Sunday Lake Day!

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Yesterday Matt and I went to the lake with his parents and his sister and her husband. Or, because I’m lazy and hate explaining familial relationships, we went with my IL’s, my SIL and BIL (although I know he’s not my BIL, I still call him that!)

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I swiped that awesome hat from my MIL; she’s got two. Who doesn’t need two huge straw hats? That’s what I’m sayin’ Winking smile I tried to be J.Lo and rock it but I think I just looked like I needed to be picking daisies in a garden in a Bounce sheet commercial or something.

Anyway, we had a great time! Lots of chatting, relaxing, and goofing around… a perfect end to the weekend!

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I only got burned on my legs and side-boob area so in my book that’s a win. I usually come back from water-related trips with a mean burn everywhere, no matter how much sunscreen I wear. I did feel kinda sick this morning (Monday) and I think it’s the side effect of the sunburn I did get.

Since the lake is the lake (water, sand, food, drinks, people) I won’t recap every little detail. Instead I’ll just share a handful of pictures (the only ones I took!):

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It was really nice out—not so hot that you couldn’t breathe but not too cool that you didn’t enjoy the water. All in all it was a great little day trip with the family and we had a great time!

Do you like going to the lake?

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Saturday Stuff

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So our original plan to run our errands during the day got squashed so I decided to make up for it by doing other things while Matt does yard work.

First thing: go to my parents house. My mom needed a favor from me (she bought something off of Ebay that came broken and she wanted me to take photos and upload them for her so she could send it to the seller) but when I got there she wasn’t there Sad smile So I milled around a little:

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(You know I had to do more self portraits in their huge mirror!) I looked for their cats (I love cats but Matt hates them so I have to just enjoy others’ kitties Sad smile), drank a bottle of their water, visited with my dad a little, went through their entire pantry (nothin’ good) and then took the pictures. Before I headed out, though, I snapped a picture of my old bedroom. When I lived at home, it looked nothing like this. They have it decorated as a guest bedroom now with no trace of my existence. Waaaaa. Crying face Just kiddin’

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It looks so small now but when I lived there, I remember thinking it felt huge. Weird how those things work, huh? (Note: am I the only one who desperately wanted a window seat in their bedroom growing up? My friend had one and I thought it was so, so, so stinkin’ cool!)

Then I came home and made myself some lunch:

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After enjoying about 5 minutes of peace (dogs begging at my feet when they discovered I had FOOD), I finished my meal and now I’m getting ready to do some Photoshop before we finally go do our thang.

Hope everyone is having a fun Saturday so far. Smile

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Saturday Morning Starbucks!

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Good morning! Matt and I woke up this morning around 6:45am and watched some Netflix together before getting our weekly ritual: Saturday morning Starbucks! I haven’t had Starbucks since last weekend so getting it this morning was very nice Smile 

We went to the college and parked to eat, drink, and watch the ducks play. It’s such a pretty campus and in the morning when it’s quiet, it’s even prettier Smile 

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I enjoyed my usual Americano, this time iced, and a breakfast sandwich.

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It was good! It was egg, bacon and cheese. I could’ve lived without the bacon since I don’t really like bacon (unless it’s turkey bacon!) but still good. More calories than I normally have for breakfast but I figure we won’t get lunch for a couple of hours!

Now I’m off to shower & get ready so Matt and I can run some errands today. Fun stuff!

Have a good Saturday!!

P.S. I am going to the mall today and I really want to find one of these! These babies are so awesome! Smile with tongue out

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Going to bed early is a vacation!

Since I failed to blog yesterday, I will catch you up on what happened yesterday: nothing exciting. But if you’ve already read your favorite blogs and still feel like killing time on the computer before doing your laundry and going to bed, here’s what happened yesterday, in some more detail Smile

Thursday:

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In the morning, I ran 4 miles at the gym on the treadmill. Shaved 19 seconds off of my previous time, which means PR. Woo. I’d rather add miles than lose time but I pushed myself, got a great work out, and felt exhausted after so I think all is well Smile

(Edit: I actually got to “fight the puke” for a good 15 minutes after my run because I pushed it so hard at the end. Smile with tongue out I ran the first 2 miles at 6.5, the third at 7.0 and the last at 7.2. Didn’t go as high as my last run but I started out faster!)

In addition to the jogged 4 miles, I also walked another 2.00 miles.

Work:

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I wore a black sundress to work on Thursday and when I first put it on I kinda of thought “meh” but as the day went on, I liked it more and more. And I wore it after work—sans the white tank—and liked it even better. Isn’t it awesome when something you thought sucked turns out to be great after all? I think so!

For lunch, Sera and I went to Jamba Juice where we got sixteen ounce smoothies (me- Strawberry Nirvana) and MedditeraniYUM pizzas Smile I know I am spelling that wrong but I’m way too lazy to Google.

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It was soo good. And I think it was less than $5, which makes it a way better option for lunch than $10 Panera! Really, really good!

After a long day of sitting at my desk and doing the same thing a million times on repeat, I put up a quote from Conan O’Brien and called it a day! (I hate people who tape stuff to their monitors and now I am one!) Winking smile

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I believe that!

After work I just cleaned up, did some foam rolling and relaxing. Best part? Netflix (although they increased their prices and ultimately got crappier) added Mad Men to their streaming, and since I love Jon Hamm, I am super happy! Smile I watched the first episode with Matt Thursday night in bed. Awesome!

Today:

My workout was awesome and so is this:

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Now, when you see it…

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Creepin’ behind me no matter what I am going or where I’m at.

At the gym I did a strength workout that including my butt, legs, and some light abs. It included a coo down hike (about 15 minutes/1 mile) as well. Today I walked 1.50 miles, bringing my Monday through Friday mileage to 30.5 miles so far. I count Saturdays, too, since I only take Sunday off so hopefully I can sneak some extra miles in there tomorrow!

After showering, grabbing some snacks for work, and slamming some more coffee I drove off to my desk among desks and lost another 8 hours of my precious life… (dramatic, yes?)

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You’d think I love myself because all of these pics but no (yes, but no!) but really what I am doing is taking enough so that later I can find something amusing in them, like this:

(In the background of a driveway picture)

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The porch pooper! Caught! I actually knew which cat was the porch pooper/lurker, but never got a picture before. Her name? Paris. Kinda fitting, no? Winking smile

At work my boss took me and my coworker out to lunch. We went to Applebee’s and I get what I always get… the weight watchers/under 550 shrimp and rice for 370 calories. It’s pretty good. Today it was just so-so.

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The rest of my day has been filled with errands, vacuuming, Lysol wiping, bed making, laundry doing, floor cleaning, dish washing madness Smile I think I might go to bed early tonight.. Like a mini vacation!

Hope everyone is doing well!

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Subway is amazing

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This morning started off good because I made the money coffee. It’s butter cream or butter vanilla or I don’t know. But it’s so money. SO MONEY. I also had a good strength work out at the gym this morning. And I wore a new blouse today. It’s always fun to wear new clothes, isn’t it?

Work was work, what else can I say?

For lunch today, Sera and I went to Panera where I got the strawberry poppyseed chicken salad. It’s so good but it kills me that it costs nearly $9. Good but not worth $9, IMO.

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It was hot today but I am pretty sure we managed to get 1.50 miles of walking in on our morning and afternoon breaks. It’s rare when we don’t do at least 2 full miles but today was hot and I can’t remember for sure but I think we just did 1.50. Add that to my nice walk this morning and that’s 2.50 miles for me today. Not too many but just right, what with a sore knee and all.

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Psychedelic, no? Something happened to us today. We got really stir crazy. Laughing at everything. Lucky for us our big- boss (like Bowser) was out today. Our office shares a wall with his and if we can hear him tell his wife he’s going to geriatric yoga (0r a variation of this) then I’m sure he can hear us doing impressions of people and laughing Open-mouthed smile But he was out.. woo!

After work I ran a secret Birthday errand to put some finishing touches on my sister’s birthday gift Winking smile Then cleaned house til Matt came home and we went here:

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And this girl made me a sandwich:

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And it was amazing.

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Ah-maze-eeeeng.

As amazing as me making the following faces?:

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Can I just add that even I am creeped out by that last one above? That was the point. I took it then sent it to her. Creepy? Yes. Funny? You bet. Especially at 2 pm when you’re sleepy, hot, tired, and everything’s funny. Even Ryan Seacrest.

And to answer my own question, no. The sandwich definitely isn’t as awesome as all my cool faces. Duh Smile

Hope everyone had a silly Wednesday, too.

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