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Monday, July 16, 2012

Dream Wedding

Well, well, well, fancy meeting you here. This is my first official post as a Mrs. On May 5th, 2012 I married my MAN!! Evidence?

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Amen

Source: Uploaded by user via Casey on Pinterest

Pinterest: Making you want great abs AND whip cream filled strawberries with a side of stuffed grilled cheese.

Monday, February 27, 2012

Musings. I don't think that word means what I think it does, but I don't want to think of another one so I'm leaving it. There are no rules here. Words don't need to be used in proper context, they don't even need to be spelled right for that matter.

Freedom of improper speech.

Last night we had an amazing family supper at my parent’s house. The star of the supper was definitely my Mom’s Faux Fried Chicken made from Janet and Greta’s “The Loneyspoons Collection” cookbook. Best supporting role goes to my Sister’s Banana Cream Pie (also from that cookbook) and lurking in the background were my Butternut Squash Fries.

I’ve been terrible at taking pictures since I started blogging again, but here’s a picture of the chicken straight from the cookbook. And you can find the recipe here.

Source: janetandgreta.com via Brittany on Pinterest

You should definitely try making this chicken, and when you do make sure and invite a large number of people over so they can all tell you how great it is and what a wonderful cook you are. Don't just make if for your boyfriend or husband. That's a waste. Invite them both over.

JUST kidding.

Saturday morning I started the day off right with a BREAKFAST Cookie..

I polished that off and a few cups of black coffee before doing a Condo Castle workout. I did a version of one of the many "hundreds" workouts I do with the trainer. You'd be surprised by the level of intensity you can get in your own living room. Well maybe YOU wouldn't be surprise, but I am. I am surprised that I'm doing mountain climbers beside the couch when I could be sitting on it.

Once I finished up my workout and before heading to my parents house to swim (stand in the shallow end) with my Sister and nephew, I made my Man Banana Chocolate Chip pancakes!

Such a good almost-wife I am.

I didn’t snap any pictures of Tyson swimming, but I DID paparazzi him when we got out..

What a handsome little man.

I spent the rest of the day laying in bed and catching up on PVR'd shows. My view the entire afternoon looked a little something like this..

Aren't those cords hanging down the wall attractive? I was thinking about adding a blue one, but thought that might be too much with the grey, white and black.

Once the evening rolled around Lex and I went to the Vow..

Source: filmternational.com via Natasha on Pinterest

I LOVED it. I still loved it even though I spent most the movie mad and annoyed at Rachel McAdams character. I sat in the theater calmly watching on the outside but on the inside I was throwing popcorn at the screen yelling, "REMEMBER HIM DAMN IT!!! You're NOT TRYING!! Go back to the Notebook."

Welp, that pretty much sums up my weekend. Happy Monday!!

Friday, February 24, 2012

Home Parties

It’s FRIDAY!!!

So where was I. Wednesday night’s leg workout ended up being fifties just as I was hoping. I’ll welcome anything with open arms that doesn’t involve 100 reps. After the gym I cleaned the condo castle just like I’d planned in anticipation of last nights Tupperware/Epicure party. I got the toilets SO clean that I actually broke the toilet brush in half. I like to think it broke because my arms have gotten so strong that plastic just snaps when I touch it, not because the toilet was so dirty I was thrusting my entire body weight into each brush stroke. Before calling it a night I listened to a Jillian Michael’s Podcast on my ipad. I just discovered her podcasts and can’t get enough of them. It will be a sad day when I’ve listened to them all and gotten caught up to date.

Yesterday, I worked as usual and had my workout at noon. It was a cardio day, which meant 30 minutes of steady state cardio with a few 7 second bursts of intense speed to get the heart rate up. There was nothing fun about it because I really hate cardio. I love lifting weights, but cardio is always a chore.

Here are some of yesterdays food pictures..

Breakfast Cookie and Coffee

Green Drink (Spinach, Almond Milk, Stevia and Cinnamon)

Protein Shake (I'm not sure why I didn't combine this with the green drink)

Lunch (Butternut Squash Fries and Egg Whites/Spinach/Mushrooms)

Supper was this again... (Brown Rice, Eggwhites, Veggies, Olive Oil, Epicure spices and Salt)

Before bed I had a Larabar, which was planned, and then things really went downhill. A wrap with butter, some (a lot) PB straight out of the jar, then I had some (a lot) almond butter right out of the jar. Wedding Dress, Wedding Dress, Wedding Dress. How many times can I remind myself? A million. That's how many.

Anyway, the Tupperware/Epicure party was really fun. It was fun because the guest list was so exclusive and high class. A few of my close girlfriends, my Mom, Grandma, my Sister and my nephew Tyson. Tyson might have actually liked the Tupperware more than anyone. Although.. none of us tried eating it so that might not be a fair assumption.

He has a very distinguished palate, it doesn't just stop at Tupperware. He's been known to like a good dishcloth from time to time as well.

I took some pictures of the clean condo castle, but unfortunately I didn't take any pictures of the actual party. My Man and I bought some new curtains a couple of weekends ago. Aren't they nice? My Man jokes that all the people backing on to our kitchen windows will now have to rely on the videos they've been making since i've finally shut them out. He thinks he's so funny.

Not in attendance at the Tupperware/Epicure party...

Crazy.

Happy Friday!!

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Quotes & Stuff

So last night was my Splurge night. If you don’t know what a splurge group is, it’s where you and 12 of your girlfriends get together once a month, pitch in 20 bucks to an imaginary pot and draw a winner. You can only win once and when you win the pot you’re supposed to SPLURGE on yourself. Since I was the first girl to win, it feels less like a splurge group and more like I'm being charged by my friends to hang out with them. You want to come to dinner with us? That’ll be 20 bucks. A movie? 20 bucks. And buy your ticket too.

Last night we went for dinner to the Fainting Goat and the experience was quite a bit different than the last time we were there when this was taking place in the parking lot...

As for my workout yesterday, it involved running stairs and burpees. There aren’t many things worse than burpees. Except for maybe falling down the stairs I was running up. That would suck. Especially sober.

Tonight is legs and abs and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't dreading it. I'd also be lying if I said I'd rather go to legs and abs than clean the women's and men's bathrooms here at work. Have you ever done a 100 lunges, squats, fire hydrants, step-ups, sumo squats, low walks, kick backs, romanian dead lifts and leg abductors? You would choose cleaning dirty toilets too. I'm hoping tonight isn't hundreds. I THINK it might be a circuit or fifties. Please. Be. Fifties.

After the gym tonight I'll be cleaning the condo castle and preparing for my Tupperware/Epicure party tomorrow night. That's right, I'm having a Tupperware party. I attended one of my girlfriend's parties a few weeks back and got sucked into hosting while playing an innocent game of Deal or No Deal. Okay, it wasn’t innocent. It was actually quite straight forward. If you said “deal” you got to open your envelope and take home your prize, but NOT before committing to hosting a party. And if you said “no deal”, you didn’t have to host, BUT you didn’t get a prize. Greediness always wins. When I opened my envelope and immediately saw "Spaghetti Holder" I felt duped and outraged. That Tupperware Lady mislead me, this is NOT a prize. Obviously my feelings must have registered on my face since she made an exception and said I could choose my own prize. Either that or she clued in when I yelled out, "I don't even eat spaghetti!!"

SO tomorrow night I earn my Cereal Set. I suppose I probably could have just taken the containers and never answered the woman’s phone calls, but that wouldn’t have been very nice. Plus after hearing her stories about Tupperware ladies driving trucks over FridgeSmart Containers in Florida I decided I didn’t really want to take my chances.

ANYWAY, I decided to make it an Epicure party too because most my friends already have enough Tupperware and well, because I need more Epicure. The Tupperware lady wasn’t very receptive to this, but she didn’t say NO. Instead she used scare tactics like, “neither parties will do well” and “that’s not typically allowed.” Since I don't care about earning Tupperware or Epicure I decided to go ahead with it. It should be interesting when she shows up and see’s the Epicure girl. I should have tossed in a Scentsy consultant in there too and really created some fireworks.

Let the BATTLE begin. At least this party should be nothing short of entertaining. Perhaps i'll invest in a ring or boxing gloves..

Before I go I wanted to share some of my favorite quotes off of pinterest. Some are unusually small and some are unusually big, but hey, I'm lazy.