A little Guinness anyone?

I can't believe how long it has been since I have written my last post. Since I have returned home from Spring Break, Mike and I have been moving a mile a minute. Waking up, working out, eating, work, and then bed has been my routine for the last couple of days. I haven't even had time to have an OCD cleaning day! You would think today being St. Patrick's Day, my schedule would unwind a little bit, not in the least.

I woke up this morning and was excited to rock out a new workout dvd I have been dying to try since it came out. It's a DVD by BeachBody called TurboFire and it feels just like it sounds, like your body is on fire. I opted for the 45 minute round today because I got a bit of a late start this morning, and wanted to take a shower, so I could jet off to class not smelling like a sweaty gym rat. From the first combo, it was love. I love high energy videos like these with silly moves that make me want to master them and look as cool as the people in the video. I can't wait to try it again later in the week. A nice 700 calorie burn, I'll take it! Plus I learned some cool new moves I can bust out if I need to embarrass Mike in public :)

On a less fun note, at the beginning of this week, I found out I had two exams schedules for tonight, on this oh so glorious green beer filled day. On top of the tests, I was scheduled to work tonight and tomorrow morning (get to serve the drunk crowd and the hungover ones, I wonder who would tip better...) so I had some dilemmas that needed solving. Luckily, I was able to get sympathy from my boss who even thought a teacher scheduling two exams tonight was a little messed up, and let me off so I could take my tests. I did well, thank goodness, and after a long day of turbo-firing, classes and quizzes, I thought I deserved a well earned "Kitchen Sink Salad" from Ruby Tuesdays. I love their salad bar more than any other place that even offers salad. So many choices of my kind of veggies (I am not a fan of peppers of mushrooms), and a few fun toppings. I call it the kitchen sink because I basically throw everything in there except a kitchen sink, obviously.

Don't be alarmed...there is a lot of Spinach!

I throw in Spinach, carrots, hard boiled egg, crasins, edamame, more carrots, zucchini, and a few (quite a few, because they have the best) croutons. Now, I know all the health magazines in the world advise against croutons, but listen, if I'm gonna have a salad for dinner, it's gonna have something that keeps it fun, but I do opt out of adding cheese to it, so tit for tat. Also, since Mike has work and doesn't get to celebrate St. Patty's Day either, I picked up some Guinness at the liquor store next door. I thought it would be a nice little surprise later. 

Okay back to my salad...once I got it home, I added some chicken I had, had in the refrigerator and plowed in. Don't judge me, I was hungry and ate the whole thing. My massive salad was so good though. This reminded me of when I was in a sorority my Freshman year and the older girls put on a sketch to impersonate another sorority, where one girl is appalled she ate an entire apple. I felt silly saying "I can't believe I ate that entire salad," but what the hey, I needed some comforting in green form, it just so happened it wasn't watered down green beer, which I can't complain about.

Yeh, that's what I call "WINNING"

So my plans are now to paint my nails, watch some Celebrity Apprentice, and maybe use one of those bottles of Guinness to try a "Guinness Cupcake" that I have been wanting to make for a while now. I'll send some with Mike on his trip to North Carolina tomorrow and push the rest off on my work buddies. Off to explore the unknown and untasted!