Possibly my last post in 2011

A few random things and thoughts from the past few days:

• I went to hot yoga with my sister-in-law on Tuesday evening. It was super fun to get our sweat on together and she LOVED hot yoga. I get so happy when I introduce people to things they end up really enjoying.
• I did speed work on Wednesday for the first time in a while. I was dreading it a lot, but I actually really enjoyed it. It was fun to go fast!
• I ordered and received my brand new rice cooker in the mail. As soon as the package came yesterday I made rice to eat with some leftover Thai food. The rice came out super fluffy and yummy. I love the convenience of it.
• At the store today I picked up a container for Westsoy Chocolate Peppermint beverage. Its freaking tasty. Good thing they only carry it one time a year.
• The hubby and I just got back from picking up our packets for a “Resolution Run” 5k tomorrow. I missed out on this race last year because I randomly hurt my foot, so I’m excited to run it this year.
• I’ve gotten sucked into The Hunger Games… I’m only 40 pages in, but wowsa!
• I can’t believe it’s already Friday. Only 3 more days of freedom before it’s back to work – boo.

I may or may not post tomorrow, so if I don’t – Happy 2012! Bring. it. on.

A gift card day

How is your Tuesday going?

We’be spent the day showing my sister in law around town. It’s been a gift card kind of day. Last night when she got into town we had dinner at Olive Garden using gift cards from my parents. We started today with Starbucks lattes (gc from my boss) and an AWESOME peppermint brownie pop.

So good.

We showed her around town and stopped at a great small local restaurant for lunch (gc from my parents). After lunch we came home and all fell asleep.

Gelsey chilled out in my underwear drawer…

Up next is some hot yoga for me and sis-in-law and a delivery dinner+movie+wine.

Tomorrow we’re hoping to go see the new Muppets movie, with a gift card from my parents.

The day after Christmas

I hope your day yesterday was great and filled with fun and family, if that is what you had planned.

We had a good, lazy, relaxing Christmas over here.

We spent the day at my parents house with some family that came into town. I got a couple of fun fitness related gifts – a head lamp for running at night, a running vest (for when it warms up a little) and Zumba for the wii! I’m so excited to use my new gear.

Today we got to sleep in again, and spent the morning/early afternoon bumming around. I did get out for a 30 minute run to start my plan for speed though. I also ran a few errands and we ordered a few odds and ends online that we’ve been needing but wanted to wait for Christmas gift cards to do so – more sports bras for me (yay! review of them coming soon) and a rice cooker for both of us (super excited about this).

The hubbys sister is coming into town tonight to spend a few days. It’s going to be another couple of days filled with food, movies, wine and more food. I’m hoping to take her with me to hot yoga tomorrow though, so at least there will be some sweating going on.

I’m not sure how much I’ll be posting the next few days, but I will be around since I’m off of work until the 3rd, so if I can squeeze in time for a check in I certainly will.

Enjoy your Monday!