Wicked Wednesday.

I know I’ve done a similar post title/style before, but I don’t careeeee.  It’s my blog and I’ll repeat shit if I wanttttt tooooo.  Okay, maybe that doesn’t have the same ring to it, but I’m not a songwriter.  I’m wicked tone deaf.

Anyways, today was my day off.  I spent it with my dad, like I do most Wednesdays.  I’m actually wicked lucky to get along with my dad as well as I do, since I consider him one of my best friends.  We’re constantly laughing, swearing, and making fun of each other.  We started off the morning pretty slowly, with no alarms or anything, but we managed to make it to breakfast around 9:45.

It was wicked delicious.  We eat at this place all the time, but today’s breakfast was particularly awesome.  I had eggs benedict and homefries, with the hollandaise on the side & a wheat English muffin.  Drool.

Then we went tele skiing.  I had to bail early to make a chiropractor appointment, but it still was really fun.  My legs are SO sore from my run yesterday – funny how a three mile run is super painful when you haven’t really run in a month!  The sore legs made tele skiing difficult, but it’s so fun and it’s great to watch how psyched my dad is that I’m teleing with him.  I enjoyed a Harpoon Cider while I was getting my stuff off, which made the (wicked painful) chiropractor appointment a little easier.  She was really massaging my side today to try to release the wicked deep back muscle that’s causing my hip pain.  She said she actually has another female runner client right now with the same issue as me, so at least I’m not totally crazy.

 

I came home to a random lunch and some of the world’s ugliest underwear from the Victorias’s Secret semi-annual sale.  I like cheap, so all the wicked weird patterns are left.

I did laundry, took a nap and went out to dinner with my dad.  We went to local seafood place that does all you can eat haddock on Wednesday nights for like 12 dollars, so we did that.  I had haddock, a small salad (in place of chowder), butternut squash & a few bites of baked beans.  It was wicked good.  My dad ate a shitload of food – I stuck with just the original amount!  When I got home from dinner, I tackled my laundry pile.  I figured since I never folded last week’s laundry, I could do them both…

 

Now ‘I’m spooning with an ice pack and a gallon of water.  So exciting.  Green Street Hooligans is in the DVD player, so I’m wicked pumped about that.

Want to know what’s up with the wicked thing? Here’s some info.

Do you say wicked?

Wordless WIAT.

      

Adding words to the wordless…

* not pictured is a gigantic bowl of air popped popcorn & nooch!*

I went running yesterday- I ran two miles and walked one – my calves and abs are SO sore today!

What’s your favorite exercise fuel?

P.S. Thanks for your comments on the dating post!

The Dating Post.

Oh, yes. Get ready. 

This post is so weird to write. Anyways.  One of my New Year’s Resolutions for 2012 (I just wrote 2010 – fml) was to be more sociable.  I’m doing quite well with that, if doing well means I occasionally drag my ass out of bed at 6 pm to go to the bar with my girlfriends.  The point of this post though, is specifically, the line in my resolution post where I wrote “I also would love to go on at least one date, since I’m finally feeling really good about where I am in my life again to want another person in it”.

Some background information.  My last relationship was nearly 2.5 years long and ended last January.  It had been rocking and basically, a hot mess, for awhile, but we were “working through it”.  This was really code for: I slept with another girl on New Year’s Eve because you had to work and text messaged you a week later to end our relationship.  I’m not even kidding – my last long term relationship really ended with a 4am text message that said:

No mas, we’re done.

For serious.

Understandably, after that debacle of a relationship, I was done, done, done with the thought of being in love with anyone but myself for a looooong time.  I mean, in Asheville, I had a few fun nights, but no real dates or prospects to date, seeing as most men in Asheville seem to like to not wear shoes if they can help it.  Gross.

It’s been just over a year since my breakup and I want to date.  I know the type of man I want to date, but I don’t know who he is or where to find him.  I’m not really into the bar scene and I live in a pretty isolated area.  I’m definitely not going to hit up Craigslist for a date or join match.com.  I guess there’s like, two guys are work that I think are decent, but here’s the issue – I’m scared.  Scared of getting hurt again, scared of getting denied, scared of asking someone out.  Just plain old scared.

I guess the point of this post is asking for advice, for words of encouragement, wondering if these quotes holds any merit at all (I read this damn book & can’t get it out of my mind):

“If we want you , we will find you. If you don’t think you gave him enough time to notice you, take the time it took you to notice him and divide it by half.” -He’s Just Not That Into You by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo

“I know it’s an infuriating concept–that men like to chase and you have to let us chase you. I know. It’s insulting. It’s frustrating. It’s unfortunately the truth. My belief is that if you have to be the aggressor, if you have to pursue, if you have to do the asking out, nine times out of ten, he’s just not that into you.” -He’s Just Not That Into You by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo

I guess I just don’t know what to think, or what to do.  I feel like I don’t get asked out often, so I’m not sure if men aren’t interested or if I give off an “I’m crazy/uninterested/taken/ugly/lame/boring” vibe or what.  This is pretty much uncharted territory, and so terribly awkward for me!

Any advice/commentary/funny stories?

LiveFit Trainer Week 2 Recap.

Hi guys!  Man, work was killer this weekend!  I did 1,300$ of revenue alone on Saturday (in just coffee & draught beers) and around 750 today.  So tiring, but keeping with my New Year’s Resolution to be more social, I went out last night with a friend to the pub for nachos and to the bar at my resort tonight to watch some of the Patriots game.  I didn’t really want to do either (and by that I mean, there was no burning desire to do either), but I did & it felt good to get out and do something.

Speaking of being social, there’s a big post coming on that tomorrow & I would love, love, love some feedback.

This is my last week of work five days a week at work – right now I work Thursday-Monday, but once school starts next week, I will be working Thursday-Sunday at the coffee shop, Tuesday mornings at school and taking classes in the evenings Monday-Wednesday.  Blah.

Anywho, I did a pretty nice job with the Livefit Trainer this week – it wasn’t perfect, but neither am I, so who cares?!  Not noted in the table on Tuesday is a 1.3 mile run/walk on the treadmill!  My side felt decent, but my abdomen was cramped up like bonody’s business!

Anyway, it went well.  I didn’t follow the nutrition plan and I didn’t drink enough water, but life is for living, not living uptight.   My work did get a smoothie bar this weekend though, so I had two yesterday & two today haha!  They were deeeeelicious.  Almost as delicious as last night’s gin & tonic.  Almost.

Alright, I’m going to clean my room and get my bum ready for work tomorrow, but I’ll catch ya on the flipside!

WIA&WOT

Oh, hi. That stands for – What I Ate & Worked On Tuesday.  Heck yes, I’m back at the WIAW party, after eight whole weeks of absence.  There was more than one reason for my absence, most of which I don’t feel like gettin’ into, but mostly it was because I was bored of taking pictures of my food.  That or, I couldn’t manage to take a whole day’s worth of foods and my type a perfectionist personality is just not a fan of half-assing things. Anywho, moving on from my obvious personality flaws…

I woke up this morning naturally from guilt at not walking McKinley earlier and trying to sleep in.  We walked quickly, then I snuggled back into my warm bed for some e-mail reading and facebook creeping.  I keep things real.  Breakfast part one was one cup egg whites scrambled with Trader Joe’s green salsa & some mexican cheese blend.  There’s mashed avocado on toast pictured too, but McKinley ate that since the avocado was nasty.

After I got my shit together & got in the car, I picked up a coconut water & an apple at the store.  I ate the apple in about 5 seconds & drank half of the (warm) Vita Coco.  I love that flavor, but warm, notsomuch.

My destination was skiing.  A local ski area (not the one I work at) was having a deal for 10$ tickets & coincidentally, my dad races at said mountain on Tuesdays, so I went up with him.  I made three runs by myself & four with my dad.  My first chair up, I rode alone so I snapped a few pictures.  I started off the morning in a really crappy mood, I’m not sure why.  I also was sort of bumming out being back at this particular mountain, since I worked there for a long  time, my ex still works there & it’s in the town that Marc was from.  My mood improved though, when I was sitting there in a funk, and this song came on my ipod.  It played at Marc’s funeral & since we all refuse to think of it negatively, it made me think that maybe that was Marc, telling me to cheer up, enjoy the gorgeous views & to make some turns with a smile on my face.

 

After skiing, I was starving (we finished up around 2) so I snacked on some unpictured Whole Grain Goldfish on the drive home.  They were delicious & McKinley enjoyed sharing them with me for sure.  Lunch was when I got home & was leftover Lentils Martinique with blue corn chips.  Yum.

I lounged in bed for a few & almost cancelled my plans to hit the gym, but I managed to drag myself over there.  I did Day 9 of the Jamie Eason Livefit Trainer and half of Day 8, since I didn’t get to the gym yesterday.  I also ran/walked 1.3 miles with no side pain (but my abdomen was cramping up!) which was awesome.  I ended my gym session with lots of stretching, foam rolling and a few headstands.  After the gym. I stopped by the computer lab to print out monthly calendars to use to fill in my workout plans for the month.  We’ll see if I stick to that…

 

Dinner was consumed post gym (I got home around 6:30) and it was a simple bowl of plain Oikos, defrosted strawberries & 1/2 a cup of Post Great Grains cereal.  Also featured a serving of Christin’s peanut butter, which is definitely thebomb.com.  Dessert hasn’t been consumed yet, but it will be a dark & milk Adora disk.  Mmmmm, chocolate!

The rough myplate estimate of my caloric intake for the day was just over 1500 calories.  Oops.  I promise that was an accident.  I just plugged it in because I was curious, but I guess I need to keep an eye on that…

 

I realized today was I at the gym that I’d had close to no fluids today, so I’ve got a gallon of water next to me too – hoping to get at least half of it down before bed.  I’m going to write up tomorrow’s to do list and probably head to bed!

Do you ever food journal or count calories?

Pinterest Faves.

Hi friends!  I’m currently thanking the 8 lb 6 oz baby Jesus that Monday is over & my days off are here!  I spent Monday grouchy as all hell at work & made plans for sushi with my best friend Holly, but that place was closed.  We settled for veggie burgers & wine at a local restaurant, but it just wasn’t extra spicy crab rolls and avocado salad, okay?

Here are some of my recent favorite Pinterest finds..

          

         

Here’s my plan for the day: finish my breakfast, wash the dishes, go skiing, make pizza dough, go to the gym, do yoga, eat pizza, write a blog post.  Ready, go!

Do you have a favorite cuisine?

Livefit Trainer Week 1 Recap.

Hey friends – happy Sunday.  Well, Sunday is almost over, but the best part of my day is just beginning – I’m sitting in bed with a glass of wine writing this post.  Win.  Work was less insanely busy today than yesterday, but the suck-factor of the day was solidified when all of my beer taps stopped working two hours before I closed.

So, I did okay, but I only did the workouts as prescribed on two days.  On Wednesday, I went tele skiing, which was a leg workout in and of itself and Thursday, I was a poor planner and didn’t remember to pack gym clothes before work.  That coupled with the badddd weather meant I went right home and didn’t go back out, leaving me to just do the ab exercises at home (because they didn’t require weights).  I’m not following her nutrition plan because it’s a lot of egg whites and meat, but I do want to be conscientious of what I’m eating.  I also forgot to take progress pictures at the beginning, so I’ll do them tomorrow, but I’ve got some goals for next week.

• Complete all workouts as prescribed.
• Drink 1 gallon of liquids a day (or close to it!).
• Go to yoga at least once.
• Make smart food choices.

And with that, I have to hit the hay!

What do you use to make tables for blog posts? The ones in windows live writer suck and I hate to screencap ones from word, etc.!

Friday Questions.

Hey friends – happy Friday!  Thanks for your awesome comments on my tele skiing post – it was a fun day for sure.  I ended up laying in bed drinking hard cider, not moving because everything hurt – win!  It was another sloooow day at work today (my Monday, Thursday & Friday shifts usually are slow & shorter), but this weekend is always an infinitely busy one.  I’ll be working 7-5 Saturday, Sunday, Monday which makes for a long weekend, but hopefully the tips are good.

Anyway, I saw this survey on Aimee’s blog & I wanted to do it myself!  Clearly, I love surveys.

1) What is one of your favorite ways to spend a Saturday?  The best way to spend a Saturday is not at work, first of all.   I’ve worked in the tourism industry part & full time since I was old enough to work, so I’m used to working on the weekends.  An ideal day though = sleeping in, a decent length run with McKinley in nice weather, the farmer’s market, yoga, chocolate & watching a movie with a significant other.

2) List your top three favorite TV shows.  Most favorite show ever is Gilmore Girls, for sure, but two other favorites are Sons of Anarchy & Criminal Minds. 

3) Would you rather be in pictures or take them?  I really enjoy taking pictures, but I like to be in them too, mostly because I’m always the one taking them and miss out on being in them, if that makes sense.

4) Why do you blog? I blog because it makes me happy, I love all my blog friends and because it’s fun.  Oh, and because I like typing better than writing in a journal, haha! 

5) Share five websites that you visit regularly… Facebook, my email site, google calendar, my blog, & online banking.  Plus about 30 blogs, hah!

6) If you could have lunch with one person from your Twitter list who would it be? I don’t jive with Twitter.  It’s just not my scene.

7) List a few of your favorite snacks.  Apple & peanut butter, raw veggies, yogurt…

8 ) Do you have a pet? If so, what kind? McKinley is an almost six year old Australian Shepherd. 

9) Which three material possessions would you struggle to live without? Computer, Sunglasses & ipod.

10) What’s your favorite drink? Non alcoholic – water or tonic water/club soda.  Alcoholic – hard cider, gin & tonic, long island iced tea. 

11) Do you enjoy cooking? Yes, it’s one of my favorite ways to relax/destress/impress/procrastinate. 

12) Do you have children?  Just a silly puppy!

13) What are your favorite hobbies?  Skiing, blogging, running, yoga, sleeping.

14) Would you consider yourself to be shy or outgoing?  A combination, depending on my mood.

15) If you could change one thing about yourself, what would you change?  I sometimes wish I was more patient, or had a better idea of what I want to be when I grow up.

16) Who is your favorite actor/actress?  I really like Charlie Hunnam lately…

17) What’s the coolest thing you’ve done this week?  Tele skied with my dad!

18) Do you live near your family or far from them?  I live with my dad currently while I finish college, my brother lives in Montana & my mom lives in Florida..

19) List three of your talents.  I can touch my nose with my tongue, I can ski/snowboard/tele ski, and I can make espresso drinks.

20) What is your greatest attribute?  Gosh, I don’t know – sense of humor?

 

What’s your answer to one question – or two?!

Skiing Adventures.

Hey guys!  How are you? I’m snuggled into bed writing this post, so I’m having a pretty awesome day.  I didn’t blog yesterday because I was busy havin’ a life & celebrating my day off.  My day included a trip to the coffee shop with friends, some gym time, house cleaning, practicing driving my new car (it’s a standard), and going to see The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo with my friend Holly.  The movie was excellent, though if you read the book – be forewarned that the movie is just as graphic as the book, but is supremely well done.

I was going to participated in What I Ate Wednesday with yesterday’s eats, but as you can see, I only managed to snap breakfast, post- workout snack, lunch & an Adora calcium chocolate.  Dinner was eaten at the movie theatre in the dark, so there was no point in whipping out the camera for that.

  

This morning, I went out to breakfast with my dad, like we do every week & then we went telemark skiing.  My dad has been tele skiing since 1990, when he picked it up on a backcountry trip & taught himself as a way to slow himself down while teaching my brother & me to alpine ski.  So, pretty much all of my life, he’s been a telemark skier, but he also can ski alpine (regular downhill) and snowboard.  He’s always thought it would be cool if my brother & I were the same way, so we put telemark bindings on one of my pairs of alpine skis & I rented some boots from a local place.

    

It was so fun, but really tiring, since as you can tell, only the toes are attached to the binding.  This allows the skier to bend their knee of their inside ski while turning & after a few turns, makes your legs feel like you’ve been doing walking lunges for a mile.  We did two runs from the top of the mountain & they took us about an hour each, because I was going really slow in order to get the hang of it & had to stop a few times to rest my legs.

Between doing day one & day two of the Jamie Eason Livefit Trainer the last two days & tele skiing today, my body is one big ball of sore right now.   Today was supposed to be legs & calves in the Livefit program, but since I went to the chiropractor after skiing, I’m skipping it.  I got a good leg workout in today & I’m planning on doing the calf exercises during tomorrow’s shoulders & abs workout.  I’m going to be doing weekly recaps of the program on Sundays from now on, to keep myself more accountable (so I can meet my New Year’s Resolution), so stay tuned for that!

I know I’ve been a slacking blogger lately, but I’ve had a tough time juggling work, socializing & writing quality posts.  I don’t want to just slap up some random content just to have a post written, but I’m going to work on a few posts tonight & visit some of your blogs!

Favorite winter sport?  When’s the last time you tried a new form of exercise?

little letters january.

Dear days off,
Thank you for finally arriving to save me.

Dear best friends,
I love you for making me smile even when I only want to be grouchy and tired.  I love, love, love you guys.

Dear customers,
I’m not working at a ski resort as a result of a bad life decision.  It’s a part time job, okay?

Dear boy,
I’m really enjoying our textual relationship.

Dear Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,
Please be an excellent movie tomorrow!

Dear Wilson Bethel,
You are so hot.  Please continue to take your shirt off in Hart of Dixie.

Dear strength training,
I’m not sure I missed you, but I’m back…

Dear chiropractor,
Please, please fix my back.  I haven’t run in awhile & I miss it!

 

Okay, goodnight, but the normal question – what’s today’s little letter?

A Day in My Life.

Hey friends!  Want to see how my Friday went?

6:45 am: Wake up, get dressed in jeans & ugly work shirt.  Do the morning routine (contacts, mascara, etc) & take a cross-eyed picture.

 

7:00 am: Walk McKinley & make breakfast.  Salted maple cinnamon oats for home & two clementines to eat in the car.

 

7:20 am: Leave for work, throw one clementine out the window since it was bad. Take a snowy picture of downtown.

 

8:00 am: Arrive at work, clock in.

 

8:30 am: Make the coffee, sell the baked goods all day.

  

9:30 am: Get bored, make iced tea & pull out the contraband entertainment.

 

12:45 pm: I decided it’s lunch time when I finish flipping through my magazine.  I had the “winter salad” – lettuce, tomato, feta, craisins, candied walnuts, chicken & balsamic.  A coworker covered my corner of solitude for me, so I got to eat sitting down, uninterrupted.

2:00 pm: Snack, out of boredom.  Water & 15 Reese’s pieces I “borrowed” from a coworker, while writing to do lists.

3:30 pm: Close down & clock out.  Drive to the chiropractor’s office, read 1 page of Cooking Light before getting called back.  This was my second chiropractor appointment (first appointment) and it was 30 minutes – 10 minutes of electronic massage, 10 minutes of massage by the chiropractor and 10 minutes of adjustment and q&a.

 

4:45 pm: Arrive home, play with McKinley.

5:30 pm: Shower, moisturized, condition my hair. Make dinner – pasta, frozen corn & green beans and a touch of sauce – times two.

 

6:00 pm: Fire up my computer to write this post.

6:30 pm: Camera dies before I can take anymore pictures.  I’ll just outline what the rest of the night will look like.

7:00 pm: Publish blog post.

7:05 pm: Eat Adora calcium chocolates & lay down on ice pack to watch tv.  It’s important to ice & drink water post chiropractor, I hear.

8:00 pm: Walk McKinley

9:00 pm: Bed!

What’s your favorite part of your day?

Siggi’s Yogurt

Hey guys – happy Thursday!  Thursday is a happy day for me for sure, because even though it’s my Monday at work, it also means it’s open mic night.  Open mic night is held a local upscale-ish bar every Thursday night and I love to meet my friends their for beverages and dessert.  They great cocktails & wine and the best Tollhouse Cookie Pie around.  It’s a fun way to catch up with my girlfriends and eye some the local man-candy hah.

Work today was slow.  I left at 3:30 and went to my other office to pick a couple things up and catch up with my favorite supervisor ever.  I thought about going to the gym, but my side hurts pretty bad today thanks to yesterday’s chiropractor visit, so I thought another day of resting, icing, foam rolling and pigeon pose would be better.  My goal is to hit the gym after work tomorrow for a little bit of cardio – either run/walking or the stationary bike.  We’ll see – I’m officially starting the Jamie Eason plan on Monday!  I need to look over it some more this weekend and figure out how closely I plan to follow it, etc, and take progress pictures.

Anywho, here’s a post I’ve been meaning to publish for weeeeeks now – I’m so unmotivated when school is not in session…

A few weeks months ago, the nice folks at Siggi’s sent me some coupons to try out some flavors of their yogurts that I hadn’t before.  Coupled with an awesome sale on them at Whole Foods while I was living in Asheville, I snatched up quite a few!  Obviously, all these pictures are taken in Asheville, so it’s been awhile since I’ve had a Siggi’s.  In fact, I saved one of the freebie coupons so I could use it when I came home to New Hampshire, but my stores here don’t carry it anymore…booooo!

Anyway, by the far the most fun product I tried out were the drinkable probiotic yogurts.  They were teeny (those are my keys for comparison) and came in plain flavored, which for a vanilla-yogurt-hater like myself, was fabulous.  I like to drink them plain & poured over pumpkin granola.  My only complaint was that the shape of the bottle made it difficult to get every last drop!

 

I have two favorite qualities in yogurt – fun flavors and good texture.  Siggi’s definitely has both – with flavors like grapefruit, passionfruit & pomegranate, orange & ginger, and acai & mixed berry and a texture that literally allows the spoon to stand straight up in the yogurt.

  

I really enjoyed the Siggi’s as a change from my typical Stonyfield yogurt breakfasts and I’ll probably pick up a Siggi’s once & awhile for a change!

Have you ever had Siggi’s?

The Chiropractor.

Hi friends – happy Wednesday!  I’m savoring my last day off this week right now, but I know tomorrow & Friday have potential to be slighter slower days at work anyways so it won’t be too bad.  I’ve got an issue of Self Magazine stashed away in case it’s super slow.

My days off this week were well deserved after the 60 hours of work I clocked in the six days before & I did my best to live them up, including an awesome cheese and chocolate fondue spread at my friend’s house last night.  It was epic.

Today was the day of doctor’s appointments though, starting things off early with an annual exam.  I am a huge proponent of being proactive about women’s health, since I went through the whole saga of irregular pap smears starting in 2009.  I had two colposcopies & have had eight pap smears in the last two years.  I’m finally so close to getting back onto a yearly schedule (only one more 6 month appointment to go!), so it was nice to get that appointment out of the way.  My other appointment was a visit to the chiropractor.

I’d never been to a chiropractor & even though my bank account is depressed now (130$ appointment), I think it will help.  I’ve been struggling with the side muscular pain that popped up while running for months now, so I decided to give the chiropractor a shot.  She tested all my reflexes and nerves and then my range of motion.  We discovered the problem right off when she had me sit up, held my left shoulder and pushed my right hip and got plenty of motion, but when she held my right shoulder and pushed my left hip, there was literally zero movement.  It was like a brick wall.  She said it’s totally possible that my pain is coming from the fact that my Sacroiliac joint has been compressed for a hot minute.  The doctor used electrodes to massage my affected area for 10-15 minutes and then she did massage & some chiropractic adjustments.  I’ll have to go back a few more times, but I’m hopefully that we finally found the problem.

I’m currently sucking down water & laying on a ice pack, and I think that’s about it for exciting things happening in my day!  I’m going to take my contacts out, make some tofu ricotta stuffed shells & call it a night, me thinks!  It’s back to the grind in my coffee nook, or as I’ve taken to calling it “the corner of solitude”, tomorrow.

Have you ever been to a chiropractor?  Least favorite doctor to visit? For me, that’s definitely the dentist – blegh!

2012 Resolutions!

Hey friends – Happy New Year!  Again with the disappearing act, I know, but work seriously wiped me out last week.  I worked Wednesday-Monday & Wednesday-Monday, and finally it’s day off time again.  I came home from work each night both physically and mentally exhausted, and yesterday was the slowest day – bringing my crankiness and overall frustration with humanity to a head.  Thankfully, yesterday due to business levels, I got to close at three pm and hightailed it upstairs with some coworkers for half of a Harpoon Cider before I headed home.  (Cider is my very favorite drink, did you know?!)

Overall, minus the ridiculous amount of time spent at work, my 2012 has started off fabulously.  A short recap:

1st: Nine hours at work, which was certainly slower than past days (500$ in revenue over 1200$ the day before), followed by coming home & showering.  I spent the evening at my friend Hilary’s house eating baked haddock, homemade focaccia & homemade risotto.  We ended the night eating Muddy Buddies, watching The Holiday & drinking RumChata.  It was the perfect holiday celebration I thought I missed out on & if you haven’t had RumChata – try it.  It tastes like oatmeal cookies and it is amazing.

2nd: Eight hours of work, half a Harpoon Cider at the bar upstairs with coworkers/friends, home to eat leftover salmon fried rice and eventually, bed at a really early hour.  Thrilling

3rd: I started off this morning with McKinley’s nose all up in my face – so much for sleeping in.  After a bit, my friend Hilary texted me and asked me if I wanted to join her for breakfast, so I met her downtown for breakfast burritos.  They were delicious and since being back home I’ve showered, done the dishes, the laundry, and started this post.  I didn’t go to the gym, because I didn’t feel like it, but I’m planning on a little cardio tomorrow before I go for my annual exam and my first visit to the chiropractor.

Anywho…the point of this post..

2012 Resolutions

Fitness

1. Do at least two months of Jamie Eason’s Livefit Trainer.  I occasionally struggle with following through on things, so I figure committing to two months of the program over the full three will make it easier to potentially complete the entire program.  I probably will not be rigidly following her nutrition plans, since glancing over them revealed it was a lot of egg whites and meat.

2. Do another month of yoga.  I really enjoyed my last month of yoga & this month would present more challenges due to not having constant access to free classes in Asheville.

3. Be a smarter runner.  I want to be better about resting, stretching, cross training, etc so I can become a stronger, faster runner.  I want to strength train & do yoga, both because I enjoy them and because they make me a better runner.

Other

1. Hydrate.  I am not doing so great at getting the fluids in lately, partially due to lack of time for bathroom breaks at work and general laziness.  I’m not setting an “ounce goal”, but just committing to being more conscious of what I’m consuming.

2. Be a better mama to McKinley.  Often when I get super busy, time with McKinley gets pushed aside.  His walks all but disappear in favor of short jaunts outside to do his business when I’m busy and I don’t always make time to really play with him, other than snuggling beside him in bed.  I’m committing to walking him more (when his paws aren’t bruised and sprained like they are now), playing frisbee more and taking him more places.

3. Socialize.  I am so bad about this one.  Social situations where I don’t know a lot of people make me feel awkward and as a result of hating to feel awkward, I often skip gatherings.  I am the queen of excuses for not doing things –like being tired or having to work the next day or whatever.  I also would love to go on at least one date, since I’m finally feeling really good about where I am in my life again to want another person in it.  my last relationship was a hot mess of a disaster and I sort of subconsciously swore off dating for all of 2011, and it worked out well, but now, I think I’m ready.  I’m doing well with socializing so far – I went to Hilary’s house the other night even though I was tired and I didn’t end up getting home until late, and I joined my friends for a beer yesterday afternoon.

And with that, I’m off!  My afternoon is slowly shaping up to be filled with a possible pedicure, people watching at my favorite café & eating fondue (cheese & chocolate!) with my friends.  It is so, so, so good to be home.

Do you have resolutions or goals for the New Year?

Oh, 2011.

Hey friends!

I was plannin’ on writing the cliché “recap of 2011” post, but then I read this post by Janetha.  I realized that I’m busy, you’re busy, and I didn’t actually want to write a recap post, I just felt like I should!  Well sorry friends, I worked at 10 hour day today (and made 1,200$ in revenue from coffee and beer MYSELF) and I’m not spending much time on my computer tonight.  Other things I’m not doing tonight include:

• Showering
• Going out partying
• Staying up until midnight

No showering because I don’t feel like it.  No partying because I’m tired and my feet hurt and no staying up until midnight because I have to be back at work for a ten hour day tomorrow.

I did however take my dad out on a date for Thai food to both hang out with him and treat him as a thank you for replacing the alternator in my car.  We split a spicy tuna roll, Thai lo-mein, and salmon fried rice.  Delicious food as usual from my favorite place around, and it was great to sit and joke with my dad.  He really is one of my very best friends and I’m so very lucky to have him!

I just wanted to pop in though and wish everyone a very (very!) safe and happy new year!  I’ll see you in 2012, but thank you for visiting, reading and commenting.  I appreciate every one of you and love sharing my life with you & sharing in yours as well.

I’ll be back next time with some resolutions!

xo