flashback friday round eight.

holler! everyone in a fabulous, weekend-loving mood? hope so. i know i am. i also know that it is a lot easier to just type the way i talk rather than type a poem like last night’s post.  that took some serious brain power.  and then i realized that my usual posts probably sound like garbage because i just type as i think and never go back to edit what i wrote. so, sorry for that.. i am not going to start revising my posts any time soon though! :)

friday, friday, friday. you know what that means! before i get to the flashbackin’ that i so sadly missed out on last week (due to my trip to lake powell) i will tell you all about the calories in and calories out for today.

meal 1: chobani+PB2+shredded spoonfuls & coffee @ 8:30 AM

i held off on the usual protein oats today because i had a lunch appointment at noon and knew that if i ate oats at 8:30 i would be full until way past 1 PM..

so i kept it light and delicious with this greek yogurt fabulousness. probably not a word, but who’s spellchecking? oh right, she is! (but she is out of town so i  think i can get away with it!)

marshall brought me the coffee and made sure i knew to take note of this on the blog. by the way, he reads all my posts yet never a once has commented. in the famous words of stephanie judith tanner, "how rude!"

after breakfast i had an important business meeting with marshall and evelyn:

 
wait? what? evelyn? yeah.. she was at work with me today because marshall’s mom was coming to get her and take her to iowa.. she is moving there and needed a friend. but i did get some last few hours of quality playtime with evie.  nothing like a little cat and mouse in the office!

note: i did not pose her. she did that all on her own :)

at noon my two bosses and i headed to the venue for our holiday party that i am planning.  we took a peek into the room where it is being held but we could not stay for long because there was a meeting going on in the room.  guess what the people in the room were doing?  come on, just guess. you will never. 

the perk of this whole thing was we got to dine at the venue’s restaurant for free to "try out the cusine".. and by the way, nothing on the restaurant menu matched the menu that we will be having for our holiday party. but free food is free food, right?!

meal 2: medeterranean salad (goat cheese+cukes+kalamatas+romaine+etc..) & grilled chicken & a dill roll @ 12:45 PM

um, yum. this place was exquisite! they brought out an amazing bread selection.

the food was gorgeous and tasted as good as it looked. as i said above, i started with a dill roll~

and then my entree came~

one of my bosses ordered the lasagna~

which came with an awesome caeser salad~

i really want a triangle plate!!!

my other boss ordered some type of salmon dish but didn’t get what he ordered.. and didn’t send it back because the food took forever to come as it was, so he ate what they brought, which was a salmon caeser salad~

i would have sent it back and asked for what i ordered, but he said this was delectable.

and then we ordered a dessert to go.. not for me, but for a dude back at the office..
chocolate crepes with fresh berries~

they smelled good, but i was already cheating with the roll so i didn’t have any!

after lunch i did NOT want to go back to work, but such is life.. back i went.. marshall’s mom picked up evelyn and we had a teary goodbye.. ok well i guess i didn’t cry, but i was sad to see the little gal go. she is such a cute kitty.  she will have a great life in iowa :)

after work i zipped home and changed for the gimnasio. and ate an apple that i didn’t photograph.. shooo.  i have killer DOMS in my legs from yesterday’s lower body workout (which i didn’t bother to post since it would have been SO hard to keep that whole poem format going on) so the cardio on my schedule sounded painful, but necessary.  i had to get that lactic acid flowing!

42 minute HIIT/inclines on treadmill

• 2 min 6.0 incline 0
• 1 min 6.5 incline 0
• 1 min 6.8 incline .5
• 1 min 7.1 incline 1
• 1 min 7.4 incline 1.5
• 1 min 6.5 incline 0
• 1 min 6.8 incline .5
• 1 min 7.1 incline 1
• 1 min 7.4 incline 1.5
• 1 min 6.5 incline 0
• 1 min 6.8 incline .5
• 1 min 7.1 incline 1
• 1 min 7.4 incline 1.5
• 1 min 6.5 incline 0
• 1 min 6.8 incline .5
• 1 min 7.1 incline 1
• 1 min 7.4 incline 1.5
• 1 min 6.5 incline 0
• 1 min 6.8 incline .5
• 1 min 7.1 incline 1
• 1 min 7.4 incline 1.5
• 1 min 6.5 incline 0
• 1 min 6.8 incline .5
• 1 min 7.1 incline 1
• 1 min 7.4 incline 1.5
• 1 min 6.5 incline 0
• 1 min 6.8 incline .5
• 1 min 7.1 incline 1
• 1 min 7.4 incline 1.5
• 1 min 8.0 incline 2
• 1 min walking incline 0
• 10 min 4.0 incline 15

whew! this took 42 minutes, max HR 181, ave HR 152, calories 363. nice one.

then i came home, showered my hot mess of a self, and opened writer to post this.. i have a girl’s night out in about a half hour sooo.. that is where i will end my friday! i will tell you about tonight.. tomorrow!

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andddd now, flashback friday!

so, i was supposed to go to brand new tonight. (for those of you who don’t know, that is a band) guess what? THEY CANCELED! jerks. apparently it was due to illness. i thought that i would keep the concert spirit going and flashback to some past shows i have been to.  while i have been to more than 100 shows.. i only have photos from some of them because taking a camera in is not always practical, ja know?

concert going is one of my top 10 favorite things to do.  it is also one of the few things marshall and i have in common as far as interests go, so that is always fun.  the first show i ever went to, and this is a little embarrassing, was eve 6 on my 15th birthday!  i was a concert junkie from then on out!  i used to be super crazy and go nuts in the mosh pit..crowd surf..stage dive.. all that nonsense.  i have had many a bloody battle wound, have been dropped on my head a time or two, had my belly button ring ripped out (while crowd surfing) and have been pushed around more than my fair share. 

now that i am older, i just like to stand at the back of the crowd and sing my little heart out along to all my favorite songs.  i do get a wild hair every now and again and frolic in the mosh pit for a moment, but my claustrophobia usually gets the best of me and i have to make a bee line for open air. 

i have a plethora of photos from many a show, but i narrowed it down to a handful of favorites.  it is too bad i don’t have the photos from the shows i went to when i was 15 and 16.. those would be a riot to see.  they are in storage somewhere.. maybe i will get around to finding them sometime! 

panic at the disco (2006)

the sounds (2007)

sweatshop union (2006)

scenic byway (2007)

minus the bear (2007) first time i EVER hung out with marshall outside of work :)

del the funky homosapian (2007) wow i was a chub back then

anti flag (2007) right after i broke my arm!

 

atomsphere (2005) and slug, the lead singer, is in the photo.. and i kissed him. haha.

the sounds (again.. 2006)

atmosphere (again.. 2006)

the hush sound (2006)  with the band

okay, there are more, but i should stop.. i have a girl’s night to attend! i hope you all have a FANTASTIC WEEKEND!!

Qs
1. what was the first concert you ever went to? and your favorite concert?

2. at a restaurant, if your food comes different from how/what you ordered, do you send it back or just eat it?

xo. janetha b.