Week 2

Another week down and many lessons learned. I guess I will start off by talking about exercising. Monday I had the chance to work at the ropes course for 4 hours, bullaying (spelled wrong) a bunch of volleyball girls. Which means they were on the high obstacles, (caribeaner and rope) while i was on the ground attached to the same rope making sure all went well. I have had the chance to work at the ropes course which is part of the conference center at Utah State campus and I have grown to love every minute of it. Later on during the week I became adventurous and tried my roommates belly dancing tape. I did this in our room, lights off, and no one around. Don't really think I will do it again. It was a workout don't get me wrong, and it was slightly fun but not really. I think I will stick to exercise opportunities in life with taking trips to the gym or going for a walk. Oh and on Saturday I had the chance to be in the homecoming parade for Utah State University. Two hours, 8 blocks, and walked/ran on occasion the entire way. I think the logistics needs to be worked out for next year. The whole having stuff in a wagon and having to grab stuff out and give it to people on the side, well it was hard to keep up with the wagon. A majority of my time was spent jogging towards the wagon. I am extremely glad that the parade was only 8 blocks.
Food adventures this week were not so productive or enlightening. My goal was to watch my portions this week, and to drink more water. I guess you could say I sort of succeeded because my fridge is filled with left overs. However I really shouldn't have gone out as much to eat and the left overs are from multiple meals in short spans of time. I really am going to try this week to make sure that my portions are smaller then before. Oh and for the cooking this week I made enchiladas. I LOVE these enchiladas, fond memories come with this meal.
I learned a lot from this meal. When you have ground beef in the freezer, you should let it thaw out. I didn't really do this, that is why there are pictures of me with two spatulas. Oh then my roommate taught me a way to drain the grease from the pan (note to self that stuff hurts! oh its the picture of me standing by the sink). You shake then put the spatula to the side of the pan draining the grease. Oh and I cooked them at 350 for 20 minutes. Next time in my oven at this apartment I will need to cook it for 30 minutes.
Thanks for reading and I will be back next week. Hopefully with a lot more success then not success as this week was. But I guess its like the saying or metaphor or whatever, if you get kicked off the horse dust yourself right off and get back on it again.

Week 1

This BHAG thing is interesting, I really don't know what to think about it yet. I have double and second guessed it a lot this week. While running with my sister around the block I felt like screaming "i hate you bhag." But then again I would have looked a tad silly. For work this week I had the chance to get in some physical labor/exercise by working at the ropes course. Then that night I went with some other ward members to volunteer building the Whitier Center park. The night came to a bitter end when I tripped over a rock ending up with a handful of gravel. So to sum up the exercise this week, I did some but not the exact perimeters of my bhag. Do I need to try harder? Is the perimeters achievable (have I bit off to much)? The key though I think to my bhag is that I want to focus on fitting it into my life, and I certainly tried to do that this week.

Now onto the cooking part. I came home this weekend to visit my mom and had the chance to make her lasagna. I love her lasagna! However I don't think mine turned out as good as hers. I learned somethings while making the lasagna tonight. When checking to see if the noodles are soft you shouldn't touch them right off because they are HOT! Oh and while draining the noodles you should pour away from yourself and not towards yourself. Luckily my mom instructed me on that before I did it. Oh and while simmering (I think that is the cooking term) the sauce with hamburger you need to watch it at all times because it like to bubble and spurt (that is my kind of cooking language). Pictures of the cooking adventure are shown above. Looks pretty good if I do say so myself. See ya next week.

The Beginning

The goal has been set! My Big Hairy Audacious Goal (BHAG) will be to get a healthier lifestyle. It will definitly be one with ups and downs. It won't be an easy road, but its a road I want to take. Life is to short to just sit around and be like I wish I was this or I wish I was that. I even attempted to make something healthy this week! I bought spinach, strawberries, and a rasberry vinagrette! See and when I make something I will take a picture to show the new food I am discovering on this journey. However as you can tell there is no picture. That is in fact because healthy food doesn't really sit well in the kitchen for a week. I grabbed the spinach today to make the salad and it had yellow juice. Needless to say I quickly threw it away in the garbage. Over labor day weekend I bought me some new nikes to have for when I exercise. Throughout this week I have tried to think of when I should exercise. What this week has proven to me is it won't be regular times in will have to be sporadic. Which I don't mind. Well here we go! Let the fun begin!

What's it all about...

I really don't like goals, I have never really been that fond of them. It took me by surprise learning that setting and completing a goal would be a big part of one of my college classes. Why would goal setting come up in a college class? I guess I will learn why. What will my goal be...I guess that is to be determined.