Blogger Sunday

It's Sunday!

And, the perfect day to spend an extra few moments cozied up in your fluffy white (because everyone's bedspreads are white, right??) comforter with a cup of warm lemon water, your pup, and a good book.

OR, check out these sweet bloggers I'm loving right now. Read on!

My Whole Food Life
Everything on this blog is delicious. And it's all healthy - like, REAL LIFE ingredients. Amazing. Take this lentil-carrot-everything else- burger. Try it. You'll love it.

OR! The simple 5 minute banana ice cream! I've made it a few times. It's the perfect dish to make with those bananas that have been sitting in your freezer for ages.

The Love Nerds
I went to college with this lady - she's a total sweetheart. And she has great articles about "dating your husband," dinner ideas, crafts out the wazoo, and party planning tips. I'm a fan.

Pink Peonies
This blogger is a Morman from Utah, but is far from the one-piece underwear (they exist here). She's adorable and prissy and I want her closet. If I heard her talk, I would probably vomit (does Utah have a Valley?) but I love her skirts and shoes. K. That's all.

Why it hurts to sit... and stand... today.

The Nike Training Camp app on my phone is amazing. No matter the time of day or night, I can do a 15 minute targeted workout, or an hour-long calorie-blasting workout, AT HOME. My dog looks at me for two minutes because I put my running shoes on and he thinks he gets to go outside, and then he hides in his bed and watches me "shuffle" across the living room. I can always feel him rolling his eyes as my wildly-flung arms knock over the lamp.

Well, much like my blogging life, my exercise life has been... well... nonexistent to say the least.

And I decided to do a week of morning workouts on NTC.

So, up at 6AM! Squats! Squats! Jump Squats! Low Squats! Punching in the air and the Squats! Squats. Squats... Squats still? OMG, I'm still doing Squats. How am I going to fit into my jeans, my legs are going to be HUGE SQUATS.

Needless to say, I felt like this:

Then, the next day came along...

And as it turns out, this lady kills squats more than I do. Because I can't sit. Or stand. I am doing the one-hand-on-the-toilet-seat to lower myself down to pee thing. I may give birth to a baby I didn't know I was housing. It's that bad.

Tomorrow: Shoulder day. 

Reading: #girlboss

I have a secret (Jess, it's not a secret when you post it on your BLOG). Right. I had a secret.

I purchased a Kindle Paperwhite.

Actually, my dad purchased it for me, so gifts can't be guilty.

Since working in bookstores for a good 3-4 years, I've tried to wage a war against Amazon.com because they admit to their goal of putting brick and mortar bookstores out of business. What A-Holes.

However, I live in a world where I no longer run a bookstore and can purchase any book I want at cost. #sad

My parents came to visit and I lusted over Mommasita's Paperwhite and viola! Dad gave me one.

I have been reading veraciously ever since. Picture a lion devouring a book, gnawing on the cover, rubbing the pages [or screen?] lovingly up and down its cheek...  stopping there.

Anyway, I have been up to a lot of reading and I feel like I have been reunited with an old friend. It is just an old friend that is deceptive and works for an evilly- brilliant company that is set on world domination.

Whatever.

Back on topic. I read #GIRLBOSS by Sophia Amoruso.

My two cents:

What an amazing woman. She tells her story, albeit rather crudely, about working her ass off, maintaining focus, and not even realizing how big her company was going to be until... it was BIG. American success story.

Not a piece of literature that I would send to my grandma, but maybe something I'd send to my 18 year old sister. She likes clothes and hashtags.

Recommend it, I do (says Yoda).

Love love.

AMAZING! Marcel the Shell part 3 is here!

New and noteworthy. Need I say more?

(oh, and I'm back, just like Marcel)

"Pinspiration!"

Whoa.

I just spent the last hour attempting to find a cute inspirational quote on Pinterest for the fitness newsletter I send out for work.

Attempting: keyword.

Instead, I tilted my head to the left a bit and scrunched my lip up toward my nose. I couldn't help posting my own captions to each of these sassy workout pins. Sorry I'm not sorry?

... unless you're overweight and trying to workout. That sucks worse.
(is that BLOOD?)

Get fit so you can wear a thong on the street!

OR: Exercising means you'll look like a man wearing heels and a wig NAKED.

... and wear no pants and running shoes to bed.

... and get off Pinterest! If you spent HALF the time working out that you spend pinning inspirational naked women, you'd be fit as F*&^!

AND, the two that I think are actually fairly inspiring:

Listening to Lately

Sylvan Esso. Amazing. Give her a few minutes - she's got a great, modern-yet-classic sound that I can't get enough of lately.

Enjoy.

Lately

This is about it. Oh, and some weddings.