Happy Easter and Sunday Weekly Workouts Roundup

Happy Easter! I hope everyone had a blessed and relaxing Easter weekend, and is rejoicing in the Risen Lord. Easter is by far my favorite "church" holiday. The message, the songs, the fresh start, it all makes me so joyful. I hope your Easter Weekend brought you the same joy!

 My Easter basket, complete with a  HUGE bottle of sangria. Thanks Mom! And she also got me a beautiful platter with a picture of the Amalfi Coast in Italy.

 Our little tablescape :)

Me and my mom :)

It's time to get back on the blogging wagon. Big time. I have decided that the only way I can keep myself accountable is to find link ups for most days of the week :)

And lucky me, today is Sunday (duh) and I can participate in Sunday Weekly Workouts Roundup today!

Monday: Rest Day

Tuesday: 80 Minute Power Yoga class

Wednesday: 55 minute soccer game X2 plus overtime and penalty kicks (mental workout). But we won the championship! Yay Player's Club!

Thursday: 55 minute soccer game

I took this weekend off, and enjoyed every minute of it! Back to the grind tomorrow!

Linking up with Meghan and Kat

 

Life Lately

This is what my life looks like: last Thursday my soccer team won the championship :)))) In double overtime, after having lost in a heart breaker last season. It felt so great to be back on top.

Friday was such an awesome day! I got a long-overdue massage, a yummy lunch and painted pottery with my girlfriends. I made an adorable Easter bowl, which I plan to promptly fill with candy as soon as I pick it up. Then I took a blissful nap, did some reading, errands and watched TV.  

Saturday I ran more errands, relaxed, and got ready for St. Patty's day downtown with a bunch of friends. That's when my weekend took a turn for the worst. I drank Irish Car Bombs on an empty stomach, and the night/morning/all day Sunday quickly turned out to be an awful, embarrassing, mess. A week later and I am still cringing, and am on an alcohol hiatus...possibly forever. Not sharing pictures from that night. Moving On.

Monday-Friday: Work is busy/stressful, my teams lost 2 playoff soccer games in penalty kicks, I had a cavity filled, I finished watching Parks and Rec, and am now fully involved in the drama of Brothers & Sisters, I went to an amazing yoga class on a day when I didn't think I wanted to go to yoga. I went in feeling disconnected, frustrated and not myself, and I came out feeling centered, light and free. That kind of high is unmatchable, and made me appreciate the little ways your life can line up, when you think everything is destined to be out of whack forever. 

Yesterday I played hooky from work, and went to the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill with my Dad, which is our yearly tradition, and it was a blast as always, even though I got a splotchy sunburn on my legs and ankles and nose, which is also a yearly tradition.

10 People Who Are Cooler Than Me

 Happy Friday!! Obviously there are way more people who are cooler than me, but I thought it was a fun idea to list a few specific ones.

1) People who look nice at home. I don't know about the rest of the world, but when I get home from work, it's a rat race between how badly I have to pee, and how eager I am to get out of my work clothes and into the largest, softest pair of sweatpants I can find. I'm lucky we don't have many unexpected visitors, because I would be embarrassed to answer the door to anyone. I wish I was one of those Carrie Bradshaw-esque people who are clicking around in their heels and their dress at the end of the day while they write fancy and glamorous things. Yeah, that's not me.

2) People who cook gourmet meals on the reg. And by gourmet I mean fancier than grilled cheese, and on the reg means more than once per week. Last night I made a pancake, cooked some bacon and ate an orange and called it breakfast for dinner. Really I was just craving a pancake. Eggs seemed like too much work. My roommate cooks fancy on the reg, the other night she made scallops and spinach with white beans. Just for herself. 10 bajillion cool points for those mad skills. And none for Gretchen Weiners, bye.

3) Quiet people. Those people who don't say much, remain quiet in a large group of people but when they do talk, everyone listens. I have never been that person that people wonder about. If there is a silence in a large group, I am usually the one breaking the silence with a rude comment, joke or random oversharing tidbit about my life. Sometimes I literally want to zip my mouth shut. I yearn to be mysterious and alluring...

4) People who put together creative outfit combos. The most imaginative that I am with my fashion sense is throwing a leopard belt over a black dress and wearing snakeskin pumps. OMG I mixed patterns. Except the shoes act as a neutral, so it was really just adding a leopard belt to a black outfit. Not creative. I desperately need to get cooler in this department.

5) People who have prepared for their meals for the whole day. Like, dinner in the crockpot, breakfast/coffee prepped and ready to go, and a lunch packed. I am lucky if I get out of the house wearing the same shoes, and my dress is on the right way (totally put one on inside out last week....). I don't own a coffee maker, so anything I get will come in a styrofoam cup, BUT sometimes I fling cereal into a baggie or grab some yogurt, but I have been a repeated failure at bringing lunch, let alone having something crock-potting away all day to be yummy and delicious for dinner.

6) People who blog everyday. I guess other people have more interesting lives than I do, and more pictures to share, but I can  barely think of one good (or stolen from someone more clever than me) topics per week.

7) People who have hair styles that require actual work. Like pixie cuts, bobs and real bangs. The extent of my hair knowledge is my chi, curling wand, hairspray and frizz ease serum. I can never train my part away from the center of my head, so I just give up and let it do what it wants. I am also amazed by people who can create volume in their hair with hairspray, all I create is a sticky mess.

8) People who are on strict gluten-free, yeast-free, low-carb, macrobiotic, vegetarian or vegan diets. See #5 above. I can barely get through breakfast on my own, and lunch and dinner are a total crapshoot. Imagine adding the restrictions of said diets, and I would just nibble on the grass all day. Bonus: I would be a twig. Would I love to have the health benefits, cost savings (maybe) and personal satisfaction of being on a balanced, restricted eating regiment? Yes! Do I have the patience, organization and time to get this done....yes (shame face). Ok maybe I don't have the patience. Am I too lazy to do it? Ding ding ding! Yes.

Am I a total fail because I could only think of 8 people who are cooler than me, when I said I would name 10, and in fact there are approximately 543,298,652,632 people cooler than me? (raise hand) Yes...

I got this idea from Nadine's super cute blog. Go check her out!

All pictures are from internet google search. 

Weekend Update, March Goals, Pet Peeves and Randomness

This post is just going to be a jumble of monkeys, because I have a lot to talk about, and none of it flows in a logical pattern. Here goes nothing:

 

Weekend Update: I spent the weekend in Savannah with my girlfriends, it was coooold, but fun to bundle up and wear boots and scarves that I don't get to whip out too often in FL. We drank way too much on Friday night, playing drinking games with dice at a pretty classy bar (but who can say no to free shots and beer? Plus, the company of a handome Savannanite (made up that word) that one of my girlfriends knew from wayyyyy back when, he had some funny stories to share), and then all had a rough time getting out of bed on Saturday, but made it out for lunch (at 2:30) before our awesome bike pub crawl with Savannah Slow Ride. You ride a giant 10-person bicycle through the streets of Savannah, and stop at a few pubs along the way, and get a few history lessons. And you meet a group of 50-year old women celebrating a 50th birthday by drunkenly riding around in a carriage screaming about Tim the hot bartender at Tree House. You better believe we hauled ass over there to check him out. Verdict: Hot, hottie hot! Yum. Overall, the bike pub crawl was a great experience, even with our aching thighs and cold faces! After the pub crawl, we stayed in the warm bar where the ride started/ended and watched NASCAR. Then we trekked back downtown in the cold and grabbed some food, then back to the hotel for a quick nap before venturing back out for a night out. But the bar we wanted to visit was super crowded, and we didn't feel like dealing with huge crowds, so we called it a relatively early night. Sunday we slept in, packed up, and had delicious brunch at Huey's on the river. Then it was 4 hours back to Orlando, where I unpacked, made chili and grilled cheese, set off the smoke alarm, watched Parks and Rec and some Full House and called it a night.

 

March Goals:

 

-Blow dry my hair when wearing it straight. I alternate between flat ironing my hair and curling it for work, but it looks frizzy and not straight when I straighten it in the morning. I figured out this weekend how much better it looks if I blow dry it first, then straighten it. Pretty simple realization, but I am a dummy when it comes to hair. I shower at night, and sleep on it wet, so it's already frizzy and fro-ish in the morning, and 5 mins with the flat iron isn't going to do much good. I need to blow dry at night before I go to sleep (maybe run a flat iron through it at night) and then hopefully I can do a quick touch up in the morning, and have sleek, non frizzy hair.

-Keep nails painted. I failed at this in February, my nails needs to be professionally groomed, they look uneven and ragged, so no polish job I do myself will ever look good. Hopefully once I get a manicure, I can maintain the shape and re-polish for the rest of the month on my own. Spring colors, here I come! And I got a $2 off coupon for Essie. Score!

-Acquire some spring decor. World  Market has the cutest spring stuff, I want some table decorations, towels, and maybe some cheery plates and mugs to add to the collection of stuff I need to be a grown up ;) Right now the collection consists of a set og drinking glasses and one pan....

-Run more. I have an 11k in April, and I would like to be prepared for it, as I haven't raced this distance before.

-Finish book, and read 2 more. Book club will take care of one, and I just got great deals on a bunch more, so I need to read up!

 

Pet Peeves: I tend to be easily irriated by certain habits ie: an annoying laugh (ahem coworker), a strange tic etc. and at certain times things will irritate me more than normal. This week it's the mispronunciation of words. It's a sandwich, not a sand-widge. Please and thank you. Don't get me started on your, you're and their, there and they're. I am the daughter of an english teacher, nothing drives me more nuts!

 

Randomness: This might make an encore appearance for What I'm Loving Wednesday, but it deserves some attention today: My love for Aaron Tveit, better known as Enjolras in Les Mis (or not known at all if you haven't seen the movie....#nerdalert). I loved him in the movie, but that love was taken to a whole new level after the Les Mis cast's Oscar performance when he strode in behind Samantha Barks like he owned the whole damn room! Plus his singing voice is amazing, and I watch the performance at least three times per day, he is that good (they all are). The whole performance still gives me goosebumps and makes me tear up. He made one gorgeous French Revolutionary, and looks phenom in a suit! As do Hugh Jackman, Eddie Redmayne, Sacha Baron Cohen and Russell Crowe!

 

 

 

Man Candy Monday. Yum!