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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LOL! Awww….but that mouse IS cute! Maybe he just wants to help you cook. Like Remy in Ratatouille.
I totally empathize! Our last apartment had a mouse problem (AND WE WERE ON THE 2ND FLOOR) and my hubs and I went on a week long trip and decided to set 10 traps around the dryer…all had caught a mouse when we got back…nast! Those mothers reproduce like crazy too. When you see one, you should know there are probably at least 10 more.
Good luck, t-minus one month and one week!
Oh, Julie, you have my sympathies. I wouldn’t be able to live there. I am petrified of vermin.
Ewwwwww I’m soo sorry about your mouse problem. That thing is HUGE! I can only imagine the anxiety and stress you must be going through. My mom had them in her house a couple years ago and it was AWFUL — they actually seemed to live under the oven too!! Yuck yuck yuck. We never found out how they got in though so
hopefully they never come back!
I am sitting here itching just thinking about it!!!
I think the mouse is cute 😛
*blocks face with hands*
Granted, I live in Florida and rodents tend to stay outside because the weather is warm. I’ve never seen a mouse or rat inside a house unless it was a pet. I have termites in my house, sooo I’d take rodents over that any day!
Good job on the A.M. cardio, too. I can’t for the life of me drag my ass out of bed before 6 a.m., especially if I know a treadmill is waiting for me -_-
Coffee with almond milk is my GO TO mixture.
Mice can be super annoying.. like I’ve mentioned.. my parents live in the woods – and there isnot much they can do to keep em out in the winter.. because they wull find a way in to get warm.
August 1 is close, Julie. You are almost out of mouse-land.
sometimes, we find mice in our house but it’s after my cat has killed them. It’s so gross but we have an old house, so they find little places to come in 🙁
Dude…That is DISGUSTING!! I do not know how you and Ryan can sleep at night. If I were you I would give Ryan a goodbye kiss, take Sadie…and go move in with your parents until August first.
GROSS.
Luckily the only evidence we have of them is in the kitchen. So nasty.
AHH!! Your are more brave than I would be! I would be running out of the house till my husband got home! I did that once with spiders 😉 But they were all over the ceiling and I was scared of them dropping onto my head!
Ewwwwwwwww! You poor thing, you are BRAVE! I had a cockroach fall on MY HEAD the other night and I freaked out and wanted to move ha. Hang in there 🙂
Oh my gosh, for real?!! I would FREAK out if I saw that in my kitchen. You poor thing. Tell Sadie to work on her mouse-hunting skills!
CALL THE LANDLORD!!!! Make them have pest control come out!!! That or use a mouse trap – its gross and kinda sad but rats are germ-y little creatures and we don’t want cute little Sadie to swallow up that nasty thing! 🙂
Is there a nice cat in the neighborhood that you can borrow, even for a few hours a day?
It won’t get rid of the mice completely, but they will probably stay hidden a lot more often if they think there is a real (no offense, Sadie!) predator lurking about. Just make sure the kitty rubs himself all over and leaves a nice strong scent!
Lol! Uh oh :-O In our last house, which was a total dive, the bf and I had RATS! Maaaan, they were nasty! I was practising yoga in the kitchen one day (it was a big kitchen and the only room with space for a mat), and much to my horror and surprise a rat ran over the mat to get from one side oh the kitchen to the other. No Joke. I screamed pretty loudly, lol!
We ended up putting a trap in the kitchen, laiden with peanut butter which they seemed to enjoy (rats have good taste, clearly ;-)) and one morning I came down for breakfast to find a huge rat pretty much in half in the trap. It was so horrible! There was no blood or anything, the poor guy was just squished completely down the middle, and then puffed out either side. Tom was picking it up, like “Wooooow, so cool”, whilst I was squealing in horror! 😛
Chin up until August 1st, sweetie! 🙂 xyx
Yeah, that’s gross!
My college dorm had a mouse problem and they’d jump out of garbage cans. Traumatizing.
On a side note, I called you out on my (insignificant) blog this morning. So thanks! 🙂
http://fittalker.blogspot.com/2011/06/thank-you-pb.html
Omg I would freak!!! Well I kinda have been there.. In my student days, I rented this very cheap appartement.. It looked great but the only downside was that it was like 0.5 storey below the ground ( like a cellar appartment)..
Little did I know I was living together with a gazillion spiders!! I’m not even kidding.. I had to kill about 2 or 3 a week.. And not the little kind… They were big.. With fangs.. And hair..!! I taped the entore appartment to get rid of any cracks or holes but it didn’t really help..
Worst appartment ever!!! So I can totally relate you poor girl!
Where are you guys gonna live starting from august?
That sounds so scary! Big, hairy spiders and having to kill a dozen a week? I just got the shivers!
ah that is scary! i hope they weren’t poisonous! as for where we’re going to live, that’s still up in the air. there are a lot of things going on behind the scenes right now, so stay tuned! 🙂
A. I too am OBSESSED with my keurig, love it!
B. Mice are the worst! We had some bold mother f-ers in our old apartment and my husband also used to call them cute and it made me SO crazy.
I used to open the doors with my eyes closed and stomp my feet just so I didn’t have to see them… Ignorance is bliss!
In the states you guys call “prawns” – “shrimps”, now I also see what you guys calls “Mice” we call “Rats” EEK! I would be so outta there. You are a brave, brave women, kudos to you!
Oh my gosh! I would be freaked! I can’t believe you were composed enough to take a picture! I wouldn’t be able to sleep! August 1st can’t come soon enough!
Ah! I had the same issue this winter, in a BRAND new house! I found a little guy living in my fondue pot/box in the pantry!! After freaking out, and not going in the kitchen for 2 days, we discovered he didn’t get into our food at all. (just my fondue pot and our paper napkins?) Because of my dog, traps/poison freak me out, so we skeptically tried the wall repellant. You plug it into the wall and it emits a harmless buzzing noise (kinda sounds like the running refrigerator) and this drives mice (and other insects!) away. It actually worked! It may work for you- I think we bought a 2 pack for under $20 at Target. Good luck!
I feel your pain Julie! Me and my roommates found a mouse in our apartment this week. When we went downstairs, it had been stockpiling Hershey’s Chocolate Kisses! Needless to say, we are not happy campers!
Try and catch them by putting peanut butter on a trap, works every time!
I would be screaming like crazy!! I can’t believe the landlord is not doing anything!?
Julie, I had to share this with you and it’s quite ironic, but mice are attracted to Peanut Butter. I live in an apartment and have seen mice, management instructed that I set up a trap with peanut butter in it. I am too scared to attract more of them so I don’t leave any utensils unwashed with PB on them and my nut butters stay in the fridge lol. Seriosuly though, I hate it too. My mice aren’t as huge as that one though….that is disgusting! I feel for you. I move into my new place August 1st too. I move to the Penthouse level,so hopefully no mice.Hang in there!
We have had a mouse issue also. Landlords are always so nonchalant about it, like “oh yeah, hm mice, there’s not much you can do if you live downtown…try setting traps.” UM DUH. The other night I saw a mouse in our bedroom and I freaked. We slept in the guest room that night. Then I saw one run across our stove. I have cleaned and bleached and done everything I can think of. Anyway, I’ve lived in the city for years and have done my share of trial and error. Here is what has worked and what hasn’t:
1.) Apparently mice love dog food. If you can, don’t leave it out. We bought a bunch of stainless steel containers and ALL of our dry food goes into those. Everything. Even pasta, rice and wrapped up candy.
2,) Peppermint oil. Get some peppermint oil at whole foods, put it on a bunch of cotton balls and wipe it all over the baseboards in your kitchen. Then leave a few cotton balls soaked in it under your stove and in the corners. It smells like toothpaste but it works! Mice can’t stand the smell of it.
3.) Those high pitched noise things that you plug in are a waste of money. We bought them, then I researched and basically mice get used to them after a while.
Good luck! Mice can really ruin your day. Especially if the kitchen is your favorite room, where you spend most of your time. I feel your pain!
OMG! I can’t believe that is a real photo of the mouse…I would be SCREAMING! So gross! I am so sorry and hope that little mouse excuses himself from your house–like NOW!
some of these posts are hilarious by the way – i’m laughing out loud. We have mice in our apartment too – just nicely perched on a can of tuna when you open the cabinet. I’m pretty sure the guy below me thinks I frequently watch horror movies and scream bloody murder. We’ve gotten those sticky traps but then you have to deal with throwing them out!! siiiiiick
GROSS!! They love PB. Slap some on a mouse trap and you’ll get that sucker in no time.
Oh my gosh, that mouse is fearless! Lock up your peanut butter!
I saw that episode like 4 days ago!!! During university my roomate and I watch the the seasons every September and every January :). And don’t worry before you know it you’ll be all packed up and outta there!
Oh my gosh… I would die if there were rodents in my house! I freak out enough if there’s a spider. August 1 will come fast… hopefully 🙂
Ewwwwwwww! I can’t believe you took that picture!!!
This mouse looks huge! Oh man…I’m sorry Julie! NOT fun at all. You shouldn’t have to pay rent!
You need a cat!
Oh. My. Gosh. You are so brave!!!!!!! I have a cat and last night, he was acting weirder than normal. He was running around my apartment looking at the walls and then he was in the bathroom for a long time. I thought it was weird, but didn’t really think anything of it. About an hour later, I see him chasing the BIGGEST cockroach I’ve EVER seen. I FREAKED out and made my boyfriend get it out! That is the first time I’ve ever found a bug in my apartment, and it better be the last!!!
However, cockroach > mouse.
MY dog hunts roaches as well. I had a little roach problem a few months ago and one would come out each night and I could hear my dog swatting and pacing, so it would wake me up…I would then have to move all the furniture and search for the roach until i killed it…otherwise, I couldn’t sleep…my greatest fear when she does that though, is that she is hunting a mouse!!
Ewwwwww! Does Sadie try to eat the mouse? Because I think Maverick would tear my house apart to try to get it. AUGUST 1st come quickly!!!!
she just runs after it. she’s such a baby, i don;t know what she’d do if she actually caught it.
eww. sometimes we have bugs in the house and the cats try and kill em… mice. no way!
great work out!
does ryan eat smoothies for breakfast too?
yes! he loves smoothies, but we typically make separate breakfasts. he almost always has oatmeal, an egg and a big scoop of peanut butter right when he gets to work.
You should email a local pest elimination company and tell them about your blog, they could send a handsome eliminator and you could write a blog post all about it 😉
You poor thing!! At least you are moving soon 🙂
OMG that picture gave me a case of the heebies!
We had a mouse in our house a few months ago, our cat kept sniffing around and chasing something so we were wondering what the heck she was doing, and then…WE SAW IT SCURRY ACROSS THE ROOM. I live with my sister and she freaked right out!! We hid in my room and had my boyfriend set up traps with peanut butter, not cheese in them (a tip from my dad!) I decided to lock our cat in our laundry room because I thought she might want to eat the peanut butter and I didn’t want her cute little nose to get hurt in a trap! So we left to go grocery shopping because we were too creeped out to stay, and when we came back we saw that the cat broke out the laundry room and the mouse was just laying there in the middle of the living room. Our cat MURDERED it!!!!! It was amazing, really. Too bad Sadie can’t really morph into a cat!!!
It’s crazy that you caught it with a picture. I had a mouse problem (twice actually – in NYC they pop up every once in a while) – and after a while they are bolder – coming out whenever they feel like it. The landlord gave us these red blocks of poison and they seemed to work. The problem is – you find dead mice every once in a while. But in my opinion, it’s much better than living ones. Also – plugging up the hole where they came from (in our case it was behind the oven) helped as well. Aside from covering it with spackle – someone also told me that steel wool works because the mice don’t really chew through it.
Good luck!! I know it sucks. At least you are moving!
I definitely sympathize with you on the mouse thing. My parents live right by the water and we have rat problems. RAT. They are in the attics and in the walls. Once when my dad was out of town during a serious infestation and my mom walked into the kitchen in the morning and found a GIANT RAT in the rat trap. How she managed to PICK IT UP and put it outside, I’ll never know.
What a ballsy little critter!! How dare that mouseketeer scamper around on your turf, rude.
Can’t wait for you to migrate to a mouse-free zone.
Ugh I have a mouse too! AND I’m moving out in August! I feel your pain. . .
OKAY, first of all, I want to know how the heck you took a picture of that mouse?! My mom lives in farmland and we used to get field mice in our house. I would always end of on top of the table or chair until that thing was gone.
You’re brave, very brave. 🙂
OMG, that thing is huge….it looks more like a rat than a mouse….I would freak out if I were you!
Oh my gosh that’s so scary! I think I’d die if I could hear scurrying noises behind the walls. Good on you for being so brave! And good for Sadie for not sharing her food! 😉
Ahhh, I would be freaking out! I’d be sitting with my legs tucked underneath me all day! Yikes…hope August 1st hurries up for you!
Hope you guys can get rid of the mice soon!!!!!!
That smoothie looks delicious, by the way! 😀
Oh. EM. Gee.
*shudder*
Oh. EM. Gee. is right. I’d be moving my ass to a hotel.
Good luck, Julie!! Just a few more weeks.
ICK! We had rats (yes, no kidding, huge rats) in our attic but they never ventured into the house. I assumed that they were too scared of our golden retriever, but your mice ARE gutsy! You must have the fearless breed of vermin down there in Florida. We hired professional exterminators, but since you are only renting and leaving soon (!!) I don’t blame you if you don’t want to spend the money. You can hold out a little bit longer! oh and btw, I am totally obsessed with my keurig too. Have you started venturing out to the iced coffee/tea/lemonade? All are really great!