Wow!! What a week!!
This week was rather busy to say the least. Between working my normal full time job, and working 35 additional hours at a flower shop-I’m proud of myself for still managing to run the miles that I needed to this week. 🙂 In part, I credit the accomplishment to the fact that it’s only week two and I still have hope, excitement, and confidence in the journey, but either way we got it done!
Monday was the start of the chaos, and the start began bright and early at 5:15am when the first alarm sounded. If you know me, you also likely know that I am someone who sets approximately 12 alarms-with the first one going off 15-20 minutes before I actually need to get out of bed lol. So after a few snoozes and roll overs, Bobby and I made our way down to the apartment gym and ran a nice 1.5er to start our week. It was better than I thought! Although I prefer to run outside because the scenery changes, I do enjoy that the treadmill is an automatic pace maker for me. It seems to help me push through the difficultly of the first half mile when the alternative to running is to fall on the tread hahaha. Then after a full day at the office, I got to experience my first flower shop shift in the metro, talk about busy!! Oofta!
Let me also just disclose that there were NO cross training days for me this week. Getting home at 9:30pm every night was rather tiresome, so I committed to completing my runs and nothing more haha.
Wednesday, the moderate day, wasn’t exactly much faster than my easy day on Monday, but to be fair, the soreness from standing at the flower shop was starting to win the battle. Nonetheless, Wednesday night after my shift, we hopped on the treadmill and managed to push through 2 miles. Not much faster than the 1.5 on Monday, but our average mile pace lessened by 15 seconds, so hey that’s still counts as faster, right??
Like I said, I made no time for cross-training this week, which also meant no recovery short run on Friday. I knew I could only do so much without over doing it with my work schedule. Saturday should’ve been my “long” 2.5 miles, but after over a 12 hour day on my feet at the shop, I was too pooped to pop. Knowing I had another full day on Sunday, Valentine’s Day, I put my feet up and was in bed earlier than I’d like to admit😂.
So, instead, Sunday was the day! After getting to leave my shift a few hours earlier than anticipated, I was more than ready to knock out my first 2.5er. Okay that’s a lie. Who am I kidding? I was still absolutely exhausted and wanted to do nothing more than just lay on the couch and watch Schitt’s Creek (if you haven’t watch the series on Netflix, I would 10/10 recommend!!!). But anyways, thankfully Bobby had a restful week and convinced me to just get it over with. So, at freaking 10:00 at night, we went down and pumped out the 2.5 miles! No stopping either! So far I’m 6/6 on runs with no stopping-this is a first people!!!! It’s amazing how much having someone with you makes a difference, well atleast for me. But we did it!! 🙂
Since it was Valentine’s this week, I made my favorite almond flower brownies-and had to add some red sprinkles of course! I shared the recipe way back in March, but in case you don’t want to go digging, I attached the pictures here, too! They’re so dang yummy.
I also made my own stir fry for the first time this week! We were running out of meals and conveniently had fresh peppers and snap peas in the fridge. I’ve never made story fry before without using a starter kit with a pre made sauce or veggie mix, so I just winged it and it was delightful!!! A little spicy, but who doesn’t need an internal warm up when it’s -20 outside haha. I used
– one red pepper
-one yellow pepper
-two small heads of broccoli
-one medium yellow onion
-a few handfuls of snap peas
-a 1/4 bag of Trader Joe’s sliced chicken
Once it was all steamin up together, I drizzled the mix in soy sauce, and by drizzle it was probably more of a soak? Don’t have the right word for it haha. Then actually drizzled some honey, and sprinkled quite a few red pepper flakes over the top! Ooo and garlic! I just let it all simmer for a few more minutes, and wallah! And no fire alarm attacks this week either :)))
I’m hoping this week brings more time outside, considering last week was absolutely FRIGID!! I’m also “hosting” a Norwex Facebook party this week, Norwex is a Norway based org that has a mission of developing safe, sustainable, and efficient cleaning products for your home. I love that they are environmentally friendly, and work well, too! If you’re interested in joining shoot me a text and I’ll send you the link! ☺️aaaand the goal is to finish book #2 this week. Have a great week!!! Here’s a picture of my stunning Valentine’s Day flowers to help you through your Monday 🤍
Xoxo
Jos
Josie's Journey 