Sunday, February 14, 2010

Sunday

Ohhhhh the dreaded Sunday morning. How I hate Sundays at Fitness Ridge... it freaking depresses me! I absolutely hate saying goodbye! I had to say goodbye to my 2 favorite people here this morning, Jim and Lisa. ahhhhhhhh it was hard!!! I met them at breakfast and then we met up again right before they left. We toke some awesome pictures together and I sent them on their way to Vegas! Then I went to my room and cried... God I hate saying goodbye. Have I mentioned that yet?! This place is just freaking awesome and amazing and the people are the nicest people ever!!! It's 12:29 and my shuttle will be here in an hour. Scott is bringing me Subway and then I get to say goodbye to him and then I'm done! I will ready to get on that shuttle and leave because I hate just waiting around here. It's too sad! The only thing keeping me for calling my Dad and begging to stay another week is Hawaii. If it wasn't for Hawaii, I would be calling and begging with everthing I have to stay another week! I just hate leaving this place. Ya know, everytime I come, I think that it will be easier.. but it never is! I think I just need to start staying longer! I'm ready to come back for a month!!! I'm ready for one of my friends to come with me so I can show them how freaking awesome this place really is!

ok- I'm sad and depressed now. I'm ending this!

Saturday Night

Well, I had a great Saturday! We hung out by the pool all day and just chatted which is always fun! I love good conversation!! Dinner was Salisbury Steak, but don't let the name fool you! There was no steak! It was made with turkey. But good. Sober Karaoke was fun also! I was very surprised at the people who actually got up there and sang and even more surprised with the people who actually had good voices! I was shocked at all the country songs being sang! You know I love me some country!!! After that, I sat by the hot tub for a while and talked and then watched a movie with Scott. We watched Reservoir Dogs which is good! A little strange but good!

So, that was my Saturday night! A little more low key than I expected but still a blast!!! I just love this place!!

Saturday, February 13, 2010

Saturday Morning

So, I woke up this morning for breakfast and my test out at about 7:00. I opted to test-out today instead of tomorrow because WE'RE GOING OUT TONIGHT!!!!! YEAAAAAAAH BUDDY! I'm excited! :) Well, I figured since I'm so tired from last night and I need my energy for tonight, I went back to bed and skipped stop sign!!!! hahaha Oh well. I woke up at 11:00 when my Roomie came home. I got up and decided the least I could do is the very last class they offer so I went to circuit. It was fun and I'm glad I did it. Now, I'm in the best mood ever and FULL OF ENERGY!!!! I'm going to try to get something fun going on this afternoon!!! Tonight is dinner, graduation, sober karaoke and then the BARRRRRR :)

Bye my friends, LOVE YOU! :)

Friday

Hey Everyone! So, I had the best day today ever!!! It was soooo freaking fun!!!! Breakfast was an egg scramble with toast which was alright. The toast was a little dry so Jim gave me some extra jam which made it a lot better! Then, I was off to the hike!

I started by doing a hike that Jim had organized. He called it a hiking group of misfits! He promised it would be a ton of fun with lots of pics! So, I opted for the easier hike because you know me, I'm all about a good time!!! We did white rocks reversed and it was a blast! We took a ton of pics and just laughed! Its amazing to think about because I did this same hike probably my 2nd or 3rd week last year and it about killed me. Literally thought I was going to die... It's amazing to think how far I have come in the past year. I literally only got out of breath once. It was like a walk in the park. Which, I think I needed that to realize just how much I have really accomplished! So, after the hike, I was on cloud 9!

I hit the pool at 11:15 which is always a good time! Honestly, it was Friday, I didn't give it my all but it was fun! I swam laps and then cut out early for the hottub. I hung out there awhile then went to lunch. Lunch was a tostata. It was alright, nothing special. After lunch, I organized a group to go play tennis. Well, the park was having a baseball tourney so the tennis courts were full. We rode our bikes for about an hour, then hit the tennis couts for about 45 min then went back to FR for afternoon pool class. Since it was Friday, Marjorie let us play water volleyball all afternoon!!! Marjorie came up with this game, everytime she screams "LISA" us girls all dunk Jim. Well, she came up with the game but I think she forgot to actually do it. So, right about the end of water volleyball, I took it upon myself to scream "LISA"!!!! haha so Jim got dunked about 5 times! It was great! This group is rowdy! I love it! We were all dunking each other! Lisa about took off my bathing suit with one dunk! hahaha I mean, seriously, how can you not love an afternoon of complete sunshine, in the 60's with nothing but bike riding, tennis and water volleyball?!?!?!? And you people wonder why I love it here so much.... :) Ahhhhhhh :) So I was in a great mood! After the pool, we hit the hot tub and then dinner.

Dinner was turkey meatloaf which was AWESOME! They also had broccoli and cauliflower. It was very good and very filling! They had tropical ice cream for dessert which wasn't bad! Now, for the best part of the evening!

This place is awesome but they don't do enough for their guests! They don't advertise the fact that they have board games, ping pong or any fun activities! I even found out they have a Wii just for the guests! BUT, they don't tell anyone this! Thursday I got a group together for ping pong and they were so excited you thought you just gave them a trip to Disney World!! So, I organized a "Party in the Aerobics Room"! Well, it got moved to the dining room because the olympics were in the Aerobics Room. Stupid Olympics... :) Anyways, I had Fletch announce it at dinner and we had a blast!!!! We played Family Fued on the Wii, some Ping Pong, and ended the night with Taboo. We had so much fun, it was nuts! We played until 11:45!!!!! SOOO MUCH FUN! I seriously think I laughed more with them, than I did my closest friends at home!! (No Offense!) We looked at the clock and it was 11:30 and we were like, "Shit! We gotta quit.. we have stop sign tomorrow!" So anyways, my party was a HIT!!! I also have another suggestion I'm going to hit Fletch up with is a Bingo Night! Now, how fun does that sound?!?!

So, that was my day! Probably one of the best days/nights I've had here!!!! I just LOVE this place! If I wasn't leaving for Hawaii on Wed, I would be crying my eyes out not to leave!!!!!!!!!!!!

BYE FRIENDS!!!

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Thursday

Lets start off by saying today was FANTASTIC! It was so fun!!! I started off by going to breakfast at about 7:20 and it was eggs on a muffin with bacon. It was alright.. It was a little cold and I was just NOT in the mood for eggs. UGH. I could barely stomach them... I had to force them down! Then the lady broke out Cheerios right next to me.. I thought I was going to die!! So we set off on a hike. It was called Barrel Roll and its new. It was alright. It was pretty long, right at 6 miles. Basically, you just stayed on this path and it just goes around the mountain until you got to the top, then you go back down. No red rock climbing or anything!!! Oh well I suppose.

We got back and I headed to stretch! Ahhhhhhh, it felt so good! I was pretty stiff and sore from the hike. I was very lucky and woke up NOT sore but that hike took it out of my legs. So stretch was amazing! After stretch was lunch. and it was called a Rainbow Sammie. Meaning a sandwich with red tomatoes, green tomatoes, onions, and cheese. Let me tell you, Betsey was NOT happy. What the hell kind of sandwich is that anyways??!! Really!!! So, one of the kitchen girls were sooooo nice that they brought me a sandwich with just cheese and put a little extra on it for me and warmed it up!!! I HAD A GRILLED CHEESE!!! You would of thought I had died and gone to heaven! Oh yeah, the soup was broccoli and potato. Very good!!

After lunch, I headed to play tennis with Robin at 1:30. Jim and Lisa came too and we had a blast!!! It was sooo fun playing doubles! I just love playing tennis!!!! After tennis, we decided to stay at the park and place basketball instead of going to the 2:30 class. Well, that was also fun!!! We played horse and of course, I couldn't hit a single basket and lost very fast! Oh well, it was still a ton of fun! After that, we rode back to FR and it was time for treading and pool! WELL, when I got there, all the treadmills were taken!!! So, Jim & I opted for no treading and 2 back to back pool classes! A ton of fun, but that equaled one hell of a sunburn on my face! I look ridiculous! Well, Robin caught Jim and I not doing any treading classes so we had to promise her we would do one tomorrow in the afternoon!

So after all afternoon of nothing but outside sports and pool, I was in a great mood! I decided it was the perfect night for "fun activity night"! I gave everyone the option of Ping Pong, Movie, Games, or Hot Tub. So, we all hit the aerobics room for a night of ping pong. We cranked up the stereo and had a blast!!! It was so fun!!! I was in shock because lots of the guests were stayovers and had NO IDEA FR had ping pong tables or anything like that! it was freaking nuts!!! I was a little upset. I feel like FR needs to tell people about these activites. A lot of guests here are going NUTS because they are so bored! So Im going to talk to my buddy Fletch and tell him whats up! So, as everyone is having a blast playing ping pong, Sigal (my awesome Roomie) and I decide we need to have a Ping Pong party tomorrow night also! We also decided to make Fliers! So tomorrow, we are making posters that say "Party in the Aerobics Room!!! 7:00 pm Ping Pong, Games, Music, and Wii! BYOW" hahahah how funny is that! If FR wont advertise they're fun activities and get people involved, we sure will!!! and how funny is BYOW (bring your own water!!!) hahahahhaha We are going to hang these posters up everywhere!!! AND, we found out that FR has a freaking Wii for guests and NO ONE knew that had one.. not even me! Plus, a lot of the stayover guests didnt know they could go to the park for games either! This place is losing their touch!

Oh, and we're definitely going out Saturday night!!! Ahhhh Im so excited!!!

Ok, its late! I gotta go!!! Love you my friends!!!

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Wednesday

Well, I decided that there is too much time between breakfast and when you leave the hike so I started sleeping in and not going to breakfast until about 7:25 then I would be done eating right around 7:45 when they started the hike! It worked out great! I get to sleep in until 7:00!! Well, I technically should be doing the 6 am class but I'm not much a morning person so I opted out of that!!! So breakfast today was muesli or something like that. It's like hot oatmeal and pretty much tasted like shit. I did NOT like it!! But I ate about half of it.

I decided to stick with moderate intermediate for the hike because it was a really hard hike. Well, I ended up at the back of the line because the people from fast intermediate dropped down to moderate and the people from yesterday's moderate intermediate dropped down to slow intermediate. But that's okay I guess. I asked Paige yesterday (well ask is an understatement, I BEGGED) to put Deb on my hikes for the rest of the week. Which, she did today so I was estatic! I just LOVE that woman!!!! I told her today I wished her sons weren't married because I want her to by my mother-in-law! So the hike went great!! It was very hard just like I remembered but I did pretty well. That was the very last hike I did when I was here for 6 weeks and I think I did better this time! So, I'm thinking my fitness level has improved slightly which is strange since I took a 2 month vaca from the gym!

After the hike was the pool. I could choose between pool and circuit, but I chose pool because I got a blister on the hike today. Plus, I was a little tired and stiff so I thought the pool might help. I started doing the pool classes again and I'm so glad I did. I didn't do any in July because I was too lazy to put my suit on and get wet. But, I'm loving them this time! They're really fun and I just love being in the water! After the pool, I hit the hot tub for awhile and then my room to change for lunch. Well, while I was in my room, I stated to get a little dizzy, tired, and just wasn't feel very good. I figured it was just my electrolytes so I popped some of those in my water and chugged that during lunch. I had plans with Robin for tennis so I wanted to make sure I could definitely do that.

Lunch today was beet soup and "green pizza". Not the best, let me tell ya. I managed to eat about half the soup and half the pizza. I didn't feel well and just couldn't stomach it. After lunch, I went to visit my good buddy Cody at the gift shop. He hooked me up with new shoes since mine are wore out and hurting my feet on hikes. I told him about not feeling well so he gave me some vitamin D packets. It was berry flavored and I put it the flavored water and it was really good. So I chugged both the electrolytes and Vitamin D and felt much better!

Tennis was awesome like usual! I burned a TON of calories and we stayed too late like always. So I went straight from tennis to kickboxing and thought I was going to die!!! Kickboxing like always was awesome, fun, and brutal! So my dumbass decided to take 2 kickboxing classes back to back which about killed me. But totally worth it. SO FUN! After that, I hit the pool for my last and final class. And let me tell you, I'm GLAD it was the final class!! The afternoon pool class was fun. We were dunking and messing around. Jim even ripped my noodle out from under me and I went down. Good times.

Dinner tonight was Cafe Salad which I LOVE!!! I was so excited to finally get a good meal. I was STARVING! It's like a caesar salad with chicken, lettuce in a torilla. Oh yeah, they also have beans and rice at the bottom but I dont eat that stuff. So dinner was awesome and I was very happy! After dinner, I am doing some laundry and just hanging out. I think I got sunburnt on my face! Its was kind of red yesterday but I thought it was just from the classes. Well, now tonight, its really red. So I'm going to put lotion on for the next couple of days im here!

Today, during one of the pool classes, Sharon was joking about how crazy both me and Jim are. She was laughing and saying how it's a good thing we're both not staying for a long time because we'd get into a lot of trouble together. So after she leaves, Jim leans over and says that we have to go out Saturday night! Well, you know me... I sure as hell can't turn down a good time with beer. So I'm hoping he's serious and we're gonna hit the only bar in this Mormon town!!! If that's the case, I need to change my test out time from Sunday morning to Saturday morning so my beer drinking wont affect it! haha

I'm trying to think if anything exciting has happened lately! I'm in the best mood ever!!! I love it here like always and DONT want to leave! But, at least I get to go home then head out to Hawaii so that's always nice! I've met a ton of cool people. I'm trying to take lots more pictures this trip. I always seem to forget to take them! Well, that's all my friends! Thanks for reading!!

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Tuesday

Well, I got busy and didn't write about Tuesday so I'm going to try to go off my memory but I'm sure I'll forget some stuff.

So, Tuesday rolled around and its my first big day since Monday was a blow off! We had a "sope" for breakfast which sucked. It was beans on the bottom, then half a roll, then eggs, then green salsa. Not my fav meal. So I just ate the eggs and thats it! I chose to do Chuckawalla with Moderate Intermediate. I was a little unsure what my fitness level would be since I took a mini break from the exercise world! Well, I ended up doing awesome and was in front 90% of the hike. At the end, I even took off ahead of the guide because they were going pretty slow. That was fun!

We got back and I went to this "free-weight workshop" which was informative but a little boring. As soon as that was over, I jumped in my rental car, hit up Subway (which was AMAZZZZZZING) and returned it to Hertz. Thank God I got out of that! It was definitely a $135.67 lesson learned from those ASSHOLES! Oh well. After that, I didn't do open gym. I took care of arranging my shuttle and rested a little bit.

The afternoon classes were pool and cardio intervals, which I did twice. That was a killer. After that class, I literally laid on the ground in the gym instead of stretching and just said, "I'm done!" It was good, but nuts! Dinner was vegetable lasagna which was decent. I was a little worried about it but it did have some meat in it which was good. I was actually stuffed after it. Literally stuffed! That's always a good thing! (Not that I was stuffed, but that I was full!) They had chocolate covered strawberries for desert which is awesome! I freaking love those things!!! After dinner, I hung out in the lobby until probably 8:00 ish, watched the end of TBL, chatted online then hit the bed! I was exhausted!

Well, my friends, that's pretty much it. Nothing too excited but in great spirits and having a great time!!!

Feb 2010 - Monday

Well, I planned on writing this everyday but Ive been so busy! I'll try to make this first post a little short.

So, I got to FR Monday at 3:00. Im a dipshit and got the times messed up. I thought I gained an hour instead of lost an hour. Oh well! Once I got here and saw everyone, I was SOOOOO HAPPY!!!! I just freaking love it here! Especially the people. It was so great to see everyone!!! After I took a while to talk to people, I went and jumped in a circuit class and finished the last half of it and then took another one right away! That was fun. Then we had dinner and it was a salmon burger. They gave me a boca burger which I LOVE!!!! So dinner was great! And, it was served on that bun that April Bauer bought me to try which I thought was kind of cool! So, I'll have to tell her about that!!! Then, last night after dinner, I was walking through the lobby and stopped to talk to these people sitting in the lobby... One of the people was this guy named Jim. Which is kinda crazy because I read his blog! So after I finally figured out who he was, I got excited! I told him that his blog is what helped me decide to come! Then, he told me this crazy story about how he was doing stop sign and this random guy driving down the road, stopped and screamed at him, "Hey, its Sweat Baby James!!!!" (thats the name of his blog) I thought that was hilarious! I told him he's famous! hahaha But, that was my Monday. Pretty easy since I only worked out about an hour and a half!