This is my new notebook that I bought for work. I got it at Office Depot today and it is made out of 100% recycled materials. Cool! It was actually the only 'steno' type notebook they had so I didn't really have much of a choice. But I do like the cool cover on it so it's all good.
Yummy trail mix from Wal-Mart makes a fun afternoon snack. :)
My folks bought this Oroweat Sandwich Thins bread for sandwiches this week. I tried one today for lunch and was pleasantly surprised. They are only 100 calories and you can't really tell the difference between this and regular bread.
We went to our friend's son's first birthday party. It was a superhero themed party so a few people were dressed up. They also had some games out so we played a little Boggle Jr. and Connect Four. It's been a while since I played Connect Four and it was a lot of fun.
We went shopping/holo holo today for the first time in a long time. The picture on the left is of a surfboard that we saw at T&C. It's actually made up of empty plastic bottles and bottle caps. Pretty cool!
My wonderful fiance went out and got our business cards printed today. Yay! Now we can give them out to people and really start getting going. I'm really proud of him because he put them together and picked out some nice quality cards to get them printed on so it looks legit. I'm so excited!
Oh my goodness! While I was doing my picture of the day blog tonight (9/25), I realized that I totally missed 9/24!!! So, this is a blast from the past picture to fill in. Coincidentally it is also how my face looked when I realized I forgot.
I accidentally deleted my original picture of the day (my Naked Orange Juice from Starbucks) so I went with this one as a back up. I'm about half way through this book, My Sister's Keeper. It's so good that I'm having a hard time putting it down. Basically it's about this girl who is suing her parents for rights to herself, because her parents had her so she could be a donor to her sister who has cancer. They came out with a movie based on the book but I haven't seen it yet. And once again, I bought this book for just $1 at Book Off. Gotta love it!
We had a team meeting tonight so I made some Red Velvet Insanity cupcakes to celebrate our finishing Insanity. The recipe was from my Hungry Girl cookbook. They came out pretty, though a little moist. But for just 140 calories a cupcake it's really good. And they were pretty quick to make.
That is a picture of my left foot. The other day at the water park, I mis-judged the depth of the pool and sank to the bottom. It seems weird, but I ended up hitting the top of my foot on the bottom of the pool in my moment of panic. So I have a scrape and a bruise and when I wear my workout shoes I can feel it. I thought I had hurt my ankle at first, but it was just the bruise on my foot. :P
We had group workouts tonight with the crew. We did two workouts, Interval X from the P90X+ system and Cardio Power and Resistance from Insanity. I am dead! But it was a lot of fun. Tomorrow we start our new hybrid program where we will be mixing in strength training and cardio.
What a great day today! I got to go to the Wet 'n Wild Water Park for the first time with a bunch of friends. We had lots of fun riding rides and just hanging out. The day went by too fast. Then tonight we did our last 'workout' of Insanity. We just have the last Fit Test left. The 60 days went by really quickly but we will still be working out together doing other programs.
I made this box and flower today doing origami. It was actually pretty easy to do and fun too. So, that got me thinking about folding the 1001 paper cranes for my wedding. It's a big task, but I think I might regret it if I don't do it. Plus it will be a nice thing to have framed when we have our own house.
I have wanted one of these for a few months now, but didn't really have the money to buy it. So, since I won some money in Vegas, I decided to just go ahead and buy this one thing that I wanted but didn't need. Anyway, bodybugg is a calorie management system. You strap the monitor on your arm and it monitors your calories burned all day. The contestants on The Biggest Loser use this also. I guess I will have more to talk about this tomorrow when I actually get to try it out for the first time.
At my request, my fiance bought be some Slim Fast bars (I had to put in 'at my request' because I didn't want everyone to think that he bought it because he thinks I'm fat, which he doesn't). These bars are totally delicious and kept me full until lunch time! I remember I used to eat these back in the college days. I forgot about it, but now since I'm looking for more of a variety of snacks, I thought I'd try it again. I've only tried to chocolate cookie dough, but I will try the different flavors later.
I found this different version of solitaire somehow today. It's called Montana Solitaire and the way you play it is you deal out cards in four rows and take out the aces. After that, the goal is to line up each row by suit starting on the left with 2 and ending on the right with the highest number. The catch is that you can only put a card in an empty space to the right if it's the same suit and one number higher. It's really fun and I found a free application on the iPhone so I can play it. :) If you are confused but want to learn more, just type 'Montana Solitaire' in Google.
Monday morning and I'm back to work and working out. Had a very good productive day at work. I always feel so good on the first day back at work after a vacation. I guess I'm refreshed from the break.
We got home early this morning and had to pick up the dogs from their boarding/day care place. They were so happy to see us and looked like they lost weight from all the playing they did. Both Poki and Stitch were so tired, they slept all day! Now we just got to keep the weight off of them and give them some exercise so they don't fall back into lazy habits.
Our last day/night in Vegas. It's around 10:15PM and we are leaving for the airport at midnight. I decide to give the Megabucks one last shot and put $21 in the machine. I played it down to about $6 and brought it back up to $15 when this came out, 3X + 7 Bar + Megabucks 5X. Cool! I knew I won something but the credit number wasn't changing. So I look below and it says call attendant, winner: $1800! I WON! COOL!
Lunch today was at Carnegie Deli. We all shared food so we ordered the Woody Allen. And that sandwich was huge! It comes with pastrami and corned beef.
Headed out to the Hoover Dam today. It's different then I remembered from the last time we came. But we just walked on top of the Dam and took some pictures. There were little baby squirrels running around so that was fun. The gift shop also had cactus candy which made me happy.
We had a buffet lunch at M's Resort today and it was the best buffet I've ever had in my life! The amount of food they had and the variety was unbelievable. I also got to try Ratatouille for the first time and cannoli. I remember watching the Cake Boss episode with cannoli's in it a bunch of times, but I could never find a place in Hawaii where the sold it. So I was very very hapy to find it here. And I love it! Cannoli's are awesome! Hopefully I can find somewhere in Hawaii that sells them.
We're in Las Vegas!!! Got a limo ride over to the hotel when we arrived. We'll be in Vegas for 5 days to celebrate my Dad's birthday. We have a lot planned (mostly places we want to eat) so it should be a busy week.
Almost forgot to take a picture today, so I had to take a picture of this great tea that I had today. I bought it a couple weeks ago at Lupicia at Ala Moana Center. We made it as iced tea so I had some for dinner and it was yummy!
I read an article the other day about this thing called dry brushing. What you do is you get a natural hair brush and brush your body going towards your heart before you take a bath. This is supposed to stimulate blood flow and help your body to release toxins easier. So after I read this, of course I went out and bought me a brush. Surprisingly, Wal-Mart had a natural hair brush for just about $4. Sweet! So I tried this for the past three night and I feel great! I feel cleaner then normal and have even lost a little weight. :) Although that could be from other things, I'm attributing it to the brushing.
Had a birthday party today for one of my friend's son. Besides the slushee machine and ice cream machine, he also had a mobile video game thingy.
After our group workout tonight, we ate dinner at Subway. It was a delicious and pretty much healthy dinner. I can't eat it all the time, but when I do eat at Subway I really like it.
We had an "insane" workout tonight with some people who shall not be named. But let's just say it was intense and a whole lot of fun. Afterwards, we hit up Genki Sushi with the crew and ate. As you can see from the picture we ate a lot. These were most of the plates from our table of four; we couldn't stack them all. This was about $100 worth of sushi. :)
We had dinner with a couple of friends tonight at Bravo's. One of our friends brought his 3 year old son. The picture on the right is of him coloring. He was going crazy with the coloring. If you look closely, the blur on the upper right part of the picture is his hand moving extremely fast. We had a great time sitting and talking story.
I've been trying to change up my eating recently so I don't get bored of certain foods. Normally, I have a Chocolate Shakeology for breakfast which is totally delicious! But I forgot to order more, so for this week, I'm having Cheerios with a little bit of milk. And it's pretty good. It's been a really long time since I've had cereal for breakfast. Probably since like college days. But Cherrios are pretty good and they are good for you which makes me feel good for eating them.
