What a Weekend!

Saturday morning I dropped Eric off at work and then spent the morning lounging at Mom and Alan's house. In the afternoon, Mom, Eric, and I helped Alison and Zach move into their new apartment.  For once, I was actually careful to rest and not overheat - I'm usually a work until it's done sort of person.  Then I went to church and left after the homily because I was feeling beyond sick.  I've had a cold since Thursday and I just can't breathe.  So I went back to M&A's to sleep, and Eric watched Kill Bill 2.  I define sleep loosely, because I was up ALL NIGHT coughing.

We woke up at 5:50 for the North Face Endurance Challenge.  Mom, Eric, and I headed to the Plaza for our 5k race.  Mom had a plan to run every other song on her phone, and my plan was to have my Runkeeper app prompt Eric and I to run for .2 miles, walk .3 miles, run .1 miles, walk .2 miles.  We kept that pace for the entire race, with the exception of one .2 stretch that we had to cut short because of a hill.  Mom's time was 36 minutes and 45 seconds.  Eric and I both ran it in 42 minutes and 59 seconds - Woo!

When we got home, we rested for a bit, and headed to St. Thomas to lead our first Financial Peace University preview.  However... nobody showed up.  No big deal though, the class doesn't start for three weeks.

So then we went home to make lunch for our game afternoon with Mom, Alan, Paul, and Deb (and then Shannon).  That was to introduce our news that you can hop over to read about on agreenbabyblog.blogspot.com!  Then we spent the evening running around to grandparent houses and making phone calls and Skype calls.  Phew - I was so glad to go home and go to sleep!

 Vicks tissues - best thing ever when you have a cold!

 I moved Zach's bookshelf across the parking lot on a Razor Scooter!

Eric, carried the desk like this.

 Mom and I before the race.

 My sweaty shirt before my free screen printing.

My sweaty shirt after the free screen printing!

Mom, Eric, and I finished the race - woo!

Yea!

 Shannon and Deb playing Apples to Apples.

Paul and Eric.

Eric and Mom.

Alan, Me, and Shannon.

Tech Free Part 2

I've been getting sick of our routine of watching Netflix, while Eric is gaming on his computer and I'm playing on my phone.  Also mildly tired of reading - I just wanted to escape from media for an evening!  So before Steven went home, I went for a jog and he and Eric followed me on bike.  

After Steven went home, Eric and I played a 3 hour game of Monopoly!  The cats were very involved in the game...and Eric kicked my butt. 

Steven got hit by a rogue trash bag. 

I'm running with Pandora running through my phone, and Eric & Steven are playing on the bikes. 

I jumped in our pool when my 3.25 mile run was over, soooo hot! 

Mystic was laying behind Eric with about 3 inches of space, and she kept a paw on his $5 million dollar bills. 

Addy and Eric both looking at me through their eyebrows.

Beverages

Lately we've been on this big self improvement kick - getting our finances in order, doing things that are better for the environment, and now we're working on improving our health.  I've been going on 1-3 mile walks/jogs a few times per week for the past couple of weeks.  We have a 5k that I found on Groupon that both of us will be running with Mom in August.  Another thing we've been pondering over is our reliance on plastic - after watching "Tapped" on Netflix, we cut out bottled water in our lives.  And I've been cost comparing to replace all of our tupperware and gladware with Pyrex or other brands of glass storage containers.  BPA and other harmful chemicals can leach into your food and drink when stored and microwaved in plastic, and plastic is recycled more infrequently than other materials.

Our next step away from plastic is getting milk and juice in the cardboard half gallon containers.  These can also be recycled and won't leech bad things into our drinks.  I also wanted to move to organic milk, because it contains  hormones and pesticides that are making immediate impacts on people.  There are plenty of foods that have these sorts of things in them, but we're taking baby steps here.  The half gallon of organic milk cost the same as a gallon of regular milk ($3.50), so we opted for Walmart brand organic soy milk ($2.50).  Future steps will involve switching to friendlier meats (organic, grass fed, free range - I've still got research to do there) and organic fruits and veggies.

We also got Mott's vegetable juice to boost our veggie servings (yes, in plastic, I don't know that it is realistic for us to eliminate plastic all together), and Eric got some soda (which I have successfully given up!  No more caffeine headaches!).

Day 293: Selling & Shredding

The garage sale started today and went well for the most part - Eric and I sold a few little things, both sets of our dishes, and my trombone.  Mom, Alan, and Ashley fared a lot better - Mom and Alan sold some exercise equipment, and Ashley sold a little bit of everything!  Eric worked the sale in the morning and then went to work, I went to work and then headed to Olathe in the evening.

They had already put away the garage sale for the day, but I had a good time playing with Andrew and Jacob, who were both visiting for the evening.  Later on Alison came over and we did Jillian's shredding video together. It kicked our tails, but we survived!  Last, but not least, I finally got my Otterbox case for my phone!  It's finally protected from all of the torture I put my electronics through - my tough camera and super protective phone case are quite important to their survival.

No phoning it in!  We shredded like crazy people!

Day 290: Getting Active

Thank goodness for spring!  Eric and I are done lounging around on the couch all night.  Now we've been going for longer walks around the neighborhood, I've been using a cardio app that tracks how many miles we walk, and tonight I finally started Jillian's 30 Day Shed again.  Eric made Spanish rice tonight while I shredded, and it actually went really well!  I think it also has to do with us finally getting a new scale - ours broke a few months ago, so we haven't been keeping track.  Luckily we made it through the winter without acquiring too much excess blubber :)

On another spring walk - we've taken more walks in the past month than we did all winter long!

Day 243: Must be Thursday

T'was a typical Thursday, not much going down; just Addy chasing the laser pointer 'round. Ok so I can barely rhyme and it's the wrong time of year. The point is that Thursdays in the Green family are all about the same for this semester. Jess works, I go to class and the gym then come home and we make dinner and watch something for a bit. Ah, but not today. Today before class I happened to check my school email and discover I'd been dropped from my gym class. I had a warning from my instructor saying to attend by the 11th or I'd be dropped. Well that's no problem, I went on the 10th. But what's this? Another email saying I've been dropped anyway... So I went out to JCCC early to sort it out and eventually ended up with some paperwork I have to get signed by a couple higher-ups and return within a week. -Sigh- I guess I'll get to 20 visits this semester somehow. Oh, and I got a new school ID made for free since it was my first one this year (actually since I started at JCCC), and I managed to lose my old one for the umpteenth time.

This picture is better than my last ID and way better than my driver's license