Month: December 2015

Weekend Wrap up

by Ariana Peters, posted in Uncategorized

And another weekend comes to a close.   This morning my roommate C and i went to yoga at 24 hour fitness. Today was a good class i got really meditative and realized i need to do yoga every week to stretch everything put with all my training.
I made myself a delicious breakfast

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Then relaxed a bit.
After the relaxation on went downstairs to our mini ‘home’ gym and ran 2 miles, walked a bit then biked for 40 minutes while watching the movie Taken.

I really should not be attracted to a man who could be my dad lol.

While working out i got a text from the BF he is safe in India lol. He found a little cafe with Wi-Fi so he was able to text me for a few.

Tonight the roomies and i did a little Christmas decorating

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And snacking

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While listening to Christmas music.

This Christmas will be very bitter sweet for me. I always felt like my mom’s house was still home but that is gone and i don’t really feel like where i am now is home and i feel in-between familes. I have grown up and my ‘family’ from childhood doesn’t really exist anymore but i have created my own family yet.

Christmas is what 12 days away and i still have no idea what I’ll be doing. No idea if I’ll be chilling at home alone like thanksgiving, if the bf and i will be spending it together, if we will try the meet the parents again, if I’ll go to my roommates family Christmas…….no clue.

What are your holiday plans?
How was your weekend?

An accomplished Saturday

by Ariana Peters, posted in Uncategorized

Hi all!!!!
I hope you had a great Saturday! I actually feel like i accomplished a good amount. I set my alarm for 7 am sp i could get up and make it to an 8am spin class….my first. My alarm went off and I said “yea, no” and rolled back over. But then i was awake so i figured ok ill get up and go. Then my sweet sweet puppy crawled up and put her head in the crook of my shoulder cuddle. It was soooo precious! So i laid there and  cuddled with her for about 15 min until she moved. Then i got my butt up and made it to class just time to figure the seat amd peddles out and hear the instructor say “today we are doing hills”………may i just say spinning is a freaking workout! Damn!

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This is me afterwards exhausted trying to show you i drank 3/4 of my liter water bottle in that hour spin class.

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24 hour fitness is also having a clearance on my favorite protein bars so i am slowly stocking up as long as the sale is on.

I came home got ready andy roommates and i went to E’s parents house which is a farm and cut down outlr Christmas tree!!! A first for me.

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It was actully quite fun!
I also fell in love with the house and land and now want to buy it for my farm and Inn LOL.

Came home and relaxed the tonight i went to the movies with E and saw  Christmas with the coopers….actually quite a cute movie.

How was your Saturday?
So anything fun?

TGIF

by Ariana Peters, posted in Uncategorized

Happy Friday!!!!!

Today was a pretty chill day for me. Our receptionist at work retired today so we got lunch catered

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I pretty much never pass up free food. But i kept it vegetarian and tried to make it healthy. There were leftovers so i got to make a burrito to take home for dinner, and i even managed to stay pretty close to my daily calorie goal.

Today i signed up for technically 4 races but one is a 3 race series.

This one is a three 5k race series that I’m really excited about. It’s one 5k a month for 3 months at the same location so you can watch your time hopefully increase.

This one is a 10k trail run that looks awesome! So that gives me 1 race a month through March starting a week from tomorrow!

Tomorrow i am taking my first spinning class ….ever!!!! Well see how it goes!

Do you have any races coming up?
Have you ever gone spinning? Did you like it?

Thirsty Thursday

by Ariana Peters, posted in Uncategorized

Happy Thursday!!!! Or as it used to be refered to in college thirsty Thursday. All college bars have deals on drinks tonight just an fyi hahaha.

My thirsty thursday consisted of lota od water everywhere

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And a little hail at some point according to my coworkers.

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I hit the gym and remembered to finally take a pic of the spinning class schedule so i can start training for next years triathalon!!!

Todays training session became half weights have swimming when we realized there was a swim class from 6:30-7:30. So i got a double workout woot woot!!! Swimming felt better today and i am getting in the pool twice next week!

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Yay!!! A freshly made bed with clean sheets!!! Take a look now, between me and the dog by tomorrow it will be a tangled mess of sheets.

I love her to death but sometimes she kills me with the way she sleeps.

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Speaking of Ms Artemis ……..sometimes she is so cute!!!!

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Quick selfie before bed!!! Yep Harry Potter is on in the background :mrgreen:

At 3:50ish tomorrow morning the boyfriend boards 1 of 3 flights it will take him to get to India for work and he will be gone for a week.

I cannot wait for his work to slow down, it is really stressing our relationship.

Goddess help us get through the next 4 weeks!!!!

Goodnight and swetlet dreams to all!!!

How was your thirsty Thursday? Did you partake in something stronger than water?

Random Wednesday Wonderings

by Ariana Peters, posted in Uncategorized

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My cheap replacement for my morning Starbucks. I get 4 bottles for the price of a grande. Not as strong but it’s something to help the budget now and then.

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Got this water bottle at the airport and it’s a quart. 2 of these a day and i am set! Yes i refill and reuse plastic water bottles for like a month.

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I have been drinking more and more tea lately.

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Leftover delicious lentil Bolognese for lunch!

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Next years calendar for my desk at work!!! I am such a dork i love to go through and write the years stuff on a calendar. Holidays, birthdays, full moons, new moons, paydays, and races. New years eve at work should be really slow so I’ll do it then :mrgreen:

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Artemis likes to surprise me every once and a while by eating one of my socks. And she always picks the good ones……

I got in a good workout today so that helped improve my day.

Took the dog for a walk. Did 40 min on the recombent bike and 40 minutes on the treadmill.

How was your Wednesday?

Back to the Grind.

by Ariana Peters, posted in Uncategorized

I so did not want to come home from my weekend away. It was so nice to just sit in limbo. No work, no being dissapointed at how much my boyfriend is working. I just got lost in book after book surrounded by my family. 

I was happy to get back to the gym tonight though. It is the first night i have felt strong since my surgery. Like i might finally be getting back to really working out.

I just want mid-january to come and hopefully things can be good again. Boyfriend’s job should slow down i should be full force working out again by then.

It’s just been a rough 6 weeks and i still have 4 more semi-rough ones to go if I stick with it.

On the plus side i drank 8 whole glasses of water today!!! It’s been awhile since that happened.

Also my trainer and i set the difficult but attainable goal of me losing 5lbs my the end of the year. Thats is 22 days!
 

Monday Motivation**December 7, 2015

by Ariana Peters, posted in Uncategorized

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This is such a good one because i haven’t been drinking enough water lately.

Monday- today i was relaxing, saying goodbye to family and flying home.

Tuesday- 7pm training appt

Wednesday- walk the dog, bike at home

Thursday- 7pm training appt

Friday-walk the dog, run 1.5 miles

Saturday/Sunday run 2 miles, walk the dog.

Artemis and i are still getting into a walking schedule.

Here is to a great week ahead!!!

Weekend Catch-up

by Ariana Peters, posted in Uncategorized

Being back home, and yes a part of me will always consider LB home, especially while the majority of my family is here, has been great. I wish i had more time to see everyone i wanted to see and that i was fully recovered from this cold so i wasn’t so exhausted but it’s still been an good weekend.

Mom and i walked to Starbucks Saturday morning for breakfast amd a workout.

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  Saturday afternoon my friend took me to the movies amd we say ‘the 33’

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It was sooooo good!!!!

Sunday morning mom and i met my sister, bother in law, niece and nephew for breakfast where i ate way too much but it was delicious! On the way there we saw this

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I think this is the first time i have actually ever seen this in real life.

My my uncle and his wife and my other aunt met us for lunch and my grandma’s. And for dinner i had a terriyaki beef bowl from this whole in the wall place across the street that is freaking amazing!!!!  Once again i ate too much. This whole day i was boarding on being uncomfortably full, my family tends to congregate around food. I’m gonna have to start working my butt off and eating healthy again.

Ok now it’s sleep time, my eyes won’t stay open.

What did you do this weekend?

Where your food choices better than mine?

Book review**The Rosary Girls

by Ariana Peters, posted in Uncategorized

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I love murder mystery novels, trying to figure out who did it and cut through all the red harrings. Some can be a bit too gruesome though. This was pretty perfect on the gruesome scale, there was enough there for detail but not enough to skeeve me out.

No, this is not a literary masterpiece but it could hold up against the famous murder authors.

It is a thick book but keeps you interested from page one. Definitely a good for fun read, but that is it, just for fun. You won’t better yourself in anyway for having read this, but you won’t be worse off either.

The plot was fairly predictable, it had a bit of a divinci code feel but not as good as The Divinci Code, though i didn’t see this perticular killer coming.

What is the last book you read?

Any recommendations for me?

TGIF!!!!!

by Ariana Peters, posted in Uncategorized

It has been a rough month and through one of those rough situations i booked a semi-last minute plane ticket to try to rectify a situation. That situation can no long be rectified but the ticket had already been paid for so i get a long weekend in my home town with family and friends!!!!!

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Long Beach!!!!  LBC baby!! Trying to be inconspicuous since im hanging at the airport waiting for my bestie to pick me up.

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Awesome airport remodel Long Beach.

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Yep, we diverse lol.

Just being here is putting a smile on my face.

Did i mention only 2 people know in advance that i am coming. Suprise family!!!

My friend picked me up from the airport and we hit my favorite Mexican restaurant Super Mex

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Desimated that.

Enchiladas and quesadilla.

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My $3 water from the airport lol. I put some Nuun in it for vitamins and electrolytes.

And now its time for me to pass out. Its been a long day.

Talk to you tomorrow!!!!!