5.14

Pants: VS, Shoes: Kohl's, Sweater: B. Moss, Tank: NY&Co.

On my way to work I saw a specialized license plate that I never saw before. Choose Life. PA seems to have so many specialized plates.

Dave and I finally put skins on our BodyMedia fits.  We had the skins ever since Dave got his armband. I think I got him the armband last summer. We had more to choose from but we went with these ones.

4.2

Shoes: Target (3/30/12 8.98 originally 29.99)  -- Really wore my Aldo wedges though.
Pants: VS
Shirt: Limited
Cardigan: Express

Well since I stayed up too late, I was tired in the morning. I hit snooze forever. I got to work at 8am.  I took my daily picture in my new purple shoes but then after further analyzing, I realized the shade of purple was wrong so I changed into black shoes. Therefore my daily picture is WRONG!

I felt so behind at work. I started to think about all the work I had to do and my stomach started getting upset. I accidentally ate half a box of Cheese Nips at 10:30 AM.

We went to Chick-fil-a for lunch.  I enjoy their milkshakes. I got a chicken sandwich this time and it was good. Jen agreed. We were both surprised how good the chicken was.

After lunch I was so thirsty. I drank 2 20 oz cups of water. In a normal day, I drink between 0 and 4 oz at work. I'm the worst at drinking.

I went to the gym after work but I wanted to skip.  I did 10 minutes on the bike, foam roller, abs, stretching, and weights for my legs.

I went to McGuinnis Sisters on my way home.  I bought cinnamon rolls and muffins for breakfast. I bought Ciabatta bread to go with lunch meat for lunch. I bought chicken, potatoes, and pineapple for dinner.  Then I ordered sandwiches for dinner right then.  Tuesday = Telecommuting and now Tuesday != Pizza. Yay for my planning. (We had frozen vegetables in the freezer we just bought to also include in dinner).  I bought enough chicken to include Wednesday too. I hope that works out.  I do not want pizza! I am so sick of pizza.

My tuna sandwich was good but Dave did not like his Philly cheese steak.  It was on bread so that was the first mistake.

We watched TV until 8:50. Then we used the computers for a tiny bit. Then it was time to watch Rachel Maddow.  I stayed downstairs after it was over just to finish typing a blog post I was on and then read a few blogs.  Then it was off to bed.  I went into bed at 10:45. Pretty good for me.  I did read twitter and catch up in bed.  How many other people hide under the covers so the iphone light doesn't wake up their husband?  Then I read a bunch of facebook until I fell asleep reading.

1.16

Cardigan: NY&Co
Shirt: Express
Pants: Express (but I thought I put on my VS ones and I wondered why they felt so big
Shoes: Aldo
Necklace: Lia Sophia

I got to work early.  I was so busy all day it was insane. I feel so busy a lot lately so it was nothing out of the ordinary.  I wanted to go to Body Pump + run. I did neither and left work after Body Pump would have been over.

I came home and watched TV. I cleaned up a little. I watched more TV.  Then finally I used the exercise bike for 16 minutes. I only count it as cardio if I use it for 15 minutes. I prefer longer but for my workout goals I had to have a cutoff. I was doing the bare minimum.

I watched some popping videos that Dave was extremely grossed out about. {Dave would recommend that you do not click that link.}  Then we watched this other one that he said he needs to recover from.  He is traumatized. Now tell me it wouldn't be the coolest thing if someone you knew had a huge pimple/cyst and you got to pop it and go at it?

12.9

Shirt and Cami: Express (both outfits)
T-shirt: Free from the Science Center
Pants: Express
Jeans: Express
Shoes: Famous Footwear
Necklace: Lia Sophia

Running shoes were worn in outfit 1 but I forgot to take my picture before removing them.

I woke up bright and early to get to the science center by 7am.  Dave and I were judging the Chain Reaction Contraption contest.  That was very tiring.  It was very interesting to see what the kids came up with.  This year their contraption had to play a musical instrument.

We were done a little after 11 since we only volunteered for half a day.  We went to Campesinos for lunch on the way home. We got home and decided to rest for 15 minutes. I set my alarm for 15 minutes. We turned on West Wing. Well before I knew it, I was asleep. My alarm went off and I kept resetting it for 15 minutes.  One of the times I forgot to hit start before I fell back to sleep.   When I woke up it was 2 hours later and I noticed Dave asleep on the other couch. (Poly was napping too.)

Instead of cleaning or whatever we should have been doing to prepare for my family Christmas party, I decided I had too much to do so I wouldn't do any of it. That's how I work.  I watched some TV and used my computer to catch up on cropping pictures for my blog. I was a few weeks behind and I had to catch up some time.

10.18 - Poly

Shoes: Famous Footwear
Sweater and Pants: Express
Necklace: Black House White Market

No pink today because I had to wear flats that I could walk around in for a few hours. My red shoes are the only ones comfortable enough for that.

Driving an hour to work and longer to get home really does take up a lot of my time. It is only the second day this week and it is awful.  Today I got home from work and immediately ran and still didn't have time. Then I ate dinner and watched TV (while blogging) and it became bed time. I had plans to do other things but was just too exhausted.

Poly was super cute playing with a chip clip. She had me distracted for a good couple minutes.

8.9 - blah outfit

Shirt, cardigan, and pants: Express.  Necklace: Lia Sophia, Earrings: Target, Shoes: Famous Footwear

I've been wearing skirts a lot lately so I went to wear pants. I tried to put on my gray pants but they are too tight. So then I took out these black pants that I have in 3 sizes. These of course are the biggest.

I randomly picked earrings this morning out of my jewelry box and then they coordinated with my necklace.

I went running before work. My face is still red from the run.  My hair is still wet too.  My hair is getting to the length where I think it is too long and I can't handle much.

Dave and I went to Jersey Mike's for lunch. We each got our own Giant Super Sub.  There was a little bit too much lettuce on them.  This is our extra! I got a Giant so that I would have extra to eat at lunch the next day.  We normally go out to lunch the last day of the week but for some reason we went out on a Tuesday. I enjoy going out earlier in the week so that I can have leftovers for later in the week.

I got my first laser hair removal treatment. I hope it is all people say it is. Underarms and bikini.  We shall see eventually.

5.5

Necklace: Sears
Shirt: Express
Cardigan: F21
Pants: NY&Co
Shoes Famous Footwear

Boy do I hate these pants.

Poly was cuddling with me. I was basically forced to stay in bed a little longer. She even repositioned to push against me more.

I ended up getting out of bed on the wrong side of the bed to try to disrupt Poly less. She gave me a look when I ditched her. :(

Then it was time to get ready so Poly wanted to explore the shower.

I got my new orthotics at lunch. I need to phase them in and try to get used to them. I hope I don't have any problems.

After work I really wanted to run but the lawn had to be mowed. It would rain Friday and I leave Saturday so it was the only time to do it. I did not want to do it but being the responsible home owner than I am, I went out to do it. I can't start the mower so Dave had to do it.  The mower stalled on the upper part of the lawn since last time I couldn't get the mower up the hill since it was too wet. Dave had to come out and restart it and he gets mad at me. He gets out of the actual mowing so it made me very angry.  He claims mowing was on my time table. That's crap also.   I emailed my mom asking her to research mowers. We need a key start so I can start it and we need a mower with a longer/higher handle so Dave can use it to mow. I didn't care the price because I am sick of this crap... so sick of it.  It isn't fair that I do all the mowing and then I do all the other yard work. Last year he mowed half the time until the old mower broke but every time he mowed, I would weedwack and pull weeds the entire time. This year when I mow, I have to do all the other yard work after I'm done. Sucks!

So in addition to being so mad about the mowing, I did not get a run in.

May 8 - Day 2 in DC

Actually a long sleeve T shirt was worn for community service (given to us by NA-YGN)  and my last outfit of the day was a swap of a 2nd pair of jeans for the dress pants. 

Jeans: Express

T-Shirt: Science Challenge Squad in High School

Pants: Express

Shirt: Express

Cardigan: N&Co

Shoes: Famous Footwear

Belt: Kohl's

Necklace and Earrings: Target

Day 2 started bright and early. We met at 7:30 AM to start the conference with some community service.  My group went a park a picked up trash for a few hours.  It was tiring. The time went really slow during this.  The other community service groups painted at various locations.

Then we got back and had an hour to shower and change. Then we had to get to lunch. Shortly thereafter it was time for the first official session.   Then it was back to bask sessions until it was time for the welcome reception.

I left the reception early to get back to my room and get in touch with all the Westinghouse participants to pass out the polo shirts. That was so hard. It was almost impossible to get them all out. We had a master list of cell phone numbers but not all members filled out the contact list so I didn't have info for everyone. I sent more texts than probably ever before.   Finally after a few hours I got them all given out by 1.  It took so long I missed dinner with who I thought I was going to go with.    I ended up having fun with a small group anyway so that was good.

On my way back to the hotel, Liza and I walked a little more to see the White House. I think the picture turned out great. I even only took one. The only editing I did was cropping it slightly.

After our walk, we returned to the hotel a little after midnight. We decided not to go out and to go to sleep. That was a good choice.

My day was busy and jam packed. I didn't have time for anything else. It was exhausting.

4.18

Cardigan: NY&Co (Nov 2010)
Cami: NY&Co (January 2009)
Pants: Express (2008)
Necklace: F21 (2010)
Belt: Target (2011)

I woke up with a stomach ache again.  I also woke up after sleeping an hour.  I functioned surprisingly well at work. I wasn't going to eat lunch but then at the end of my meeting I ate a sandwich. Then my stomach got a little upset. Silly me for eating.

I came home ate dinner while watching TV. Dinner was half a sleeve of saltine crackers and then some potato chips. (Chips weren't the best choice.)  Then I watched TV and fell asleep almost right away.  I fell asleep at 7:15 on the couch. Dave woke me up to go upstairs at 8:30 and I went right to sleep. He kept trying to talk to me and show me things. I tried to tell him that if he makes me think, then I wake up more then I wouldn't fall right to sleep. He thought that was crazy. It is true.

Day 5 - Yellow (3/19) - Science Fair

Necklace: Lia Sophia

Bracelet: Target (3/18/11 $7.99)

I love this cardigan. I tried to buy more in other colors last year but they were sold out already.

How do you like my use of arrows (as similar as I could think of to an engineering drawing)?

What worked:
I pretty much think everything worked.  The dress pants were very comfortable. The bracelet wasn't a noisy bracelet. I was dressed for the weather indoors.

I didn't take any pictures of anything besides me today. Do you believe it?  I told Dave I thought Poly was neglected this weekend because I didn't take her picture.

We all already know I ran a race in the morning since I already posted about that.  But I didn't tell you that I had to rush out after the race to get home and shower to prepare to go judge a science fair.  The judging was from 11-2, but I ended up judging until 3:10. There was too much to judge and not enough people.  Judging should have been 11-2.  I judged Grades 1-2 Experimental and Exploratory.  Experimental was a lot more interesting.  I loved a few of the projects.

I had to go out and break a tie as soon as they had tallied the scores and the community was already there all looking at the boards. I had to be covert so nobody saw my scoring.  The community could show up starting at 3 but they wouldn't let them in until we were done judging. 10 volunteers started judging out of 15 that had signed up. When I was done judging, 3 of us were just finishing. Some left at 2 when judging should have been over but others left really early and it annoyed me.

I hung out with my parents for a few hours not really doing anything.
Then we went to Panera for dinner.
I finally headed home and saw Dave and Poly for the first time during the day. Poly sure missed me.   Dave and I played in Photoshop and did some learning about how to do the arrows (which I forget how to make them look cool already).

Color Rotation:

1. Light pick button down shirt
2. Red Cardigan
3. Orange Tee
4. Yellow Loft Tee
5. Dark Green Express Sweater

March 14

Cardigan: F21

Shirt: Express

Pants: Express

Shoes: Famous Footwear

Necklace: Sears

Jumping plus taking a picture with a timer is hard. I am going to keep trying now until I get it even though I don't even think it'll look good once I get a good one.

This morning when I was about to get dressed I thought how I don't like this cardigan because it is so long and I don't like them over my butt. Then I put on the cardigan and thought how I love it because the sleeves really are long enough. I'm torn between my love/hate relationship with this cardigan. I believe my verdict is love though because I have a major problem with sleeve length.

I did want some other color necklace besides red but I couldn't think of what color.  What color necklace would you wear?

I don't normally like my black pants but I figured I want to try to wear as much as possible in my closet and then evaluate if it should go in the Goodwill pile (or the pile for Goodwill that I'll keep around for 2 months just in case I change my mind).

I woke up pretty sore so I decided I should wear flats.  My back was sore. I wasn't sure how that was sore from running. It might have been sore from how I slept.

It was so hard to wake up today. I hate changing the clocks in the spring.  It was too dark. I was too tired.  I half sat up hitting snooze for a full hour.

My day flew by. Before I knew it, it was 6:30 PM. I meant to leave work at 5:40.

My meeting today did not go as planned. I needed to get powerpoint presentations from 3 different people for my meeting and I got them so last minute that I didn't have time to preview the information. And then the info wasn't good and I feel like we wasted everyone's time.

Then I got back to my desk and it took my computer over an hour to decide to stop hating me. It actually took over 90 minutes to start working. At least it partially worked long enough that I could look up a few people's phones numbers to call them while it was rebooting.  I was still mad about it. My laptop is really awful. I should probably talk to my manager about getting a new one before my lease is up.  My lease is up in June and you start ordering them in May so it really isn't that early.  There are a few options for what laptop to choose at work. I'm not sure what the best option is.

I got home and cooked spaghetti with meat sauce for dinner.  We also watched a lot of the news. Everything in Japan is very troubling.

Color Rotation Challenge starts tomorrow. Don't forget to join in.



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December 14 - Mouse

Shirt: Loft

Cardigan: F21

Necklace: F21

Pants: NY&Co (the pants look shorter than I remember)

Shoes: Famous Footwear

Earrings: Kohl's

Sorry all of these pictures are blurry. I was off center and the camera focused on the house behind me instead of me. I branched out and didn't wear things from my 30 for 30 (except my shoes).

I woke up to go to Body Pump but looked outside and saw that the roads weren't even touched. I have learned from experience, that I should wait until the roads are plowed. So I went back to bed.
I had trouble falling back to sleep. I hate when that happens.  Then I woke up at normal time and checked my email. I had so many blog comments I had to go over to my computer. I'm pretty sure I wasted a good 20 minutes before work replying to comments. I love comments though so I didn't mind. If we didn't have flex time at work, I wouldn't have done it.

I go to my desk at work. It's the first time I was there in over a week. I wasted 30 minutes getting my laptop to boot-up. What a waste.  I go to eat my last cereal bar and...

a mouse beat me to it.  A mouse had been in my food drawer.

I told my manager and asked who to report it to. Then after that someone tells me they already know and set traps.

I can see a trap from my desk

There were traps along the windows. I figure since they already knew about it, I didn't have to complain to anyone, but still, I need to clean out my food drawer now.  I was just too busy.

I did yoga, abs, and ran .5.  I did all that with my makeshift BodyMedia arm band. It survived. I thought I was too out of shape to do Body Combat so I ran/did abs and decided to get home sooner.

Tuesday was my last full day of work for the year.