When Ryan and I arrived at the gym, we hopped on side-by-side treadmills to begin our workouts. Within 30 seconds, I hopped off, declaring I “just wasn’t feeling it.”
I chose an elliptical beside Ryan’s treadmill instead and peddled away for 30 minutes, thinking I would then head upstairs to take a 6 a.m. yoga class.
After my 30 minutes were up, a single thought ran through my mind. I could dig deep and finish my cardio workout by completing only 20 more minutes on a cardio machine, or I could take an hour long yoga class. I opted for the short and dirty option!
Yoga = No-ga (Ryan’s words, not mine. 
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After my 30 minutes on the elliptical, I completed a 15-minute treadmill workout that looked like this:
| Minutes | Incline | Speed |
| 0 – 1 | 1.0 | 6.0 |
| 1 – 3 | 1.0 | 6.5 |
| 3 – 3:30 | 1.0 | 9.0 |
| 3:30 – 4:30 | 1.0 | 6.5 |
| 4:30 – 5 | 1.0 | 9.1 |
| 5 – 6 | 1.0 | 6.0 |
| 6 – 6:30 | 1.0 | 9.2 |
| 6:30 – 7:30 | 1.0 | 6.0 |
| 7:30 – 8 | 1.0 | 9.3 |
| 8 – 9 | 1.0 | 6.0 |
| 9 – 9:30 | 1.0 | 9.4 |
| 9:30 – 10:30 | 1.0 | 6.0 |
| 10:30 – 11 | 1.0 | 9.5 |
| 11 – 12 | 1.0 | 6.0 |
| 12 – 15 | 8.0 | 4.0 |
Since Ryan still wasn’t done with his workout when I finished my treadmill session, I read magazines on the elliptical for another 10 minutes while waiting for him to finish.
Breakfast
After a 20 minute walk with Sadie, I downed a cup of coffee with almond milk (obsessed with our new Keurig!) and got to work on breakfast.
In today’s smoothie:
- 1 1/4 c. almond milk
- 1 c. frozen strawberries
- 1 scoop chocolate protein powder
- 1 tbsp. peanut butter
- 1 1/2 tbsp. cocoa powder
- 1 tsp. xanthan gum
- 1 handful fresh spinach
Cocoa powder makes smoothies so chocolaty. I’m a fan!
Mouse in the House
In other news, our unwelcome guests are getting braver. Too brave.
Yes that picture is for real. FOR REAL. We live among vermin. In my head, I’m repeating August 1… August 1… August 1… Get me out of here. (Also, if any of you say that mouse is cute, I may have to pummel your face.)
The little guy in the above picture is currently perched under our oven and is dying for some food out of Sadie’s bowl. She is not having it. Like Joey Tribiani, “Sadie doesn’t share food!”
Let’s hope this ends well… though I’m not really sure what “well” entails.
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Well…the mice will at least eat any bugs that are in your house.
ever the optimist. 🙂
Oh my gosh. I would CRY!
i have. believe me, i have. when i told our landloard about the problem, he was like “yeah, it has been an issue in the past.” REALLY!?!
and they didn’t tell y’all about it before?!! RUDE! do you know if they’re gonna do anything? or what you would do?!
I don’t know how you kept cool long enough to take a picture! I would’ve freaked out!
And I love the FRIENDS reference 🙂 Best. Show. Ever!
Ewwww! Just seeing that picture made me pick my feet up and look around our floor, even though we don’t have mice…you poor thing! August 1st…August 1st…August 1st!
That is a gutsy little mofo. August 1…just sic Sadie on ’em!!
she’s worthless. she just chases them BACK under the oven. which is away from me, so that isn’t completely worthless, i guess.
EEKS! If mice are around enough for you to be able to snap pictures, it’s too much. August isn’t far away- HANG IN THERE!!
Ahhh Julie! That mouse is SICK! I really can’t believe how big that thing is…I would be freaking…haha and tell Sadie she needs to get her claws out and get to work!
I KNOWWWWW.
AHHHH! He’s like….big! Julie get outta there! Especially now that you work from home.
Yikes yikes yikes! Unappetizing…Sadie might stop eating her food. Might have to bake her a chicken or something.
i know! they don’t mess around. and they reproduce like assholes.
That picture FREAKS ME OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OMG, Julie!!!!! I would be screaming and freaking out right now. You are so brave!! Thank god you are getting out of there! August 1st can’t come soon enough!
Ok, I don’t know how you even had time to get this picture because I would have ran out of the kitchen screaming…mice give me the heebie jeebies!
i was in the other room using MEGA zoom. and then i passed out. 🙂
I don’t wanna get pummeled in the face so I will keep my lips zipped but in all seriousness …. Mice are cute …..in a cage….. at the pet store…. I would cry too if they were in my house. August 1st will be here before you know it!
nice save… i had my fist ready.
You should teach Sadie how to “sick em”…although, don’t do that- then she would have mouse breath- ewwwww. I can’t believe you got that picture! My mom told me that when she was pregnant with me there was a mouse in our washing machine and when she washed all her maternity clothes it killed the mouse and stripped it of all it’s fur= maternity clothes ruined. OMG I feel so bad for you! I can offer you a room in my house until August 1 🙂 haha
OMG! Is there any way you can move out sooner? I would send that picture to your landlord IMMEDIATELY. That is so ridiculous.
our landlord knows… we’ve been working with a pest guy for MONTHS. the pest guy is seriously GARBAGE, but he’s the guy my landlord uses. it’s ridiculous. we would’ve moved sooner but there’s a lot going on behind the scenes w/ us right now which kept us here. ick. soon enough!
Blahhh that’s so crappy. August 1 can’t come soon enough!
Also, I’m pretty sure the landlord has a fiduciary responsibility to get rid of an issue like this in a timely manner, otherwise you have grounds to withhold rent payments. You might want to look into it!
I agree with Paige….look into that issue because I am pretty sure that you can withhold rent or break your lease without consequence.
This can be some what true…. you can’t withhold rent and you have to have everything in writing (requests to landlord/maintenence for issues) and sometimes the court has to get involved but yes some things can turn in your favor including recv rent back. My best friend works property management and tells me if people(renters) only knew what they could get if they knew the laws…. you also have to look into Florida state laws…. I have had leaky windows since i moved to my apartment …. 5 years ago…. and we did find out that it is a problem with the siding and not the windows …. we could freak out but its not my style so I just will continue to put a towel down when it rains….. and my complex is only like 9 years old….
thanks so much for the info. that’s actually really interesting. i just wish our landlord wasn’t such a nice guy. i’m just glad we’ll be out SOON. hopefully BEFORE aug. 1.
Yeah, our office ladies are so nice so I would feel bad too. Good luck, and cant wait to read about all your adventures in moving!
Oh no way is that thing cute! Disgusting is more like it. I’ve seen the amount of crap they produce. I don’t know how you’re keeping sane! Aug 1, Aug 1, Aug 1!!
Ughhh that’s awful. My parent’s deal with the same issue from time to time. Traps, traps, traps!
Oh Julie, that sounds awful! I can’t WAIT to see your new apartment and how you decorate it… without mice as an accessory! 🙂
I flip my schnit when I see a mosquito in my house…much less a mouse!
Love your blog! What are your favorite Keurig k-cups? I’m always looking for good flavors to try!
we just got our keurig about 2 weeks ago, so i’m still in the process of trying the cups that came with the machine. i tend to like flavored coffee, so the french vanilla has been my fav so far!
Nicole and I both have Keurig machines!! We are obsessed with our coffee!! I suggest trying macadamia nut cookie, and butterscotch caramel flavours…they are my favourite!!
Ahh yuck! Sorry to hear about the mouse – they definitely freak me out and I’d want an exterminator in there (or mouse killer.. not sure if exterminators do mice!) ASAP!
There is absolutey nothing cute about mice. If you had a bunny infestation, then we could talk cute
hahaha!
Eieeek! mice!! when we had a mice prob, my dad always set the trap with Peanut Butter!! ( NO LIE) we always caught em. 😉 I guess the mice want to be on the peanut butter blog, since they can’t resist peanut butta!
YES set traps Julie! Er, Jewlie!
I know the pain. . . I had the little buggers in my first apartment. PS: Love the Friends reference! 🙂
Oh my gosh, Julie, YOU are brave getting close enough to take a picture!!! I would have to leave the house. Mice creep me out!
Ugh. I am SO sorry! I love animals…but those little gross vermin need to go!
PS – The Joey Tribiani made me laugh out loud!
Ahhhhh!!! I don’t mind mice, but not in my house! Ohh I am feeling for you.
One time growing up we had a mouse in our house and my dad dropped a log on it 😉
It did not end well for the mouse…
is your dad available for hire?
Love the friends reference!!
That’s scary. I would probably sit with my feet up all day because I would flip if I felt it against my leg. Did you guys set up traps?
we have and we’ve had success with them, but there are a LOT more than we anticipated. it’s beyond disgusting.
That’s horrible, but you guys are almost out of there! I used to work at a pharmacy and we had rats, it was probably one of the scariest experiences of my life. We walked in one morning to find a drugged rat wandering the aisles because they left out traps with food mixed with medication to kill them.
ewwww i used to have mice in the apartment i lived in in college. hah it was so sick we’d wear our uggs around bc we were scared of it. one of our (guy) neighbors caught it and killed it then we felt bad 🙁 they’re sick…but kinda cute?
I know how you feel Julie! We had a problem in our house during the winter, the little buggers were getting into my cupboards and my utensil drawers! Talk about yuck! I had to sterilize my entire kitchen, and ran every single utensil, plate, cup, bowl, mug, etc through the dishwasher three times!
We called in the exterminator and he laid out traps and poison throughout our basement and attic (we live in a century+ home and that’s where he said they were coming from), and thank goodness we haven’t had an issue since!
eww… that mouse is HUGE. i had the same problem with my apartment last year and my roommate and i lived with it from august to november after personally catching about 15, having countless holes created and many “bombs” set off in our apt, before we were finally able to move out. I was subletting, and luckily for me not on the lease, but our rental company did not refund any of her money and tried to even PENALIZE her after they gave us the okay to leave…. after months of living with mice and disgust. ughhhh … and they certainly do reproduce like assholes! Good luck!!!
Ugh mice are NOT cute!! I’m a firm believer in traps. If they didn’t have it coming, they should have stayed OUT of my house!!! I had one in my old house, mouse trapped it, his friends saw what happened and they all HIGH TAILED it OUT of there!!! I imagine the scene from Sex & the City when the mouse crawls into Carrie’s bed and into her hair EEEEEEEKKKKKKK
OMG I can’t believe that is real!!! That would seriously give me the heebie jeebies! I’m impressed that you’ve been able to tough it out… I would have been out of there so fast! What does your landlord say about it? Good luck… August 1 is almost here. At least your breakfast looks delicious!
I’m just so happy you referenced Joey Tribiani; smart man!
Mice are so annoying! It’s the little sounds they make as they scurry away that scares me. ech.
I had a mice problem at my last place and my landlord wouldn’t do anything about it until I got “real” with him. He fixed it after that, but I didn’t care– I still moved and am happy that you’re doing the same!
I don’t know why, but mice don’t freak me out too much… probably because I had gerbils, guinea pigs, and bunnies as pets growing up. I wouldn’t like them running around the kitchen though!
Ack, that is one brave little rodent! I have to say though, I’d prefer a mouse over a roach any day – they are the infamous critters in NYC.
ahhh!! I would be counting down the days until I got out of my lease. I haaaate rodents. Definitely NOT cute.
So gross! We had just one tiny mouse in my college apt. I was standing on the kitchen counter, freaking out, and called 2 neighbors. One, the guy, swept him outside where he went to die. The other, a girl, freakin brought cheese and tried to feed him back to life!!
I remember when my parents bought a new couch for our living room 3 years ago, there were 3 mice hiding in there and we didnt know about it until we saw them running around our house one day! =P
Ohhh, man. That mouse is sick. You weren’t kidding about living with vermin!! I would be counting down, too.
uuugggg Julie I’m SO sorry! There is NOTHING worse than mice, rats, or cockroaches in your OWN home. I had a cockroach last night in the kitchen and almost died…I can’t imagine.
You’re almost out of there!
This sort-of reminds me of that scene in Ratatouille where the rats crash through the ceiling on the chandelier… did you ever see that movie?
Get out before that happens!
And… I have to, I’m sorry, but they ARE cute and they can’t help that they picked the wrong place to live! But I completely understand that it would give you the creepies to have to sleep with them around and stuff!!
Oh gosh…that’s pretty disturbing. We’ve never had a mouse problem (that I know of?!?) but we have had spider issues!
Also, just realized our dinners last night were pretty much exactly the same. Ahem…great minds think alike. 😉
A spider issue? That sounds terrifying!
Haha, ahhh, nothing major. Just some small ones here and there. I’m the one who has to take care of them though…my husband is terrified!
Hahaha I love this. My boyfriend and I are both spider-phobic but he still is on killing duty, my fear trumps his.
Good luck with the vermin! I wouldn’t blame you for losing your mind a little bit. I’m so not a fan of rodents. Loved the Friends quote, by the way!
AGH!!! I knew I was scared of this post…that photo will haunt me in my dreams tonight!!
Eeew that’s not even a mouse, it’s ugly enough to be a rodent!
We just got a Keurig for Christmas too! We use it ALL the time.
It’s such a nice, quick and easy option on work mornings 🙂
And holy crap – that mouse!!! I feel it crawling on me and I’m not even there!! I can’t wait for you to be out of there!
At my mom’s house years ago, I trapped the mouse under a pot. Then I flung it into the garage. It actually hit the car and bounced off. But when I came back an hour later, it was gone. I also had mice at my first apartment in Boston. It was disgusting!! All of those little mouse droppings!
Does Sadie ever catch any of these little guys?