Hello! If you haven’t already, take a look at yesterday’s post about a very special boy who was born over the weekend.

Today is Monday, and I am actually happy I get to start the week off on a good note. I ate an insane amount of chocolate for all of last week, and I’ve been feeling sad and slow…

No problem! I started this week fresh with an Insanity workout! It was a 47-minute long Max Cardio Conditioning video and it kicked my butt.

Actually, it sent my thunder thighs for a fiery ride with all those jumps, ski abs, suicides, and diamond-jumps-followed-by-squat-pulses.

Oh, Shaun T… how I love to hate you. I wish I could be the instructor so I can just stop doing the moves, go around, and tell other people to dig deeper and crap. But I guess he earned the right to do that by looking like this:

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Stop smiling, man. You crazy.

I followed up the workout with about 15 minutes on the elliptical (the one I built!!!… which is probably why clicks whenever the right pedal goes down) while watching a super funny guy do his thang:

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He doesn’t have to do much to make me crack up.

OMG! Have you guys seen the episode when Shaun T is a guest on Conan? LOVE that episode!

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Oh, dang. Conan’s diamond jump is way better than mine.

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I made another green smoothie today and it was totally tasty! And I didn’t overblend it this time, hehe.

In the smoothie today:

1 scoop protein powder (24g protein, yo)

1/2 cup water

2 big handfuls of spinach

1 cup frozen berries

I felt like this one was really tasty BUT I ended up having to chew the many seeds, which I’m totally okay with because, hey… it’s fiber, yeah?

I will probably make some kind of green smoothie after all my workouts. The protein, veggies, and fruit in such an easily drinkable form? Yes, please.

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I’m in between work and school right now. I had a smartypants kid at work today. He stumped me with a comment/question that I didn’t know how to respond to… so I just pretended like I didn’t hear him.

He could tell I was stumped… meaning I got totally owned… by a 7-year-old. Dangit. Why are some kids so darn smart?? I’m pretty sure a daily viewing of SpongeBob Squarepants will fix this problem.

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HEY! I know I haven’t been running like… at all these days… but I’ll be back at a short HOT run tomorrow with Addie and Jane.

Guess what we have going on this weekend? A RACE. They are participating in the 5K and I am going to race a 10K.

The last time I did a 10K, I didn’t have my Garmin with me. This time, I will go for those sub-8′s and attempt to PR. Hope my conditioning isn’t all gone!

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Anything exciting happening this week?

Have you done any Insanity workouts?

Do you watch any late night talk shows? Who’s your favorite?