit and went into the construction business. I am the sales coordinator for a cabinet/casework manufacturer. I help prepare all the bids that are sent out. It's such a different path than what I was on, but I'm starting to get the hang of it and am starting to do really well. Hopefully I can continue to grow and learn new things in this new field of mine.
2.) after 5 years and three nephews, whom I love dearly don't get me wrong, I have a niece! My brother and sister in law have birth to their daughter at the end of July. I wish I could fly down to Georgia to meet miss Elena, but sadly I can't. Duty calls. Boo.
3.) football season is now upon us, and I'm anxiously awaiting next week when hubs and I will be at the season opener of the Seahawks season against Green Bay. We lucked out and my parents sold us their tickets, so 1st level baby! So excited for Sept 4th!
4.) the following week J and I will be celebrating our 2nd wedding anniversary. Time is flying by, but luckily this year I remembered in time to get his gift early..2nd anniversary is cotton or china, depending on whether you follow traditional or modern. I have a plan for both :)
And I'm going to stop here. I have to be up for work in about 6 hours and I'm cutting back severely on my caffeine intake due to getting a high blood pressure reading recently. This won't be pretty...
Friday, June 27, 2014
Portland Mini Vacation
Last week my husband was on vacation from work so he talked me into taking Friday and Monday off and having a long weekend down in Portland. It was fantastic, I didn't want to come back to reality! We drove down Friday morning and hit up the Woodburn Factory Outlet before checking into our hotel in downtown Portland. It was nice to have a leisurely day shopping with him.
Unfortunately for J, seasonal allergies took over due to driving down with the top down on our new to us convertible. Once we got checked in and settled in our room, he took some allergy medicine and passed out. I stayed up reading my book. Currently, I'm reading The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. I'm almost halfway through it and still trying to get used to the narrative, but so far it's pretty good.
Day 2 (Saturday) consisted of heading down to the Portland Saturday market. I found a birthday present for my dad, and bought at growlette of local cider from a booth for Atlas Hard Cider Company. I haven't opened it yet, but I'm thinking it'll be perfect for when I get home tonight from work! :) Since we stayed at the Vintage Plaza downtown, it was an easy walk to all the shopping, literally a block or so away from Nordstrom. Hubby had to go because it was the men's sale going on, and he surprised me with dinner at a nice restaurant that night, but didn't bring a thing to wear for it. So I got to pick out his outfit for the night, which was kind of fun. We had dinner at the Portland City Grill, which boasts a great view of the city. My food was excellent too, I wish my stomach did shrink lately because I just wanted to keep eating, but couldn't.
Day 3 (Sunday) we went and had breakfast at an English soccer pub, The Thirsty Lion, down by the farmer's market. Got to enjoy a mimosa and french toast. Afterwards we back to the farmer's market and just walked around the city. We also went to Peninsula Park where a friend of mine from college was working an event. She does marketing for Kaiser Permanente. We chatted with her for awhile, took a walk through the rose bushes and then left to go find smoothies. When it got closer to the afternoon, we started to find a place to watch the Portugal v. USA match. Seemed like everywhere was packed! We finally found a spot at Buffalo Wild Wings and I'm so glad we did, because before the match even started, there were people lining up along the wall waiting for someone to either leave, or just stand there for the game! My old roommate from college met up with us and we watched the game together, caught up and ate some food. After the game, J and I went back to the hotel where I fell asleep for a nap. I needed to get more steps logged for my fitbit (I'm in a constant competition with my mom who always kills me), so when he woke me up from my nap, I went down to the gym in the hotel basement and watched an episode of Pretty Little Liars while on the elliptical. When I was done and after showering off, Jason needed to get out of the hotel room (there's only so much Big Bang Theory he could watch), we walked to Voodoo Doughnut and stood in line. I wasn't feeling very well, my stomach was upset (probably due to all the food I ate) and I couldn't stand in the line once we made it inside due to the heat, so I sat outside at a nearby picnic table waiting while he bought two dozen doughnuts. We walked back to our hotel and were in for the night.
We left Monday morning after I made him search for a Dutch Brothers coffee stand. While on this trip, I decided I didn't want to go to places I could go back home, and with the exception of Nordstrom and BWW (even though that was the first time I've ever been there) we were pretty successful. I wanted to experience more of Portland and it was nice.
Pretty Little Liars is my newest Netflix marathon. I'm almost caught up the the current season. I'm hoping to be caught up to the newest episode by the end of this weekend. Should be done by Saturday which is perfect because the weather isn't supposed to be nice.
Unfortunately for J, seasonal allergies took over due to driving down with the top down on our new to us convertible. Once we got checked in and settled in our room, he took some allergy medicine and passed out. I stayed up reading my book. Currently, I'm reading The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. I'm almost halfway through it and still trying to get used to the narrative, but so far it's pretty good.
Day 2 (Saturday) consisted of heading down to the Portland Saturday market. I found a birthday present for my dad, and bought at growlette of local cider from a booth for Atlas Hard Cider Company. I haven't opened it yet, but I'm thinking it'll be perfect for when I get home tonight from work! :) Since we stayed at the Vintage Plaza downtown, it was an easy walk to all the shopping, literally a block or so away from Nordstrom. Hubby had to go because it was the men's sale going on, and he surprised me with dinner at a nice restaurant that night, but didn't bring a thing to wear for it. So I got to pick out his outfit for the night, which was kind of fun. We had dinner at the Portland City Grill, which boasts a great view of the city. My food was excellent too, I wish my stomach did shrink lately because I just wanted to keep eating, but couldn't.
Day 3 (Sunday) we went and had breakfast at an English soccer pub, The Thirsty Lion, down by the farmer's market. Got to enjoy a mimosa and french toast. Afterwards we back to the farmer's market and just walked around the city. We also went to Peninsula Park where a friend of mine from college was working an event. She does marketing for Kaiser Permanente. We chatted with her for awhile, took a walk through the rose bushes and then left to go find smoothies. When it got closer to the afternoon, we started to find a place to watch the Portugal v. USA match. Seemed like everywhere was packed! We finally found a spot at Buffalo Wild Wings and I'm so glad we did, because before the match even started, there were people lining up along the wall waiting for someone to either leave, or just stand there for the game! My old roommate from college met up with us and we watched the game together, caught up and ate some food. After the game, J and I went back to the hotel where I fell asleep for a nap. I needed to get more steps logged for my fitbit (I'm in a constant competition with my mom who always kills me), so when he woke me up from my nap, I went down to the gym in the hotel basement and watched an episode of Pretty Little Liars while on the elliptical. When I was done and after showering off, Jason needed to get out of the hotel room (there's only so much Big Bang Theory he could watch), we walked to Voodoo Doughnut and stood in line. I wasn't feeling very well, my stomach was upset (probably due to all the food I ate) and I couldn't stand in the line once we made it inside due to the heat, so I sat outside at a nearby picnic table waiting while he bought two dozen doughnuts. We walked back to our hotel and were in for the night.
We left Monday morning after I made him search for a Dutch Brothers coffee stand. While on this trip, I decided I didn't want to go to places I could go back home, and with the exception of Nordstrom and BWW (even though that was the first time I've ever been there) we were pretty successful. I wanted to experience more of Portland and it was nice.
Pretty Little Liars is my newest Netflix marathon. I'm almost caught up the the current season. I'm hoping to be caught up to the newest episode by the end of this weekend. Should be done by Saturday which is perfect because the weather isn't supposed to be nice.
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
Uh-Oh. I'm in trouble.
I just discovered this. My husband is going to kill me, but I need a new project! I can only watch so much Netflix people!!
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Update
Sorry I haven't updated in over a month. Not much exciting news in my life.
We're in audit-mode at work, so it's been insane with that as well as co-workers' vacation schedules so covering for them has been a nightmare. Thankfully, the hubby and I will be taking an extended weekend vacation down to Portland next week. It will be nice to explore Portland some more. Some things on the agenda are Shakespeare in the Park, and trying out some "urban hiking" (apparently that's a thing down there??)
The rest of my summer will consist of working, spending quality time with family and friends, and planning my sister's bridal shower for August. Invitations were mailed out yesterday, so it'll be nice to get some planning down on that front. It's a fiesta theme and I've been pinning like crazy trying to make it a great day. Hopefully the weather cooperates. Too far in advance to check it, unfortunately..
We're in audit-mode at work, so it's been insane with that as well as co-workers' vacation schedules so covering for them has been a nightmare. Thankfully, the hubby and I will be taking an extended weekend vacation down to Portland next week. It will be nice to explore Portland some more. Some things on the agenda are Shakespeare in the Park, and trying out some "urban hiking" (apparently that's a thing down there??)
The rest of my summer will consist of working, spending quality time with family and friends, and planning my sister's bridal shower for August. Invitations were mailed out yesterday, so it'll be nice to get some planning down on that front. It's a fiesta theme and I've been pinning like crazy trying to make it a great day. Hopefully the weather cooperates. Too far in advance to check it, unfortunately..
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
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