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Bootylicious tag

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My new friendular tagged me in this fun type of questionnaire. Visit Stephanie I met her at Angela’s house from Oh She Glow’s Birthday potluck, she’s moving to my tri-city so sooner rather than later we’re going to probably get a tumor from laughing so hard at new YouTube videos that have yet to be made.

First off, I have no idea what rainbows have to do with Bootylicious, and secondly I wish I had a booty! Bow chicka.. actually I probably do and I’m just in denial about having a skinny butt. Don’t tell me.

Going to break the rules a bit here and tag people at the beginning of this post! I tag the following people:

Neinke of Revel Blog
Leanne of Fresh Season
Julie of Peanut Butter Fingers
Mindy of Finding Silver Linings

Back to the questionnaire

Name 3 things sitting next to you right now:
Alright seeing as i’m sitting at my computer desk why not keep things interesting and give you a front shot of how my desk looks like in all its glory.

But to keep from cheating, I’ll just name three random things that are on my desk (boy this is going to get long)…

My random free subscription to Elle Canada fashion magazine. Not a fan of magazines at all (ok I liked, I love Real Simple), and I even get a free sub to this magazine at WORK. With my name on it! Two exact duplicates of these magazines monthly. Whyyyyy.

Name 2 foods you can’t live without
I love Stephanie’s answer. I’m a huge fan of bananas too. But personally I’m going to go with a meat and starch type of answer because I LOVE MEAT AND POTATOES. Chicken and potatoes will be my final answer. No picture. Unless you’d like to see a stash of my russet potatoes sprouting from underneath the cupboard.

Heyyy, why not. Is that gross? I’m sorry. Also, why do they sprout so quickly? They’re < 2 weeks old. Anyone?

Name 2 things you can’t live without
Huge fan of the Avene lip balm (and showed you why here). I have it stored everywhere. In my car, bedside table, at work, on my desk here at home, and in my purse.

Another thing I probably can’t live without is metal-free type of hair elastics. I despise my hair up in a pony tail but it’s necessary when I’m playing soccer and going to CrossFit. Maybe I shouldn’t pick that one. It’s a necessity in that sort of sense, but maybe I’ll pick something fun like makeup. Oh I don’t know. I’ll keep my answer the way it was.

Name 2 people you can’t live without
Ehhhhggggg… this question can be difficult. I’d like to say my Mom, Dad, Brother, Nephews, and Boyfriend because well duh. So can I just keep my answer the way it is and cheat again?

Name 1 thing you did today
Well I’m going to name two things today because that’s basically all that I did.

We went to Scott’s duathlon — first race of the season he placed fourth in his age group! Usually he does Tri’s and not du’s. Then I went to my second soccer game of the outdoor season. Yay.

Name 2 things you learned from the healthy blogging community
I’m not entirely a healthy blogger, but I’ve gone to three healthy blogger meet ups and I’ve met some really incredible people that I’ve stayed in touch with. Usually I guess you’d be much more prone to reading their blogs since you’ve met the person. I love that I read Susan’s blog for a good two years then bam — one day she moves to Toronto, and I got the chance to meet her in person. Stuff like that. I think it’s super cool. I’m going to California in August to also meet some other girls. Super exciting! Also — I’ve got some really great recipes and stuff that I would’ve never tried (kale, dates, edammame) or even made.

Just because I didn’t tag you doesn’t mean you can’t do them yourself. Post your own answers either below in the comments, or link to your blog! Here are all the questions below if you want to copy/paste:

Name 3 things sitting next to you right now:
Name 2 foods you can’t live without
Name 2 things you can’t live without
Name 2 people you can’t live without
Name 1 thing you did today
Name 2 things you learned from the healthy blogging community

Wow that blog entry took FOREVER. I need to go put some food in my belly. It’s 8:39!

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Fashion, In the Kitchen, Photos, Videos

My Birthday night!

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I finally got a birthday weekend! My boyfriend was away the past two weeks and we didn’t get a chance to go out and celebrate. Saturday night we drove to Burlington and shopped around at Ikea and went out to dinner! I have to ask before I write anymore in this blog post. Is my dress too short for work? Answer honestly! A few people have said it’s okay, but maybe since I’m asking it is too short. What do you think? Not to worry, no hgh supplements were taken to wear this dress.

At Ikea I purchased a few random things for the house but I’m most proud of the bed linens. Ugh, so gorg.

New duvet cover, soft white blanket, and the back pillows — they’re velvety feeling, and so big!

We ended up eating dinner at my co-workers recommendation: The Big Tomato. The restaurant is located in downtown Burlington downstairs of another restaurant called La something or other. The upstairs one looked elegant and fancy.

The atmosphere when you first walked in was very nice and cozy. The music they were playing was definitely a hit with me, since I was humming along to it all. Fats Domino, Ella Fitzerald, Sinatra. All the oldies but goodies in my books!

I wasn’t really feeling like an alquie drink so I stuck to ol’ faithful a diet coke.

Scott got the same. A rare photo of him on my blog. He likes to remain anonymous. Not this time buddy – it’s my BIRTHDAYYYYY!

We glanced at the menu and being a Graphic Designer I notice certain things about fonts. Mainly, how you should never ever use the font Comic Sans as it  gets a bad rep for being so ugly, juvy, and unprofessional in the greatest (there’s even a documentary about banning comic sans). Comic Sans was used everywhere. Menu fail on their part. I felt so bad. lol.

I think the same person who designed the menu using comic sans ended up clearly making the dessert menu. Why is New York spelled as just one word? So weird. Not a fan in that sense either.

While the looks of the place was nice, and it was quite empty when we arrived at 9pm, we couldn’t help but think that it’d get quite loud if we were there at an early / normal supper hour. The acoustics were lacking as we could very clearly hear the other customers talking and we felt as if we had to whisper.

It seems as though I’m making fun of the restaurant quite a bit. But it made up for it with the food, and the service that we received. I thought the mini pizza cutters on the table were a nice little touch that you don’t really see at every Italian place.

I ended up ordering a two course dinner where you chose a salad and a pizza or whatever else was on that red block on the menu shown above. I chose the pizza, and got some hot pepperonis on one side for Scott. Burn the mouth right off yass they would.

Chomp chomp, I took a few bites out of the pizza before I remembered to take a photo. Scott got a pasta. It was tasty. I have to say the crust on the pizza was incredible. Very thin crust, and didn’t flop down when I picked it up. Right sturdy it was. Such a nice crunch to it too. The plate was SO oily though, I’m glad I had a bunch of napkins. However the pizza was not oily or greasy at all.

I’m glad we went somewhere completely different for supper. Usually we’d stick around in our tri-city area. But we traveled a good distance to shop at Ikea and eat out at this place. We were really lucky with the weather too, as it was a really warm evening out and I didn’t feel chilly at all with my dress on! I had a nice Birthday evening, even if it was 2 weeks late :)

I ended up filming a YouTube video of my outfit that evening as well. Watch it below!

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CrossFit

My CrossFit Journal (week 13)

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You’ll notice in the CrossFit archives that there wasn’t a week 12. That’s because I didn’t go the entire week. Ooops. I definitely didn’t make up for it this week either, going only twice. I blame it on driving to the airport one evening, then cleaning up our apartment for the next two nights because of a small disaster.. Meh! Next week will be better. I promise myself. :) Maybe I’ll get some trophies and awards for going a ton next week.

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Week 13 Day 1.

Death by Thruster Rx 115/75lbs (I used 50 lbs)

 

1 Thruster on Minute 1
2 Thrusters on Minute 2
3 Thursters on Minute 3
4 Thrusters on Minute 4
5 Thrusters on Minute 5
6 Thrusters on Minute 6
7 Thrusters on Minute 7  

… Continue until failure within minute
What the Thrusters look like:

The whole class only ended up finishing 8 rounds. I finished my 8 thrusters I think 5 seconds before minute 9 hit and then I pushed out 3 thrusters, tried to do another 3 and my wrists just killed. They were floppy, and painful.

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Week 13 Day 2.

Front Squat (I used 45 lbs)
5-5-5-5-5

What the front squats look like (skip to 30 seconds in):

The front squats are difficult for me, as I can’t get very low yet. While we were taking breaks from the 5 reps at a time for the Front Squats we practiced things we wanted to work on. The coach/trainer (what do I even refer to them as?) told me to do strict pull ups with a black band (second last elastic until I use none!!) and then practice kips WITHOUT AN ELASTIC. Crazy.

 

 

 

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