Sign apartment lease? Check!

Last night WE OFFICIALLY SIGNED OUR NEW APARTMENT LEASE! I am so so happy about that for 2 main reasons:

A photo I took of a part of our lease!
(very restricted bc of all the legality of the
document, but still, pretty cool!)

1. Though the building had official documentation that we are moving to our new apartment unit on September 7, we didn't have any official lease in writing until last night. It is just a major relief to have this all written down and official!
2. I actually get to cross something off my "10 Goals for This Year" page. I've been doing a few of the things on the list, but they are more like rolling tasks (ie: don't get fat, etc), so this concrete accomplishment has made me very satisfied :)

Very excited to officially move now. They took down one of our temporary walls that is up in our unit now and they are taking the other pieces down on different dates before we actually move out, so privacy is going to be EXTREMELY LIMITED these next 1.5-ish weeks. I can tell I'm going to get to know my roommates very well during this time. I don't hate it!

Happy Wednesday!

<3, Charlotte

A surprisingly terrific Tuesday

Tuesdays are without a doubt my least favorite day of the week. Mondays I am usually okay with because my rest from Sunday has carried over, so I can deal with them. Wednesdays are the halfway point, and everything gets easier from there. But Tuesdays are my kryptonite. Not. A. Fan.

Have no idea how I found this but it is
PERFECT! Another reason why this
Tuesday is terrific!

Today, however, is not quite as bad! I mean, I screwed up this room booking thing at work and now everyone is in a random room on a random floor (my bad), but everyone is really understanding that I just didn't know how to do it correctly. (Not gonna lie, I'm feeling a little let down by myself right now, but now I know I will never make the same mistake again!)

Also, this morning I was getting ready and my roommates were running around the apartment getting ready too. It was so much fun! They are awesome - I want to start bringing my laptop into the living room and playing music while we all are preparing for our days :) It was a very very good start to my usually least favorite day of the week!

So, happy Tuesday everybody - hope your days are all as pleasantly surprising as mine is so far!

<3, Charlotte

My first Soul Cycle experience

Last night I was supposed to go to dinner with my new roommate (I've kind of moved in to my new apartment, details to come about that in another post). We wanted to have a girls night where we went to a cute place, drank wine, and got to know each other better.

Then, yesterday, I got a text while I was at work:

"Hey, do you want to go to Soul Cycle instead tonight? We can get dinner and drink in our apartment after, I just really want to go and get a good workout!"

Now, I am really not a fan of exercise in general, that's why I joined an adult swim team, because I don't like working out if I'm not training for something. But I had heard some interesting things about Soul Cycle and how it is an amazing workout (even though it's pretty pricey), so I decided to go.

We went to the 8:30 class in Noho. It wasn't packed (which I guess apparently these classes always are), but that's probably because we are the only crazy people who would do this on a Thursday night (Seriously cannot believe I did this instead of actually going out!). The place was SUPER fancy - very white and chic - I loved the atmosphere! They do a great job of setting the mood of the entire place.

These are the fancy shoes. They are difficult to walk in.
That was fun to figure out!

You have to get these special shoes for the bike. Because it was my first time, they were free, but usually they are $3 and clip into the bike. So you are basically chained to this piece of workout equipment and forced to spin your brains out. Also you need to book your bike in advance! (Especially important for the classes the fill up, unlike the one we were in).

The class itself was great! They incorporated core exercises and free weights for various upper body lifting. And all that was done while spinning! I was a little disappointed of how out of shape I was. I couldn't do the entire thing all out. Swimming is in a 2 week hiatus right now because the pool is closed, but once I get in shape I want to go back again.

We actually decided that we are going to go back right before Thanksgiving. That will give me time to improve my overall fitness AND then I will be able to eat as much as I want during the holiday! Win-win situation over here.

So yes, overall AMAZING experience. Our instructor was great, and I had a good time (despite feeling like I was dying for the majority of it)!

<3, Charlotte