Ok, I made it. I survived the crowds and my mood lightened up as soon as I saw the horsies and sweets.
The food was very good (so much meat!), we paid for two times “knuckle of pork” and one Mass 42 EUR. But it’s not that you don’t know that you’ll leave a lot of money there when going. The sweets are pretty much the main reason I go to an event like this 😀 I just love them! They are all gone already, too. Boo!
Month: September 2013
The day I got stung by a bee
The day I got stung was yesterday. Just thought I’d keep it as a memory on my online diary. The bee flew into my sleeve and after I noticed (and paniced) it stung. So my wrist is swollen. Nothing else happened yesterday, other that I figured out I’m not allergic to a bee-sting.
Today I did nothing. Well, not nothing, I rearranged the living- and dining room, helped my mom in the morning with the great Teamviewer I installed on my and her PC (why did I come up with this idea sooooo late???), helped my dad with his iPad and Skype by Teamviewer this evening, had coffee with a friend. Watched “despicable me” twice (well, I let it run for entertainment while rearranging).
I didn’t go to the gym today, so I missed step-aerobic and belly-legs-tushy, which I love to do on a Sunday morning but I just wasn’t in the mood. I made a 30 min workout yesterday, I’m happy I did. The BF went cycling in the alps, the weather today is/was quite nice again (after it rained the last two weeks) but I wasn’t in the mood for that either… too cold! 😉
This weekend was full of yummy cakes and sweets. Way too much of course. I’m happy the weather this coming week should be good so I can go to work by bike again, 2 hours of biking, nice.
My left knee is causing me problems at the moment, I can hardly hunker down. But it’s been causing me problems every now and again after my joint capsule ripped 10000 years ago. It’s just got to get used to the strength training I guess.
Now I’ll go check on the results of the Bundestag elections which have been today. And wait for the BF to come home with my veggy pizza…
Oh beautiful Bavaria
Bing.com thinks so too 🙂
And I can be right there on that bridge in less than one hour 🙂 So very very beautiful!
Quotes I love from “Despicable Me”
I LOVE this movie. So much!
And these are my favorite quotes, taken from imdb.com.
Gru: [to Miss Hattie] You are a beautiful woman. Do you speak Spanish?
Miss Hattie: Do I look like I speak Spanish?
Gru: You have a face… Como un burro.
Miss Hattie: Oh! Well, thank you!
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[repeated line]
Gru: Light bulb!
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Edith: Are these beds made out of bombs?
Gru: Yes, but they are very old and highly unlikely to blow up. But try not to toss and turn.
Edith: Cool!
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Agnes: I like him. He’s nice.
Edith: He’s scary.
Agnes: Like Santa.
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Agnes: Will you read us a bedtime story?
Gru: No.
Agnes: Pretty please?
Gru: The physical appearance of the please makes no difference.
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Gru: [reading book] “Three little kittens love to play. They had fun in the sun all day. Then their mother came out and said, ‘Time for kittens to go to bed’.”
[looks up]
Gru: Wow, this is garbage. You actually like this?
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Agnes: [re the stuffed unicorn] He’s so fluffy, I’m gonna die!
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Agnes: Why are you wearing your pajamas?
Vector: They’re not pajamas! It’s my warm-up suit.
Agnes: Why do you need warming up for?
Vector: For doing stuff.
Margo: What kind of stuff?
Vector: Super-cool stuff you wouldn’t understand.
Agnes: Like sleeping?
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Vector: [stranded on the moon] Oh, poop!
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[repeated line]
Vector: Oh yeaaaaahhh!
HIIT on the Treadmill
How I do it
- 5-minute warmup at around 8 or 9km/h (5 or 5.6mp/h)
- 30 second sprint between 15 and 16 km/h (9.3 and 9.9mph). I usually start at 16 km/h and go down each sprint.
- 30 second pause (I let the treadmill go fast while I lift my body up with my arms and spread my legs to each side of the treadmill)
- all in all 10 times sprinting
- after 14 minutes 30 seconds the cooldown begins
- 5 minutes 30 seconds cooldown at 9 to 7km/h (5.6 to 4.4mp/h)
I do 30/30 sec. because it’s easy to monitor, you sprint/pause at either a half or a full minute.
Why I prefer HIIT on the treadmill
- you sweat, a lot!
- after every sprint you are so looking forward to the next 30 second pause
- the 20 minutes go by fast
- it’s short
- it’s not as boring as running a constant speed all the time (running on a treadmill is sooo boring)
- it’s exhausting
- it’s a short effective training
- I love the sweat!
- I love being out of breath!
I always monitor my pulse which goes down to around 85% – 88% of my max. heart rate after each sprint. My top rate is between 95% and 99% for a few seconds. If I make a pause of one minute my heart rate goes down to about 70%.
When I go jogging outside I sometimes do some sprints, sometimes not.
This evil thing named “fruit”
Ok, so this is a “What the Fudge?!” rant.
Why is it sooo weird (or I don’t know what) for some people I work with if I eat fruit (or like to eat fruit)?
I eat fruit and veggies daily.
I eat my veggies for dinner and my fruit at work, seeing I spend most of my active day at work (how sad), it’s a good snack, it’s got nutrients and I’m just not in the mood to eat fruit in the evening (unless I make a shake).
I eat at least three different fruits a day, apples, nectarines, pears, grapes, mangos… you name it. It’s boring to always eat the same. So, at the beginning of the week I go shopping for fruits. Seeing the week has five working days I buy 5 times 3 fruits. Meaning, I’ve got about 15 fruits in my fruit bowl (at the moment I’ve got apples, pears and nectarines). They’ll last for the whole week, I only have to go shopping once.
It’s weird for people who visit me in my office to see that bowl full of fruits. They’ll ask me “LOL are you selling this? Is this just for decoration? What – You are actually EATING this?!?!” When they see me cutting my fruit in the kitchen to mix it with cereal or yogurt they mostly comment. “Oh, you always eat soo healthy” is one of the most comments I get.
It gets annoying after you’ve heard it for a few times. Now I just smile and say “yes” – in the beginning I always felt that I had to justify why I’m eating fruit.
And I wonder why the hell is it so not-normal for people if someone eats a lot of fruit. I wonder if those people never eat fruit? If their wifes (yes, it’s mostly the men who eat no fruit at work at all) never buy fruit for them because fruit is bleh and too healthy and just bleh?!
Are the women who see me eat fruit frustrated because they’d rather eat a sandwich or a candy bar as a snack and know that an apple is healthier than a Snickers?
I don’t know…