Wednesday, August 25, 2010

8 Miles, Bedroom Switcharoo, New Book: Impossible

Hola! Thanks for the book recs- I have The Help on hold at the library - it's definitely on my must-read list, and so is that Sookie Stackhouse series! :) Also, the 19th Wife is now on there and I LOVE Jennifer Weiner so I'll have to check that out - THANKS! Happy Wednesdays! Hope you're all having good days! Backing up to yesterday. It was pretty much just work, 4-mile walk during lunch, more work and then another 35-minute run after work. This time, I started running at 6.3 mph right when the treadmill started and didn't stop until I go to 35. This got me to 3.67 miles straight. WOO! Seeing that made me know if I had to I could run 4 miles straight if someone was chasing me... at a lower speed. hehe After stopping and taking a picture like the big freak best blogger ever that I am, I hopped back on for .33 miles of walking at 4.0 mph, to take my total after work to 4 miles, or 8 miles for the day. Great workout!

After that I stretched then headed home for spicy spaghetti pie, a Veronica Mars with the family and recipe organization in bed with little Reuben. Wonderful evening! I also read a bit of the new book - Nancy Werlin's Impossible. So far, i'm following the life of Lucy, a 17-year-old foster child who is happy and healthy, but is plagued by her strange birth mother's appearances and some incidents at the prom... and there's something dark magic/mischievous going on - love it so far, but only on page 125! I ended the night at 1,734 calories, 224 carbs, 57 fat grams and 80 protein grams. Here's what I ate.

Also, I've been meaning to post our bedroom switcharoo! I know I mentioned that we switched up our bedroom from chocolate/cranberry to chocolate/green. Here's the new pics! (the green came from our guest room and the cranberry moved to our upstairs den which used to be blue, but now Austin's home office is blue). :)

Basically - we just got two new nighstands, added the green bedding, added some pillows from other rooms, a bit of new art and some green accents!
Austin wanted the closed-off Pottery Barn nightstand
I wanted open shelving - although I need to work a bit more to keep it clean!

Random shot - and poor Reuben has given up! LOL
New art and some new green accents

Here are some before shots:

gotta love nightstand shopping - only took me a year! haha


So much darker before - and we ultimately had to toss the moss A and K from our wedding - they died!

Still love the red- but really like the lighter colors now!


Hope you like the changes we made! The great thing is we can always go back - stuff is just shuffled all over the house. I could see going darker in the winter!

Q: So I'm kind of done with C25K as far as getting to where 30 minutes is pretty cozy - any suggestions for another running plan that involves a bit longer distances?

Q: Do you switch up rooms in your house a good bit? Or do you prefer keeping them the same?