#this piece was inch resting to make bc i decided not to line the sketch but just do the clean up and color thing

[sergle]

red & yellow carnations

[opepin]

october: week two

09: i started my day by doing my regular butt workout and i wiped out so quickly. i think my hips are a bit too tight right now :( i started off stronger with 40 lbs again but for the rest of the exercises, i had to drop from 12.5-15 lb to 10 lbs. merp. i got through it all though. then i showered and made a breakfast smoothie before hopping online and getting straight to work because i had a deadline today. kevin got back at around 12:40 pm and then we ate lunch and headed over to the volkswagen dealership to figure out what was up with my car’s brakes. i decided for us that we’ll stay instead of ubering home but in retrospect, i should have taken kevin’s advice and we should have gone home and worked a bit more. next time, we’ll drop off my car and take an uber home. i bought reese’s cup from the vending machine and watched youtube videos and read articles. they were finished changing the oil, figuring out the brake problem, and rotating my tires 1 hour and 30 minutes on the dot. kevin asked some questions and everyone was super helpful. we learned more about starting the car and how to solve the brake issue; there wasn’t anything wrong with my brakes though.

we drove straight home and i continued working until 5:30 pm. i finished everything and then took a reading break before heading to the yoga studio and doing my second leg workout of the day. my hamstrings were already sore and i pushed myself a bit more so i could really build up those muscles. then i came back and showered while kevin made us ribs and butternut squash “cream” pasta. i got really hungry so i kept hovering and when everything was done, i let kevin take pictures and then devoured my food. everything was delicious except for the fried sage he put on top of the pasta... omg my tastebuds were attacked and i felt like i was eating medicine a while after that. we ate and watched ‘yakitate! japan’ and cuddled together before kevin went to run. i continued reading for a bit and then brushed up and went to sleep at 12:30 am. it felt like another weekend kind of.

10: my body didn’t feel that sore but i felt bloated (started eating the benefiber after taking a break from it bc of the sugar alcohol from the protein bar and the extra fiber) so i slept in today. i got up and realized that i was correct in my assumption about my body. my legs were tight but not so much that i didn’t want to move today. so i’ll do some fun dance cardio and stretch today. kevin wanted to eat raisin bran for breakfast so he went directly to work today lol. then i hopped on the computer and did some internet errands and any last pieces of work before another training session. this session was chill for me because phil was kind of in charge but someone from the client’s team was presenting. after the session, i took my break and did 30 minutes of dance cardio and then ate lunch. i got on stand up and i think phil was a bit preoccupied at the moment so i took a real quick shower, changed clothes, and then went to work on some other items on my to-do. i worked on sketching out the tutorials and at the end of the day, i got to catch up with phil and kind of run through thursday’s session for a bit.

kevin got back home and went for a quick run before we left to pick up flo and get dinner with her. lol, i read my book while kevin went on his run and i was pretty frazzled while getting ready to leave. i left my phone in the apartment and had to run and get it lol. we drove to waltham and i accidentally directed us to the restaurant instead of flo’s hotel LOL. good thing the hotel was only 10 minutes away... we picked her up and then got to the restaurant. we ate at gustazo cuban restaurant and cafe in waltham, and it was friggin’ delicious. we split 5-7 small plates and 1 large plate of ropa vieja and also some churros with dark chocolate chili dipping sauce. it was great catching up with her and talking about her travels, our travels, etc. flo is more of kevin’s friend, but it was so easy talking to her and she’s so chill. i love just making conversation with her. we ate and talked until their closing time :O, which was pretty early at like 9 pm or something. then we drove flo back and i put in the right address this time. ahhh, it was so great grabbing dinner with her. lol kevin and i have this thing where we’re pretty much homebodies because we don’t really have a group of friends out here and we like spending time at home with each other. so when people come and visit and we make dinner plans with them, we’re like hesitant but every time we go and we just have a great time with friends. haha.

we got back home and kevin went to game while i went back to reading for a bit and then i did 30 minutes of stretches before going to sleep. my hips are extremely tight ): i hope the stretching helped though. i went to sleep all nice and warm from stretching.

11: i woke up at 7:15 am and did a cardio kickboxing routine. i couldn’t find 2 lb weights in the yoga studio so i used 3 lb weights. that 1 lb in each arm makes a huge difference in kickboxing x_x; then i showered and made myself my morning smoothie and headed out to work. lol this is the first time in a week or so that i have been to the office. when i got there, no one from t7 was in their offices... lol. so i got straight to work and then at 12 pm, i walked to faneuil hall and picked up my uniqlo order. the 24 inch one fits just right but the 25 inch one gave me more room. oddly, the 25 inch one gave me a weird pouch. so i returned that one and walked over to where the old office was to get vegan tacos from the taco party food truck. mmm. i got the chimichurri tempeh, the lentil one, and a side of mexican rice and black beans. everything was delicious. i ate quickly and then did a bit more work before hopping on a really quick stand up. then i stayed on the line with sultan and phil to go over material for tomorrow’s training. i did a bit more work while phil was away for lunch, i believe, and then i met with him again before leaving the office at around 4:45 pm. joe came in before stand up and i talked a bit with him before leaving.

i had to wait for two trains to pass before i could get one. i saw a man push through the crowd just to get on one of the trains... he didn’t say excuse me or sorry or anything. he also had the nerve to smile and laugh when he got on. ugh people can be so fcking rude. trains were coming every 5 minutes so i didn’t feel too grumpy about it. i also got a seat on my train pretty early on. when i got home, i made shiitake gohan and then took a break from everything and read. i finished reading ‘beasts of extraordinary circumstances.’ it is a lovely book and i would definitely call it one of my favorites. i haven’t read such a good book in a while. i love the way it is written and how the story is framed. i started watching the latest episode of shokugeki while kevin cooked dinner. then we ate dinner while watching two episodes of yakitate! japan. kevin went to game and then i waited for my food digest and i did my obliques workout while watching youtube videos. then i showered and brushed my teeth and went to bed. i stayed on my phone for a bit and slept at 12:30 am or so. zzz.

12: i got up at around 8:20 am and then headed to the yoga studio to do arms and back today. i did my workout differently today. instead of using weights i could do more reps with, i went with the heaviest one (for me) and then did my reps and sets slower than usual. the workout i followed still didn’t hit my 30 minute goal so i did another arm video but it was one without weights and without doing push ups. it was interesting, but i don’t know how effective it was. i got back and then i showered and made my smoothie along with kevin’s non-benefiber, non-protein smoothie haha. kevin went to work and i did some internet errands and some prep work before the 11 am training session. i led the beginning portion of the training and it went pretty smoothly. it took me longer than i expected to get through everything though. i think i took maybe 40 minutes? when i thought i was only going to take 30 minutes. it was a smooth end to the persona training sessions. after that, i ate lunch and then worked on prep work for tuesday’s journey mapping training sessions. the day pretty much flew by. phil was out for the rest of the day after stand up.

kevin got home and gamed for a long time LOL. so long that i made rice and then i got hungry so i just ate rice with herbal chicken soup for dinner while watching ‘baby driver.’ that move is sooo good! i got a bit irritated at him for not stopping to cook but i wasn’ really mad at him because i made myself food anyway lol. i helped prep the potatoes and wash some dishes while chicken prepped the chicken. then we popped everything in the oven. kevin went to run while the chicken was in the oven and i continued watching my movie. i took the chicken out when it was done and ate most of a thigh and some potatoes. it was pretty good “mediterranean” baked chicken. kevin got back, showered, and ate dinner. i think we watched some yakitate! japan while kevin ate and then i called it a night. we ate pretty late so i tried staying up a bit longer my stomach could digest, but i was working from home anyway so it didn’t matter much to me. kevin actually went to sleep at the same time as me -- i think he was kind of tired.

13: i slept in today and then woke up, made a smoothie for kevin and me, and then went to work. kevin was also working from home today because he needed to pick up his dad around noon from the airport. i was in pretty much full on work mode the entire day. i was working on making an example journey map and figuring out the training schedule for the upcoming weeks. we all had lunch together (my second lunch because i ate the leftover chicken from yesterday because i got hungry). kevin made his dad ribs haha. then poppa chen chilled while we both continued working. we drove him to his hotel in waltham at around 5:15 pm. it took us 45 minutes or so because of traffic. after we said goodbye to him (we’ll be hanging out with him on sunday :D), we checked the traffic and it would take us like 40-50 minutes to get home so we decided to eat out around the area. there are a lot of hotels and restaurants in that area for some reason? we headed over to this japanese restaurant but a jimmy john’s was near it so we went there instead. lol kevin mentioned that we haven’t eaten bread in a while and that we’ve been watching yakitate! japan LOL. so i got a turkey tom with sprouts, kevin got a club lulu with sprouts, and we split an oatmeal raisin cookie.

we ate pretty quickly but by the time we finished, google estimated that we would get home in only 30 minutes. so we drove back and got home at around 7 pm. we went straight to watching our two daily episodes of yakitate! japan and then i did my hiit workout. kevin was supposed to workout at the same time as me but he wanted to play one game of heroes of the storm before running lol. as he ran, i showered and then did 30 minutes of deep stretching. we spent some time relaxing before hopping on the sofa and playing some gang beasts and battleblock theater. man, we’re so rusty LOL. i rq’d after a few games because i was tired. lol it was only 1 am but i wanted to go to sleep. so i went to sleep and kevin stayed up playing more heroes of the storm until like 1:45 am (supposedly).

14: i slept in LOL (there’s a trend here) and got up at like 11 am. then kevin made us breakfast sandwiches and we split a scallion pancake. we watched yakitate! japan and then played some battleblock theater until 2 pm. we planned with ryan and ashley for our trip to iceland. it actually took us 2 hours of planning D: we looked for places we’d like to go and made a spreadsheet and then put them into a day format but didn’t book the car or hotels yet. so we set up another time to plan. kevin and i also snacked during the session. so we ate all of the chicken thigh leftovers. then kevin and i went grocery shopping. we were both really out of it because of the planning. we got back home and then kevin started cooking the sweet potato burgers while i did my 45 minute strength workout in the yoga studio. i just remember it being a good session. we snacked on scallion pancakes and i happened to eat just the pretzel bun during our planning session too. so when i got back from my workout, i was still pretty full. i showered and then i ate the sweet potato portion without the bun haha. it was delicious. kewpie mayo is delicious and i am in love with the packaging <33 we ate and watched yakitate! japan.

lol i think we watched maybe 3-4 episodes in total because the show kept ending on a cliffhanger. :P after that, i washed the dishes, did laundry, cleaned the bathroom, and cleaned the kitchen. i was so stressed out while doing these things. kevin went for a walk on the treadmill and when he came back, i yelled at him for vacuuming because i couldn’t hear my youtube video playing in the background :( i was so overwhelmed. i apologized and then kevin did finish vacuuming and swiffering that night. it took me forever to fold the laundry and get the bed sheets dry though. i ended up laying on the sofa while the sheets dried. i was so tired from cleaning. i felt like i had to clean today because tomorrow we’d be hanging out with poppa chen for basically the whole day and i wouldn’t be able to get my 60 minute exercise session in either. @_@; i went to sleep really tired and a bit grumpy... i also slept at 2:30 am so... yeah, i was cleaning at like 12 am LOL.

15: womp womp. i slept in again. kevin and i ate leftover sweet potato burgers for brunch while watching a episode of ‘yakitate! japan.’ then we started playing trine 2 and ended up picking up his dad a bit later than we planned lol. we drove back to the apartment and then relaxed a bit before heading over to quincy quarries for a short hike. this area has a ton of graffiti and is known for outdoor top roping and some bouldering. the graffiti was beautiful and the hike was pretty nice. i saw many crickets and also a garden snake?!!?! it like slithered away right in front of me and i freaked out haha. then we drove back home and poppa chen packed his suitcase and everything and then we drove him to his hotel. there was traffic entering the highway and everything we left the house, we had to go on that highway so everything took a bit longer than it would usually. @_@; we got him checked into his hotel and then we drove him to needham so he could have dinner with friends. kevin was kinda dead with all this driving and he woke up with a sore throat x_x; we stopped by ikea so i could get my ice cream and dinner. we both got swedish meatballs and then kevin got a hot dog and we split the ice cream and cinnamon roll.

kevin was totally pooped when we got back. he gamed a bit and i watched some youtube videos while digesting my food. after an hour or so, i went to the yoga studio and did a so called “hiit and ab toning workout.” i removed that shizz from my playlist immediately after finishing the workout -__-’ it was a full body workout and not really a hiit imo. we did like maybe 1-2 minutes of cardio and switched over to arms, legs, shoulders, and then fianlly abs with these short cardio sessions in between... so everything was only like 3 minutes long. ugh. we had to pick up poppa chen again so kevin showered and i washed my face. i was going to workout when we got back. so we drove and then dropped poppa chen off and then drove back home. kevin made himself tea and played pokemon while i did a low-impact cardio workout and then 20 minutes or so of abs. i managed to get my workout in today but i was so stressed trying to do everything all in the 50 minutes or so. then i showered and kevin went to sleep. i stayed up for a bit longer to unwind and then slept at like 12:30 am or so.