Shelby Stidham

Another 5 Mile Monday…

Posted on August 15, 2011 by sjcstidham

I woke up this morning to Vinny sleeping in Matt’s dirty clothes.

That’s also Matt’s closet, as you can see by the pit of junk at the bottom. Also that would be a basket of his clothes I folded for him a couple of weeks ago that he hasn’t put away yet. I’d be annoyed if I hadn’t slowly added a few of my own items to that basket, too Smile

Anyway. I couldn’t fault Vinny for getting out of bed because it was hot last night and apparently stinky undershirts cool you down. Who knew?

After work I ran 5 miles at the gym, and I felt like ass for about 45 minutes afterwards. I told a friend (via Twitter) about my run and she said that it was good.. for me. Considering the longest distance that I’ve run in a year was 7 miles, I think she’s right! Smile 5 miles for me is 15 miles for a runner!

My knee hurt a lot afterwards, per the usual. I took 3 breaks, each 30 seconds long, but I paused the machine so the time also stopped. I felt slow today.

My total mileage for the day is 7 miles, since Sera and I walked 2 miles throughout the day.

After running it was time to make dinner! I use this dressing as a marinade:

It’s best on turkey breast but believe it or not it worked on flank steaks, too Smile Matt and I felt like we really needed meat tonight (ever have a mood like that?) so I made steaks, green salad topped with Feta cheese and croutons (too lazy to cut up veggies) and steamed broccoli. It was very good.

Today was my first day back to “being good” after taking the weekend off. It felt good and I didn’t even get that starving between meals. I did, however, eat 5 RF Ritz around 2:45pm. Not the best energy snack but it made my stomach stop growling and held me over until post-run. I need to find a non-refrigerated snack around 100-200 calories for the afternoons. Z bars are too sweet so any suggestions?

Now I’m off to give Matt a back massage. My lower back is killing me today so I am going to give him one then ask him to give me one!! Ahh, my tricks Smile

What is your pre-run snack?

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Princess Cup

Posted on August 15, 2011 by sjcstidham

…it just makes coffee taste better

Have a good Monday!

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Outdoor Fun

Posted on August 14, 2011 by sjcstidham

On Friday afternoon, Matt and I went to the Oakland A’s baseball game with a group of friends & co-workers. We’re not huge baseball fans but if we had to pick, I think we’d choose the Giants Winking smile But any time out (actually outside for this one, too!) with friends is fun so we decided why not!

The A’s lost to the Texas Rangers (I think) and I think the score was 9 – 1 but I couldn’t be certain! We tail-gated before the game for about an hour and then we did another 2 hours after the game.. we didn’t get home to our house until 1:30am! That’s late for us since we’re usually in bed by 9pm! Smile with tongue out

The rest of the weekend has been spent catching up on sleep… and cleaning house (lots of that). And having the dogs squeak the crap out of their new toys:

When you give them the look like “really?” they just look at for a second to make sure you don’t have another toy or any food and then continue to squeak their toy to death. It gets pretty annoying after, say, 36 seconds. Trust me.

I just got done watching these movies:

I’d seen them both before but thought I’d give them another go. Liked them just as much as I did the first time! My Cousin Vinny always makes me laugh Open-mouthed smile

Now I’m on backrub duty for the night so I must go!

Have a good Sunday night, friends Smile

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Make Up

Posted on August 14, 2011 by sjcstidham

A few days ago, I received an email from Kelsey asking me what make up I wear:

First let me just say thank you for the incredibly generous compliment. I think fellow bloggers probably know my secret: try and post the most flattering pictures possible. Unless you really want to be brutally honest, like I (unfortunately) was here and here (bed head picture).

So here are the products I use on a daily basis.

For eyeshadow and blush, I use Hard Candy. I like this brand because of the following reasons: 1. you get more makeup than typical eyeshadow packages give you 2. they are shimmery, which I love 3. you can layer/foil them to make them very dark or really light 4. they are available at normal retailers—like Target & Walmart, depending on your location (which means I don’t have to go to the mall to get more) and 5. they are affordable.

While Hard Candy does come in “plain” colors like pink, beige, brown, etc, sometimes I don’t want the shimmer effect and for those days I opt for my basic, no frills shadow by Sephora:

The “Colorful” line by Sephora is great. They do all the layering that Hard Candy does, but they are more expensive in addition I have to either order online or drive to the mall for them.

They have fun, frilly colors that shimmer and glitter, too, but I only have one of those and I find it to be more messy than Hard Candy. I use it for special occasions when I want to do dark, smoky eyes:

As far as concealer and foundation go… well, I don’t wear those. I do have a back-up bottle of Clinique foundation I keep in my make up bag for emergencies but I am strictly powder & blush. And for my powder I use Clinique pressed powder for my first (morning) application, and then I use Cover Girl for mid-day touch ups. I do this because I have found the products to be very similar in quality yet CG is less expensive so using it for touch-up’s keeps my Clinique tab low Smile

When I wear lip color (not colored gloss but actual lip stick), I only wear Benefit, because I find it to be long-lasting without feeling cakey or thick. I buy this once a year because I don’t hardly ever it.

I vary when it comes to mascara. I try new ones all the time and I’ve never really found one I hated, either. I do, however, like the one I am using right now. It came with a plain black eyeliner pencil (same brand) and that’s what I’m currently using for eye liner. Here’s the mascara (you can tell it’s been gently used!):

Rimmel London. I got it at Target on sale for $7 and it works great. I used to wear Benefit mascara but after wearing it a year, I was ready to try something else and I’m happy with the above.

So there you have it! Open-mouthed smile Nothing too exciting, huh? As for the process, I wear a light moisturizer first, then pressed powder then blush (my blush, if you didn’t notice in the picture above, is also a light bronzer), then eyeshadow then eyeliner then mascara and lips.

What make up do you wear?

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Catch up. Or is it ketchup?

Posted on August 11, 2011 by sjcstidham

The last few days have been fairly busy so here’s an update/overview:

I want it to be Friday.

I’m tired of being at work. My legs are still sore from last week’s squats and that annoys me. Some guy has been annoying me at the gym lately (more on this later). I’m just a downer today, what can I say? Smile

Okay. A real update now.

I haven’t been keeping good track of my miles lately but I think it’s something like this:

Sunday: Run 2 miles, Bike 3 miles, Walk/Hike 1 mile

Monday: Off (Travel day!)

Tuesday: Run 3 miles, Walk 1 mile

Wednesday: Walk 2 miles, Bike 5 miles, Hike 2 miles

Thursday: Walk 1.5 miles, Hike 1 mile, Bike 5 miles

So far that’s 26.5 for the week. I knew it was going to be a low mileage week since I didn’t really have the time Sunday to get in many miles and Monday we missed because of our traveling home. But that’s life. To be honest, my knee feels better this week on a lower mileage schedule. I do plan to run at least 3 miles tomorrow morning. I’m trying to run a sub-26:00 for a 5k right now but I need to kick it up a notch now to further my progress.

I don’t wanna. Not yet. I just got comfortable in my 3 mile pace and now I have to leave comfort for pain again. Boo! But it will be good so… Open-mouthed smile A few pictures from Wednesday until today…

Feel like getting motion sickness?

Best. Healthy Choice. Meal. EVER.

I don’t even love pesto but this was a really good freezer meal. I got more at Target yesterday because I liked it so much. Its rare when I really like these meals instead of just eating them out of convenience (with a touch of heathfulness in there Winking smile )

This one I had today, though, was also pretty damn good.

Let me just zoom out from my lunch so you guys can see the entire lunch table.

Here’s a caption for this picture: Most days you’re good and then some days you’re PMSing. And for those days there is cheesecake. And diet Pepsi. And cookies. And anything else you want.

I can say I didn’t eat all of that but I did enjoy what I did have! Open-mouthed smile It certainly looked better than my dinner tonight:

6” veggie delite with no cheese. I wanted cheese but I just didn’t get it. I don’t know why. Guess I must have been zoned out while I was ordering.

Still good, though.

My breakfast this morning even looked better than my dinner:

Or maybe it just looks better because Mr. Donald Draper is in the background looking hot. The coffee was good, too, though Winking smile

Work was work and I did some stalking (since I didn’t do it on Wednesday):

Ha! Taking pictures of someone when they don’t know it is always funny! Smile Although if I saw the pictures she had on her phone of me I think I’d probably be signing a different tune.. Eeek!

I noticed something while I was at Target the other day.. and then I wondered why I was noticed these things all of the sudden? Winking smile

Sesame Street is so damn cute, isn’t it? I’ve always loved it. And anything on a little baby jumper is adorable so combine the two and I almost had a heart attack. (<—not really actually)

I’ve been searching for clips of this show on the internet but no luck with anything good.

It’s a long story but it’s all pretty much just a joke. Who’d have thought that show would be so hard to find?

Hope everyone is having a cool week.

Here’s something I found one Reddit that I like (obviously) for you guys to see while I go work on my Q&A post.

Do you consider the above piece art?

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