I honestly thought that I could go without running and just do pilates ALL the time. Was I crazy?! After a few weeks of not running, I got out of the habit and something possessed me to stop. I forced myself get up this morning out of my comfy bed and go running.. not just for a quick easy run, but for a long intense run. And I feel AMAZING right now. On cloud nine.
I think I have found something to do during the day. Halleluiah! Yesterday I decided to go out on a service call with Gabe in the morning and ended up staying with him the whole day. It was fun to see what my husband does when he goes out to work. He meets some wacky people. I would go inside with him and hand him his tools from his tool bucket and run upstairs to grab anything he needed. I also talked to the crazy home owners and listened to their random stories. Gabe told me after that that saved him a lot of time cause he didn’t have to stop his work to chit chat with them. I talked to an old lady who was talking to her 4 lb dog sitting on her stomach. She told me all about how they got their dog, and why their dog has that color of hair, how she ran over a baby moose and about why they had cut down their trees.
Me and Gabe went to Taco Bell for lunch and went inside and sat down to eat. (We hardly ever go inside. We usually use the drive thru so it was different for us.) For some reason, it was especially fun to me. I was so excited just to be with my husband during work. I realized how awesome it would be to work with my husband on a regular basis. I got lucky. Ever since our first date Gabe always invited me to do things with him and his friends, he always wanted me with him and I loved that from the beginning. We are still the same way. We could be with each other 24/7 and never get sick of one another. I love my husband and I love being with him. I think it would be awesome to find a job that we could do together and hope that’s something that’s possible for us in the future. As for right now, I’ll happily be his little helper and keep his customers entertained.
I went out to a couple jobs with Gabe Saturday morning. We had to get up at like 10:30 – super early! Yes I’m serious, we have such a weird schedule during the summer. We go to bed at 3:00 and wake up around 12 usually. It makes us feel like we’re staying young J Anyway, it was a bit of a drive so we got to see some pretty places of the city. On our way back to the hotel, we saw a bunch of cars pulled over to the side of the road so we pulled over to see what all the fuss was about. There was a herd of caribou, probably like 15-20 or so, running around. We got out our camera to take pictures and the song from the Lion King, “In The Jungle” came on and the caribou started prancing around and the babies started chasing each other. It was super funny, it made us laugh. We saw a couple moose earlier that morning too. I love seeing the wildlife and the feeling of being in the mountains nonstop.
One of the moose we saw:
Saturday night Gabe got off earlier than usual, and we wanted to go try out the bowling alley. We got dressed up in our fancy date night clothes and headed over there to see the CLOSED sign on the doors. We went to good old McDonalds for dinner. It was delish. We had to get creative on what to do so we went to Home Depot and walked around the store for a while. It was fun to pick out things that we would choose for our home and just to hold hands and chat. Gabe taught me how to play poker on Sunday. I like learning things from each other and having time to spend with each other. Marriage is such a blessing.
Can the food cravings get any more intense?! I mean seriously. I try to keep myself busy during the day and have been adding to my list of recipes I want to try. But looking at pictures of delicious foods that I cannot have right now is almost killing me. They all look soooooooo delicious!
** Like this: **
** And this: **
(Aren’t those just the cutest ever!! They make me happy just looking at them.)
It makes my stomach growl and all I can do to satisfy my cravings is to pour myself a huge bowl of dry cereal covered in sugar. SO extremely jealous of anyone with a stove and oven right now.
On a positive note, Gabe is doing especially awesome with work this week. He’s got lots of jobs so far and we’re off to a great start this week. Keep up the great work babe!
My creative juices having been flowing like crazy these last few weeks. Other than fitness, another passion that I have is for interior design. In high school I took a couple interior design classes and it made me have a temporary wish to become an interior decorator. I tend to stress very easily and after realizing how much stress having to decorate someone else’s house would be, my wants to be an interior decorator slowly dwindled over time. If I did end up with a serious career, it would definitely be in fitness and nutrition, which is excellent for someone like me, because exercise is a super stress reducer. Although I probably will never design clients’ houses, I still dream about designing my own home. As Gabe can very much validate, I’d say that 90% of the shows I currently watch on TV are like home decorating/remodeling type shows. I get excited looking at rooms and figuring out what I would change to it, where I would put furniture, and what I could add to it to make it more interesting. I used to want to build my own house from the ground up. Ambitious, right? Me and Gabe want to buy a house with awesome structure and fix it up, tear walls down and all that dirty work, and be able to decorate it myself and make it our own. Needless to say, I cannot wait. I want to make a house a home. Corny phrase, I know, but it’s something that makes me happy. I want our home to be a place that we actually want to spend our time, and a place where others feel welcome and want to be as well.
I read a talk this morning where President David O. McKay said the following:
“I know of no place other than home where true happiness can be found in this life. It is possible to make home a bit of heaven; indeed, I picture heaven to be a continuation of the ideal home.”
What a blessing I have of making our home a bit of heaven.
I am a fitness fanatic at heart. I started exercising at a fairly young age and I fell in love with it. I went to college in hopes of getting a degree in fitness and nutrition and maybe eventually opening my own business. I love anything and everything fitness! My hope is to be able to eat healthy AND to get down a workout schedule. It always seemed like I had control of only one of those things. So.. I figured this summer would give me a good opportunity to try and achieve both things. I was wrong. Moving all over the place, we stay in hotels and as of right now, all we have to cook with is a microwave. Deep down I absolutely despise frozen packaged foods. I do not like them one bit. And that seems to be the majority of the food in our hotel room. Bleh! Luckily for me, hotels usually have an exercise room included in their amenities. Unlucky for me, not all the machines in the exercise room work. I think maintaining the equipment is low on their maintenance list. I have been setting goals for my running and I had recently read a fitness blog about a new, more effective way to run, and I was all pumped up to give it a try. A couple days into it I got shin splints. They are horrendous. I have had minor shin splints before, but I usually just ran them off and they’d be gone in a day or two. This time it was not the same story. Even walking hurts. Our current hotel has a treadmill and an exercise bike, but only the treadmill works. I can’t let myself go without exercising at all, so I knew I had to come up with something. Yoga and pilates was something I wasn’t ever able to get into, but I decided to give it a try. I always thought it was too “gentle looking” to be effective, but I have been proved wrong. The last couple days I have been doing yoga and pilates because I haven’t been able to use the treadmill, and I am very excited to find that I like it a lot! To try and make my long story short, I am excited to get back to running, and very excited to have learned something new.
