WWU: 11 & 12

3/30 & 3/31 - No workout

Monday, 4/1 - Goddess Workout 3 rounds (378 calories burned)

Tuesday, 4/2 - Friday, 4/5 - No workout

I honestly don't know what happened to me...Tuesday, I was busy making meatloaf and thin mint truffles and waiting for the rain to come that I didn't make it to the gym. Wednesday, right after I got home from work I left to go out to the Dosey Doe Music Cafe. Thursday, I had every intention of working out, I even had my clothes on, but fell asleep until 8:30 pm!!! Friday, spent the morning cleaning before my aunt got there, worked on stuff for her all day (including a delicious lunch at 3 Olives) then after she left I still had brownie pops to dip so by then I was ready for dinner. So let's try this again...seeing as how my mom told me to keep up the workouts because we will be climbing 329 steps at a 14 degree angle to the top of the leaning tower soon!!

Saturday, 4/6 - 65 min elliptical while watching MI: Ghost Protocol...65 min breakdown: 30 mins resistance 7 incline 10, 20 mins resistance 7 incline 14, 10 mins resistance 8 incline 10, 5 min cool down

Sunday, 4/7 - No workout...day of my aunt's party. While I didn't do a specific workout, I still felt like I did something. I had to move furniture for her and worked up quite a swear doing it.

Monday, 4/8 - 30 min elliptical resistance 7 incline 12 followed by 2 chest exercises, 1 triceps exercise and 1 ab exercise

Tuesday, 4/9 - 20 min elliptical resistance 8 incline 12 followed by 1 round of 20 surrender squats (10 each leg)...I wanted to keep doing more shoulder work, but my knees were already getting carpet burn from the squats and with my hand hurting I couldn't do lateral raises or grip the pulley machine. In case you are wondering what surrender squats are...you step back into a lunge, gently place your knee on the floor, bring your other leg down so both knees are on the floor, then step up with the first leg that touched the floor and then back to a full standing position all while your arms raised over your head holding weights.

Wednesday, 4/10 - No workout

Thursday, 4/11 - 30 min stride machine followed by 4 mins of plank work (387 calories burned)

To the Left, To the Left

Now that we all have Beyonce stuck in our heads...I'll get on with it...ha ha. I've never thought of myself as injury prone (that is my brother's role in the fam), but just in the past few weeks I've had three different issues...and all on the left side!!! Tell me how does that happen??? So I got to thinkin' about injuries I've had throughout the years and wouldn't you know they are all on the left. Let's make a list shall we...

Back in the day...

1. Left ankle sprain x3...a massage therapist asked me about this one time because she saw my feet were shaped a little different and that my ankle had been compromised
2. Left big toe nail...was not pretty...couldn't wear anything but flip flops for a week
3. Left shoulder had tendinitis...learned how to dance one armed until it was showtime
4. Left (pretty sure) elbow out of socket...my dad saved me from running in front of a car
5. Threw out my left arm from carrying all my Halloween candy one year
6. Left knee would hurt all the time due to a weak left hip
7. 4 scars on my left knee, 2 on top of each other from tripping more than once while playing basketball in the driveway
8. Laid on a hot curling iron with my left arm...happy thanksgiving to me!

Present day...

1. Did too many bicep curls and wasn't able to use my left arm for a few days
2. Did something to cause pain in my left palm...radiating from the heel of my hand up along my thumb
3. Huge charlie horse in my left quad just last night! Now it hurts to cross my legs ha ha.

I'm not saying I don't ever injure my right side because I find random bruises and scratches every where all the time...I think I even do some of that in my sleep...but I find it interesting most of the big things happened on the left.

Is anyone else like this...do you have a side that is injured more than the other????

It's a Puppy Paw-ty!

One of my Aunts is involved in a foster program for Italian Greyhounds (IGs or Iggys). Back in January she started fostering a female IG named Chloe and then had what they call a foster failure. She fell in love with Chloe and decided to adopt her! Once everything was official, she wanted to have a welcome home/get to know you party. She had met a few other foster people from the group before, but was interested in meeting more and actually being able to have a conversation with them. Opposed to everyone being at a dinner and only being able to talk to the people right next to you.

Here's where I come in... After the baby shower I threw a month ago, she enlisted my help with this party. She had requested brownie pops, a banner and a diaper cake made of puppy pee pee pads...ha ha. After discussing a few things, I was also in charge of making dog treats (like I did for Christmas 2 years ago) and the invitation. Here's how everything turned out...

Created in publisher again!

29 pennants!!! That's quite a lot of cutting...luckily it went by fast.

Used 56 puppy pads...they came pre-folded so I only had to fold one more time then roll just like I would for a diaper cake. The top is a dog bone cookie cutter...ha ha

In the back, you can see the doggy bags that we made. They are filled with the dog treats I made (sorry no pic) and greenies. Also, check out all the gifts the new girl got...lucky girl!

And here we have the brownie pops...these little suckers did not want to work with me. I originally had 25 balls and during the dipping process they kept breaking apart or falling off the stick (which didn't happen last time) so I only ended up with 19 which was still plenty, but still...frustration station.

Just Another Wednesday Night at the Dosey Doe

Last night Barrett, his two friends and I drove an hour in the rain to the Dosey Doe Music Cafe to see country musician John Wolfe play an acoustic set. I was a little skeptical at first because A. I had never been to this place and B. I had never listened to one of his songs. However, the show was awesome!

John Wolfe is a great musician and his stories are funny and down to earth. The music cafe was bigger than I was expecting and you actually got to sit and enjoy the show! Oh and it was smoke free...bonus! He was able to play his entire album and then some. After the show, he was over to the side with his mom selling merchandise, signing autographs and taking pictures...you bet I got a picture with him especially since we were both wearing jean shirts! ha ha.

If you want to check him out for yourself, he will be at the Firehouse Saloon this Saturday night!

Hotel Translyvania, Here Comes The Boom, Wanderlust and The Paperboy

3 out of the 4 movies listed above Barrett and I watched together...can you guess which one he didn't want to watch??? ha ha. Anyways...after each movie he would sum up his review via a hashtag phrase. It was hilarious! What's even funnier is that neither of us actually tweet. We both have twitter (the only reason I have it is for pinterest), but we never use it. So in the spirit of his hashtags, I thought I would sum up these movies like a tweet...ha ha.

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Monsters are funny and just as overprotective as us #i'mnottoooldtowatch

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Way better than I thought! Had me laughing the whole time! #hilarious

 

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What a train wreck, but yet I kept watching #neveragain

 

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Um, wtc??? If I didn't like John Cusack before, I really don't like him now #grossboringandawful

Opening Day/Night 2013

Until my Dad texted me Thursday morning, I thought I was going to miss opening day two years in a row...sad face. Cut to noon Thursday and I had two shiny tickets to the game in my hand!! Woo Hoo! To make the game even better...JJ Watt threw out the first pitch and we kicked some Rangers butt! Ohhhh yeah! Hope you enjoy the pics..

Couldn't get the Opening Day sign on the grass bc the guy in front of me kept getting in my way...grrr

JJ Watt on the way to the mound

He chunked it! 73 mph

Oh hey there JJ! Look at that eye contact ;)

I honestly can't remember the last time there were this many people at a game! Sad but true

Beat the Rangers 8-2!!!!

Easter Decor

I hope everyone had a great Easter weekend. Mine was filled with crafts, movies, tv series and of course opening day of baseball!! (More on that tomorrow)

I haven't decided if I'm going to keep my Easter decor throughout spring yet...but I'm leaning towards yes because I feel like I didn't really get to enjoy it because St Pattys day and Easter were so close together. What do you think? Should I stick with the eggs or change it???