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Just Say the Word!

Posted on January 4, 2010 by runningaroundnormal

Hey hey everyone! Did your weekend leave you feeling refreshed and revitalized?

I know mine did. But I also know this week’s gonna be a toughie. It’s my first “full week” since the cruise! Here’s to hoping I can make it the entire 40 hours 😉

Yesterday turned out to be a wonderful Sunday. Even though for the first 30 minutes I was awake this morning I had an on again off again relationship with my bed (let out the dog, crawled back to bed, made the coffee, crawled back to bed, etc,) I feel like Sunday well-prepared me for the work week.

After showering and getting ready to run errands yesterday morning, I stopped by one of my best friend’s house to see her new baby yet again. She is only 6 days old, and is completely the most adorable baby ever. Gah! After catching up with her mama and some other friends, I headed over to Wal-Mart for a few essentials (on a Sunday at that, ew.) I got in and out as fast I could, and came home to a couple awesome surprises!

A couple weeks before Christmas, I had gotten my cousin a $30 gift card to Borders. Apparently, I didn’t make it out of the store with it, because when I got to my car, it wasn’t with me. Long story short, the store couldn’t do anything about it, so I had to deal with their corporate office. You know how that can be. So I did what they told me to do in hopes that’d I’d get my money back, but wasn’t holding my breath. I mean, the kid I talked to on the phone couldn’t even repeat back to me my email address. I thought it was a lost cause, so I went to Barnes and Nobles (thinking, hey, I’ll show them!!) and got him another gift card for him.

Alas, when Shane brought the mail in from Saturday, I saw an envelope from Borders containing this little gem!

Hooray! Thirty dollars back on the card! If my patience wasn’t already borderline gone from shopping at Wal-Mart (gotta work on that staying calm resolution ;-)), I would have headed on over to pick up a good read. I’m very much in need of a new book. Perhaps I’ll venture over on a lunch break.

And then, the husband brought in something even more exciting!!

Nutridel cookies!!! I won Averie’s giveaway last week, and won several different varieties of the cookies.

I’ve already tried two of the flavors (pecan and almond) and baby they are deeelicious!

They’re actually more like a cracker-cookie in that they’re thin and crispy, yet have the taste of a cookie. It’s a very interesting combo, and a very addictive one as well, I fear.

And look at those stats!

Thanks, Averie! 😀

The techy and I had plans to meet up with another couple to watch some football (go Bears!! WOOT!!!) so before we headed over there, I made a big as a house salad with the works:

Spinach, romaine, tomatoes, baby bellas, red bell pepper, avocado. It filled me up and tasted amazing going doing the job. 😀

After watching the Bear’s kick some booty, I came home to have my booty kicked by Dave Farmar. I spent the next 75 minutes ~~grunting~~ flowing through a baptiste class with the space heater set for 90º. Let me tell you, it was a tough one. I thought I’d never hear him say the word shavasana. I kept thinking, please let me be after this flow – Just say the word, Dave!! By the end, I felt SO much better, but I my stomach made like the space heater and turned into a furnace. I was huuungry!

We had some tortelini that was coming up on it’s last days, so I threw a simple (and not so nutritious) dinner of three-cheese tortellini and a whole grain roll together:

Hey, it works.

A little while later while taking on the laundry and watching a little Desperate Housewives action, the beast wanted more, so I cooked up a big batch of popcorn. We have a HUGE bulk bag of popcorn for our popcorn machine downstairs, but honestly, that thing takes forever to clean, plus I’m not too keen on the kernel oil that goes in there – looks like yellow, thick, goop – attractive I know. So I just grabbed a paper bag and popped some in the microwave with a little sea salt and nutritional yeast.