So today marks the first full week of 2014. I have so many things I am trying to do better at this year. It almost seems over whelming. One of the things is blogging more. Even if I think my day was boring, I will write about it. I used to write in my diary growing up almost daily, so I don't see how this is different. (except for the constantly talking about my crush of the month and who my friends are that week).
School also started today (my last quarter!!!) Except its a "snow day". The governor shut down all k-12 because of the arctic temps. Rasmussen also decided to close their doors. Right now it is -20 feels like -40. That's f*cking cold!! So, today I took a nice long hot shower, and I am sitting next to a space heater in sweats crocheting a blanket, watching Vanderpump Rules. (a very trashy reality tv show that I can't seem to look away from). Tomorrow I start clinicals again at 6:30 in the morning (ugh). Have I mentioned I am NOT a morning person?!
Tonight is Grizzly's annual Christmas Party. I am not going. I have clinicals early tomorrow, so I want to be in bed by the time the party starts. The Grizzlys party is not a classy dinner holiday party.. it's a drinking "Olympic" games, getting drunk, and not remembering what happened the night before type of party. Another reason I don't want to go. I am trying to not drink so much this year. AND we aren't allowed to bring our significant other.. BUT our GM invited this crazy 80 year old lady who is one of our regulars... I don't really agree with that decision, since we aren't supposed to bring guests.
Another "resolution" I have this year is to be more involved with It Works. I am a distributor and I can potentially make a lot of money, if I just get out there and "blitz" (advertise the product). I have been at it for like 6 months and have 5 loyal customers and no distributors under me. womp womp. So it's time to change my business approach, get outside my comfort zone and start making some money! I love all the products I have tried, and my loyal customers are very happy!
Well that's all for now. I'm going to continue with my blanket.. but it might not be done until next winter!
Monday, January 6, 2014
Thursday, December 12, 2013
Christmas Cookie Exchange
I am going into finals week. One of my last posts I said I was in my second to last quarter... well that was a lie. I ended up failing that class (even though I got an 84% in the class). So I had to retake it, which means I will graduate (hopefully) in March. This also means we have put off trying for a baby until March, or April, or May... or whenever I get a job with benefits.
I started up with MyFitnessPal again (shansen1111). I did really well for like 3-4 days, then today I couldn't. stop. eating. So to the gym tomorrow I go!! Tomorrow and Saturday I should stay on track because I work about 20 hours in 2 days.. so no time to eat means I am staying on track! I am also not drinking right now so I won't drink those extra empty calories after my shifts. On Monday I weighed in at 227.8. Today I was 223.something. That was nice to see, but after my feast today I will probably be back up to 227 tomorrow. Official weigh in on Monday.. I have the weekend to redeem myself.
Last Saturday my mom hosted a Holiday Cookie Exchange party. It was my first time I participated, she hosts one every year for the past couple years. It was a lot of fun to visit with my aunts, sister, grandparents and mom. We also made A TON of cookies! Sadly I am almost done with the bag I took home. This picture just shows all the different kinds of cookies.. we had more sitting on the island in the kitchen that didn't fit in the picture.
This week was mostly just filled with finishing up clinicals and classes for this quarter. I am looking forward to our 2 week break from school. It will be nice to see my family over the holidays and I am attending a holiday party with some friends I haven't seen in a long time, so I am looking forward to that also in a couple weeks.
Like I have said all year long, I am going to try to blog more. It will be my New Year's Resolution. I am not going to wait until New Year's though to start it so hopefully I will try to post a couple more posts before the end of the year! Until then, here are some random pictures from my phone!
I started up with MyFitnessPal again (shansen1111). I did really well for like 3-4 days, then today I couldn't. stop. eating. So to the gym tomorrow I go!! Tomorrow and Saturday I should stay on track because I work about 20 hours in 2 days.. so no time to eat means I am staying on track! I am also not drinking right now so I won't drink those extra empty calories after my shifts. On Monday I weighed in at 227.8. Today I was 223.something. That was nice to see, but after my feast today I will probably be back up to 227 tomorrow. Official weigh in on Monday.. I have the weekend to redeem myself.
Last Saturday my mom hosted a Holiday Cookie Exchange party. It was my first time I participated, she hosts one every year for the past couple years. It was a lot of fun to visit with my aunts, sister, grandparents and mom. We also made A TON of cookies! Sadly I am almost done with the bag I took home. This picture just shows all the different kinds of cookies.. we had more sitting on the island in the kitchen that didn't fit in the picture.
This week was mostly just filled with finishing up clinicals and classes for this quarter. I am looking forward to our 2 week break from school. It will be nice to see my family over the holidays and I am attending a holiday party with some friends I haven't seen in a long time, so I am looking forward to that also in a couple weeks.
Like I have said all year long, I am going to try to blog more. It will be my New Year's Resolution. I am not going to wait until New Year's though to start it so hopefully I will try to post a couple more posts before the end of the year! Until then, here are some random pictures from my phone!
Sadie posing with Christmas Décor
Trying to get Sadie, Gracie and Bella to all look at the camera is impossible
Nate helping Nate Jr. put the star on the tree
Monday, October 21, 2013
10K in the books!
Well it's official. I completed my first official race. (I know, I did the Mud Run, but in my mind, that was different). I ran 6.2 miles... HOLY CRAP!! Without stopping. Yes, I was slow but that's okay. I think there were only about 20 people out of over 500 that ran that finished behind me, but that's okay. What matters is that I finished it and ran the whole thing. AND that I actually did what I said I was going to do which was run it. 2 weeks ago I was telling Nate that I was just going to switch to the 5k and that I had no clue how I was going to run 6 miles.
I left my house around 6:15am on Sunday morning. I was dressed in capri compression pants, a workout tank top, long sleeve workout shirt and running jacket. I got the pants, tank top and long sleeve shirt from my mom and sister for my birthday which was the previous day :) Thanks again!! I also wore cheap gloves and an ear band because it was cold! 35 degrees cold! My intention was to ditch the gloves and the ear band sometime during the race because I knew I was going to get hot and tie the jacket around my waist so I put my running number on the long sleeve shirt, under the jacket.
I also bought shot blocks (energizing chews) to eat during the race. A package comes with 6 shot blocks, but I didn't need that many. I packed three and only ate 2. On Thursday I was doing a practice 10k on the treadmill and I finished it but got very nauseous about 30 minutes after I was done and I didn't want that happening again. I looked online and it said that it could have been from losing too many electrolytes during the workout so I wanted to be sure that didn't happen again.. and it worked!! I felt fine after the 10k on Sunday.
I parked down by the finish line. There were shuttle bussing bringing everyone to the starting line. It started up at Mankato State University and ended by the Verizon Wireless Center. When I got to the starting line there was still about 30 minutes left before the start of the race (10k started at 7:30). I walked around, trying to look for people I knew. There was a group of 6 of us running from my work, and I knew some other friends running in it as well. I found 4 of my friends from work so we took a picture before the race.
Once the race started I started jogging with my friend/co worker Nicole (in the red sweatshirt). We had ran together before and have similar paces. She is a more experienced runner than I am though. She tried to stick with me, but I was falling behind and I didn't want her to feel obligated to slow to my pace so I told her to not worry about me. The other 3 ran ahead and I didn't see them again until after the race lol.
Mile 1 was okay. I was thinking to myself, how am I going to do this. The cold was getting to my lungs, I knew I didn't prepare nearly as much as I should have.
Mile 2: Holy crap we are at mile 2 already! Okay, I am feeling a little better at this point. I am impressed with how many people come out to cheer on all the runners. That was awesome! I couldn't help but smile! We ran through a neighborhood and people just had their lawn chairs out like they were watching a parade (a fast parade with no candy lol) I eat my first shot block.. didn't taste bad!
Mile 3: My back is starting to hurt.. I must tense up while I run, especially in the cold. I text Nate to let him know I am half way done so he can kind of figure out when I am going to be done. Between mile 3 and 4 there is a huge down hill. That was awesome. I was almost just relaxed while jogging and enjoying myself and the view!
Mile 4: I am getting warm, but not feeling like taking off the jacket. I take off my gloves and put them in my pockets. A lot of people just ditched them on the side of the road, but they didn't bother me in my pockets. Mile 4 starts to get very long. We are on a straight road, no turns, a couple curves, but that's it. I eat another shot block.
Mile 5: Almost done!! I start seeing more spectators again! There weren't many on the long road since it wasn't blocked off to traffic. I am almost done!! I finally turn on the last road which is totally blocked off to traffic. There are people everywhere cheering. That definitely makes it easier to run. I can now see the finish line!!! Holy crap I am going to finish this race!!! I keep going, I try to up my speed but don't want to over exert myself. I see Nate, lil Nate and my mom in the crowd! I run passed them with my thumbs up and race to finish! I got my medal and was so proud I just ran 6.2 miles.
I see now how running can be addictive. These race days are so fun! I had adrenaline pumping from the moment I saw the starting line! I actually felt like a runner. Now that I have my first official time, I have sometime to work towards and beat. I ran it in 1 hour 20 minutes.
Now I am looking into running a 5k on Thanksgiving. Might as well get a workout in before the big feast! Anyone in the Twin Cities area want to run with me?!
I left my house around 6:15am on Sunday morning. I was dressed in capri compression pants, a workout tank top, long sleeve workout shirt and running jacket. I got the pants, tank top and long sleeve shirt from my mom and sister for my birthday which was the previous day :) Thanks again!! I also wore cheap gloves and an ear band because it was cold! 35 degrees cold! My intention was to ditch the gloves and the ear band sometime during the race because I knew I was going to get hot and tie the jacket around my waist so I put my running number on the long sleeve shirt, under the jacket.
I also bought shot blocks (energizing chews) to eat during the race. A package comes with 6 shot blocks, but I didn't need that many. I packed three and only ate 2. On Thursday I was doing a practice 10k on the treadmill and I finished it but got very nauseous about 30 minutes after I was done and I didn't want that happening again. I looked online and it said that it could have been from losing too many electrolytes during the workout so I wanted to be sure that didn't happen again.. and it worked!! I felt fine after the 10k on Sunday.
I parked down by the finish line. There were shuttle bussing bringing everyone to the starting line. It started up at Mankato State University and ended by the Verizon Wireless Center. When I got to the starting line there was still about 30 minutes left before the start of the race (10k started at 7:30). I walked around, trying to look for people I knew. There was a group of 6 of us running from my work, and I knew some other friends running in it as well. I found 4 of my friends from work so we took a picture before the race.
This picture was waiting for the race to start.. sun is just coming up!
After the race! We all finished and are all feeling great!!
Once the race started I started jogging with my friend/co worker Nicole (in the red sweatshirt). We had ran together before and have similar paces. She is a more experienced runner than I am though. She tried to stick with me, but I was falling behind and I didn't want her to feel obligated to slow to my pace so I told her to not worry about me. The other 3 ran ahead and I didn't see them again until after the race lol.
Mile 1 was okay. I was thinking to myself, how am I going to do this. The cold was getting to my lungs, I knew I didn't prepare nearly as much as I should have.
Mile 2: Holy crap we are at mile 2 already! Okay, I am feeling a little better at this point. I am impressed with how many people come out to cheer on all the runners. That was awesome! I couldn't help but smile! We ran through a neighborhood and people just had their lawn chairs out like they were watching a parade (a fast parade with no candy lol) I eat my first shot block.. didn't taste bad!
Mile 3: My back is starting to hurt.. I must tense up while I run, especially in the cold. I text Nate to let him know I am half way done so he can kind of figure out when I am going to be done. Between mile 3 and 4 there is a huge down hill. That was awesome. I was almost just relaxed while jogging and enjoying myself and the view!
Mile 4: I am getting warm, but not feeling like taking off the jacket. I take off my gloves and put them in my pockets. A lot of people just ditched them on the side of the road, but they didn't bother me in my pockets. Mile 4 starts to get very long. We are on a straight road, no turns, a couple curves, but that's it. I eat another shot block.
Mile 5: Almost done!! I start seeing more spectators again! There weren't many on the long road since it wasn't blocked off to traffic. I am almost done!! I finally turn on the last road which is totally blocked off to traffic. There are people everywhere cheering. That definitely makes it easier to run. I can now see the finish line!!! Holy crap I am going to finish this race!!! I keep going, I try to up my speed but don't want to over exert myself. I see Nate, lil Nate and my mom in the crowd! I run passed them with my thumbs up and race to finish! I got my medal and was so proud I just ran 6.2 miles.
I see now how running can be addictive. These race days are so fun! I had adrenaline pumping from the moment I saw the starting line! I actually felt like a runner. Now that I have my first official time, I have sometime to work towards and beat. I ran it in 1 hour 20 minutes.
Now I am looking into running a 5k on Thanksgiving. Might as well get a workout in before the big feast! Anyone in the Twin Cities area want to run with me?!
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