Fruitful Day

This past weekend was E's bachelorette party.  We stayed at the Borgata in AC for 2 nights of total chaos and latina craziness.  As planned, it will definitely take the bride a good 2 weeks to recover.   Hopefully she submits her application for liver transplant asap.

 After a crazy weekend filled with booze and piggy foods, I was craving some colorful healthiness.  A little detox never hurt anyone.  Plus I'm so effing bloated, FUPA won't fit in my pants, let alone in the bridesmaid dress for the upcoming wedding.  Goal is a 5 mile run tonight.

Looks good to me

While at Starbucks this morning, I spent a lot of time researching companies.  Mostly design shops.

There are 2 sites that I follow religiously for one single reason.  They inspire me.  The first one being a fabulous packaging design blog.  Take a peek here: thedieline.com

The second one is a beautiful daily tribute to all things cool, gorgeous, clean, white, it goes on and on.
It's called Splendid Willow.  She has such amazing style.  Check out the cool metro station she found, and how about a bar in a closet?!  Very cool.   splendidwillow.com

Enjoy!

Crazy Chicks

The exterminator is coming this morning so I'm comin at ya live from Starbucks.

 The Stroller Brigade has been and gone and now I'm left with the retired and the students. Last night I made it to the gym for a 5 mile treadmill run! Then did the Hubs arm workout of chest and triceps followed by abs. FUPA and batwings be gone! Then I made us dinner. Turkey burger for him and veggie burger for me with baked crinkle cut fries and a salad.

We both slopped our food down while watching the crazy chicks on the bachelor. This is by far the best batch of crazy ones. We had a blast. Here's a snippet of convo from during the show.

Hubs: he loves to sucky face with these chicks
Me: you would too if you were him
Hubs: yes but they would also have to touch my privates
Me: only seems fair

Followed by a lengthy laughing fit. So far this art director has been having a good go at the healthy part. Now I just need to pick up the art director part.

Smooth Morning

After challenging workouts this weekend (3.5 mile run and 2 advanced yoga classes) I woke up starving!

A smoothie totally hit the spot.  It has frozen mixed berries (Trader Joe's) with soy milk and a touch of soy protein powder.  So bright and cheery on this dreary day.  Now that I have extra time on my hands I have officially become a gym rat.  The reception guy knows my name now.   The extravert in me loves this because it gives me more human contact.  The introvert and paranoid private gal screams NOOOOOOO!

I'm cooking dinner for Hubs tonight and it can't be my default Tilapia and asparagus.  I've been fully notified that Tilapia every night is unacceptable.   Off to research how to cook Halibut...

Friday Fixings

Since I have the free time and I love him dearly I drove the Hubs to the ferry this morning.  He was oh so lovely.  His breath was about a hundred proof and all I could hear were mumblings and groanings about the sad condition of his body and head.  Somehow it made me want to be the opposite and be happy and healthy today.  So that's what I did.   Today is my day off from the gym so I can rest the bat wings from flapping around.  But I did good food wise.  I had peanut butter (organic and natural cause I'm a snob like that) on a flax and wheat sandwich thin along with an apple for breakfast.  Then I had some of the Hubs colorful leftover salad for lunch.  Yum.

Then while I caught up on the nonsense that is The Young and the Restless I snacked on a veggie dog.  The organic ketchup I dipped it in came flowing from my nose when Victor came home from jail and face raped Nikki.  Great way to end the week Vic!

After that I got my brother's invitations to the printer.  It got me so excited I went back and visited my own invitations.  I miss my wedding!!!

Good Thursday

I feel like a real blogger today. I am a BIG old dork and am posting this from starbucks. Hubs took the ipad today so I'm attempting this from my phone.
I have no idea what I'm doing and am too distracted by the mexican nanny who is ignoring her squealing child to promise these photos will be posted properly.

I was good and got my fat ass to the gym for a 5 mile treadmill run yesterday. I also managed to finish my brothers wedding invitations! Posting soon!. Such high production levels deserve rewards so I finished the night by polishing off a bottle of white by myself. Delightful.

Cracking Up

Hubs is genius and got me a gift card to Devotion Yoga, so I took advantage and popped into a class yesterday afternoon.

   *swiped from google

It was fantastic.  My favorite parts are that the instructor is hysterical but still challenging and that the sweaty guy who loves to remove his shirt was absent.  The gods were with me.  Relaxing and strengthening at the same time seems work really well for me because I am VERY sore today.  I hope I can motivate to run later on.

Since I've been practicing yoga for many years I can be a part of the advanced classes except when it comes to inversions.  I have so much neck and shoulder pain that I end up looking like a big pussy as I scrunch my face and sadly flop my legs around as I attempt either a head stand or neck stand.   It's almost as embarrassing as accidentally farting in class.  Hahahaha!  The problem with the fart is that I would crack up!  I'm cackling as I type this just thinking about it...sigh.

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On the bright side I've never let one slip while attempting an arm stand.  I'll take that to the bank.