Friday Five

  1. It’s hot so I’m wearing dress shorts again to work today. No shame in my game! We’re closing the office at noon, then I’m on vacation until July 27th! I’m so excited!
  2. The mosquitoes are EVIL. One bit me in the hollow of my throat last night while I was outside for about 20 minutes. Seriously?? Get outta here!
  3. I’ve been eating so much watermelon lately that I think I’m going to float away! #noregrets
  4. Have you seen Jurassic World? Well, my friend Trent texted me to say that he thinks I look like the character Zara, played by Katie McGrath. I’m not sure I see it. But I’m incredibly flattered, nonetheless!
  5. Seriously, someone keep me away from the cream cheese mints!!!

Fake it til you make it, the Thursday edition

  • I went home around 3pm yesterday with a massive migraine. I slept for about 2.5 hours then went back to bed around 8pm. The headache is still lingering and I’m so very tired. 
  • The heat is on here in Lincoln. We’re looking at 99 tomorrow. Those are my dress shorts. Totally work appropriate, right?! 
  • I am so excited for vacation next week. Pool time and sleeping in are basically all I want out of life next week.
  • I bought my bf an ice cream maker for his birthday. I think we’re going to crack it open tonight. He says the gift was more for me than him. I say we both win either way!
  • Life update: the bf DID get kicked out of his apartment BUT in a fortuitous event, we found a fabulous house for him to rent–and the best part?? It’s RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER FROM ME! Like a 3 minute walk, see? 
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He will be 2.5 blocks away from me now, as opposed to 20 minutes across town. It’s a 2 bed, 1 bath house. Fenced in backyard for the dog, covered patio so we can grill out. It was the perfect solution! He’s moving in next Friday. YAY! My stress levels are so much less now. 

  • I seriously could go take a nap right here and now. Also, someone keep me away from the Cream Cheese Mints!! I’ve had too many in the past 2 days.

Happy Friday eve!!

The past few days my coworkers, friends, and even my massage therapist have told me there’s something different about me. That I seem happier, more mellow. More content. They all attributed it my new relationship. I’m not saying that I was unhappy before the bf came into my life, but just that I have this feeling of being happy and content exactly where I’m at in this moment. And THAT is a nice feeling. 🙂

  • Conversations with two-o-nine. She’s talking about the group Doug and the Slugs. True story: my uncle is in a cover band! He plays guitar and wears sunglasses during the sets. He’s a cool dude. They play “Americana” songs. He invited the bf and I to go to their concert this past Sunday. If it wasn’t such short notice, we were going to go watch him do his thing. 
  • In other news, my massage therapist asked me if I had lost weight. I was surprised, and told her no, not that I really knew of. She said she could see it in my legs and torso. She sees me about once a month, so I’ll go with what she says! But honestly, the scale is about the same. Huh.
  • I ran again this morning before work. Success! It was hard for me to want to get out of bed–but I did it and I’m so glad that I did. It makes such a difference in my day and demeanor when I get a sweat session in before I head to work for the day.
  • Have you had those cream cheese mints at graduations, wedding receptions, etc? Well, I’m obsessed with them. I love love love them. And my coworker who got married last month had them at her wedding. This morning she brought in 2 big bags full of them to share with us. I’m debating how long I have to wait before I have some. (because we all know that I will have some!!) So, so good.

Happy Hump Day friends! Have a good one!

5 Things that make me happy

I was tagged by the wonderful runningforbiscuits​ to list 5 things that make me happy. In no particular order they are:

  1. Waking up in the night and looking at the alarm clock and seeing that I have several hours more to sleep. What a glorious feeling.
  2. When my nephews call me “Emmie” and tell me they love me. Makes me melt.
  3. Getting lost in a really good book.
  4. Early morning summer runs. There is just something magical about running in the morning as the sun is rising and the rest of the world is waking up.
  5. Spending hours in the pool laying on my floatie, just talking about anything and everything with my mom. Precious memories.

I’m tagging runningshew, two-o-nine, and runningfortheriesling

The Monday Struggle

  • Heat indices of 110 degrees mean I have little-to-no appetite. This dress was looser this morning…the scale was down a bit too. Win-win.
  • I am planning on moving bedrooms at my house into the Master bedroom right across the hall. I was debating if I wanted to because I thought it was hotter than my room. Turns out my previous roomie had LEFT THE WINDOW OPEN 6 INCHES when she moved out! I just got the electric bill. It didn’t do too much damage (yet). Ai yi yi.
  • My bf came over with his dog yesterday afternoon and evening. He set up my dryer for me (we had to buy a power cord for it) and while he was out he bought rope for the clothes line! Now we can dry clothes on the line. It’s embarrassing how excited I am about this.
  • I go on vacation next week. I’m finding it really hard to be productive this week.
  • I’m considering running the Omaha Marathon’s 10k race. 6.2 miles sounds like more fun than 13.1. AND the bf wants to run it with me! 

Have a great week friends!

Friday Five

  1. My coworkers and I ate lunch at the University of Nebraska Student Union yesterday. I saw former Husker and Olympic Gold Medal Bobsledder Curt Tomasevicz there. He is a dreamboat. See?

He teaches in the College of Engineering. He’s adorable. Sigh. I also saw a guy wearing a tail clipped to the back of his pants. That’s weird.

  1. <<<<—-That should be a 2. but it won’t let me change it. Whatever. It is supposed to be 97 and sunny here this weekend. POOL TIME! 
  2. The bf’s dog and I collided faces when I was going to snuggle her and she was sneezing. It resulted in me biting my cheek so it bled AND I have a very nasty looking bruise below my lip. Awesome.
  3. I spent Thursday stuck in a day long conference planning meeting. Sitting still is not my thing.
  4. That song I posted yesterday? Evidently it’s talking about doing drugs, specifically cocaine. Apparently it makes your face numb. Ai yi yi. I just like the beat!!

So your outfits are tres cute and I love the fact that you can find time to run even though it looks like you’re uber busy and all that so I just thought you should know that I totally admire how put together you appear 😁

Thank you so much! I feel like I’ve finally figured out what clothes look good on my body (it took me long enough!) and what I like and am comfortable in. I also think that you have to make time for fitness in your life. It’s an hour (if that some days!) of my day. I can find that. And Thank you for thinking I’m put together…sometimes I feel like such a mess inside–my life has suddenly gotten a little crazy lately! But I’m working on it! 🙂

OOTD’s and other fun facts

  • This weather is confusing. It feels like fall. 54 degrees at 630am? 
  • I don’t know what drives some people to come out of the woodwork when you haven’t spoken to them in months.
  • I will pay off my credit card NEXT MONTH! I should pay off my other one in the next few months as well. Adulting FTW. 
  • runningfortheriesling and abitofsilliness have both posted about finding and realizing when you’re at your Happy Weight. I don’t think that it is a coincidence that these posts happened so close together. I think I needed to see them. Because I think I’m think there. What. A. Revelation.
  • Sushi date tonight with my dear friend Linda for an early birthday celebration. I’m so excited! Sushi happy hour is THE BEST.
  • I feel like my teeth look super big in that second picture. Thanks Snapchat.
  • My cell phone is still discharging like a boss. I’m down 12% in about 45 minutes. I feel like that’s excessive.
  • Only 7 more work days then I’m off for 9 glorious days!! (Weekends included) There will be a lot of pool time, running at convenient hours, and sleeping in. Staycations are pretty awesome. 

Happy Hump Day friends