time to build my ark

it's the second coming of noah's flood apparently. everyone else get that memo? good grief.

been feeling like poop (heh) the past 10 days. on a strict no caffeine, no alcohol, no meat, no raw veggies, no beans, no dairy, no spicy or greasy foods diet. i have been limited to white rice, white bread, bananas, apples (but no peel), and gatorade. life is terrible. needless to say, no working out for nina. fearing for my life with this camping trip in NH with cara, kate, and becky. fearing for my afterlife with this 5 mile run they're planning. crazy ladies.

all is forgiven

one of these days, becky, we WILL go running at valley green together!

went to my yoga class last night, then ran for 1+ mile and did some situps. currently i am planning on doing a good workout today after work. but come 4:30 this afternoon i may decide that going home and taking a nap is a better idea.

friday: ate chips and drank beer for dinner
saturday: ate more chips for breakfast with a coca cola icee, half a cheesesteak for lunch, ravioli and pizza at the game for dinner
sunday: ate the best belgium waffle (from bonte!) for breakfast, the other half of the cheesesteak for lunch, pork fried rice for dinner.
no workout whatsoever all weekend.

felt deeeeesgusting!

today: 1 mile on treadmill, chest flies (incline and flat), chest press, dumbell raises for tris, tricep pulldowns, lifts (also for tris), 50 situps on inclined plank, 100 crunches, ended with 1 more mile on treadmill.

i asked the gym instructor if i could have a water bottle, and he told me i had to do 20 pushups first. after some heavy negotiating (i.e. whining) i only had to do 10 in under 30 seconds. i did the 10 in 12 seconds! woooo! and i got my water bottle.

correction...it's ONLY tuesday

the week is draaaaaaagging. and no scrubs to look forward to.

ran a little, worked on my tri's and my chest with ken. i'm going to look like he-man by the end of the summer. BY THE POWER OF GRAYSKULL!

i learned a fun fact yesterday. working out increases levels of testosterone, which increases your libido. heh heh heh. NOW i understand why you all have been working out as much as you do. and here i was thinking it was just for fitness.

i'm alive!

i can't even begin to tell you how much it KILLED me to miss the party last week. still recovering from what was an EPIC cold. traveling to the boondocks of north carolina didn't help either. ever fly in a plane with a sinus headache? feels like popcorn going off in your skull!

didn't work out for over a week until this past sunday at the shore. dragged erik and trevor with me. needless to say, it was a poor showing and we were huffing and puffing like 3 sick dogs.

played landmine a couple times at trevor's shorehouse, missed becky and kate. new rule too, you can place your landmine in the path of someone's spinning quarter, as long as you don't squash it.

this is my belated CONGRATULATIONS CARA!! - i think you should dress up as a superhero for halloween. maybe wonderwoman. or supergirl. but not batgirl. she just sucks.

i think i got the gist of your blog, meredith, so here's my pending CONGRATULATIONS MEREDITH!! - with all the juggling you've been doing with all the simultaneous craziness in your life, i think you should dress up as Doc Oc from spiderman...or jean gray when she went a-wall in X-III.

i also give out a pending CONGRATULATIONS KATE!! - car bombs until we hit the floor. but you don't get to dress up as anything...unless you play landmine with me.

lastly, i got whisperings from a little birdie the other day. i think b-dog and i need to catch up officially, because i apparently missed a memo somewhere in the past couple weeks. we can discuss over landmine...or lo-carb candy that you'll trick me into eating.

i've missed you all like crazy. ambika mentioned the possibility of happy hour tomorrow. let me know, and i'll most surely be there!