Then and Now

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Then: I drank this beer

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Now: I drink this beer

Then: I wore short spandies

Now: I wear long spandies

Then: I had either super brown or super blonde hair


Now: A happy medium

Then: I was friends with this gal
we are cute
Now: She’s still my bestie

I had made a lot of bad decisions over time, but that last one’s the best one. Happy birthday Kysha (Ok fine, Kristin)!

Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho, It’s off to the mountains I go

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Drove to Sadie’s house for my hair appt. She lives outside of the city, closer to the mountains. I tried snapping some shots of the scenery with my camera without looking, and I was pretty successful!

The mountains are there, you just can’t see them in the picture!

And now for my favorite pic of the bunch:

The mountains are so gorgeous! (Note: the sign posts 80 kph NOT miles per hour. Ugh, it fools me every time.) I keep meaning to bring my actual camera instead of using my iPhone camera.

After my hair was done, Sadie and I took Layla and Rooney for a walk. Layla sucks off the leash, so I was privileged enough to be dragged behind her. I say ‘dragged’ because the path was icy in most places, and apparently she doesn’t love her mother enough to SLOW. THE. F. DOWN. Thorns in my butt. Figuratively and literally.

Now I’m back home, starvin’ like marvin girrrrrrl, and I still need to squeeze in a workout. The challenges of being unemployed, I tell ya.

Ok, onto a real blogger-type post. I’ve seen a lot of people doing that A-Z thingamabob, so I figured I’d give my baby-bloggie a little more substance by filling it out myself. Here goes nothing…

A is for age: 25

B is for breakfast today: Chocolate protein oats

C is for currently craving: green veggies! Particularly broccoli and brussels!

D is for dinner tonight: fettuccine with fake cheese sauce (shh, don’t tell Tyler, but I’m mixing plain greek yogurt with nutritional yeast. It healthier, has way more protein, and he’s gonna eat because I made it!) and roasted brussels. Since I’m craving and since I have them.

Oh snap, looks like I added bacon!

E is for favorite type of exercise: Any kind of intervals. Cardio, strength, you name it. Kick my butt and send me home.

F is for irrational fear: swimming in water with fish in it. Lakes, ponds, rivers…gross. I’m oddly ok with oceans though. Bring it, Jaws.

G is for gross food: Seafood (I don’t want to swim with them OR eat them), Cauliflower, Whipped Cream. I know, you’re saying ‘whaaaaaat’ about the seafood, because you preach that crab or salmon or lobster is God’s gift on earth, but I beg to differ, and “whhhaaaat’ to whipped cream, because how can I not like my hot cocoa or brownie sundae without? Well, I can.

H is for hometown: Meh, not sure how to answer this one. Irvine, CA from ages 0-9; Concord, CA from 9-15; Glens Falls, NY from 15-18. I’m totally a Californian. Still don’t care for snow. Wait, I moved to Calgry whyyyy?!

I is for something important: I have NO debt. I repeat: NONE. Also, I am mindful of my spending (unless I’m at Lululemon) and appreciate what I have and what has been given to me.

J is for current favorite jam: Jam (the food): Fig Jam from Trader Joe’s. Jam (music): Nicki Minaj’s Starships

K is for kids: A 4ish year old Chocolate Lab.

L is for current location: In my workout room/office.

M is for the most recent way you spent money: Hair appointment.

N is for something you need: A JOB. ARE YOU IN CALGARY?! ARE YOU HIRING?!! I AM EDUCATED AND COOL AND SMART AND FUNNY AND I WORK WELL WITH OTHERS! AND I DON’T ALWAYS TALK IN CAPS LOCK!

O is for occupation: See above. Woof.

P is for pet peeve: Hearing people chew.

Q is for quote: Anything I say is quote-worthy. No need to pay homage to the words of others. Did I mention I am also sarcastic? (I can’t think of a quote now, and I couldn’t think of a quote for my senior year yearbook picture. I ended up using some Sheryl Crow song.)

R is for random fact about you: I can make pi on my forehead.

S is for favorite healthy snack: fruit, yogurt, nuts.

T is for favorite treat: Anything chocolate. I mean, anything. Or apple dumplings from Sutton’s back home (NY).

U is for something that makes you unique: I can write backwards just as fast as I can write frontwards.

V is for favorite vegetable: I love all of them except cauliflower. Maybe artichoke? Or brussels? Or broccoli? Or red pep? Ah, too tough to choose.

W is for today’s workout: That is TBD. Check the next post for the results.

X is for X-rays you’ve had: Broke my foot 2x and fractured my thumb once. Nothing too exciting to write about.

Y is for yesterday’s highlight: Painting the dining room!

Z is for your time zone: Mountain, YUP.

 

Letting that scrumptious dinner settle, then I’m off to conquer the W (today’s workout)

Pick a letter from the above and comment with your own neat-o info!

Favorite Workout Moves

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Some of my favorite workout moves:

These are just a few that my foggy Monday-morning brain can think of.

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I take this book with me everywhere, just to refresh my memory when I have brain farts on incorporating different variations of some of these moves. Plus, I refer to my ACSM textbooks, other blogs, apps, websites. Golly, there’s just too many places!

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Just finished Catching Fire and downloaded Mockingjay to my iPhone! And now, I’m off to get my hairs did!

Is no one doing anything this week? Let’s get some responses on things you are looking forward to!

Paint Party

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It took a bag of Skittles for Tyler to get me out of bed today. I just felt like a ton of bricks. Throw a bag of candy at my face, and BAM, I’m up. We DID stay up till the wee hours last night to watch the entire first season of The Walking Dead. And I DID manage to have nightmares all night, so I used the morning daylight to catch some zz’s.

Tyler had gone back to the HD (home depot) to get gallons of paint, so I put my paint clothes on and helped him get to work.

And my paint clothes, I meant the T-shirt I wore to bed and the only pair of shorts I managed to bring with me to Canada. #AmericanFail.

We started with the dining room. Hooray! We got to FINALLY take down these ugly things:

I am pretty sure they’re both junk (left by the previous owners) but about 3% of me believes they could be the masterpieces of this guy. Am I right or am I right??!

I was in charge of the roller because I said I was going to be in charge of the roller. Cut to 30 minutes later, and you’ve got this:

We will have to do another coat since that existing brown was so dang brown.

In another part of the world…

Athena tagged me as one of the things she’s loving for March! She also used the most flattering picture of me (*cough, cough*) You should probably check out her site, too.

Plus, she’s hosting a giveaway (hint: it’s CHOCOLATE) so you should leave a comment on this post to enter!

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  • Only a few more pages of Catching Fire to go and it’s on to the third book in The Hunger Games series!

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What’s something you are looking forward to this week?

For me, it’s getting my hair done tomorrow, and getting in some really good workouts!

 

Irish Evening

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Let’s go to the beach, -each
Let’s go get away
They say, what they gonna say?
Have a drink, clink, found the bud light
Bad bitches like me, is hard to come by
The patron on, let’s go get it on
The zone on, yes, I’m in the zone
Is it two, three? Leave a good tip
I’mma blow off my money and don’t give two shits

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I tend to always have one favorite song that I play over and over to death until I move on to the next. This week, it’s Nicki Minaj’s Starships. Makes me feel bad-ass. Except for when people at the gym catch me lip syncing it while I’m lunging or jumping jack-ing.

Let’s get back to Nicki Minaj- her and I are practically twins. Actually, the only thing we have in common are our badonk-a-donks. I used to be twins with JLo until she had babies and trained for a triathalon. Then, her junk in the trunk went bye-bye. I can only hope for a similar outcome.

 

I was going to wait to post out St. Patrick’s Day dinner (to make it look like I actually had a life and not that I come straight home to write about it for the internets to see). So, here are some mouth-watering pictures of one of the best meals to date. I managed to find some green to sport for the outing:

My expression was intended to imply ‘hey, look at this bangin’ green outfit.’ When really it says, ‘check out my disastrous roots.’ Whatever, I’m fixing that problem on Monday.

We started off with a couple of Caesar’s (to you American folk, it’s essentially a Bloody Mary, except it’s made with clamato juice rather than tomato juice). Tyler’s is extra spicy, mine is extra not. But you can’t tell the difference.

For an app, we had Mushrooms Neptune. They are mushrooms filled with crab and cream cheese. I don’t know why it was accompanied with a butt role, since we already were served a loaf of fresh baked bread. Delicious, nonetheless.

Our meals came with salads (mine: Wedge; Tyler: caesar) not pictured because lettuce is boring to look at.

Filet Mignon for each. (mine: 7 oz because I’m a lady; Tyler: 10 oz because he’s a man) Twice baked potatoes with chives and BACON, and veggies. (see! we were celebrating St. Patrick’s Day! We had potatoes!)

Somehow, after we left The Keg, we wound up at Crowfoot Liquor. And somehow, we left with this:

And with that, my nose has detected that the coffee is ready. Irish coffees and season one of The Walking Dead= a darn good Saturday night.

How are you celebrating?