Summer Rain

Today's weather was so New England! Cloudy but humid and 86 degrees outside with the demeanor of a thunderstorm.  Which actually seems to be brewing fairly near my house.  Unless I'm actually listening to an airplane....either way I'm so excited for practice tonight! Playing water polo in the rain is sooo much fun!!

I wore my hair down for work today (which is a first...I usually wear it up to keep it out of the bunsen burner....haha....) but to avoid constantly tucking it behind my ears I did a little side braid and clipped my hair to the side of head.  It was pretty cute if I do say so myself.

I absolutely love braids! I'm constantly looking to add new braiding techniques to my repertoire, but so far I know how to do a normal braid (duh), fishtail, side braids, and a twirl braid (I forget what it's actually called).  I keep meaning to try a french braid on someone but I keep forgetting to try it out.

I had a delicious lunch today, still following the guidelines given by The Program.  I had some plain (boring) cereal for breakfast today, so I brought a decent sized lunch.

PB&Banana sandwich, pita chips, strawberries, and mache salad with ranch dressing

This little ziploc tupperware containers are super helpful! For lunches and for the environment...

I chose leftover salad from dinner last night instead of my usual carrots I pack in my lunch.

Trader Joe's always has the best snack foods everything.

To keep track of what I'm eating, count calories, and see how many servings I've eaten of a food group daily, I keep my special journal thing with me wherever I go.  I also use it for random doodling, lists of various things, and whatever comes to my mind.  It's actually a lab notebook, but it was a pretty color and I liked how the pages were numbered so I bought it for my own personal non-lab use.

In other news, I'm so excited for the weekend!  One of my teammates has a beach house (it is California) so the whole 18U team is going there for the whole weekend! We'll leave Friday after practice and get back Sunday afternoon.  I'm so ready to get rid of my horrible swim suit tan, but mostly my cap tan which has progressively been getting worse.

And with that, I'll leave you with my favorite song from last summer which I heard on the radio today for the first time in a while:

Hannah Marie

Experiments with Water and Nails

Good evening!
I just got home from practice and finished watching Pretty Little Liars so I decided it's a good time to write my first actual blog post that's not an introduction.

After practice last night I went out with some teammates to this realllllllly delicious hot dog/burger joint that had all these old-fashioned bottled sodas and amazing sliders and fries.  Since I've started controlling my diet, I had eaten healthily all day but being in the water just makes you so frickin hungry so I ended up getting a slider and fries and this really cool boxed water.  I think I've seen it before on tumblr, so you might have also, but here are some pics.

It was nothing special, just normal tasting water, but it made me feel all special and happy inside.....

Today was fairly productive as I went to work for the full 5 hours that I am supposed to work for (with no breaks! weird I know) and then I came home, watched America's Got Talent while painting my nails and ate an apple and drank some more water.

The nail polish I used was this $1 bright neon green-yellow color I got at the clearance bin in the beauty department at Target.  I wish I could say it was a successful manicure, but actually it was a disaster.  It turned out to be a "Nail Art" bottle of nail polish so the brush was super thin for decorating nails, not doing full coats.  Therefore the coats I did turned out super streaky.  I attempted to make up for this by doing three coats, but that only resulted in a super thick goopy mess that did not fully fry before I went to practice and is now kind of dented and lumpy and weird and gross.  At least it will probably come off naturally in a few days; usually one of the downsides of playing a water sport.

The nail file I used is also from the clearance bin at Target.  I think I got it for $1 as well. 

eh

 Well now I'm getting pretty tired but I'll live ya'll with a blast from the past:

Hannah Marie