I Made It To Thanksgiving… Pretty Much

Hello all! My goal for the past month or so has been to just make it to Thanksgiving, and I am happy to say that…. as of tonight I did! I had my last test tonight and edited a whole 100 page dissertation over the weekend (not mine, I was paid to edit for an English as a second language PhD student).

Other accomplishments included seeing Skyfall Saturday night, going to bed at 9:30 the last 2 nights, and strength work on Sunday (150# back squat 5reps x 3 :), and today’s lunch.

I love eating out of season fruit and pretending it is summer. Okay, it would have been super impressive if I had finished that but I only ate like 5 of the sushi rolls after the salad and fruit and was done. I wasn’t a huge fan of the cream cheese with the smoked salmon, sounded great… not really though. I went to Wohlner’s for the salad bar BUT they were out of proteins.. I mean not even boiled eggs. I was sure the salad wouldn’t fill me up so I picked up the sushi but I think I would have been fine without it I hate wasting food so much but sushi doesn’t really carry well to class.

I also completed “Karen” in 7:12 on Sunday. If you are not a crossfitter you may not be familiar with Karen… 150 Wall Balls for time. Or as I like to call it….UGGHH. I despise wall balls… I don’t really know why, but I ALWAYS complain about them for at least 15 minutes before I actually have to do them. Anyhow, I finished well before the 10 min cutoff and well before I imagined I would! Woo HOOOO for another record board time 🙂

Today’s workout was a fun one with some scaling options

I used the prescribed weight of 83# (pretty heavy for my OH squat) but I had to do bar jumps instead of muscle-ups because…. those scare the hell out of me and if I could ever just get my darn pull-ups MAYBE I could move on to other things….

Saturday’s workout was a good one too…

I scaled my weight to 85/105/115 and finished in 10:40… the 115# hang cleans and push jerks were one rep at a time 🙂

And tomorrow morning I am off to NYC to visit my dad! My sister and brother-in-law are already there so it should be QUITE a week. Lots of adult beverages and karaoke I expect 🙂 I know you may have heard about the extremely small yet very expensive apartments in Manhattan and I want to inform you that it is not a rumor…. With all 5 of us in Dad’s apartment it will be a bit like… camping except trendier and next to Central Park.

Speaking of trendiness…

I know right… pleather! But let’s face it… I am too poor at this point in my life to afford any leather other than this Target jacket, BUT I love it. And come on… I kind of look like a badass especially with my zebra print. P.S. I do not, repeat DO NOT actually have a double chin in real life, it was the angle or something… promise.

A little sad about leaving the Nugget for Thanksgiving 😦 I always miss her when we leave!

And also, I am hitting up the Reebok 5th Avenue CF gym to check it out and do a WOD. Hopefully I can get my butt up and go at 7am on Wednesday… alright, I said it so now I have to do it! I will definitely update you all on how it goes! 

Are you traveling for Thanksgiving? Where? Or are you just chilling at home? 

Here is a snapshot of some of the stuff I will be doing this week.. Okay, this is my sister’s itinerary and she has a fine arts degree and does creative artsy things for a living so substitute drinking or crossfit into any of the museums slots 😉 Have a happy Turkey Day y’all!