Day 32: Ouchie day.

So, short post because I managed to get my first ice-related injury today and I was only outside for 2.5 minutes!  I went to get the paper and the mail and slipped, landing right on my elbow.  I have never felt this much pain in my life!  Hurts so bad.  No bueno.  On to better thoughts for today :)

Day 32:
1.  Ice packs are my new best friends.  They really do help.  The numbness has become my saving grace.
2.  Catching up on movies from my childhood.  I cranked out the Disney etc type movies today to spend time on ice day #3.  It's been a lot of fun.  "Just keep swimming!" :)
3.  Pretzels and clementines.  Sounds like a terrible combo I know, but it's a sweet and salty combo that's fairly healthy and has been a staple for me over the past few days.  Love me some clementines!

Day 31: Much of the same as yesterday...on to snow day #3 tomorrow!

Well, I would love to have something interesting to write here, however, I have done practically nothing over the past 2 days and it has been amazing!  The only not-so-amazing part...the possibility of rolling blackouts. Luckily so far, I've only been subjected to one of these, so fingers crossed it'll stay that way!  I decided that I might work on a goals list today along with the 3 things.  Let's do the goals first though...


February Goals:

(1) Fitness

- 45 minutes of cardio at the gym, 3-4x per week + 1 yoga class per week.  Get back in to college shape (hopefully) before the end of March, if not, by mid-April regardless.  

(2) Eating

- Shoot for the 5 days a week off the Booze Train, but really concentrate on the Just One Glass motto if enjoying a weekday libation
- Use this month to really kick "Teach myself to cook" efforts into full gear.  I have a bit of a head start on this one thanks to the Icepocalypse 2011 that has stormed in to town, so now to continue it.  

- Portion Control; continue with Conscious / Conscientious Eating; again this has a head start as well thanks to the Arctic Blast due to now needing to make the food last longer than originally planned.  

(3) Work

- Try not to stress over the girls' crazy requests or ability to ask the same question 15 times and still not know the answer.

- Try to get grading done in a more efficient manner.   

(4) Personal

- Read at least one textbook for my upcoming masters program per month.
- Read one guilty pleasure book per month.  

- See a few more of the Best Picture nominees before the Oscars. 

- Keep up saving as much as is humanly possible before having to give it all away again in August.  

- Spring clean the closet and bedroom before spring cleaning actually gets here.  Be sure to keep only what I will TRULY wear from here on out.  Not just what I hope to fit back in to or to bring back in style.  

Ok, now for the 3 things today.

Day 31: 

1.  Lounging on the couch all day.  Really just relaxing in general.  It's great.

2.  Long warm baths on cold, cold days.

3.  Reading for pleasure again!  I have missed this so much and I am so glad I've had a few days to be able to get back to reading for fun.  

Day 30: Snow day...I mean ice day!

Enjoyed the ice day today only to discover...that I get another one tomorrow!  I'm really glad to have the day off but now we are getting into "uh oh, am I going to have enough time left in the quarter to teach the girls what they need to know?" as well as this storm is REALLY bad, so while the day off is great, I can't leave the house so I imagine that I am going to have a big case of cabin fever by end of day tomorrow.  Plus, the way things are going here, it looks like we might have Thursday off as well.  It's nuts here.

Day 30:
1.  Snow days obviously!!  I would love to say I slept in, but my stupid natural clock woke me up at 8.45, but on the plus side, I had a lot down around the house and with work before 11am :)
2.  Watching the dog discover ice and decided that no, her precious paws were not going to step on that cold stuff and realizing that that white stuff is cold when you try to sit on it, haha.
3.  Day time TV!  I forgot how much fun some guilty pleasure day time tv can be (in small doses).  I watched silly things like "Afraid of the Dark" on the History Channel, "Cake Boss" on TLC, and so many other fun things today.  Gotta love it sometimes.

Off to watch the boys play hockey on a night where they could probably play the game outside!