A Conversation Between Mike & I

In case you guys missed me.

I haven't been blogging much because I'm boring and a little obsessed with Revolt right now.

So here is a conversation that just happened between Mike and I:

Me out of nowhere, "Well, I don't love you either."

Mike, "I never said I don't love you, that makes no sense."

Me, "You didn't let me touch your abs."

Mike still stuck on me making no sense, "You saying either doesn't make sense, you're dumb."

Me, "I have so little in my life and your abs are one of my only good things!"

Mike shuts the door.

Revolt Week 1 Down!

Hey All!

I've been MIA because my sister was here visiting (our first visitor yay!) and I now have a nasty cold.

But during all of that, I also started my first week of Revolt Now Fitness!

We haven't started the diet yet, but I did the week of workouts and they kicked my ass.

She has separate days for fat burning, upper body, and lower body and the fat burning days are BRUTAL.

Pistol squats and t-thrusters are now my mortal enemies!

I will say I feel pretty great though.

Being able to finish one of these ass kicking workouts has been awesome and makes you feel really good about yourself.

I'll definitely post more details and be less of a lazy blogger this next week, but I just wanted to check in!

If you want to start your revolt...go here!

Getting Good At Stuff - Being Happy

I have a tendency to be kind of a pessimist.

I have been known to non-ironically say "Everything is the worst."

Which my husband finds hilarious because he doesn't think anything is the worst.

But it can be hard for me to be happy.

I struggle with depression and jealousy and darkness.

So now that I'm focusing on getting good at things, one of those things will be being happy.

Happy with what I have, happy with who I am, just happy.

One of the ways I'm working on getting good at that is signing up for this site Happify.

It's a site that uses daily activities to get you to focus on the important things in your life and to be happy with what you have.

To find happiness in your everyday.

It's cheesy.

And I'm loving it.

(And no, this isn't a sponsored post, I just really love this dang site)

One of the first assignments we did was to walk around your home and savor what you have.  To look at physical items you own and see the value in them based on who gave them to you or the memories they evoke rather than price or quality.

I chose three items in our home and wrote down why I love them for those reasons and it helped me to focus on being happy with what I already have.

I chose the prints framed above our dining room table that my dad bought for us in Paris and the poster my mom bought during our wedding weekend in Lodi.

These things aren't the most expensive or desirable pieces in our home, but they make me so happy because they were given to me by people who love and support me.

It's a really nice way to look at your things and be happy with what you already have.

If any of you want to join and haven't gotten an invite, go here!

Good Eats

I start a diet next week.

That is mostly eggs.

So....I'm not excited.

Let's talk about tasty non-diet recipes we've tried and lovely lately!

One Pan Roast Herby Fish via The Majestic Wine Blog

We tweeked this a little bit with larger tomatoes and no anchovies.  I also think you should halve the amount of parsley in the gremolata.

Overall though, super tasty and filling, loved it.

Red Lentil Curry via Real Simple

We couldn't find red lentils anywhere so we used plain and our scallions went bad so we thinly sliced some regular onions in there (it's always something with us).

This recipe was easy and filling and good.  Definitely making again.

Now I'm off to boil some eggs...

Campus Book Rentals

Remember when I was in grad school and complained about it all the time on here?

That sucked.

But one of the best things about enrolling in school this time around as opposed to my young whipper snapper days was finding out that you can RENT your textbooks now.

I seriously saved so much money renting those big ole' books rather than forking out hundreds and hundreds of dollars for them.

Amazing.

One of my favorite companies to rent from was Campus Book Rentals.

They had great prices, free shipping, a huge selection and they donate to Operation Smile with every textbook you rent from them.

They've also recently started a new site Rent Back where students like you and me can rent our own textbooks out to others to make a little extra cash.

So we can buy more books (or beer).

I think they're pretty awesome and so does my wallet.

Check out a little bit more about them in the video below or by clicking here and remember to thank your lucky stars I'm done with grad school so you don't have to hear me bitch about it anymore every day...

Getting Good At Stuff - Working Out

So things have been trucking along here with working out.

My little extra daily workout is getting easier which is nice although my burpees are pretty embarrassing.

While at the gym on Saturday, Mike and I started talking about how just lifting weights with him wasn't cutting it.

I need to add exercises to cut through my fat rather than just building muscle like he does.

Especially on my badonk and thighs.

(Badonk sounds less abrasive than ass, yes?)

Lo and behold, when I got home from the gym that day, I had an offer waiting in my inbox to join Revolt and blog about it.

Revolt is an exercise and diet plan put together by this awesome woman who was sick of gaining and losing the weight after having her four kids and ending up "skinny fat" something I've always struggled with too (the skinny fat not the kids)

So she started kicking her own ass,  got super hot, and eventually got licensed and now has created this awesome program.

It's a pretty great program because it's all doable at home, no gym membership needed, it's realistic, and it's affordable.

I start Monday.

Urp.

I'm nervous.

But it should be great and I'm going to blog about it once a week on here to hold myself accountable and tell you guys how the program works.

**I will admit that since this is happening super short notice for me, I'm starting the diet a week off.  My sister comes Thursday and our plans all revolve around restaurants so...yeah.

But the workouts start tomorrow as scheduled.

Get ready to hear some whining and check out Revolt if you're interested in starting your own uprising!

March Goals

It's March!

When did that happen?

I'm hoping it finally being March means it will start getting warmer and busier around here.

Also, green stuff.

Since I'm unemployed (have I mentioned that?) and home alone all day with no car, I have become quite the lazy turd.

I decided to link up with Rima and Melissa to start setting monthly goals to get my lazy little booty moving.

Or, something, I don't know...let's see how it goes.

Here are my goals for March!

(1) is referring to the treadmill routine posted here that I have been doing at one level down on all the speeds and when I tried to do it at normal speed I couldn't finish because I have stub legs and I suck at running (8 is fast!!).

(2) Seriously, my body is screaming out for water.  Not cute.

(3) I have been spending WAY too much time in front of this computer and not enough reading.  I'm home alone all day, I should be reading books like a good little librarian's daughter (right mom?).

(4) Yeah....we'll see how that goes.

Wish me luck and happy March!