Liv’s Journal

This morning i woke up and got myself ready , by 7.15 i was ready but Nic wasn’t out of his bedroom yet . I began to wonder if he did set the alarm last night .. which turned out that he did . But he shut off the alarm and guess went back to sleep . I went in to his bedroom he’s all covered up with the blanket and i opened up the blinds and then woke him up .

We left to the school about normal time , at 8.15 , and then dropped him off and i took off to the gym . I ran 6.2 miles and then changed , that’s when i saw Michelle in the locker room . She asked me if i am training for something .. i said why . She said because it seems that i am running longer and longer distance . I am not training for anything . I’d like to try to run a short race , 5k and 10k . I’ve mentioned it before . Rodney had asked me to join his group last year to train for the race . But i barely knew him back then so i wasn’t really comfortable .. even if he’s Jay’s friend at work .. but like i said i barely knew him . He probably is going to form a team again this year .. and i also talked with Rae that she said she’s never done any race either . Maybe we all can do it together . Teresa on the other hand is challenging me to do a half marathon next year . LOL .. These people .. they see me running all the time , they thought i am an avid runner or something .. i am only running because i love doing it ! And so i can eat anything i want hahah .. Since baking and cooking are my hobby !

Anyway .. according to my fitness monitor i’ve burned 980 calories . Not quite over 1000 calories , but close enough .It’s alright . Went to pick up Nicholas and he was the last kid over there .. i normally don’t go there late .. but i did this morning .Stuck behind someone driving very slow !!

Last night i cooked this Smoky Maple Glazed Salmon . I bought the salmon yesterday morning when i went grocery shopping .. bought about 1.25 lbs of salmon fillet . Unfortunately the recipe calls for skinned removed salmon . Boy .. i was having a hard time to remove the salmon skin . Because i had to be really careful , if not i would remove a lot of the fillet too . It took me a while to remove the skin .. Ick .. my hand were so fishy smell after that . Luckily i had the lemon slices that i used earlier during the day to make Chicken Salad .

Anyway , the salmon turned out really good , had that with a carrot-peas vegetable mix and jasmine rice . I was surprised the carrot pea mixed was not too bad . Well none of us in this household is a pea lover .. LOL .. Nic used to love peas .. but now he could care less about it . We all had it though , even Jay did . Jay is really good .. he’s not as picky as he used to be . Well he didn’t use to eat carrots .. let alone peas ! But he mixed them all .. and ate it . Nic loved the fish .. he had 2 pieces of the fish , so did Jay . I only had 1 , cos that was the only one left hahaha .. Next time , i think i make sure to buy about 2 lbs of salmon fillet .

Yesterday afternoon i also made chicken salad , i’ve mentioned it before i’ve been searching for the best taste chicken salad . So far , the lady from our church , Cheryl Ryan , has the best chicken salad sandwich . Even potbelly sandwich couldn’t beat hers . I thought why not trying to make them .. So after i got home from grocery shopping , i roasted these chicken breasts that i bought on sale . And then chopped up some celery , onion , toasted almonds and the chicken itself . Added some curry powder , lemon juice and mayonaisse . Actually it turned out pretty good .. i meant it’s chicken salad .. how pretty would it look ? Not so pretty .. but it tasted pretty good .. Jay even liked it . Knowing Jay .. i thought he wouldn’t want to eat it because it has mayonaisse .. he’s not a mayonaise person .. LOL . But he had 2 sandwiches that early evening , after letting the salad cooled in the fridge for few hours .

Jay got home right after i got back from grocery shopping yesterday . I got home about 12.30 .. went to the mall early too , to pay my express bill . The mall was still closed .. well the stores inside were .. lots of people were walking around carrying cinnabon bag though . I offered Nic if he wanted cinnamon rolls he said no . Of course .. nothing new ! LOL .. beside i can make cinnamon rolls myself .. and it’s a lot better than the cinnabon ..

Tonight we’re supposed to be getting some winter storm . Snow is coming and by wednesday we should have up to 8 inches or 10 inches or over a foot of snow . Depending where you live .. i just don’t like it when the snow comes at night time , because i have to shovel in the morning before my work out . And usually it makes me so sweaty .. i just don’t feel like going to the gym sweaty with wet hair and all .. Jay said i should just leave .. my car is a 4 wheel drive .. so there is no reason for me not to be able to get out from the driveway without shovelling the snow . We’ll see though .. beside i hate when i have so much snow i have to shovel all at once .. it gets heavy ! I am so ready for spring

Friday morning , we went working out together , after dropping off Nicholas at school . Worked on the weights and then on the cardio machine . I burned 750 calories , it’s okay . My legs were super sore though , on thursday i did lots of leg muscle work out and i had to pay for it the next day until today . My hamstring especially were so tight and it wasn’t so flexible when i tried to keep my legs up straight in the air .. But anyway no big deal . It’s okay ..

Went to pick up Nicholas , and when we did , Ms.Sandi mentioned about if Nicholas’s medicine for his ashtma/allergy . I did say about singulair . Then she said i might want to check what is the side effect .. whether it would make the child more active than normal .. or what .. I knew what she meant by it . I actually had noticed it since sunday when i started giving him the medicine on friday night . Ever since then .. he seems like he’s getting on my nerve non stop . I had stopped the medicine last night .. we’ll see ..

Got out from the gym , and after picking up Nicholas we went to grab sandwich for our lunch later on , went to Potbelly , got myself a chicken salad . I am still searching for the best chicken salad .. haven’t found one yet . Then went home , showered and ate lunch and off we went to Forest Ridge Academy . This is a private school in Schererville .. well we visited the school , since i had called them the day before . It was a nice school , maximum 20 children in the class .. and seems very well organized and just small exclusive school . The tuition though was super high , for a kindergarten it’s a lil over $11,000/year . I wasn’t shocked i knew it would be expensive , but i just never thought it’d be that high anyway . As if we’re going to send Nic to the college .. LOL

Then we went to the mall , i wanted to try Express new jeans , Rerock .. but nope .. i didn’t like it . It was way too low ..i love and i have always love express jeans . Most of my jeans are express jeans , but this one particular one .. don’t think it’s for me . However i love Gap skinny jeans .. compared to express this time . While we were there .. Nic was misbehaving .. for some reason when Jay and i and Nic are together shopping .. NIc always gets in trouble .. so he ended up leaving me alone at the mall and they both went to the car and waited for me over there . No problem for me .. just annnoying with Nic .

Got home , started cleaning the house and then cooked Chili for dinner . The boys went to TKD while i finished cooking chili .

Today .. this morning i woke up about 7.30 , stayed in bed until about 8 . Last night we went to bed about 1 , watched The Hangover , but i fell asleep .. although it was a funny movie , it was hard to keep my eyes awake , i was so tired . Anyway this morning , we went to Menards and then went to Borders , got myself 2 book , The Last Song and The Reliable Wife . Got the car washed , and then this evening , made White butterscotch chocolate chip cookie .

I really don’t like going to the gym late . I left about 9.50 , and i got there about 10.10 .. considered late to me . Anyway , i still worked out okay .. i was downstairs for about 30 minutes to work on my leg muscles , i normally could care less about my leg muscles . I believe that i have worked on those leg muscles enough by running anyway .. Still earlier , i was in the mood of working on leg muscles . Did all those big boys machines , worked on the leg press , hamstrings and quads , did lunges and squats and then dead lifts and finally finished up with some glutes workout . I walked upstairs and i could feel my legs were not as good .. aka … tired LOL ..

I was on the treadmill for 15 minutes before going to stairmaster and went back to the treadmill finishing up running . And did abs workout , by the time i finished .. my fitness monitor said i have burnt .. 700 calories . It’s an okay number .. considering i wasn’t running as much . Only 1.5 miles .. compared like 6 miles .. and i still burnt 700 .. it’s okay . I wasn’t expecting a high number like 1000 calories .. so oh well .

Went to pick up Nicholas , said bye to my fitness partner , i call her that cos she’s always there like me , we motivate each other although we don’t work out together . And left .. Got home , about 12.30 , made Nicholas some lunch and i showered .

Last night we were browsing for schools . Believing that all schools in our state is having an open enrollment .. we thought Nic would be able to enroll in Crown Point school .. well we were wrong .. I called this morning to Crown Point school , since they’re having their kindergarten registration by the end of February . I asked if they have an open enrollment .. the lady i was talking with .. she sounds so snobbish .. and she said ” no that was 5 years ago .. ” and i said ” i heard about the new policy open enrollment .. ’ She said .. ” oh but our school chose not to participate on that .. ”

But then thinking to what Mr.Cory said , the guy from TKD class , he’s a principal of some school .. he said as long as the school has spots for all the kids in their district .. and still have spots left .. they should accept you if you’re out of the district . So .. i don’t know , i am going to ask Mr.Cory again when i see him tonight or tomorrow . I was a bit annoyed with the way this snob lady talks anyway ..

I then , called Forest Ridge Academy and planned a visit to their school tomorrow at 1 . Jay is off tomorrow .. so we can go visit the school . It’s not that Nic is going to that school .. but we’re looking for good school for him . Hammond Baptist School is another option too .. so .. we’ll look into that . Another one that is in Crown Point is .. Trinity Lutheran School , and Pathway Christian School .. I guess we’ll just have to find out . I really want to enroll Nicholas in a good school with a good discipline .. Nicholas is that type of kid that needs a really good disicpline .

We were just finished studying .. today we’re studying about words .. he’s pretty good with reading already . Yesterday we worked on the math and today we’re working on words . Going to make coconut chicken cutlets tonight for dinner .. oh and i have this black japonica rice that i might try to cook too . We’ll see how black rice tastes like

Went working out this morning .. i brought another outfit to change after running . Normally i would just lift weights and get done with it and then start doing my cardio . But i thought i wanted to switch it this time . I ran for 6 miles , and then i changed my running shirt with my fitted shirt to lift weights . When i run i like to wear this running outfit , they are loose and they are so light weight , and they won’t cause any chaffing . So , i ran for 1 mile and then suddenly my treadmill started to slow down and stopped .. it said ” no communication .. ” strange . And i tried again , put it back to my original speed and then .. it stopped again after few minutes . I got enough of it and i moved to the machine right next to it . I finished running an hour later and then i changed clothes and went to work on the weights . Didn’t get to work every muscle since i had to leave by 10.40 . I am going to work on my legs tomorrow and some part of shoulder and arms . Lynn was on the chest machine forever !! I meant .. F O R E V E R .. but she wasn’t using it .. instead she sat there with her arms stretched to the handle bars while chatting away with the men ! Really .. she is a huge chatter .. and it annoys me when i need to work on it .. while she’s just sat there and chatted ..

According to my machine .. by 1 hour 45 minutes work out , i had burnt 1032 calories . Not too bad . Tomorrow would be my cardio mix day and going to work on legs . I had promised Teresa i would be there after 10 .

Last night while i tried on the teddy that i bought from the lingerie store .. i told Jay ” don’t get any ideas .. i am only trying it .. ” well too late he said .. He said ” too late .. i’ve got lots of ideas already .. ” I was happy with my purchase .. and i liked it , it looks really cute and he said i look hot .. I did feel like that with that teddy i bought LOL . Unfortunately i kinda thought i should have bought a black one instead of violet . But then again .. that’s the only color i didn’t have . I have black , red , pink , yellow , blue , dark purple ..

Anyway , mr.Nicholas here is reading his Curious George book . He’s been eating for 45 minutes again for his lunch .. and it still drives me nuts . I googled it .. i guess i am not the only person dealing with it . I guess i just have to put up with it . The only thing that worries me .. he’s going to start school this year .. well kindergarten is probably going to be only 2.5 hours still . But by grade school .. he’ll have to have all day school which means he’s going to have to eat lunch at school and probably they only give him 15 minutes or maybe 30 minutes max . That boy will be hungry during classes

I needed to get out .. So when Jay got home this afternoon .. i warmed up some soup for them to have dinner . And i told him i need to get out .

So i did .. i went to the mall .. went shopping , bought powder and lipstick from Sephora , and then i went to Express , but didn’t get anything , went to Gap and bought a hoodie . Stopped at Bath and body works , bought a shower gel and a body splash from the new line , Spring Flirt or PS i love  you .. and then went to AE , but didn’t get anything and finally my final stop , i went to Fredericks … or however you typed that name . It’s a lingerie store . I bought this super cute and sexy babydoll . It was violet color . Too bad i can’t put the picture up here ..

Then i went home from there .. it felt good to get out . I was such in a bad mood today .. i got mad at Nicholas because of his slow eating .. He started to drive me nuts again .. tell me about it .. would it normal to finish half a sandwich or half a toast for 45 minutes ? I got so upset because of it .. He did it for breakfast , he did it again for lunch .. it was crazy . And finally for dinner .. he was like that too .. no .. he had 2 bites and then he was just busy looking around and holding the food in his mouth .. I had enough .. that’s when i told Jay i had to get out . I have been staying home for 3 days straight . The only time i got out was on sunday for grocery shopping .. oh boy . And then yesterday when i took Nic to the doctor . That was it . I didn’t get my work out routine .. i missed it so much that i had dream about it . And then i stayed home again today . I know my child was not feeling good .. that’s why i stayed home still . Well at least i thought he wasn’t feeling good yet .. Oh well .. anyway ..

I couldn’t imagine those people who stuck at home and can’t go anywhere . I have a friend in california who doesn’t know how to drive .. and can’t go anywhere until her husband comes home . She is stuck with 2 kids at home with her  , her kids are under 5 years old . If it were me .. i would definately teach myself how to drive so that i can get out .. if not .. i would be crazy !!

Oh well .. looking forward tomorrow to work out and get back to routine again . This thursday Amelia and Nicholas are supposed to have a playdate but i am going to cancel it , and postpone it until next week . Nic is still having his cold , wouldn’t be good for Amelia to catch cold from Nic . And plus i still want my workout this thursday . I am looking forward for a good work out tomorrow morning .

Nothing much to do today . What a boring day . I was going to go to the gym , but decided to stay home one more day because of Nicholas . He barely slept last night , don’t know , whether it was because he took a nap from 2 until 4.30 yesterday afternoon .. or was it because his coughing . At about 11 when we went to bed , we heard him waking up and also about 10.15 he called out to us and said he was thirsty . About 11 when he woke up , Jay checked him out , and he said Nic’s eyes were wide awake .. didn’t seem like he was asleep or sleeping at all ..

Last night i made indonesian ginger chicken that i marinated the night before . So i didn’t have too much to do in the kitchen except , warm up the oven and threw in the chicken to be baked for an hour . Made jasmine rice on the side and cut up some vegetables for our dinner . Today also i didn’t have to much to do because we still have left overs from the chicken noodle soup i made on sunday and also the chicken from last night . So .. i don’t have anything to do . I was bored .. and when i am bored .. i get in the bad mood easily ..

I finished my book this afternoon , the book that i bought on saturday night , The Lovely Bones . Interesting book , but it could have had a better ending . Maybe this weekend i am buying myself another book . I love to read and fortunately these past 2 days that i’ve been staying home .. i’ve been busy reading . I miss my workout .. i miss working out so much i had a dream i was running in so much bigger shoes . I was tired by the time i woke up .

Tonight Nic is going to TKD class .. he wouldn’t want to miss sparring .. See what Jay thinks about it .. I am not planning on going , if he does go to TKD class , Jay would be the one taking him . That , if Jay gets home early enough .

I just got back from taking Nic to the doctor . He looks better this morning and he said he feels better , but he said just his throat hurts a little bit . Obviously not as bad the day before . I called and made the appointment , at 11.15 . No school today since i wasn’t sure how he was .. So , he woke up about 8 and he actually went to my bedroom and said ” mommy .. i am hungry .. ” Made him toast with nutella and after that he wanted scrambled eggs . He loves scrambled eggs .. Then made him tea .. he ate pretty quick , i guess he was hungry . About 11 we left to the doctor .. according to her , Nicholas’ allergy started going again and i should start giving him his singulair everyday until end of march . I know it’s still winter but she said usually things get worse around this month on . He also wheezing again … so just now i let him used the nebulizer again . She said to use it 3-4 times a day until thursday and for us to come back on friday .

Nic is sick again . We were supposed to go to Shedd Aquarium this morning as it planned , but since he couldn’t sleep well last night and also that he has a sore throat .. we decided not to go . Even if he didn’t complain about his sore throat , i wouldn’t take him to a busy place like aquarium anyway , just because his immune system is down .. then i wouldn’t want to risk him getting even sicker . So , this morning about 6.30 he woke up and whining and i went to his bedroom he said he couldn’t sleep .. so i covered him up with the blanket i made him and waited on him for a lil bit and told him he’ll be fine and try to sleep . And then about 8 he cried and i went in to his room again , and this time he said he was hot .. and he was off the blanket .. i thought he had a slight temperature . He finally decided to get up about 9 and i made him breakfast . He coughed here and there , luckily he still ate his breakfast , got toast and grape jam and scrambled eggs , i also made him earl grey tea . I learn not to give him milk when he coughs or having sore throat .. yes he tends to puke .

He was sad though because he’s sick , and his throat hurts and when he coughs his chest and stomach hurts . Not that he coughs really bad .. but i guess it’s just the muscle or something . I don’t know . I gave him medicine after he finished his breakfast . He still wanted to take a shower , although i said he could just be in pj all day and not showering .. it’ll be fine . But he didn’t want to . He seemed like he was in a better mood after shower , then we put the movie Cloudy with a chance of meatballs for him to watch . I sat with him for a while then half through the movie i had to take my shower .

I left Nic with his daddy home while i went to do my grocery shopping . Got it done in an hour .. yes it took longer than normal . Went home , and we had lunch . Nicholas had chicken and i got him some canned soup too . Tonight’s dinner is going to be chicken noodle soup with tortellini . That should help with his sore throat .

Yesterday was quite a busy day .. we started out in the morning , went to Office Max , Jay had to pick up few things and then went to the mall . I bought myself a purse and then also went to Victoria Secret , got the rewards $10.00 and also free lacie thong , plus another $10.00 off if i buy a bra . Luckily i was able to combine the coupon , so i got myself another bra .. it only cost me $25.00 plus tax , and i got this beautiful yellow bra and a yellow lacie thong , the thong was $16.00 . What a great deal ! Then went to Borders , bought Nicholas another lego robot .. it’s the Bionicle robot , and then got him Olivia and the missing toys book . Later on that night , me and Jay stopped at borders again , and bought myself a book , called , The Lovely Bones and another educational book for Nicholas .

About 3.30 we headed out to drop off Nicholas at dad’s house . Mom was not going to be home for the day until tonight .. because she had a jewelry party at Hilton Garden Inn overnight . Anyway .. dad was the one watching Nicholas . Nic seemed okay last night when we dropped him off .. he coughed a lil but not bad at all . Not as bad as today ..

Then we headed out , going to The Quest , it’s a restaurant in Dyer . We’re having a party to go to . Jay’s coworker is having a retirement party , he’s worked over there for 35 years and finally he’s retiring . The party started out about 4 , i think it was about 7 when we left . We skipped the cake .. and just left .

That’s when we decided to go to Borders in Highland , since we’re in Dyer anyway .. so it was pretty close . Got those books and went to pick up Nic . By the time we got home it was 8.30 .. and Nic took a bath , which i thought it might help with his coughing .. i didn’t know he had a sore throat yesterday , at least not that i noticed anyway .Then after bath he said he was hungry . See .. that’s the thing .. when he stays at mom and dad’s house .. he probably just eats very little , if not any .. And a lot of times .. mom does not cook , and nic ends up just eating .. hot dog , or chicken fingers .. all those frozen thing , processed food  , which is not healthy . Once in a while i can understand but .. gosh .. if it’s everytime he’s there .. then it’s not good either . So last night .. since mom wasn’t home .. dad was left alone without food i guess .. and he went to Mc.Donald’s with Nicholas .. and nic has what ? of course .. chicken nuggets .. So by 9 last night he was hungry .. poor kid . And now he’s sick ..

After he went to bed , i decided to make Amaretto Cake , it’s been a while since i made a cake .. so it was kind out of sudden cake . The butter has not been softened , except i forced soften it .. i nuked them , and then the eggs hasn’t been sitting in room temperature for 30 minutes .. but heck i thought .. who cares . Thank goodness it still turned out great .. and made the amaretto syrup .. thought i didn’t have corn syrup , i did , thank goodness .

After baking the cake ..  i started reading the book , called The Lovely bones , i think they make a movie out of it . Then when Jay finished whatever show he was watching .. we started watching True Blood again .. Went to bed about 1 last night .

Another cold morning .. Jay woke up about 4.45 , and as planned .. which i hope he sticks to it . He’s going to the gym in the morning . Last night he mentioned it to me , that he’s just going to work out in the morning since he actually does not need to be at work at 6 AM . Back in Kansas , he used to work out that early and when he does , he does really well compared to have to go work out after working the whole day . I guess we’ll see … how did he do today .

I woke up about 6.45 , and then Nic woke up 15 minutes later , and made him toast and grape jelly and scrambled eggs . Then dropped him off at school , i guess Ms.Sandi wasn’t there , hopefully she’s doing fine . Then i went to the gym , i knew i had to do something when i got there . I got there about 8.40 , and then i went upstairs , checking the downstairs area .. and i found who i was looking for . I found Kyle’s mom , Michelle , the person that i needed to talk to . So i rushed downstairs .. i just had to talk with her , for the past few days i had something in my mind that needed to be said to her  . Then i talked with her , mentioned the stuff with the kids .. and she was actually pretty okay with it , in fact she was glad that i came to talk with her , she appreciated it . I just doesn’t like having the discomfort feelings because the things that our kids did . The thing is .. i knew her since last year , i barely talked with her though .. just said hi and stuff , i am not like Lynn , who spends minutes or hours at the gym having conversations with other people . I am there to work out .. okay i know people that i see basically everyday .. but i don’t chat with them all the time . I probably said hi and how are ya .. that’s about it . I am the type who isn’t interested to talk or chat while i do my work out . I want my work out to be a good one .. i want to put all my effort to my work out .. not dividing it by chatting or gossipping . But i just thought i needed to talk with Michelle about the things happened with the kids . Now that i said what i had to say .. i felt much better .

I went on to 4 different machines today , on stair master , treadmill , eliptical machine and finally on the row machine . Then worked on my abs and squats before went to pick up Nicholas . Nicholas is having another playdate next week with Amelia . Last wednesday we had a playdate with David . Anyway .. went home and took a shower , and started cleaning my house . I just got done cleaning few minutes ago .. it feels good to sit down . No plans to cook tonight .. don’t know what we’re going to do . This coming week also Jay’s working schedule has changed , it’s going to be Sundays through Thursdays . The good thing about it .. since they don’t make sunday an official working day .. he said he’s getting paid for overtime . Which is great . Jay also got a new office since he has been moved .. his new office , he said is a lot bigger . He hasn’t told me the phone number yet though .