Getting some runs in with the Puppy
Look at those beautiful floors!!!! I am so on love with them! Brandon has done soooo amazing. Slowly but surely it is coming along.
So stoked for some sugar snap peas!
Pease, beans, tomatoes, lettuce and zucchini
My first attempt at sugar pumpkins
Onions
Our raspberries are doing awesome!
I am feeling great!!!!
I joined beach body last week and got a coach to help keep me motivated. I worked out 6 days last week and started tracking my nutrition and weight yesterday.
All in all it is going very well! I am excited to see progress!
I have actually not done terrible the last weekish.
Last weekend I was in Cali with my friend and we went on a 1.75ish mile walk on Friday and a 3 mile hike on Saturday and during the week Brandon and I went on 3 runs.
I got a new watch strap…..after 2 straight years mine was starting to smell a little funky.
Our new bed came and he got it all put together!!!!
Did a puzzle with my mom while she was in town.
Not a bad sight for my morning commute.
Met my friend Amber in Weed, CA for a little girl’s trip
We spent some time hunting a killer.
Drank a little wine and had a lot of girl talk.
Did some hiking
Had some great views.
Northern California wants to be it’s own state.
Had to stop on the way home!
It’s been a minute since I posted, a lot has been going on here so there will be a few posts coming.
First let’s talk about food. Found some food carts near my work.
Can you say flipping delicious!!!!!
Then it was off to cali!
We did some beach walking
And some friend visiting
And some drinking lol
The main reason we were in Cali was the wedding of my oldest friend! I was honored to be a bridesmaid.
Getting all done up for the wedding
How amazing is that dress!!!!!
I can’t believe I’ve known her since i was 2!!!!!
Then we did some family visiting. He met several family members for the first time.
My family loves to play tile rummy.
Then it was back home and back to real life.
May
The goals for the year broken down for this month:
1) Start running again
2) eat healthy
3) Stop buying things until you organize what you have
Take a few minutes every day to sit in quiet reflection, meditate, and do something spiritual. 10 minutes a day, full moon and new moon and celebrate May Day!! Which is today.
Plant a minimum of 3 plants a week.
Continue to work on and grow my relationship with Brandon. Outing every weekend, cook dinner together, and garden together
Read 1 non-school book a month
PROPERLY train for and run a half, full and ultra marathon, Miles needed this month: Running the half marathon, a week off to rest then start training for marathon- 77 miles Actual miles run: 2.4 miles.
I really don’t thinl the June marathon is going to happen with buying the house and getting the flu and now I have i don’t even know what. We might have to change this toba fall or spring 2019 marathon. But that is life man.
Revamp my diet and STICK TO IT!!!!
Breakfast-juice and muffin or toast and coffee (add in a protein of some sort every morning)
Midmorning snack- Slimfast or smoothie
Lunch- Soup or salad
Dinner- Anything I want as long as it is make at home
After dinner- tea or hot chocolate, popcorn is fine
How did this go? Nope. Being sick means I’m not eating much lol. And I ordered my bridesmaides dress one size smaller and managed to fit into it so yay.
Get A’s in all my classes this year. –Get off to a good start in classes well I took this quarter off to move and deal with my brothers death so no grades right now.
Drop two clothing sizes, go from a 10 to a 6. Maintain size 8 ??? Still at a 10. But a tiny tiny but smaller 10.
Stop overspending!!!! Keep no money on you, put at least $20/month in accts and at least $75 in savings Total saved: $4.
Take a few minutes every day to sit in quiet reflection, meditate, and do something spiritual. Change 5 minutes a day to 10 minutes a day and celebrate full and new moon. Out of 30 days I did: none.
Plant 3 plants a week minimum. Total number of plants planted: Lots! The one goal I met and surpassed lol.
Continue to work on and grow my relationship with Brandon- 1 weekend outing, 1 meal a week and 1 hour a week gardening together
4 weekend outings: I think we did 2 date nights this month AND went out for my birthday so 3.
4 meals: none.
Total number of time gardening together: actually together not much, concurrently a few hours lol
Read 1 non-school book a month
Books read this month: actually i have read a good dozen books with my kindle unlimited. I need to do some boom reviews.
Oh my gosh how I love having a kitchen again!!!! I am loving cooking!!!
Salads are making a come back in my life.
A little veggie stir fry using yakisoba noodles from the grocery store (teriyaki flavor) then added any veggies I had in the fridge that needed to be used up.
Homemade guacamole!!! This will be happening a lot this summer I think.
Beef straight from the farm!!!!
Another meal kit I will be cooking up this week.
Brandon made breakfast for me this weekend. I cook most of the time but when he does he blows me away! This was so good and had amazing flavor! I think he used pepper and garlic salt and who knows what else. And on rosemary bread, oh yea!
Someone gave me a donut at work last week, YUM
Last weeks dish! I may have had it for a few meals cause it was delicious.
In our backyard we have a holly tree, we are going to trim down a lot of it because it like almost everything else is a little out of control but I love it! What great decoration! Come Christmas time I am going to deck my house out in Holly!!!!
Black Beauty zucchini has survived the transplanting process, I think 4 of my 5 plants are thriving, the 5th is still touch and go.
Sugar snap peas! Also doing great, we are going to grow them up the fence.
Our pear tree is starting to grow!! Look at all those little green nubs! I am stoked cause for like 2+ weeks it didn’t do anything and I was a little worried.
Just bought this to accompany the vegetable bible book my mom gave me. So now I know what to do and when then the book my mom gave me a few years ago goes in depth on each plant. They work great together!
And I bought my first gardening hat. Currently I am only outside like 2 hours a week so I am not wearing it yet ( I need all the vitamin D I can get) but come summer this will be my skin’s best friend!
Can’t wait to keep sharing more with you!
This is the other date subscription box I bought called “night in boxes”
The theme this month was Blind Date
This box sends an email ahead of time with suggested menu choices (you buy and make it all yourself). It suggested small meat, cheese and bread like items and I added the mac and cheese in case we were still hungry.
Have I mentioned he hates taking pictures lol.
Once again I had a lot of fun but overall this date box was lacking in my opinion. It came with 2 blindfolds, a small dry erase board and some cotton candy (if you can call it that) and a link to a website with voice recordings telling you what to do.
The concept was great. You did some talking to each other, 1 person put the blindfold on and had to draw something then draw it again with directions from the other person and vice versa. Then 1 person put the blindfold on and the other created an obstacle course and led the blindfolded person through it with commands and vice versa so it was great for communication. Then there were 10 questions you both had to answer. Then there was a part that had the potential to get a little sexy or just really messy, you both put on the blindfolds and fed the (terrible) cotton candy to each other and put some on a body part, such as your shoulder and had them lick it off and so forth. But the cotton candy was TERRIBLE!!! it wasn’t light and fluffy at all, it was all compact and crappy and had no flavor………though maybe cotton candy has always had no flavor and I am just now old enough to recognize that.
Overall I had fun but this box was definitely not worth the $30 something I paid for it. But I will never think that spending quality time with my man is a waste. So far DateBox is winning over Night In boxes.
We will see what next month holds!
Trailing the blonde 