Still alive!

I'm still alive and work-out. School is consuming my life, as usual. I hope you all are doing great!

Closed

I met Caitlin at the gym at 6 this morning only to discover they had closed for the week. We ended up getting Starbucks and getting to work by 6:30 a.m. Awesome start to the day! At least now I can go home earlier.

Guess I'm going to make this a lazier week and just do some push-ups, planks, and lunges at home tonight. I need to work on my seminar too. Boo.

Great work out!

Today I had an awesome leg work-out. I've almost finished the audiobook "The Time Traveler's Wife". It's quite good. I have yet to actually work-out to an audiobook, but I'm enjoying it in the car and while cleaning around the house.

I hope everyone is doing well!

Knee pain... again.

I'm taking it a little easy right now. I think I may have hurt my knee while carrying boxes (still moving...). I feel it most when I climb stairs. I've backed off on exercise, and tonight I'm going to try icing it. I hope that helps. I'm craving a good run.

On a side note, I accidentally ordered a book on CD (I thought I ordered the book. Oops). I listened to it in the car and really enjoyed it. I don't have a lot of down time to sit and read, but now I have a 20-30 minute drive to work every day. I've decided to start listening to audiobooks while in the car. I'm really excited to finally get my county library card in the mail, so I can start checking out audiobooks. The county library will allow me to upload books directly to my ipod, from home! I don't even have to go to the library to return anything. I'm thinking this may be a fun way to run as well. I'll let you know what happens.

Can anyone suggest any books that may be good to listen to while running? Or any good books in general? I've decided I'm going to stick to reading Jeffery Deaver before bed... the good old fashioned way (actual reading, not listening), but I'm open to listening to other books.

Gym clothes

I was up way too late last night watching the new Harry Potter movie (YAY!). I met Caitlin at the gym this morning, only then to realize that I had forgotten the bag with my clothes and bathroom supplies on the kitchen table.... 20 minutes away. Which really going back that direction in the morning is more like 40 minutes due to traffic heading downtown. Soooo our work-out consisted of going easy and not getting sweaty, and I'm currently sitting at my desk at work wearing work-out clothes. Luckily I'm wearing loose long pants, and running shoes are close-toed, so that works out well. I've tried calling Chris to see if he can bring my bag when he goes to work, then I'd just go pick it up from him, but he either isn't up yet, or hasn't looked at his phone. I'm supposed to go to a friends dissertation defense at 11. Ah, what a great way to start the day! LOL


Update: I have the best boyfriend in the world! He didn't see my text message until he was already on his way to work, but he turned around and grabbed my bag for me. I just picked it up from his work, came back to my office to change, and discovered that in my very sleepy state of packing my gym back after the movie last night, I did not pack a t-shirt. Seriously?! Luckily I have a co-worker who hadn't made it into work yet, and she is bringing me a t-shirt.

And this is how the day starts.

Quick update

The 4th of July rocked. Chris and I drove to Ocala where my dad's side of the family all met. It was really great seeing everyone, including my grandparents.

I'm happy to be back to my weight work-outs this week, after taking last week off for house/dog sitting. Although I did do push-ups, stairs, and ab work-outs while house sitting. I also met with Caitlin for two short runs. Sunday I went rock climbing and had a blast. Chris and I want to go more regularly. And last night I went for a run with Chris and Kyle. They kicked my buts. We did 2.6 miles at a 9:30 pace, and I really felt it. Of course the glass of wine I had for dinner before that probably didn't help me (I didn't know I was going for a run until after dinner). I'm looking forward to the gym tomorrow. It's leg day.

Hope you all are doing great!

Some more pictures from London! (more still to come!)

St. Paul's Cathedral as seen from the Millenium Bridge

The London Eye
Big Ben Clock Tower
Gargoyles on the History Museum
Awesome car outside of Westminster Abbey
View of the River Thames
Top of St. Paul's Cathedral
View of the Millennium Bridge over the River Thames
Outside of St. Paul's Cathedral
Shakespeare's The Globe Theatre
Standing in front of Westminster Abbey (to my left in the picture) with Big Ben, Westminster Station, and The London Eye behind me.
In front of Westminster Abbey
Westminster Abbey
Inside the History Museum
The History Museum