A Day In The Life Of Me!!!

Okay, so we wanted a more in depth look into what I actually do with myself throughout the day.....

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Oh, man! What do I do with myself all day?.........

Well, I......no, I don't..........

I might..........nope, never mind........

Alright, new plan. We'll start with common features.

I normally wake up about 6:30 a.m., but laze about my bed til 7:30 a.m. before leaping out of my bed and getting ready for my work day. One of the things I like best about work is you could get dressed up if you want, but for the most part, I can dress as I did going to class except no t-shirts unless they have some influence or involvement from the company. It makes me happy that I can still be relaxed and comfortable there. (I haven't tried dressing up for work since the first day.)

I get to work ~8:00 a.m., try to figure out what I'm supposed to be doing at work. I have been buying boxes of Twix and Snickers at Coscos, so I've been keeping myself well-supplied with chocolate while at work. I try to exercise my will-power by not having one until after 10a.m., some days I'm more successful then others, and it inevitably happens that as soon as I break down and have one type of candy bar, nothing will be acceptable but to have the other one soon after. After all, it's swine flu season apparently, and with that going around, I'm not going to risk a single day of getting sick, so I'm eating the chocolate for self-preservation and medical reasons!


Normally, at 12:00, I go to a 10 min abs class. I don't have to dress down for it, so I can just show up and do the little workout. I'm trying to develop my one pack that I have into at least something resembling a different type of pack of any other number combinations. After working out we walk the company building, which makes it almost a two mile walk in less then 30 mins. It's pretty relaxing for me as I'm able to go really fast with my joy in walking and natural long stride.

Then it's back to me trying to figure out work or not. I might go and grab lunch, or bring my own, or not eat and instead have the fruit snacks that say they're giving me 100% of my Vitamin C, which is the reason why they are not pictured in the photo above. I also have a standing issue with some left-over chocolate mini-eggs that I hoarded over from Easter. This year, I bought in bulk before Easter when I would find them at Wal-mart. The day before Easter, I had accumulated about 10 bags of mini-eggs for storage during the time til Christmas, when, hopefully, Cadbury will bring out it's holiday Christmas mini-eggs. Of course, the Easter bags are not lasting like I hope, as you can see from the picture there are only three bags left (though one is not shown as it is at my work desk). I have given myself restrictions when having them at work. I can only open a new bag of them sometime after 3:00p.m. (as it takes me much less then an hour to eat an entire bag by myself), and any leftovers (ones that miraculously were not consumed before the end of my work day that day) cannot be consumed until after 3:00p.m. the next time that I wish to eat them (which normally falls on the next day). But what I've found, is that with my knowledge of my dwindling supply, I am not as likely to open a new bag as often. So I torture myself everyday with seeing it in my candy drawer at work, but have not as much desire to open it as they could be close to an extinct food source for me. I have them on days that I cannot resist them anymore. And by the way, I am still trying to work during these internal struggles that I have with myself.

At ~5:00p.m., I head down to one of the fitness centers that they have with work and I run on the treadmill for about 40 mins. I'm normally able to get about 3.5 miles of running in, which I really love doing. I'm feeling the chocolate consumption working through my body, so I feel really great about consuming it. Then, and this is really surprising, I've started lifting weights and stuff, so after my run, I probably spend about another 40 mins going around to different machines, focusing on strengthening my arms and just doing some stuff for my legs for fun! It's been really good for me to get back into an exercise routine, as I never did at college because it would make me too tired and then I would never get my homework done (how can you stay up all night working on homework when you are exhausted!). Anyway, in the picture below you can see my workout bag that I use.

After work and working out, the traffic has dissapated enough for me to get comfortably home in Schultz and from there I've been playing around. I've been decorating the walls of my room with puzzles. Some of them are old ones from college that I really love and then others are new ones that I've done recently to take up more space.

I've gotta get ready for church now, so I'm going to post since they come so few and far between. But anyway the next two pictures are of me in a shirt that my parents got me when they went on their trip with Greg to the East coast. They got me an awesome chocolate shirt that I absolutely adore from Hershey's Time Square in New York!

I'll try to post more things that I've been doing tonight, but of course.....let's not hold me to my word.