broccoli is big.

Day 2.

Feeling amazing today. And it's nice to know why. Nice little 25 min cardio workout last night did so much, along with my healthy food day! Seriously, the bursting-pants effect even feels so much smaller today...

I ended up making some fab chicken (sauteed in a few sprays of PAM with garlic, onions and mushrooms) and a HUGE salad last night for din din. I was totally full!! It was such a nice feeling!

Today:

Breakfast: These are AMAZING! Serving size is three, but two is plenty, especially when you're putting one on 1/2 of a whole wheat bagel and mushing it together to make fabulousness. And eating it with a yummy banana.

Fab salad for lunch, and plans of more chicken are in my evening plans....possibly a little black bean action? We'll see.

I'm going to see Nights in Rodanthe tonight with my roommate and her friend. I don't know why I'm going to subject myself to this torture of holding back tears through a movie that I know will make me cry, but I think I could use a good cry to be honest. I'm happy, but I just haven't cried in a while....and it really feels good to sometimes. I just hate the "holding back tears during a movie" feeling....it makes me stuffy.

So this is the dressing I'm currently eating on my lunchtime salad with extremely large impossible to eat pieces of broccoli:

Evidently, Paul Newman died. Evidently, Paul Newman was a famous actor that I've never heard of. The other folk at the office gave me the 3rd degree that I didn't know who he was. Oh well, I'm freaking young people!! Do you know who Ted from Hey Dude is? I don't think so.

the gods must be crazy

I watched the opening monologue of this movie last night, and it really made sense...

“…Here you find civilized man. Civilized man refused to adapt himself to his environment. Instead, he adapted his environment to suit him.
So he built cities, roads, vehicles, machinery. And he put up power lines to run his labor-saving devices. But he didn’t know when to stop.
The more he improved his surroundings to make life easier, the more complicated he made it. Now his children are sentenced to years of school, to learn how to survive in this complex and hazardous habitat.
And civilized man, who refused to adapt to his surroundings, now finds he has to adapt and re-adapt every hour of the day to his self-created environment.
For instance, if it’s Monday and 8:00 comes up, you have to dis-adapt from your domestic surroundings…and re-adapt yourself to an entirely different environment. 9:00 means everybody has to look busy. 10:30 means you can stop looking busy for 5 minutes…And then, you have to look busy again. Your day is chopped into pieces. In each segment of time…you adapt to new circumstances.
No wonder some people go off the rails a bit.”

Food for thought...anyway... so the weekend in review:

*Got a lot done around the house - I am finally moved in! Emptied the last box of shit last night at 11pm~ ugh.

*Saw the Batman movie. Fucking increds. Heath Ledger was amazing - I finally realized how great of an actor he was, and I was sad to think that his career probably would have really gone places after this movie.... sad. But Christian Bale - holy hell Batman. I can't even talk about it. I loved how long the movie was - oh, and we saw it on IMAX which I think made all the difference. Geezus. Amazing!

*Exercise TV on Demand. Now, this is what an hour of my Saturday morning consisted of, and I'm still feeling it. I woke up at 9am, and was like, damnit, I'm fat. I need to work out (side note - I'm fat because my new b.c. pill has packed on about 5 pounds of solid water weight, so I look like a manatee.) Anyway, so yea, I decide that I want to work out. Hmm, I recalled a convo that Chester Copperpot and I had about Exercise TV on Demand. So I turn it on, and realize that there's a whole WORLD of stuff on there!!

I started with "AM Yoga," a nice, 12 minute start up routine that made me sweat a little. Then, once I feel pretty damn awake, I get real ballsy and select "Tae Bo with Billy Banks" (or whatever his name is)... holy cow. All I can say is, I'm very glad that I have never elected to take any of those kickboxing classes at the Y, because now I know how freaking ridiculous I would have looked. Thank GOD that I was in the privacy of my own home, and during the kick/punch quick change, that no one else had to witness the hilarity and sadness of that spectacle. I even had to give up at one point because I just wasn't fast enough. I just started laughing.

So, heart rate WAY UP, sweat pouring off of me, I decide to cool down with another (longer) yoga routine. I got about half way through it when I realized that my blood sugar was probably in the dangerously low level b/c I hadn't eaten a damn thing and I was def. in the negative calorie zone for the day and getting dizzy.....so I stopped. But I feel that I got a GREAT workout! And it was something different. And I didn't have to worry about people seeing me look a fool! I think I'm going to try and stick with it for a while.....see what happens!

Enough about all that.... but the weekend as a whole was great. Got to spend a good amount of time with the bf, and got a lot done, and I'm still sore from a great (however embarrasing it might have been) workout. Going to Florida on Wednesday until next Monday, and wow am I excited. Excited to get away from work for a while, away from Nashville, away from responsibility....away from moving....just away. I really have only taken one actual vacation this year (my weekend trips home are not a vacation by any means) so this will be very nice. I've only taken two days off work this whole year thus far, so I'm definitely looking forward to this!!!

bueno.

here's to kickin' it like tae bo...

oh, and another thing.

To those Flight of the Conchords fans out there (and soon to be fans once you read my blog and discover how freaking funny these guys are), you need to see Eagle Vs. Shark. also check out the "official website."

We rented it at the buster last night and absolutely loved it! I loved the characters, the cinematography, everything. Love love love. Great flick. I want to go to New Zealand for shiz.