.. the day after wednesday, ugh ..

it is finally Thursday, that means only one more day and it is the weekend. phew. this week i feel is taking forever, last week flew by. I need help or a good balance sometime soon. 

this morning i woke up earlier than i had all week. points for me! i woke up freezing cold, like normal and with a sore throat and blood in my mouth. this i fear is not a good combination. but i will live. i deal with extreme allergies, and i ate some no no food last night (hot dog bun) and it made me break out a bit, and i fear it made it's way into my throat and made it really irritated and eventually started to bleed a tad. great scare first thing in the morning while brushing you teeth! i got ready for work and took care of the pups, he was anxious to get up this morning. after i got him up i left for work. i got in and checked my billion emails and then just started reading blogs and what nots. i caught up on reading on the Anthony case, have you heard about all this? it is kind of nuts! i worked until lunch and went home, my normal to share it with the pup. we hung out on the patio while i was home, since i was freezing from the office. it is ALWAYS a ice box here. kills me. after lunch i regrettably left to go back to work. i survived the last few hours, but only barely. after that i went home and got ready for gym time. tonight is a trainer night. 

here is the workout..

after the workout i went home and had dinner with the fam. the hub and i just vegged for a bit and then called it a night. I read as usual and then passed out, my new norm.

food..

breakfast

2 slices of toast

water

lunch

dinner

until tomorrow, in which we can start our mini party for the weekend!

.. the hump ..

we made it to hump day. congrats, the week is half over. 

well, my back feels better today i guess the muscle relaxant did its job. yahoo. that and i laid on my other side facing the pup so he couldn't have the kentucky derby in my back. thank heavens for that one. today was any other day, i got up around 6:45 and showered and got ready for the day. i got to work and checked my email. can you believe i had 18 messages from 7-8? what?! i know huh, so after i caught up on that stuff i had approval samples to do, just look at samples that come in from vendors check them for color and what not and then make my notes on them and send that off. after that we had critique. i don't mind them some days but today it seemed to take forever, and my back started to ache and i just didn't want to do it. blah. after that i went back to solving world hunger, namely fighting with a printer that must be seriously retarded. after this junk and catching up on more emails it was time for lunch. i hurried home and spent my 30 minutes with the pup and before i knew it i was back at work. blah. i spent the last two hours doing random things, story of my life. and then it was 5, yahoo! 

tonight is ripped class, yep kick my trash class. so i am going with my sister in law it should be good, but i will make it. it is always killer and i feel pooped afterward, like i could for sure go to bed but i still have stuff to do. tonight is also the activity for church, we are making yard signs for fathers day in two sundays, that should be interesting and fun i guess. after that i went home and ate dinner and then showered and called it a night. today was just plain exhausting, i feel like most wednesdays are. 

food

breakfast

toast

gatorade

lunch

stroganoff (leftovers!)

water

dinner

hot dog
lemonade

until tomorrow friends..

.. and it is off to the races ..

tuesday. we made it through monday, barely. yesterday was exhausting, i was pooped and had allergies to boot. what a day. alright so here is what went down today.

today i woke up on time, yay for me. i was so sore, but i didn't work out. turns out my cute little puppy had decided to run a dream race all along my back, lovely. i am so sore. i got ready for work and dressed and made it to work. i decided i would tackle the product room one last time before the new shipment makes it in. i had to organize the cardstock. we have 120 colors, yeah fun. so it took from 9 until 1 to clean it all up and out and get things in the right places. hallelujah. after this i got back to my desk to find 11 emails waiting for me. so i caught up and made some appointments and what not, and then it was time for lunch. yum.

i left for home, and had lunch with my pup. he is pretty dang cute. we played a little outside and then ate, then he napped. i love him. then it was time to go, it comes way to fast i tell you. i hate work sometimes. i got back to work and didn't have much to do to pass the last hour and a half. so i watched charmed and just caught up on my people celebrity gossip. after i got done with work it was home, and get laundry ready and then change for the gym. it is trainer day, and legs. yeah. i rather do legs than arms but nevertheless my back is sore and this is going to prove to be difficult. 

here is what happened..

abs
{TRX Band planks 30 second front, 20 second each side, repeat 2 times}

legs
{squats with TRX band (20), lunges with 10 lb weight (10 each leg) repeat 3 times}

legs
{seated calf raise (15), seated calf extension (15) repeat 4 times}

legs
{laying leg press (15), seated leg press (15), single leg squat on rolling pad (10 ea), repeat 4 times}

sprint
{5 minute sprint, 20 second hard 40 second cool down}

legs
{TRX band squats (20), pushups (10) repeat 3 times}

legs
{quickstep (12 ea), single leg sitting squat (10 ea) repeated 3 times}

abs
{30 crunches, 30 russian twist, 30 second dead cockroach repeat 3 times}

after the gym i went home and finished laundry and hung out with the hubs and the pups. i love spending time with them. it is great. we just vegged and then called it a night. and of course i read. :) 

here is what i ate

breakfast

2 pieces of toast

water

lunch

potstickers

lemonade

dinner
stroganoff
salad wedge
water

see you tomorrow friends, for hump day!

.. monday monday, you are lame..

alright so here is how day one of the week went down. i have to just reinforce the idea, i hate Mondays. 

i woke up today around 6:30 and just knew that i didn't want to get up. so i laid there until 7. yep i was that lazy today. i got up and showered and got ready for the day, not a great outfit or even looking pretty but i really just don't care. i made it to work and sat in the meeting. we just chatted and played a few rounds of bananagrams. it was pretty fun i guess. then it was down to work. i emailed people and caught up on stuff and then i had to get stuff ready for the sales meeting today. i don't really love doing it, but that is alright that and the server at work just doesn't want to stay open. issue. i spent most of the morning doing that and researching the cruise and how to help our pup deal with his allergies. poor guy. i feel bad. after i did all this and caught up it was lunch. i drove home and ate, and then went to the mac store to pick up my computer. i have missed not having it here and having to do things on my lap top. lame. i got back to work around 3:30 and got started on a very overwhelming job of sorting through the card stock racks. yeah. 

i finished work at 5 and went home. i didn't want to gym today, so i took the pup on a walk instead and then we hit up the pet store in hopes of getting some shampoos and vitamins to help his allergies. we went home and just were for the night, had dinner and went to bed. hopefully tomorrow will be better.

here is what got in my belly

breakfast

granola bar

Gatorade

lunch

beef taquitos
lemonade

dinner
mac and cheese
lemonade

.. its that time of the week again ..

back from the weekend. I can't say that I am excited to see all of you, sorry. I am not a big fan of Mondays. they just take a lot out of me and i just plain don't want to be there. sad but true. so here is what happened this weekend.

Friday night we went and saw the hangover 2 with some friends of the hubs. it was pretty funny, but kind of disappointing. It was pretty much the exact same movie as the first one, just substituted people in other peoples places. irritating. after this we went to Terra Mia, a local pizza bar, and got a thin crust pizza. not too bad. then we went home and went to bed, the hub had work at 7 in salt lake the next morning. 

Saturday i woke up around 8:30 and got the pup up. we ate breakfast, him kibbles me french toast, and took our time getting ready to go to the vet. we packed up and went to the vet at 10:30. we got there and checked in and the vet saw us. he got his rabies shot and last puppy booster. he did so great, didn't even yelp this time. we talked about allergies for a second, i don't think the vet believes me which is uber irritating. so i am taking matters into my own hands. we will figure this one out. we then went and got puppy food at the store and went home so i could work on my lesson before the hubs got home. i got a little into it and he came home and my sister in law and brother showed up so we could book our cruise. we are doing it! we are going to the southern Caribbean in august. it will be great! after we booked it, the hub and i had plans to clean out the storage unit. so we left and spent the next 4 hours looking through boxes, getting everything cleaned up and nice and then back into the unit. we did find 2 boxes full of canned foods and dry food packages, um gross. they expired in 2007. after we cleaned all that up we went home and mowed the lawn, and then had dinner on the patio with my parents. nothing too exciting, just taco time. we showered up and got ready for bed and i finished working on my lesson. like predicted, it was like 12am. sad. 

Sunday i got up and got ready for church, fed the munchkin and was off. we had a good lesson, we played jeopardy, it was fun even with 2 girls. after that i came home and had lunch and fed the doggy. and wouldn't you know it my hub was home. it was great, he took a nap and i went to choir practice, no i don't have a great voice but i like to sing and i can there and not sound retarded. after that i went home and made my father in law home made oreos, which he loves and we left to visit them. we hung out there for a bit and talked about life and what nots, and then went back home for the big family dinner at my house. we ate on the patio again, i love this great weather. after that we cleaned up, watched the tail end of the Miami heat and Dallas mavericks game. it was pretty good and then me and my hub decided to watch shutter island, pretty good yet trippy. i was so lost for about the whole movie and even after i couldn't really decide what i should really follow. i of course stayed up and read in my book, an addiction issue of mine and then called it a night. 

this week is going to be long i fear, let us pray we survive. 

.. survival is the word of the day ..

we made it too the weekend, and not a day too soon either. you really do need 4 day work weeks after a vacation, i am convinced. today was like any other day except my alarm clock retardation. yes to last night i was texting my sister in law about and up coming trip we are planning, a cruise yipee!, and i forgot to set my alarm. brilliant right? i thought so. so this is how i survived.

i woke up around 6:11 and was convinced that i just needed until like 6:30 and then i would get up, little did i know that my alarm clock would not be assisting in this matter. so i rolled over and went back to bed. and then it happened. i startled awake and in a panic, what time is it?!?! why yes it is 7:37 and i have to be at work by 8. love my life. i jump out of bed, straight to the shower, quickly lather and rinse - no promises that everything got clean today - and then back in the room to get ready. put on my face, quickly and added a few curls to my already naturally wavy hair and then dressed. i left the house at 8:15. what? the insanity. it was intense. i got to work already feeling behind, as i am sure you know. so i rushed through the morning tasks in hopes to completing everything. then i had to take my poor computer to the doctor, it wont' accept disks the lame thing. so i dropped that off and on my way back picked up lunch since i knew going home was definitely out today. i got back to work and had to figure out how to make my laptop connect to the Internet. about a 20 minute phone call later with the it guy and it was fixed. i then had my lunch at my desk, yum and continued on working. today was a girls birthday, she wanted Popsicles so i went to go get those. after we celebrated, i finished up what i could for the day and then called it a night. 

tonight we decided to use the groupon fandango tickets we had to go and see the hangover 2. fun times. i like going on dates with my hun and even better when you get to laugh too. we got home and called it a night, he has work at 7 in salt lake tomorrow, so early to bed for him..

i hope you have a good weekend, this is what we have planned

taking the puppy to get his rabies shot kind of scared for that one.. 

cleaning the storage unit out and organizing in preparation for a garage sale. 

prepare my church lesson, yep probably will do that one at midnight on saturday

make homemade oreos for my father in law who had surgery this week

visit the in laws and spend time with the family.

have a good one, see you on monday!

.. arm hell, yes i did just go there ..

alright, so i will say this. my mood improved drastically with a little bit of sleep and don't you worry i went to bed early just to make sure this little issue resolved itself. thank heavens for that. today was kind of weird, this whole week feels off because it is only 4 days. it always does stuff with my head. 

so i got up and made it to work on time. yay me. i got here and decided i would finish tackling the product room that had been haunting me for the past few days. so i went to work. i got everything put away and in it's place, hallelujah. after i got all that cleaned up, i started to tackle the little projects in my way still like gathering samples for a sales trip and making a few mockups and sending off ribbon. junk basically. i worked on it for a while and then went and had lunch. it was good to just be with the pup. i like our quality alone time. it is grand. after we did this i left for work and stopped to pick up supplies that were requested i got. so i did that and then made it back to work. fun. after all this goodness, i powered through the last hour and was off. today was another trainer day like tuesday, yippee. so i got my spandex on and settled and started a load of laundry and was off. here is what my butt endured..

abs

{50 crunches, 50 bicycles}

arms

{jumping pull ups (50), one handed squat press (50), overhead squat press (50), pushups (50)}

arms take 2

{seated rows (50), seated lat pull down (50), tricep pulls (50), seated crunches (50), triceps (50)}

seeing a trend yet ? ..

arms / abs

{turkish getups (15 each side), crunches (50), bicycle (50)}

back

{back extensions (12) repeated 4 times}

arms / abs

{laying chest press (50), overhead triceps (50), v-ups (50), obliques (40 each side), leg lifts (50)}

done. i was done, like stick a fork in me. killer. 

after the gym i went home and checked out the garden we are planting. we have a few tomato plants going and a few pumpkin and squash plants growing. nothing has come of them yet but it is early yet. after this we opted to take the pup on a walk on his favorite trail, and help him overcome his fear of a caged german shepherd. so we did, it took us about 45 minutes. and i am proud to say that he did indeed overcome his fear! after the walk we had dinner, finished laundry, cleaned the bathroom and then called it a night. talk about a long day. phew. here is what i ate

breakfast

2 slices of toast

water

lunch

1/2 steak

1 cup potatoes

1 c broccoli

lemonade

dinner

mac and cheese 

roll

lemonade

i think i might be really sore tomorrow, guess we will see. yikes. 

.. i'm a grouch. pardon me ..

alright, so i survived monuesday. it was terrible though i tell you what. I hate coming back to work after a vacation. especially one in which i did nothing for 3 days. yum. and remember that little fun fact that i stayed up until 1 in the morning, yeah that is going to play a part in today..

so i woke up, i could sense the grouchyness already. it was going to be a rough day. trust me on that one. so i got up and stomped to the shower. i took a quick one and was back out by 7:12. not to bad. i got my hair ready and my face on, which did need extra help in the eye department today those pesky dark circles. after getting ready i went upstairs to grab my breakfast for the road, because i took my time getting ready. so i was grumpy i was running late. i was looking forward to biscuits for breakfast, you know the homemade ones i made.. yeah i was excited, maybe that will cheer me up. but you know what i found, yep a nice empty ziploc bag with crumbs of what was the biscuits. great. add a brick of grump. so i was off to work with my two slices of toast that i was pissed about. and then i got stuck behind a diesel train of trucks i think they were out to get me and it made me a good 5 minutes late to work. yeah. add another. i got into work and discovered that i had a huge project in front of me. at work we have like a mini store, so vendors can come and see what it would all look like set up and what not, my job was to pull down all the discontinued products and box them up and then place the new items up and make sure it is clean and organized. that is a big job for one person in fact i am pretty sure it will take me a day or two to get it finished. so i add another brick and suck it up and off to endure the hell. i spent until lunch in there and then went home for lunch. upon getting home, i found my sister who i am in a mini fight with. i keep inviting her to the gym, she tells me she will come and then flakes and tells my mom she won't make it, not even me!! i am not speaking to her, so add another brick. i finished lunch and left to go pick up birthday treats for a coworker, one of my many jobs. he wanted cupcakes. so i drove to the sweet tooth fairy, which if you are in the provo area i recommend, and pick out 13 cupcakes. you get a bakers dozen. i go to pay with my bosses corporate card, and it is denied. he forgot to turn in his receipts yet again. add another brick, so i go get my card and pay for it, yet another brick. i drive the long way back so i can cool off. i get to work we sing happy birthday eat a cupcake, yes i had one it was that kind of a day, and go back to my hell hole. i finish up around 5. now during the day my sister in law texted me about going to a class. it is called ripped and it kicks your trash.  i wasn't sure i would make it on time but she really wanted me to go, so i changed, stomped out to the car and went and endured the hour long class of intensity. i felt better afterward, but not 100% me. after the class it was off to my church activity, yes i went in gym clothes. turns out i didn't have to be there i guess cause the other leaders were missing but it was too late i was stuck. so i stayed and held an infant while they taught the girls about CPR for girls camp this summer. great. 

i got home and decided to shower and bathe the dog. he kind of stunk. after this then i got to eat dinner. yes 9:30. after eating i was already starting to get sore, not a good sign and grumped my way off to bed. i read a chapter and called it a night. 

here is what i ate

breakfast

2 slices of toast

water

lunch

1/2 steak

1/2 c mashed potato

1/2 c squash

lemonade

dinner

chicken pot pie

water

let us all pray that tomorrow is better. 

love the grouch.

.. monuesday - yes it is a day in my world ..

well tuesday wasn't as bad as i thought, it was worse. i hate coming back to work after a vacation. all you want to do is sleep and not be at your desk staring at a computer and solving everyone's issues and of course the even more pressing one like when you get off work and how many more hours you have to wait. painful. 

today started with a early wake up call. that dang alarm clock just doesn't understand that i want my sleep. argh. so we were up. i got ready and grabbed a bit of breakfast and was out the door on my way to work. it started with the weekly meeting where we regale everyone with our stories of the weekend, go over assignments and then end with some sort of fun times. we did bananagrams today. great game. try it. after the meeting i jumped in to another ribbon project, hunting down missing older than snot ribbons. fun times. i listened to a podcast, very enlightening, on stress while i chopped the ribbons and placed them in perfectly straight lines to be photographed for the catalogs. i then followed it up with just reading on news websites and catching up on the news i had missed the past 3 days. by then it was lunch. hallelujah. i had a baked potato, gotta love leftovers. i topped it with a bit of butter, cheese, ham, mushrooms salt and pepper and a side of steamed squash. after lunch it was back to the grind. i dealt with a few printers solved world hunger, i'm not telling, and what nots. i finished up around 5 phew. i survived. but it was also a trainer day today. oh yes this monuesday (monday and tuesday smashed) could get worse. so it was off.. here is what went down.

abs
{up down planks (12), planks (60 sec hold), crunches (30), russian twists (30), plank hip twists (20), plank (30 sec hold) repeated 2 times}

legs
{machine squats (50), free standing squats (50), quick steps (25 each leg), sled presses (50), sitting presses (50)}

sprint
{5:00 - 20 seconds on high 40 second low}

legs / arms
{single hand row (8 ea side), row squats (12), leg lifts on bench (20), single hand lunges (10 ea leg) repeat 2 times}

legs / calves
{calf raises (50), seated calf raises (50), leg curls (50), leg extension (50), seated calf extension (50)}

abs
{suspended abs (15), back extensions with 10 lb weight (15), 2 min sprint on high}

i followed this up by a shower, eating dinner - steak, a baked potato, squash and broccoli - and then just being with the hubs. bed as usual and i my sad attempt to finish the same chapter i have been reading over for the past 3 nights, which i did finish. and instead of going to bed, my hubs started into the blue at 10:30, and with my addiction issue to movies i stayed up and watched the whole thing, yep until 1am. shoot me. i am just too tired i tell you. 

until tomorrow my loves. 

.. and i'm back ..

blasted tuesday. i was so pumped about my three day weekend, and it just zoomed by me like it didn't exist. what the heck?! alright onto the catch up and less of me being bugged by the stupidity of working.

saturday i slept in until 9:30, thank you pup. we got up and had breakfast, and just hung around while we waited for others to wake up. i caught up on my shows, biggest loser finale! I was pumped to see the winner, they so deserved it! after watching some of that and what not i got ready to meet a photo appointment at 1. a cute bride to be. we chatted it up for about 2 hours and went into all the details we could on the subject. she is adorable and i can't wait to shoot their wedding this summer. after this i did some art making. just simple watercoloring but it was great. by this time the hubs was getting home and we decided to have papa murphy's pizza for dinner. i got the veggie delite. it is way good and not too bad calorie wise. after this we watched part of minority report with my dad, can we say odd show?! we then got kicked off the tv so my brother and his friends could play xbox. so we went to bed. 

sunday i got up with the pup around 7:45. got him breakfast, and snacked down a piece of toast. got ready for church and went. it was a good set of meetings today, the girls in my group made me cry - 5 of them graduated from high school this past week and won't be with me anymore. after church i came home and made homemade oreos for my hubs little brother's birthday. he loves cookies. we then went to their house and my hub and his brother played golf on the ps3 while i chatted it up with my mother in law. love her. we had chicken burritos with them. yum. after this we went home and finished minority report, i felt strangely different after watching that one. and then just played a nice round of battleship, i lost. sad day. 

monday, the hub and i slept in until 10. what?! i was shocked to wake up and realize it was indeed 10. crazy pants. we got up and i made the family eggs and home made buttermilk biscuits. yum. after which my hub left for work. i mean come one i get a day off and you want to spend it at work? i was bugged. but i lived. so i spent the day shopping for food with my dad, making a big potato bar for the family dinner, searching redboxes to find movies and playing with my cute fluffy pup. we had a family dinner at 6:30, the potato bar, it was great! we topped it off with watching brian regan on netflix, 5 grueling rounds of couches which the girls lost and pictionary. it was a good day. 

back to the grind, we go!

it is a three day weekend ya'll! WOOT WOOT

so it is friday. i feared the worst when waking up today. could i move? that was the question. i moved slowly and was able to actually get around pretty good, don't get me wrong i am sore and my muscles scream in agony when i do move but at least i can move. today will just be sore, and i guess i have to be okay with that cause it meant that i worked hard yesterday. i survived. 

work today i knew would be a bit crazy and hairy just cause of what we are in the middle of. getting ready for the big CHA show and what not and then have like 7 sales teams going on the road and bugging me for about a million and a half things, that they have to have then and couldn't ask me for earlier. pains. so i got to work, checked up on email and dove in. i worked through until lunch. i went home and had lunch with my cutie pie pup and loved it. after lunch i dragged myself to finish the last few hours of work. almost to the 3 day weekend!! 

after work, a coworker of my husband invited us to dinner to celebrate his wife's birthday. so we decided to go, partly cause it was my husband's favorite place to eat and i hate going there. it always makes me sick. tucanos. it is like 110% meat and nothing else, talk about heavy food and upset stomaches. blah. after dinner we just chilled at home with the pup. lazy day, and i like that just the way it is.

the weekend is a long one, so you will hear from me on tuesday, yep no internet for me this weekend. i am taking a break. but i hope you have a grand memorial day weekend. i am going to fill mine with art, pictures and family time. it is going to be great!!

here is the food for the day

breakfast

toast

gatorade

lunch

beef taquitos

lemonade

dinner

tucanos (can't list everything.. just go and you will know)

water

.. thursday = pain, is it friday? ..

alright so i woke up this morning and laid in bed and attempted to move. my body was so sore i was convinced that it had to be friday since i was so sore. i had to have just worked out with my trainer and that is why everything is rusted in place right? wrong. i soon realized that it was thursday and much to my dismay knew that i had to power through another day before the weekend arrived and it was going to be a painful one. argh. so i managed to lever myself to the sitting position, no easy feat, and into the standing position. my legs were on fire and I'm sure that my calves were tighter than a slingshot in full pull mode. killer. 

work today was actually pretty crazy. i had a big ribbon project that consumed the better half of the morning and part of the afternoon to complete. but i did find comfort in listening to a podcast on itunes to help pass the time. if you haven't done these i highly recommend them. i listen to one called radiolab, they are great. i have learned a bunch of fun things and actually took time to think about stuff in depth that they were talking about. riveting i know. once i wrapped up the ribbon ordeal i was off to lunch, i know amazing it took that long huh? i had lunch with my booted pup and then it was back to work for another hour and a half. i powered through the last bit which involved testing punches, cutting strips for a different ribbon project and then catching up on the ever piling emails that were crowding my mailbox. after all this it was 5 and time to go! i was off, and knew that the training hell was awaiting me. argh. so i got home changed, had a granola bar for energy boost, and was off to get my butt handed to me. literally. here is what went down to cause my butt to come off..

abs

{crunches (30), push ups (10) repeat 3 times}

abs

{boxers (15), diamond push ups (12) repeat 3 times}

abs

{obliques (20 each side), leg lifts (15) repeat 3 times}

abs

{planks for one minute}

arms

{lateral pull downs (12), bicep rows (12), triceps (12) repeat 3 times}

arms

{lateral pull downs, underhand close grip (12), one handed bicep rows (8 ea side), triceps pull downs (12), repeat 3 times}

sprints

{5 minutes on elliptical 20 seconds full sprint, 40 second walking}

arms

{seated flys (15), push ups 10 half way hold for 5 seconds followed by 10 more, repeat 3 times}

arms

are you kidding?!?!

{seated machine rows (15), seated machine shoulder pull downs (15) repeat 3 times}

sprints

what the f?!?

{ lunges to half court (basketball court), 10 push ups, lunges back}

{wall squat 30 seconds, 12 jump squats, side shuffles to half court and back}

{sprint to other side of court, walk back repeat 3 times}

um can you say dead? i was done. stick a fork in me, finished. after this brutal workout i went home and met my cute hub and pup. the family decided to do dinner out tonight, so we met them for dinner and yes i did wear my spandex and a sweatshirt, don't judge me. 

we followed up with a shower, bathing the pup, folding more laundry - swear it never stops- and watching a episode of cheaters, all time classic.

food

breakfast
toast
gatorade

lunch
beef taquitos
lemonade

dinner
chicken alfredo
water

long day, and i fear tomorrow will hurt. badly. 

.. lazy wednesday ..

it is wednesday, once again happy hump day! i kind of like wednesdays, they aren't my favorite day of the week but they are pretty great. i like it cause i know i only have two more days of work followed by a great weekend. especially this weekend. 

i feel a little bit more rested than normal today, that is great cause i have been in zombie land for quite a few days now. hallelujah! i think it is cause i have actually been going to bed on time. which is fantastic. today i got up and i knew it was going to be a sun shiny day which is great compared to the last week of gloom we have been living in. i got stopped this morning on my way into work at a police check point. i don't think it was intended for me, although it was pretty funny to have to be stopped and at 7:50 in the morning. so i got to work a bit late, just cause i had to go through that. i got here and had a few projects already waiting for me so i jumped in with two feet. i got caught up by about 10 and then caught up on emails and blog reading. i had little projects here and there until lunch which i got to have with my cute little puppy. who for the past 2 days has been living with a cute infant sock on his hind right leg to keep him from scratching his nipple off his belly. it is kind of comical to look at not going to lie. it keeps life exciting. after lunch it was back to work for a bit, just little things. i finished up around 5 and home it was. i decided, since it was one of my new goals, that i would go to the gym tonight. i was going to hit up the RIPPED class at golds. I  invited my sister and sister in law to come along, who knows it could be fun. i have been once before and it was hard core but great. so after a hour of sweat and struggle i was done, phew. 

I finished off the night with doing laundry and watching a tv show with my hubs. i like having low lying nights where we can just be. They are great. 

i was pretty sore and tired at this point so, of course the logical thing it to go to bed. but i am not logical apparently.  but you see i have an addiction problem. i am addicted to reading. i can't sleep at night until i read at least a chapter if not more. so i stayed up and read for about a half hour and now i am calling it a night. until tomorrow, hopefully i can survive.

here is what i ate

breakfast

pancakes

water

lunch
1/2 chicken breast
1 c broccoli
1/3 c funeral potatoes
lemonade

dinner
1/2 filet mignon
1/2 baked potato
1/4 c mushrooms
1 c broccoli
1 dinner roll
water

.. a sword with two edges ..

well i survived monday. yesterday was exhausting. between work and keeping up there, or staying awake i should say, then rushing home to take the pup to the vet. turns out he couldn't get his shots, since he has a rash over taking his body - apparently it is allergies and a round of staph, yay - so we just got seen, given drugs and sent on our way. then we spent the evening with the in laws which was nice and calm. 

today, is a tad different. i came into work with a few projects already in the waiting. i got started right away and was able to catch up by about 10. then i got sent on a gathering mission. we needed ribbon for a project, and i had to go find it in the other warehouse. let me fill you in on our warehouse. it is about the size of 2 home depots put together. the ceilings are so tall and all the rows are labeled by letter. so i had to start in row f and find some there and then make my way to row r to find the rest. after getting about 300 spools of ribbon i was done. i got back around 11. finally. up until lunch i just had little projects nothing to exciting. then lunch. and hanging out with the puppy. yay! after lunch it was back to work for a few hours, catch up on emails and finish off the little projects from before. i finished off at 5 and was at the gym by 6 for training. my sister has started coming with. it's good on one hand and bad on another. I struggle with her coming. I like having her there cause it does help with my motivation but on the same hand she is more fit than me so I struggle to feel like I fit in or i should be there. i have a bad judgement problem. Double edged sword there for sure. i requested legs, just cause my arm was killing so here is the butt kicking.

circut 1
{squats (15), forward lunges w/ 15 lb weights (8 ea leg), single leg dead lifts (8 each leg) repeat 4 times}

circut 2
{squats (15), squats w/ 20 lb weight (8 ea side), leg lifts (15), quick steps on bench (12 ea leg) repeat 4x}

circut 3
{leg press laying (15), leg press sitting (12), crunches (30), bicycles (30), pushups (12) repeat 3 times }

cardio
5 minutes on a elliptical , 20 second sprint then 40 second walk

calves
{seated calf raises (15), standing calf raises (15), seated calf extension (15) repeat 3 times}


i was sweating like a pig by the time i was done. i was so tired and my legs killed. and i drive a stick shift car. lovely. we made it home, just barely though. we finished the night off with family dinner and then a shower. then the hub and i went to barnes and noble to pick up a book i have had my eyes on for a while.

here is what got in my belly

breakfast
pancakes
water

lunch
carne asada taco
lemonade

dinner
1/2 chicken breast
funeral potatoes
green beans
water

well, i am pooped so i am off to beddy bye. 

.. someone has a case of the mondays, that would be me..

monday again. i seriously dread this day some times. last night i told my husband that i hated mondays and i was dreading getting up this morning to go to work. blah.

have you seen office space? the part where he gets to work and the lady on the phone has the most annoying voice in the world and he is going nuts. and she comes over to talk to him and he is just rude and then she proceeds to tell him that he has a case of the mondays? welcome to my every monday. painfully painful.

the day before had been a tad rough on the emotions. like i mentioned the pup developed random bumps on his skin which did wonders with my emotions and reliving the horrid thoughts of cancer. heaven help us. and my little brother and i got in a tif. he is one of my best friends in the family. he is the one when i want to talk to someone other than my hubs i call him. so it was a little rough and emotional. i spent a good half hour outside balling and with snot coming oozing out my nose. i was a red mess of splotchyness last night. so my eyes are swollen puff balls today. lovely.

got to work this morning and made the morning meeting. it was alright, nothing too exciting. i spent the next few hours fighting to keep myself awake, i was seriously so tired. i haven't had much to do, just cause i am starting to gear up for the big summer show so my part of the work is coming in a few weeks. so i have a hard time staying awake. i caught up on all my blogs i was reading and the news. so i am pretty much up to speed on all the gossip. - go ahead and ask me. i read people.com and cnn, i can answer a butt load of questions.

the afternoon kind of dragged on, not going to lie. but i will make it i guess. today was the puppy's last vet visit for shots. he got his rabies and his last booster shot and is now able to be around other fun pups. we spent the rest of the evening with the in laws which i love. so relaxed at their house.

no gym today, my arm is giving me issues and i am not in the mood to fight it. so i am just going to rest up for tomorrow and trainer day.

meals

breakfast
pancakes
water

lunch
carne asada taco
lemonade

dinner
beef top ramen
slice of homemade bread
water


and i definitely have to say i have a case of the mondays. blah. hopefully tomorrow will be better and less monday-ish. 

alright, here is our weekend recap. 

friday finished off with us going to dinner. After dinner we went and watched my little sister walk across the stage to get a certificate of completion. she went to a tech school and they don't do degrees. funny like that. after screaming our guts out for her, we left and decided we would do laser tag at the nickel city in orem. i have to admit i was kind of disappointed with the actual layout of the laser tag field. in the past my hubby and i have gone to laser assault. it is like ghetto, like built in the 80s but it is so fun. it has 2 layers and like 5 rooms. a blast. this arena only had one level and one room with obstacles. kind of lame. we wanted to play against each other, boys vs girls, but they wouldn't let us go in so we had to play against a bunch of 16 year olds. great. i got my workout in on that half hour of play. i was sweating so bad when we were done. the kids we played against were so LAME. they wouldn't move around they just hid in spots and then when we would come over and just stand across from them and shoot them they said we were lame. apparently the game of laser tag has changed since i last played. after laser tag we got $2 in nickels and played games and won prizes and what not. pretty fun. we got growing safari animals. they are hilarious. we did one after we got home and just laughed. 

I counted the laser tag as working out, it was like 30 minutes of straight up cardio. killer. 

meals : breakfast - granola bar, lunch - pizza pie cafe, dinner - cheese tortelini

saturday the hub stayed home from work, so nice. i got up and made him breakfast - pancakes, and we had a nice quiet morning. after cleaning up we decided it was time to scoop poop and mow the lawn and take care of the little plants that needed love. so we did that for about 2 -3 hours. after we were done we showered and then started laundry. we spent about 2 hours at the mall on the hunt for some good flip flops for the hubby, which we found. and we had lunch - subway. after lunch we came home and just relaxed and played with the dogs. i went to a dance concert with the girls in my church group to support a girl in our group who was performing. she did great. afterwards we got an ice cream cake, a first for another girl in our group and had it at my house where they got to ask my hub what ever they liked, which they loved.

i did some slight weight lifting in the gardens, not too much so light workout day

meals : breakfast - pancakes, lunch - subway 6" turkey, dinner - beef taquitos

sunday i got up around 7:45 and fed the pup. afterwards i showered and got ready for church. it was a good day, sunny and nice. just me and my dad at church, quiet and lots of room in our bench. after church we went home and got in some comfy clothes, a staple on sunday afternoons. we had lunch together, carne asada tacos. yum. and then i fed the pup lunch and snuggled until choir practice. don't get me wrong, i can kind of sing - k not really but i like it - so i go, it is the church choir and didn't require a try out to be in it. hallelujah. we practiced for an hour and then came home. the pup developed some odd bumps on his skin, i'm a tad nervous. our last dog died of skin cancer, not exactly equalling great feelings. so i spent the next few hours watching his skin and seeing if more bumps developed. the hub got home from work and we had dinner with the fam. sliders. after dinner we watched the nba game (chicago vs miami) and then followed it up with the movie easy a. so good. i split a pizooki with my brother and then called it a night. it was a good weekend i have to say. some relaxing some productiveness but just nice. 

no working out today..

meals : breakfast - pancakes, lunch - carne asada tacos, dinner - sliders

see you tomorrow for the mondays..

.. a rainy day followed by a weekend ..

today is terribly rainy and yucky weather. i have to admit i am quite disappointed. i mean it is the end of may almost and we are still having winter weather advisories put into place. um what?! i swear sometimes the weather here in utah is a like a cranky lady who is bipolar and can't decide is she is going to be happy, sad or fluffy. why can't she just make up her mind?

today is friday, and i have to be excited about that. first off cause i get to sleep in tomorrow, well at least past 6:30. then i get two days to do what i want and not run on another person's schedule, thank goodness! this week has been crazy running around and making all these appointments and what nots. i can maybe breathe after tonight is done. today at work it is a girl's birthday and another girls last day. double whammy. in tradition we always get a birthday treat for that person, what they want on that day. so she opted for cinnamon rolls from kneaders. they are a pretty good bakery, if you are in need of one. so since i am the official errand person i was off to fetch cinnamon rolls and a gallon of milk. -side note- i HATE milk, sicks me out so bad. maybe one day i will share. when i got back we sang happy birthday, ate cinnamon rolls and then back to work. 

this afternoon we went to lunch together to celebrate the other girls last day. she wanted jdawgs. it is a local hot dog place that if you are ever in the provo area i recommend. good hot dogs. and on top of her leaving we were having a creative activity day. we are going to the byu museum of art to see the exhibit. busy work day i tell you. 

after work, i did get a small break and then we were off again. we have a triple date with my little brother and his wife and a set of friends. we went to la jolla groves for dinner, a good fresh italian place. after that we had to run to my little sisters graduation. although she isn't really graduated. she is getting her lpn and still going to school to try and get her RN so not quite sure why they have a graduation for half way down the road, but we went. after that we finished up the night with a little bowling action and called it a night. busy times i tell you, busy.

food for today

breakfast

cinnamon roll from kneaders

water

lunch

jdawg hot dog

water

dinner

tortellini

water

thank goodness it is the weekend!

.. thursday slide, into friday ..

we made it past hump day and advanced quickly into thursday. i am so terribly sore, like my muscles are in revolt. they are trying so hard to kill me i think. today was a particularly hard day, i woke up cranky and just all around tired. i was kind of quiet and reserved at work, i even had a few people ask me if i was alright because i was so quiet. this whole staying up until midnight business is going to be the death of me. i spent the night just hanging out at home. I was too sore to attempt to jump into going to the gym. i just needed a rest and a day to just be. so after work i decided that i would just put on sweats and catch up on my shows. since i only really watch tv on saturdays for like an hour, i was going to take advantage of the fact no one was there. so i did. i enjoyed my america's next top model and americas best dance crew. yes i am a reality show type, but i also like the grey's anatomy and off the map kind of shows. 

food for today

breakfast

2 pieces of toast

water

lunch

chicken sandwich

lemonade

dinner

chicken quesadilla

lemonade

onto tomorrow. i can't hardly wait. weekend here i come.

.. happy hump day ..

i have never been more excited for a week to be half way over until today. at least i think. work seems to be dragging the past few days and i have been tired beyond numbness. like can't function normally. seriously impaired. too many late nights = zombie. 

today work was slow again. i did have a few more projects than the day before, which is nice. i like having some little things to do even if they are little and don't take very long. it was so rainy and yucky today and it makes me feel all draggy and slow. i had lunch with my hubs today. it was great, we had pot stickers. nothing exciting. after lunch and work i got home to find that the hubs was taking pups to see my in laws so he could play golf on the ps3 with his brother. it worked out fine cause i had my training appointment. here is what went down..

arms

{dead lifts (12), squats (12), over head single arm press (8 each) repeat 4 times}

legs

{squats on swiss ball (12), standing squats (20) repeat 3 times}

abs

{ crunches (30), bicycle (30), 1 minute planks repeat 3 times }

5 minute sprints

{20 second hard sprint, 40 second slow walk repeat until 5 minutes}

abs / sprints = hell

{2 minute sprint, crunches, russian twists, boxers, leg lifts, flutter kicks, obliques, dead cockroach - repeat 3  times }

by the end i was exhausted and sweating from head to toe. literally. gross. immediately following my torture, which i pay for.. i had an activity with the girls i teach. we were making fun goodies for the seniors who graduate next week from the local high school. {can't tell you what in case any of them read this..} i was there until about 8:30. afterwards i came home and ate dinner, showered and climbed into bed. i was ready to be done and the hubs wanted to watch the bounty hunter. so we watched it. i have an addiction issue. i will watch whatever movie, even if i am dead tired until the end and even if i have seen it before or if it is on tv. i can't stop. so i was up, until 12. yep midnight. zombie here i come. 

food for today

breakfast

granola bar

water

lunch

7 pot stickers

lemonade

dinner

spaghetti

small salad

water

ps. i know i throw a bunch of random workout terms on here. if you ever want to know what they are or how to do them, weights etc. let me know and i can dedicate a post to just about everything i do. this way if you want to follow along and do a work out you totally could!

so after a long and painful monday i was kind of looking forward to tuesday. it had to be better right? it was in some respects, not in others. how does that always happen? so i did wake up on time and made it to work on time, gold star for me! and then it started. i started off by pulling an order from the warehouse, i thought for sure it would take a while. nope a hour. dang. i got to work expecting to have something going on and again today, nothing. the noddinghams came on and i was bobbing like a bobble head within minutes. i some how made it to lunch and left in hopes that the hour i had would be great and not wasted. but alas my lunch break always zooms by me. so i was back at work and again nothing to do. i was devastated. i decided that i wanted to watch a dvd on my computer while i was wasting away. at least keep me awake right? but my computer decided to have other plans. apparently the drive in my computer is done with the whole letting discs in. LAME. so i resorted to reading blogs, the news and doing little dinky things until 5. and then i was off, home and to the gym. trainer day. 

here is what broke out..

squat presses, pop rows, curls

2 minute sprint 

30 crunches, v-ups, bicycles

2 minute sprint

leg press (sitting), leg press (laying)

pull ups, chin ups

curls, chest presses, flys, triceps 

2 minute sprint

leg press sitting and laying

pull ups and chin ups

30 crunches, 15 boxers, 20 obliques on each side

back extensions

leg lifts

30 crunches, bicycle, leg lifts and obliques

it was a butt kicker for sure. i am sure i will feel some of this, at least in my arms tomorrow. 

i went home pooped. we ate dinner, food in a few, and then proceeded to shower and give the pup a bath. he was long overdue. stinky goo is what i was calling him. after a shower we went upstairs to watch a bit of the okc mavericks game and then ended up watching easy a together. hilarious movie if you haven't seen it, i would recommend it! 

for food

breakfast

1 cup cheerios 

water

lunch

top ramen 

lemonade

dinner

cream tuna on toast 

(it is a white gravy base seasoned with salt and pepper and then add tuna, pour over toast)

water

delicious. it was a pretty good day for being pooped. i will make it. and i have another training session tomorrow, he had to reschedule again cause he has training. i guess i can't be too mad right. until tomorrow.