Productive. Oh Yeah.

 Meriam Webster's take on the word productive: [pruh-duhk-tiv] -  yielding results, benefits, or profits, yielding or devoted to the satisfaction of wants or the creation of utilities


Erin's take on the word productive: MY DAY TODAY!! 


It all started with a casual 6:30 wake up time, some coffee and blog reading. 
It carried onward with an 8:00 teeth cleaning. No cavities mom!!! 
I came home and relaxed for a tad.... I had the day off, no sense in not using it for some relaxation, right? :)
Around 10:00 I headed out for a 5 mile training run, and holy heat was it hot! I might have lost 2 pounds due solely to sweat lost, but no worries, I gained it back fairly quickly by eating 3 pounds of peanut butter while making lunch:

 (yes, the 3 LBS of PB were consumed before eating my actual peanut butter toast) 

 After my colorful and nutritional, and obviously tasty lunch, I got all dolled up and headed out for a 1:30 interview. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I get the job. I'm not at all a fan of my current job and this job would be less than 2 miles from my apartment.... plus a FREE gym membership. 
It will be a HUGE plus if I get the job... but I'm not going to fret if I'm still working at Abercrombie and Fitch next month... however, if in a year from now I'm still walking into clouds of cologne when I walk into work, while wearing my slick jeggings, I might start to panic.


After a quick (and hopefully successful) interview, I headed on home to where I magically found myself calling an Auto Repair shop to look into getting my car and it's annoying check engine reminder checked out... crazy right!??
I booked an appointment for tomorrow and may have followed up with a little hokey pokey dance in honor of my amazing, productive day. 
But wait guys.
There is more. 
I then proceeded to head out AGAIN into the sweltering heat, and managed to apply for a part time job AND go to Target and buy a new blowdryer.... mine finally called it quits a few weeks ago and I'm getting sick of putting my roommate's socks on for her every morning in return for using her hair heat. 
After some additional lounging, I rolled over to the kitchen and made same dinner. 
This picture is purely just evidence to show my mom that I'm eating meat and not living off of veggies burgers and cheese:

I even consider my dinner productive, you know, since I cleaned out the refrigerator a tad by using up the last of my chicken and the rest of some lettuce. 


So now here I am, being slightly productive by blogging and eating ice cream? Sure, just for the record, I'm getting up right now, well, as soon as I press publish and I'm watering flowers and going up to read....ahhhh who is this girl?!


Sleep Productive,

A Polar Opposite Weekend

I woke up Saturday morning, met my running group, ran 10 miles, stopped at TJ Max and got this:

for 10 dollars!
Awesome deal, right?! 


Then, 
I woke up Sunday morning to this:

10:00am post slumber party. 

Better yet - 10:00am post bachelorette party. 

The evening started off rather classy:

With champagne toast, Olive Garden dinner, cupcake decorating for dessert and a pretty looking drink with a trashing sounding name:

Don't let the ingredients fool you... it was very tasty, and very potent!

Later into the evening, the bride-to-be got the privelage of choosing which bar was first on the list, by reaching into a pink furry pouch and choosing a piece of paper with the mystery location - Brothers, which if any of you are from Columbus or familiar with this bar, you can see why this was so funny.

So we all left to go downtown, but not before some last minute college beer chugging and people scrambling to grab purses, once the cabs arrived.

Once downtown, typical Bachelorette activities commenced:

Dancing:

Jackie... the sans-penis decor Bachelorette

pictures were taken:

really tasty (ha!) dollar shots were consumed:

more dancing took place:

as did pictures:

Permanent marker tattoos were given:

more unnecessary dollar shots were consumed:

which led to more pictures being taken:

and inevitably more dancing:

and inevitably a not so productive Sunday... you can ask the bachelorette... I'm not sure if she saw daylight yesterday... but it just shows how much fun she had the night before :)

I realize I am missing lot of awesome pictures throughout the evening... the food, the cupcakes, the gift opening and the life-size cut-out of Justin Bieber... but I figure since I'd be stealing and posting the same pictures, ya'll can check them out on this blog.

It was a fun night.

But I am once again reminded why I don't do this every weekend :)

Still tired,

Pictureless

Hi Guys Gals!

Well, I think my funk has passed... well, at least for now... ask me again at 4:00 after I have been sitting here all day at my "desk" doing absolutely nothing, and I'm sure I'll have a whole different mindset.
But, since I'm trying out this whole "lets be positive" hoopla, I shall move forward... well I guess backwards (?) to a recap of my morning:

• 4:55 am - alarm goes off
• 5:10 am - realize my alarm went off and jump outta bed
• 5:18 am - head out the door for 5 mile run
• 5:18 - 5:28 - warm up
• 5:28 - 5:48 - tempo speed
• 5:48 - 6:04 - normal pace
• 6:05 am - walk in door and chug water
• 6:08 am - take half shower, make lunch, dress, makeup
• 7:10 am - make most delicious smoothie ever (pb, yogurt and banana)
• 7:20 am - leave apartment
• 7:30 am - ankle appointment
• 8:45 am - arrive at work
• 9:30 am - job search
• now - blogging.... yeah, my job is rreeal important :)

All in all it was a good morning.
I got my run in while it was still bearable outside.
I managed to look decent with no shower
I made a delicious smoothie.
Got my ankle worked on... it's more awollen than usual... buuut nothing was said about no running :) muhahaha (this is my evil laugh)
I got called back for a job interview, yay! (good thing no one at work cares an ounce about my life and they don't read or know I have a blog)

Here's hoping my boredom at work doesn't kill this mood I've got goin on....

Peace and Chocolate,

In a Funky Funk

Yep. I said it. I am in a funk.

Nothing specific. Just,
you know,
in a
funk.

If I had to write a nasty note to my funk,
it would go something like this:

At least I have 5 miles in the morning to look forward to... :)

Happy Fourth!

Is this summer flying by or what?!


Columbus had their big 4th of July Red White and Boom fireworks on Friday night - and you bet your buns me and my friends were there:

Have an Awesome Day!

Marathon Training

I've been pretty low-key on the running/marathon training aspect of my life on this blog, so I decided to get with it and share my training plan for the fall marathon I'm running - Columbus Marathon in October, to be specific. 


Since things have been crazy this past month, my first two week of training have been kind of all over the place. I started with a training plan from my old running group in Cincinnati, but have now switched over to a plan that two other girls from my Columbus running group are also doing. 
Our goal is under 4 hours, so we've worked in some tempo runs and speed work. Long runs are going to be more frequent - with the longer ones on Saturday and one long during the week (>10) during our high milage peak. 
I'm really excited about the training plan and the race. I'm looking forward to training the girls from my running group, as well as getting into a running routine and pushing myself to accomplish goals. 


I figure I'll do a post either Saturday afternoons or Sundays about my training week in review. Since I just got the bright idea yesterday to start this, I'll post the last 2 weeks of my training plans and what I actually did. (sorry for the lack of clarity, haha, I'll work on that one)

Like I said before  As my excuse highlighted before, the first two weeks were crazy with weddings, friends visiting and birthdays, so things were a little hectic when it came time to finding time to run and sticking to the schedule. 
I'll also post about any ankle problems I'm dealing with, chaffing problems - ya know, fun runner stuff that all of you probably have already experienced :)


Happy Running!

July 1 and Another Smoothie

Yep. I did it again. I made another smoothie. That's 2 smoothies within like 13 hours. And ya know what?? I love it!!

I got up, threw some oatmeal, yogurt, water (I'm out of milk!) banana, rando raspberries and some flax then set out for a 4 mile training run, came back, showered, and pressed the blend button and

VOILA:

Breakfast with some Great Grains cereal on top!

So besides starting July with a totally awesome breakfast, I'm also starting July with a whole new attitude towards all things that are out of my comfort zone. And as a jumpstart, I've already hit some milestones in my life in the past few weeks...

• I can't remember the last time I went to bed with an exact calorie count for the day.
• I've kept millions and gazillions of opened sweets and ice cream in my freezer and have not had an emotional binge on them or thrown them away.
• I began living my life for me and not for others
• I've been going with the flow and not freaking out about huge events that take over my apartment and my title as co-owner, ha!

AND on top of all my self-improvements, I have my sister's 21st birthday as well as my roommate's sister's wedding...July should be a good one, and hopefully a great start to being 25.

YAY 3-Day Weekends!