I'm alive! I swear!

Yes, I'm here! I swear I'm here!

I've had about a kazillion things going on and haven't had the time to blog.

I've kept up with reading everyone else's blogs but haven't contributed to my own. (starting to sound like a broken record, huh?)

Once things calm down a bit (and I'm hoping they will in the next few weeks) hopefully I can get back to writing but until then, don't completely write me off. I'm still here, I'm just lurking for the time being!

Until next time,

Lacey

A month? Already??

Wow, sorry for being MIA. I haven't forgotten about you guys! I've been keeping up with reading all of my favorite blogs but I just haven't had the opportunity to contribute to my own!! Oy!


It feels like I've had so much going on but really I haven't. I'll give you a quick recap as I actually have things to get done at work so I can't stay long.

I'm still here!

Alright, so last time I left off, I had an appointment scheduled with an orthopedic surgeon to look at me knees. That was last Wednesday. I went to my appointment as scheduled and, basically this is what he told me:

Wanted: More hours in a day

Wow, so apparently I'm now a weekly blogger rather than a daily, or every-other-daily blogger. I suck. The days are just flying by and before I know it, its Monday again! Oy!

Well, as usual, I've been working a ton but fortunately my shifts have become more regular. So my typical week looks like this...

Workaholic

Howdy. Well, I've offically done a horrible job in the blogging department, haven't I?

Well, mostly its because I haven't had time. All I've been doing lately is working and sleeping and, if I'm lucky, I get to stop to eat every once in a while.

I'm at least a little less stressed out now that I've decided not to tackle the half-marathon this year. Not to mention my face has cleared up as well. I was obviously WAY more stressed than I thought because my face was breaking out like crazy! Worse than I think its ever been, and I don't usually have "face issues" much...

Anyhow, TMI, I know, sorry. I think there's a half marathon in our area this fall so depending on how my summer goes, I may try to do that one. I would really really like to at least get a 10K under my belt this year as well as run a sub 30 5K. I think that those will be my two goals to replace the half-marathon goal - although the sub 30 one was already a goal, if I remember correctly.

I also went on Friday and saw my doctor about my knee problem...

Change of Heart

If it were easy, everyone would do it.

Ain't that the truth.

Training for half-marathon is tough enough when you've got the time, energy and desire to push through all those greuling, 5:00 am "tempo/speed" runs and two hour long "long runs" on the weekend.

Add in just a pinch of the basic factor of "life" and it gets even tougher yet.

Throw in a dash of my-knees-are-the-size-of-grapefruits-and-feel-like-they're-going-to-explode and my-nerve-is-pinched-in-my-back-again and things go downhill fast.

So have you guessed what I'm getting at here???

Not. Good.

Alright, so I FINALLY did my tempo run last night.

You how so very often you dread a run and you moan and groan about how much you don't want to run and then you finally get up the gumption to run and you're so glad you did because you feel so much better?! You know, the runner's high?

Yeah, well, I didn't experience that last night. In fact it was the very opposite... I felt worse after I ran.

Blah!

That's how I feel.

It's been a boring, lazy, turd of a week.

No workouts.

No running.

No nuthin.

Just eat, sleep, work.

Show me the money!!!

Well kids, sorry I was MIA all weekend but its because I really was MIA.

I worked Friday, Saturday, Sunday and last night. Thankfully I don't have to go back in until Friday. I need to get caught up on some things. Particularly my exercising and eating right.

I slept right through my alarm clock today so needless to say, I did not do my tempo run. I'm planning on doing it tomorrow. I just haven't decided if I'm going to do it in the morning or after work...

Where's the snooze button?

Well folks, the week's almost over. Praise the Lord! However now I'm thinking that I'm not going to be looking forward to weekends as much as I used to.

I think I have officially eliminated any chance of me ever getting caught up on my sleep for a long time. What am I getting myself into?

Did you save room for dessert?

Ohboyohboyohboy!

Who's sick of the snow?!?! MEEEEEE!!!

It took me an HOUR AND A HALF to get home from work last night! Usually it takes me 40 minutes - and that's on a bad day!!

Well, crap.

I've got some good news and I've got some bad news. Which to start with first??

The bad news, you say? Alright good, that way I can get it out of the way...

Get outta my way!!

Anybody else ready for this week to be over because I totally AM!

Yesterday I kept thinking it was Tuesday but today I keep thinking its Friday. Oy! I need a vacation. Preferably somewhere warm and tropical.

So we got more snow Tuesday and yesterday. Yuck. I.Hate.Winter. Why, oh why, didn't we move to Savannah when we had the chance?!?! I'm still kicking myself for that one.

Thank goodness for my parents, though. Not only did they give us a place to shack up all weekend, due to the lack of power, but also my dad has let me borrow his B.A.T. (Big Ass Truck) with 4 wheel drive that will go just about anywhere. This thing is seriously a TANK! (If I think about it, I'll take a picture.) People just kinda move out of your way when you drive that thing. Its kinda nice. I feel so powerful and badass! haha

And then there was light...

So yeah. The snowstorm that swept across Ohio? (and most of the northeast for that matter) Left us with no power for most of the weekend. It sucked. I'm officially SICK of being cold.

There are still people in our area with no power and some may not have it restored until later this week. I feel bad for them.

We are fortunate, though, because my parents live right next door to us and my dad has this big ass generater that he hooked up to his house. So, while we weren't running on all cylinders, we at least had somewhere to go with heat and running water.

My dad has an older generator that he was planning on hooking up to our house but, while it would start and run, it wouldn't produce any power. We were starting to get worried that our pipes were going to freeze.

Fortunately, though, our power came on yesterday around 10:00 - almost exactely (haha oxymoron) 24 hours from when it went off. Talk about relief! I was jumping up and down cheering!

But by that point, the whole weekend was pretty much a waste...

To veg or not to veg...

Btw, I had my WHOLE FREAKING POST done, clicked publish and it deleted all of it below the break line. My blood is boiling.

So I've been attempting to go vegetarian, vegan where possible, since Saturday. So far its going alright. Yes, only alright.

At the moment, I am throughly annoyed due to a botched attempt at making vegan almond biscotti. I just wasted a cup of organic sugar, half a cup of olive oil, and two cups of whole wheat pastry flour. That shit's expensive!!!


Lacey is currently not a happy camper in the vegan department but I do have a pot full of sauteed sugar cooling on my stove at the moment. Anybody want some??

Never fear, I'm still here!

Wow, so I hadn't realized that Wednesday was the last time I blogged. I really haven't been that busy, I suppose I've just been lazy in the blogging department.


I suppose I'll do a little day by day recap. I promise to keep this as short as possible...

Wednesday...

Alright, so just a quick little blurb about my day while I'm waiting for Jason to get home from class...

TERRIFIC TUESDAY!!

Oh. My. Gosh. I have so many things to talk about tonight.


Alright the big news first...

What the crap?

So my day started out like a typical Monday...

I woke up at the butt crack of dawn. Headed to the gym. Did my thing. Got ready for work. Made the long, boring drive to work. Made it to work. Started the coffee pot. Started up my computer, sat down, prepared to tackle the day I had ahead of me and waited for the coffee to brew. And it all went down hill from there...

Sunday night already??!!

Hello bloggies! So of course last week drug on but the weekend flew by! Ahh, such is life.

So the last time I blogged was last Wedesday - holy cow!

I'm proud to say that I stuck with my planned workouts. My eating on the other hand may not have been so dilligent...

Three down, two to go

I swear this week is taking forever. I kept thinking today was Thursday only to keep being reminded that its Wednesday. Ugh.

Nevertheless, I did my "legs" workout this morning...

Chuggin' Along

Sorry y'all. I know its been a few days. I apologize. I guess there's not a whole lot that has been going on for me to blab about. Odd, I know.

I've gotten two workouts in since Saturday (yay) and I also tried another version of Ogre.

Bittersweet

I made it to the gym today! Not quite as early as I had hoped but still I made it!

Plus, I had another Green Ogre this morning! I used the vanilla protein power in it that I bummed off my brother. I couldn't even taste it.

My workout this morning kicked my butt and I'm totally ready for a nap. Here's how I did:

Green Orge (Monster): The Verdict

Today was the PERFECT day to try out my first Green Orge. 

Will you be my friend?

Good morning bloggies.

I AM SO GLAD ITS FRIDAY!

Well, I finally did it. I gave in and create a Facebook account. And now...

I am addicted.

As if I didn't already have a hard enough time staying focused at work, I have just made it worse. Way to go, Lace. Good one.

Although the little voice inside my head did everything in its power to talk me out of working out this morning and crawling back into bed, I did not give in. I went to the gym....

Green Monster

So have you heard of this? A Green Monster?


Kristen is always blogging about this breakfast smoothie she makes. While she calls her version a Green Ogre (haha I LOVE Shrek!) its pretty much the same thing as a Green Monster, just with her own personal touches.


(deep breath) I think I'm going to try one...

Note to self: Take the time to put your running shoes on!

Somehow I zombied my way to the gym this morning. It was a struggle but I know I'm not the only one that struggled to get up this morning.


The poor girl that was supposed to open the gym didn't show up until like 6:15 - talk about a rough start. The cleaning lady opened the gym up but none of the computers were running and the music wasn't playing. lol

So, we all - yes, there's a line of people just itching to be the first one in there. Including the annoying gross guy with the annoying "shorts problem". Seriously dude, its like 2 degrees out - wear pants! Please! grr.

Sorry. ...we all just wrote down our numbers on a sheet of paper (we usually punch them into the computer) to log in.

muuuuch better

Thanks for all of your postive comments from yesterday's post. I did wayy better yesterday with my eating. I also made it to the gym for a workout but forgot to post what I did. So, I'll just go ahead and post yesterday's and todays...

Oh boy.

Well, I finally did it.

I weighed myself for the first time since before the holidays. It wasn't pretty. I'm up 5 pounds from 5 pounds I was already up before the holidays. That means that I've put on 10 pounds over the last three months or so.

Not. Good.

I know exactely how it happened too...

Random Thoughts

I'm taking a much needed rest day from working out. My legs are super duper sore and the fluid behind my knees is swollen and tender. So yeah, I needed a rest day.

I'm planning on doing my "Pull" strength training tomorrow but won't be doing any cardio - agian, resting my legs/knees. I'm hoping to do a 4 mile run on Saturday after my "Core" workout. Wish me luck.

So, since I don't have a workout to blab about, I thought I'd talk about some things that have been floating around in my brain lately. Are you ready? It might be kinda long (even for my standards)...

Is this thing on?

Alright. So you know that little clock that's down in the right hand corner of your computer screen? Yeah, that one. I think mine's broken. I think that it's slowing down to the point that 1 minute is actually 5 minutes. There's no way it can only be 3:40. NO WAY! That means I still have an hour left at work. Seriously? I'm going to lose it. Can somebody please start installing padding on the walls of my office? I'm THIS CLOSE to going haywire.

Add to that the fact that my stomach is completely not a happy camper this afternoon. I swear its tripled in size since this morning! My buttons on my pants are moaning in protest. I haven't done bad with my eating today, either. Actually, I've done rather well. I don't know what's up.

Oh wait, maybe I do...

I really like being a morning person!

Ouch. I just burnt my toe on the 2156786321 year old heater that's under my desk at work.

Why, you might ask, am I barefoot? Because my feet are FREEZING so I'm trying to get feeling back in my toes! And, the only closed toe flats that I have are these little ballarina flats I got at Wal-Fart for $10 like two years ago. (they really need retired) The only problem is that when I've got them on and I try to head up my toes they make me feet sweat (eww gross) so I take them off while I warm up... complicated, I know...

So, yeah. I'm cold. And I had to go field measure this morning so wearing my nice closed up high heel boots (my only other option at the present time) with nice warm socks was out of the question. Too much walking for heels.

Back in the swing of things

Sadly, I am back at work today. I was thoroughly enjoying my time off and did not want it to come to an end. :(

So now that I'm back to my normal routine, I went to the gym this morning and did my Push workout. Here's how it went:

Its Official: I'm a lazy turd

Well folks, I'm sad (read: feel guilty) that I have to announce that I have not worked out one IOTA since last Wednesday. And you know what? I have had, and still have, no desire to either. Sorry, that's just they way it is.

I'm not even on the fence about getting on the treadmill today. I don't wanna. Period. So guess what, I'm not gonna. Exclamation point.

Alright, enough stomping my feet, crossing my arms and pouting. Which, by the way, I apparently did this morning when Jason drug me out of bed to go to breakfast and get our grocery shopping done before his stupid football game came on at 1:00. :(( He made fun of me for it when he called me out on it, too. Whatever.