New Love!

While being sick and laying around... I found a new love.

Amazon Video One Demand.

This is  wonderful... and they have specials that are cheap and handy!

I had a $5 credit to try video on demand......

I watched Charlie St. Cloud and Life as we Know it... both very good movies.


So perhaps I will find a new movie for tonight!!

{I'm Gonna Do It...}

I've decided to start running. Now just for the record, I am not a runner.  In the past, the most I have truly ran at one time, was the bases on a softball field. I know, its sad.  I have never enjoyed to run. Running the mile in gym class was utter hell.  I could never understand why people enjoyed running. 

After talking with a few runners, I have decided to give running a try.

In fact, I start tomorrow.  I have found a simple running plan online and am going to try to follow it. My plan is to run/walk at least three days a week.  I will start slow to build up my endurance, and by the end of 8 weeks the goal is that I will be running a full 30 minutes.

Here's the plan:

Warm up: 15 minutes

Week one: Walk for 6 minutes, then jog at an easy pace for 1 minute. Repeat 3 times. Aim for three sessions with that same sequence for week one.

Week two: Walk for 5 minutes, then jog for 2 minutes. Repeat 3 times. Aim to do three sessions in week two.

Week three: Walk for 3 minutes, then jog for 4 minutes. Repeat 4 times. Aim for four sessions in week three.

Week four: Walk for 2 minutes, then jog for 5 minutes. Repeat 4 times. Shoot for four of those sessions in week four.

Week five: Walk for 2 minutes, then jog for 8 minutes. Repeat 3 times. Do four of those sessions in week five.

Week six: Walk for 2 minutes, then jog for 9 minutes. Repeat 3 times. Try to do four sessions for week six.

Week seven: Walk for 1 minute, then jog for 11 minutes. Repeat 3 times. Do four sessions this week.

Week eight: Congratulations on making it to week eight! For your first run this week, try walking for 5 minutes to begin and end the workout, and run for 20 minutes in between. By the end of the week, try to run for 30 minutes without stopping.
Cool Down: 15 minutes

So wish me luck, I will be hitting the gym between my internship and class. I'll let you know how the first day goes.

**Any runners out there have any advice/wisdom to share with a new runner?**

{Refreshed and Ready}

I had a great weekend. I was able to relax which was nice, it helped me recover from a rather difficult week. Now I am feeling ready to start the week fresh. 

I stayed pretty busy.  Friday night I worked, Bobby came to work with me. We ended up going to a local church for the Friday Fish Dinner.  We even took the little girl I watch, Olivia, and she was very good.  The wait was really long. So we ended up waiting longer than it took us to eat. But the food was pretty good.

I will admit, it was not the same as the fish fry at home.  But it was still nice to go nonetheless.  I also went and watch Bobby play hockey. The lost, but it was a really good game. The were tied 1-1, and had a shoot out. It was very exciting!

Saturday Bobby I cooked during the afternoon. We made three meals to help him get through his week. Its easier for him to have stuff that's ready because his schedule is so busy. We made some really good chicken stir fry, with tons of veggies. We also made a three cheese spinach penne with chicken, and sloppy joes w/potato wedges. I think that should hold him over for the week.  I was pretty impressed with myself, the pene looked awesome. I will post the recipe later :)!  Later that night we ended up going out to Buffalo Wild Wings with Bobby's roommates, which was fun!

On Sunday Bobby and I were going to meet my friend Lindsey  to go and see the new Alice in Wonderland 3D, but of course the show was completely sold out for the entire day. We were so bummed! I think Bobby and I are going to try to go in a couple of weeks. We didn't know this, but Bobby lives pretty close to an IMAX theater. And I have never seen a 3D movie at an IMAX theater. Since the show was sold out, we ended up going to Barns & Noble, and then made a pit stop at a Panera Bread.

On a side note: I am really stoked because for my birthday, my parents gave me a crock pot. And while we were at the bookstore I bought a crock pot cookbook. I'm not gonna lie, I am kind of excited to start using it.   I have been quite a little baker/cook lately, and I'm loving it.   I think Bobby and the C. family are loving it too, they are reaping all the benefits from my new discoveries! 

New Computer!

As some of you know, my laptop has been slowly dying. The screen flicks on and off, the CD drive only work when it wants to and its just been running poorly. Its been pretty slow and its been hard to open some things up for school. I've been trying to keep the minimum things on the laptop for obvious reasons but I was still having a hard time with it.

Last weekend while my sister was home, and we made a trip to Best Buy. I was planning on going in to just look, but I found something that I liked that was reasonably priced that had what I needed. I was very, very hesitant about buying it. This was a lot of money for me to spend but I knew I needed a new computer. I was willing to make do with what I had. I told Tarra that I would think about it and if I decided to get it then we could come back tomorrow. She wasn't going to let me leave without a computer! So we walked around the store while I thought about it... a little while later, we were walking out of the store with 2 huge boxes.


I bought a Gateway desktop.

Its very nice!

Its got a 19" LCD flat screen, 4 GB Memory, 460GB RAM.

Let me just say that it is so much faster than my laptop.

I am very happy that I bought it, thanks to the Stangl's. Its great!

And it should last a long time!