day 23

Day 23 – 15 facts about you.


1. Monday is my most productive day of the week. I do 4 or 5 batches of laundry (depends on how many pairs of pants Chris wore in the last week... if he wore 5 pairs of jeans I have to do 5 batches because his jeans can make up a whole batch). I do all of the dishes from Sunday (I normally don't do them Sunday night, I don't know why....) While I wait for the first batch of laundry to come out of the dryer I really clean the kitchen-I'm talkin scrub the counters, stove, fridge, sweep&mop the floor, a good solid clean. While I fold the laundry I typically watch a movie or an episode of a show. It makes it just a little bit more fun. Yesterday i also went to the library. I always try to get the trash out Monday mornings before the guys come around to pick it up. Yesterday I was super successful even though the guys came almost 30 minutes early. Curse them.


2. I don't sleep very well if I get cold. Unfortunately that often means I don't sleep very well because Chris steals the covers. Really bad. No matter how hard I try to steal them back from him or force him to share it's almost impossible. He tucks them underneath himself and it's pretty much impossible to get them back. The other night I grabbed a blanket from under the bed and used it after he had stolen the covers and he tried to steal that blanket as well. I eventually got him to share the covers with me.


3. I really like doing yoga. I like to check the yoga dvds out at the library, but they don't have very many that are very good, and you can only check dvds out for a week. Instead I normally do the yoga from WiiFit, or from a movie from Netflix that is available on instant streaming. I try to do yoga 3 times a week but normally only get around to it 2 times a week. My Monday's just don't have a lot of wiggle room for yoga. 


4. When I turn my computer on and hop online I open up a lot of tabs all at once and read through them. They typically are: Facebook, the byu 100 hour board, my email, sarah's blog, my blog (i check my dashboard for updates from the blogs i follow), and usaa (i check my bank accounts/credit cards like 1,000,000 times a day). 


5. I have a list of 101 goals I want to accomplish in 1001 days. I'm currently 157 days into my list and I have 47 of my goals done! Also, I am incredibly close to a few others: on my goal to watch 26 movies i've never seen starting with each letter of the alphabet, i've watched 18 of them! I still have F,J,K,Q,W,X,Y and Z left. Seems like I've left a bunch of tricky movies. I've got an F,W and X planned thanks to Netflix instant watch but I'm struggling with Y.  I also have a goal to read 100 books. So far I've finished 17, but I'm working on two or three more right now. I decided during General Conference that I want to read a biography of each of the prophets. I hope that someone in my ward has a lot of biographies because I doubt I'll be able to find them from my local library.


6. I am kind of obsessed with The Biggest Loser. I like to turn an episode on while I clean/do my homework/cook dinner. I get really into it too. Since I started watching it (about a month ago, maybe more) I've watched one whole season, almost all of another season, and gotten caught up on the current season. I have favorites each time, and in one of the seasons I'm watching right now (season 9) i think my guess for who will win might be pretty accurate! I'm not sure yet about the current season, there are too many players with a lot of extra weight to be lost and it's trickier that way. I like when they show the food they are cooking out of The Biggest Loser Cookbook. They use Turkey Bacon a lot and instead of using ground beef they use ground turkey. They have a recipe for chili that has ground turkey in it and I really want to try it, it sounds super tasty. I placed a hold for that book at the library yesterday because I want to make that one specific recipe. I'm excited to see what else is Bob & Jillian approved. I tried Bob's Biggest Loser Yoga workout (I checked it out from the library) and it was incredibly intense, just like I suspected it would be. Bob is fantastic. If you don't know who Bob and Jillian are you are missing out. They are the trainers on BL and they are super crazy! I looooove them!


7. I don't like to shave my legs. But I do it anyway. 


8. The other day we were at the AT&T store upgrading my phone (Janyse if you're reading this I have FaceTime now) and President Obama was on the tv giving some address. I was really confused when I saw him. We've been watching 24 for a while now and I honestly forgot who the president was because there is a president on 24. Currently on 24 the president is a lady, President Taylor. Turns out she isn't the president in real life. Chris laughed at me when I said "oh yeah! Obama's president." so did the AT&T guy. 


9. We have towels that are green and towels that are called biscotti. We have sheets that are gold and sheets that are brown. I like to have the biscotti towels out when we have our gold sheets out. They match pretty well. 


10. While I love for my apartment to be clean, I don't always keep my bathroom clean. Since we only have one bathroom though, I do clean it when people are coming over. it's amazing what a quick spray of windex on the mirror and counter can do to make the bathroom look cleaner. When I really clean it I pull out my Foamy Q&A (a fantastic cleaner that I used as a custodian at BYU) and get the sink, tub, and toilet lookin pretty good!


11. When I was in Provo I bought a pair of skinny jeans because I needed jeans that could easily be tucked into my winter boots without adding a ton of bulk. I didn't ever wear them without my boots. Now I wear them all the time and they are my favorites. 


12. I like to try new recipes but a lot of the time I'm too scared. I love that I have a friend in the ward here who likes to try new recipes too. We get together and it makes it a lot more fun, especially when the recipes we try require a lot of "do this and let it sit for 10 minutes" or "do this and then let the dough rise for 45 minutes". We get to sit and talk and laugh and play with her adorable baby while we try new foods. 


13. A few weeks ago they finished building a new grocery store just down the street and closed the old nasty one that was basically across the street from it. I love going to the new one because they make freshly squeezed orange juice and fresh guacamole and always have samples of both of them. I'm really tempted to buy some of their fresh squeezed oj, it's oh so tasty. The boys that squeeze it and then hand out the samples make me laugh, they hit on every woman that comes up to them and say that they heard the juice is even sweeter because THEY squeezed it. Like that's going to convince me to buy it right then... psh, silly boys!


14. I'm kind of in love with kool-aid. Whenever I make manicotti I have to serve it with Ice Blue Raspberry Lemonade koolaid. Recently we discovered kiwi-watermelon. It's "invisible" so it has no color and it is oh so tasty! I love the smell of it. The only downside is that when I drink it I get a lot more sugar then when I drink straight up water. I have to stop myself from making it too often.


15. At the grocery store last week we bought a box of Honey Kix. I think they're absolutely tasty, and have just a little more flavor than regular Kix. I've eaten a bowl of it for breakfast almost every day since we bought them, minus Sunday when I made cinnamon rolls for us to eat before/as conference started.