I'm not being awesome at work...

so I might as well be an awesome blogger. I feel bad about something at work, not my fault, but I could have let somebody know in advance that there was a crap load of work for them due at the end of the month. I didn't realize it but maybe I should have and told him about it. I just feel guilty about it so I'm keeping quite in my office for a bit. Plus i'm frustrated by this model I'm running, I don't quite understand something but I don't want to ask today as I'm sitting quiet in my office like I said. Oh well I can ask in the morning and just kill 1/2 an hour now doing this.
So I AM awesome because I got up this am and did my run already. I went last night too. Hurray! I could have given up but I never. Here's the story:
Daisy was running really well beside me about 8 minutes in, so I didn't even notice I dropped the leash. oops. So I try and step on it to get her to stop, but I did step on it and the collar broke away from her neck (probably a good thing I guess or I would have chocked her) so she's running down the street and i've got her leash and broken collar in my hands. Luckily I figured out recently that she loves to chase me and play tag so I called her and ran the other way. she got back to me and I just looped her collar around her neck and used the clip on the leash to hold it shut. I was gonna call it a day and go home there, but decided to keep running and hope Daisy didn't get free again. Well success. Made it home together. Then did the same thing this morning as I didn't have time to buy a collar yet! yay me! Plus breakfast was wasa bread, feta and tomato. I know I said no cheese, but I did not mean feta, because when I wrote no bread, this is exactly what I was picturing. I meant no cheese and nacho's which is what I can feel a craving coming on for. It's my home alone snack of choice. Luckily I've realized this and am trying to outwit it with other low cal tempting snacks. stay tuned.
Anyway, hubby left last night. Sad/happy. I went shopping for girly food and bought hummus. yay! I know I can eat it when he's home but it's a special treat for me. so lunch today included hummus and veggies and a spinach salad with a hard boiled egg I did up last night. I was so productive. After my run I washed and cut up veggies and then boiled eggs and did laundry (all my workout clothes so they were a bit damp this morning for the run, oops). Felt great.
supper tonight might be a bit of salmon. Try and cook it up with some dill and lemon which is my favorite. Maybe some more hummus because I really liked it (it's roasted red pepper hummus). i'm also going to do my TT workout tonight. And hopefully come up with a list of awesome things I'm going to do while hubby's away. Plans already for saturday night with some girls doing a potluck and then chick flicks (another girl's hubby is outta town too). Then I think I'm going to watch the game Sunday afternoon so I have to have all my fun alone time things done during the week. Luckily I won't get hooked into tv as the only thing I'm even sorta watching lately is BB and I keep missing it so that's fine. I can watch online at noon too.
I don't know if anybody else is doing any HIIT, and after readign that article I posted I realized I'm not doing it exactly. I do 30 minutes of it, and apparently that should kill me if I'm doing it right. oops. I did just regular jogging last night and I completely noticed a difference since I started though. I am fast! and I like going faster! Super exciting thing to realize. Now I just wish I had trained for biking as well. We ride in less than 2 weeks and I've gone on 1 ride all summer. Luckily I figured out that it can take no longer than 4 hours. Plus lots of our friends are in terrible shape for it so I think I'm good. I'm IN SHAPE, just not for biking necessarily, just my butt will be hurting hopefully. there's lots of breaks all the time too so that should help. It'll be like 1 hour then a break 4 times. Piece of cake. I don't really care how fast I go anyway. In case anybody forgot I'm doing the MS bike Tour which is a 64 km bike ride. Anybody bike regularly? How fast do you go on just a leisurely pace? I hope it's like 20k/hr. I can totally handle it then.
Anyway almost killed all the time...hmmm. what else can I blab about?
The scale hasn't showed me that happy number again yet but I do feel leaner than before. I did a super killer ab workout with my TT the other day and it seriously hurt for 2 days. That always makes a person feel tight in the midsection hey? Also, I'm starting to like my legs a little more. I do bulk up fairly easily, but I also found I was giving myself that excuse when my legs were big. saying it was muscle. Well yeah they were really muscular, but they were covered in a couple inches of fat. That's what made them look bulky, otherwise they'd just look muscular. (that's what I was talking about before Meg) anyway, they're still bigger, but they are starting to have a nicer shape, not so much lumpy areas of fat, rather just a little trouble zone in the upper inner and then a small layer of fat to get rid of. Like if I pull my fat and skin around I can make it look like I've got nice legs! It will happen! I'm already pretty happy about how I look with most clothes on. Just need to work on the naked part!
Has anybody else noticed that whether or not you're actually smaller (scale or measurement wise) once you start working out and eating right, you feel like you look better? You're wearing the same clothes but when you used to never take your coat off over this shirt you will now? even though you probably look exactly the same? I do that. I think it has to do with posture. Also, if my abs are burning, I have the impression they look alright, the fat on top doesn't bother me as much. anybody else?
ok well that's enough time killing. gotta go buy a new collar for my Daisy, maybe a pink one. then get cooking some fish. Fish and veggies and hummus and a banana. Probably that. mmm...