pitiful

this is me walking through the door at 7:44PM tonight, after being gone for 13 hours.

drew took this picture because I looked so pitiful.

what's my problem?

i got those pretty flowers from my sweet coworker from Mount Vernon, since it was my last day working down there. I may have cried blubberly, alligator tears the whole way home :(

why do i have mouthwash? a few weeks ago drew asked me to pick up some mouthwash from the store. apparently I got some Crest mouthwash made especially for 50+ "mature" adults. LIKE SERIOUSLY PEOPLE? the reason Americans are going insane is because we have to many options. MOUTHWASH made especially for older adults? ugh. so today Drew reminded me to get more mouthwash, but has to remind me he wasn't a grandpa. rude. :)

the main reason for that sad face?

i just finished crossfit class, and I suppose someone had to be the first person to take a spill during class. 

yep. i officially was the first to hit the ground. really though. would you expect anything else?

we were doing stepups onto a tall box and I stepped down, tripped on a kettle bell and down I went.

why did i trip on a kettle-bell? oh, only because we were supposed to be HOLDING the kettlebells while we did step-ups but they were too heavy for me, so the teacher told me set them down. Welp. Set them in a silly spot and tripped right over them.

hahahaha. i tripped over kettle bells that I was too weak to hold in the first place. 

so i not a happy camper. my butt is sore because I fell right on the kettlebell, I am sad because this is the last week at my job ANDDDDDDD because I had such a fun weekend and it had to end. 

maybe the weekend is a good place for me. during the weekend there is no Crossfit classes to make me feel like I can't even remember to walk. (it may or may not have payed off last week though, I was down two pounds at Weight Watchers weigh in this morning :)

crossfit?

i can run and run and run and run.

very slowwww but i bet i could run for 5 hours straight. :)

i like to call it my slow twitch muscles. they have that slow easy pace ingrained in them after 10 plus years of running the exact.same.pace.

can i do a pushup? not one.

a pull-up? never in my life.

if you keep doing what you've always done, you'll get what you've always had.

okay fine.

so i sign up for Cross Fit. all the rage. psh. how hard can it be?

you guys. today was my first class.

i was like a beached whale.

after the coach saying that we would learn squats and burpees and then do a workout with those two moves, I giggled. piece of cake. pshh. i have run half marathons people. i can do some squats and some burpees.

alrighty then.

our workout?

10 squats
10 burpees
200 meter dash

repeat
repeat
repeat
repeat
for 8 minutes.

then

5 squats
5 burpees
100 meter dash
repeat
repeat
repeat
for 6 minutes.

was i laughing by the second round of those squats? umm no.

by about the 20th squat, i could squat down but then i just was stuck. i couldn't get back up :)

and don't even get me started on the burpees.

the coachs warned us that some of the moves would be more natural while other ones would be like a toddler learning to walk.

jumping my legs out backward into pushup position makes me look like a mound of jello.

i think there was a point where I just laid face first on the rubber flooring, too tired to even care about the germs. :)

i CANNOT get it right.

ugh.

so much for that graceful, piece of cake crossfit thing.

but im gonna go back on Wednesday. if I can walk that is.
:)

loved this from the email we got after signing up for the CrossFit program:

give yourself some grace.

novembers

i usually hate novembers. 

november means:

~daylight savings time. (umm. dark at 4PM? no thanks.)

~the love/hate relationship of Thanksgiving dinner. (love? mashed potatoes. Hate? the five pound weight gain that follows which gets up to 10+ by Christmas.)

~CHAPPED LIPS!!!!!

~baseball world series, NBA starts, college football, NFL. it is like the biggest month of the year for sports. wahooo. sarcasm. :) 

~usually a new video game is released this month. 

Call of Duty, Halo. you get the picture. add this to the forementioned month of sports? more wahoo. 

~the realization that the end of yet another year is upon us, and that list of New Year's resolutions that I SWORE I would do this year is once again not done.

negative nancy much? yep.

i think i am starting to become quite fond of Novembers. 

almost 20,000 acres of Wenatchee was burned by wildfires a few weeks ago. Drew's dad said that the air was filled with smoke and blah. 

i have never seen such beautiful fall colors in eastern washington. 

who knew apple orchards had it in them?

drew's dad was talking about how maybe that horrible smoke had something to do with it?

try changing perspective. 

plus, those horrible chapped lips? a great reason to get to buy new chap stick. :)

weekend by the numbers

400-miles driven by drew. (actually, make that 350. I drove the first 50 until he tricked me into saying, "hey take this exit and we'll grab the Taylor Swift CD from Walmart right there." really that was his way of taking the keys and driving. apparently he couldn't stand my "schizophrenic" driving. whatever that means?!?!?

6- track number on Taylor Swift's CD that got the most plays. (when your twenty-twoooooooooo...) it makes me sad that she will never have a song written about my age while I'm that age. Come on Tay-Tay, you know you want to write a song about being twentyyyy-sixxxxx??? and paying your own carrrr insurannccceeeeeee?) nice ring to it, i'd say :)

2- number of slices of pumpkin pie I consumed. something I love about pies? well, and cakes too for that matter... "slice" is such a relative term. You could say, "oh I had one slice of pie." that could mean you ate almost half the pie, but it still was just "a slice." hehehe.


1-pounds of taffy I got from the Leavenworth Sweet Shop. I decided to ONLY go with the non-traditional flavors this time. Cupcake saltwater taffy? Heck yeah. Huckleberry Cheesecake? Sure.

3- number of stars I added to my starbucks collection in my quest to become a gold-card member. weirdest thing ever. the first starbucks we went to on Saturday morning downtown? they were OUT of pumpkin spice flavor. I have never heard of Sbux running out of anything EVER, let alone their beloved coffee flavor. weird.

23- hours of sleep we got Friday and Saturday night. bring it on, Monday.  :)

love this. :) happy friday ;) 

halloween!

and we made it to friday. 

i LOOOVEEEE halloween. 

like as I usually go through like 10 costumes each halloween week (yes, it calls for a weeklong celebration) and have my pumpkin carved by the first week of October.

this year me and this silly husband of mine decided to have a lowkey night at home. 

we rented a movie and prepared for the masses of trick-or-treaters with our BIG bowl of the best candy ever by the front door. 

well. we didn't have any trick or treaters so we decided to head to DQ so I could try a pumpkin pie blizzard. i don't even LIKE pumpkin pie blizzards but it was AMAZING. graham cracker chunks and all. i highly recommend. 

so we are pulling back into the driveway and I see a lantern shining on the street, a good ole sure-tell sign of a trick or treater. I park the car, run into the street like a crazy person and say, "HEY! WE HAVE LOTS OF CANDY! I'LL MEET YOU AT THE FRONT PORCH."

So I truck it inside and sprint through the house. 

A cute little ladybug meets me and politely says, 

"one piece or a handful?" at least he asked, I suppose.

I give him literally a pound of candy. 

yep. I said, him. 

a boy ladybug. 

before he leaves he looks at me and says,

"your house isn't very spooky"

hmm. i wanted to say, "umm what??? you are a BOY ladybug and you are trying to talk to ME about being spooky?"

umm. yeah.

so we had one trick or treater. and i just got to live vicariously through pictures of baby Ford as an elephant and baby Charlotte the cow :) 

well. i dressed up for work. 

clue of what i was?

i asked my mom if she wanted me to send her a picture of me in my costume and she said, "honey I already have 700...) ;)

yep. i did it. 

SOOO not as fun. major pain in fact. :)

but that's okay. thanks halloween, you were fun.

but now we are on to bigger and better things.

my first holiday season as a coffee drinker and i couldn't be more excited :) 

tuesday