Late Night Organization

(Potential) Sunday Workout: Bike, Body Pump and CX30 (a new abs class at the Y)

Do you and your husband ever start on a task late at night, then wonder why you didn't start it earlier?! That was Andrew and I last night.  His parents gave us an end table, and once we found a place for that, the reorganization of the Nagel apartment began!

A blurry picture of the table that now houses our liquor and our board games.  Weird combo...I think not!

The pile of stuff that has followed my husband for years and (sort of) doubled when I came into the picture

The place where his dresser used to be (which is now in our bedroom)

I also reorganized my cake decorating stuff because Andrew's Mom gave me a bunch of stuff from her cake decorating days. 

See the new spot for Andrew's dresser?!

Some people may hate to clean/reorganize, but Andrew and I love projects like this.  Hopefully I'll remember to take some 'after' pictures to show off our reorganized apartment :)

Have a great Sunday everyone!

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What kind of projects do you enjoy with your significant other?

Andrew and I are both OCD, but have different levels of it, which I think makes us a great team :)

Do you have Columbus day off? Doing anything fun?

I'm hanging out with my Mom and we're doing some shopping.  I haven't shopped or hung out with Mom in awhile (I'm trying to be good and not spend a ton of money) so I'm really excited!

Fall Festival Fun...and Fro Yo

Saturday Workout: 32ish min bike and PT exercises

Hey everyone! I hope you had a great Saturday.  The weather was PERFECT here.  It was actually a perfect day for running, but I settled for walking around a fall festival with Megan, Andrew and his parents instead.  We walked from Megan's house to the festival, which involved a crazy hill that we walked up/down.  I definitely got another workout in...and it felt great. 

Before the festival we went to the Double T Diner for breakfast/lunch (Andrew's Dad and I got breakfast, Andrew and his Mom got lunch).  This is what you see as you walk in the restaurant:

The first two make sense...but how often do you walk into a restaurant and take off your shoes...honestly?!

Then we walked off our meal.  Here are some pictures of a cool car we saw there:

Ok...so maybe I forgot to take pictures of other things...oops! But here is one of the best parts of the day, besides the weather and hanging out with family and friends:

FRO YO!! It's been so long since I had it...and it made a great dinner.

Andrew and I decided to reorganize our apartment...at 6:00pm...it's going to be a long (but productive) evening.  Have a great night everyone!

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Did you have amazing weather today?  Did you take advantage of it and spend some time outside?

Clowns eat souls...and babies

Sunday Workout: 30 min bike and BODY PUMP (pain free....YAYAYAYAYAYAY)
Monday Workout: Off Day
Tuesday Workout: 30 min bike and PT exercises
Wednesday Workout: PT session (15 min bike and a TON of exercises...including two new ones)
Thursday Workout: Body Pump and 17 mins on the bike
Friday: PT session (15 min bike and many MANY exercises)

Hey everybody! How excited are you that it's Friday?! I'm very excited about my three day weekend, esp. since I've been stuck in training for the past five days.  So not cool...but necessary for the certification that I have.


So you may be wondering about the post title for today.  At GOTR this past Sunday, we had the girls give us examples of things that stressed them out as they ran laps.  One girl said clowns (they can be kind of scary!).  We asked why she thought they were stressful...and her response was "OMG they are so scary, they eat souls....and babies!!".  Megan and I were cracking up! The girls are hilarious and it was a fun hour, despite the weather being kind of chilly.


This weekend is jam packed with stuff.  Today I had PT after work, then Andrew and I went to one of our favorite places...CHICK-FIL-A ("I could eat there seven times a day"...thank you, Tim Hawkins).  Although I didn't get the waffle fries, there over sized fruit bowl is pretty amazing.  And it's all washed down with some Diet Coke (Andrew says I'm an addict...which isn't true...ok... maybe I'm just not ready to admit it.  Plus Diet Pepsi is better....they just don't offer it at Chick-fil-a). 

Tomorrow we're hanging out with Andrew's parents and going to lunch and a Fall Festival.  They didn't have much about the festival on the website, but I hope they have lots of fall-like food (aka pumpkin and apple related things). 


Have a great Friday everyone!

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Caramel Apple or Candy Apple?
I love caramel apples!

Does anyone else do Body Pump?  Are you in pain (aka..the 'I worked out hard' pain) afterwards?
I think I'm more in the 'I haven't lifted anything in months and need to get back in shape' hurt...but it feels so good!

Date Night!

Saturday Workout: 30 mins bikes and PT exercises

On Saturday Andrew and I went out to dinner and to mini golf.  Since we're both foodies, we decided to try a new place that had New Orleans creole style food.  I was a little skeptical at first since I'm not a spicy food kind of person, but once the appetizer came I was alright.

The spinach dip (center) had deep fried bow tie pasta noodles to dip...so good!

Then our meals came out.  I got salmon and mashed sweet potatoes (YUM) and Andrew got the Jambalaya (is that how you spell that?!).  

Then it was off to mini-golf.  We didn't keep an overall score, just who won each hole (that's what she said).  Andrew won the mini-golf game...barely.  But he won...and boasted until I kicked his butt in air hockey (ok...maybe he won one game too...but that was a practice game...he just didn't know).  Here are some pictures from the crazy golf course.

Game face

Cute

This is my favorite picture...I love the crab

This was the 18th hole. How scary is that clown?!

Today we have church and I have GOTR.  Then I'm doing my first body pump class in months with my friend Megan (another Megan than the one I'm doing GOTR with...yeah...it can be confusing).  Have a wonderful Sunday everyone :)  

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Are you good at mini-golf? Regular golf?
I'm decent at mini-golf, but the real thing...forget it! 

Do you take Body Pump?  How often do you go?
When I could go I was trying for twice a week (I would still do cardio).  I'm going to try that approach again this time around.

Cake Decorating Prep..and The Finished Product

Monday's Workout: 27 mins bike with PT exercises
Tuesday's Workout: Session with Physical Therapist; 30 mins bike with PT exercises
Wednesday Workout: 28 mins bike with PT exercises
Thursday Workout: off
Friday Workout: Session with the Physical Therapist (15 min bike and PT exercises)



Monday and Tuesday's plan after work was to prep for my cake decorating class on Wednesday.  I missed the very last class due to the hurricane (an electric oven makes it very hard to bake when the power is out). 


I forgot how much work decorating a cake was, so it took me all evening to bake the cake, make the frosting, frost the cake and make the frosting flowers (it takes them a day to dry..and most of them broke so I didn't use them). 

It took three days for the food coloring to come off!

The work paid off: I decorated my final cake and got my certificate (yes...the colors are quite annoying).  I don't think I'll be signing up for any more cake decorating classes since it was so time consuming, but it was really fun and I learned a lot. 

The finished product :)

Yay!

After PT last night Andrew took me out to dinner and to play mini golf (it's indoors and everything glows in the dark!).  I'll tell you about the yummy food and how bad I beat Andrew the mini-golf game in a later post.  Have a great Saturday everyone!


P.S. : Have you entered Vanessa's giveaway.  What are you waiting for?!

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How much frosting do you like on your cake/cupcakes?
I like a good 2:1 frosting to cake ratio.  You can even leave the cake out ;)

Chocolate or Vanilla Frosting?
Chocolate!!!!! (as if that was a surprise to anyone reading this)

Singing in the Rain

Workout: 25 mins (intermediate level) bike with millions of ab PT exercises

NOTE: I apologize now for my lack of pictures...

Hey everyone! I hope you all had a relaxing Sunday.  I had a great time at GOTR (Girls on the Run) and love the girls I'm working with.  There are some crazy speedy runners in that group, and they're all hilarious (I forgot what it was like to be a pre-teen). 

Our lesson focused on how to be yourself:  Most girls/women...even some men...feel like they have to act a certain way to be excepted in today's society, when, in reality, being honest and being yourself is much more important.  The girls gave great examples of ways to be yourself and to accept others (my favorite example was 'Singing in the rain'...it must have been something one of the girls enjoyed doing that she thought others would think was weird...I loved it!!) , and it was really awarding to see a group of girls who didn't judge or make fun of each other.  I remember being on sports teams where I were afraid to make any mistakes because I knew one of my 'teammates' would yell at me/make fun of me for it. 

Well...enough of that...it's time to get ready for another crazy week. 

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Do you usually worry about what others think of you...or do you 'sing in the rain'?

Why does the weekend go so fast....yet the week takes FOREVER?!

I can't believe the weekend is almost over, yet this past week took FOREVER! 

Todays is going to be a pretty crazy day since I have church until 11:30, then have to eat lunch (at Subway...YUM) really quick before coaching at my local YMCA for Girls on the Run.  They started this past Thursday, but I'll probably be coaching only on Sundays.  I'm excited/nervous, but I'm coaching with my friend Megan and she told she had a blast on Thursday.





Megan and I at the Annapolis Ten Miler two years ago...it was cancelled this year due to a hurricane, but we are both injured and couldn't run it anyways...


I have to go get ready for church, but I'll recap my first day at GOTR this afternoon.  Have a great Sunday everyone!