Boy, it has been a long while since for a true blog entry.
Well, gym wise I got up to 4 incline at 8.0 speed for 25.5 and still got up to 3.76miles in 30min. Hubby had me use a 25# weight when doing sit ups instead of my 12# medicine ball, while holding it away from my chest. My arms and abs are feeling it. I’m still going between 150-154 weight wise, so I think I’m at my weight.
We’ve picked up and seen Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince and The Hangover. I need to see how the last 2 installments of the HP series….to really see how it plays out. The Hangover was funny, but weird. Saw Love Guru last night….wow, that was bad….lol Watching Super Troopers now…this is really bad. Netflixs comes in handy…don’t make the mistake of buying 90% of them. =)
What have I been doing other then working and the gym…well, not much.
I spent a few days printing up my 5 page holiday letter. It was about 7 pages, but I played around with fonts, margins and sizing down pictures. I also reworked where I put the pictures so I could print front and back and got it down to 3 pages. Otherwise I won’t be able to fit it into the cards….lol I didn’t think I had that many cards to send out, maybe 60 but ended up back up to my 80.
I wasn’t planning on a tree this year, since the wonder twins climb and bent the heck out of my artifical one. I was going to get one from Living Trees….but they don’t deliver out here. I wasn’t sure about a cut tree because I didn’t know about whether the cats would be able to knock it down. I also did some research and fresh cut trees are carbon neutral, especially here in the NW, tree farms are everywhere and this is their crop, that mattered a lot to me.
Since I was totally down and feeling out about not having a tree, I had to get one. I was worried about the old metal ones that I remembered from my youth. Today’s tree stands are much better then the ones I remembered. And a farmer was selling them not even a mile from us and had the added bonus that they were donating $2 for every tree to the local HS. Picking out a tree was hard, they all looked good. But I finally picked out a beautiful 6ft douglas fir that they threw in the back of my tree. Boy did it smell great in the house. =)
The wonder twins love messing with it, but it seems too dense for them to climb it…big plus. Drew has a thing for checking the water and digging the sheet away from the stand that I have there….lol The goof….especially when they are playing with the toy mice. But the bottom of my tree doesn’t look nearly as good and balanced as the top half, that lasted may be 1 day I’m hoping that they are getting bored with the tree….they aren’t knocking the balls off as much and when we are downstairs I do spray them with the water bottle to discourage them. I’m also wondering if it has anything with the fact that I’m unplugging the tree at night so they aren’t being drawn to the the shinny stuff.
I don’t think I’ll be using my artifical tree again. If I don’t use it next year, I’ll probably drop it off at Good Will or Salvation Army.
I’m getting anxious for the 25th. Can’t wait for hubby to open his gift…..driving me nuts…..lol
I ordered ice cream cake for my birthday for pick up Thurs. Got a mini roll with mint chocolate ice cream, chocolate cake with fudge topping. My mouth can’t wait to have some. =)
We had some wacky cold for our area a few weeks ago……icks. But we are now back to normal 40s-50s and rainy. That is life in the valley. Now if we were on Mt Hood, as you saw that 3 hikers were sadly lost, they were getting up to 30in a day in snow. Don’t ever underestimate the power of the mountain and mother nature.