One busy weekend!

The first weekend on campus is always exciting and a great opportunity to hang out with friends and do fun activities. This past weekend my friends and I crammed a ton of fun activities in! Friday night my roommate and I hung out just the two of us. We had fun quality time together just lounging in our room and chatting about life. Our school had a theme dance that night but we didn’t feel like going and we wanted to get to bed because we were waking up early the next morning for a workout at the Y!

 Bailey, our friend Hannah, and I woke up and headed out to the YMCA for an 8 a.m. body pump class. Man did that class kick out butts! Then we went to another class right after called body flow. Body flow was a yoga class and let me tell you…yoga is not my thing! I was bored after 5 minutes! Not only was I bored but I felt like an idiot trying to do all the weird poses. Bailey felt the same way, but at least we got some laughs out of it! After our workout we were all feeling pretty good! You feel so accomplished after going to the gym and being done with your workout by 10:15! It was great!

After the gym we came back to our dorms, ate and got ready for the day. Bailey is super into health and fitness and she taught me that you need to eat protein within 15 minutes of working out or your body burns muscle instead of fat. I didn’t realize how important it was to fuel your body with protein especially after a workout. But she sure keeps me in line!! After we ate our protein and got dressed for the day we headed out to do some shopping. Oh boy…with us that is never a good thing! We love shopping and if the deals are good our bank accounts are in trouble!! Our first stop was Old Navy. Originally our plan was to look for navy blue pants and plain colored polos for a work uniform. I had 2 interviews last week at the YMCA in Fargo and a daycare center in Moorhead. The daycare center was ready to hire me on the spot so I needed to get an outfit that I could wear to work! We pulled up to Old Navy and immediately saw a sign in the window for 30% the WHOLE STORE. We practically sprinted into the store and got our shop on stat! Ever since I got to school a week ago I was thinking about how I lacked workout clothes. It seems like I never have enough to last me more than a few days, talk about annoying! Old Navy of course has a workout section and they had a ton of cute stuff to choose from! I didn’t want to go to crazy but the deals were just so good! I ended up buying 2 pairs of cropped workout pants and 3 workout tops! It was totally worth it though because I know I will put them to good use! The next stop on our list was Target. We both were in need of groceries and I also needed to buy art supplies for one of my classes this semester. Target was pretty busy but we weren’t on a time schedule so we perused around the clothes section and of course ended up finding more things we just had to have! Even though I just spent way too much at Old Navy the deals at Target were too good to pass up!

$9 wedges from Target. What a steal!!!

After a fun and very successful day of shopping we got back to the dorms and had to get down to business. Homework starts early on (day one of class) and I had a lot to do. I spent an hour or two doing homework while also browsing pinterest and facebook. Those sites are literally addicting and I think it’s impossible for me to not go on them while my computer is open. Oh well! It gives my mind a little break. For dinner Saturday night I met up with one of my good friends Karen for a life chat about faith and our beliefs. We met last year in choir and both were involved in some religious organizations on campus but we never really talked to each other about our faith lives or why God is such an important part of our lives. It was so much fun to chat with her…it ended up being an hour and a half conversation. It was so awesome to hear about her past and her faith journey! Fellowship with friends is so great and can be so encouraging to hear other people’s stories and faith walks.

Saturday was a very eventful and fun day but man was I tired and ready to go to sleep when bedtime came! Sunday morning Bailey and I wanted to try out a new church just down the road from our school. The service was at 9 and we wanted to get a workout in beforehand so we set our alarms for 7 a.m. When our phones went off that morning we both groaned and decided to skip it! We were way too tired to get out of bed that morning. I hit the snooze button and woke up just in time to get ready and eat a quick bite before we had to get going. The church service was a major fail! It was so boring and traditional and all we sang were hymns. Let me tell you…that is not my kind of church service! Bailey and I decided to cross that one off the list!! After church we were feeling a little more motivated and decided to go on our run. We ran down by the river and ended up going 2.5 miles! Man was it hard to keep going for the whole time but Bailey pushed me to the end and I felt accomplished that I ran the whole way. The next event of the day was a meal out for one of our friend’s birthdays. We went to Lucky 13, a super yummy pub, where I ordered a delicious chicken and apple salad. The rest of the day involved more shopping, a coffee run, more yummy food and lots of homework! I don’t know where the weekend went, but man did it fly by! I’m already looking forward to the next one J

Feeling good after our run! 

After my 2.5 mile run!

My brand new running shoes :)

yummy :)