Sunday Funday!
Hope everyone had a FAB Sunday! I sure did! My Sunday was filled with relaxation, yummy junk foods, movies, and good company. Jason and I spent the entire day together and it was wonderful! 
We drove home from Bloomington in the morning. Then we doctored up some leftover Gumby’s Pizza and Pokey Sticks with extra cheese and toppings. It was so much better the 2nd time around, too! Mmm mmm mmmmmm!! Then we watched “Superbad”, drank a bloody mary, and lounged. We have wanted to see “AVATAR” SOOOOOO bad! We finally dragged our butts to the theater for an afternoon showing and OMG was it a kick ass movie!! It is definitely a MUST SEE!! We watched it in 3D and we were blown away! 3D and in the theater is the ONLY way to watch this film! Oh, Saturday we watched “Tucker Max- I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell” and it was HILARIOUS!! Rent it!
It was so nice out yesterday (considering…) and we contemplated doing some stuff around town, buuuuuut opted to go home and continue vegging for the rest of the night. 
Ultimate laziness.
I was craving a burger for some reason. Probably because we had been on a junk food binge all day. Why stop now?! I know that is not “good thinking”, but every once in a while it is okay to indulge. Jason concurred and started up the grill! We had 99% fat-free turkey burgers with Swiss cheese and burger fixins’. For a side we had tater-tots. Jason had wanted to make home-made sushi so we decided to give that a try as well. We added imitation crab meat, cucumber, onion and chives cream cheese, and avocado. It turned out well. The flavor was great, but the texture was weird. The rice was soggy 
and warm. Every time we make home-made sushi we learn something, though, and we are improving on our Japanese skill.
The rest of the night was typical Sunday T.V., cocktails, and snuggling up with the Twixster. Jason accidentally rested his arm on Twix’s paw when she was playing and she has been a gimp on that paw since it happened yesterday morning. Poor girl. Jason feels bad. He was super cute to Twix when he saw her limping, too. He picked her up and offered to give her an ENTIRE CAN of tuna!! Haha. She is spoiled.
Gotta love Sunday Funday!!
What is a typical Sunday Funday for you?
A Sunday Funday for me usually consists of friends and/or family getting together. Eating good food and probably having a few cocktails. Also, watching sports, eating pizza and/or wings, and drinking a few beers. Mainly just having fun with fun people!
Sush and Euch
Howdy! This weekend has FLOWN by! Holy cow! Saturday was a great day with the boo-ski. I woke up at 7 a.m. and was ready for the gym scene! Jason…not so much. But, I talked him into it. We went to the gym from 8-10:30. I took Body Attack and Body Pump and then I was ready for anything a NAP. Jason and I put down quite a few cocktails Friday night when he got home and we were both feeling the aftermath before/during/after the gym. We were troopers, though. We put on our game faces and sucked it up at the World Gym. I had a few warm bites of my oatmeal sensation and an icee coffee prior to the sweat sesh and finished off the cold bowl of oats and another yummy icee coffee when we got home. Nom.
We lounged for about an hour and decided to go see Avatar only to discover once we got to the theater that we had looked at times for the wrong theater!! Oh no! So, we did not get to see the movie yesterday, bummer!
After getting ready for the night’s shenanigans, Jason and i drove to Bloomington to have dinner/cocktails and play EUCHRE/cocktails with Paige and Shane! We had so much fun! We ate dinner at Hyashi – Japanese Grill/ Sushi Joint. Jason and I shared a Ninja Turtle and a Philly Sushi Roll and a mixed grill of Calamari and Steak with veggies and fried rice – Delish! Ugh, we got soooo FULL! Oh, we also indulged on a couple Asahi (Japanese Beer).
Girls Vs. Boys Euchre
Boys Won. Girls should have won. ‘Nuff said. Oh Wait! Paige made some BOMB DIGGITY two-handed O.J’s!!! Love them! 
4th meal = 2a.m. GUMBY’S!! XL Hawaiian Pizza and an XL Pokey Stick!! I love you, Gumby’s!
I always remember to take pics AFTERWARD.
NOTE TO SELF: CAMERA!!!!! That is all.
Hope you are having a Phenomenal weekend as well!! Chow!
Friday Night Steak and 'Tatoes!
Hola! Time for a Friday night recap! Sorry for the choppy blogs. I have been busy lazy the past few days. Keeping up with blogging is a lot more time-consuming that I thought it’d be. I give props to the extreme bloggers who can keep up with….um, themselves?! Anywho, yesterday my fiance’, Jason, got home from his trip! Hooray! Jason is in the military as well. We are both crew chiefs (aircraft mechanics) on C-130 H3 model aircraft. He was on a deployment for a week in D.C.. Twix and I missed him lots while he was away.
I decided to leave work an hour early to go have lunch with Jason. If you know Jason and I, then you know where we went without me telling you. (Sadly, we can be that predictable sometimes). We went to CHILI’S!!! YUUUUUUUUUUMMM!!! We ordered bottomless chips and salsa and spinach/artichoke dip! One of my FAVES!! We also indulged on a few a bunch of cocktails throughout the day/night.
We came back to the homestead to veg and catch up.
For dinner we decided to go to the grocery store and get all the fixings for a down home steak and potato dinner!! We had home-made mashed potatoes smothered in butter and sour cream, steamed broccoli and yellow peppers, medium-rare strip steaks with sauteed onions, and more cocktails!! Jason is such a great cook. The food was DELICIOUS!
Sorry for the lack of pics. I need to work on that 
Friday Night Steak and ‘Tatoes!
Hola! Time for a Friday night recap! Sorry for the choppy blogs. I have been busy lazy the past few days. Keeping up with blogging is a lot more time-consuming that I thought it’d be. I give props to the extreme bloggers who can keep up with….um, themselves?! Anywho, yesterday my fiance’, Jason, got home from his trip! Hooray! Jason is in the military as well. We are both crew chiefs (aircraft mechanics) on C-130 H3 model aircraft. He was on a deployment for a week in D.C.. Twix and I missed him lots while he was away.
I decided to leave work an hour early to go have lunch with Jason. If you know Jason and I, then you know where we went without me telling you. (Sadly, we can be that predictable sometimes). We went to CHILI’S!!! YUUUUUUUUUUMMM!!! We ordered bottomless chips and salsa and spinach/artichoke dip! One of my FAVES!! We also indulged on a few a bunch of cocktails throughout the day/night.
We came back to the homestead to veg and catch up.
For dinner we decided to go to the grocery store and get all the fixings for a down home steak and potato dinner!! We had home-made mashed potatoes smothered in butter and sour cream, steamed broccoli and yellow peppers, medium-rare strip steaks with sauteed onions, and more cocktails!! Jason is such a great cook. The food was DELICIOUS!
Sorry for the lack of pics. I need to work on that
“Feel the Grunginess!”
Hooray for Friday!! Hope everyone has a wonderful day! I was going to blog yesterday, but when I got online to write I heard some tragic news about an acquaintance from high school. Therefore, I was not in a good state of mind to blog and I had a friend to comfort. I was not close with this person, but I have a few friends (one in particular) that were pretty close to him. I called my friend and chatted on the phone for a while. Afterward, I prayed. R.I.P. Curt Byars.
Pressing on….
Yesterday went like this:
:. Oatmeal Breakfast: I am addicted to the “Bee’s Knees” Peanut Butter/Honey mixture. Nom nom nom!
:. Work 0630-1600
:. Lunch: Low-Fat Progresso Chicken and Dumplings soup with a few bites of a chef salad (it was not that good)
:. Home to play with the Twixster and give her meds/kitty chow
:. Chocolate protein shake with a T of low-fat peanut butter and a ½ c coffee
:. Spin class at 1730
:. Dinner: Random Leftover’s Taco—Leftover Stuffed Pepper “Stuffing” from Wednesday mixed with some salsa and a sprinkle (or two;)) of cheddar cheese, all wrapped in a 100 calorie whole wheat tortilla shell. So good! I was so hungry when I got back from Spin, anything would have tasted A-Mazing!
:. 20 minutes of stretching
:. Vegged the rest of the night
My spin instructor last night was a funny guy! The whole class was completely out of breath and he still had us all laughing! He was motivating and made us want to try our best and push through when we didn’t think we could “climb” that third “hill”, which I thought was GREAT! About 30 minutes in to the class I needed all the motivation I could get. Phew! On about our third song, he played a rock song and asked that his class (of all girls and one guy) “feel the grunginess!!” as he slapped his thigh, wiped the sweat from his bandanna, and BARKED like a dog before he stood up on the bike to “finish the race”! Hahaha. Classy.
TGIF! I am so ready for the weekend! I am going to try to write another blog later today. Work is rather slow and boring today, so I do not think writing will be an issue… Toodles!
Hump Day!
Hello and Happy Hump Day! My Wednesday has been steadily busy. Just the way I like it. Not so slow that the day seems to drag on and not so busy I feel overwhelmed with everything I need to get done. It’s a good balance. Today I worked as usual. The morning went by slower than I had hoped, but after lunch the hours seemed to fly! If we are not too busy doing maintenance, my supervisor allows me to go the gym for one hour during work. The regulation states that work will give you one hour (if time allows) and you give up 1/2 hour of your personal time. I love food and do not normally like giving up my feasting time, so I usually go at the end of the day. Yesterday I went over lunch and i was a starvin marvin when it was all said and done. Today, however, I went at the end of the day. I took my “Wednesday’s Flat Belly” and “Belly Off Club” worksheets I printed from the Women’s Health Magazine website and was ready to tackle the gym.
Today’s workout worksheets consisted of abs and legs. After I completed my warm-up routine and worksheets I hit the treadmill for a quick 1.2 mile run at 6.5 speed. It felt great! I was contemplating a body attack (free weights/abs) class tonight at 6:45 and decided to cook dinner and clean instead.
Dinner menu: stuffed bell peppers for one!
The concoction I came up with for the “stuffing”:
~ 99% fat-free ground turkey seasoned with Lawrey’s, garlic salt, and pepper
~ black beans left over from Monday night fajitas
~ Jason’s mom’s homemade stewed tomatoes
~ chopped black olives
~ chopped onion
~ chopped mushrooms
~ 1/2 slice swiss cheese
It definitely hit the spot! And it was so easy even I didn’t screw it up! I am not a very good cook, but I am learning. My fiance’ is a great cook. He has taught me a lot and he is always willing to let me experiment in the kitchen. Also, I have read a TON of health blogs for food, health, and blogging tips. So I get some recipe/cooking tips there as well. I need all the help I can get in the cooking department!! So far I have not bombed any meals. *Knock on wood*.
The rest of my night consisted of cleaning, laundry, and hanging with Twix. She is still in lazy kitty recovery mode and doing great! I do not necessarily enjoy cleaning, but I LOVE when the homestead is clean. The smell, the scenery, and how much better I feel when the house is clean makes my day a little better. It’s so nice relaxing. So relaxing, in fact, that I thought I would enjoy the scenery with a little cocktail. My choice for the night was a vodka and orange juice. YUM!!
Time to relax with my drink and watch the new episode of TOSH.0! His show is HI-LARIOUS! He is on Comedy Central. The new season just started and he has new episodes every Wednesday. CHECK IT OUT!
Stick To It!
Day Number Two of blogging for this girl!! Woo Hoooo!! That small milestone is huge for me! I attempted to start blogging about 7 months ago and failed miserably! Ugh. This blogging thing is hard starting out. I couldn’t think of what I wanted to say or how I wanted to say ANYTHING! It was extremely frustrating. This blog I created about a month ago and I am just now writing. I was talking to one of my girlfriends, Paige, who is an avid blogger, about my dilemma and she said exactly what I needed to hear!! “You do not have to talk about anything specific (all the time) and you don’t have to blog everyday. Just blog whenever you want, about…whatever you want!!” BRILLIANT!! And THAT (along with many other fab qualities) is why I L-O-V-E her! I guess I just needed that boost of motivation. This is MY blog and I can write about who, what, why, and where WHENEVER I want! Ahhh, a sigh of relief.
Today was a great day! The oatmeal and iced coffee I made before work yesterday was so yummy I decided to have it again this morning! Mmmmm. Work flew by and I got a good 2.3 mile run in over my lunch break along with 20 minutes of abs and 10 minutes of stretching! Phew! I feel like a million bucks! Post workout I made a protein shake. The protein shake consisted of:
1 heaping scoop of Vanilla Dessert Protein
1 tablespoon low-fat peanut butter
1 teaspoon ground flax seed
8 ounces plain light soy milk
1/2 frozen banana
That was lunch. So, of course, I was hungry about 2 hours later. I picked up two new flavor of Cliff Bar at Naturally Yours yesterday. One flavor was Carrot Cake and it was good so so. Not a flavor I will get again but it served it’s purpose. It kept me full until I got home from work. Speaking of Cliff Bars, my fiance’, Jason, bought me a variety box right before Christmas and I demolished them! The flavors were: Chocolate Chip, Peanut Butter, and Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip. I finished the box yesterday and I am now on a mission to find a new unforgettable flavor. Carrot Cake? What Carrot Cake?!
Also, I picked Twix up from the vet and she is doing very well! I am so happy everything went so swimmingly. They sent her home with some pain killer medicine in mouth syringes. I gave her one when we got home at 4:30 and she has been in and out of sleep ever since. Poor girl. I can tell she is in some pain, but she is tough. After I got the kitty all settled in I b-lined for the fridge. Hmm…leftovers or ….leftovers?? Guess i am eating leftovers! Which is not the worst thing considering I made chicken fajitas last night. I had this nagging craving for this HUMUNGO sweet potato I bought yesterday. I gave in to the craving and popped that bad boy in the oven after attempting to put slits in it, which was pretty impossible. An HOUR AND A HALF and 2x cutting it in half it was finally done. I added a teaspoon of butter and some brown sugar and enjoyed half of the potato. While I was waiting I made a small stuffed to the brim fajita. I think it was even better than it was yesterday!
Well, it is time for me to snuggle Twix and watch the boob tube til bedtime
Good night and keep your fingers crossed for more blogs to come! I know i am!
Second Time's A Charm?
Hello blog world! My name is Kimberly, welcome!
Today has been a very productive day. I woke up at 5 a.m. and went to the World Gym for a (much needed) spin class. I say much needed because I splurged on food and cocktails over the weekend with friends and family. I enjoyed myself and had a great time with everyone, but my body is definitely feeling the aftershock today. I felt the urge to rid my body of all the toxins from the weekend with a good old fashioned sweat session! After the class I did some stretching and 45 minutes of free weights. I printed out an 8 week workout plan from the Women’s Health Magazine website. I really enjoy that site, it is addicting. Yes, I said it…I’m addicted to (DUN DUN DUN!!) KNOWLEDGE!!! I have not been following it to a T, but over the past 3 weeks I have used their routines 4 out of the 5-6 days I workout! They are easy to understand, not difficult, and best of all THEY WORK!! After doing their ab routine ONE DAY I could not laugh or sit up without feeling the awesome effects that routine had on my abs!
When I got home from the gym I felt like I was withering away I was so hungry! I decided to make some oatmeal and doctor it up with some yummy toppings a girlfriend of mine uses and loves!
The oatmeal included:
*1/2 cup Quaker Oats
*1 cup vanilla soy milk
*1 tablespoon ground flax seed
*1 tablespoon agave
*1 (ish) tablespoon of Bees Knees – deeeeellliissshhh!! this made the oatmeal
*1 small handful of raisins
and a glass of iced coffee with a tablespoon of agave and 1/4 cup of vanilla soy milk.
I was surprisingly impressed with both the oatmeal and the iced coffee treat! I usually love my coffee HOT. However, I was stressed for time and read on other blogs that this was yummy. I give it two thumbs up!
I have been reading health blogs over the past few months and I love all the blogger’s TIPS, RECIPES, AND WORKOUTS! What I love most about reading all the health blogs is the MOTIVATION AND INSPIRATION they give me to (at least attempt to) live a healthier lifestyle!
I am trying to pick up where I left off on this blog yesterday (A.D.D. ) so forgive me if this gets a little choppy. Here is a quick overview of yesterday’s agenda after breakfast:
> Took Twix (my kitty) to the vet to get declawed and spaed
> Naturally Yours grocery store for a few quick items
> Laundry- for (what felt like) an eternity
> Made Chicken Fajitas for dinner – and they were FAB!! If I do say so myself.
> Vegged
Productive yet, relaxing!
Read my “About Me” to learn more about the family, friends, and animal(s) in my life!
Hope your Monday was as enjoyable as mine!
Second Time’s A Charm?
Hello blog world! My name is Kimberly, welcome!
Today has been a very productive day. I woke up at 5 a.m. and went to the World Gym for a (much needed) spin class. I say much needed because I splurged on food and cocktails over the weekend with friends and family. I enjoyed myself and had a great time with everyone, but my body is definitely feeling the aftershock today. I felt the urge to rid my body of all the toxins from the weekend with a good old fashioned sweat session! After the class I did some stretching and 45 minutes of free weights. I printed out an 8 week workout plan from the Women’s Health Magazine website. I really enjoy that site, it is addicting. Yes, I said it…I’m addicted to (DUN DUN DUN!!) KNOWLEDGE!!! I have not been following it to a T, but over the past 3 weeks I have used their routines 4 out of the 5-6 days I workout! They are easy to understand, not difficult, and best of all THEY WORK!! After doing their ab routine ONE DAY I could not laugh or sit up without feeling the awesome effects that routine had on my abs!
When I got home from the gym I felt like I was withering away I was so hungry! I decided to make some oatmeal and doctor it up with some yummy toppings a girlfriend of mine uses and loves!
The oatmeal included:
*1/2 cup Quaker Oats
*1 cup vanilla soy milk
*1 tablespoon ground flax seed
*1 tablespoon agave
*1 (ish) tablespoon of Bees Knees – deeeeellliissshhh!! this made the oatmeal
*1 small handful of raisins
and a glass of iced coffee with a tablespoon of agave and 1/4 cup of vanilla soy milk.
I was surprisingly impressed with both the oatmeal and the iced coffee treat! I usually love my coffee HOT. However, I was stressed for time and read on other blogs that this was yummy. I give it two thumbs up!
I have been reading health blogs over the past few months and I love all the blogger’s TIPS, RECIPES, AND WORKOUTS! What I love most about reading all the health blogs is the MOTIVATION AND INSPIRATION they give me to (at least attempt to) live a healthier lifestyle!
I am trying to pick up where I left off on this blog yesterday (A.D.D. ) so forgive me if this gets a little choppy. Here is a quick overview of yesterday’s agenda after breakfast:
> Took Twix (my kitty) to the vet to get declawed and spaed
> Naturally Yours grocery store for a few quick items
> Laundry- for (what felt like) an eternity
> Made Chicken Fajitas for dinner – and they were FAB!! If I do say so myself.
> Vegged
Productive yet, relaxing!
Read my “About Me” to learn more about the family, friends, and animal(s) in my life!
Hope your Monday was as enjoyable as mine!
