Yay!!

Blog is working!!! And only 2 weeks.

Well yesterday was interesting....

Needless to say, I did not work out today... Something tells me "clear liquid diet" probably also means not to run several miles, lift weights, go to spinning, etc... actually come to think of it, it probably also means no work, but Im not so much listening to that. I'm just sick of taking time off for blizzards and being sick.. I want to save my time for FUN!!! Like going to the beach, seeing my friends, etc!!!

All in all I am feeling a lot better... REALLY tired and weak but thats probably since I didn't sleep at all Friday night and havent had anything other than liquids (altho I cheated and had a piece of toast and a few saltines today). However, eating them kind of upsets my tummy so Im trying not to. My new work pants I bought that were a size smaller than I usually wear are also now falling off of me... silver lining I guess?!?!?

So, definitely not much of a work out blog.. more of an update blog. In all seriousness, I just want to be back to feeling 100%, have my besties in town, be drinking away, and eating things we shouldn't be... is that too much to ask?!?!? just saying...

Hope you had a fabulous time at the wineries and a great weekend!!! I miss you bunches and can't wait to see you in 18 days!!! Thanks for being such a stellar friend and checking up on my constantly.

LOVE YOU!!!

I love you

Just got home from death two in two days... they are so rare and to have two back to back freaking blows. Just got on to check the blog and saw your surprise post---- exactly what I needed. I love you so much!!! can't wait for you to get here.. 

Ok, really dont think its possible to be this tired and still awake so im ending this now.. 

just wanted to say i love you and thanks for the reminder you guys will be here so soon =)

Love you! Sweet dreams - when we wake up tomorrow it'll be 3 weeks til PHILLY/NYC party time!

I'm gonna frickin kill him...

... you can make his molds. Seriously, he's driving me nuts. Sooo, get home from school and don't feel like working out - of course. I'm well past the honeymoon phase where I look forward to my work outs. So Johnny and I lay around for a bit and I finally drag myself off the couch to the treadmill. He hears the TV turn on and says 'hurry up.' Yes, from his spot on the couch he is yelling for me to hurry up. Ummmm, what? Right. Then he says he was going to get on the treadmill... which ya know didn't seem like a good idea to tell me when I was changing to work out, idk. So I run for 15 mins, and no joke I get off the treadmill to do my Wii work out and he has switched rooms and is now watching TiVo on the backroom couch (where the Wii is). UUUUUUUGGGGGGGHHHHHHH! Ask him to move, but he's in the middle of a show. Hmmm, glad he was going to get on the treadmill, huh?

So now here I am pissy, in sweaty clothes, with no Wii to work out on. Kill him. Kill him dead. I'm not going to just sit here and wait for his show to be over - I am already out of the mood. Ugh! SOOOOO annoyed, this is why you live alone... now I remember.


Dude, I can't believe that's what you were doing when you about passed out! Ouch. Really couldn't be much worse timing. Unless you were actually running, I guess that would be pretty bad! Hey, congrats on the 10 lbs! That's soooo exciting, mile marker #! I am down 1 of my 4. So I have 22 days to lose 3, doable for sure.

I hope you have a good day, eat well and let yourself recover a bit. Can't wait to see you ~ 3 weeks from tomorrow! WOOHOO!!!!!

Just to stay awake...

So I know I already blogged today but I have one hour left of work and I am STRUGGLING!! Hard core.... I woke up at 7:30am rip, roaring, ready to go... which may not seem early to you but when you don't start an 11 hour shift until 3pm it SUUUUUUUCKS. I basically ran outside and sat around my apartment twindling my thumbs just waiting for work to start. So now at 12:30 I am completely exhausted. I am sure that my near fainting didn't help either... it was seriously the MOST strange thing I have ever experienced. So I get paged to the CICU (cardiac intensive care unit) to do a bereavement (side note: on my late nights I also have to carry the on-call pager for the entire hospital - its a barrell of laughs - insert sarcasm - ) The specialist on that unit decided to stay and do the bereavement but asked if I wanted to help. She knows that A: I dont have a lot of bereavement experience and B: its most defintitely easier with two people. Mind you, this specialist is also high level specialist so it was intimidating in the first place to assist her with something like this...
So here we are... in the room... with about 20 crying family members... She has the child's foot in the mold and I am holding the child's hand in the mold (part of the end of life keep sakes we do is plaster hand molds so that the family takes home a 3D print of the patient's hand/foot/etc... picture Six Flags wax hand molds that were cool back in the day but plaster) anyway.. so Im holding a dead freaking hand, can't move the hand or it messes up the mold... and it hits me. I break out in a cold sweat (literally dripping sweat), the whole room goes fuzzy, and I just start shaking, praying to stay on my feet. THANK GOODNESS we were almost done when it hit me. So the other specialist and I grab the stuff we need and walk outside the room. She takes one look at me and yells at me to sit down and runs and gets me water. She came back and was like, "so, em... your kind of green" I felt like such a tool because I didn't want this high up specialist think that I can't handle bereavement... its not that at all! I really think its related to working out twice yesterday, again today, and (by my own stupid fault) I didn't drink water after last night's run or this mornings - last night I went straight to bed after the shower and this morning I drank coffee immediately afterwards. So I really think I was just extremely dehydrated. Anyway, scary shit.. totally embarrasing. I am dumb.

Sooo anyway, this kept me awake for twenty minutes... I really hope you are feeling better!!! Stupid being female!!! I can't freaking wait to see you in 22 days... I really can't even fathem (spelling?) how much fun the 5 of us are going to have in NYC... its almost too perfect I can't believe its real =) =) =)

Love you pumpkin and have a great hump day!!!!! And tell Johnny to propose in the next 21 days because I really want to be able to see the ring!!!!

I RAN OUTSIDE!!!

So today I woke, looked out my window and not only did I see grass I saw concrete on the sidewalks!!!! Which meant... I could run outside!!!! Granted, there was still snow piled up on the sides of the sidewalks so I was running inbetween two foot high black mounds of old, gross snow, but I got to run outside!!! I only ran like a mile and a half because A: Im kind of sore from yesterday and B: Running outside is harder than I remember!! My area is called Chestnut Hill --- appropriately named for how dang hilly it is... so yah, short run but it felt absolutely AMAZING to run outside in the fresh air!! AHHHH so nice! 

On a different note.. I think my scale is lying to be... According to my scale I am down 10 pounds from when I first joined the gym in January. Not completely sure I agree with that!!! I did buy some new work pants and had to get a size smaller but Im still not completely convinced I've lost that much... I feel like 10 pounds is pretty significant for short, stumpy me and I just feel like I've noticed it more than I actually do. So today Im just going to say that my scale is lying to me. Mean scale!!! 

Have a great Tuesday and great day working out and NOT smoking!!! 

Miss you and see you in 23 days!!! 

Ethel would be proud

I am so freaking proud of you for going to spinning... I know how much effort it takes for you to go - especially without Jenny - and for going on the first day of your period. My ass can barely walk the day mine starts, much less go to spinning. HUGE kudos to you!!! Ethel would be so proud of you =) 

Today spinning was good - as sad as it sounds I think today I actually had my bike in the appropriate position. Every class I have it in a different setting and I think today I finally nailed it and as a result, the class seemed a bit easier than it has been going --- probably because I wasn't captain awkward on my bike... 

On a different note, yes I worked out twice today... why? I have no freaking clue. My roommate has been talking about wanting to start working out in the apt gym (I use the term "gym" very loosely because the "gym" at our apartment is a random room with 2 treadmills and two elipticals and a tv from 1947. So I just decided to go with it... why not, right? So I did my first 3 mile run!!! I increased by a mile.... Ethel would be so proud. Although it probably was largely due to the fact that the bachelor "after the rose" show was on and I was too entertained in it to really pay attention to how far I was running. Which really really really makes me want spring to get here quick so I can run outside!!! I feel like I run so much farther outside because Im not constantly looking at the time or how far Ive run on a screen in front of me. 

So anyway, thats my crazy blog story of teh day... we will see if I will be able to get out of bed tomorrow after spinning and then running 3 miles. 

Again, Super proud of you for finding the motivation to go to spinning.... NO SMOKING tomorrow!!!!! 

March Mondays = Madness!

Sooo, I decided that my birthday week is over and I had to be good - so I went to spinning. Ugh, terrible idea!

Maybe it was being crazy tired from the dog party, maybe starting my period today, maybe it was b/c I smoked this morning (stupid), maybe napping and sleeping too long before the class, or maybe it was just the new instructor - but this was the most impossible class EVER!!!! Not the day to have wanted to skip and gone anyways!

No joke, I was ready to leave @ 6:07! Then again at 6:16, and 6:32, and 6:41, I think I've made my point. I wasn't even happy at the end that I stuck it out... I was just pissed I was still there. Ha, talk about captain bring down huh?

So I did work out and it was a good one - I just wasn't happy about it. It's very similar to my kids at school when they work really hard and have a great day, but they make it perfectly clear that they're not happy about it. Ha, now I know how it feels.

I think I'm going to go to bed early tonight, think I'm mentally drained. However, this BBT is HilArIoUs so far, and we're in the low 20s for days til Philly baby!!!!

xoxo! Thanks for the motivation to work out tonight. Love you~