Angry Julie Monday

Wordless Wednesday: Hibiscus

September 5, 2012

I was dropping my son off at my parent’s house the other day and noticed this beautiful flower. I had to take a picture with my iPhone.

Welcome to “Angry Julie Monday’s Wordless Wednesday Linky”!

If this your first time here, HELLO! I do a link-up every Wednesday! Post a picture(s) and link back to it here. Wordless Wednesday is a great day to post an awesome picture that “speaks” for itself, no words needed.

Be sure to check out Wordless Wednesday Link-Ups at these other sites also:

Project Alicia, Better in Bulk, Crazy About My Baybah, Dear Crissy, Five Minutes For Mom, Live and Love…Out Loud, Naptime Momtog, Parenting By Dummies, Seven Clown Circus, The Divine Miss Mommy

Also, Lindsey from The Pleated Poppy does “What I Wore Wednesday” every week with a great big link-up.

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GTL vs. WRL aka Work Run Laundry

September 3, 2012

As they say on Jersey Shore “GTL” (Gym, Tan, Laundry), my life is “WRL”. What does “WRL” mean? Well in my world right now, it is Work-Run-Laundry with a little bit of this and that in-between.

I’ve been increasing my running the past few months as I’m training for a half marathon in October. I have also been participating in a little running inspiration online via Marta from Haus of Girls. In June, the goal was #40milesinJune, I did 63. In July, the goal was #45milesinJuly, I did 61. And in August, the goal was #42milesinAugust, I did 74.

Yes, I ran 74 miles while working full-time, traveling to New York, shuttling my son back and forth to summer camp, and dealing with this extreme heat wave in California right now. You can imagine how much laundry is piling up in my house right now. I’m constantly doing laundry, whether it be work uniforms, running clothes, swim trunks, and/or beach towels, the laundry is quite overwhelming!

I texted this picture to my BFF Stacey on Friday. Her response, “Dang you are tan. Frick. GTL for you?” This is a typical Stacey response and totally cracks me up. I fixed some of her text language. She always responds, “Effing Autocorrect”. I told her to turn it off the other day. Her response, “No I like it for the most part. It fixes my drunk texts.” Awesome!

I had my husband take this picture yesterday. He HATES when I ask him to take my picture. Especially when I say, “Um it’s too dark, grainy, bad, omg I look fat, etc.” Just ignore the garage randomness, please. This was the first time that I wore the tank top that Marta ordered for our little online inspirational running journey in June, “Strong Is The New Skinny”. I may not be skinny, but I am definitely stronger. I paired it with a Team Sparkle Skirt, of course and my favorite running shoes, my Saucony Kinvara 3’s.

If you are wondering what I did over Labor Weekend, just look at the title of this post. I worked, ran (Awesome 80’s 5K), and did laundry. I also helped out my friends at Team Sparkle with the Disneyland Half Marathon Expo on Friday (post coming later).

And you are probably asking where my kid was the entire time? He was with my parents in Palm Springs. He has a hard life!

Happy September!

P.S. Yes, I actually referred to the TV show Jersey Shore in today’s post.

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Wordless Wednesday: Just Keep Swimming

August 29, 2012

Angry Kid has been swimming a ton this summer, almost every day actually. I’m quite jealous of his life. He doesn’t even know how good his life is, really! Last week, I borrowed a Sony Cyber-shot TX-20 from my friend, Ciaran. After seeing Ciaran’s pictures that she posted for a review, I was impressed. I didn’t want to carry my big DSLR around when we went to Legoland last week. I borrowed the TX-20 from Ciaran for our Legoland trip, but I HAD to take it to our local pool also.

Yes, I went underwater with this camera. I didn’t use any special cases or anything like that. I put it on “underwater Mode” and dove right in. The kid had a blast taking pictures underwater with me.

I also took this silly underwater portrait of the Angry Kid and I.

These photographs pretty much scream “SUMMER”. We still have one more week till school starts! We are enjoying our last seven days before second grade.

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Welcome to “Angry Julie Monday’s Wordless Wednesday Linky”!

Be sure to check out Wordless Wednesday Link-Ups at these other sites also:

Project Alicia, Better in Bulk, Crazy About My Baybah, Dear Crissy, Five Minutes For Mom, Live and Love…Out Loud, Naptime Momtog, Parenting By Dummies, Seven Clown Circus, The Divine Miss Mommy

Also, Lindsey from The Pleated Poppy does “What I Wore Wednesday” every week with a great big link-up.

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Insta-Friday

August 24, 2012

Yes, it is Insta-Friday again. How did this week end so fast? Yikes, summer is almost over!!! I can’t believe how fast it flew by. We are gearing up for school to start soon, yet we are still enjoying the last of our summer.

I have tons of stuff to write about, but literally no time. Eventually I will catch-up, I promise. At least I hope so!

20 minutes of mandatory family reading time. A Diary of a Whimpy Kid. Our family now reads at least 20 minutes every night. We had to get the kid back into the groove.

Mailing out my package for the #mugswap today! Yippee! Thanks for the fun exchange @cuppakim. Brilliant idea!

He wanted to learn how to vaccuum tonight. The main reason, to get vaccuum lines on the carpeting in his room.

A little silhouette of the kid @Legoland SeaLife Aquarium. Thanks to @klout for the perk!

Disclosure: I received free tickets to Legoland via a Klout perk.

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Wordless Wednesday: Roller Hockey

August 22, 2012

We went and watched our friends’ roller hockey game tonight. They won, yippee! Angry Kid loves Jayson and Alex. I had to take a picture of all three of them. These guys are the kid’s heroes. He loves them so much.

Welcome to “Angry Julie Monday’s Wordless Wednesday Linky”!

Be sure to check out Wordless Wednesday Link-Ups at these other sites also:

Project Alicia, Better in Bulk, Crazy About My Baybah, Dear Crissy, Five Minutes For Mom, Live and Love…Out Loud, Naptime Momtog, Parenting By Dummies, Seven Clown Circus, The Divine Miss Mommy

Also, Lindsey from The Pleated Poppy does “What I Wore Wednesday” every week with a great big link-up.

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Hello Monday

August 20, 2012

Hello Monday!

Hello to the start of a new week!

Hello to the end of summer camps!

Angry Kid is all done with summer camp. He doesn’t start school until the Wednesday after Labor Day. He still has a little over 2 weeks of summer vacation left.

Hello to Long Runs!

I set my alarm on Saturday morning and got up at 4am, to run! I had an 8-mile run scheduled on my 1/2 Marathon Training program. I didn’t want to wait till late at night to do it, because of the heat. My Garmin Forerunner 305 would not turn on, and I almost ended up in tears, right before my run. I ended up using MapMyRun on my iPhone to track my distance. I finished my run before my husband had to leave for work that morning.

Goodbye to my Garmin Forerunner 305!

I knew that it was slowly dying. I bought it over three years ago, almost four. I did some research and realize that I purchased it in November of 2008. I think that I got my money’s worth.

Hello Summer BBQ’s and FROYO!

I went to a friend’s house for a summer BBQ and to celebrate her starting nursing school. I will miss my friend and almost former co-worker, Jen, but I wish her the best.

It was super hot on Saturday also. I had to get a little treat from Yogurtland. It had strawberries in it. That totally counts as healthy, right? Just ignore the crushed up Butterfinger and the gummy bears, ok!

Hello Garmin Forerunner 310XT!

With the recent death of my Garmin Forerunner 305, I needed a new GPS watch for running. It is too difficult to use my phone with tracking because I put in the pocket of my fuel belt and cannot look at the distance/pace/etc. without stopping to pull it out of the pocket.

I researched all of my options for GPS running devices/watches and decided that I did not want one with a touch screen. I chose the Garmin Forerunner 310XT because of the non-touch screen capabilities.

I told Angry Husband that I NEEDED to buy a new Garmin before Tuesday night, which is my next scheduled run. I got this little orange and gray baby last night. I love new toys. I cannot wait to run with it, tomorrow night!

Hello Itty Bitty Teeny Tiny Ponytail!

I was finally able to get my hair into somewhat of a ponytail on Saturday and today. I used between 6-8 snap clips to keep all of the hair up plus gel and some hair spray. I’m trying to compete in the hair Olympics with all of those gymnasts. All I need now is some spray glitter to make it sparkle.

Hello Monday!

Hello to catching up from the weekend, and past week, as usual!

Hello to chaos!

Linking up with Lisa Leonard and her Hello Monday Series!

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InstaFriday

August 17, 2012

A recap of my week via my iPhone. Just add in a busy work week, a migraine headache, and shuttling my son back and forth to his last week of summer camp.

Miracles do happen! I made ribs and mashed potatoes for dinner. The kid likes it! Ok, I outsourced the meal to Costco but I did heat everything up, and put it on plates.

Home Office Organization Semi-Complete. In between my headache today, I purged.

Craft cabinet was also cleaned out. Everything in it’s place. A day later, I saw that my husband and kid attacked this cabinet looking for “something”.

Beautiful sunset while I was running four miles the other night.

The bane of my existence. Putting in these contact lenses. Don’t be shocked, but I’ve already had Lasik.

3 miles done. Wore my new Saucony Kinvara 3’s. Tomorrow is rest day. I have an 8-miler on Saturday.

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Wordless Wednesday: Slime Green Running Shoes

August 15, 2012

If you have been reading my blog the past few months, you would know that I’ve become somewhat of a RUNNERD, aka RUN NERD! I’ve been buying running clothes and shoes like a mad woman. When Saucony posted a photo on Instagram of a pair of Slime Green Kinvara 3’s, I knew that I had to have them. Unfortunately, they did not say when the shoes would be released.

On August 1, I sent @Saucony a tweet asking about the shoes, and they replied! How awesome is that!

@angryjulie tomorrow…

— Saucony (@saucony) August 1, 2012

On August 2, while I was in New York, Saucony released the shoes on their website. My friend, Casey, texted me that they were up! I was already trying to place my order when she texted. The site kept going down and I was freaking out a ton. Yes, I know, they are shoes, running shoes. But I finally placed my order. Within the hour, they were sold out of most of the sizes.

I received my shoes a few days after I got back from New York City. Aren’t they beautiful? Like you didn’t notice all of the rad neon shoes during the Olympics. Seriously, neon is the new thing in running now! My shoes are almost too pretty to wear!