The Christmas feeling is here!!!

Its the Holidays, so I guess that means its winter.  A few days ago I got into the holiday season, I put up all my Christmas decorations, which aren't that many.  Today it's snowing and it really feels like its winter.  As you can tell the little white spots in the photos.  Christmas time gets really busy at Modern Male picking up lots of hours, which isn't a bad thing.  I've started my christmas shopping my sisters are done and already sent to them.  They will get them but they have to wait till Christmas to open them!  All I have left is my mom and dad. 

 My cute lights....and the SNOW!!  They say we should have a couple inches within the next few days.

My 10in christmas tree.  I have to have such a small tree or louie and dewey will climb and knock the tree down.  Silly kitties.  

Off to make cookie for sothear, the lady who does my nails at classy nails.

Peanut butter with kisses time!!!

Live, Love, Laugh,

Lisa

Happy Turkey Day Everyone!!!

Happy Thanksgiving

or to me happy Lobster day!!!

My Dinner

I just became a Pescetarianism, which is someone who doesn't eat meat but will eat fish and shellfish. It's been almost eight weeks since I gave it up.  Its much better for your body and I feel like I have so much more energy.  I know different but it works.  I told my family that I wanted Lobster for thanksgiving since no more turkey for me. The Fam got so jealous that they all ended up having lobster as well.  They still made everything that goes along with thanksgiving dinner but just added some shellfish.

So the race this morning went very well. First of all it was my little sister Leanne's first race EVER!!!! For the most part she doesn't run more than two miles but I got her to run a four miler.

Us before the race in the cold cold weather and it was raining. 

     We are about to take off and you wont believe how many people were there, SOLD OUT 3500 runners and walkers 

WE DID IT, Wine water and food can't beat that!!!!

I'm so excited I beat my time last 4 miler, 34sec and 4min. Nanny did so good for her first race and I see many more in the near future.  

I hope everyone had a great thanksgiving and a wonderful time with your family's! 

Live, Laugh, Love,

Lisa 

I'M BACK!!!

I'M BACK!!!!!

This is very exciting, its been since the summer since I wrote but I'm back and ready to write.

First of all Happy almost Turkey day!!!  To start off my Turkey day I'm running a four mile race here in Dublin. Yes and its cold rainy and gross.....but you get a bottle of wine at the end :) so why not.

I'm very prepared for this race I have made a trip to lululemon to get ready....they just opened their new BIG store here in Columbus at Easton Mall.

Walking up to the lulu store...I was so excited I started to get butterflies.

 Just a little bit of lulu...

My yoga instructor Lisa at V Power Yoga Downtown Columbus

I took my friend David which he knows I love the lulu but within the first five min of him looking he was ready to sit in their chair and wait ha....so he held all the clothes I picked :)

David and I

I have started to get very into my yoga, I go as much as I can.  V Power Yoga is downtown Columbus a great place to go, also I have started to go to Harbor Yoga which is right in the heart of old downtown Dublin.  Heidi Bell was an instructor at V Power Yoga. 

Good night to everyone and gets lots of sleep for all the food tomorrow :)

So glad to be back!

Lisa

Been way to long....

Hello to all my blogger friends! I know I haven't been very good about keeping up with my blog.  I have been so busy with family coming in town and leaving me and the 4th of July, but I'm back now and I'm going to have so much to blog about these next few months.


Little update on my running....It's been going great until now.  I have pulled my groin.  So this week I'm taking off running for the most part and biking and doing a lot of yoga.  I have a race coming up on Aug. 5th, Its the Dublin Irish Festival 5k, so 3.1 miles. i hope my groin is better by then.


So I'm in a burger tasting group that my client has put together.  how it all started well here I go....This is a man who loves his burger, tries the local ones out and even on business trips he makes sure he has looked up where to get a good burger.  Yes I know you would think he's about 300 lbs, but not at all he is training for an iron man.  Well he found in our local newspaper a list of the "Top ten burgers in Columbus".  It all started then, burgers he hadn't tried before, he knew he had to start something, and of course he did.  Well I have only been able to go to a few and last night was THE THURMAN CAFE.


You could pick from the thurman burger or the thurman-ator.  In this group that attended at thurmans was 13 guys 1 4 year old boy and me.  Its a mens burger tasting group but since I cut his hair I have been there from the start. All the guys got the thurman-ator and I got the thurman burger which is just without one of the 12oz burgers.

The one on the left is the thurman burger and the one on the right is the thurman-ator.

The Thurman burger includes:

Their head honcho overloaded with ham, mozzarella, american cheese, lettuce, tomato, mushrooms, sauteed onions, pickle, peppers, and mayo with chips and a pickle spear.

Thats a good view of the thurman burger

The Thurman-ator includes:

The scene: Bun, mayo, lettuce, tomato, pickle, hot pepper, 12 ounce burger, bacon, cheddar, another 12 oz burger, sautéed onion, mushroom, , ham, American and provolone cheese, top bun and served with fries

Now thats just crazy I think, I would never dare....but every guy that got it out of the group ate the whole thing.

Well I felt like since I got something that was half the size I had to eat the whole things...so I did.....

I know I'm very gross thats for sure.  To go along with my running this for sure did not help me out at all this morning I still felt like I could have be rolled ha.

Until next time!!!!!

How I love food

Another Saturday of work done and over with!!  Its been such a long week busy busy with work, which I'm very happy about.  Also my running has taken up most of my free time.  I have ran a total of 14 miles so far this week and Sundays are my long runs, so I still have 6 miles to run tomorrow.  I hope its not to hot and humid out like it has been all week, to hard to run in that.

Enough about the running I will have an update tomorrow after my long run.  Something that I do love is food.  I might not always eat the best but everything in moderation is okay ha.  This is my fancy meal I had last night....

This is the pre-cooking...as you can see I have my cheese and crackers on the side for a pre dinner snack.

this is the finally master piece after an hour of cooking...

What to name it I'm not sure but it was so good.

Pasta topped with shrimp, scallops, and mushrooms mix in a homemade white sauce with some asparagus on the side.

I gotta say it was very good even though I don't think my run today even worked it off.

I hope everyone is having a good Saturday and enjoys the night!

blog to everyone tomorrow!

Sugar Doll Award!!!!

Wow Four days into having a blog I have received a sugar doll award!!! Thanks to Emily at my heart shaped life. I wasn't sure at first what is was but from what I understand I write 10 things about me and I get to send it to ten people I'm following.

Here it goes........

1. I love my morning coffee. First thing I do everyday when I wake up before anything else is head right to my white 12 cup coffee maker and get it brewing!!  Since I stand and talk all day long with client after client, which I love doing, but I have to make sure I can keep the conversation going. Without my eight o'clock coffee or my Peet's Coffee I don't know what I would do.

2.  Cheese!!!  I think if I could just eat cheese all day long I would.  It doesn't really matter what kind of cheese it is, I will eat it!  I have even started to make my own little creations with cheese to keep it exciting.  A great kind of cheese to just munch on is Laughing Cow Light Swiss cheese....just got done eating some...yummy!

3.  My cats Louie and Dewey!!! Louie is 4 and he is black and white. He loves to cuddle, where ever you might be sitting/laying down he is going to be right there by your side.  Dewey now is 3 and he is the wild man.  He isn't the one to come and cuddle next to you unless you are really lucky, he is the one that will come over when you put your glass down and knock it over.  I'm not sure what i would do without either of them.  And they get along very well!

4.  LuLuLemon. Lets just say I'm obsessed.  Lululemon is a clothing store for yogis and runners.  They have tons of stuff that you could wear whenever but they do target more of yoga and running clothes.  I wear it all the time even when I'm not working out. It's one of those kind of stores for me that I can't even walk out without at least buy a headband, yes that's how bad I am.

5. I hate getting shots.  I don't know what it is but I have never liked it. Which I don't think anyone really likes getting shots but I don't think everyone had to be held down when they were a kid to get one haha. I might not have to be held down anymore but I still hate it!

6. Wine.  I really enjoy a nice glass of red wine and on a hot day a glass of nice cold white.  I think its so much fun trying different kinds of wine and learning about them and pairing them with food.

7. Music. I love all kinds of music. I'm really into old music like The Beatles, Pink Floyd, and I love Widespread Panic, The Who...and the list goes on.  I'm heading to Pittsburgh in Aug. to see Roger Waters, with my 2 best friends I can't wait.

8. My friends and Family. I'm a family girl, I go over every Sunday for dinner and soon I'm even moving home so I can buy my own place.  My friends are also everything to me, my old friends and my new friends will always be in my life.

from the left back court, Stacey (my right hip) me, Heidi in the back (my Left hip), and Drew. I will update a new photo of the family when the fourth gets here we will all be together!

9. I hate when people chew gum loud. I have to stand and cut hair all day and my clients just want to chew gum so loud, and my mom, man o man its so bad.

10. Everyday when I'm at work. I know it sounds weird but I get to cut hair everyday which I love to do and I love talking to my clients building new friendships and getting to hear everyone's stories.  It makes you know that everyone deals with the same day to day issues you do.

Okay so there you go, 10 things I love and don't love but I have only been blogging for 4 days now so I don't have 10 people I'm Following yet. So, I'm only going to do a few.  Lets hope  I have more soon!

colorado couture cupcakes
brunch at saks
My heart shaped life
There she is
busy bee

 

Modern Male

Rule number one, don't drink a handful of beers and stay up till about one o'clock in the morning when you have a five mile run in the morning.  My alarm went off at about eight this morning and i thought about my run for a second but then ended up turning the alarm off, rolled back over and fell asleep till about ten. I have to admit i kinda felt bad about it but i was all booked up at work so i needed to be rested.

me outside of modern male, I couldn't keep my eyes open so sunny out!!!

We have half and full bottles of wine and a variety of beers to choose from.  Thats my cute little station, i've got the first chair :)

My day ended up being great and I started to get all my energy back, so i was ready for a run.

After work I thought it wouldn't be so hot and sticky out still but it was.  I was still a champ and put on my lululemon, my finest workout clothes and went for a run.  BAD IDEA! I got to 2.5 miles and thought I was going to fall over and die, so made a detour and went to the parents! Gotta love A/C.

training

So here i go....day two of blogging, so far so good.  I have gotten my friends to start following me, thank you!!! Lets hope I can give them something good to read about. Tomorrow might be kinda hard, For my training for my half marathon I'm on 5 miles, which might not be so bad to some people but for me, well tonight i went to the DMB concert which everyone should know was so much fun!!!  Since i went out tonight and had a good time, My update on my run tomorrow might be a little rough. For everyone that is training for a half marathon  don't drink before a night you have to run. I will update everyone tomorrow on how it goes, wish me luck and thanks for all the new followers!

Getting Started

Here I am, getting pressured into starting a blog by my sister.. But I think I will eventually get used to it. I'm in the process of dedicating myself to train for my very first half marathon in October while still trying to enjoy the very occasional glass of wine.. and keep my sanity from the crazy stories I hear all day while cutting hair. I may need some help along the way, but follow along for a bumpy ride...