{Does that mean it's official?}

What a lazy, lazy day today is.

The only thing I've done all day, that is any way productive, is hit the gym.

I went there so tired but had a great workout anyway.

It was a back and cardio workout.

While on the elliptical, I reached up to adjust my playlist on the phone and accidently hit the 'reset' button!

That tank top I'm wearing is pretty sweet.

"Ready. Steady. Win." From the Etsy shop of Strong Confident You.

It was an early birthday present from my parents.

The first birthday present I've received in years! haha

What did I do once I got home?

Oh, I had the most glorious nap ever.

Guess what though! 

I'm still tired.

I know it's because I took allergy medicine last night and a unisom.

Ha, no worries, they weren't taken at the same time, but I'm still tired from them.

So, with the guy I've been seeing...

We had a talk the other night and he's said he wants US to work.

We'll see how it all goes.

I want it to work as well.

He's pretty freaking amazing.

{WOD & Past Week Recap Part 1}

First things first...

Today's Workout of the Day was BodyPump at 24 Hour Fitness.

It was a great class, I felt like I was dying at the time, but it was good.

I also feel like I got in a point with Karma.

There was this guy towards the front and you could tell he may have been a little mentally challenged.

Poor guy had a 10lb weight on one side and a 5lb weight on the other side of the bar.

He also didn't quite get any of the moves.

After 30 minutes of watching this guy from the back of the room, and seeing the looks others were giving him, I couldn't help myself and had to help him. There was one 5lb weight left near me, so I grabbed it and brought it over to him. It was a little loud so I just pointed to the other 5lb weight and to the one in my hand. I helped him change the 10lb weight to the 5lb weight.

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Onto this past week with the family.

Sunday we didn't do much because I had to work that night. 

We did manage to go to the park down the street from my place before I had to be at work.

It was definitely good times and so much fun watching my niece and nephew play.

They took to rolling down the hill!

Monday we made it to Denver's Nature and Science Museum and City Park.

This place was more for my nephew but my niece enjoyed it also.

We saw the NASA exhibit, many animals, and the Dinosaur bones exhibit.

Afterwards, we made it to City Park, which is right behind the museum.

This park is amazing and so much fun!

At the gem exhibit (right photo above), my nephew said, "That's where Martian's live."

The view of downtown Denver and City Park from the Museum.

As my nephew and I were swinging, I asked him if he had fun. He said he did. I asked him what his favorite part was. He said, "The dinosaur's." I asked if that was all. He said, "No, the toy you bought me also!"

Whew! This post is getting a bit long-winded, so I think I'll end it now and finish up tomorrow.

{It's a Crepe kinda day}

I got up kind of late since my body has yet to adjust to the nights I worked.

Tomorrow I'll set the alarm to ensure I wake-up earlier.

Anyway, so I'm late in everything I wanted to do today. 

I wanted to hit the gym earlier than this but wanted to make myself a good breakfast first.

That obviously did not happen.

I did end up making some crepe's from Blooming Homestead's blog.

Oh my, these were delicious!

It made so many that I ended up freezing some. We'll see how those heat up later in the week.

I tweaked good ole Martha Stewart's crepe's just a tad.

I never have regular milk on hand since I no longer drink it, so that was the first change.

I used 1 1/2 c. Original Almond Milk (I normally buy unsweetened but the store was out! I also too lazy to stop by another store in search of 1 item).

I also added in a scoop of my Optimum Nutrition 100% Whey Protein mix. 

I ate 4 of these bad boys.

As soon as one was made it was in my mouth.

Talk about delicious.

Then I got tired of just cooking on 1 pan because it's a shit load of mix it made a lot of mix.

So, I got out another pan and that helped some.

After my belly was delightfully, but lightly full I went to the gym. 

Today was the first day of my 12 Week Plan.

The arm workout was pretty good. I think I have like tennis elbow or something. If I move my arm certain ways (unpredictable ways), then my elbow hurts. More like burns. I've tried to lay off arm workouts for the most part, but everyday movements keep the pain.

The C25K run was not so hot. *le sigh* I did it. today was W3D1. I was definitely wearing the wrong shoes. What I should've done was bring my running shoes with me. I didn't even think about it though since I knew I was going to be doing the upper body workout first. When I first began running, I felt heavy and off balance. The off balance part, I'm sure, were the shoes. I got my groove and it got better.

{Work it girl, Fitness Friday}

Linking up for Fitness Friday ( http://www.highheeledmama.com/?m=1).

I missed the BodyCombat class! I woke up thinking it was at 9:30 but it was at 9:00. I should've checked the schedule as soon as I woke up or put the schedule in my alarm message. Ah well.



I did make it to the CXWorx class though. Talk about an intense class for only 30 minutes long! I've only been to it one other time and I'm definitely glad I put it on the workout calendar.



After that class I rode the elliptical for 40 minutes. Doesn't it sound more fun described that way? Almost like it's a carnival ride. ;-)



I decided to ride backwards every other song and that made it more interesting of a ride. I also usually listen to a workout station on Pandora but decided to play my own songs shuffled. If a slow song came on then I went slower. Faster songs, I worked that shit out. That way my heart rate kept changing. The songs in the collage below are only a handful of the ones played.

The gym is also right across the street from the Air Force museum, so I included a pic of that as well.

I'm about to get down and dirty with my condo & then I'll take the pup for his walk to the park.

{Weigh In Wednesday}

150.4 lbs

5'2"

So, that means in real-time numbers I'm 153 lbs because my scale is apparently 3lbs off from the scale at the gym. It's one of the scales that you move the bar across and balance it all out. BUT, I don't know if that scale has been calibrated or not. So, my weight is either 150 or 153 lol. Either way, I'll take it.

Today's going to be a workout-at-home type of day. It's beautiful outside, so I really have no excuse except I'm working tonight and just don't want to leave my place yet. Here's what I'm doing, thanks to Pinterest...

 

I know the Core Ab workout is small so here's the link to the website.

Yesterday was somewhat of an odd workout day. So, I was going to go to the bodyflow class at my gym and run but thought it was at a different time than it really was. Great, then I decided I'd just run outside and do Yoga later that night at my gym. I went outside and it was freezing and only 25 degrees. Now, I realize many people run in that cold of weather, and colder. I, however, am not one of those people. I hate running as it is, much less running in below freezing weather. No, thank you.

So, I headed to my gym to run on the dreadmill. It was the smaller gym, with only 10 treadmills, and they were all taken! So, I thought okay, I'll just do the elliptical for 30 minutes and then get on the stair-stepper for 15-20 minutes. I got done with the elliptical and guess what, all the stair-steppers (all 5 of them) were taken!! Ha You've got to be kidding me?! So, a treadmill was open and I decided to just run for 20 minutes instead. I actually only ended up running for a mile, but I was ok with that since I'd already done the elliptical.

I also missed the Yoga night class because I fell asleep around 5 P.M. something and woke up after 7:30. Since, I was also preparing for working nights tonight, I was okay with that nap.

It was a good workout.

So, I've got tonight and tomorrow night that I'm working and then I'll have the weekend off. The week after that will be interesting, to say the least. I'm not looking forward to it at all. I work Monday and Tuesday, have Wednesday and Thursday off, and then work Friday-Tuesday. Blah. These are 12 hour shifts, so 5 days in a row suck; plus, there's a shift change after 3 days. The first 3 days of the 5, I work days and the last 2 days I work nights. Stinky poo.

Anyway, so one last thought...

I'm not sure where this thought is coming from, maybe it's me trying to be positive, but I truly believe in my heart of hearts that this is the year I'm going to meet someone special. Obviously, I don't know when or who ;), but I do believe it's going to happen.

*Race is in 4 days, including today*