what i've begun

Just some things:

• You should listen to 'Where I Stood' by Missy Higgins. Here, I'll put it here for you. Something about it just feels right.

• I'm almost done with my arrangements of the acoustic version of Sleepyhead by Passion Pit and Deer in the Headlights by Owl City. I'm really excited for my a cappella group to (hopefully) sing these. I think they will be banging.
• Today, I am tired. I don't feel like doing much of anything, but I at least have to finish payroll.
• Justin's Nut Butter on bananas is the most excellent of on-the-go breakfasts.
• I am having a love/hate relationship with the third book in the Game of Thrones series. I want to know what happens, but I don't want to spend the time reading about characters for whom I have no love or investment. I am in love with half of them and completely indifferent to the rest. I could really just do with a whole series about Daenerys Targaryen. For serious, y'all. She is the bomb dot com. Yeah, I did just say that.

• I bought new jeans from Express (which is my new favorite place because I'm now an extra small there) and they are fabulous EXCEPT that they are made for people who are a) at least four inches taller than I am (and I am 5'7" -- that is above average height for ladies here, people,) or b) people who wear 5"+ heels every single day for everything they do in life. I have been wearing them with heels at work and tucked into my boots outside of work, but I just need to get them hemmed because I like my Toms, thank you very much.
• In other news about Express, I have a pair of jeggings that I bought when we first got here that fit just okay and now they fit great. They are shiny and have many jewels on the butt. It makes me happy.
• Sometimes, my spam mail just makes me laugh. In this case, Godiva wants to send me a free Nicholas Sparks book, but my "friend" Janelle would like to recommend tasteful...toys.

•  Lastly, here are starting pictures for toning things up at the gym:

p.s. - This is what I look like after I go to the gym.

Only I wear a shirt while I'm actually there.

And sometimes a jacket.

Tummy region = needs some abs.

 

Check out my lack of biceps, y'all.

I'm planning on using a combination of our free personal training sessions (once a month,) websites like Blogilates and other online video resources, and iPhone apps to come up with new and exciting exercises to keep my muscles guessing. If you have other resources that you love, let me know! I get bored easily. I'm kind of back to where I was with my muscle tone, because I spent a month sick in bed. It got rid of the fat (I went from 22.7% body fat to 20.7% body fat) but it also undid all of the work I'd been doing. Just doing squats was hard last night, and I was down a step in the amount of weight I could sustain on the machines when we went last night. Stupid.

• Remind me to buy some new clips for my hair. OH YEAH -- can anyone recommend awesome headbands that are really actually non-slip? The ones from the drug store that say they're non-slip pop off my head. It might just be that I have a strangely shaped head, but I think it also might have something to do with the fact that I have extremely soft, slipper hair. Bobby pins don't even stay in it very well. Maybe I'll just bring back sweat bands...
• Lastly, I want some coconut water and a kit kat bar. Regular water and pumpkin spice coffee will have to suffice. Le sigh.