Interesting Sites

FREE CALORIE TRACKER: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/
This site allows you to have friends, check your progress, blog, form communities, and share exercises.

CRAZY GOOD DEAL: http://www.heartratemonitorsusa.com/garmin-405.html
This awesome piece of equipment is usually $300.... It is on sale for $178!!!!!

Going out to eat??? http://www.webmd.com/diet/healthtool-food-calorie-counter
Check out the calories first. You may not eat the entire Awesome-Blossom if you know how many grams of saturated fat you will be clogging your arteries with.

(if you are married, hug your hubby/wifey today... I have heard a lot of negativity towards spouses today and I refuse to let it trickle in!!!!)

check out this blog post by my friend's hubby....http://chriskuti.com/2011/take-the-initiative-in-your-marriage/

I LOVE YOU CLAYBO!!!

mOndAy.....

This weekend went by way toooooo fast. I feel like I need one of these:

I wish I had as much energy as Ernest, my superpup.... Check out his 6'0" vertical!!!

Off to work. Happy Monday.

Sunday Save-day

Coupons.... Anyone ever heard of them? I have never taken the time to cut out coupons before, but today is the day I have entered "that girl" stage. I hope I am never in front of you in the grocery store, because I will be "that girl" that slows everyone down so I can use my coupons.

(this is my schnazzzzzy coupon folder)

Courtney and her hubby Shale came over for lunch after church. Court and I made spaghetti with ground turkey and low sodium marinara. The guys grilled fresh veggies that had been marinating in olive oil and yummy seasoning... THANKS COURT!!

(no, that is not my third cup of coffee today.... I swear.....)

Then, we sat and cut coupons!!! I was so excited. I should have taken a picture of my dining room table because it looked like the Sunday paper EXPLODED!!!

Now I am going to vacuum, bake cookies and prep dinner before family comes over tonight. I LOVE SUNDAYS!!!

(I am making a chocolate chip cookie bar...yum!)

(Ernest is scared of the vacuum cleaner....)

STEAK

Last night Clay and I went over to my parents' house for steak. I am not a big red meat eater, but I Love it when my dad makes it. There ended up being 12 of us!!! My parents invited their friends, Clay and I brought our besties Billy and Ruthy and we sat around, played with chickens, bunnies, and an adorable baby boy!!!

I wore a long, pink shirt with skinny bootcut jeans.... my shoes are flat pointed toe shoes... LOVE THESE. They lengthen my legs BUT I get the benefits of FLATS..... = no pain!

My favorite dish of the night was home-made steak fries. YUMMY! Well, I am off to see if I can get a morning run in before church. Have a great day!!!

Healthy thought: Try to eat THREE veggies today. If we all ate spinach every day (unless you are on coumadin and have vitamin K restrictions) we would never need multi-vitamins... just saying....

I heart Saturdays

I slept in this morning until 7:00am... Sad that I used to consider that "early." I met my mother in law, Terri, at her place at 7:30 and we started our run together. I am so proud of her! She ran 4 miles and rocked it. We both went different directions, ran separately, but met back at her place. I ran 8.5 miles in 67 minutes. My phone died, which has the "run keeper" app on it. I do not have a Garmin watch (yet) so this is my cheap alternative. It is not so bad actually; I can even choose to have a coach during the run. I did this once, but it was embarrassing when I passed a few walkers and my phone started yelling out my distance and speed. Because my phone was useless, I was pretty annoyed that I brought it, because I had to carry it the entire run. My first loop was 4.5 miles, but I ran on too many side walks; I could feel it in my knees.... Thankfully, I was wearing a watch so I knew about how long I had been running. I changed my route for the second loop and ran my 3 mile route (I run in my in-laws' neighborhood a lot). My goal was originally 9, but that may have been too ambitious; this is only week 4 back on the running wagon.

(this was at our friends' Josh and Katie's wedding.... Not today, after the run... I refuse to post a picture of what I look like right now!!! )

Claybo came back into town around lunch time. I am looking forward to spending some time with him this evening. We have been crazy busy lately, so I am hoping for dinner and a movie here at the house. Well, I must get back to some biostatistics homework. The weather is so nice; I am contemplating going outside to tan, but I know I would be thinking about how the more responsible choice is to do homework, and I do not want skin cancer......hmmmm. My mental conscience is crazy intense sometimes.

Back to the books!!!!

My First Interview.... Blog interview that is!!!

Check out Cooking With Court today!!! I was interviewed for her site. Courtney and I were roomates in college; let me tell you, I ate the BEST food that year. She was always coming up with something. She made brownies from scratch (without looking at a recipe one time) that would make me drool !!!! Seriously, there are pictures of me just eating the batter.... shameful.

This morning I did a "run and puke" workout with Wendy!!!!

Warm up 5 minutes on the treadmill
- 20 push ups
- 20 tricep dips
- 20 squats
RUN 1 minute on the treadmill at full force
- 20 flutter kicks
- 20 lunges
- 20 plank stomps (plank while stomping your feet)
Run 1 minute on the treadmill at full force
- 20 step ups on the bench
- 20 crunches
- 20 plank hand taps (in a plank on your hands, take your right hand and tap your left, take your left hand and tap your right..... keep repeating)

THEN, repeat that whole sequence with 12 reps instead of 20.... FABULOUS.

Last night, while watching American Idol and avoiding my biostatistics book, I did this workout from BodyRockTV.... she is insane, and so was this workout. I downloaded a FREE app for my droid that you can set an interval timer.... stead of purchasing a $20 interval timer..... GO APPS!!!

Anyways, happy FRIDAY everyone =)

Pi...the 3.14 kind....

Yesterday, I ran 3.2 miles in 25 minutes... running in the afternoon is haaaaard on me. The heat, plus my intestines, do not work well together. I cramp and feel awful when I run in the afternoons. Thankfully, most races are in the MORNING.... my magic time =)

New Running Gear: I bought a running skirt from Target.... SERIOUSLY, I love it. Can I be a C9 model please? Their sports bras, tanks, shorts, pants, socks, AND NOW skorts are fabulouso.

(yes, that is a pi symbol in the middle of that pie crust....)

Last night I celebrated 3/14 or Pi Day (3.14.....) with my family. My mom made AMAZING home made blueberry pie AND apple/pear pie. Do not judge. I grew up doing scientific notation (4th grade "show and tell") and watching science fiction films. I may have never seen Rocky films, but I have seen EVERY Star Wars and Star Trek film EVER.

Today I got home and gave my shins a rest. I did an upper body workout of push ups, bicep curls, shoulder press, crunches, side planks and then...... torture. Have you ever heard of BODY ROCK??? Zuzana lives in Prague and records workout videos from her house. MOST of the workouts can be completed in your own living room... which I LOVE. I completed attempted today's workout challenge, but after my push up routine, my wrists were pretty toast. We were supposed to do 60 reps.... I MIGHT have done 42.... MIGHT.

I am hoping to win tomorrow's CEP Compression Socks give away from SkinnyRunner.com, but I never win anything like that.... I am not random material apparently. I have already scoped out the sleeves (for over the calves) that I will purchase tomorrow when I get home from work. The more I read about compression socks, the more they make sense. Basically, they help shunt blood back up your leg, and prevent pooling in your legs. We place them on patients' legs while they are bed-bound in the hospital....they prevent venous stasis and blood clots. If you have varicose veins, they will help relieve the pain. If you have shin splints, they provide support and prevent inflammation, micro muscle tears, and vibration trauma. WINNER!!!!

God is so good and gave me the opportunity to read John 1 with my hubby tonight.... In the beginning was the WORD. It never gets old; HE is so much bigger than the worries of this earth.... **Convicted**. Anyways, I have to be AT work tomorrow morning by 6:30am. Good night!!!