Wedding countdown. 23 days.

Ok, so right now I'm drinking a glass of water with three strawberries and two cherries in it. I read somewhere about throwing a party for your girlfriends, and to serve these drinks that you had cut up fruit into ( water with oranges, lemons, limes, and the like.) I thought I'd try it with berries, and honestly, it's not that bad...except for the few seeds that broke off and are now floaters. I need to refill the glass though, as it's almost gone. The berries double well as ice cubes, since I had them frozen.

On another note, today I went to the Dome's gym. It was ok, except that they've got the air off because of construction, and since the dome is basically one giant room, all that construction stirred up dust into the air, which the workout room's on the second floor, and so it was really really hot and dusty. So yeah, lots of sweat. It was still a good workout though, and I rode about 6 miles on their bike there. I guess I can see giving up my gym membership to work out there, especially once the air is on, but until then, I'm going to my own gym to work out when I can.

Chicken pot pie for dinner tomorrow. Yes, I know it's supposed to be bad for you, but I used a lower fat recipe, (though some of the low fat ingredients, I used what I had, which was full fat (I REFUSE to eat fat free italian dressing. The stuff's disgusting.)) Anyway, we'll see how it turns out. It looks good, (already made it) but I don't know how it'll taste. I'll let you all know.

Cooking

Since Chris and I have moved him into a new apartment, the one I'll be living in too, when we're married, we decided to fully stock the pantry and thus cook much more often. With the exception of Friday night, when we had no cookware or anything else unpacked, we've cooked every day since. I've lost 3.5 pounds. I've been working out some, but mostly that's due to just eating healthier. I've had snacks and such, but those too are in moderation.

Keeping it up.

I've been back to the gym since the last post. I went Sunday afternoon, and I'm leaving for the gym as soon as I finish this post. My goal is to make it at least every other day, since I don't have the school commitment right now. I work today at 2, but I don't work at all tomorrow, so I'll probably do two days in a row.

The next thing to tackle is my eating habits. Finals week and the few weeks prior were definite off weeks. I ate a lot of take out, pizza, and other crap. Now, I have time to cook for myself, for the most part, and I am trying to improve what I eat. Tonight I'll probably eat at Mr. Smiths cafe, since it's attached to my job, and I work until 8. However, I always try to get something healthy there, when I eat there.

Ok, off to work out.

I guess the gym membership does get used...

I went to the gym tonight, and decided to bike for awhile. I set the timer to 40 minutes, and then got buried in my book. I kept feeling like I was going really slow, so I kept pushing myself a bit faster. Well, turns out I couldn't have been going too slow...I did 9.1 miles in 40 minutes. Definitely stretched afterwards. Then I decided to do a couple reps on different machines, mainly upper body. I figured out how to use the machines I didn't want to try in front of other people...had the gym to myself after the first half hour. Then, after doing around 90 crunches on my own, I discovered this ab machine, and I lost count on how many crunches I did on there. I'd do thirty, then wait a bit, then do thirty more, etc. After awhile, I deemed it time to quit, so I stretched a bit more and headed home. Good workout.

Like the new template? I know it's a bit bright, but as Chris said, this isn't my main blog anyway...

Ok, so for an update. I'm working in the garden center in Vermillion again, which is definitely a good workout. I usually work 7-10 hour shifts, with one half hour break for lunch/dinner. I'm on my feet for most of that time, which isn't so bad, and it's usually nice out, which is great. When I get home, however, I"m usually so exhausted I don't work out. Because of this, I have decided I'm going to try and get up to work out. I know, I've done this before, and never stuck to it, but I usually don't start work until one in the afternoon, and then work till eight. So, I could reasonably get up and work out in the morning and get some things done then, instead of sleeping till 11, like I have been the past couple times. In my defense, I did need some recoup time after finals week. I am now well recovered though, and need to get in gear.

I think that's all for now. Hop over to my main blog for more details on my random life.

Something new.

Today I ventured out into the unknown. I worked out to one of my roommate's exercise videos, Carmen Electra's Aerobic Striptease. Trust me, no stripping involved, and I did this in the privacy of my own room. Still, I was surprised, really, to find that I enjoyed the workout, since its purpose was not to use the same old tired crunches and weightlifting that most dvds use to tone up and lose weight. There were new workouts that were actually fun to do. I'm impressed. Most of all, it wasn't trashy, as I kind of expected it to be.

Ok, so yesterday, I did go for a walk in addition to my workout time, but today I did not. For that matter, I did not work out. I did, however, start work at the Ace Garden Center again, where today we stood outside in 30-40 degree weather (and that's on the warm side!) and we potted plants for five hours. Ok, so we were inside the tarped greenhouse, with all the windows and doors shut, but that's still outside...it's just a giant elaborate tarp thrown over support poles. So yeah...cold. My boss did buy us dinner though....pizza....which I know is bad for me, but first of all, it was free, second of all, it was warm, and third of all, I didn't eat that much. :) Ok that's all for tonight. I'm going to try to get to the gym tomorrow morning, but it may end up being tomorrow evening...we'll see how it plays out...morning would be better.