weekend summary

So, I'm going to get the P90x talk out of the way.  We are finished with day 5 and I can honestly say that I like it, though I'm pretty sure Rob hates it. So far, I have found yoga x the most undesirable.  It is 95 minutes of agony.  Plank to upward dog x 45 minutes is the bane of my existence.

Moving on.

This weekend has been pretty crazy. We ran so many errands this weekend getting groceries and equipment we needed for the coming days in the program.  We spontaneously made an eye appointment for Rob in Mason so that took up four hours of Saturday.  Also half my week's wages. Plus side: we got to stop over at Rob's parents for a little bit and visit.  At Christmas, Jane (my mother-in-law) showed us the crocheted afghan she was working on and when we stopped in on Saturday, we got to take it home.  It is seriously so pretty, and I love it!  The colors are awesome.  She is very talented!

 

Today was less hectic than yesterday, but we still were out a bit.  I got my car washed, we picked up a capo for Rob's guitar, ate Chipotle (we attempted to make it P90x friendly), and went to Target.  When we got home we did our workout and I got to work on the lemon garlic chicken from the nutrition guide.  I was worried because when it started baking it smelled way too strong and pretty terrible, but luckily it did not taste the way it smelled, ha.

Oh!  And I made Rob take pictures with me in our little backyard today.  I know he loves that sooo much.

And lastly, my latest drawing.  I thought about not posting it because I don't like it too much.  The polar bear cubs look a little weird.  Whatevs.  It was also too big to scan so I had to take a picture of it.

 

I have some creative ideas floating around in my head but I do not feel like I have enough time or energy lately to actually do anything about it.  Hopefully that changes soon.  

Oh!  And lastly, Freelance Whales.  Have you heard this band?!  They don't have any official video that I know of for the song I want to share, but they are wonderful.  Our favorite song from them is "Broken Horse".  It sounds very Sufjan Stevens-esque and is pretty,pretty, pretty.  Basically I'm saying to go HERE and buy this album now.  The end.

 

End post.

nanny diaries?

Why do I always hate Thursday the most?  It always seems to suck more than the first three days of the work week.  Probably because my patience is wearing thin and I just want it to be the freaking weekend already.

I feel like little girl is doing everything she can lately to push my limits.  Unfortunately, being mild-mannered with children is something that has taken me over a decade to master, and after a full day with one that has acted particularly rotten, it is all I can do not to flip out and kill everyone (not a death threat).

We went to the museum again today, and she was too busy being cranky and defiant to actually get any good out of it.  I'm sick of her telling me, "No".  I would also like to point out that at this point sometimes when I am talking to her she will slap me in the face and then watch for my reaction.

Oh my.

The final straw came tonight at dinner, after I spent over a half hour getting together her meal.  I was putting her in her chair and she kicked her tray, spilling all the food all over my clothes and the floor.  At that point I literally wanted to scream at the top of my lungs and just leave forever.  Not an option.  Instead I had to very calmly fix the tray, clean up the floor, find her new food to eat, and not make it obvious to her that there were tears running down my face.


Now I guess I should go do our work out.  Endorphins.  I need endorphins.

day one

First day of P90x = check.

It really wasn't that bad.  Minus the wallet rape-age I described in the previous post, of course.  The food was pretty easy to get together and the workout, though intense, was not as bad as I thought it would be.  We were able to make it through the whole hour (kinda) and after Rob manages to pull himself away from Call of Duty we are going to create our own menu for the rest of the week.  Hopefully we can stick with it.

I promise I'll stop writing about this one day.

The end.

health = $$$$$$$$

Attempting to be healthy is expensive.  Really stupidly expensive.

Current example: after reviewing the menu for p90x (which we are starting tomorrow), I realized that I would need approximately a thousand ingredients.  After further review, I canceled out some of the deemed extraneous ingredients in order to cut back on the mass expenditures that would be necessary to carry out even the first week of this diet. 

Anyway.

I then proceeded to make a modified menu until I became so overwhelmed I was compelled to say, "Eff it", taking only the menu for day 1 and heading to Kroger to get what we needed.

THIRTY-FIVE DOLLARS LATER, and I didn't even have everything I needed to even complete the meals.  Thirty-five dollars.  Some quick math: if every day of p90x cost this much (Lord willin' we make it that far), food alone for this program would be THREE THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED FIFTY DOLLARS.  Yes, you would need a comma to complete that number.  HOLY FRICK. 

Needless to say, we will be creating our own menu. 

Here's hoping it still works.

random thoughts for a friday night in

Snow.
I hate it.  I'm over it.  Winter used to not get to me this way, but I can say honestly this year, it is making me miserable.  The cold hurts and it makes my job harder and it makes the air dry and it destroys my skin and my hair and yeah...I'm over it.


Schedules and obligations.
For the past however many weekends, we have been really busy.  Not with bad stuff, but with organized hang-outs and such that is supposed to be super fun and always does end up being super fun.  However, I am thrilled that tonight we have nothing to do.  I am unfortunately the type of person that feels suffocated by schedules and obligations (part of the reason I would probably not end up being a good teacher).  Even if I make the plans myself in advance, by the time it's time to do whatever plan I made, I don't want to do it, solely because I feel obligated to do it.  It's a really weird thing about me.  And this applies to almost anything.

Fashion magazines.
The lady I nanny for gets some of these in the mail.  If by chance I didn't bring my laptop and forgot whatever book I'm reading, I will flip through one of these.  They seriously irritate me.  For example, today I was reading through an article in the latest issue of Lucky magazine about Nicole Richie.  It was describing her as such a great person because now she is all "thrifty" and her supposedly great philosophy on fashion.  Really?  Because no.  Stuff like that and then all the buy this designer face cream or wear this obscenely priced outfit or carry this bag so that if you collectively spent all this money together, you could put a down payment on a house.  Or sponsor several children from Colombia or something.  Just saying.  They are insanely superficial and it drives me nuts.

Sketching rabbits.

My second drawing since I told myself I was going to start drawing more.  This will be in honor of all those little half-alive bunnies I rescued from the jaws of my cats growing up.  In case you were wondering, none survived.  And yes, it was traumatizing.

happy snow day from winterized chipmans!

 

Hooray for getting to go home early, boo to slippery streets and small cars.

holy snap.

Right now, I am watching the first workout of the P90x program, which Rob and I will be starting next Wednesday.  I like to know what's coming.  Besides the obvious fact that the host is both ripped and obnoxious, this is going to be extreme.  I am only about 10 minutes in and there have been approximately a zillion push-ups, which is bad news for me and my absence of upper-body strength. It is going to be very interesting chronicling our progress. In an attempt to say something positive, one thing I like about the program though is that there is a constant countdown going on the bottom of the screen so you know just how much time is left for each specific workout as well as the overall video. 

In other news, I got a frame for Woolly Bear today!  If you need picture frames for anything, Michael's has all frames for 55% off this week.  Now it is hanging proudly in our...bathroom?  I approve (clearly).  I'm waiting to see how I want to frame the other one because I found a frame I really like on Etsy but it's $60, and I can't quite justify it yet.  Give me a day or two.

 

On a completely unrelated note, when I was uploading all kinds of junk from my SD card, I came across this decently aged engagement-picture-turned-part-of-our-wedding-invite our friend Sam took and had to share.

Rob looks like such a freaking rock star hottie, I love it.