it’s been a minute since i posted twelve lists of two on tuesday. (because it’s TWO thousand TWELVE.) here we go again!
two things i did today.
1. got my hair done. chop chop! only cut off three inches but it was a much needed trim. aaaaand i got the same, boring highlights. i am NOT adventurous in the hair department. and i am OK with that.
2. went to the gym. i didn’t get home from my hair appointment til 7, so i didn’t want to do a very long workout. i decided to keep it short with a 30 minute shoulders & abs circuit routine that i made up as i went along:
circuit 1: three times through
- standing dumbbell shoulder press x 12 reps
- side to side twists (sitting on bench) while bouncing 15# medicine ball on each side x 30 reps (15 each side)
- burpees x 10 reps
circuit 2: three times through
- upright dumbbell row x 12 reps
- medicine ball bounce x 30 reps
- reverse crunch on bench x 15 reps
circuit 3: three times through
- side dumbbell raise x 12 reps
- dumbbell snatch/woodchopper x 15 reps each side
- bicycle crunch x 50 reps (25 each side)
circuit 4: three times through
- cable external rotation x 12 reps each side
- kneeling weighted cable crunches x 25 reps
- butt kicks x 100 reps
that was quick, sweaty, and fun.
two things i ate today.
1. rice cakes with sunbutter. i cannot get enough of this combo. love it!
2. dijon chicken artichoke pasta from good clean fun.
i followed page’s recipe for the most part. here are my changes:
- spaghetti squash instead of soba noodles
- omitted butter
- used 1/2 of a red onion instead of shallots
- doubled the amount of artichokes
- used red cooking wine instead of dry white
- i added 1/3 cup of white balsamic vinegar at the same time as the wine
- doubled the amount of greek yogurt and dijon mustard
- used whole milk instead of cream
this was DELICIOUS. cannot wait for leftovers tomorrow!
two blog posts to read.
1. tuesday trainer: adventurous april edition from lindsay’s list. i am so happy everyone has their adventure pants! i even submitted a video this week, so you can check that post out to see me doing a new move at my gym.
2. the health halo from enjoy your healthy life. annette discusses a great topic regarding foods that are disguised as healthy.
two blogs you should be reading.
new favorite blog. don’t tell jess, but i have a total crush on her. don’t tell marshall, either! she has had an amazing weight loss transformation, is super fashionable, and has a swissy. what’s not to love?
gina has some great recipes that all look delicious. she is into working out and is a fellow livefitter. her photography is incredible, too!
two new clothing purchases.
1. american eagle artist pant. i’ve been hunting for some khakis to wear to work and found these. they’re made from really soft fabric and are super comfy. plus they were only forty bucks.
(source: ae.com)
2. lululemon practice freely tank. uh-oh.. i think my first lululemon purchase from the other weekend created a monster. plus free shipping and paypal checkout makes it WAY too easy to spend money on lululemon.com! smart marketing. i rationalize that $58 for this is OK because it is a sports bra AND a tank top in one.. right? right.
(source: lulumeon.com)
two iphone apps i’m loving.
1. family feud. yeah.. just what i needed.. another iphone game to waste ALL MY TIME.
2. photoshake. this photography app is a lot of fun! there are tons of features to transform your photos into really unique collages. you shake your phone and the app jumbles everything up and spits out a new collage. i have had way too much fun with it today.
two youtube vids worth watching.
1. jenna marbles hit the nail on the head with this one.
2. can i please have ten days like this?
two recipes i want to make.
1. for the sweet side: this peach vanilla bean bundt cake recommended by josie (thanks, josie!)
Source: weekofmenus.blogspot.com via Janetha on Pinterest
2. for the savory side: jessica’s crispy salmon with creamy basil noodles.
Source: howsweeteats.com via Janetha on Pinterest
two things i’m super pumped about.
1. BLEND! the retreat is so soon! less than a month away. i will be heading to denver to get ready for the retreat 3 weeks from thursday. eeeep! there are still tickets available, please come play with me in may!
2. the farmers market! with the days getting warmer, i can’t help but daydream about trips to the market with penny, randy, and marshall. it’s one of my favorite parts about utah summers. i know it’s not til june, but i am still excited.
two pieces of mail from blog friends.
1. deb sent me the nicest care package! among all the fab items was this mini grater and i squealed with delight when i saw it. iPhone there for size comparison because that’s what deb does.
2. heather’s baby announcement! gah.. weston is so cute.
two things i am doing this week.
1. getting a pedicure! i bought a groupon for a pedicure last year and it expires on thursday. yep, leave it to me to wait to the last possible minute to use a groupon.
2. going to see cults! cults is a band that marshall and i have been loving lately. they play tomorrow at urban lounge. you can check their tunes out here. they’re real good.
two real funny entries on #whatweshouldcallme.
1. this is me.
2. this is also me.
whelp.. there you have it.. twelve lists of two.
your turn! leave me two lists of two. any list will do.
xo. janetha g.
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oh man I love these little lists. They offer so much to click on and new things to learn about. :)) I feel like tanks with built in sports bras never fit right…. but then again, I own no lulu and I’ve heard that stuff is amazing (and amazingly pricey lol). That dijon chicken looks SOO good. oh man.
and I want a pedicure and a haircut!!
Love these lists. Now I have apps to download, vids to watch, and blogs to check out. Love it.
Hmmm….two things I ate?
1.A gluten free birthday cupcake.
2. A second gluten free birthday cupcake.
So. Good.
Such a fun post – loved reading it, J! Little glimpses into your life are so fun; I wish we lived closer. :D 2 things I’m pumped about? Cabo San Lucas at the end of the month with my family (haven’t seen them since October!) and Mikey (a gift from Mikey’s parents – their timeshare!) and church this weekend. LOVED getting out into the mountains all weekend (and thanks for your comment!) but I miss our community of friends and can’t wait to worship together and connect. Good things all around! Have a great start to your Wed tomorrow.
2 favorite new recipes:
1) Pomegranate Oat Chia Protein Balls… YUMMMMMMMM!
2) Honeydew Caprese Salad
2 things I’m pumped about:
1) BLEND!!!!!!!!!! YAY!!! I can’t wait to join you gals in Boulder!
2) THIS week I will reach a huge milestone – 50 pounds LOST!!
i am SO pumped for the farmer’s market! and yay for blend!
2 recipes I want to try:
1) Eggs baked in avocado boats
2) Cauliflower crust pizzas
Have a great day :)
I love twosie tuesday! That travel video was awesome…I actually watched another one today called Move. Learn. Eat. also about travelling. You can watch it here http://vimeo.com/27246366
2 recipes I’m going to make this week:
-GF snickerdoodles
-Whole steamed fish with an asian dressing.
2 fitness things I’m to try for adventurous april:
-bite the bullet and try rpm/spin
-A cross-fit workout from the website
i have the ae artist jeans and the fit is great, even for a shorty like me! i’ll have to look into these pants.
I’m not adventurous with my hair either. Leave that for the young people.
I need khakis and jeans. I never thought to check out AE. Thanks girl!
I LOVE TWOSIE TUESDAYS :) XOXOXO
Let me tell you girlfriend, once you go Lulu you just don’t go back ;)
Love u!
Happy Wednesday
As soon as I saw Jessica’s Crispy Salmon recipe, I knew it had to be in my life sooner rather than later.
Hope you are having a fantastic week lady!
Neeeed that lulu tank. Soo cute. I freaking love Jenna Marbles, she’s hilarious.
haha I love the cat waking up! and I love the circuit, just going in the gym and making up my own thing can be a great way to mix things up!
i had fun with the tuesday trainer adventurous april combo. You gals are so clever.
p.s.
are you trying to tempt me to buy more lulu? cause it’s working. damn you.
I love those videos!! And I’m proud to say I’ve been to most of the places in that 10 days video. That’s what happens when you live in Australia and every holiday is a minimum 20 hour flight….
I am ridiculously excited for Blend and can’t believe that I leave three weeks from today!! Holy crap! I finally get to meet all of you- it will be so surreal! I’m going to start having dreams about Colorado soon (I always do before I go there).
Alright, keep with the theme of dreaming, here’s two weird things I dreamt about lately:
1. Having a former teacher of mine (who was young and hot) from high school try to rent my townhouse (I think it’s because I friended him on Facebook that day)
2. I was back in college, living in my freshman dorm room, and had my dog Lance with me. I ran down to the dining hall (which was oddly located in the dorm) and tried to find something to eat, and Lance got loose and was running and barking through all of the hallways.
I’m doing a bunch of photo shoots at work this week … so two things in my office right now:
1. Robotic catapult / vehicle
2. Cowboy boots and an FFA uniform.
I am freaking loving that “whatshouldwecallme” website! I discovered it after reading your blog post on it…and I may have legit laughed out loud during class yesterday when checking it out (yes, I had a moment of not paying attention hehe).
Two things that I want to do this weekend:
1. Finish the book I’m reading
2. Play with my camera!
oh man! That Nike Commercial makes me want to travel!!!!!! (I leave IN ONE WEEK for Colorado!! How cool is that!)
I love Cults! They’re coming to me at the end of the month and I am so excited!!!! Have fun!
I love these posts! I guess because I love you…go figure :)
xo
I am totally making that chicken artichoke dish-tonight! YUM!
LOVE that lululemon tank-adorable and totally worth it-2 for 1! :)
Thanks for all the recommendations-new blogs to follow!
two things I plan to try for adventurous april:
1. physique 57 solution
2. making bean/veggie burgers from scratch
two bands I love:
1. Low Anthem
2. Black Keys
Ummm I love you <3 Pants = uber cute and can go with a LOT! And I have the same tank – TOTALLY worth the purchase. I know what you mean about how easy it is to spend money at lululemon…it's evil!!!
I love your posts- they are so darn creative! Um rice cakes with sunbutter- one of my most favorite snacks too (also sunbutter and apples- delicious…or carrots…or…ok…). That tank from lululemon is SO cute. I need lululemon in my life. I think its time to beg Josh ;). Two things I’ve done this morning:
1. Went for a stroller run with Kay
2. Grabbed a coffee for getting on this conference call I’m on for work ;)
i love ‘running to the kitchen’ too… great recipes and beautiful photography! my sister just emailed me that link to jenna marbles’ video yesterday – ha! loved it and it’s SO true!
Thanks for the shout out Janetha! :) So, I thought I couldn’t attend Blend b/c of a work conference and just literally realized while reading this that that conference is in DENVER! from the 5th-9th of May. Hmmm….I wonder if there’s any way I could pop in for a day at BLEND on the 5th before the conference really starts? That would totally make traveling for work on a Saturday worth it!
I think Gina’s blog is one of the best out there, too! :)
Two things I bought yesterday:
1. salad spinner, this was long overdue
2. cute shoes, which you already saw, and liked on instagram. ;)
Two things I am happy about today:
1. power yoga at 7:30pm
2. going out to lunch with my favorite coworker/friend.
I just downloaded Photoshake, I can’t wait to mess around with the app!
Thanks for the linkback!! Dang, girl, you are busy!
Two things I’ve done today:
1. BodyPUMP at 5:45 a.m. Wow that was early!
2. Showered for like 10 minutes. Felt SO good!
Off to work!
Oh, have fun at Cults! My husband has been playing them quite a bit over the past year; cool sounds!
Yaaay BLEND. What…23 days? Also, I LOVE Gina’s blog – her photography is insane – I want to be like her.
ahahaha i am laughing so hard at the legolas gif. i never mentioned this before but i am a bit gif obsessed. those are the little gems of the corners of the interwebz. oh i haven’t had a pedi since january…this is sad but i don’t want them to get rid of my calluses from my vffs! it hurts when i run in my vibrams after they do that!
omgosh, I saw that Make It Count video last night and was enthralled. GIVE ME THAT TRIP. please.
Janetha I love lists!
Two things I’m looking forward to…
Hunter getting his little butt here and my baby showers this month (I have 3!)
Two things I did this morning…
Cleaned the animals food/water dishes (they were so gross) and put away laundry – all before work!
Great lists…so fun to read….
Two things I did yesterday
1. Filmed a Yoga Strength Arm Workout that made my arms really really burn
2. Made my 14 month old giggle uncontrollably…(best sound in the world:))
Love these posts…and those videos are the BEST! :)
Two shoes I wore today:
1. Nike Free v. 3.0 edition 3 (for my run)
2. Vibram Five Fingers KSO (at the coffee shop)
I like the two animated gifs thing!
OMG I lOVED both of those videos for completely different reasons!! Loved this post through and through.
two things I’m jazzed about is Japan tomorrow and going a little more red on my hair color, which brings me to…
two things I’m not jazzed about: Packing and dying my hair today.
LOVE YOU. so glad you liked the goodies- <3
Blend retreat! Can’t wait. Never got to introduce myself at HLS last year.
I love running to the table. Gina’s recipes are ridiculous!
My two’s:
I’ve had two cups of green tea with goji berry today.
And I had 2 sources of healthy fat on my salad at lunch: smoked salmon and goat cheese.
that make it count video was awesome. i sent it to my sis…not that she needs it. in retrospect it was probably a bad idea since she just moved to australia (again) with no job and minimal funds. maybe she got it out of her system already though with the past 8 months in 36 countries.
i loooove the cults. they just played in long beach recently and i was so bummed i couldnt make it.
ps saw that whatshouldwecallme on another site (joy the baker maybe?) and i couldnt stop cracking up. have you seen the hilary clinton one?
two things I ate:
(1) morning bun from Tulie Bakery (SLC, what UP) — so. good.
(2) does a million cups of coffee count? okay, then grapefruit wedges
two things that are pissing the sh*t out of me today:
(1) work they are doing in the new space above me at my job (I swear they are just hammering the floor)
(2) one of my bosses who is probably scared of me who has nothing to say to me other than random comments about my new haircut (I like to mix it up — some people can’t handle)
Happy Tuesday!
I mean Wednesday. This whole day-of-the-week-thematic-blogging in real time thing has me all confused.
fudge
ideally i would have included the “in-real-time-thing” as part of my hyphenated-noun-y-thing but whatever
done now
Great workout and I love your lists!
Hmmm 2 things I’m pumped about…
1. The workout video I’ll be in next week
2. Fitness show in June
Eeeeeeeek!
I was wondering why I had a spike in visitors today:) I love the changes you made to the recipe – great idea on the spaghetti squash!
Hahahahah! Love Love both of those #whatshouldwecallme’s. Hilarioius!
thanks for sharing my salmon + pasta! hope you get to try it soon. :)
Jenna Marbles is a hoot!
Two tasty things I made today:
1. apple cinnamon protein bars
2. turkey zucchini burgers
Two things I’m looking forward to tomorrow:
1. carbs
2. carbs
:)
I like twosies.
Two Websites I found today to waste your time/make you LOL. Enjoy:
Texts from Hillary: http://textsfromhillaryclinton.tumblr.com/
Text from Dog: http://textfromdog.tumblr.com/
Two new TV Shows worth checking out:
“GCB”—absolutely hysterical. I am hooked. I’m a Presbyterian, but the humor is totally great, not offensive. The writers wrote for Sex and the City. Totally witty, yet Biblical. Who would’ve thought? Love. It.
I’m watching this series premier right now, it’s good so far: “Don’t Trust the B in Apartment 23”. I’m not sure what I think just yet, but it’s promising. If you miss the premier, watch it next week!
Want a fun iPhone app? If you haven’t tried it yet…DrawSomething. It’s addicting. Way more fun than Words With Friends. If you give it a try, find me on Facebook! I’d love to draw with you. Haha, seriously. It’s fun.
totally want to make jessicas basil pasta as well! also Katie (yes I want cake) refried beans she posted about today! I love jenna marbles…so f-ing funny and spot on haha
Ahhh, totally envious that you guys are going to see Cults! Been trying to catch them live for a minute…hasn’t worked out yet. Enjoy the show.
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