Last Day

Today has just been one of those days. We have Fridays completely off, so you think I'd get everything taken care of today, right? Wrong. I wake up at 7:45 and proceed to lay around bed just playing minesweeper on my phone until 8:45am. Then I finally get out of bed, make breakfast - which was a delicious combination of eggs and everything in my fridge - and before you know it, it's 10 AKA prime sun time. So instead of going to the gym, doing homework, studying, I pack a bag and head to the pool. My bronze needed work and I was overwhelmed. Planned on leaving by 12:30, stayed until almost 2:30, and I have a nice red tan line across my neck as proof. Awesome.

I then had to watch the final episode of Grey's and (Possible Spoiler Alert!) boy was I disappointed! Not by the death, but by the ending. No one finds them? Seriously? Bad ending.. and are any of them even going to be surgeons anymore? You would think they would just add on 3-4 episodes and make this the final season since supposedly everyone's leaving. Oh well.

I was just about to head to the gym, when my best friend Melissa skyped me from Paris. She's been there all year, was supposed to come back by now, but instead is staying at least until August.. or whenever her Visa expires. It was 10 pm there.. and she was drunk. It was great. So, I didn't get my workout in because I am now on my way to dinner and the movie The Dictator with some new friends.

I just got a message back from Meredith about competing, and am super excited. She said (which I expected) that I need to build up my delts and back since I have a short thick torso to give it more of a V-taper. She thinks I need about 6 weeks to work on my upper body and then 16 weeks to focus on my diet, so that will put me around late October, early November for a competition. Yikes that's coming up quick. So today is the last day for cheat meals and from here on out I'm going to be 100% with my nutrition. I'll start posting my meals to give y'all an idea of what I'm doing. Wish me luck!

Before I go, though, I thought I'd clue you in to some huge food dilemmas I've been having lately. First, the mystery between cherry and grape tomatoes is this: one is shaped more round like a cherry, and one is shaped more oval like a grape. Guess which is which. This gem of information was given to me by my wonderful sister Anne. Second, a frozen banana may sound like a good addition to your PWO smoothies, BUT they are difficult to peel. So I'm thinking maybe peel them before you freeze them.. or just don't freeze them and add ice cubes.

Third Degree Burns

So I'm having this issue adjusting to life without my dog around. First of all, I have no back up alarm now. I used to not even have to set one and she'd wake me up at 4:30am and then again at 6:15 am like clockwork. And if I did set an alarm, the second it went off she'd be right there breathing out through her nose in small puffs which would get me out of bed. No snoozing. She was the best. And then last night while I was eating dinner, I cut a piece of chicken and stupidly tried to stop it from falling by catching it between my table and knee. Well I stopped it, and did I mention the chicken was HOT? So after what must have been 3rd degree burns, I let it fall to the floor, and first thing I thought was, Now who is going to clean that up since Blizzard isn't here? But I suppose the plus of her not being here is that my floors are much cleaner, and the 3 second rule has now turned into an as-many-seconds-as-I-want rule. So.. I suppose it's not completely a losing situation. I got to eat my floor chicken.

Umm.. I definitely just heard my neighbor burp. He may live alone, too, but he did not say Excuse me. I texted him to let him know I was offended. Moving on...

Workout today was great! I had triceps and chest (and eventually will throw in the cardio). It was a hard workout and I almost hit myself in the face with a 40# dumbbell.. conveniently, Ryan was there to lift it back up for me so I could finish my set. But I was pretty pumped about that. Before this week I had been doing 3 weeks of circuits. The circuits consisted of 5-7 exercises and had reps as high as 20-30. It was hard, but because the reps were so high, my weight was lower. I was doing this to lean out a bit, and as a result lost a little bit of strength, so I was super stoked to see that I'm still getting a PR every workout! Here's what I did today:

Narrow Push Ups
DB Bench Press
DB Flyes
Wide Push Ups
Triceps Kickbacks
Cable Triceps OH Extensions
Cable Triceps Pull-downs

I love that I am still getting "the pump" with my triceps exercises. It's such an awesome feeling. When all the blood is flowing to the muscles and they are just swollen (sigh).. love it. I'm such a meat head.

Wow, I get distracted too easily. I started making quinoa like.. an hour and a half ago. Put it on the stove to boil, by the time I remember it's there almost all of the chicken broth has evaporated. I figure this isn't an all bad thing since it needs to be absorbed anyway, so I cover it and let it simmer for 10 minutes. Well 10 minutes was up over 30 minutes ago. I checked it.. tastes better then last time. Which isn't too much of a feat because last time it was still soggy and awful. Forced it down anyway. But my plan is to mix it with some cherry tomatoes (the package says grape tomatoes but everyone keeps telling me they are cherry.. don't know who to believe. They might as well be called mini-tomatoes... seems more logical) spinach, onion, and who knows what else. Might even throw in some cottage cheese, it's good on everything, like peanut butter.

Well, I'm rambling. Off to do who-knows-what.. this whole getting out of class by 11:30/no class on Friday is great and all.. But I seriously have nothing to do. Maybe I'll tackle some Mario Kart. Gotta work on racing manually like my BIL (Brother-in-law) taught me over Easter..

Enjoy your weekend! Make a plan, don't over consume, and give yourself that ME time!