Changing Things Up

Hey everyone, I hope your week went well and that you’ve got a great weekend ahead of you! I had a great dinner last night with my brother, sister-in-law, cousin and my cousin’s finance! We went to an Italian restaurant in Lakeview called Mia Francesca and it was great! They actually have tons of locations all over the country. The restaurant was packed when we arrived, which means it had to be good!

It was great meeting my cousin’s fiancé and it was nice to see her, as well as my brother and sister-in-law, who I never see during the week. And guess what? They had gluten free pasta! It was fantastic! I rarely order pasta but I had to try it. It was a quinoa-based spaghetti noodle and I really liked it, even better than the rice pasta that I tried at home over Christmas.

 

So as I’ve mentioned a couple times, I’m participating in Janetha’s Adventurous April, so in that theme I decided to show all the things I’ve been changing up a little lately.

Recently I’ve been getting a venti iced classic green tea from Starbucks to help me survive my legal writing class. Thursday, however, I didn’t have time to run to Starbucks before class so I decided to grab a new coconut water flavor from the cafeteria.

New? Yes. Good? No. I should have known. I hate all flavored water. No matter how often I try to force myself to like any kind of flavored water, it just doesn’t happen.

Another thing? I’ve been changing up my desk in my apartment! I already showed you all Janky Desk, which has been working out pretty well actually, but I’ve also been using a high counter and a mini elliptical!

I don’t actually move the elliptical the whole time, sometimes I just stand there on it (it is hard to type and elliptical at the same time…) but standing is certainly better than sitting! My butt/back were in so much pain by the end of finals last semester that I think this will work out very well!

For another new thing, I got some clothes! Okay, so they’re from Forever 21 and they were on-sale items that I thought would work for my internship this summer… but still, they’re new! I got 2 cardigans, a belt and these adorable shoes!!! Aren’t they cute? I’m so glad I liked them when they came!

Oh yes… and the sports bra. I can’t place an order of any kind without including some sort of running gear… I wanted to see if their sports bras were any good! Well I’ll find out soon enough!

 

Finally, my last new thing is working out at home! My workout for Tina’s Best Body Bootcamp yesterday was a circuit workout. After looking over all the moves I realized all I needed was a stability ball and a set of dumbells, which I had at my apartment! I decided to go ahead and do the circuit at home, and it worked out perfectly! I also loved it because I didn’t have to fight over one of the two stability balls in the gym, and I could play my pandora in the background!

This circuit really got my heart pumping! I was surprised because the other circuit we did this week was fine, but not too difficult, this one had my heart rate up the entire time – I was breathing pretty heavy!

This picture is me on the floor once I finished. Whew! I needed to lay down… haha.

 

What new things are going on in your life?

Do you work at a desk? If so, what do you do to make it more comfortable?