Wrap it Up

After work last night, I stopped in at the grocery store for stuff to make wraps. I got black olives, sundried tomatoes, artichokes, tomato and chicken. Shane came over and we enjoyed tasty tasty wraps before curling up to watch a movie.

I had the strangest dreams last night. The one that stands out the most is one where I was home but the house was huge. Way bigger than it is in real life, with lots of secret passages and rooms. And my father was played by Jensen Eckles from Supernatural. Except, he was twin. And everyone knew that he was the good twin, and his evil twin had gone off somewhere.

During the dream, the 'evil' twin came back. We were uncovering clues and running around all the hidden areas, only to discover that the evil twin wasn't actually evil! He had actually gone off to chase the evil triplet, whose name was Frank. I learned this shocking fact while facing off against the 'evil' twin when behind him appeared the triplet with a weapon, and I was like 'OMG it's FRANK!!' It was very action adventurey.

I woke up with my heart pounding, and thinking what an interesting movie that would have made. :P

Labels: Daily Life, Dreams, Food

posted by Lisa at 11:31 am |

 
Slow Week

Seriously, the last two weeks have been going so slow! I think it's due to a bit of the winter blahs.

Last night, since I was tired, I opted to skip the gym and went on a date with Shane. :) We went to this bakery we found yesterday in Chinatown and got some giant cupcakes for $1.20 each. I wasn't feeling up to cooking, so we ended up going to Shabu Shabu for chinese fondue. We both ended up getting the beef with the spicy soup. So tasty. :) Afterwards, we went home so Shane could finish his homework, and I geeked out a bit with my Serenity RPG book. :P

Labels: Daily Life

posted by Lisa at 2:50 pm |

 
Yawn

Wow, it feels like a Monday rather than a Wednesday. Blah! :|

I had a long day yesterday. I made sure I was at work a bit early, and then worked through lunch so I could leave early for my first class. It's a bit of a commute to say the least. I catch the bus at 5 pm at Lionel - Groulx and get to the campus at about 6:10.

I think it will be a good starter class. We're working on new iMacs - mmmm - and I'll be getting an intro to Illustrator, Photoshop and QuarkXPress. Last night was a bit of a waste though. It was a lot of 'this is a Mac,' 'this is how you open applications.' Blah! :P Oh well. I was able to get my student id, and my book for the course. The book actually will be a good thing to have. It includes beginnger info for Dreamweaver, InDesign and a few others as well.

We finished early, and I was able to catch the 8:55 bus. I was back in town by 9:50, and home by 9:30 or so. I couldn't unwind though. I ended up being awake until after 1, so I'm beat this morning. Ugh. I brought my stuff for the gym tonight, but I don't know if I'll be able to muster up the energy to go. :P

Labels: Daily Life

posted by Lisa at 9:01 am |

 
Monday Monday Monday!

Today was kind of a long day at the office, but it was broken up by sushi with the boys. I went down to the gym (alone because the guys all wussied out again :P) and it was kind of intense.

The first work out was 5 rounds of 15 push presses, 20 pull ups and 30 box jumps. The second work out was 1 km of rowing as fast as you can. There was a 10 minute time limit, so as soon as you finished rowing, you had to do as many double unders as possible in the remaining time. I'm awful at double unders but I did manage to get 53.

My body is achy already. :P It took me almost 30 minutes to walk up to the metro. I was feeling a little queasy afterwards, so the slow walk was good. Thank goodness it's not cold out tonight. :P

Tomorrow will be a very long day. I have my first class at 6:30. It's a long commute, so I'll be working through my lunch and leaving at 4:30 so I can get there on time. Class finished at 10:30 and with luck, I'll be able to catch the 10:45 bus. I won't get home until a little after midnight. I'm hoping I don't have a ton of books to buy, or that Vanessa will be able to load me her books. :P

Labels: Daily Life, Health

posted by Lisa at 9:24 pm |

 
Ugh

I woke up yesterday feeling awful. I got really sick, and then took a Gravol before passing out until 2:30 in the afternoon. I didn't do anything all day. Shane brought me homemade chicken soup around 7:30 and I was able to keep it down. We watched a movie curled up on the couch - he rubbed my back which was awesome - and I went to bed around 10:30 or so. I woke up with a brutal headache and ended up staying in bed until 11.

I've been taking it easy today. My head is still feeling puffy, for lack of a better word, but I'm hoping I'll be feeling better for Le Salon de L'Amour de Seduction this weekend.

Labels: Daily Life, Health

posted by Lisa at 6:14 pm |

 
Sending Love

To Sarah and Matt who lost someone so very dear today. My thoughts are with you - I wish I wasn't so darn far away. I wish there was something I could do to help at this time. :(


Today was a very long day. It seems like this week has been dragging on forever. Last night I went to Vanessa's and we went to dinner at St. Hubert. She's so cute - she was so excited about the dipping sauce and her chicken fingers. :) We then headed out to John Abbott. Vanessa took the same program there that I'll be taking so she showed me around the campus. It's a bit of a commute, but I'm hoping that the time will help me get into the right frame of mind for class after a long work day.

I woke up late today - 8:14. I'm supposed to be at work at 8:30. Ugh. I hate starting a day like that - it throws you off for the rest of the day. Wednesdays are my conference call days. Training call from noon to 1. Logitech call from 1:30 to 2:30, another training call from 3 to 4 and now, an extra call that started today at 4 and ended at 6.

I wasn't feeling up to the gym - especially since all the guys were sissies and didn't go :P - but I made myself go anyway. It was burpees. Burpee suck. A burpee is a push up that you hop to your feet and do a jumping jack immediately after. Tonight our workout was 20 burpee muscle ups (you do a muscle up after every burpee), 20 burpee pull ups, 20 burpee handstands, 20 burpee box jumps and 20 f-ing burpees (a burpee where you do your push up with your hands on weights, lifting the weights, doing a squat and pressing the weights above your head). I can't do handstands or muscle ups yet, so I walked my legs up the wall for the handstands and Dom wouldn't let me do weights since they only had heavy ones left for the f-ings. I finished at just under 16 minutes. Ugh.

Labels: Daily Life, Health

posted by Lisa at 9:29 pm |

 
Power Work Out

I was not feeling the gym last night, so when I got there, I resolved to power through the thing as fast as I could. My time was about 11 minutes, 30 seconds, give or take. I was the first one in my group done - the second fastest for the evening. :D

The warm up was: 25 shoulder 'dislocations'
25 sit ups
100 single skips

The workout was 3 rounds of the following for speed:
10 pull ups
25 kettle bell swings
25 double unders (or 125 singles)
10 handstand push ups or box push ups

I thought I was going to die after. :P Afterwards, Scott gave Shane and I a lift to my place and I made very tasty green curry.

I am *so* looking forward to Suwanna next month. :D

Labels: Daily Life, Health

posted by Lisa at 3:18 pm |

 
Holy Crap

Tonight's workout is what's known as the Filthy 50. That's when Dom decides to be a sadist and gives us 50 of a bunch of stuff to do, in order, as fast as we can.

So 50 of each:
Box Jumps
Jump Pull Ups
Lunges
Kettle Bell Swings
Knee to Elbows
Push Presses
Back Extensions
Wall Balls
Burpees
Double Unders (or 250 singles)

I'm SO beat. It took me 34 minutes to complete the workout, and I'm already feeling it, even after stretching. I'm thinking a long hot shower is order. :P

Labels: Health

posted by Lisa at 8:40 pm |

 
So Tired

I've been having nightmares again the past two weeks. Last night, I could not fall asleep and had bad dreams for the little bit I was able to sleep. I think I got 2, maybe 3 hours of sleep. Ugh. When my alarm went off, I had a wicked headache and ended up going in a bit late. It was a long day.

posted by Lisa at 8:58 pm |

 
Boo Work!

I wish I didn't have to work tomorrow. Why are weekends never long enough?!

posted by Lisa at 11:24 pm |

 
So. Done.

posted by Lisa at 9:00 pm |

 
Stiff Already

Today was a hectic day at work. It felt like I couldn't get on top of anything! However, I did manage to convince Shane, Phil and Scott that it was a good day for sushi. Mmm... :d

Then it was down to the gym. Gotta love a work out that leaves you stiff, sore and bruised. :P We had to do four sets of the following:
10 / 10 Kettle Bell Snatches
10 Pull Ups
10 Box / Tire Jumps (I did step ups because my ankle has been really sore since Monday's workout)
5 hand stand push ups (or as most of the folks did, you put your legs up on a box and do the push ups)
25 squats
10 knee to elbow

The kettle bells kept hitting my forearms when I finished the lift. The bruises and bump on my left arm is far worse than the one on my right. I'll be glad when my arms are equal strength. :P

I stopped for a few groceries on my way home, had supper and then chilled out with some 30 Rock. Oh, I also was able to get a sick deal on my flight home in February. $75 to and $100 back! :)

Labels: Daily Life, Health

posted by Lisa at 11:34 pm |

 
Oy

Yesterday was a pretty chill day. I was up bright and early and threw together all the ingredients for beef stew into the slow cooker. I read for a bit and then napped before getting up and getting ready to see 'Avatar.' I left early because the theatre has been a zoo lately. It was good that I did because the theatre was indeed busy and a line up was already started to get into the theatre.

I really liked it. People have been giving the story a lot of flack, but I think they're crazy. Scott described it as a futuristic 'Dances With Wolves' and I have to agree. Also, the whole concept of the avatars is quite interesting and original.

Shane came home with me and we enjoyed some tasty tasty stew. We watched a couple episodes of 30 Rock before Shane headed home. I watched a few more episodes before turning it to read for a bit.

I didn't sleep well last night thanks to the return of my nightmares. I think it's stress related..

Work was busy today, and by the end of the day, I was beat. However, I was determined to go to the gym. So I met Shane and we made our way down. It was a good workout. We did deadlifts to start - I did 46 of 75 lbs. We then had to do skipping. We had the choice of 50 double unders or 2000 singles. I suck at the DUs so I did the singles. It took about 40 / 45 to get through all 2000. It was rough!

I then came home to enjoy some tasty left over stew. I'm hoping the workout will help me sleep.

Labels: Daily Life, Health

posted by Lisa at 9:08 pm |

 
2010 Begins

Last week was super long and wicked slow at work. I was so glad when Thursday finally arrived. After work, Phil, Sean and I went to Scott's the hang out before going to Hurley's for dinner and New Year's. It was a good evening all told (even though the band was possibly the worst cover band ever). Shane and I took off around 1 am - I was way too tired from a poor sleep the night before.

I've been stressed lately, and as a result, not sleeping well. Shane's been staying with me a lot lately, which has been nice. It's a lot less upsetting when one wakes up from a bad dream to have someone there who can hug you.

posted by Lisa at 12:33 am |