My birthday weekend

It's already Sunday night, and that means back to work on tomorrow...

Friday night I did not have a good night. I didn't eat the lunch I brought to work and didn't want to spend the money to buy one, so I ate my snacks instead. Right after work I went to my training session, and since I got there early I was put on the step master for 15 minutes - which totally made my legs burned before we even started our hour long session. After the session I had to go grocery shopping and since I also needed a rubbermaid bin for Levi's food I decided just to get groceries at Wal-Mart. But since I don't usually do groceries at Wal-Mart and since I was trying to compare all of the prices, it took a really long time.

After that I headed to Remark to get all of my fruits/veggies, and a treat. By the time I got home and made dinner it was 8:30 and I was starving (since I hadn't really eatten much since breakfast). Not to mention I was in a really bad mood.

Saturday there was a women's breakfast at the church and I had to go early to set up. Everything went really well and there was TONS of good food to eat. I was very proud of myself because I took small amounts of everything, and then if I took a bite of something and didn't love it, I didn't finish it. But I did go back up for another cinnamon bun because they were oh so good. Usually I would have eatten everything on my plate because I took it. But by only eatting what I really liked and wanted, I felt much more satisfied.

Because I had the second cinnamon bun and was pretty full still, I did not eat lunch. I did a few loads of laundry in the afternoon and then Sean and I went out to celebrate my birthday. We went to Subway (my choice) and my sub was amazing. I ate really slow and actually enjoyed it. We were going to go see a movie but I had an awful headache and really just wanted to go to bed. So instead we went to Metro, bought some popcorn, then went to my parents place to borrow a movie, and just went home and watched a movie in bed. It had been a long day and my headache would not go away so sitting in a theatre for a few hours just did not seem like a good time.

Tonight I had my family birthday at my parents place. I made my own dough and we had panzerotti. My mom bought lots of goodies to put in them and I was very excited.

I forgot to take a picture before we started eatting - so here is half of Tara's:

And mine: 

Afterwards we opened presents and played Balderdash. I was laughing pretty hard at some of our answers - always funny with you have a creative family! For gifts tonight I got - a labeller from Sean, a date night gift basket from Tara, and my parents gave me a re-gift that I gave them for Christmas (how original). Now let me just state for the record: I cleaned out my closet just before Christmas and put it in a gift bag and gave it to my dad for Christmas...used soap, candles that had been on my table for a year, a shower curtain, coconut body lotion ect. So, being funny...they gave it back to me for my birthday.

Just wait until they see that I put the bag in their shed as I was leaving haha - jokes on them. But the gift that they actually got me was a sweater that I wanted. We ordered it online and my dad is going to pick it up sometime this week (we had it shipped to the US because the shipping was much cheaper). So in the meantime my mom made some money into a sweater for me.

Then the best part happened...dessert. We had cupcakes (courtsey of Tara) from Razzle Dazzle and they were sooo yummy. Mine was blueberry and worth every bite!

So my birthday is over for another yet - but this year is going to be fun with my list of things I want to accomplish and then next year the big 2-5.

My Birthday and my 25-before-25 list

Well, today is the day! Not only is it my 24^th birthday, it’s also the start of my 25 before 25 list. Essentially I picked 25 things that I want to complete before I turn ¼ of a century old. Some of the list is complied of ideas I got from other peoples lists and some of these are unique to me. Some are simple, some are more challenging, but I have 365 days to complete them and of course write about them to share with you! I’ve been working on compiling the list for a while now (just over a month) and I’m really excited to complete it.

1. Throw a fancy dinner party

2. Get a grown up bed set

3. Try one new recipe a month

4. Spend one whole day doing nothing

5. Do something spontaneous

6. Lay in the grass and watch the stars

7. Eat a decadent dessert and be in control

8. Reconnect with an old camp friend

9. Buy $100 grocery gift card and leave it with the cashier for someone

10. Donate blood

11. Go fishing

12. Find out my credit score

13. Pick a movie series and watch them back to back

14. Go garage sailing

15. Start a retirement savings plan

16. This one is personal ;)

17. Get my belly button pierced

18. Not use my credit card for one month

19. Start, and finish editing my wedding video

20. Play in the rain

21. Go berry picking

22. Get in the car and drive with no destination planned

23. Not buy house cleaner for one year (with the exception of dish soap)

24. Pay off 100% of our debt

25. Get back to my goal weight

Today Sean made me pancakes for breakfast at my request:

That’s peanut butter and raspberry jam on them, with. They were so good! Then for lunch I had a salad, and Sean came to meet me because he has to work tonight.

After work I am going to get my hair cut, rent a movie, and then my sister is coming over for quesedillas and a home spa night (because going to a real spa is just not in the budget!).  I am quite looking forward to it!

I plan on ending the evening with a cup of tea, a mint smoothie (my favourite chocolate ever that I bought on the weekend to have on my birthday) and snuggles with my little Levi <3.

Dead weight

Even when I was at my goal weight, I felt like a blob in the sense that I didn’t move very gracefully. I feel like I walk like a man, and not very elegantly. I am heavy in my steps and don’t have very good movement.

Why is this coming up you ask? Because the personal trainer I go to (who is great) focuses on sports training. We do a lot of foot work and quick feet, two things that I don’t have. I always dread the part of the session where we have to do foot work through the ladder.  First of all I am trying to focus on what my steps are – because each time we go through it’s something new and my coordination is not great and second trying to stay light on my feet.

I always get so frustrated because I am trying to move quickly, yet I am going so slow.  Plus trying to remember to move my arms at the same time – there is just too much going on!

After my session yesterday I asked him why I was having such a hard time moving and staying light on my feet – and it all depends on the position of your body and how tired your legs are. The more tired your legs are the harder the drills are. WELL THAT EXPLAINS IT! My legs are always sore just from the warm up! Haha. No but for real, I need to work on the position of my body and hopefully I will be able to have quicker feet. I tried it after we were done talking and I was able to move quicker, but I was also in a good mood so that probably had something to do with it as well.

I am also going to try to walk lighter on my feet too – more on the balls of my feet. One reason why I never wear heels (besides how much they hurt my feet) is I always feel clunky and clumsy walking in them. I know I am tall – but I am not that big, I should be able to be somewhat graceful.

I guess I can’t have it both ways – competitive soccer player and graceful female…or can I?

On a different topic I still need to find a new sport/activity to do. Yes I have my soccer and my trainer, but since I gave up running I want to find something new.

I used to go to the Zumba classes at my gym, which I loved, but haven’t been in quite a while. Perhaps what I’ll do is look at the schedule and pick out some gym classes to go to and try something new next week!

Tomorrow is my birthday...stay tuned for a special post!

P.S. I sprayed my clothes with laundry smelling fabreeze this morning (even though they were clean) and now I am getting this GREAT smell every time I move!