on cloud twenty two.
i passed up cloud nine today and skipped right on up to cloud 22. why 22 you ask? well because it is my favorite number of course. and today has been one of my favorite days!! so many good, fun things have happened. i will get to all that momentarily.
first i think you ALL need to know that tomorrow, thursday, august 27th, is national banana lovers day so celebrate accordingly!!
second i gotta say i was cracking up at all the creepster gym stories you guys shared! if you want a laugh, go read the comments section of my last post. comedy. there are for sure some creepy dudes out there. i thought i would share a couple of the creepiest/funniest~
stacy said: “My great gym creeper story is getting felt up by a nasty guy in the pool on Monday! Eww! His explanantion was that he accidentally ended up in my lane and didn’t see me coming. Ummm… okay, lingering hands tell a very different story! Gross!”
ellie said: “My high school swimming coach saw me in the hallway one day and said, “I didn’t recognise you with your clothes on”. Ummm. Yikes.
lainie said: “No recent creepster gym stories because I have a home gym…so it’s probably a good thing I don’t have stories because if I did they’d only be about my husband and that’d be weird…”
that was fun.
third i want you to all know that i have had a jam-packed busy day today and so i have not yet replied to your questions from my last post, no worries, i am getting to that after i post this, promise!! i also am going to work on catching up on blogs, i had the ol’ reader whittled down to the 30’s before i left work and when i got home tonight an opened it this is what i saw:
so as it is clearly almost reaching the triple digit status, i naturally closed it and decided to blog before attempting to read other blogs. first things first, right?
OKAY!
now that all that business is outta the way i can tell you all about today.
ahem, i went to bed at 12:30 AM. some of my (drunk as) roommates and their boyfriends got home around 2 AM. fighting. yelling. screaming. sooo, a few times marshall and i ask them to zip it, long story short it ended in lots of drama and i didn’t get back to bed until 3:30 AM. grumble. so today was not off to a bright and shining start. little did i know, good things were in store!
did not eat until suuuper late~such is life in the fast lane.
meal 1: protein oats @ 10:30 AM which is a breakfast challenge FAIL and a waffle wednesday FAIL, yeah, i am aware of my failure status, please forgive me, i needed a quick, easy and tasty fix (TWSS)
meal 2: what do you expect? @ 2:00 PM
yep. same thing. every day this week. this time i did spruce it up a bit by adding some diced farmer’s market tomato to the mix (which, if you are just tuning in, is 1/2 cup cottage cheese, 1/2 cup garbanzos, 2 oz diced chicken and hidden valley ranch seasoning to taste)
oh! holler at my girl therese who tried this combo with some tuna :)
never gets old.
ok, so this is where things get good and i get hungry.
5 o’clock rolls around and marshall and i go to the car dealership!! yayer! little did i know i would be there for two and a half hours.. eek! lucky for me i had this guy in my purse~
meal 3: myoplex lite bar @ 6ish
old flavor, not my fave, too chocolate-y for me but it did the trick!
THEN I GOT A NEW AUTOMOBILE!
yayer! 2006 limited wrx wagon :D i am stoked, i was looking for a subi wagon with leather interior (cause of the puppers) for quite some time, finally came across this gem while walking to the ball stadium last night! random! i still have to sell my 4runner, haha, so now i have TWO cars.. gotta get rid of the old one ASAP!
stoked on the fact that it has heated seats for winter.. just need to get a snowboard rack and i am set! here are a couple photos off the website~
yay. ok, so that was reason #1 today kicked serious bootay.
thennn i went home and i had some seriously rad mail!
mail item #1~ from my girl emily!
EMILY YOU ARE THE CUTEST THING EVER! haha, isn’t that so thoughtful? i especially love the caption she added. so true, so true. thanks girl!!! i love me some garbanzos! and i strictly call them garbanzos, you will notice, never chickpeas.
and then mail item #2~ from my girl danica!
oh. em. gee. how thoughtful is this?! danica had noticed me crying on the blog about being out of certain trader joe’s items that are my FAVE so she sent them along with some totally body-for-life friendly protein bars she found! WOW! THANK YOU DANICA, this was so unexpected (hello, huge box on my table when i get home? what is this?!) and it made my mom (ok, and me) almost cry. danica just started body-for-life herself so go check out her blog to see some stellar BFL eats and workouts!
so yeah, after the car and not one but TWO amazing bloggie surprises… i decided today turned out to be an epic day.
and it was 8 PM.
and i was so hungry.
and i still needed to work out.
and it was upper body day which takes 45 minutes.
instead of eating and then going to the gym at like, 9 PM, i switched it up.
i decided to do my HIIT today and i will do my upper body workout tomorrow, because HIIT is 20 min. and since i did it yesterday on the treadmill i decided to give my knees a break and did it on the elliptical. for fun facts on the different kinds of ellipticals check out susan’s post!
here are the details~
- 2 min @ level 1 @ 9 mph
then i maintained a speed of between 10 and 12 mph for the rest of the time~
- 1 min @ level 2
- 1 min @ level 3
- 1 min @ level 4
- 1 min @ level 5
- 1 min @ level 2
- 1 min @ level 3
- 1 min @ level 4
- 1 min @ level 5
- 1 min @ level 2
- 1 min @ level 3
- 1 min @ level 4
- 1 min @ level 5
- 1 min @ level 2
- 1 min @ level 3
- 1 min @ level 4
- 1 min @ level 5
- 1 min @ level 6 @ 14 mph
- 1 min @ level 1 @ 6 mph
stats: duration=21:24, distance=3.43 miles, max HR=181, ave HR=154, calories=171.
fun fact, this is the 3rd workout in a row that my max HR has been 181. what up with that? weird. i like number things like that :)
ok so obv when i got home i was dying of hunger so i grabbed an apple~it was some new, real tart kind i got from the farmer’s market. i really wish i could remember the name of this variety because it was one i had never heard of and it was REAL good!
i cant fit my fist in my mouth. true story.
and then i was debating if i wanted to cook dinner or make a green monster… decisions decisions. while i wanted some food to enjoy, to chew, all that good stuff… i didn’t want to take the time. so convenience won out over culinary arts and i whipped up
meal 4: protein monster @ 9:30 PM
in the mix: 1 scoop vanilla whey protein, 1 cup almond milk, 1 peach, 2 cups kale, handful frozen mixed berries, crapton of ice
stare into the depths…
mmmm.. swampy.
ok. so that is that. here i am, typing away. it is almost 11. where does the time go?! i promise to catch up on blogland soon. just maybe not tonight, considering the time…
i should shut up now, this is an ultra long post!
Qs~
1. favorite way to enjoy a banana? obv mine is over vanilla bean ice cream!
2. favorite variety of apple? honey crisp comes in first, braeburn comes in second.
3. can you fit your fist in your mouth? how about touch your tongue to your nose? i can only do the former.
xo. janetha b.
p.s. my favorite ohioian is having a snackyface giveaway!
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I can fit my fist in my mouth!! Well, not ALL the way like up to the wrist (can YOU do that!?!?).
Sweet new wheels!
My googlereader is insane right now. I can’t wait to just sit in my bed and read blogs for a couple hours this weekend.
In response to your comment on OCDness: hahahaha you count the number of seconds to fill your water bottle? I’ve never thought of that. I know if I start it’ll be with me forever. I used count my steps on stairs too!! And I wanted it to be an even number and if it wasn’t I would skip a step (and almost trip).
I love that garbanzo card – it’s adorable! Your new car looks awesome too! My favourite way to eat a banana? In oatmeal! My fav apples are Granny Smith’s as of late…and unfortunately I’m not talented with the tongue to nose or fist in mouth.
congrats on the new car!!!
no worries, darling – you did not miss “white on rice!” my movie is playing the 25th of SEPTEMBER and should be there for at least a week – and if it does well (with your help, hopefully, blabbing away about it) it will be at the Century 16 even longer! you are so sweet to inquire!
The answer to the banana question took no hesitating at all PEANUT BUTTER perfect match for les naners!
Haaaaaa…love the creepster stories. Well, reading about them. Not funny in real life! yay for good days and LOVE the wheels. Woo! want to drive to NYin october? :D
1. favorite way to enjoy a banana? can’t beat banana and real vanilla ice cream. Banoffee pie is amazing. Banana and peanut butter, banana and french toast… I LOVE bananas!
2. favorite variety of apple? braeburn then gala. I also love Pink Ladies but they bruise really easily so by the time I get them home, are usually nasty :(
3. can you fit your fist in your mouth? how about touch your tongue to your nose? no to both :( somehow I get by ;)
Wow, there is just so much to say about your crazy fun-filled day…
1. Holla for National Banana Day! I’ll remember to do my part
2. Cottage Cheese and beans? Perfect!
3. Awesome new ride! Congrats girl on the fab set of wheels
4. What wonderful surprises to end your day. A car, a cute note, a package full of TJ goodness…could this day get any better?
5. Oh wait, and then after all of that you still managed to find the motivation to workout. You are one amazing lady! ;)
Have a great Banana Thursday!
Congrats on the new wheels!!! Fun fact: I am obsessed with Subaru Wagons. I think it has something to do with the adventures I had in an Outback during highschool. So they equal good times in my nostalgiac head :)
I know you were eating waffles in your heart ;) Protein oats are the best alternative in my opinion anyways.
1. With peanut butter in the middle!
2. I’m a honeycrisp gal too!! Can’t WAIT until apple season. Runner’s up are galas, red delicious and yellow delicious.
3. Neither. But I can fold my tongue a bunch of funky ways. Still working on tying a knot with a cherry stem…
Congrats on the car! Does it have that great new car smell???
1. Frozen bananas in my green monsters, yum.
2. Empire, but only picked right off the tree in the fall. If I get apples from the store, then Gala.
3. Neither, not very talented I guess! :)
Oh wow, love your new car!! Congrats, girlie! I’ve got an X-terra and am about ready for something new myself!
What a great day! Love the sweet bloggie surprises, that’s so fun!
LOVE the new car! i do believe that is the same car that “Jim Halpert” drives on the office! :)
Just finished my banana for the day and thought I would let you know that I was in full celebration mode. There might have even been a little dance! Yay for National Banana Day!
Congrats on the new car!!
1. I just celebrated my fave way: banana on top of oats with peanut butter!! bananas and pb is a MUST in my daily life :)
2. favorite apples: Fuji, Gala, and golden delish…depends on what I’m in the mood for, they are all so unique!
3. I can do neither :(
22 is MY favorite number too! Crazy! It started when I was in third grade and my teacher gave me locker #22… from then on, it was love. hehe
I am already on top of banana lovers day- had one first thing with my 0% chobani, some blueberries and almonds!
That card is the cutest thing ever, you definitely had a rockin’ day!
As for my fave way to have bananas… straight up, with almond butter. mmm…
apples- honey crisp have my heart as well. but pink ladys are also deeelicious.
I can not touch my tongue to my nose, but yes I can fit my fist in my mouth! Maybe it’s a short girl thing? hehe
xo
K
Crazy, 22 is my favorite number too!! How random is that?? My b-day is June 22 so that’s about the only reason I have.
Sweet car, gotta have AWD in the winter which is what Subaru’s do best.
1) Fav way to eat a banana, hmm. I’d say either frozen in a smoothie or with yogurt, cereal and nut butter. I ate my banana this morning so I’m good to go!
2) Pink lady apples are the best! They’re pretty tart too so maybe that’s what you ate? They have officially ruined me for any other apple.
3) No I can’t do the fist thing or the tongue deal…I can, however, raise each eyebrow independently of the other one.
Is there a national banana haters day? I’m not a ‘naner fan!
HAHA #2 was funny! I am in love with your new ride – it looks niiiiiiiice!! Have fun zooming around town (heated seats? Excellent!)!
What a cute card! The chocolate PB Pure Protein is delish! I love it because it’s the one flavor that doesn’t rip out my teeth :)
#2 – GALA!!
Those stories are too funny! I love bananas with PB. When my sis and I were kids, my mom would give us bananas + mayo & rice krispies for dipping! It sounds gross but it tasted really good lol.
Congrats on the new car!
I started off my day with a banana to celebrate banana lovers day! This has got to be one of the best holidays yet!
My favorite way to enjoy a banana is frozen and dipped in chocolate. The easier way to do that is to freeze it and dip it in dark chocolate dreams. Either way it’s delish!
you crack me up! how did you know it’s national banana lovers day?!?! bananas are my favorite fruit and probably would be my fav food if i didn’t love peanut butter toast so much. they go together quite splendidly, though :) my breakfast is very banana-y today, and it’s all because you pointed out this fab day! i’ll prob blog about it. let’s be honest ;)
oh and my google reader is up to 237. it’s just too overwhelming at this point. aaaahh i hate being behind!
Look how cute all your pictures are!!! Gorgeous, girl. You know, when my google reader gets a high number of posts like that, it honestly stresses me out. Like, I feel genuine anxiety until it’s all cleared out! I’m strange like that.
Hope your stay on cloud 22 lasts… :)
wow, what a great day!
I feel you on the google reader. Mine is seriously stacked.
1. I love bananas but I actually do not buy (and thus eat) them. I figure, I live in southern california, there is local fruit to enjoy pretty much year round; I don’t need to get the imported bananas. I’m hardly a perfect consumer but this is one choice I feel pretty good about.
2. I can make my tongue touch my nose. Like, the tip of my nose; not even just the very bottom. I’ve never tried to stuff my fist in my mouth but I have man hands + TMJ and so that is a disaster waiting to happen right there.
hope your thursday is just as awesome!! and good luck selling your old car!
oops, I skipped a question! I can’t do that :)
favorite apple: fuji. Usually.
ahhhh you have such good bloggie friends :) wee!
favorite apples DEFINITELY pink ladies! and then comes fuji? maybe because they’re just always enormous
my favorite thing to do with a banana…twss..um I’m gonna have to say smack some peanut butts on it.
I can’t remember the 3rd question..hold on while I scroll up..
oh! no I can’t put my fist in my mouth. sad
Cloud 22 seems like a fab place to be!
So much to comment on I better get right to it.
1st. CONGRATS on the new car! Such a fun thing!
2nd. I love to eat bananas too many ways to count. Frozen and whipped in the food processer. Sliced on oats, overnight, cookie or otherwise. Smashed and drizzled with AB and sprinkled with granola. In chip form. I’ve never met a banana I didn’t like. I had no idea today was banana lovers day but no worries I loved me some banana first thing.
3rd ummm you knew this was coming but we totes need a picture of you with your first in your mouth. I will be very disappointed if one does not appear in tonight’s post.
4th Holy Balls made me LOL.
OK, I think that’s everything. This concludes the longest comment I’ve left anywhere this morning.
Chocolate chocolate flavor = really chocolatey….you are a blonde huh? hee hee j/k
favorite way to enjoy a banana? I wish I could enjoy one right now :)
2. favorite variety of apple? gala, I like them a little soft too :)
3. can you fit your fist in your mouth? how about touch your tongue to your nose? Nope and nope
Hot Damn Girl sick wheels!!! I love your new car!!!! Great choice in picking protein oats haha even though you went again the “new breakfast” thing and Waffle Wed. Oh well. Sick package too, those pure protein bars are way good, I eat them all the time.
1. I like slicing it on toast with almond butter, but today I think I am going to eat it in my post pump session at the gym.
2. My go-to apples: Fuji, Jazz, Honey Crisp!!! I forgot how good those ones are. Can’t wait to find them at farmers market this fall!!!!
3. I can totally fit my fist in my mouth hahah.
PS: As I was flying into Salt Lake yesterday I was totally thinking of you and wishing I could delay my plane so we could go drink some coffee or a protein smoothie together haha. Maybe next time.
Yay for the new car! It’s so cute! It fits you really well.
That card is perfect for you. What an awesome day, fo sho.
1. In a green monster. I also liked to put them in the freezer for like 20 minutes so they just change consistency but aren’t frozen yet. It tastes kind of like an ice cream sandwich.
2. Fuji and Braeburn. I’ve never had a honey crisp apple…
3. Neither. Sa deal.
First of all, sweet new car! Also, sorry about the fighting, screaming, drunk roommate drama. I hated dealing with that and am so happy to live by myself now.
1. I love bananas by themselves but I like them to be cold. Not frozen, just refrigerated.
2. Gala apples are my fave.
3. I can touch my tongue to my nose but just barely.
1. Nanner- with PB on any bread-y item
2. Apple- with PB on a crisp corn tortilla (??new love in my life- go figure)
Hmmmm, guess I like PB, eh!?
Funny about your 181 MxHR. I had a similar experience in that two months in a row my average daily calorie burn according to my HRM was 273- TWO MONTHS IN A ROW!! (yes it was two very slow months- I was injured and overtrained!) :-?
PS. I have huge Google-reader-phobia- I can’t even keep up with the few blogs I read, much less my own! :-O
AHHHH so exctiting!!!!! I love love love new cars! Well I’ve actually only ever had one in my life lol.
My google reader causes me anxiety at times. Like if work is super busy and I can’t get to it I am all stressed out about it. Weird…
“Hi I’m Therese and I’m addicted to food blogs”
I can’t believe you got a new car! So rad. Love it. Want it. We need a new car so badly. Ours really is rather ghetto. Let’s just imagine me saying “really rather ghetto” in my English accent for a second. Yeah. Funny.
Loving your garbanzos! Edging closer to trying the cott.
Two amazing packages!! Ahh – so brilliant! How amazingly sweet. People love ya!
1) mushed up on toast
2) hmm fuji? I’m actually not a big apple person unless it’s fall…so I tend to forget!
3) Nope and no.
Oh my gosh I need a week to read all that I’ve missed and then another week just to reply! This will be quick I’m going to get made cute by Shirley, highlights wahoo! LOVE that darling oh so cute car, can’t wait to meet her!! You look terrific too, I see those legs getting sleeker by the day :))
Yes, CHANGE those contacts more than every THREE or SIX months—I should spank you!!
You are eating very well, please go shopping for me, make the meals for me and then remind me to eat the food – that would be heaven in my book.
You have such terrific blogger friends and boggle friends, such a typo I made, excuse my error, too many weird words!
Can’t wait to see the new little sportster xoxoxoxo!!!
Awwww…you have some really awesome friends to send you that stuff! I LOOOOVE TJ’s High Fiber Cereal! It’s right up there with their Almond Butter. :)
CONGRATS on the new car!! WOOHOO!!
Fist into mouth? Nope…though I’ve never tried..hang on.
Nope.
Bestest way to enjoy a banana is frozen then whipped in a food processor to make Banana Soft Serve. I eat it with almond butter. HEAVENLY! I have Gena from http://www.choosingraw.com to thank for this!
Definitely Honeycrisp apples!
Janetha B!!! I love the new car! I want a Subaru SO bad! Dustin makes fun of me :)
Oh gosh, my handwriting is so ugly! Why can’t I write like a girl? :)
xoxo
woooooo…… You have a long reading list!!! :D
nice new car! really cool! Love the color! :)
Great packages you lucky girl~~ I love surprises coming in mail~
banana day? hahahaha….. I can’t believe there a DAY for anything in this country!
favorite way? frozen blended in GM
fav apple? gala and fuji.
Holla at the new ride! AND THE DRIVER!!!
1. PEANUT BUTTER! PEANUT BUTTER! PEANUT BUTTER!!!
2. Gala fo sho
3. I dunno.. I was going to try but then I realized I’m at the library lol. I think I can though, but I can’t touch my tongue to my nose. Nor can I curl it.
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omg yay!!!! I’m so happy for you! We can so be wrx bffs now. LOL.
And i totally beat you on my google reader. lol.
im too busy for my liking too but it must be done. i cant wait to catch up on everything though… hopefully tonight after food inc or in the morning if i go to bed!
janetha doll…WHOOOOO WHOOOO for the new car (and please check out this link for the reason why whoooo whoooo is a running joke in our office: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK18wQA-tHs).
yay for such a good day – that car is totally rockin, mad love to the blog peeps for sending more love your way and whooooo whoooo for getting that work out in. i need to channel janetha tonight fo sho!
muah…lotsa love!
oh yeah…the q’s!!!
(1) bananas w/ AB, chocolate shavings and coconut shred. amazin.
(2) apple of choice: braeburn or pink lady!
(3) yes, i can fit my fist in my mouth.
I totally did read that today is banana lovers day! Yay! :-D OMG new car?!?!?!? How exciting!!!!!! And I was totally gonna let you know that I’m all for sending you some TJ’s salsa – and just saw you received some in the mail already :-) But if you seriously want more (or when you run out) just shoot me an email with your address. I’m more than happy to help a girl in desperate need of amazing salsa out :-)
So much to comment on! Ok, yes, I totally rocked the banana day (not that I don’t have at least one every day!!) haha
I’m sorry you had a breakfast fail, but I’m pretty sure your new car trumps. Love it by the way:) So cute. My brother used to have a WRX!
My favorite way to eat a banana is with a slice out of the middle of it, and filled with almond butter – An Almond Butter Dog.
Oh my gosh…I didn’t realize it was National Banana Day until now. Do plantains count? haha…I always, always have a banana every single day. But missed today. Go figure! :D
1. favorite way to enjoy a banana? In a bowl of hot oats or frozen and whipped into a smoothie…mmm…
2. favorite variety of apple? I’m in love with pink ladies, but cortlands are mighty fine too. :D
3. can you fit your fist in your mouth? how about touch your tongue to your nose? I tried and failed at both! :-/
I like your questions; they made me smile…
1. Banana slices with dark chocolate & raw almond butter
2. Fuji
3. No.
Congrats on the new car! It’s awesome!
Congrats on the car!! It’s looking spiffy! ;)
Yum Pure protein bars taste like candy!!
1. In oatmeal.
2. All of them, but lately I’ve been liking Jazz apples.
3. I can only do the latter.
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I love garbanzos and want to try that combo.
1. Melted in my oatmeal with PB and cinnamon
2. Pink Lady Apples!!!
3. Neither. I can’t even roll my tongue for frickin sakes.
What a cute new car! Love Subaru’s…Utah does that to you : )
Aren’t packages fabulous!
Have a great Friday with your new car!
I can’t decide which made me laugh more–your “holy balls” comment or that card. Seriously, I NEED that card.
Banana oat bran is pretty rockin’, and Fuji apples are my fave.
Yes, indeed I can fit my fist in my mouth. We Yoders have extraordinarily large mouths.
My fave way to eat a banana? Banana soft serve mixed into my oats with a lil vanilla, cinnamon and vanilla yogurt! …and behind door number 3: A BRAND NEW CAR!!! I’m stoked for you!
omg sweet new car!!!!!! that’s amazing! the first time you drive off the lot is heavenly right?? i still talk to mine in a baby voice sometimes LOL.
all i have to say is that you are a CRAZY FAST runner!!! and..
1. fav way to enjoy a banana? in oats or in a smoothie!! surprisingly, i’m not a huge fan of them plain..
2. fav kind of apple? gala or fuji.. love the greenish red ones!
3. no! i wish ;)
OMG! Awesome new wheels!! :) Congrats on the new baby ;)
I went away for one night and my reader nearly gave me a heart attack when I came back. We are all such slaves to technology ;) Can’t complain about a lack of reading material, though!
1. Lately I am into frozen bananas. Just wrapping them in a paper towel and eating them like a popcicle :)
google reader is always the bearer of bad news.. i literally cringed this morning when i saw it was at 100+
i am still devestated that i missed national bananas day — i def. couldn’t plugged some major that’s what she said comments.. drat!
1. in oatiessss
2. gala
3. no fist in mouth action but i totally rock the tongue to my nose.
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