3 Things Thursday

Posted on October 18, 2012 by HHRunner

Ready for a random story with no real point? Good. Here we go. We had a discussion a couple weeks ago at work about weird, superfluous (<— Sean would be mad at me for using such a “big” word) phrases that people use, like “not gonna lie” which had me cracking up and reminded me of how Sean and I used to get SO annoyed when people would say “to be quite frank” or “frankly”. We would always just insert a random name instead of frank when we were talking and would end up saying, “to be quite rachael” or “to be quite sean”. Which is totally normal, promise. Then I almost went to use to open this post with “not gonna lie” and I had to chuckle and delete it. Unnecessary story FTW. Moving on…

1. I made this recipe earlier this week and it was a freaking slam dunk. Sean raved about it for days. If you’re looking for a good soup recipe, TRY THIS ONE.

definitely not my picture because I am not a food blogger. and mine didn’t really look exactly like that. still not certain how Cooking Light gets all their dishes to look so pretty.

I followed the recipe almost to a T, except that I didn’t use a green pepper because I bought the three-pack of peppers that comes with red, orange and yellow. It was still delicious. Oh and I also didn’t use queso blanco because I’m not sure I’ve ever had it before so I didn’t know if I’d like it (let’s be honest, it’s cheese, of course I would). So I used shredded colby-jack cheese instead, which is one of my favorites. Make this ASAP. You won’t be disappointed.

2. I’ve been on a roll with dinners this week and last night I made this pork with roasted apples and onions recipe.

also not my picture, but you probably already guessed that. but someone average must have photographed this because mine looked almost exactly like this!! kidding, Cooking Light, it probably means I’m good at following directions.

The only change that I made to this recipe is that Sean and I added a fried egg to it. Sounds weird, I know, but it was amazingly delicious. I was super hesitant about making this because Sean can be a little weird about fruit mixed in with dinner, but he was giving out compliments left and right about this one too. Sometimes I forget how much I like pork, and this just resolidified that I should probably be making it more often than I do.

3. Those are the only two dinners I’ve made this week, so that’s really all I’ve got. Other than that I’ve had a few mediocre runs, one good hot yoga session, and I’ve worked a lot. Exciting stuff, I know.

Oh wait, I do have one gripe for all the cyclists out there: I know that you are all out there trying to log miles just like us runners, but PLEASE do us both a favor and yell out “on your left” or “on your right” if you’re coming up behind a runner. I don’t wear headphones when I run for this very reason, but I do tend to zone out, and yesterday I almost got hit twice because I had a cyclist zoom past me without alerting me that they were there. It’s just common courtesy, and I don’t want to put myself back on the injured list any time soon because I got hit by a bike.

Any new recipes I should try? I had a BIG recipe fail a couple weeks ago so I’ve been sticking to safe stuff til this week. Now I’m feeling experimental again, so send them my way!

3 things Thursday

Posted on August 23, 2012 by HHRunner

1. We have no internet at home. This distresses me. It seems like it shouldn’t be that big of a deal, right up until your husband demands that you watch the little league championships (do other people watch this?!) and is astounded to find out you have zero interest in watching them. Quite frankly I’m astounded that he has any interest in watching them, considering I’m pretty sure before two days ago he had no clue that they were even going on and last night he was yelling and cheering from the couch. Needless to say, when these type of things happen I usually just get online. Until last night. Instead I just scooped up the second Harry Potter book and went to bed.

Then this morning I had the genius idea to get out my Nook and see if I could get online there. You know, because it connects to the internet. Um, the Nook connects to your local internet connection, it is no iPad or smartphone. I am an idiot.

2. I seem to have bruised my foot/ankle. I’m not sure when it happened, I just noticed a few days ago that it was tender and then yesterday, after berating my dr. with text messages and believing whole heartedly that I was dying, I examined it a little further and realized there’s an actual bruise on my foot. Ok there’s multiple bruises. I guess my body is displeased that I am somewhat running again and decided to throw a wrench in things to switch it up a bit. It can’t possibly be that I tripped, fell, or twisted my ankle after floating this past weekend. Not at all.

3. Yesterday before I left work I thought to myself, “you know, you really need to get in a second day of strength training this week.” and then I bargained with myself and agreed it could be something easy. So I started going through blogs looking for quick workouts I could do. I ended up taking this workout from Julie and adding a few extra moves to the ones she already had to get it up to 20 minutes.

total body workout

courtesy of PBFingers.com… obviously Smile

So much for being “easy”, I was sweating buckets by the end of this and I’m a little sore today.

And now it’s time for me to get a pedicure. It’ll be the first one since before I ran the marathon, how crazy is that?!

3 Things Thursday

Posted on August 16, 2012 by HHRunner

Here are three completely random and unimportant things from my week this week. You are welcome.

1. Last week Sean went to Old Navy and bought an entire new closet of collared shirts on clearance. With his purchase they gave him a coupon for $20 off a $50 purchase and $10 off a $25 purchase. I demanded that he surrender the coupon to me and then in his absence this weekend went to Old Navy to scope out what I wanted to get. I have been on a long hunt for the perfect chambray shirt and I spotted it immediately when I entered the store. There it was, in all its glory, complementing a pair of mustard yellow skinny jeans (which I may or may not need at some point and am 100% positive Sean will hate), and I was immediately sold and buying the shirt became a necessity. I wandered around the store for a good 30 minutes looking for it on the racks and then decided that I should probably “think” about it since I couldn’t find it and come back on Sunday if I still needed it. After all, the coupon was good the 7-12, which gave me until Sunday to think about it.

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This is not the shirt or the pants, but it’s similar. Kind of. So you get the idea.

After dreaming about the shirt I hurried back on Sunday to purchase it, spent another 30 minutes wandering around the store looking for it on the rack, and finally demanded that the sales associate take it off the mannequin and give it to me because it was the only one in the entire store and it was my size. I then proceeded to wait in the longest line known to man to purchase the shirt (which had no price tag) only for the girl to ring it up and tell me it was $20, not $25 like I incorrectly guessed. Fail number one. I made some unintelligible noise and exclamation in frustration while holding my coupon and then she laughed and said, “that coupon isn’t good until September anyway”. Fail number two. 9/7 – 9/12 does not mean August, it means September. Lesson learned. I bought the shirt anyway and am wearing it right now. I still love it, even if I did have to shank someone for it and pay full price.

2. I bought a carton of raspberries on Sunday and they have already started to go bad. They were slightly acidic tasting in my yogurt today, which disgusts me. I ate them anyway because I can’t stand to throw food away, but I am less than pleased. WHY, raspberries, WHY!! You are not cheap!

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Those are not my raspberries. But they should be.

3. I really thought I had a third point, but now that I’m typing this I don’t remember what it is. I could have sworn that I went on and on about how hard my life is to my mom on the phone this morning, but I guess I just stretched that ridiculously long Old Navy story out even farther to her, so you should feel glad that you don’t actually have to talk to me on the phone while I drive to work and lament the tragedies of my life every morning.

In other news: I took two days off of working out this week because I literally was so exhausted I wanted to sleep all day long on Tuesday and Wednesday. It was kind of like being a walking zombie. I was a lot like this guy, except without the crazed running around, the blood, and the tie around my head. So really we are nothing alike. I went to see my doctor last night and am now pumped full of supplements and feel like I’m winning at life. I ran 3.5 unremarkable miles this morning – which is better than 3.5 painful ones – and I currently want to just die from sitting at a desk all day. I’m fairly positive that it’s cruel and unusual punishment to force people to sit for 8 hours a day. And just in case you’re wondering, the supplements that I’m currently taking make me extremely chatty, which is probably why this post is so wordy.

I hope you all are having a fantastic Thursday! Please, tell me something good that’s happened to you this week. Or bad. Whichever.

3 Things Thursday

Posted on July 19, 2012 by HHRunner

1. I’m still sore from Body Pump on Monday night. MONDAY night. That is ridiculous to me. I’m pretty sure I need a day off from working out, but I decided earlier this week that I wanted that day to be Sunday so I’m going to try to push forward through Friday and Saturday accordingly and then rejoice on Sunday. I also should probably get a massage. You know, for the soreness and all. Not because I have a monthly membership or anything…

2. You cannot look at this article and not be overwhelmed by the cuteness of it. I absolutely refuse to believe it.

#49. The cat who thought he was a penguin. I die.

3. I am obsessed with almond butter, hardboiled eggs, and overnight oats right now. Obsessed. And making overnight oats in a near empty almond butter jar? HEAVEN. Guess what I had for breakfast this morning? The only problem? Now I’m out of almond butter.

And just in case you’re wondering, running is going fairly well right now. I say fairly well because I still have some aches and pains, but I feel like I’m making strides in the right direction. Pun intended by the strides part, I snickered to myself when I typed it.

It’s Thursday, tell me something random and good. Or bad. Or whatever. Just something.

3 Things Thursday: Workout Edition

Posted on July 12, 2012 by HHRunner

It’s pretty easy for me to get stuck in fitness ruts. I find ways that I like to do things and then I stick with them until I pretty much run them into the ground. This is especially true for strength-training. I love workout DVDs. I’m pretty sure I’ve made that pretty clear. I like being able to get my fitness on at home, and I hate trying to fight people for free weights and machines in the gym. DVDs = perfect solution.

However while my workout DVD collection is pretty extensive, it’s still pretty easy to run through all of them quickly and get bored fast. I knew I wanted to do something in regards to strength-training/physical fitness today, but I wasn’t really sure what. Until my coworker told me about a workout she got off Pinterest that kicked her butt. As soon as she said that I realized I was being an idiot: I pin workouts all the time and, til now, have never used them (much like most things on my Pinterest account).

That changed today my friends! Today I did three different workouts from Pinterest and I was sweating buckets by the end. If you want to seriously sweat and get flooded with endorphins do this:

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I did each workout once through and then walked a half mile on the treadmill at the end of the workout to cool down. With the half mile walk the whole thing ended up taking me 45 minutes and I was an exhausted, exhilarated, sweaty mess. I haven’t been that happy after a strength/fitness workout in a long time. Serious win. Another plus? The whole thing literally flew by. I felt like it was over in no time at all. I love when that happens!

Do you ever use Pinterest or other sites like that to inspire your workouts? First time. Definitely not the last.

3 things thursday

Posted on June 28, 2012 by HHRunner

1. I’m getting a massage today and it seriously can’t come fast enough. I can’t even express how much I am looking forward to getting a massage and then coming home and having a glass of wine and painting my toes this color:

2. I don’t even think it’s possible that this week is already over. I have had a weird week. I’ve been insanely productive at work, in bed by 9:30 every night, and had really good workouts all week. What is happening here?! This morning I ran 3 minutes at a time, up from 2. Progress.

That’s what I’m saying.

3. I don’t have 3 things today. I just don’t. I don’t know how I am unable to come up with 3 meaningless tidbits of information, but my brain hurts from thinking about it too much.

How are you workouts going this week?

Do you get massages? My coworker convinced me that getting a membership would be life changing. She was right.

3 Things Thursday

Posted on June 21, 2012 by HHRunner

1. Sean has been out of town since Monday and he’s finally back today. While I thoroughly enjoy any time I get to spend by myself (bring on the Wheel of Fortune and What Not to Wear!), I am more than ready to see this face:

look here we are laughing because we are both just so hilarious! this was not staged at all!

I am, however, going to be sad that I can’t have What Not to Wear marathons after work anymore. I’m trying to devise a plan where they will feature me on the show and overhaul my closet and tell me what to wear. It’s clear I need $5000 to spend on a new wardrobe.

2. WATCH OUT RUNNING WORLD. I am going to run for two minutes at a time tomorrow. I am practically breaking Olympic records right now. Kara Goucher ain’t got nothin’ on me.

BRING IT.

Oh wait, you can tell this is an old picture because I most definitely do not heel strike anymore. Even so, I was running with the elites then, and I am again now.

3. Two things. I should probably just make this four points, but I’m not going to. Dang, I think we’re up to three points for this one point right now. Oh well. You cannot tell me that this isn’t the sweetest little cat face you’ve ever seen.

I refuse to believe there are cuter cats out there than mine.

This picture has been making me laugh nonstop for four days straight now. I cannot look at it without laughing. And the longer I look at it, the harder I laugh.

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My coworker and I have passed the link to that picture back and forth so many times in the past few days that it’s ridiculous.

I really have no questions today. But please, fill me with useless websites and funny pictures to pass the time.

3 things thursday

Posted on June 14, 2012 by HHRunner

I am in the midst of drinking an exceptionally good glass of wine right now, courtesy of my awesome in-laws. so Roxie, I know you’ll read this sooner or later, the wine y’all brought is GOOD.

1. work has been really busy for me lately. I don’t know how things sped up so quickly but they did, I feel like I’ve been fighting to stay afloat for the past 2 weeks. needless to say, I can’t even begin to comprehend that tomorrow is already friday but I am so glad that it is.

2. this guy drives me absolutely insane sometimes.

but I think he’s pretty cute, so I like to keep him around. Winking smile

3. biking makes me feel pretty rad because I can bike a decent number of running miles in no time at all. for instance, on my lunch break today I biked 7.37 miles in 30 minutes. that would take me an hour to run. so even though it took me way less effort, I still think of them as running miles and I feel good about it. that thinking is flawed, isn’t it?

it’s almost Friday! who has fun weekend plans?

3 things thursday

Posted on March 29, 2012 by HHRunner

1. this is making me ridiculously happy right now:

sean and I are HUGE Anchorman fans and I can’t wait for a second round of Ron Burgandy.

2. I’m so tired of everything forcing me to switch over to new “looks”. gmail, please stop trying to get me to switch over to the new gmail… I gave it a try and purposely swtiched back to the old one because I like it better. facebook, I don’t want a timeline, I want a social media page. there are parts of my college career better left in the past where it isn’t easily scrollable to get to. also, please stop allowing people to “check me in” places. I like to at least pretend I have some sort of internet privacy.

3. while trying to do a search in Google today for work I was bombarded with this:

I’m at a loss. who searches that?!

Also: to whoever searched “do runners ride motorcycles” the answer to that question is YES. at least, at one point in my life I ran, and I still love to hop on the back of sean’s motorcycle.

What ridiculous things has Google suggested for you lately?

3 Things Thursday

Posted on March 15, 2012 by HHRunner

Let’s call it things I’m going to rant about Thursday. I am just a teensy bit stressed right now and since it’s been demanded that I blog more I’m going to blog about the things that are stressing me out as of right now.

1. SOMEONE may have gone on a teeny tiny shopping spree over the past two weeks and may have purchased herself this watch because she was feeling sorry for herself and her lack of running… along with two dresses, a pair (or two) of shoes, two pairs of jeans, some jewelry, and a couple new shirts (ok, three or four… or five), new makeup, and some lady things… but the main point is this baby:

Gah. Be still my Michael Kors loving soul. It is perfection.

Anyway, I JUST paid off my credit card and Kohls card and am gearing up to pay off my Macy’s card, where said watch was purchased, next week. It all sounds dandy right? Read on.

2. I have to get an MRI tomorrow for my stupid jerk knee. They think it’s a stress fracture. Which, in all honesty, makes perfect sense to me since it isn’t getting better. This MRI is going to cost me a fortune because my insurance doesn’t kick in for stuff like that until I reach my deductible. A FORTUNE. Good thing I have all these fancy new clothes and accessories to make me feel better. The timing on this is impeccable.

The weird thing is before I went and saw the orthopedic surgeon on Tuesday where he sort of diagnosed my issue as a stress fracture my knee felt mostly normal during everyday life, only hurting if I attempted to run on it. Now it hurts all the time. It’s just rude.

3. Because I am banned from everything fun in life and have been cardio banished to the underworld that is the elliptical and to the weight room where I am sculpting a massive upper body and abs (underneath the layer of skin that hides them) I have to go to the gym to get my fitness on (don’t worry about how long that sentence was, it’s fine). I go in the mornings because it is much less crowded. This means that every morning at 4:45 my alarm goes off and I curse life for 10 minutes before I drag myself out of bed, into gym clothes, and over to the gym. This morning was no different, except that I was at the rodeo last night so I was extra tired.

At 5:10 I rolled up to the gym only to see all the lights off inside and several cars in the parking lot. I waited until 5:30, chatting with one of the other early morning regulars. By 5:30 no one had showed up to open the gym so I turned around and went home because I have better things to do then waste my entire morning before work waiting for someone to allow me to work out. W.T.F.!!! I am paying so that I can work out at some ungodly hour, you need to get there and do your job! This has thrown off my entire day because now I have to go brave the afternoon crowd and they terrify me. There’s so many of them!

4. Because of all this unnecessary added stress in my life (and I realize my problems completely outweigh everything that everyone else is going through in the world right now) I have been stress eating all day. I can’t even make it stop. Oh and I had the worst lunch ever. Does that ever happen to you? Do you ever make a lunch at night that sounds so good and then regret it when it comes time to eat it the next day? That doesn’t happen to me too often, but it was definitely the case today. Just thinking about it makes me sick to my stomach. I am still bitter about it.

/end rant.

What’s making you rant right now?