bloggie blind date!

monday funday!

haha i know now you want to punch me. monday’s for the most part are not fun days. especially after fun weekends.

how can you compare the first day of the workweek to a fun weekend? well the answer is simple. you can’t

well besides for pre workout snacks, stellar workouts & even more fabulous breakfasts this day will just be another boring old moaaanday.

saturday night i had the privilege of meeting up with some of the most fun and fabulous foodies that new york has to offer. a handful of us decided to voyage on to the infamous blogger blind date and we met up at 5 burro cafe, which is a mexican hot spot in queens.

i felt like meg ryan in you’ve got mail. should have brought a rose or pride & prejudice.

instead i just looked for the group of girls waiting at the bar patiently for my late butt. i was pleasantly greeted by these fabo women monique from Food Snob, missy from Missy Maintains, dawn from Dawn Dishes It Out, jen from Pieces of Me, joanne from Eats Well With Others, mari from Namaste Mari, and sarah from Mom on the Run.

i felt like we had so much to talk about. and we gossiped and gabbed the night away. of course there were lots of pictures and lots of good eats.

drinks & food & fun filled the small delicious mexican restaurant and the little blind date wasn’t so scary anymore.

not to mention the food was delicious! most of the ladies got the sizzlin fajitas but i was in a shrimpy & salsa mood so i went with the mexican ensalada sans the dressing and drowned my meal in their needs to be slightly spicier salsa.

it was glorious! i’m pretty sure i would go back just for the rockin shrimpies. they were honkin huge and grilled to perfection.

after dinner we manned up and trekked over to the lite choice. we were ballers and they offered to stay open an extra hour so we could “indulge” in some guilt free free ice cream!

there were a ridiculous amount of flavors to choose from and the best part was that you can choose whatever flavor you want at anytime!

i was a snoozefest and went with mint chocolate chip. but it was friggn good.

thank you so much tlc! it was the sweetest ending to the perfect night!

the fun was beyond and i can’t wait for more hangouts & delicious food with fabo ladiez. thanks girls!!

sunday was filled with a little bit of gym action, a whole lotta snackage & a lotta little bit of nuttin.

for the record april’s sweet bread is amaze. make it now or else.

ensalada pour dinner & red carpet snackz

today i woke up rearin and ready to go. i hopped out of bed as soon as my alarm clock went off. dressed myself for spinnage, had a yogurt for some fuel & was out zee door at an usual upbeat mode.

50 minute spin class + back & biceptuals

• bicep curls 4 sets 12 (15lb dumbbells) superseded with bent over reverse flys 4 sets 15 (5lb dumbbells)
• incline hammer curls 4 sets 12 (10lb dumbbells) superseded with bench superman 4 sets 15 (bodyweight)
• high reverse grip pulldown

20lbs each side	15 reps
25lbs each side	12 reps
30lbs each side	10 reps
35lbs each side	8 reps
40lbs each side	8 reps

• pilates bicep curls 3 sets 25 (5lb dumbbells) superseded with bent over kettlebell rows 3 sets 12 (10lb kettlebells)

when i came home i knew exactly what i was feigning for for breakfast.

warm-a-licious oatiez (i’m all about the z’s today. k over it)

1/3c oatbran cooked with cinnamon, stevia & 1/2 small banana. added on top 1 container oikos plain & drizzled 1tbsp better n peanut butts.

par.fec.tion.

alright well i’ve got to get into today and then i’ve got a random class later tonight :)

opinions wanted: currently i have a membership to my local gym. it costs me $35 a month but with my new job that i will be at mon, wed & friday 9-5 it’s going to take me an hour and a half to two hours (yes that’s right) to commmute there in the morning. which probably means i won’t be able to hit the gym before work. i suck at working out later in the day so i’m thinking i might get a membership to new york sports club but its about $95 for the all access pass. there are about 4-5 nysc locations near my office so if i left early in the morning i could beat the traffic, work out & be 10 minutes from work which equals less parkway stress & happy julie for getting workout in. there are also a few nysc locations near me that i would workout at the days i don’t have work. is it worth the money? it would reduce my traffic and late stress as well as i would still be able to get a workout in before work and then be able to come home and do homework and not feel stressed about working out or being exhausted from work.

mmmm what do you think?

whoa this was long. thanks for making it through.

have you ever been on a blogger blind date? with who and how’d it go?

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