Cilantro Shrimp and Avocado Salad

Avocado and Shrimp Salad

Check out this delicious lunch! Recipe coming your way in a second! First, let’s recap today’s workout. After working through the morning at Starbucks, I took a mid-day breather and headed to the gym for a cardio workout. My 50 minute workout looked like this: 20 minutes stair master 10 minutes elliptical 10 minute cardioContinue Reading …

Water Bottle With Time Deadlines

Reebok PWR Capris

A perk of working as a personal trainer is the ability to wear comfortable gym clothes to work every day. Yoga pants or spandex capris and sneakers? Sign me up! The gym where I am working provides a polo for trainers to wear (mine should be arriving soon) and we have to wear black exerciseContinue Reading …

Exploring Cusco: Qoricancha, Saqsaywaman, Tambomachay & More

Welcome Julie

Hello! I am currently blogging from a train that is taking us from Cusco to Aguas Calientes. We’ll be spending tomorrow at Machu Picchu but up until now we’ve spent all of our time in Cusco, Peru. We arrived in Peru late on Friday night and spent the evening in Lima before catching an earlyContinue Reading …

From Jacksonville to Miami to Lima

Flight to Lima

Our vacation is officially underway. I’m blogging from the sky, about three hours into our five-hour flight from Miami to Lima. (This post will be published once we land and I have internet access again.) Today has been a day of travel. While waiting for hours in an airport might normally be not-so-fun, when you’reContinue Reading …

A Little Hectic

If I Stay

No matter how much I plan and accomplish ahead of time, the day before vacation is always a little hectic. Things always seem to pop up out of nowhere. Like round two of fingerprinting for my new job! Apparently the piece of paper with my fingerprints that I previously submitted was misplaced, so I gotContinue Reading …

May Book Club

Lemon Chicken Thighs

Tonight Ryan and I will be bringing dinner to our friends who just had a baby, so this afternoon I decided to make a lemon chicken dish with broccoli and cauliflower and doubled the amount of chicken and veggies so Ryan and I could have some to eat, too! After a little more than anContinue Reading …