A weekly round up: eats, watches, and reads. In this week's edition, my husband and I tag teamed to make Christmas dinner, and through our separate but equal distractions elsewhere, ended up a bit long on the cooking times. Yes our dinner ended up a bit too "well done" but it was a good dinner.
A weekly round up: eats, watches, and reads. In this week's edition I made beef brisket, had a mac n'cheese mishap, and found a dreamy s'mores pie. In other news our Christmas decorations are up.
A weekly round up: eats, watches, and reads.
I've been thinking about the subject of food aversions lately, brought on partly by Thanksgiving and partly by the book I'm reading.
22.5 miles of running this week and SO MANY THINGS to talk about!
A weekly round up: eats, watches, and reads. This week I underestimated the magic of a four day weekend and the amount of Thanksgiving goodies that two people can eat.
My company doesn't have a PTO policy, apart from "as long as the work gets done we don't care". It's been great in previous years but not so great this year when there's no where to go so I just haven't taken any time away from work. I didn't realize until I woke up on Saturday morning that ooh...we'd had two days off and had the luxury of two more to go. Aah the bliss of a double weekend. Not that we "did" anything but it was so nice to have the time off.
Thanksgiving wise, we had a blast. The food already got its own post. I thought that we'd be swarming under the weight of leftovers but we surprised ourselves.
In this weeks adventures, I ran a virtual 5k that was all Turkey and not much trot. 20.6 miles.
This year: like just about everyone else on the planet, hubs and I found ourselves alone on Thanksgiving. Here is the story of our oh-so-clever, more than semi-homemade Thanksgiving dinner, and our wonderful day.
I am coming back from some unspecified running woe. The only clue that I have to work with is that I did two very hard workouts back to back a few weeks ago and it was like my body shut down on me. After backing off, I feel like things are starting to come back. 24.25 miles this week, with absolutely no thanks to the weather.
A weekly round up: eats, watches, and reads. This was a hot week on the TV and reading front, so let's skim through the eats so we can get to the good stuff.
Welp, things got off track a bit. I made the rookie mistake of running two hard workouts back to back "because I could" and my body told me to slow my roll. I think I'm in the same place that I was at this time last year where I just needed to run less. So that's exactly what I've been doing!
A weekly round up: eats, watches, and reads. In this week's news, I finally got caught up on meal prep and went on quite the reality TV bender.
A weekly round up: eats, watches, and reads. This week I was on the verge of having our dinners planned out and tried out a new soup recipe.
In this week's news, I ran 27 miles including the virtual version of my favorite race ever. Let's get into it!
Ok, let's get started!
The irony of my title is that none of the 32 miles that I ran this week were easy. The weather wasn't in my favor so I "just ran" instead of trying to do workouts. I also realized that my next half marathon is a week sooner than I thought it was (I had the date correct but I miscounted the number of Saturdays in September) so I increased my long run distance to try and catch up.
A weekly round up: eats, watches, and reads. If you came here looking for fresh new meal ideas, sorry but this week I did not deliver in that department. The first few days of the month are always very busy work wise for me and exceptionally so this week. I had just one meal idea and it took me until the weekend to make it a reality.
The theme of this week was doing what I could with what I had. Last week the weather was in my favor and the world was my oyster. This week, well, let's just say that Mother Nature got August temps back to average and then some. I called up my friend the treadmill and gave up my long run and got in 26 wonderful miles in return.
Today is National Dog Day so I'd like to take a moment to pay tribute to my stepdog. Neither my husband nor I ever planned to be dog owners, but a few years after the divorce my stepsons' mom got a dog "for the kids" and after a while it became clear that both the kids and the dog were happiest when they were under the same roof so...that was our path to dog ownership. And hey, all of the adults involved are very happy with this arrangement as well.
I had always accepted the story that my stepsons were told, which was that once upon a time a German Shepherd met a Black Lab and they Loved Each Other Very Much, but recently we learned that there is an official name for this kind of dog: a Sheprador. Intrigued, I did a little research, by which I mean that I read the first hit that google brought up: 7 Things You Need to Know Before Buying a German Shepherd & Lab Mix (A.K.A. Sheprador). The first thing on the list made me giggle, so I felt that I needed to write a response to the 7 things.
A weekly round up: eats, watches, and reads. This week was notable in that I actually did meal prep and had a plan for the week instead of getting caught like a deer in the headlights every night at dinner time.
Fitness wise, this was a "Seinfeld" week: a week about nothing. 29.25 miles and more baby steps toward weight workouts went by, so if you're down for some running chit chat, lace up and we'll go out for a quick run around the block.
