Archive for September, 2008

This week Boston is up against Miami in Travel + Leisure Magazine and Travelandleisure.com’s “America’s Favorite City” game. Only 12 cities advanced to Round Two and Boston is one of ‘em! Every Monday the losers are eliminated and the winners go on to the next round. Don’t let Boston lose to Miami – they may have won Sunday’s game, but we can definitely win this vote!

Click on www.travelandleisure.com/afc/2008/game now and vote for Boston now…. and then vote again! It only takes 10 seconds!

Check back next week – to see if we made it.

Travel & Leisure Magazine will announce America’s #1 city on October 15th!

Is anyone else going to the Best of Boston Style event tonight hosted by Boston Magazine? I’ll be there with a mix of friends and coworkers, say hi if you’ll be there too!

I finalized my outfit for the wedding this weekend, the dress, the shoes, this clutch from Banana (which is no longer on their website. BOO.), paired with a long gold necklace with a yellowy-green “stone” (read: big hunk of plastic) from H&M. Hair: TBD, but I’m thinking a big messy updo with sideswept bangs. We’ll see how saucy I feel this weekend. Really, I’m just psyched I’m not wearing (or carrying) a stitch of BLACK. I am doing mustards! And jewel tones! And animal prints! Oh and a hot pink three quarter sleeve jacket. Color is the new black, people.

Finally, I’m thinking Blogtoberfest is just going to be a super casual meet up this year. I’m looking at Thursday October 23rd. Bar undecided thus far, but suggestions are welcome. I’m thinking casual and cheap. No sponsors, no prizes – we can just go and chill out. I wish I had the time to actually sit and focus on this event, but I’ve got a lot of stuff on my plate right now. I just can’t put the time and energy that I want into it and I still want to do something, but I don’t want to half ass what I’ve done in the past. So a casual meet up seems the way to go. Thoughts? Suggestions? Please don’t hate.

I messed up the work out my trainer had planned for me today because while yesterday was cardio day, after I ran 3 miles I hadn’t broken a sweat or felt my breathing change in anyway. I interpret this into “so … I barely worked out” and went and did forward lunges, pull ups and ab work to “make it count”. Meanwhile today my trainer says “If you know what time you’re strength training with me, don’t do any strength training within a 24 hour period of that.” In other words “you’re stupid and now I have to replace the pull ups I WAS going to have you do with something else.”

So today I did:
- 10 minutes running the stairs
- 1 set of 20 forward lunges right into backward lunges (1 set for each leg)
- 1 set of 12 squats holding 10 pound weights in each hand
- 1 more set of 20 forward lunges into backward lunges (1 set for each leg)
- 1 more set of 12 squats holding 10 pound weights in each hand
- 1 set of 12 reverse rows
- 1 set of 12 single leg deadlifts (1 set for each leg)
- 1 more set of 12 reverse rows
- 1 more set of 12 single leg deadlifts (1 set for each leg)
- 1 set of 20 alternating biceps curls: wrist out when you come up, wrist in when you come down. Elbows always close to the body.
- 1 set of 12 tricep kick backs.

Then some ab work which I have to describe out instead of listing.

- First exercise:
Lay on a bench with your head at the end and your hands gripping the edge of the bench next to your head. Bring your legs up so you’re at a 90 angle at the hips and your legs are bent. Then I did crunches up and sloooowly brought my body down one vertebrae at a time, then brought my legs allllll the way down until my feet tapped the bench and started all over again. I did 12 of these.

- Second exercise was a bitch:
Still on the bench, lay in an L shape with your hands still gripping the bench by your head. Lift your hips so that your toes go STRAIGHT UP. You can not use momentum to kick them forward or backward. They must go straight up. This exercise SUCKS. SUCKS. SUCKS. SUCKS. Do 10 of those.

- Third exercise:
Still on the bench do 20 slow, controlled bicycles.

Then I did another set of 20 alternating bicep curls. Followed by another set of tricep kickbacks. And finished with another set of all three of those god damn ab exercises.

I’m tired. So tired that when I got back to my desk I apparently couldn’t control my limbs and spilled a cup of coffee from this morning all over my laptop. Thank god for iSkin keyboard covers. My MacBook Pro is alive and well.

- Walked 13 miles for Jimmy
- Cleaned my bedroom and my office
- Procrastinated on preparing a presentation
- Rediscovered a love of alliteration
- Finalized many details on my 10 year high school reunion
- Continued procrastinating
- Sent out the official invitation for my 10 year high school reunion
- Watch the beginning of season 3 of Weeds
- Got into work an hour early
- Gave a presentation at work …
- Not what I was expecting to give
- Or pretended to prepare
- But ended up going WAY better than I ever could have expected
- Forgot my wallet
- Which meant I had to pay for my coffee in change
- And couldn’t buy lunch
- Did a whole lot of work
- Hit the gym
- Ate some almonds
- Ate some taffy
- Drank some water
- Ate more taffy
- Found some licorice
- Ate it
- Thought about blogging
- Didn’t
- Read some blogs
- Thought about blogging again
- Didn’t
- Sent out some emails
- Wrote this
- Publish and head home to buy windshield wipers and food.

This weekend my family and I are strapping on our comfiest sneakers and our Pacesetter numbers and walking to raise money for the Jimmy Fund/Dana Farber Cancer Institute.

I’ve been doing the walk for years, but this year is obviously the most meaningful since I will be walking with my little Dinkstrong in mind.

If you haven’t already donated, but can find it in your hearts (and budgets!) to give a little – please give what you can for a good cause!

Thanks! Have a great weekend.