New Year’s Eve Recap. Hey 2010.

Jan2

Good Morning! It’s only Saturday! My next two weekends are long weekends too so I’m pretty excited. Aaron and I are off to Florida to visit my family on Friday so four day work week!

The nephews:

I haven’t been posting much food lately so I figured I’d post a couple food pictures before the New Years Eve ones.

I’ve been eating oatmeal pretty much every day in the office (with Naturally More peanut butter which is awesome & cinnamon & sometimes pumpkin):

I’ve also been subsisting on egg white & spinach sandwiches & soup. Egg whites in the microwave.

Ooook so I left work at 3 PM New Year’s Eve, bussed home, got ready, read blogs, drank coffee from my new mini French press and then bussed back downtown for MOIP’s show.

A few not so great pictures for you:

Aaron:

They played two sets then we were out of there by 10:15 to get to my friend’s party in Swissvale.

Gina & Jason & sparkling pinot noir & Wheatus.

She was singing Teenage Dirtbag. <– I linked to the MP3.

CAUSE I’M JUST A TEENAGE DIRTBAG BABY…

Me and Aaron:

mmhmm

New Year’s Eve was lots of fun! I had three glasses of champagne I think plus a beer. Claire and I also discussed wedding planning because she’s getting married this Summer too.

I stayed in bed until about 11 AM Friday. Whoa! I haven’t slept in that late in a long time. Woke up, drank coffee, watched the rose parade sort of and sat around most of the day. Friday evening we headed out to Butler County to have dinner with Aaron’s parents and friend Cindy.

Pork roast, corn, apple sauce, green beans, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce and sauerkraut.

I LOVE sauerkraut and their pretty plates:

Cindy and Aaron’s father:

Dinner was great! Then we played some Punch Out on the Wii and chatted for a bit.

I went to bed late again last night and woke up around 8 this morning. Morning coffee in Aaron’s girly mug:

Alright I’m going to sit around for a little while longer, drink some more coffee and wait for my laundry to dry.

Plans for today include:

Gym
Shopping for Christmas gifts for my Florida family
Grocery shop for lunch with friends tomorrow
Uhhh clean maybe

Alright I’m off. Have a nice Saturday!

Ring #2 & Mancakes

Nov17

Hello! The rest of the weekend looked something like THIS.

Aaron came over and made pancakes.

Serious business:

Not so serious:

Pancakes:

MANcakes:

Sick and wanted veggies for lunch:

Saturday evening, I went over to Aaron’s house and watched him assemble a futon while drinking green tea with a fan blowing on me so I didn’t start sweating. THE FEVER! I had to look presentable for dinner with the FUTURE IN-LAWS. WHAT? Diane & Jeff!

There are two articles of plaid and two instruments visible here:

For dinner, we drove A LOT into the Northern parts of PA and eventually made our way to the back woods of Mars, PA and then toward Grove City which is A DIFFERENT WORLD than Pittsburgh. We had dinner at the Iron Bridge Inn which was packed on a Saturday night but also quite enjoyable. The company may have been what made it most enjoyable. Also, Future Mother-in-Law got me/us a book about Real Food. She knows me already! Maybe she stumbled upon ye blog.

Anyway, I had a salad consisting of field greens, apples, cranberries, candied pecans and shrimp with raspberry vinaigrette. It was pretty delicious. Aaron wasn’t too fond of his entree but I bet he enjoyed the French onion soup. We’ll just assume because he didn’t actually say so. So that concludes Saturday night.

Onto Sunday. Church then my very last group then grocery shopping then pushing the limits and going for a run. My fever was gone! My body temperature was back down to 97ish and I was feeling pretty good .

I wore a hat & took a picture. Serious face:

4 miles! The weather was great. I ran 2 miles then stopped in Giant Eagle and had some water at the water fountain then ran another mile then walked a minute then ran the last mile. My legs felt kind of weird after not running for an entire week! Overall my body felt okay. I’ve definitely lost some endurance over the last two weeks or so but I’m not trying to keep up the ability to run 10 miles during the Winter. Not so possible in Pittsburgh unless I was more hardcore and also purchased things like Under Armour and managed to get over my whole, “if it’s below 50 degrees, I’m not running outside” thing.

So running isn’t going to be my main form of exercise going forward. I’ll talk more about my new plan soon.

Sooo the Garmin hasn’t made an appearance recently.

Sweaty and…scared or something.

MONDAY! Back to work after three days off + the weekend! I managed to get through most of my e-mails and urgent matters and then Aaron picked me up from work. We went straight to Leechburg (trip #3) to SIGN THE PAPERS! We went over the contract, discussed some wedding details and signed. We’re officially booked for June 26, 2010! Yayayayayay.

Also, I have a new ring. Pretty, huh???

I won’t go into details about why I’ve had two rings so far because it’s a LONG and personal story. All seems to be well now though.

TUESDAY…today.

Breakfast= pumpkin oats with peanut butter

Lunch=tuna on an Arnold’s Thin and a spinach salad then for dessert… pumpkin cake courtesy of Andy. Thanks Andy! It was delicious.

Stuck to the foil! The frosting was great though.

Afternoon snack was yogurt with an oats n’ honey bar and then….SPIN CLASS. It’s probably been a year since I’ve taken spinning. I’m going to be SORE tomorrow. It was great though. It was an hour long and I was DRIPPING sweat by the end. Awesome!

I got home, ate dinner, showered, then Aaron stopped over to say goodnight. He just left now so I’m getting to bed! 10:53 PM.

GOODNIGHT FRIENDS!

One-A-Day vitamins are not vegetarian.

Nov14

Good Morning!

So I’ve been doing a whole lot of this the last few days:

I created a shared calendar with Google Calendar for Aaron and I to share since we have so many events coming up plus about a million tasks to complete for the wedding.

On Thursday, I stopped at Giant Eagle to get some flu medicine and got their salad bar for lunch. I also got some zinc and vitamin c supplements. They DON’T SEEM TO BE WORKING since I’m still sick but it’s cool. This salad was amazing. I love artichokes!

Hmm Wednesday and Thursday otherwise, were pretty uneventful. I was primarily just trying to nurse myself back to health and not go CRAZY sitting around being unproductive. I felt so lazy. Thursday I decided to take a walk because the weather was great and I was feeling better. I walked to Whole Foods, got a few things and then walked back. Bad idea. Once I got home, I felt horrible again. Lame.

Friday morning I went to the doctor’s (no H1N1) though they didn’t even test me… The doctor basically just said, you’ll be fine… I need to find a new doctor. I’m not a fan of this place at all. Anyway, Aaron stopped at my house after work and we went to his house to hang out. We made some split pea soup from a mix and discussed what we might want to do with the house once I move in! Troy Hill! Oh yes. Future home.

I love split pea soup.

Aaron did his dishes:

And I took pictures of myself:

And was not helpful at all:

Check out my future bike! I’m so excited! It’s an old Schwinn and was purchased for $5!

Ring!

I ended up going home around 11:30 last night and went right to bed (after reading a few blogs…) I woke up this morning at 7:30 and realized I felt sick again. AH. Headache. Sweaty. Gross. Hm. I ate oatmeal for breakfast and had some tea and then took an Advil and then took my temperature. Fever again. Hm.

So I’m lying on the couch yet again watching PBS cooking shows. All I wanted to do this weekend was go for a run because the weather is beautiful and perfect but it’s not looking very likely at this point. I’m hoping if I rest this morning, I’ll feel better this afternoon and then be healthy enough to go for a jog tomorrow! Hope hope hope.

Alright have a great Saturday!

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