Write Me Away From Here

happy tuesday! i'm so excited it's tuesday because i have the next week off from work and boy have i been looking forward to this. plus, i'm feeling super motivated today... it's before noon and i've already gone to crossfit, cleaned almost my entire house, done multiple loads of laundry, and dropped our three dogs off at the groomers. the pups have been shedding so much lately (not sure why because it's the middle of winter still) and were in desperate need of a bath.. so picture this.. me dressed in ben's enormous camouflage sweatshirt, a parking lot covered in a layer of ice, trying to hold on to approximately 300 pounds of dog as they are pulling like wild animals.. meanwhile i'm doing everything in my limited power to not slip and fall on my head.. not pretty. but i survived. with the new year, so many people are trying to make healthy diet changes and i figured i'd share what my fridge typically looks like after i stock up for the week and h

i intended to write a post about what i did hour to hour today... except then i napped for a while and spent a lot of time driving and figured that would be too boring... so instead am sharing what i ate on this snowy day. i love the night shift so much more than working a day shift but, boy, does it screw with my body sometimes. in the middle of the night i crave carbs... problem is i usually bring something along the lines of a salad which i end up forcing myself to eat... nothing worse than arugula and ground chicken at 3am. and then the carb cravings continue into the next day. so i got out of work at 8am this morning, headed to crossfit, did a bunch of errands and collapsed on the couch for a couple hours. now i'm awake and groggy and not quite sure what to do with myself since it's only 7pm and my dogs will not approve of bedtime quite yet. alright, back to how night shifts screw with my eating habits... i'm pretty sure i only ate about a third of the amount o

snow on christmas! i don't think it could get any more perfect!  i know it's the middle of january already but i haven't had a chance to post these pictures from christmas yet and i just love them so much. with the new year in full swing, i've been doing a lot of self analyzing and i'm so disgusted by how much time i spend on my phone... scrolling aimlessly through instagram pictures that i don't even want to see... reading facebook posts filled with negativity written by people i hardly know. all the while, i have family and friends sitting right next to me. this makes me really sad when i think about it because i've been wasting so much time with nonsense when everything that is important to me is in front of my face and i'm ignoring. this weekend i started the long process of cleaning up my social media accounts, unfollowing people and trying to be more aware of how much time i waste. i hope this does not sound harsh or mean, but i reall

do you remember the anticipation of a snow day as a kid? checking the news constantly to see if your school was one of the lucky ones to have the day off in the morning? and then waking up in the morning to a blanket of white that made even the ugliest of streets look magical. how beautiful the world looked before the streets were plowed and the walkways were covered in footsteps. i haven't been able to enjoy this excitement for a long time because i am considered "essential personnel." sounds important and all except you don't feel so special when you wake up to snow, have to shovel yourself out (or plow through the snow in your jeep like me), and then make the painfully slow commute to work. those kind of days i'd prefer to not be "essential."  womp womp. well today, i somehow got lucky and the pups and i got to enjoy a snow day together! we spent the day sipping on hot chocolate/chewing bones, running around and playing in the snow (which they can