.. just another boring weekend ..

weekend roundup. 

honestly, does anyone really read this? i guess i don't care if no one does cause it is a way for me to keep track of what is going on, something i could look back on. but i do wonder sometimes if there is anyone out there listening. 

alright, fine to the weekend. 

saturday was a pretty good day. my pups decided he would sleep in, hallelujah! he never does that when it is just me and him in the mornings, point in case sunday but we will get to that later. we got up at 9 am. wonderfully delicious. we had breakfast together, he had kibble and i ate two slices of homemade french toast. super easy to make and quick. yum. after we ate and played for a few, we decided that i should get ready for the day. so i got ready and then we played some more. we checked out the backyard where my dad was fussing with the ever temperamental sprinkler systems. after about an hour of that we took a nap, or rather he did. i sat and worked on a lesson i was giving on sunday. around 2 i woke him up for a bit of lunch. he still is doing the 3 meals a day thing, we are trying to ween him off of it slowly. after he ate he decided a tackling of his 'girlfriend' was in order, and they played for a few hours. i had a cheeseburger and a oreo shake. i know not the healthiest but my dad bought it so i ate. we played some more i worked on the lesson some more and then we vegged and watched tv. hubs got home around 5:45 he was really excited about that. and we decided to have dinner with my parents. we made homemade mushroom ravioli. i then started to make cinnamon rolls for the girls i teach to celebrate a birthday. i wrapped that up around 10:30 and it was off to bed. pretty laid back day if i do say so myself.

sunday. yikes. alright so our pups sleeps with us in bed. yeah i know it is odd, but he is so small and squishy i just love having him there with me. so he does, right in between the pillows. love him. so occasionally when my hubs gets up for work on weekends (5:30am- no one in their right mind should be up that early) he takes the pups out for a potty break and brings him back to bed with me. so he decided to help me out and do that this morning. however, the pups had different plans. yeah nice right. he decided after hubs left at 6:15 that at 6:27 we had slept enough and it was time to get up. now i was irritated, and so tired so i just put on sweats and dragged his bum upstairs. he wanted to play. yes at 6:30am. i resorted to laying on the couch and let him play with his girlfriend, another pup, for a bit. we had breakfast at 7. he had kibble and i ate a cinnamon roll. all homemade, clean cooking. i got ready for church and left the house around 8. i had church meetings and what not until 12:15 and then i hustled home to find a sleepy eyed pup. he quickly perked up and helped me do laundry, thanks bud and we had lunch. i had a hot dog and cheese slices. after this we proceeded to take a nap together on the floor. thank heavens he let me nap. however the floor wasn't so comfy and i woke up with my arm and back killing me. fun fun. we played some more did more laundry and waited for the hubs. he got home around 6:30 and told me his parents had invited us over for dinner. so we left. they had homemade fajitas. pretty good. i had them on a flour tortilla, with the meat, onions, peppers, rice and salsa. tasty. the pup played, or attempted to play with my in laws two cats. one, luce, hissed up a storm. it sounded like a steam broiler ready to explode every time he would come around. the other, tracks, was a little more confident. he would walk around and hang out in the window next to him, cocky little one, until the pup saw him and charged. then tracks wasn't so confident and ran to the safety of the fireplace. fun to watch actually. we stayed and chatted for a while and came home to go to bed. i read a bit and the hubs played golf on playstation. i crashed around 11, who knows when the golfing ended for him. and there you have it. 

the end. 

.. friday, it's fun, fun fun fun! ..

alright, so i just needed a day. i worked out hard the last two days and i was recovering from a cold. both not fun. so today was it. 

i just decided to take it easy today, even though i had work. 

food..

breakfast

1 cup of cereal

water

lunch

quesadilla

water

dinner

work wasn't too bad, although i am pretty sure the whole day i just wanted to be home. don't you hate days like that? i almost feel as though the clock knows it and just takes it pretty time turning slowly just to spite you and spit in your face. blasted clock. i'm cursed.

alright, so it is the weekend and you know what that means. yep not gonna hear from me until monday. so until then peeps, stay thin and healthy. you are a beauty!

.. soreness is in your future ..

well good news for me. i am not too sore today. i could be much worse, which would make tonight worse. so at least that is going for me. 

today was a trainer day.. here is what went down

arms

{body dips, assisted pull ups repeat 2 times}

legs

{seated squats, lunges with 10 lbs, jump squats 10 each leg, repeat all 3 times}

legs take two

{calf raises, frog jumps across raquetball court, up & downs on a bench 12 total- repeat 3 times}

legs take three

{leg extensions, leg rows - repeat 3 times}

leg & arm combo

{squats with bar, 30 crunches, 12 pushups - repeat 3 times}

leg take two million

{squats with bar, forward lunges with bar 6 each side - repeat 3 times}

full body hell

{TRX} 

the end. i was DEAD at the end of this all. i was sweaty from my head to my toes and i felt whooped. i think tomorrow might be a sore day. i am pretty sure if i had a fortune teller decked out in her head wrap and all she would concur that soreness awaits in my future. my legs were quivering, yes quivering as i walked out. pretty sure i looked like the most retarded person ever. but whatever, i worked out and i did good!

as for food.. 

breakfast

1 cup dry cereal

water

lunch

chicken nuggets

water

dinner

chicken quesadilla

lemonade

alright folks.. i am down 2 pounds in a week. i stopped drinking soda and they came off. i am hoping more continue to fall, i am sure they will. i hope you are all trying hard as well to get in shape, not just for summer but for you. you deserve it!

.. it is one fry, what can it hurt? apparently a lot ..

i met with my trainer today instead since he had to swap days. i was kind of nervous for what was coming but i knew that if i just tried and pushed that i could make it. so here is what went down.

abs

{30 crunches, 30 russian twists}

2:00 on treadmill or elliptical going as fast as you can

abs

{v-ups, russian twists, planks for 45 seconds x 2times}

2:00 on treadmill or elliptical fast as you can

arms & abs

{chest press, flys, russian twist with weights x 2 times}

2:00 on treadmill or elliptical fast as you can

legs & arms

{wall squats, squat presses, diamond push ups}

2:00 on treadmill or elliptical fast as you can

arms & legs

{pop rows, wall squats, push ups}

2:00 on treadmill or elliptical fast as you can

arms

{body rows, push ups repeat 3 times}

arms

{lat pull down at 70 lbs 12 times, repeat 3 times}

abs

{cross toe touch crunch, 30 crunches, 45 second planks, russian twists, obliques 20 each side repeat all 2 times}

yep, i almost passed out and puked. not at the same time thank heavens. it took all the energy i could muster up to make it through the workout, but i did it. then immediately after my training session i had an activity with my girls, self defense. what was i thinking? so i went to that for an hour and a half and learned how to appropriately punch, elbow and knee someone and also the best places to hit a person. sounds fun huh? watch out i can kick your trash, i know self defense. 

the poor hubs caught a nasty cold bug and was sicker than i can imagine. i couldn't get him to eat all day and finally at 9p he told me he wanted in and out fries and a chocolate shake. so we went. well, the last time i ate at in and out i had one of the worst allergic reactions of my life. we were in california, on vacation to watch my little sister compete in cheer nationals. i was so sick and had to take 3 benadryl and sleep for about 2 hours to feel half way decent and avoid going to the hospital. so the braniac i am, i wanted to see if my allergies has subsided or lessened for that place. so after we got his food, i popped a fry in my mouth. very bad choice. it was instant. i had hives on the insides of my mouth, my tongue and throat swelled and i was feeling not hot. i imagine it to look like when a cat gets super pissed and the hair sticks up all over it's body, yep that is my tongue and throat at that instant. my hubs was a tad scared i think, especially since i was driving. but i told myself, the best thing to do was stay calm and get home where i could get something to help. if i stopped in the middle of the road, nothing would help me win. so we made it home. eventful eve if you ask me.

for food today, this is what i slurped down..

breakfast

powerade (i was feeling sick, these help me get a pick me up)

1 cup of dry cheerios

lunch

3 hard boiled eggs seasoned with s & p

water

dinner

homemade mac and cheese

water

snack

one in and out fry that almost resulted in a hospital trip .. dummy.

well i am off to la la land, i just chugged a children's liquid benadryl packet in hopes of calming my mouth followed by a adult benadryl pill. oh, and i get to do a training sesh again tomorrow, love my life - not! nighty night!

.. blasted cold ..

alright, so i knew that there was the first good cold / sinus infection of the season brewing a few weeks back when the allergies started in. but they have gotten exponentially worse since the cotton started flying. the past few days i have experienced a few medical phenomenons. i will share one. for some odd reason my sinuses like to really plug up at night. my poor hubs. i can't breathe out my nose and resort to breathing out my mouth. of course i don't know this cause it happens while i sleep. well this morning was nothing out of the ordinary. i woke up to extreme cotton mouth, like couldn't move my tongue cotton mouth. i can only imagine what my poor tongue must have felt being dried into a coffin. i managed to get stuff moving, but my nose was stuffed solid. couldn't even procure a sniffle out of the nostrils. so i headed to the shower and to brush my teeth. usually the shower helps loosen stuff, it must be the steam. while i was brushing my teeth my stuffed nose began to run. yes it was stuffed and runny at the same time. i couldn't sniffle to save myself the snot, so instead i got nice snot trail crawling down my face much like a teething one year old. medical phenomenons. 

so since i have been hit with this unbelievable illness of sorts, i have been so unmotivated to get up and move. i do know my body well though, i hope you know yours, and if i tried to work out while i was sick it would only amplify what is already there. so instead of a medium sinus infection, it would greatly proceed to being a intense one over night. so i have been playing it cool. lucky for me, my trainer had to reschedule his appointments and i don't meet him until tomorrow. one more day to rest up. hallelujah. 

as for food today, i had the following..

breakfast

2 pieces of toast

1 cup of dried cheerios

10 ounces of water

lunch

1/2 grilled chicken breast

1 cup of rice

1/2 c of carrots

water

dinner

macaroni and cheese

lemonade 

{not the best meal but it sounded good}

for snacks, i just did gum and water. i haven't been feeling like eating much lately. it is almost kind of forced. 

so i am going to pull on my jammies and grab a blanket and go snuggle with my pup and be on the couch. i can't fathom having the energy to go to the gym. until tomorrow my friends, hopefully the sinus fairy comes while i sleep and remove some of this nasty. 

.. monday, monday ..

alright, so it the beginning of the week. blast. i seriously hate mondays. i have to be back at work, lame. i have to work for 8 hours, lame. i usually am exhausted, double check. and today on top of all the lameness and double checks, i woke up feeling like a coal burning train had just run full force into my face. hello sinuses. 

like any other monday, i was off to work. i enjoyed breakfast, honey nut scooters and a camelback of water. ps - little note for you, i got a camelback at target. it was $14 and it has been the best thing ever. it holds 24 oz and can't leak. i fill it up like 3-4 times a day and it is great. okay back to mundane monday. i was at work, literally falling asleep in my chair. not a good sign. i finally got something to do that required moving around and was up. it took until about 11 for this to kick in. i worked until lunch, which i always take at 1:30 due to the fact that i go home and feed the little munchkin pup lunch. i opted for top ramen, since it was pouring rain and about 50 degrees. blasted utah weather. it is more bipolar than anything i know. so i ate a pack of beef top ramen prepared in the microwave, best thing ever. and a huge glass of water. after lunch i loved on the puppy for a few and then i had to leave to make it back in time. 

back at work i was pretty busy, no time really to just sit around. which i LOVE. it makes the day feel shorter than it really is. since i didn't sit around much there wasn't much time for snacking so i just plowed through with a few cough drops. it is the only thing saving my throat the moment. after work, i debated going to the gym. i know that i have trainer day tomorrow so i didn't know if expelling all energy and getting sicker the day before would bring great joy, so i decided that i would take it easy today and just be. so i did laundry instead.

tonight we celebrated my sisters hubs birthday which is actually on tuesday. we had grilled pannini's and homemade tomato soup. i opted for just a grilled cheese instead of all the meat and fats, like cream cheese and what not. it was good. i have to say. i enjoyed it, and it kept me warm vital for a freezing spring day like today. after this my mom had made chocolate lava cake to celebrate. i took a small scoop to celebrate. around 1/3 a cup. it was enough to participate and not enough to kill the calories. 

not bad for not exercising today, hopefully my little fighter dudes and gird their loins for tomorrow and be tough. we are going to need all that we can get. that and i am headed to bed early to try and get some extra shut eye. 

.. weekend and a few visitors ..

alright, so i will put this out there. straight up i do nothing with the internet, facebook, blogging on saturday and sundays unless i have to. i do it 5 days a week and quite frankly i think my eyeballs need a break from all the computer staring. so since i missed the weekend. here is the catch up.

saturday i was home alone with 3 doggies. yep, 3. mine and i was puppy sitting my parents two dogs. crazy dog party. we got up at 8am, which i have to say was a nice treat. i have to get up around 6:30 m-f and sunday for things so saturday is our sleepy day. i made breakfast. this is the only day of the week i manage to squeeze enough free time out to make a hot breakfast, so i do it. weekly. this week since it was just me i opted for scrambled eggs. i whipped up 2 eggs and about 1 tbs of water. (makes the eggs fluffy and airy). i paired it with a slice of costco bacon (precooked, less fat) and a piece of toast and a glass of water. yum. after cleaning up after myself, a whole like 3 minutes. i decided that it was due time to clean the house. the night before, my dear hubs found a dead mouse in the front room. i freaked and vowed i would clean, intensely to find where the culprit was living. so i swept, mopped, dusted, vacuumed, cleaned the pantry with bleach and hung pictures. it took me until 2 in the afternoon. now i should have been starved at this point. i worked hard, broke a sweat and climbed on at least 3 tables. but instead of being hungry, i was sick. i got a killer sinus headache from all the cotton floating around out there. blast. i am super allergic and to try and make things easier for the pups i left the back door open for them to come and go as they pleased. not my smartest choice. it allowed roughly 5 million of the little cotton fluffs in. they were everywhere including stuck to the dogs fur. delightful. so instead i curled up in the lazy boy with my puppy and laid there praying that puke would not come up. after about 30 minutes of having the door shut it subsided and i could eat. 

lunch was a steak burrito, using up leftovers. it consisted of cilantro, steak bites (cooked in olive oil), pico de gallo, olives and tomatillo ranch. not bad. and a huge glass of water. after lunch i showered for the first time that day, don't judge me. why waste water when i was going to get all dusty and dirty anyhow? then i packed up my pup and we went and got dog food and a mothers day present for my MIL. when we got home i was pooped. it was about 4:30. i slept for about an hour and then the hubs was home from work. we had a chicken caesar salad for dinner. light and great. 

sunday is always a crazy day it seems. i was up at 7:30. i had scrambled eggs again, amazing for a sunday. and got ready for church. i got home around 12:30 and was pretty tired and hot, it was like 85 degrees. what? Utah, seriously what joke are you playing? i changed into some shorts and got lunch. same as lunch the day before, i am seriously so boring aren't i. after lunch i got on the couch with my pup and watched a movie with my younger brother. the horrid headache and puke feeling was back before i knew it and i just laid there. praying it would pass. it took way longer and a shot of pepto to get this one to pass, what is the deal?! for dinner we had chicken, prepared by boiling in chicken broth and then lightly cooking (until browned) in olive oil, rice and carrots. and of course a huge glass of water. 

we visited the in laws which proved to be entertaining. we take our pup, they have 2 cats. cats don't really like him, so they usually hide on the bed or the fireplace. places he and his cute stubbiness can't reach. every once and a while they would get brave and come down, he would spot them and the chase would ensue. one chase ended in one of the cats batting at the pup, hitting him in the head, breaking open his scabs from being declawed and leaving a nice blood trail on the bed and the pups head. good times and laughs. 

boring weekend, i tell you.