today's lil adventure in the kitchen included one of my best friends from high school, L! so glad to have friends that also make an effort to see each other and stay in touch the rare opportunities. so happy this particular adventure included lots of catching up, and looong stories. so good.
anyway, we made s'more bars to go along with our gourmet frozen pizza, haha. L was inspired by pinterest and the ingredients in the cupboard at my parents' house... plus a quick trip to town for chocolate. i'm not big on marshmallow, but these turned out pretty good and gooey (but of course, looked NOTHING like the picture...)... definitely will have to microwave the leftovers to make them carry out their extra yummy and gooeyness. the parents are out of town until monday so it's just me and the cookies and the s'more bars... i can do this.
skipped my workout today, replaced by a TherapyEd practice test (okay, it was one I already took... but still, it's pretty tough to remember 170 questions so i think my 91% wasn't too bad!) and a little more studying, and two short walks to my neighbor's house (plus how many laps around the house trying to chase down their cat?). i figure the other neighbors may not recognize me since i'm rarely in town, so i hope they're not creeped out about this girl randomly coming over to the house and walking all around it yelling "frankieeeee" and embarrassingly whistling and jingling my keys. how do you call a cat anyway?
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my workout report from the last couple days definitely doesn't match up to the half-marathon plan less than 3 months away... looks like me and my running shoes REALLY have some catching up to do this weekend.....
Friday, August 31, 2012
Thursday, August 30, 2012
perfect
i've undertaken a couple of projects together with my mom these few weeks while i am home... one of them being planning and making invitations for the rehearsal dinner for my brother's wedding in october. i get a little obsessive on these types of projects-- then end up procrastinating because i want it to be absolutely perfect. well, close to perfection was good enough for today as i sat down and printed off invites, made precise cuts with the paper cutter (one of my favorites...), hole punched, and threaded ribbon to make the cutest clean-cut, preppy-styled little invites, all ready to send out tomorrow... sure they're not EXACTLY the same as one another... but will anyone even know?!
*i SHOULD be a good blogger and post a picture of the cute invites, but i currently lack a working camera. working on it......
the other project is helping to prepare dinners for my parents so we can all eat together and relax when they get home (they are way OVERWORKED during the week... i don't know how they do it!), and to try some new recipes and switch things up a bit. SO today i made double chocolate cherry almond cookies. let's just say that so far, i haven't found a "new recipe" yet that i'd like to repeat
three days ago..... i ended my 7 year streak of not having a car accident. the good news: NO ONE was injured, thank GOD. and luckily, the other vehicle was already pretty beat-up, so the driver brushed it off and said he wouldn't pursue any damages or charges. *phew!* the bad news: it was completely my fault, resulted in about $2,000 of damage to my car (which is only two years old...), leading me to be an emotional wreck the last few days. you know how something bad happens, and you just replay it over and over in your head trying to figure out what happened? and you know how helpful it is to do that? not at all. i think my spirit and pride were more damaged than the car itself...
anyway, also thank GOD i have decent auto coverage, so it's all getting taken care of with a fairly manageable deductible... really makes me appreciate all those hefty insurance payments i've made over my driving life... insurance is there for a reason.
there's a lesson to be learned from just about everything i suppose! nobody's perfect... not even me.
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today's workout: 6 minute run to neighbor's house i'm "house sitting" for to bring in their mail and let their cat in and out, 6 minute run home + jillian michael's ripped in 30-level 1
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
long story long...
my friends pick on me for telling the longest, most detailed stories.
:) sometimes i even preface my stories with "long story long..." because i know there is no way to shorten it. i mean, you have to set the context and tell the back story before
you get into the details! i think there must be a bio/about me section
where i can lay the backdrop of my lift up to now, so look out for that. but the present is
where i'll start...
about a month ago, i finished my clinicals and thus my MASTERS DEGREE in OT! I've since been traveling all over to see friends and family on my time off, taking time to relax and pamper myself a bit, and STUDYING for my board exam coming up on September 4! before i move back to NC to get settled and start my new job in a new city at the end of October, I'm spending some time at my parents' house in my hometown in Ohio. studying and relaxing can only carry a day so far, so meanwhile, i've set a few goals for myself:
- train for and run my first half marathon on nov 11
- find an amazing (yet reasonably priced) apartment in uptown Charlotte
- find an amazing roommate to live in said apartment
- planning a west coast trip in october to include visiting two of my bros, see my brother and his fiancee get married, house and puppy-sitting, and a pitstop in las vegas!
- be patient, strong, bold, honest and loving in my relationship with this pretty amazing guy... :)
- save money to pay for aforementioned lifestyle (i.e. living with my parents for a little longer than i'd like...) and the car damage from a careless accident earlier this week..... oops.
- indulge in an obscene amount of television garbage (hello, daily mini-marathons of saved by the bell and boy meets world on MTV...)
- be a little bit bold with some cooking endeavors to help my busy, overworked parents a little bit
- after my test, go to Charlotte to stay with a friend while looking for a permanent housing situation
- rest!
these are just a few of the topics will appear in some future posts, along with tidbits about my adventure of becoming something i have worked toward for the last 6 years- an occupational therapist! i'll try to keep it down to the very necessary deets...... buuut no guarantees. sometimes the details are the best part! and sometimes you just need somebody to (pretend to) listen.
like i said, i tell long stories.
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today's workout: run 1.2 miles out, walked back + jillian michaels' ripped in 30-level 1
about a month ago, i finished my clinicals and thus my MASTERS DEGREE in OT! I've since been traveling all over to see friends and family on my time off, taking time to relax and pamper myself a bit, and STUDYING for my board exam coming up on September 4! before i move back to NC to get settled and start my new job in a new city at the end of October, I'm spending some time at my parents' house in my hometown in Ohio. studying and relaxing can only carry a day so far, so meanwhile, i've set a few goals for myself:
- train for and run my first half marathon on nov 11
- find an amazing (yet reasonably priced) apartment in uptown Charlotte
- find an amazing roommate to live in said apartment
- planning a west coast trip in october to include visiting two of my bros, see my brother and his fiancee get married, house and puppy-sitting, and a pitstop in las vegas!
- be patient, strong, bold, honest and loving in my relationship with this pretty amazing guy... :)
- save money to pay for aforementioned lifestyle (i.e. living with my parents for a little longer than i'd like...) and the car damage from a careless accident earlier this week..... oops.
- indulge in an obscene amount of television garbage (hello, daily mini-marathons of saved by the bell and boy meets world on MTV...)
- be a little bit bold with some cooking endeavors to help my busy, overworked parents a little bit
- after my test, go to Charlotte to stay with a friend while looking for a permanent housing situation
- rest!
these are just a few of the topics will appear in some future posts, along with tidbits about my adventure of becoming something i have worked toward for the last 6 years- an occupational therapist! i'll try to keep it down to the very necessary deets...... buuut no guarantees. sometimes the details are the best part! and sometimes you just need somebody to (pretend to) listen.
like i said, i tell long stories.
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today's workout: run 1.2 miles out, walked back + jillian michaels' ripped in 30-level 1
"my first post"
recently i've discovered several blogs that i really enjoy reading
and keeping up with. i find it interesting how attached i've gotten and how much i know about a few strangers' lives, yet
they know nothing about me.
i think i've always strayed away from writing for an audience because i didn't think i had anything interesting or meaningful to say. always dreaded writing assignments, and still feel self-conscious about every email or instant message or text i write-- triple checking and correcting myself constantly. but i know that the best thing to do when you have trouble starting- is to just start.
i think i read something in a blog once along the lines of "maybe someone somewhere may come across this at a time when they really need it..." well, i've been on that side and have actually been comforted by reading something "ordinary" from another person's experience. i think that would be a pretty cool thing to give to someone else. here goes!
i think i've always strayed away from writing for an audience because i didn't think i had anything interesting or meaningful to say. always dreaded writing assignments, and still feel self-conscious about every email or instant message or text i write-- triple checking and correcting myself constantly. but i know that the best thing to do when you have trouble starting- is to just start.
i think i read something in a blog once along the lines of "maybe someone somewhere may come across this at a time when they really need it..." well, i've been on that side and have actually been comforted by reading something "ordinary" from another person's experience. i think that would be a pretty cool thing to give to someone else. here goes!
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