2 days in a row!

Yay me!  I'm posting 2 days in a row.  I know I know, not THAT exciting. 

Today I got up and went to the gym before work, for the SECOND day in a row.  That is pretty big time for me, since I covet my sleep and can usually be counted on to spend "just 5 more minutes" sleeping for the better part of an hour prior to work! 

Today I did 50 minute on the bike, some leg toning and stretching.  I'm pretty excited to say I can feel just the right amount of soreness in my legs now.  Just enough to let me know I worked, and not enough to make me want to die.  I'm making it a goal to get to the gym before work every day this week, and then next week before we head to Colorado.  6 more visits to go.  My reward for this (to me) lofty goal is to get to use my bonus bucks at the gym for a Swedish massage. 

Speaking of getting into shape, Spencer has decided he'd like to jump on the P90X bandwagon.  Last night he bought his resistance bands and pull up bar, tonight we are going to get the DVDs from a (hopefully not shady) man from craigslist.  The DVDs are costing us about half of what they cost new, which is always nice.  On the flip side if he doesn't do it for very long the whole thing will cost us about what a month of my gym membership costs so it won't be too bad. 

Overall its been a pretty good Tuesday so far,  about 2 more hours at work to go and then its time to figure out what to make for dinner!

Hitaus

Well I've been gone for a while!  Haven't really been doing a lot of anything lately, but I have been kind of a bum!  You know what, strike that.  I've been pretty busy now that I think of it! 

Over the past month one of my best friends got married (which has involved showers, bachelorette parties and pre wedding prep), another friend sold her house and bought another one, Spencer changed job locations (and hours), and all of those things have taken me away from my lovely position on the couch in order to participate.

Recap:

This is a picture I took at one of the vineyards we went to for Megan's bachelorette party in July.  We went to Hermann MO and stayed in a super cute bed and breakfast!

Megan's wedding: in a word, awesome. Really just a great time! It was really amazing to see how happy they are and how much love and support they have around them. I rocked my speech if I do say so myself, and even got told that I was funny afterwards. I am NEVER the funny one so that made my night! (Spence was pretty amused at how happy it made me).

Anna's new house: adorable. Seriously so cute. She's very into color and her house reflects it now! I would be scared out of my head to try and have as much color as she does on her walls, but I LOVE it at her house. I will try and get pictures on here soon to illustrate.

Spencer's new location: Well the store he was working at closed, so they have moved him to the downtown store for a "while". We're not sure how long a "while" actually is, but since at this store he doesn't work nights or weekends I'm hoping its at least a few months. I'm really hoping that he will be ready to go back to school next semester, just a class or two to get started back at least.

I have been trying to eat healthier and really focus on getting my veggies in on a daily basis.  I had burnt myself out on salads and was really struggling with it.  I then discovered green smoothies!  It's a fruit smoothie (my usual combo is strawberry and banana), and then you add a cup or 3 of spinach to it and blend!  You cant really taste the spinach but its still there and super good for you.  Here is a picture of one:

I haven't quite gotten Spencer on board yet, but he has been enjoying his chocolate protein shakes for breakfast lately!

One more (in my opinion) SUPER exciting thing.  I went to a bridal shower yesterday in Lawrence.  The bride to be is a HUGE KU basketball fan.  One of the women who was hosting the shower is a good family friend of the Morris twins and asked Marcus Morris to stop by and meet her.  OMG.  Her face when he walked in was priceless, she really had no idea what to even say.  He was a good sport and stayed for a while, took some pictures, signed some autographs etc.  I got my picture taken with him:

Needless to say, I had a very jealous husband waiting for me when I left!  

I think that's all....I will do my best to be more diligent about posting.  The next few weeks are pretty busy for us.  Labor day weekend is jam packed full of friends bbq's and birthday dinners.  Then the next weekend we take off for a trip to CO with my in laws, the weekend after that we have a wedding to attend, then its our anniversary.  The 2 weekends after that we have weddings to attend.....I am exhausted thinking about it!

Dinner

I like to think of myself as a decent cook.  There are several recipes I used to lure Spencer in when we first met, that his former roommates still request when they come over for dinner.  I get nervous when I try to cook something unfamiliar to me though.  I can improvise on things that are familiar to me, pastas, Mexican food etc.  Well I got the hankering (really that was the word I chose?) to try and make something totally outside my comfort zone this week.  I searched Allrecipes.com and settled on Jambalaya.  Kind of random really, and a risk considering I married one of the pickiest eaters alive.  Well I found, of all things, a slow cooker jambalaya recipe!  http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Colleens-Slow-Cooker-Jambalaya/Detail.aspx

Sign me up, I love my slow cooker.  LOVE it.  I am all for any appliance that lets me throw things together, forget about it for 8 hours and not ruin dinner.  Spencer looked at me like I was a little crazy because I got so excited when someone got it for us off our wedding registry. 

  I prepped everything last night and put it together, Spencer was off work today and he put it on at about 11am today.  I got home from work tonight and was really excited that the house smelled so great! 
Spencer and I both agreed that this is a keeper recipe for our house!

End in sight?

You know those times in your life where you have been "gogogogogogo" for so long that you really can't remember what it was like when you didn't have 10 things on the horizon?  Welcome to my life.  From the flooring project that wouldn't end (and honestly isn't quite done yet but I can live with the small things for now), Spence's best friends wedding, another wedding (for my best friend) in less than 2 weeks and all the parties that go along with weddings (bachelor/ette parties, showers etc) I cannot remember what it felt like to not be prepping for something.
On a non whiny note I did decide to end my long term neglected relationship with my gym, and kindle a relationship with another gym that is not a 20 min drive in each direction and is, instead, less than 45 seconds from work (the new gym is visible from my work parking lot).
My work schedule has also changed, I'm working from 9-545 now instead of 8-445, which allows me to work out before work!  I'm pretty excited about working out in the mornings, gives me less chance to talk myself out of it while I'm at work. 
I'm boring I know, sorry blog readers......