I do love the taste of jell-o, but I'm actually referring to the state of my legs are tonight's workout. Holy crap.

4 rounds of 10 reps:
Front Squats - 65#

10 kettlebell swings (1-35#, 2-4, 40#)
superset with
15 seconds of split lunge-jump thingees

Split Squats - 45# (bar only)

I couldn't even do the last round of split squats. That's right, I only did 3 sets of 10, not 4. I'm a quitter, whatcha gonna do 'bout it?

And now I'm off to do 29 burpees. OH JOY!
:-P

(By the way, the garage door worked when I came home tonight. And it worked again when I left for the gym and returned. I swear, it's playing this cruel joke on me. I can hear it laughing now.)

...and party like you just don't care.

I'm throwing my hands up but not partying. Last night was so frustrating and this morning has not started off any better. And as I type this, it's going to sound ridiculous, but when it keeps happening over and over again, it sucks.

It has to do with the garage door opener at our new house. For the first two weeks, I've had no problem but lately when I leave in the morning, I push the clicker and nothing happens. Mind you, Michael leaves before me so he's already come and gone from the garage and it worked fine for him. Here I am in heels and a skirt and probably a white blouse and I'm f-ing with the garage door before work, getting all dusty/dirty.

The first time it happened, no big deal. Sure, it was annoying, but I didn't think much of it. But now it's just getting beyond ridiculous. Last night, I get home and it won't open. I think it's my clicker maybe running out of batteries because it's not even "trying" to go up or down like it normally does. It's like it's not even registering I'm pushing the button.

So, I park my car on the street and walk to the front door to go in that way. Unfortunately, our doors all stick really bad but especially the front door. The deadbolt will not open. I've had this problem before too but Michael is normally there so I just yell for him to come get the deadbolt for me. I'm trying to turn the key so hard that my key is bending yet the deadbolt would not budge! It was 86 degrees yesterday and it's hottest at 5:00 so here I am, f-ing with a garage door, then a deadbolt, in a black suit, in 86 degree weather. (Imagine me getting all worked up, frustrated, stressed, and now hot and sweaty and that's an accurate picture of what I probably looked like to my neighbors. Awesome.)

So now I'm officially stuck outside with no way in the house. So much for leaving work at a decent time only to go home and sit in my car and wait for Michael to get home.

Last night we both fiddled with the garage door and of course, it works just fine for Michael's clicker, which means he thinks I'm doing something wrong and there's nothing wrong with the garage door (which is probably the most annoying part of this situation). Even after we'd been home for 2 hours, the door seemed to work just fine.

That brings us to this morning. Michael leaves me his clicker and takes mine just in case and he leaves for work without any issues. (He has yet to experience an issue with the garage door).

An hour later, I pull out of the garage and click the button. Nothing. It won't close. You've got to be kidding me. What the f is happening?

I wait a minute or two and try again. Nothing.

I hold down the button. I click the button on the left side, the right side, the center. I click it twice really fast then twice more slowly ..All stupid stuff that should not matter but I was desperate. All with the result of Nothing.

I go into the garage and I'm going to hit the button on the wall and then run quickly under the door- you know how they tell you not to do that when you're a kid? Screw that, I'm getting good at it.

But when I click the opener on the wall, it won't work there either! ARGH! Our garage door seriously hates me. It works fine for Michael, but will not work for me. I call Michael because he thinks I'm crazy, I can tell. He thinks this is user error, as if I don't know how to click a button or something.

I end up releasing the security button and lowering the door down manually. Not a big deal except the door is dirty and dusty (we live in the desert) and I'm wearing all black. What an awesome way to start my day.

Like I said, as I type this, is seems so petty. But this is how I've STARTED and ENDED my day lately, which is getting old. I start my day crappy and then when I get home and want to tackle my to-do list head on, I can't.

Last night, after sitting in my car for 40 minutes waiting for Michael to come home, I ended up ignoring my to-do list and just relaxing and reading my book. I was so annoyed and it was the only way I could calm down. When I have the best of intentions to be productive and that plan gets all screwed up, it really bothers me.

So now tonight I have 6 things to do (3+3) plus 29 burpees (14+15). I have yet to practice the piano or figure out why my checkbook doesn't balance (never happened before).
Thanks for listening,
Kelsalynn

Personal To-Do List during the day:
1. Balance checkbook (the stupid thing doesn't balance so yes, I worked on it last night but decided I needed my 10-key calculator. If that statement doesn't make me a total nerd, I don't know what will.)
2. Pay rent (have to do snail mail at our new house which kind of stinks but oh well)
3. Pick up pics for frame (ordered them last night, will be ready to pick up over my lunch hour)

Personal To-Do tonight after work:
1. Practice the piano
2. Research things to do with Megan
3. Clean guest bathroom and bedroom (should be easy)
4. Dust, sweet, and mop ("delegate" some to Michael)

Again, I know there are more than 3 but that's what happens when you're busy getting ready to have guests, which by the way, I should tell you... my friend Megan is flying in on Friday until next Thursday so almost a full week. I have Monday-Wednesday off work while she's here, which is both exciting and completely stressing me out at the same time.

Work dictates my stress levels so much and it's something I need to work on. That's part of the reason why my weekly goal is to not work past 6:00. With most of next week off, I could work til midnight every night this week and still not have all of my work done, so what's the point of stressing myself out over it. Working late only makes me feel disorganized in my personal life and sways my work-life balance out of whack.

Good workout for tonight too- "Murph" which is a CrossFit workout that's probably #1 on my list of favorites!

So excited!

Until tomorrow,
Kelsalynn

Got tonight's workout done and added my 13 burpees!

5 rounds of 4:
Dumbbell bench press 25#s
superset with
Plyometric pushups- rolled a medicine ball from one side to the other (2 push-ups each arm each round)

Push press 75#

Bench dips with my feet on a ball

I'm proud of myself because I really added some weight tonight. The last time I did the bench press, I used 20# dumbbells so I added 5#s each arm. And my push press was about 10#s higher than last time.

My arms were noodly that's for sure! I'm glad I didn't wait until the end of the night to do my burpees or I would have been in trouble!

I'm not sure what my deal's been lately but I've just been feeling on edge. Yeah, "on edge" is a good way to describe it. Maybe it's hormones, maybe it's my diet (which hasn't been the greatest lately, I should confess), I think a lot of it has to do with work too. It's probably a combination of everything. I decided I need some short term goals to get through each day or week. It's like there's so much I feel like I need to do that I either don't do anything because I'm overwhelmed or I do 10 things but still go to bed feeling as if I haven't accomplished enough.

A while ago I used to implement a to-do list daily with 3 things on it and I'm bringing it back! I'm also making a weekly goal list. I'm not sure how long I'll keep this up, but at least until I start to feel less overwhelmed and stressed out.

Weekly Goals:
1. Call old Property mgr (still haven't received security deposit) DONE!
2. Practice the piano twice
3. Do cardio 3 times
4. Only eat out once (meeting over lunch on Monday)
5. Do not work past 6:00 at all (very difficult especially considering I'm taking a few days off next week!)

And here's tonight's "chores":
1. Grocery shopping (few misc items needed) DONE!
2. Workout DONE!
3. Dishes DONE!
4. Balance checkbook
5. Upload pics online & order prints DONE!

Okay, okay, so tonight has more than 3 things but I felt like they were all necessary. So far I've done everything except balancing my checkbook but I'll do that soon. Then, I plan to go upstairs and read for a little bit and just relax.

Hopefully my new approach will help me feel more organized and at least with a plan.  For now.

Until tomorrow,
Kelsalynn

This weekend turned out to be absolutely perfect.

Michael and I slept in until noon on Saturday. Yes, you read that correctly- NOON! Even when we say we're going to sleep in, I'm usually up at 8 and Michael at 7. We just don't normally do it. We've both been saying the past week how we felt burnt out, stressed, and just plain pooped. On Friday night, we said we were going to sleep in and then joked about how we should be up by 8 then. I guess we really did need the sleep because holy cow!

From there I picked up around the house and practiced the piano. Then we decided to go rollerblading on the Scottsdale Greenbelt (see prior post). We did around 5-6 miles and were both somewhat sweaty by the end. The weather was low 70's and absolutely gorgeous!

Saturday night we watched two movies! : P Sounds ridiculous but honestly, it was exactly how we wanted to spend our Saturday so we did!

Since Saturday was lazy, Sunday was anything but.

I had a piano lesson at 10, then we had a friend's BBQ at 1:00. From there we went to the library and stocked up on a few good reads. Then I called my friend Liz and we met up at the Riparian Institute at Water Ranch. It's a water preserve with 7-8 ponds and 110-acres of natural landscaping with walking paths. We took our furbabies and walked around for an hour and a half. Again, it was low 70's in the valley today and absolutely gorgeous!

Then I came home and worked out
4x4
Wide grip pull-ups (assisted 40#)

Narrow grip cable row (55#,70#,75#,75#)

Bentover Barbell Row (70#)
superset with
Barbell curls (30#)

Towel pull-ups (assisted 40#,55#,55#,55#)
superset with
Hammer curls (15#)

Mixed in between the various exercises were my burpees. Since I didn't do them yesterday (too lazy :) ) I had 21 of them to do today! Oops! But I did them!

We went directly to the grocery store from the gym.

And now I'm home, tired from a busy day, but thankful that I was able to have such an amazing weekend.
Until tomorrow,
Kelsalynn

This is a post about pictures-

1. I don't know why some of you can see my profile pic and for others of you, it's just a line (just like it is for me). I wish I had an explanation or knew how to fix it, but oh well. Thanks for taking my poll!

2. Michael and I took the pup rollerblading today and had a good time. It was a good workout too- we went about 5 miles. Here's a picture of me and my furbaby.


Shortly after this, a large pond appeared. We skated up to it to allow the dog to drink some water (we had water with us too and her little dog bowl, don't worry, she wasn't being deprived). Well, our crazy little dog thought the water was shallow so she stepped in it. The problem? The pond was deep and our dog totally fell in! She was soaked and a little shocked by it. Michael and I were laughing so hard! It was hilarious!

I hope everyone is having a good weekend!

Kelsalynn

On the left side of my blog where it says "YOUR BLOGGER", can you see my profile pic?

Is there a picture there or just a line?

On my screen, all I see is a line but I can't figure out why my picture just vanished one day. When I click on my profile, there's a picture, but I just can't see it on the blog itself.

Let me know.

I couldn't think of a good blog post so "Hi" is all you get.

I got my 8 burpees done today, I actually did them as my warm-up to my leg workout.

Thank you for all the comments on my last post- most of you thought perhaps I should do my burpees in the morning. While I think that's a great idea in theory, I know myself too well to know that's not going to happen. I'm not one of those people that runs around like crazy frantic in the mornings to get ready, but I am very systematic. I'm also not really awake until I get out of the shower but once I'm out of the shower, I don't want to get sweaty again by doing burpees. See my dilemma?

But, I'm becoming aware that as the number of burpees I'm required to do climbs, I'll have to do some in the morning, some in the afternoon, some in high heels at the office, and some at night. I'll be doing burpees all day long just to fit them in!

I'm 8 days in and only forgot once so I think I'm good. We'll see how it continues.

Here's my leg workout from tonight-
4 rounds of 4 reps
Back Squat: 115
Suitcase Deadlift: 40#
4 trips of 100 ft lunges

Until tomorrow,
Kelsalynn

Another long day in the books. I worked until 6:30 (promised Michael I'd leave at 6:00, oops) and got home just in time to pick Michael up then head to the family friend's hotel to pick him up.

His name is Charlie and he was teacher when Michael's PARENTS were students! Then Michael's dad became a teacher and they worked together, which is how Michael knows him. He's a really cool guy and pretty much just goes wherever he wants, whenever he wants. (I was originally under the impression that he lives here, but that's not true). Since he was in Phoenix, he looked us up, and I'm glad he did.

He also played the organ at all of the school functions/town programs where Michael grew up so it's only fitting that he took us to a restaurant called "Organ Stop Pizza." If you would have told me this place was for real, I wouldn't have believed you. It's a huge room with tall ceilings and one of the largest organs I've ever seen. There's a stage that goes up and down and a guy essentially sits there and plays the organ. And what do you order to eat of course? Pizza. I mean, what else would you eat while sitting and listening to a dude play an organ?

Here's a pic I took from their website- it doesn't really show you the true size of this place however.


We were there until after 9 and good ol' Charlie would have stayed later! He was a hoot! The place was packed for a Tuesday night, I couldn't believe it. We got home and didn't even turn on the TV. I went straight upstairs to get ready for bed. I brushed my teefers, washed my face, changed into pj's, then what did I realize?

I have 7 burpees to do! ARGH!

So, at 9:59 PM, in my pj's, not wearing a bra even, I did my 7 burpees.

I got them done and that's all that matters!

On the financial front, I'm finally starting our taxes for 2009. Because of Michael's gig with the Harlem Globetrotters where he was paid as an independent contractor, I knew we'd probably owe in this year. Currently, we owe almost $2,000 which totally sucks. Luckily for us, our expenses are only 40% of our income in any given month so we'll be able to cash flow this, but expect to see this expense budgeted for April! Darn!
Until tomorrow,
KelsaLynn

I'm stoked that I got to the gym tonight.

It was a long day- I got to work around 7 AM and didn't leave until 7:10PM. Sure, I took a lunch, but not really. I made a quick trip to the library to return some books then headed back to the office and ate at my desk.

So it was a long day. Once I got home, we ate dinner quickly, let our stomachs settle, then headed to the gym.

After a long day, I'm proud of myself for staying committed to my workout. I also did my 6 burpees for today!

Here's what I did:
3 rounds of 10 reps-
Dumbbell bench press 20#
Barbell shoulder press 45#
superset with
Dumbbell push press 15#

Max rep bench dips = performed 18, 13, and 10 reps
superset with
Max rep bench push-ups = performed 6, 5, and 5 reps

It was tough! My arms were jello-y big time! I almost fell flat on my face on the last set of push-ups. I went down for #6 and never came up!

I won't be working out on Tuesday because we're meeting one of Michael's family's friends (got that?) for dinner. I do plan to do my 7 burpees though!

I'm pretty cranky right now, probably due to the fact that I haven't eaten in 4 hours and I worked out in there somewhere and still haven't eaten, which makes for a cranky KelsaLynn.

Therefore, this will be quick because I need to get something in my belly!

First things first, Michael found out on Friday that he'll actually be getting paid for his time off when we go home in May. Originally, we were under the impression that he only has one day off paid per year (but I guess we were wrong). Part of our $3,000 budget was to make up for the lost income. So, scratch that! YAHOO! Our budget went from $3,000 for our trip in May to $2,057. That's exciting news!

Second, I did my 5 burpees for today! I'm also happy to report that I have one person joining me on this journey to complete 100 burpees- TriDave from this blog. Check it out and cheer him on too!

Third, today's workout was actually yesterday's FITR workout.

The POWER workout was first- 3 rounds of 5 reps of a snatch and then hang power cleans. I did the first round light without really knowing what weight I should use. So the 2nd and 3rd rounds were a heavier.
Snatch: 45#, 65#, 65#
HPC: 65#, 85#, 85#

Then I did CORE. 21-15-9 reps of the following:
Ball slams (16# ball)
Rollouts
Russian Twists (12# ball)
Plank (30 seconds, 25 seconds, 20 seconds)

Fourth, I had another piano lesson today and I'm happy to report I've moved on to Level II in my technique book. I know that doesn't sound like much, but I've had 4 lessons so far so to go from Level I to Level II is pretty exciting! I feel like I've had very little time to practice in the past month so I'm proud of my progress.

Finally, the Valley is experiencing one hell of a storm night- the kind with thunder and lightening. I love it! We don't get that many storms here so when we do, I try to enjoy them. I hope it sticks around for a while because I love falling asleep to a good storm.

Okay, time to get some food in my belly! I hope everyone has a fabulous week.

Here are some pictures from our trip to see the Globetrotters yesterday. We had a great time!

So I posted last night and then watched an hour or two of TV. Did anyone watch the Marriage Ref or whatever the name of that new show is? Oh man, I thought it was pretty entertaining! And of course, The Office was very good last night too!

Where was I? Oh yes, so I posted about how I was going to do my 2 burpees but then wouldn't you know that I completely forgot! OMG! I actually woke up this morning and did them before even waking up fully. I jumped out of bed, did two quick burpees, then proceeded to brush my teeth, eat breakfast, etc. I think getting into a routine of doing burpees everyday, even on normal rest days, is the most challenging part right now. Tonight we're having people over for poker where I'm sure I will consume a few beers... I better do the burpees beforehand or I'll be in trouble :)

Since I got paid today, I transferred $1,634.13 to our "New Car Fund" today!


That's not very much but we should end the month with twice that amount. I updated our savings bar on the right! I'm actually thinking about changing our current goal, which is at $10,000. I'd like to save $15,000 for a new car if we want a Honda Fit or something similar. $10,000 just isn't a lot for a car. But for now, I think we'll keep it at $10K ... but once we hit our $10K goal, we'll start spreading our savings to other goals and not just the car. If we end up needing a car (i.e. if mine dies) we'll have $10,000 just in case but until our current ride dies, we'll just keep funding our savings.

I wish we would get our security deposit check because I'm excited to send that to savings too!

Until tomorrow,
Kelsalynn

What's up my blogger peeps?

I'm checking in to say I had an awesome leg workout last night.

Front squats 85# 6 rounds of 2 reps
superset with
30 seconds of body weight squats (reps each round = 19, 20, 17, 19, 18, 19)

Deadlifts 165# 6 rounds of 2 reps
superset with
10 hamstring curls on the ball

Split squats 45#
superset with
20 seconds of tuck jumps (reps each round = 9, 11, 10, 12, 13, 15)

My quads are sore today!

Anyone out there doing the burpee challenge with me? I haven't done two for today yet so I'll do those soon...but if you haven't started, you still can! You just have to do 3 burpees today to make up for yesterday's 1 rep!

Kelsalynn

It's official! I've started my burpee challenge! I almost forgot this is one of my new year's resolutions.


Here's how it works-
Day 1 (today) do one burpee.
Day 2 (tomorrow) do two burpees.

... continue until Day 100 where you complete 100 burpees that day.

Obviously, it's fairly easy at the beginning, but getting into a routine is critical. Toward the end, that's a lot of burpees but they're great for muscle strength, power, fat loss, cardio, etc.

Here are some details:
1. If you are on Day 30, you don't need to do all 30 at once. You can do 10 in the morning, 10 in the afternoon, 10 in the evening. As long as you do 30 that day, you can do them at any time.
2. If you miss a day, you must make them up. So if on Day 12 you are sick, on Day 13, you must do 25 (12+13).
3. After every 25 days, I plan to celebrate with a beer to mark the milestone! I'd love it if you celebrated and completed the challenge right alongside me!
4. The proper burpee is the following movements: squat down, jump back to push-up position, perform push-up, jump back to squat position, jump up. That's one. Yes, you have to do the push-up at the bottom (drop to knees and do a modified one if you want) and jump at the top of the burpee.

If we start today, March 3rd, we will have 29 days in March, 30 in April, 31 in May, and 10 days in June. In other words, the challenge will be complete on June 10th!

Is it going to be easy? No!
Is it going to be worth it? Absolutely!

In other news, my workout last night was fabulous.
4 rounds of 4:
Dumbbell bent over row 25#
Barbell bent over row 50# then 60# for last 3 rounds superset with
Dumbbell bicep curls 15#

Narrow grip pull-ups (UNassisted!) I did ALL 16 UNassisted with narrow grip- I'm totally proud of that b/c it was tough!

Towel pull-ups (assisted, not sure what level, I forgot to write it down)

And in yet other news, we booked our flight yesterday to fly home in May. I'm so excited! We'll be there for 8 days, May 26th-June 2nd. As you can tell, it's right at the end (hardest part) of the burpee challenge. I did that on purpose because I do not want to become a sloth while we're there. This will keep me motivated to workout/be active while away. Our total was just over $500 for our flight so we have $500 left for the rental car.

Let me know if you plan to join me for the burpee challenge!

Kelsalynn

I heard from our old Property Coordinator this afternoon that we're getting our full security deposit back on our last place. That's $1,295 we'll be able to add to our New Car Savings!

Cha-Ching!

That's good too because my car wouldn't start today. It turned out just to be the battery, but it reminded me just how critical this new car fund is. It wouldn't be if we were willing to borrow money for our next car, but if we want to uphold our desire to not borrow money, we need the cash there for when the car finally does die.
I'm thinking it will be added permanently to this blog somewhere- I just love it!

I left work "early" tonight...and by early, I'm of course referring to the fact that it was still light outside, but after 5 yet. I can't wait to get to the gym and workout!

Until tomorrow,
Kelsalynn

I'm here! I'm here!

First I was sick which you all knew, then this weekend I had guests... and let me just say, I had the best guests a girl could ask for. My friends from college, Amy and Lexi, both flew in (from Chicago and Philadelphia respectfully) and we spent the weekend chatting and simply enjoying the endless conversation! I can't even say we spent it "catching up" because honestly, although it's been years since we've all been together, we're incredibly close. We may not have the luxury of being involved in each others' lives from day-to-day, but you wouldn't know it!

It was an amazing weekend but boy am I tired! I definitely need a weekend to recover from the weekend!

Instead, back to the grind and getting March's budget in order:

As you can see, we should be sending $3,166 to our new car fund in the month! That will bring it to over $4,000! I'm pretty pumped about that... Our security deposit on our old place was $1395 so we might get back that this month too (who really knows?). We plan to put the whole thing toward our car fund which could put it over $5,000!

We're also saving another $200 for our trip home in May.

Another exciting thing is that just today we bought tickets to go to see Paul McCartney in concert at the end of this month! Yippy! The tickets actually cost way more than $100 (budgeted amount) but we put some cash toward the rest that we had lying around. Eeek! We're so excited!

We also have poker this weekend at our house and then on Saturday we're going to see the Globetrotters! That's free though so that's pretty cool... all in all, a very exciting month!


Until tomorrow,
Kelsalynn

Alright, sorry for being MIA this week, I've been really sick and then even when I felt better, I didn't REALLY feel better, just not quite as shitty as the week started. As a result, I haven't really done anything blog-worthy. I've slept a LOT this week!

I figure one thing I can take a look at is our February budget. It's not quite the end of the month, but pretty close. There will be some other expenses this weekend, but even with that, the month looks really good.


Furnishings- I spent about $85 at Ikea again today which isn't showing up in Mint yet so this budget will be about perfect.

Car Fund- I put $900 into our New Car Fund today and started a ticker on the right for our savings goals.

Mortgage & rent- Under b/c I'm sick of ELoan screwing up the way they apply our payments so I'm only sending them the bare minimum from here on out. Idiots.

Vacation - We need to buy our flights for our trip home in May. We have $700 budgeted but I have not even researched flights for 2 minutes. I have been on the computer very little, like I said, I've been sleeping a lot! So this expense will hit probably in March but it's still budgeted and we have the money!

Groceries - We'll buy more this weekend so that will be just about perfect.

Utilities - We've paid for things that just haven't cleared i.e. Sprint $114, Water/Sewer/Trash $139, etc. We're under in this category but not by as much as it seems.

Service & Parts - Our electric scooter is at the shop getting repaired but we haven't received a bill nor do we know how much it will cost yet. So again, this expense will hit in March, but we'll have $400 ready for it.

Gas & Fuel - Came way under here... we made a lot of trips back and forth when we were moving but I guess our gas expense didn't go up as much as I expected.

Chicas - My girlfriends arrive tomorrow so I'm planning to spend this money! YAY! Best money spent for sure!

Home Services - Okay, okay, it looks like we're about $1,000 over in this budget but we're really not. We budgeted this in January but the expenses didn't hit our account until February. Listen up Mint programmers- please let me adjust the dates on the Transactions tab!! I used to be able to do this and now I can't.

Clothing - Oops, we spent $30 more here!

Gym - I blogged about this earlier but I simply forgot to budget for a new gym membership since we moved. I prepaid for a year so that's why this is so much higher.

So overall, not a bad month at all! I felt like we spent so much money because compared to other months, we really did! But, it was all budgeted and we were smart about it so I'm happy with it.

Until tomorrow,
Kelsalynn

This is pretty much how my day is going-


My ickiness this weekend turned into a full-fledged cold. I've only been awake for 1 hour and already, I've gone through that many tissues. I'm just sitting at home, called into work, and trying to get better.

Kelsalynn

Michael and I have never lived in the same place for more than two years. Even the house we own in Michigan, we only lived there 2 years before moving to Arizona.

It's no surprise then that I tend to feel like our place of residence is always sort of blah. We never have time to make it "ours" before moving on. And it doesn't make sense to buy new furniture every year or every other year, so our furniture never really fits the space.

I was browsing Apartment Therapy which is a neat website for various ways to do things if you rent. I found this picture which I used for inspiration:



While I love the "curtain" idea as a headboard for lots of reasons (easy to take with us), the inspiration room is a little too feminine. If I were single, I'd be all over it, but I'm pretty sure my husband wouldn't let me get away with a pink fabric. And that's okay because I tend to like things a bit more contemporary anyway.

Here's our finished look-

It looks even better in person in my opinion because the green is bright and we have rich purple curtains and black furniture. I'm really proud of us!

We also hung some pictures on the wall today and emptied a few boxes. There's still plenty more to go, but at least our friends and family are represented now-


Finally, we added some shelves to the dining room/kitchen and I have to say, I'm pretty happy with how they look. Stole it straight from an Ikea catalog!




Now that I'm writing this post, I'm realizing just how much we accomplished this weekend. Considering I'm still feeling under the weather, I'm happy with our progress. I tried to mix being productive with resting so there's still a lot left to do!

Until tomorrow,
Kelsalynn

Michael and I placed our first order on Tuesday with a local co-op. It's a group of people who buy fruits and vegetables as a group in order to get a discount.

On Tuesday, you place an order for 1 basket (or as many baskets as you need) and you pick it up on Saturday. Since we make our meal plan on Sundays, it falls perfectly in line with that. Whatever fruits and vegetables we get on Saturday will be used to make our meals for the upcoming week. The cost of 1 basket? $15.

Is it worth it? I'll let you decide... here's what we got this morning for only $15.

If you live in Utah, Arizona, Washington, or Idaho and are interested in joining, check out Bountiful Baskets!

The bad news, as the day progressed yesterday, my throat started to get sore...and then more sore. I'm not feeling so hot but trying to nurse myself before getting really sick. It was inevitable- everyone has been sick in my office so it was bound to happen.

Until tomorrow,
Kelsalynn