workouts, jobs, and extras oh my
So...I'm doing this thing called Bikini Body Boot Camp. It's hard as hell. That's right...you heard me. HARD AS HELL. And also hot. Even though I do it in the basement it still feels like I'm working out in a sauna. Holy mother of God. I hate to sweat, but by the end of this bad boy I'm sweating like a disgusting, sweaty pig in heat. The sounds I make are probably similar to that as well.
Today was day 5 of the Boot Camp.
Day 1: Cardio Hills. It's pretty much the equivalent of running around a track 50 times in the middle of a desert. Imagine starting at a walk, moving into a jog, trotting for a while and then full on sprinting until you feel like you're going to die, and then starting all over again while incorporating jumping jacks and power lunges into the mix. (Just for the record, this workout is hell, and power lunges are the DEVIL! You jump alternating your legs into lunges and pumping your arms like a crazy person.)
Day 2: Strength Sculpting. It's all weights and lunges and squats and more weights. This is actually the EASIEST workout for me. I would rather hold my arms above my head holding 50 pound weights for the rest of my life than do another power lunge as long as I live. (That was an exaggeration...I obviously have to restart the entire thing next week. UGH!)
Day 3: Kickboxing, Sculpting, Hills and Drills. This one is awesome because it mixes together so many different styles. They all incorporate weights and a resistance band so you really feel every single muscle in your body.
Day 4: Circuit Training. It is what it says. Lots of circuits of lunges and squats but not so intense. Just pretty general cardio although those power lunges are back with a vengence.
Day 5: Interval Cardio Sculpt. THIS IS A KILLER!!! This was my workout today and I thought I was going to have to quit. As is I had to settle for most of the modifications. My thighs are burning and I'm pretty sure my ass is going to be in my chest with all of these lunges and leg lifts. This workout is so intense. GGGGGGGGGGUUUUUUUUUUUHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
So that's my workout. We're going to Nelson on Wednesday night, so instead of taking the weekend off like I was planning, I'm going to restart the entire thing tomorrow so that I can keep up with it. I know that if I don't do all 5 workouts every week I'll get lazy and give up and with the amount I seem to be sweating (2lbs of water weight a day!!!!) I can't see how I WON'T get results. Ha.
In other news I've been looking for a second job. I've been looking at lots of reviews for my current position and they all say the same thing, which I completely agree with. "The people are great, the work is totally manageable, but you work for next to nothing." I LOVE the people I work with. They keep me coming back day after day, and I sincerely enjoy the work that I do. I love helping people solve problems, I love putting out new product, I love learning about new areas of the store, I love that I'm so multi-purpose and that they can ask me to do just about anything, but the benefits suck. Especially if you're a part-timer. So I'm looking. I applied at Boston Pizza, the Flight Centre and a few other places. Ideally I'm looking for something that I can ALSO do part-time so that I can flush my hours out to 40 a week. BP would be sweet for tips, but we'll see. I tried for Milestones as well but honestly, my confidence isn't so great.
After all, I'm sure we've all seen what servers look like these days. I don't have a fake tan, I'm not less than 5'5", I don't wear pumps every day, my waist is not a size 0 and straightening my hair and applying make-up every day doesn't sound like my cup of tea. Still, if I can get it I'll take it. I'm also trying for data entry positions and pretty much anything else that will bring in extra income. I'm tired of not being able to pay bills, buy groceries or even move out if I wanted to. I'm 24 and sure, I'm in full-time school, but I should still be able to live comfortably without racking up even MORE debt than I absolutely have to.
Note: My managers are actually super awesome and I would in no way complain about a single one of them. All of the decisions regarding hours and staff wages come from our Head Office. OBVIOUSLY. A solution could be that everyone working in the office could come down to store level for a month, see how hard we work, how understaffed we are, and how little we are compensated for our work and maybe they'd cut us a little slack. Sure, there's a recession, but if you're honestly going to sit there and tell me that the CEO of the company didn't get a big fat f-ing bonus this year I will spit in your eye!!!! All I want to be able to do is go out to buy lasagne noodles because my boyfriend has had a craving for a week and I want to satisfy it dammit!!!
Nelson is going to be a blast and a half, and we're going to Tofino at the end of July with Janet and Ross!!! I'm SO EXCITED. Firstly, my cousin Travis lives in Nelson and he's rad. I think he and Cale will really get along. :D Secondly, I've always wanted to go to Tofino, but never been!!! So it's going to be awesome.
Then in August we're headed to Salmon Arm for the long weekend and another camping trip in the middle of the month to Manning Park with some family friends. I LOVE camping but I'm curbing my impulse to buy summer clothes in light of all the trips. I keep repeating the phrase "camping not clothes" over and over in my head. HA. Although I do think I need to invest in some seriously awesome cloth shorts. I've got swim shorts but they're not good for general lounging and working out. I saw a rad pair in Bluenotes today so I might go back to pick em up. And they have a 3 for $15 deal on tank tops so I might hit that up as well, even though I always think I look weird in their tanks since they're either really long or really tight. :/ I need to find somewhere with sweet tank tops at reasonable prices. Any suggestions?
Other than that my one year with Cale is coming up in less than a month!!!! YAY! August 8th! I'm looking forward to that. Nothing planned so far, but we (and by we I mean Cale) like to do things at the last minute. Ha. I'll keep you posted.
Quick point form:
- nothing has happened to me since ross and janet got married and i registered for school
- i saw my good pal tamara l recently at her "welcome back to vancouver" get together. it was awesome, obviously, because i was there, and also because she's awesome. :)
- the girl i was doing receiving for at work is coming back soon so my full time hours are gone. sad for me. hence all the job hunting.
- i lost my driver's license and need to get that bad boy replaced, but i'm cheap and don't drive often so i'm procrastinating.
- i've been playing a lot of the Sims 2
- i love the show friends. i wish i owned every season but i only have the last one.
- i think i'm going to make a birthday wish list this year for the first time ever. lots of people made them for me and i see now that while surprises are awesome, a little structure is also good. :)
- if i get married or have a baby, i'm going to tell people to pool their money so that i can go to a personal trainer before the wedding/after i give birth. that's something i would never be able to justify buying for myself, but would definitely want.
- Paige B is excellent, and beautiful, and this is a special message for her because i want her to feel good about herself.
- i need to go to the comic shop before the Nelson trip on Wednesday. anyone want to come along? i'm probably going to go after work on monday, since i'm off at 12.
- it's Dan's birthday on Sunday and i don't know what to get him!!! help!!!! he's having a BBQ which will be awesome. I'll have to make sure i look nice because his mom always takes pictures. ha!
- Kristin's birthday is the day after i get back from Nelson!!!! it's going to be awesome. we're headed to the Modern and she's always a good time. HEHEHEHEHEHE. Yeah. I'm sure she'll be beautiful as always and we'll have a great time. (Fun Fact: Cale and I made out for the first time during her birthday party last year. She told us we could "do it" on her couch but sadly we were impeded by the fact that a) her apartment is small and not sound proof b) her friend was lying on the floor in the living room with us and c) it was still weird. ha.)
alright...i have to shower. peace out g's.
-stacey k
"Lock eyes from across the room
Down my drink, while the rhythms boom
Take your hand and skip the names
No need here for the silly games
Make our way through the smoke and crowd
The club is the sky and I'm on your cloud
Move in close as the lasers fly
Our bodies touch and the angels cry
Leave this place go back to yours
Our lips first touch outside your doors
A whole night what we've got in store
Whisper in my ear that you want some more
And I
Jizz in my pants"
Today was day 5 of the Boot Camp.
Day 1: Cardio Hills. It's pretty much the equivalent of running around a track 50 times in the middle of a desert. Imagine starting at a walk, moving into a jog, trotting for a while and then full on sprinting until you feel like you're going to die, and then starting all over again while incorporating jumping jacks and power lunges into the mix. (Just for the record, this workout is hell, and power lunges are the DEVIL! You jump alternating your legs into lunges and pumping your arms like a crazy person.)
Day 2: Strength Sculpting. It's all weights and lunges and squats and more weights. This is actually the EASIEST workout for me. I would rather hold my arms above my head holding 50 pound weights for the rest of my life than do another power lunge as long as I live. (That was an exaggeration...I obviously have to restart the entire thing next week. UGH!)
Day 3: Kickboxing, Sculpting, Hills and Drills. This one is awesome because it mixes together so many different styles. They all incorporate weights and a resistance band so you really feel every single muscle in your body.
Day 4: Circuit Training. It is what it says. Lots of circuits of lunges and squats but not so intense. Just pretty general cardio although those power lunges are back with a vengence.
Day 5: Interval Cardio Sculpt. THIS IS A KILLER!!! This was my workout today and I thought I was going to have to quit. As is I had to settle for most of the modifications. My thighs are burning and I'm pretty sure my ass is going to be in my chest with all of these lunges and leg lifts. This workout is so intense. GGGGGGGGGGUUUUUUUUUUUHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
So that's my workout. We're going to Nelson on Wednesday night, so instead of taking the weekend off like I was planning, I'm going to restart the entire thing tomorrow so that I can keep up with it. I know that if I don't do all 5 workouts every week I'll get lazy and give up and with the amount I seem to be sweating (2lbs of water weight a day!!!!) I can't see how I WON'T get results. Ha.
In other news I've been looking for a second job. I've been looking at lots of reviews for my current position and they all say the same thing, which I completely agree with. "The people are great, the work is totally manageable, but you work for next to nothing." I LOVE the people I work with. They keep me coming back day after day, and I sincerely enjoy the work that I do. I love helping people solve problems, I love putting out new product, I love learning about new areas of the store, I love that I'm so multi-purpose and that they can ask me to do just about anything, but the benefits suck. Especially if you're a part-timer. So I'm looking. I applied at Boston Pizza, the Flight Centre and a few other places. Ideally I'm looking for something that I can ALSO do part-time so that I can flush my hours out to 40 a week. BP would be sweet for tips, but we'll see. I tried for Milestones as well but honestly, my confidence isn't so great.
After all, I'm sure we've all seen what servers look like these days. I don't have a fake tan, I'm not less than 5'5", I don't wear pumps every day, my waist is not a size 0 and straightening my hair and applying make-up every day doesn't sound like my cup of tea. Still, if I can get it I'll take it. I'm also trying for data entry positions and pretty much anything else that will bring in extra income. I'm tired of not being able to pay bills, buy groceries or even move out if I wanted to. I'm 24 and sure, I'm in full-time school, but I should still be able to live comfortably without racking up even MORE debt than I absolutely have to.
Note: My managers are actually super awesome and I would in no way complain about a single one of them. All of the decisions regarding hours and staff wages come from our Head Office. OBVIOUSLY. A solution could be that everyone working in the office could come down to store level for a month, see how hard we work, how understaffed we are, and how little we are compensated for our work and maybe they'd cut us a little slack. Sure, there's a recession, but if you're honestly going to sit there and tell me that the CEO of the company didn't get a big fat f-ing bonus this year I will spit in your eye!!!! All I want to be able to do is go out to buy lasagne noodles because my boyfriend has had a craving for a week and I want to satisfy it dammit!!!
Nelson is going to be a blast and a half, and we're going to Tofino at the end of July with Janet and Ross!!! I'm SO EXCITED. Firstly, my cousin Travis lives in Nelson and he's rad. I think he and Cale will really get along. :D Secondly, I've always wanted to go to Tofino, but never been!!! So it's going to be awesome.
Then in August we're headed to Salmon Arm for the long weekend and another camping trip in the middle of the month to Manning Park with some family friends. I LOVE camping but I'm curbing my impulse to buy summer clothes in light of all the trips. I keep repeating the phrase "camping not clothes" over and over in my head. HA. Although I do think I need to invest in some seriously awesome cloth shorts. I've got swim shorts but they're not good for general lounging and working out. I saw a rad pair in Bluenotes today so I might go back to pick em up. And they have a 3 for $15 deal on tank tops so I might hit that up as well, even though I always think I look weird in their tanks since they're either really long or really tight. :/ I need to find somewhere with sweet tank tops at reasonable prices. Any suggestions?
Other than that my one year with Cale is coming up in less than a month!!!! YAY! August 8th! I'm looking forward to that. Nothing planned so far, but we (and by we I mean Cale) like to do things at the last minute. Ha. I'll keep you posted.
Quick point form:
- nothing has happened to me since ross and janet got married and i registered for school
- i saw my good pal tamara l recently at her "welcome back to vancouver" get together. it was awesome, obviously, because i was there, and also because she's awesome. :)
- the girl i was doing receiving for at work is coming back soon so my full time hours are gone. sad for me. hence all the job hunting.
- i lost my driver's license and need to get that bad boy replaced, but i'm cheap and don't drive often so i'm procrastinating.
- i've been playing a lot of the Sims 2
- i love the show friends. i wish i owned every season but i only have the last one.
- i think i'm going to make a birthday wish list this year for the first time ever. lots of people made them for me and i see now that while surprises are awesome, a little structure is also good. :)
- if i get married or have a baby, i'm going to tell people to pool their money so that i can go to a personal trainer before the wedding/after i give birth. that's something i would never be able to justify buying for myself, but would definitely want.
- Paige B is excellent, and beautiful, and this is a special message for her because i want her to feel good about herself.
- i need to go to the comic shop before the Nelson trip on Wednesday. anyone want to come along? i'm probably going to go after work on monday, since i'm off at 12.
- it's Dan's birthday on Sunday and i don't know what to get him!!! help!!!! he's having a BBQ which will be awesome. I'll have to make sure i look nice because his mom always takes pictures. ha!
- Kristin's birthday is the day after i get back from Nelson!!!! it's going to be awesome. we're headed to the Modern and she's always a good time. HEHEHEHEHEHE. Yeah. I'm sure she'll be beautiful as always and we'll have a great time. (Fun Fact: Cale and I made out for the first time during her birthday party last year. She told us we could "do it" on her couch but sadly we were impeded by the fact that a) her apartment is small and not sound proof b) her friend was lying on the floor in the living room with us and c) it was still weird. ha.)
alright...i have to shower. peace out g's.
-stacey k
"Lock eyes from across the room
Down my drink, while the rhythms boom
Take your hand and skip the names
No need here for the silly games
Make our way through the smoke and crowd
The club is the sky and I'm on your cloud
Move in close as the lasers fly
Our bodies touch and the angels cry
Leave this place go back to yours
Our lips first touch outside your doors
A whole night what we've got in store
Whisper in my ear that you want some more
And I
Jizz in my pants"