Month: December 2016

Weekend rundown

Friday

  • Shred: day 4
  • Target to pick out some Christmas decorations

Saturday

  • Made some home decor purchases at Hobby Lobby
  • Went to a Christmas tree farm in hopes to cut down our own tree, but none of the many left were quite right (we wanted tall, but skinny yet full) so we bought a pre-cut one
  • Successfully got the tree 20 miles home and put it up (after multiple attempts to get it straight and find the “front” of the free)
  • Put lights on the tree – colored lights which I conceded to T on and still feel meh about
  • Cleaned/organized house phase 1 in prep for our Holiday Housewarming party next Saturday

Sunday

  • Went to like 4 stores in hopes to find a silver star tree topper (fail, so I ordered one online) 
  • Put cute red and white lights up outside around the front door and a glittery red bow on our shed
  • Swept up all the leaves outside the house, trimmed a tree branch out front that annoyed me, pulled weeds
  • Shred: day 5
  • Hit 10,000 steps for the second time this week
  • Cleaned/organized house phase 2 in prep for our Holiday Housewarming party on Saturday
  • Decorated the tree while watching my favorite Disney Christmas sing along and Rudolph which we DVRed

News I already know

Working out and eating well for a few days in a row MAKES YOU FEEL BETTER. Also it makes you want to continue to work out and eat well. 

Taking small steps in the right direction can easily turn into bigger steps. I was quickly able to turn unnecessary sweets and alcohol – they won’t make me feel better and I rather keep up my momentum. 

I’ll keep my alcohol indulgences to the weekends and the sweets for only when I really will savor it.

Gobble Gobble

Since T and I spent Thanksgiving apart this year to be with own families he decided he wanted us to do a Thanksgiving together when I got back in town last weekend. 

In his excitement T went to go to the grocery store to get said turkey on Black Friday and there was only one turkey, so he bought it. That turkey was nearly 24 pounds. T did made a lovely turkey (his first time), but needless to say we have A LOT of leftovers.

We’ve been eating quite well, we’ve made:

  • Turkey and Rice Soup
  • Turkey-Bacon-Avocado grilled cheeses (with cranberry yummmm)
  • Turkey Tetrazzini
  • Mason jar salads with Turkey
  • and obvious turkey leftover sandwiches with fixin’s

I got most of the recipes from Delish. Here is the soup which has been our favorite!