Hello Suzy!

Running Report: March

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 20:56:18 -0400

March was a good month of running! Every week I ran at least one time. Getting new shoes and a Garmin watch really helped and motivated me: )

Total Miles: 21 (might be a little off due to Nike+)

Average Pace: 12 min

Weight: 111 lbs (woah, that’s 4 lbs! Easter candy will change all that^_~)

Problem Spot Measurements: waist: 28 inches, pooch area/hips: 33 inches. I lost 1/2 inch in those spots, yay!

April is starting off…well, I haven’t ran yet this month-_-; I’m still trying to figure out a good schedule of running, walking the dogs, running errands, chiropractor and making dinner. This week I going to try running Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. Which I’ll then walk the dogs Tuesday and Thursday, while Rob walks them Monday and Friday. Sounds like a good plan!

On the 28th, our grocery EarthFare is hosting a 5k. This will be my first race in over a year! Yay!

Happy Easter! (Taken with instagram)

Sun, 08 Apr 2012 15:33:45 -0400

Happy Easter! (Taken with instagram)

Muji

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 20:23:41 -0400

I have a new favorite store.

Muji.

If Ikea and Japan had a baby, this would be it.

Muji has a mini store in the JFK Airport in New York. You should’ve heard me when I went in. Something like, “Eeeeee!!! OMG!! Oooooh! Eep! Look at this! Ah! It’s just like Japan! Look look!!!” ….yeah, I think I embarrassed Rob.

But it’s an awesome store! Their view is to be minimal and functional. So a lot of stuff is neutral colors, simple design, small and not too much money. We bought a couple of sketchbooks and these awesome thin pens.

Their brick and mortar stores here in the States are only in New York City, but their online store carries a lot of their products. (Although it seems other countries get more stuff…poo) I really want to buy some of their clothes since I just love Japanese fashion. They even make these shirts out of the discarded cotton fibers during the yarning process!

Normalcy.

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 21:26:37 -0400

One of my goals is to become better a blogging. I love writing posts and sharing my life. But, life is just so crazy now! Every time I think I have it under control, something new pops up and I’m learning to fit it into everything else. And it’s all great stuff too, life is so awesome right now!

Slowly I’m starting to get used to my new schedule. Test out what works, doesn’t work, when to run errands, when to run, when to walk the dogs….and blogging is coming in last. But, I’m starting to get the itch to write posts again and I’ll be learning when’s the best time I can do that. Hang in there!

In the meantime…some of the awesome things that have happened:

-Going to the chiropractor a couple times a week and my back has never felt better.

-Finishing my first quarter of school and getting straight A’s (I have a couple projects I’d like to post)

-Loving my new job!!

-Loving this weather.

-Going to see the Mythbuster Tour

-Going to Maine to see our friends!

-Meeting our friends’ adorable little boy

April 1st

Sun, 01 Apr 2012 20:14:22 -0400

On April 1st, 2005, Rob proposed to me with this piece of string. (A long story that actually had nothing to do with pranks or jokes)

Today, 7 years later, he surprised me with this:

I have the best husband in the world: )

A Surprise in Raleigh

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 21:01:47 -0400

A few weeks ago Rob had asked me if I wanted to go to Raleigh on March 25th, but he would not tell me why, just that we’d be doing something fun and slightly nerd. Sure, why not? We could totally use more fun and adventure.

It was a little nerve-wracking not know what we’d be doing. I am a planner, I need to know things. But I guess that’s good that he kept is a secret, it’s helping me not be anal about things like that.

So finally the day arrived! Just before noon we headed out towards Raleigh, which also would be our first time in the city. As always, I love car trips with Rob, we always have fun just talking and driving. And in 3 hours we were there!

We pull up to the Performing Arts Center and I still had no clue what we were doing. And there it was…posters for the Mythbusters Tour!

What? Mythbusters? The Mythbusters?! Sure enough, Adam and Jamie had been traveling around on a tour talking about Mythbusters and fun science stuff. How awesome is that?

I was so excited!! We love Mythbusters! We’ve been watching that show since we started dating! And now we get to see Jamie and Adam live! They were just as cool as ever, which makes it that much cooler. For about 2 hours, we enjoyed hearing them talk, answer questions and make the audience do silly things. My cheeks were hurting from smiling so much: )

After the show, we decided to grab some dinner. Using Yelp, I found a burger joint that claimed to have awesome veggie burgers. So, we walked up the street to a place called Chuck’s. Nothing much to the place, tables, chairs, and a small counter. But…omg! Best burgers ever!!! Rob had a beef burger version of the Spirit Animal, cream cheese, poblano chilies, grilled tomatoes and crushed tortilla chips. I had the veggie burger version of the Last Word, stottocenere (cheese), kale and chunky hazelnut vinaigrette. There’s was so much awesome flavor in these burgers. You eat these slowly to savor each bite and flavor. And their fries were great too. We were actually sad when we finished our food.

What an amazing day! What a wonderful husband I have!

It’s so worth it to just get out of the norm. Go to a different city for a day.

Suzy = employed!

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 08:45:52 -0400

That’s right folks, I got a job! I’m super super excited!

I’ll be a prepress/ customer rep for a printing company. My boss, is great! I totally dig his views, values and work ethics. Plus he has us on Macs and well, that’s awesome! He is Mac geek (which me and Rob have noticed is kind of rare here in Charlotte). They do charity work too! Sweet! And my good friend, who I worked with at my pervious job, works across the street! We already made plans of Panera, outside lunches and even walking/running lunches.

Needless to say there’s been much celebrating. Many cupcakes, good food, hair cut, a few goodies I’ve been wanting. Those running shoes? Yup, I said I wouldn’t get them until I got a job; )

Life is going to be so busy and awesome right now! But I will accept this challenge and I will kick work and school’s butt before it even gets near mine. RAWR!

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! (Taken with instagram)

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 18:35:11 -0400

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! (Taken with instagram)

Running Report: 6&7

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:14:46 -0400

Tuesday Goal: Just run

Run Length & Time: 2.01 miles in 00:21 minutes, with a pace of 10:24

How I Felt: Bleh

Calories Burned: 184

Notes: I was busy running around town and didn’t drink much water. Bad idea if you want to run, ‘specially if it’s warm outside. I felt crappy and just gave up after 2 miles. Sometimes you need bad runs to learn lessons. Drink water!!

Today’s Goal: Run around the neighborhood

Run Length & Time: 2.01 miles in 00:22 minutes, with a pace of 11:07

How I Felt: Good!

Calories Burned: 181

Notes: I made sure I drank a lot of water before heading out! Also nice to know that if I wanted, I could do a good long run in our neighborhood, granted I’ll be doing loops, but sometimes I’m lazy to drive.

Mmm, Pi. The culinary kids had a pie sale for Pi Day:) (Taken...

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:02:25 -0400

Mmm, Pi. The culinary kids had a pie sale for Pi Day:) (Taken with instagram)

emmyc: typette: Regular Show has 1 Million Fans!...

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 22:33:27 -0400

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emmyc:

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Regular Show has 1 Million Fans! OOOOOOOHHHHHHH!!! Regular Show’s creator JG Quintel and Cartoon Network love all 1 Million of you so much, we had Mordecai, Rigby, and the rest of the park guys make this Party Tonight music video that’s so awesome, it can only be described with three letters: R-A-D. ~~You can only see it here, so~~ thanks for being a Regular Show fan!!

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OMG

If you watch Regular Show, watch this.

Benson’s gumball head hahhahhah

O M G…O_O

Run #5

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 16:34:47 -0400

Today’s Goal: Run 4 miles

Run Length & Time: 4.01 miles in 00:47 minute, with a pace of 11:23

How I Felt: I felt pretty good! I’m loving these new shoes, I’m starting to feel a difference in running with them.

Calories Burned: 365

Notes: Today I got to use my new (used) Garmin Forerunner 110. It worked perfect! It’s nice to have easy access to your time, distance and pace. Later this week I’ll test out the heartrate monitor.

REI Garage Sale

Sat, 10 Mar 2012 18:57:13 -0500

This morning Rob and I got up dark and early and headed to our local REI store for their garage sale, a members only sale where you can buy used and returned items at crazy prices. REI is extremely generous with their returns when you are a member, you can return something dirty and worn with no questions asked. Whatever, more stuff for me to buy at the sale!

We got there at 7:30am, 2 1/2 hours before they opened. People had actually set up tents and camped out over night. When we got there, the line was past the building and into the parking lot. Now I went last Nov, got there around 30minutes early and was up near the front of the line. Crazy.

Once 10am hit, the doors opened and people started being let in into the back storage area. Gear, bike racks, strollers, backpacks, camping gear, clothes, shoes, watches….anything and everything! Worn, dirty, damaged, broken zipper, missing buttons or just the person who originally bought it didn’t like it. I headed straight to the clothes and found a bunch of tops for super cheap. I wish I found some shoes, but it was slim pickings by the time I got to that section, which was like 10 feet away from the clothes. Rob tried looking around at outdoor gear, but it was just way too packed. But in the end, we scored some awesome things for me!

I got all these tops and hoodies for just under $5 a piece! Now these are good quality outdoor clothes made with wicking material, fleece and even wool.

-Pink Plaid button up: Originally it says $22, but I think it was more. It was a display item, no damage.

-Teal top: Org.$35.50, returned for a stain. I just put some stain remover, washed it and now it’s gone.

-Pink Long Sleeve Running Shirt: Org.$29.50. It just said used, nothing wrong. Granted, it’s a bigger size that what I wear, but whatever, running isn’t a fashion show and I’ll be warm.

-Orange Wool Button Up Sweater: Org.$44.83(this had to be more too), the person didn’t like the fit. It fits me just fine. It’s pretty pilly, but whatever, it’s warm and wool…and $5

-Grey Zip Up Hoodie: Org.$49.50, seam stitching under the arm came undone. I’ve got a sewing machine, I’ll stitch that right back up!

and the bestest buy today!

-Garmin Forerunner 110 with Heartrate Monitor: Org. $200, I got it for $60. Reason returned, says the person believed it wasn’t calculating correctly. A friend told me a firmware update should fix that….if it was even funky to being with.

I got Rob a Garmin running watch last time, said it didn’t hold a charge…worked totally fine. Their loss, our gain.

Fun Fact: I almost bought a pair of used fitness underwear for $2. Yeah…

Overall it was totally worth it! It’s awesome that REI does that! It’s putting good use the stuff that might’ve just been eventually thrown out. And when it comes down to a fantastic deal, people really don’t care what condition it’s in. Or who last wore those underwear.

School Work

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 12:13:46 -0500

I love how I said that I couldn’t wait to post my projects that I’d do in school. Pfft. Truthfully, I haven’t been doing a lot of projects, each class we’ve done about 3 big projects. And sometimes, they are kind of boring to share, like do you really want to see my personas and revised light rail map? Fun to me, not fun sharing material.

Of course as this quarter winds down (2 more weeks!) and finals approach, we are working on some fun stuff.

This is my final project in Typography. We had to come up with 30 thumbnails of certain design characteristics using just letters, then enlarge and retrace 4 of the best. This project was so much fun!

This is anomaly:

(these are my thumbnails so the quality isn’t super clean)

Texture:

Radiation:

Run #4

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 13:26:34 -0500

Today’s Goal: To try out my new shoes

Run Length & Time: 2.8 miles in 00:31 minute (estimated)

How I Felt: The core strengthening exercises I do at the chiropractor is making me sore all the time, so running is not as smooth as I’d like it to be.

Calories Burned: Around 300

Notes: I got new shoes!! I got the Brooks PureConnect, which are awesome. They are super light and just fun. I really feel they are going to improve my running form.

Nike+ just crapped out today. Say I only ran .78 miles, but I ran the same distance I did last week. I think it might’ve been because I turned off my iPhone screen. Oh well.

Run #3

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 11:57:00 -0500

I found out that my Nike+GPS app is off by .3 miles. That’s huge! So those last couple runs, not 4 miles, more like 3.5. Oh well, now I know.

Yesterday’s Goal: To run with Rob in the Business Park

Run Length & Time: 3.49 miles in 00:42, with an average 12:00 minute mile

How I Felt: It was a good run, but it still wore me out. I ran further than I did the previous times and that was good. Having Rob there helps: )

Calories Burned: 441

Notes: The REI by us is having their members only garage sale and we’re hoping to find a used Garmin there for cheap. I got Rob’s for $55 (org $300) at the last garage sale. Also, I tried on the new Brooks PureConnect, these shoes are awesome! These will be the next shoe I get.

Run #2

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:27:42 -0500

Today’s Goal: Just run and focus on keeping my core engaged.

Run Length & Time: 4.1 miles in 00:35

How I Felt: I felt awesome! I don’t know where this is coming from, but I like it. And here I thought I’d have to slowly build myself up to a 5k and I’m going past it.

Calories Burned: 350

Notes: I started my 8 week treatment at the chiropractor this week. I have a funky vertebrate in my lower back that dubbed me an anomaly, whee. So, we’re going to work on strengthening my core and the surrounding area to help support the problem spot. I’ll also be given tools to help my body and back when running. Very curious and excited to see how my back will be after all this. This is something I have been dealing with for over 10 years now.

I won!

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 20:38:26 -0500

“What this big box?”, asks Molly.

Last weekend at Myrtle Beach at the marathon’s expo, I entered a raffle to win a huge gift basket from Bi-Lo (a regional supermarket).

And I won!!

OMG, goodies galore! They call it a marathoner’s recovery gift basket, so it was filled with a bunch of heathy stuff.

I’m completely amazed of how much stuff we got. There’s coconut water, energy bars, Kashi treats, popcorn, chips, fruit chews, granola, Aveno products, epson salt, Icy Hot patches, vitamin chews, massage rolly bar, treats, treats and more treats, even a $50 gift card to Bi-Lo itself!

What’s funny is almost every item I was like, “I was going to buy that! We need that! Ooh I saw those and wanted that.” All of these products are things that we’ll use, which is awesome.

I’m SOOO grateful to Bi-Lo for sending us this amazing gift basket.

And if you say to yourself, “Wow, I never win anything.” I used to be like that too! And then I thought, there’s always a winner. Why shouldn’t that winner be you? Just start entering contests! Good luck!!

I am in love with this show! It’s called Playful Kiss and...

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:53:37 -0500

I am in love with this show! It’s called Playful Kiss and it’s a korean drama (but it’s a comedy) about a girl, Oh Ha Ni, who has a huge crush on this guy who say he hates her and she and her father ends up living with the and his family. Imagine how he feels about that.

It’s such a sweet show and pretty funny. The actress who play Oh Ha Ni is just super adorable!

catversushuman: Some shop pics 1.) Women’s Boat Neck Long...

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 20:54:44 -0500

catversushuman:

Some shop pics

1.) Women’s Boat Neck Long Sleeve Top

2.) Eco-Friendly Cotton Tote w/ Metallic Gold Bathing Kitty

Will someone please buy me this top? ;3