4.19

Sandals: Famous Footwear
Pants: VS
Shirt: Loft
Necklace: Lia Sophia

Poly was extra loving in the morning. I told her she could not stop me from going to work. As soon as I said that she walked onto my lap. Then she took a little rest using my arm.  I sat there for 10 minutes.  She won temporarily but then I did have to go to work.

I went to Body Pump after work. I went to Giant Eagle on the way home to grab a few things. It was actually nice to just zip around the store and just get a few things.  After that I got home and Dave was talking to his Dad on the phone. Poly sure liked him.  Look how happy he looks in that one photo. Also look how ladylike Poly sits.

3.13

Poly watched me take my daily picture.

I was so busy at work. Dave and I went to DiBella's for lunch but I took my packed lunch and ate it there. We bought cookies. I ate a bunch then took the rest to my group at work.

I was supposed to give training at 2.  Around 1 PM it got changed to 3 pm.  At 2:55, I finally finished looking at the slides.  It was the first time I gave the training in 3 years.  Most of the slides were new.

After work Dave wanted to go for a walk but I ended up having to get too much done so we didn't have time. We had an NA-YGN officers team building event at 6pm.  We had dinner and did team trivia. It was fun but boy did it go late.  I got home after 10:30 PM. I was so tired.

2.6 - Allergy shot

I wore an outfit I planned out on Sunday!  I was going to wear a skirt but my house was freezing so I wanted pants and socks up to my knees.

I got to work bright and early because I had to leave for an allergy shot at the end of the day and needed to get work in. Good thing too because I forgot I had a 7:30 AM meeting.  Bad thing is the guy didn't show up for it.  Note: Don't accidentally hit eject and sleep. Nothing good comes of it. You just want to hit eject.

I went and got my allergy shot and they were only 30 minutes late today. It's funny how 30 minutes wasn't long at all. They are ruining me. 30 minutes should NOT be acceptable to wait to get a shot.  The guy who gave me the shot did it in a unique way. He started a 8 inches away and said "alright you'll feel a pinch" and then he just moved his hand over to jab me with the needle. 8 inches was too far to move. His hand picked up too much speed. It hurt worse than any shot I ever got. I have trouble moving my arm now.  Also because I took 3 months to get an allergy shot instead of 4 weeks, my allergies seem way worse when I get the shot.  Well it could also be that the guy should have done the same dosage or backed down but he increased.

Since that only took 45 minutes instead of the 70 minutes I was prepared for, I had time to kill before picking Dave up.  I was going to go back into work, but realized it would take 20-30 minutes for my computer to start working and I only had about 20 minutes to kill. So I went to Famous Footwear and bought replacement shooties that I can wear with socks and just slip them on and off. Too bad these ones cost me $70 and my old ones cost me $5. I've been looking for replacements for 1.5 years so I figured I better pay $70.  They were on sale from $85. (For those of you that don't know what shooties are. I didn't know either. They are little boots but shoes. They are boots but don't go up your leg and stop at the ankle. I just made up the written definition but based on the pictures that's what they are.)

After I picked up Dave we headed to pick up his car. I complained saying we should have had dinner first. Traffic was awful.  So then we went to Monte Cello's, where I had more fried zuccchini left on the plate after I was done eating than you normally get at a restaurant. We also got an 8 cut pizza. We should have gotten a 4 cut. Now we have leftovers.  We got the car and headed home.

I felt like I was ready for bed but it wasn't even 8am so I decided to finally compare some running numbers. I looked at all the data that I put in one file from each time I ran with Jen.  Last time we ran was the best.  One other time we had 10:04 pace but for 4.5 miles and then we had 10:07 once.  All the rest were slower.  It is fun to see it all in one place.

I wanted to workout but with my arm pain I figure I shouldn't. I could use the exercise bike but I'm even afraid all the moving of biking will make my arm hurt even worse than it does now.  Looks like I'll have another rest day. 2 days out of 3. Ugh

I made my shadow box of 2011 races and medals. I tried to squeeze in as many pictures as I could. (The picture looks odd because it is in a white frame on a white desk.)

Outfits

I have 2 skirts that I don't really know what to wear with them.  My mom helped me match some stuff back on October 1 and that's all I know.  I have realized in the morning, I can't tell what is what shade and so I won't test out a new combination.  The lack of natural light is awful.

I tested out some stuff.  It started not being bright enough outside and the lack of flash resulted in some poor quality photos. So some of these outfits looked better in person.  Do you ever try on a bunch of stuff just to figure out what outfits will work or do you wait until you get dressed in the morning?

My mom told me that purple didn't go with this skirt but I like it.  The purple tights are new as of yesterday.

The first time I wore it.

The brown shirt with the ruffles is a shirt I've owned for 5 or 6 years and never wore it. I think it matches but I figure if I didn't wear the shirt in all this time maybe I shouldn't wear it.

I thought the light purple shirt went but not with tights. It'd be more in the summer. It made the pink it the skirt look more purple.

The one long sleeve brown sweater seemed to work. The other one was too loose and too long that it didn't look right.

I think the teal cowl neck looks good but my mom specifically said my teal (same shade) turtle neck didn't go with this.

The blazer doesn't work at all. The socks + tights also doesn't work at all.

I have one sweater to wear with this but can't seem to figure out how to wear it with the skirt in the winter. I've worn the shirt with a black shirt underneath but I'd need a different color to go with this skirt.

I put the outfits in the order I liked them.  It is hard to tell in the photos but in some I have on purple tights and in some I have on brown tights.

The first time I wore it.

Here is the 2nd skirt. This one I did have a few more things to go with it because my mom suggested more. I didn't have the purple shirt in the pictures at the time and never thought of wearing it. I love it.

The first time I wore this skirt I wore it with black and black shoes and thought it went. In the pictures, it doesn't seem to go as much.  I would have been wearing this with black all the time, but my mom said to wear it with brown.

The brown sweater doesn't work.

I still have the cardigan I wore with it the first time, but since I knew that went, I didn't waste my time trying things on.

I need to figure out what else to wear with this too.  I wore it on February 2 with something my mom picked out.

Both of these skirts are slightly big now but knowing how I fluctuate and need things in multiple sizes lying around I'm not too concerned.

I got these new brown pants from VS. I've worn them a few times with pink, but am never too sure what to wear with them.  Would these 4 shirts work?  The only one I'm not sure of is the purple sleeveless one. I think it is too bright to go but Dave said it wasn't.

1.30

I never know what to wear with these pants.  I want to hem these pants 1 inch. I am lazy though. The current hem inside is 2 inches so that poses a problem.

Poly wanted in my daily picture.

I worked.
I went and ran .75 miles on the treadmill, did body pump, then ran 2 more miles.  Then it was back to work.

I came home to eat a Chick-fil-a salad while watching The Biggest Loser.  It was over and I was still eating so I watched 90210.  Then I continued to watch 90210 until 4am. Ooops. Those 8 episodes were good.  Just as the last episode was ending, Poly climbed up on my lap. She was so cute, I didn't want to get up.

1.11

I had to consult my calendar site to figure out what to wear. I was at a loss.  I wore this sweater and shirt before but with a different skirt.

Pants: VS
Shirt: Limited
Cardigan: Target
Belt: Target
Necklace: Lia Sophia
Earrings: Target
Boots: VS

I was pretty proud of this outfit. I have no idea why. I think anyone else would have come up with it. But I was proud because it was different than I originally would have though and I was having difficult deciding what to wear.  Oh the little things in life.  Next to be proud about something at work.

 I woke up after an extremely nice sleep.  Who knew taking Vicodin would be so nice.

I went to work. I had far too many meetings.  Meetings ran late. Then I missed Body Pump because I was there too late.   Well since I almost missed Pump, I just kept working.

I took a picture of the training plans pinned to my wall to help me know how many miles I should be running. If only I updated the dates so they still weren't keeping track of a November 20 marathon.

I picked up pizza on the way home.  I watched TV while eating.  Then I went to watch more TV. (I couldn't sit in my normal chair because I had junk all over it so I had to sit on the other couch.) I fell asleep at 8:00 PM.  I woke up 30 minutes later to go upstairs. I was awake a little bit and fell asleep again.

Work + eat + sleep is not how I wanted my day to go.

12.8

Pants: VS (new)
Shirt: NY&Co
Shoes: VS (actually boots)
Necklace: Target

I couldn't figure out for sure if these pants were gray or brown so I went with pink to match.  I thought they were brown but Dave thought gray. (Online they did refer to them as brown.)

I just got these pants in the mail.  They are 36" inseam and the same style as my red ones. I wish they were a little shorter.  My gray pants are also 36" inseam from VS but they aren't as long and they are a little better.  If these shrink slightly they will be perfect. I'm waiting until I wash and dry them before I would consider hemming them because my luck is if I hem them first, they will shrink and I"ll be stuck.

The back of the shirt is a little fancy or I would alter it like I did with 2 other shirts I have.  The shirt fits perfect around my butt but is very baggy at my waist and I don't like that.  The far left picture kind of shows that.

I went to work and felt like I was getting sick.  My throat hurt. After I got to work, I was sneezing more than normal. I started to think I was getting sick and I did not want to get sick. I have too much going on (we all do).   I cancelled my plans to run with someone since I was feeling sick. I didn't want to chance it and wanted to rest up.

I didn't run and I didn't workout. Instead I watched TV.

I did do a little bit of cleaning. I cleaned up the dining room. I timed myself. Later I emailed my mom and she thought it was funny that I timed myself in different areas. I spent 22 minutes cleaning up the Stmapin' Up supplies from the dining room.  Then I spent 23 minutes cleaning up stuff in the family room and kitchen and doing the dishes in the kitchen.  That may seem like a lot of time but the kitchen was still a mess.  I'd pause the timer when I went in to my laptop and would email my mom.   Dave wrapped presents while I was cleaning up and he tore off the packaging for the gift cards. I tried to tell him you give the gifts with them on it. He told me I was crazy. Then he saw the to and from and the online ordering info on the paper he took off so then he proceded to pretend to eat the paper he took off to hide the evidence.

Then we watched the Steeler Game.  (Poly even watched too.) I hate the night games. They keep me up too late and I'm too wound up after they are over that I don't go to sleep right away.