Wilde Week #7

1. MetroMint Water is my new favorite drink to bring to the gym.  When I try to describe it to people as water with a hint of mint, and chocolate, they think it sounds gross.  But it's not!  It's so refreshing.  The chocolate mint water doesn't really taste too much like chocolate, I swear it's not that strange.

2. My new favorite show is Funny or Dies - Billy on the Street.  While randoming flipping through channels (as men so often do), Boyfriend happened upon FUSE network and Billy Eichner.  Last week he ran around the streets of New York offering people prizes if they could guess their price.  If they guessed wrong, he smashed the prize on the ground.  Wonderful, crazy, fun.

3. Our new office dress code was recently put on the company portal and I decided to sit down and read through it, you know, to see if I'm blatantly ignoring it or not. Apparently the company is quashing all of my plans to be super cool at work. Here are some of the awesome things I'm not supposed to wear to the office...
- Leather pants (there go my dreams)
- spaghetti strap tops (although considering we all use space heaters year round in our office, I'm not too sad about this one)
- Sweatpants (feeling like not changing out of your pjs today? Too bad! Put on some real pants!)
- T-shirts with cartoon characters on the front (what about the back?)
- Work boots (it's a good thing I threw out my timberlands in the ninth grade)

So really, they seem pretty reasonable for a casual work environment, but seriously, no leather pants? Way to destroy my dreams work, way to go.

4. I ran a lot of columns this week at work.  All my fellow chemist friends will understand the pain and suffering involved in running columns.  Luckily I have a robot that runs them for me, but there is still a lot of rotovapping involved.

5. Apparently no one likes to go to the NJ Devils hockey games.  This was a bonus for BF because he was able to score two tickets for less money than we paid on parking and food.  That's right.  Two tickets for $30.  We weren't even in the top deck!  Personally I can do without all that hockey being played on the ice (though I am totally impressed with their ability to skate backwards), I attend sporting events for the food.  Specifially, the nachos.  Oh yeah, salty, cheesey and delicious. 

6. This necklace is totally adorable and it's on its way to my apartment as I type this! Hoot hoot!

7. And the Nail polish of the week?  "Baker Street" from nails inc, LONDON.  Or as I like to call it - TARDIS blue.  (I get almost all of my nail polishes at Sephora)

8. I'm loving these Lucky Charms treats.  I didn't get fancy marshmallow-laden cereal that often when I was little.  After I moved away from home, I was free to buy all the terrible cereal that I wanted and I wanted marshmallows shaped like stars!  Nothing could be better than coating the cereal in marshmallow and dunking them in white chocolate, yum.

Biscofferoos

Several years ago, I ate almost an entire pan of scotcheroos at a Super Bowl party.  And I didn't even feel guilty about it, because they were delicious.  Luckily this was before the start of WITK.  I wasn't obligated to recreate them in my kitchen and share them with you.

Little did I know that scotcheroos were a fairly common dessert treat and that you could find on the Rice Krispy website.  It was only recently that I learned the name of the bars that I devoured in between watching SB commercials and gabbing with my girlfriends.  It was at that same time that I picked up a jar of Biscoff spread from Fairway, fate seemed to have forced my hand to make these - Biscofferoos.

I thought I was being all creative, as all we bloggers think we are, until I checked the internet.  Apparently I was almost brilliant, except one person beat me to it!  So close.

Were these just as addicting as the original scotcheroos?  You bet your cutest pair of shoes they were!  I ate so many of these.  An unhealthy amount of them.  Then I brought them to work and fed them to my unsuspecting coworkers.  Mostly just one guy.  He ate 90% of them.  I ate the rest.

Side Note: Thankfully I made these before I began my marathon training, because I would have found myself sitting on the couch eating them and not lacing up my sneakers to hit the treadmill.

Chicken Florentine with Pasta

If you've been a long time WITK reader, you remember my early days in Colorado.  I was a year into my Postdoc and was also working as a fitness instructor.  After my move from Colorado to Connecticut, and subsequently to New Jersey, I haven't had the free time necessary to teach classes at the gym.  And I miss it so much! 

I was teaching nine classes a week when I was living in Colorado.  Bodystep, bodypump, bodyflow, TurboKick, bootcamp classes, it was all so much fun.  I had my regulars in each class and the people I gave a hard time when I didn't see them week after week.  We had a party everytime I stepped foot in front of the class, I had a great time making fitness fun with my gym friends.  Maybe some day I'll find the time to teach again.

It's been a year and a half since I started working here in and I've found my groove with work and the commute and I've started exploring the different gyms in Montclair.  And let me tell you, there are a lot of gyms in Montclair!  We have a fitness center in our apartment, it's the group fitness experience that I miss.  You know I've started taking Crossfit classes (and they are so much fun!).  This week I took advantage of an Amazon local deal and got a Barre fitness membership.

If you are a former dancer, cheerleader, baton twirler, you should really give bar classes a try.  There was totally a former ballerina in the back of the class I took this Saturday.  She was making us all look bad!  The bar class I took was a cardio and strength class.  We lifted weights, used slide boards (which I haven't seen in years!), did core work and worked our balance.  It was great and I felt taller and stronger at the end of class.  Plus, it's so fun to work out with a group of ladies and just have fun.

And...  I've signed up for my first HALF MARATHON!  Yikes!  I've got six weeks until I loop around Central Park in the More/Fitness Women's Half Marathon.  Are you in NYC?  Why don't you come out and run with me?  It will be fun... I swear...

I'll be following a fast-paced six-week training program to ramp up my distance to 13.1 miles.  It incorporates running along with crosstraining, so I will still have days to hit the Crossfit and Barre gyms.  To keep myself on track, I've added a fitness link up there at the top!  If you are looking to run a half or just want to workout with me (c'mon, it'll be fun!), follow along and we'll all be on our way to a healthier summer.