March Got Me Like...

Spring is 17 days away and I am r-r-r-ready!  I'm ready to be in that land yacht going out and having fun on the weekends!  Anyone else with me?  I thought that today should be a post in honor of all the sh I'm getting into this month along with a few goals.  Get in and don't worry about buckling up because this land yacht is the safest vehicle on the road!

Softball practice one kicks off tonight.  I hate practices as a parent.  They are plain out boring.  I want to be out there running around.  I'm not a mom who cares about talking over in the bleachers.  I could care less what is going on in your life or who you want to talk shiz about.  Ugh moms are so annoying.  

(I'm still 17 inside.  At least it isn't 14!  Booo yahhhh!)

Next week my husband and I will celebrate our 13th wedding anniversary and 14th year together.  I'm celebrating by getting my eye dilated.  Our future is bright.

We're really celebrating by disappearing to here!  I cannot wait!!! (NC Coast best coast in the world and not just because I'm an NC girl!!!)

I have a track kid in my house.  Spoiler its the softball kid.  Her first meet is one the first day of spring.  Her dad will be there looking around quite confused as I will be out of town for work.  

You may talk ish about soccer moms but lemme tell ya something - a lot of them are way cooler than the other sports moms!  Last fall everyone was so laid back.  I mean laid back from falling asleep because we are tired. Soccer starts back up the same week as track meet one.

So we kinda left the church we were attending.  You know what a lot of peopel refer to as "sexy church" - you know modern worship, a band, jeans, laid back, its all good mentality.  Yeah um we kinda left that.  We kinda are going backwards.  Our daughter started going to the church I grew up in (tiny, itty bitty, United Methodist church, it has like six kids, old hymns, a big Sunday is thirty people) and she loves it.  Our son, for some strange reason, loves it.  Anyhoo, they are trying to start a youth group (I know you just jumped up to six kids and then jumped back down to this sentence...) and my daughter is invested in this so...

If anyone is interested the youth group is doing a soup and sandwich dinner at the end of the month to help raise money to get their youth group up and running.

So...last month I had a goal of 15 spin classes.  I completed 12.

I did 4 yoga practices.

Kinda worried about March because the calendar is beefing up with sports and I'm like uhhhhhh I CAN do this.  I'm going to give myself 3-4 workouts a week!  Thursdays are out.  

Spring means a project.  I'm loving this one as I get ready to change my garden beds!  

How is your spring shaping up?

Friday 5

Oh what a week its been.

Here's five...

1.  I'm bored with Trim Healthy Mama.  If you don't know what that is its a eating lifestyle where you focus your meals on an E (carb) or S (fat) base and go from there.  I feel like everything is beginning to taste the same.  So I turned to that wonderful little app I bought last year - eMeals.  Tonight is Chicken Alfredo Pizza night.  The kids are stoked.  Its low carb (cauli crust) and it has cheese and chicken on it...win win.

I do like the eMeals app because I can pick our nutrition preference (low carb) and get a fresh listing each week of meals to choose from.  Then I pick the ones I want to make the app will automatically coordinate with my grocery ordering services (Walmart) and bam!  Grocery shopping and meal planning is done.

Diet preferences include clean eating, keto, quick and easy, budget friendly, thirty minute, kid friendly, slow cooker, heart healthy, low calorie, diabetic, gluen free, mediterrenean, vegan, vegetarian, and paleo.

Sorry but I don't have any promos for you - however - if you go to their site I'm sure they have a deal going on.  I believe the regular special is a two week trial.

If you're a Dave Ramsey follower then you already know about eMeals.  (Yes, I'm that girl.)

2.  Back to class for me!  I started back to p90x class and metabolic effect this week.

 It was so much fun.  I was dripping with sweat by the end of class and I love to be dripping with sweat (once again I am that girl.)  Unfortunately....

3.  Sick day for me.  I missed Thursday's class because my body was attacked by germs.  BOO HISS!  I got zero sleep and couldn't breathe because mucus likes to kill you.

I spent Thursday on the couch sleeping through Real Housewives episodes and bits and pieces of Mrs. Maisel.  When I get sick I'm not one to rush off to the doctor.  I think most of the crap we get we need to allow our bodies to fight without leaning to heavily on pills.  I upped my veggies on Thursday and my water and slept a lot.  Nobody wants to use PTO on sick days!

4.  My daffodils are shooting up from the ground.  The Forsythia is blooming.  Guys, it's mid January.  Of course everything is going to freeze now because our early spring is being interrupted by winter's return.  I really need to move to Florida.  But...I got an alert spring sports signups are on the horizon (as in next week) and that made me super duper excited!  Spring will come back!

5.  If you subscribe to Fab Fit Fun and you got the Kate Somerville goats milk moisturizer use that ish!  It's the best moisturizer I have ever used.  I'm a big fan of Kate Somerville products anyway but that moisturizer is a must have. here's a link to get you some, girl.  If you're interested in Fab Fit Fun here's a link to save some money and try it out (I personally do love it.)
If you aren't a FFF subscriber and you're wondering what I'm talking about

Alright, its Friday let's do this!  Have a great weekend xo.

Amanda Buys A Vacuum Cleaner

When you think about catchy titles and you need help, obviously call me.

I bought a vacuum cleaner this morning.  Stop the presses this is big shiz.  When we took down the Christmas decorations something on my regular vac broke.  Turns out it was this two inch, plastic rectangle that manages pressure or something.  It also turns out you cannot buy a replacement two inch plastic rectangle to save yourself a couple hundred dollars.  And furthermore it turns out a two inch Lego that looks JUST LIKE the part that went missing will not fit.

Motherhood ingenuity at it's best...

So today as I woke up to clean the litter box and also make a big ass mess in the whole process (those cats should be OUTSIDE) I decided that it was time to order a new vacuum.  Even though I love my Swiffer with all my heart and soul I really needed a vacuum cleaner.

Shout out to the Amish community and their mad broom skills.  I can work a broom but apparently not as good as some cultures and generations.  Plus, using a broom is time consuming!  And on a Sunday morning I want to be sipping coffee not working the straws on a device that was probably one of the first tools man made back in 4AD.

In case you really care about the vacuum - I ordered yet another Shark because I'm a loyalist even if they piss me off with a two inch, looks-like-a-Lego-would-work, piece of plastic I cannot rig up to make my old vac work.

I really wanted a stick vac but tell me how it makes sense that a stick vac is $400 for a smaller machine that still has a cord on it and a smaller waste cup?  

Are people getting that much more stupid as time goes on?

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Do you January clean out?  You know what I mean right?  In January you put away all the holiday crap and then start going through your closet and tossing stuff.  I know I am not the only one who does that.

Yesterday, I took apart all my clothing areas (closet, drawers, storage boxes).  If you are in the neighborhood and wear a 7.5-9 shoe or a size medium/8 dress or need a good bag stop by.  

I refuse to take this to Goodwill.  Anyone else over Goodwill?  Goodwill to a CEO.  May I suggest this year you donate to Salvation Army or small groups that actually HELP people in need?  

This morning I noticed that many people are doing sale pages on Facebook.  Meh.  What I think is they start cleaning out their shiz and then post it and whoever says they will buy it comes to that person's house to get it.  I like that idea.  

But I don't like Facebook.

Disclaimer:  This blog has a Facebook page.  I like it.

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Facebook is kind of ridiculous.  Since your grandma and great aunt are on there the whole Facebook feel is horrid.  I have friends on Facebook who are baby boomers.  Oh these poor people.  I just pray for their safety.

When I log onto Facebook to scroll through the feed (and become either super angry or super worried about the comprehension skills of our aging population) I am just left going holy hell and we worry about the kids?

My favorites are the Bible thumpers who will jump on anything anti Christian and post it with "WE NEED TO PRAY!"  Nevermind what they have shared is bogus or a decade old.  

I also enjoy the people who fall hook, line, and sinker for ANY political headline that talks bad about a person in the party they typically are not a member of.  Wink and nod Russia you are so smart.  

Yes, the USA is GREAT but I'm afraid our deductive reasoning skills leave a lot to be desired.  

Once again - have your grandkids help you decipher what is true and what is false and what is heavily skewed.

My favorite headline that was shared on a page - Trump Knew Markle Was Evil.

Eye roll.

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Last week and that's not a video - nice conversion. (not a boomer)

Amanda's losing her twenty pounds.  I haven't weighed this week.  But when I do I will be so annoying and share it.

I gave myself two weeks to get my stamina back up in the gym.  This past Thursday I decided to take on a class I used to love.  Metabolic Effect.  Its a HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) exercise and every class is something different.

I grabbed my bar bells and mat and died.

But I did my best to power through.  As of Saturday morning my quads, abs, and parts of my glutes had went on strike.  This girl probably could have gotten away with parking in a handicap spot at the grocery store but I promise I didn't do that.

Today is three days post ME class and I'm feeling better. 

Tomorrow I do P90x.

T's and P's.

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Friends, its sunny and sixty something degrees out.  I have spring fever like none other.  So I'm going to wrap this one up here and ask you to drink your water and move your body.  Turn off your Facebook and go outside.  Save the vacuuming for later.  Clean out if you wish.

If you are in New England - stay inside.  I heard its nasty up there today.  Please stay inside and watch tv.  Please.

XO