I have come to the conclusion that I suck at blogging. I post regularly for a couple weeks, then I fall of the face of the earth for a few more...oops. I will make it a pre-New Year resolution to blog more regularly.
Now, I'll catch you up on my life quickly.
I have not run in 2 weeks. I have barely worked out.
After not weighing myself for most of November, I finally stepped on the scale this morning. Not pretty...174.7. I am going to go ahead and blame Thanksgiving.
Speaking of Thanksgiving, all of my celebrations were great! Since both my parents, and Nick's parents, are divorced, we had 4 different family events to attend. Each one was great, and I am SO thankful for both of our families.
Another note on T-Day. I had the below tights on with a jean skirt and sweater, all set to head to my aunt's house for Thanksgiving lunch, when Nick informed me that I looked like a hooker wearing fish nets.
Actually, this is how the convo went down:
N: Why the hell do you own tights like that.
A: Why?! What's wrong with them?
N: Are you being serious right now?
A: Yes. I don't understand what you mean. These tights are cute.
N: "laughing" Yeah, right.
A: What?! Do they look like fishnets.
N: How do I put this nicely...you look like hooker.
Men! He unfortunately made me feel self-conscious that other people would make fun of me, damn brothers, that I ended up swapping them for solid magenta tights instead.
Nick and I put up our X-mas tree and decorations this weekend. They look fabulous, and I surprisingly have not taken any pictures yet.
I have no idea where I am with my 150 in 15 mileage because I haven't kept track lately. Therefore, I am just going to start adding from where I left off on my last post.
I went wedding dress & bridesmaid dress shopping with my future sister-in-law yesterday. She found her dress, and looks sooooooooo beautiful. Totes teared up, which then made Jen tear up, which made our consultant tear up...I really want to post a picture, but I'm not going to. My brother doesn't know about my blog, but you just never know, he may stumble across the picture if I put it out there is cyber-space.
These are the bridesmaid dresses. The maid of honor will wear the red one, and myself and the other girls will wear brown. It is a country themed wedding so we will be rocking cowboy boots. The dresses are so cute, comfortable, and fit so well they will hardly need alternations. Score!
I've chiseled away a few more items from my 101 in 1001 list:
#5 - Meet with a TIAA-CREF financial adviser about my retirement fund.
I met with an adviser a couple weeks ago just to get more information about my account. Through my job, I have been putting money away for almost 3 years already, but I never really understood where that money was going, or what it was doing. The adviser explained everything to me, and I found out I am currently on track to retire at age 63. Not too shabby, but I wold like to retire younger. That just means I need to up the amount flowing into my account. Easy peasy.
#47 - Make X-mas cookies with Nick's mom & grandma.
Cindy and Vera make some bad-ass X-mas cookies. They are frosted sugar cookies that are delicious, and look like professionals frosted them. For the first time, I helped out this year. Since I actually helped out, I got a share of the entire batch that was made instead of a portion of Cindy's. Whoever helps make them, splits the entire batch, and then can distribute their portion to whomever they want. There were 5 of us baking and frosting for 8 hours, and we ended with just over 700 cookies!!! This means Nick & I took home around 150! Luckily we have a bunch of events coming up that we can take them to so I am not tempted to eat them all!
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| Just a tiny sample of what we made. |
#57 - Write a letter to myself to read in 1001 days.
I cried like a baby while writing this... It will be very interesting to read it again in a few years.
#91 - Buy a king sized bed.
Our X-mas present from Nick's mom is a king sized bed. The 3 of us went shopping on Saturday to pick one out. After about an hour and a half of laying on, and bouncing around on, Nick and I finally chose one. It is already being delivered to our house this Friday, and I cannot wait!
That makes 6 total completed items on my list so I transferred $60 from my checking account into my savings this morning. (See #4).
Alrighty, I think you're all caught up. Hopefully I will get my lazy ass to the gym tonight so I can actually start blogging about fitness again...
