Twas two days after Christmas

I hope you all had a very merry Christmas! On Christmas eve we spent time with my family. The day before that we celebrated Christmas twice. Once with my best friend from the UK💗 and spent the evening with my future mother-in-law.

Christmas morning we opened gifts at home and then I had to go work my shift at the hospital. Not a bad way to spend the holidays. Yesterday I felt like I got ran over by a reindeer and I’m pretty sure I didn’t ask for a cold for Christmas. Maybe Santa was out of all the good gifts. Anyways, my holiday was really pretty great with all my family. Hope your holiday was great as well.

Sleigh-ing my workout

Holidays are so freaking hard for a diet. A lady at work made homemade buckeyes. I can NOT pass those up. Pretty positive that if a treat is made with love like that the calories don’t count😉

Anywho…

I’m doing pretty well being back on my diet track. I’m back to having lost a total of 7.5 pounds. I’ve been working hard at it too. Here’s what my week has looked like:

Monday – walked 8.2 miles

Tuesday – walked 8.6 miles

Wednesday – walked 2 miles, lifted weights for an hour & cycled 30 min

Thursday -walked 6.7 miles

Today (Friday)- walked 7 miles

I have been making an effort on eating healthier choices as well as avoiding my sweet tooth more often.I’ve still got work to do to reach my goal. Stay tuned😊

 

Cookies and Christmas

Netflix added a Christmas themed show of Nailed It. My holidays are now complete lol

Could you or would you ever do a type of reality tv show?

I feel like I would if it involved learning something. Like cooking, crafts or some kind of home renovation thing. I would even do travel. I don’t think I would want cameras to follow me around recording anything and everything I do.

How about you? If you could be on any type of show,what would you want to be on?

Holiday greetings

I’m so freaking excited!!!! My bff from the UK gets in on Friday and will be here for a whole week!!!

 

okay on to the topic of today

Christmas cards

Do you exchange? Send pictures? Hallmark cards?

I usually send cards out every year and this year time got completely away from me. Part of our Christmas tradition is hanging all the cards we receive around our archway in the living room. I love the mix of classic cards with cartoon ones. The Christmas scenes and even the glitter that gets everywhere.

Work it harder

Because I’m slacking and I admit it

 

So I’m going to need to change up my diet and workout routine if I’m ever going to reach my goal. I’m stuck between having lost five-seven pounds. I keep sliding back and forth between.

I’m frustrated but even more determined. I walk around 7 miles five days a week at work but I can work in another form of exercise. I know that I can make healthier choices in my eating habits. I really need to work on my snack cravings.

Stay tuned

O’ holy crap…what did I just sign up for?

So I did a big thing today. Or at least my later ego volunteered me. I’m in choir tonight ( love to sing), we’re practicing songs for our Christmas mass. My alter ego burst forward and asked to try out for a solo. Then I sang. By myself. In front of people. I’m surprised I didn’t have my voice crack because the other part of me was saying “did you really just volunteer for this?”

I’m super self conscious about being the only person singing hence why I normally sing surrounded by incredibly talented singers. When they sing solos it’s like angels singing. When I attempt solos my anxiety grabs my vocal cords and I sound like a teenager going through puberty.

I’m taking a couple extra voice lessons before the big performance. I haven’t sang a solo since eight grade so I’m definitely rusty. Part of trying to get over my anxiety is doing things like this. Pushing my comfort zone out to try and conquer this thing.

Decking our halls

We started a new family tradition this year. We are getting a personalized ornament every year for our tree. Our ornament this year features three black bears paddling a red canoe. Each paddle has a name on it and the year is on the canoe. I’m trying to get a picture to share. Picture quality is different with my tablet so I’m sorry if it’s blurry.

Is there any fun traditions that you do with your family? Do you collect certain ornaments?

Bright colored packages

So I’ve gotten a little distracted lately and haven’t posted much lately. I am the worst at holiday shopping and have been frantically trying to be done with it all.

Every year I say I’m going to be better, and every year I am still getting things at the last minute. Or wrapping it last minute. I have all the gifts for my family but haven’t wrapped them all yet. We have about half of the shopping done for my fiancee side of the family. Can someone come be my elf?

I do not want a hippopotamus for Christmas

It would destroy my house and probably  eat me. I’ve seen Jumanji.

I’ve been slacking on writing lately. I need to do better. So here’s what’s been going on this month so far:

I leveled up on December 1st.

I finally booked a DJ for my wedding. I also realized  I have under 180 days until I get married!!!

I’m getting used to my newest work schedule that will hopefully not change again. I’m also gaining a new title  with a potential raise,  I will find out more sometime next week.

I’ve only got half of my holiday shopping done. I don’t feel like I’m behind though.

My tree is up and our elf Muggins is roaming around the house again.

That’s it for now, I’ll try to be better with writing.