So the NYR's are goin' great. Yes, I injured my knee in week two of the exercising, but I think that mess is over and now we can move on! Still going strong with about 5 hours per week. I know workout blog posts are just about as exciting as looking at "selfies" on FB, so I will stop talking about that right now.
Meanwhile, the other big NYR this year is emergency preparedness for us. We got an unsolicited kick-start in December when I won a really expensive generator at work, so that began the trek. Now we're proud owners of a giant freezer in our garage, and we think we might even read the instructions to the generator sometime. Maybe we aren't all that gung-ho yet, but we're trying.
In other preparedness news, we commandeered some pallets to keep in the garage and store water on. Now we just have to figure out how to get giant water containers to our house, which is turning out to be the biggest obstacle of all! I guess if we don't end up figuring that part out, I can use the pallets to build a vacation home. I think I saw something about how to do that on Pinterest...
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Sunday, January 5, 2014
Resolved.
It's January, which means I've started feeling bad about eating terrible things like Ritz crackers and Raisin Bran. That is how I'm supposed to feel at this time of year, right? It is diet and exercise season after all.
Scott and I are in line with everyone else to be healthier this year. We have not defined healthier diets because somehow committing to a diet makes me want to swim, open-mouthed in a pool of chocolate way more than just eating normally. However, we are planning to get more exercise. I'm starting up another round of p90x, and Scott will join me on nights when I fail to work out during my lunch breaks.* For you p90xters out there, I'll tell you that I plan to do the classic program minus any yoga. 90 minutes ofpush-ups-disguised-as-yoga vinyasas is a little too reminiscent of Dante's inferno, in my opinion.
So that is our exercise plan and now that a handful of people have read this, there's no turning back!
In other resolution news, Scott and I had this idea to take pictures of our dinner meals each night and document them in a recipe book. Here's how that went--
Day 1: We forgot and had to take a picture of the lunch leftovers the next day.
Day 2: We forgot again and this goal suddenly morphed into making a recipe book of leftover lunches.
Day 3: We did remember at dinnertime, and I got a great photo of the least exciting meal of the week: a salad.
Day 4-5: We forgot until this very moment...
Hopefully our other goals turn out better than this one did.
*This may result in Scott doing the entire program as well. Heh heh.
Scott and I are in line with everyone else to be healthier this year. We have not defined healthier diets because somehow committing to a diet makes me want to swim, open-mouthed in a pool of chocolate way more than just eating normally. However, we are planning to get more exercise. I'm starting up another round of p90x, and Scott will join me on nights when I fail to work out during my lunch breaks.* For you p90xters out there, I'll tell you that I plan to do the classic program minus any yoga. 90 minutes of
So that is our exercise plan and now that a handful of people have read this, there's no turning back!
In other resolution news, Scott and I had this idea to take pictures of our dinner meals each night and document them in a recipe book. Here's how that went--
Day 1: We forgot and had to take a picture of the lunch leftovers the next day.
Day 2: We forgot again and this goal suddenly morphed into making a recipe book of leftover lunches.
Day 3: We did remember at dinnertime, and I got a great photo of the least exciting meal of the week: a salad.
Day 4-5: We forgot until this very moment...
Hopefully our other goals turn out better than this one did.
*This may result in Scott doing the entire program as well. Heh heh.
2013
Happy New Year to everyone out there who clearly did not resolve to spend less time reading blogs!
It's time for the year-end review, which unfortunately won't include hilarious journal snippets because I barely wrote in my journal this year. Too muchNetflix living going on around here I guess.
It's time for the year-end review, which unfortunately won't include hilarious journal snippets because I barely wrote in my journal this year. Too much
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| January: Oh, the old house, with its lack of rain gutters and insulation. We had some good times dealing with winter. P.S. Scott neglected to tell me I wasn't under the icicle for this photo. |
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| February: We partied with Scott's sister, Jill when she came to town. Somehow there is no photo evidence that she was actually here, but she was. |
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| March: We put some final finishes on the house, including finally mounting our bathroom mirror. There was zero room for error between the back-splash and the light fixture, so take a moment to appreciate this measurement precision (and that gorgeous granite). |
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| April: I became very skilled with spackle. |
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| May: We went on the best luxury vacation ever. |
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| June: We sold the house and rented moving truck #1 to relocate our possessions to a storage unit. |
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| July: We bought a house and rented moving truck #2 to move to North Salt Lake. |
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| August: We unpacked, painted, and learned how to refinish our kitchen table and chairs. |
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| September: We started to love the drive to the Bountiful temple in the Fall. |
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| October: We hiked Holbrook Canyon. |
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| November: We apparently couldn't find anything worth taking photos of except our trees. |
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| December: We built a snowman and enjoyed the holidays at home. |
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