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30 Day Shred & Work Out Tunes

After hearing about Jillian’s 30 Day Shred its seemed like everywhere, I decided to buy it from Walmart last weekend, especially since its only $9 there. Well I tried to get it Monday night, sold out. I went back to Wally World Wed after work, still sold out but somehow I spent $70 on other things (but that’s another subject…). Finally went tonight and it was in stock!!! I’m not sure that I’ll do it the 30 days in a row but I’m looking forward to adding it to my work out routine & mix it up with my regular gym work outs.
Speaking of gym work out, I need new work out music! The same things keep coming up on shuffle and its not working for me. So blog readers (is there anyone out there?!), what are your favorites? I need pretty fast paced music, but not hard rock or too hard core rap. I think the occasionally Mo Money Mo Problems (which actually came up on shuffle at the gym this week) but not much more than what’s played on G105. I usually listen to country (I love running to Sugarland) and anything my Fergie helps motivate me also. Thanks in advance!

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Goals for 2010

I’m not calling them resolutions per say (because they tend to get broken too quickly), but goals I’d really like to have happen for 2010.

1-lose weight & get more fit. I’m going to try to increase my gym time & decrease portion sizes. I also have a sweet tooth that I need to control.

2- read 50 books in 2010. I made it to 43 in 2009 so I was close. Hopefully this year I’ll make it. 3 down, 47 to go! I’ll keep track on the sidebar again this year.

3- for Jason & I to be happy at our jobs/make more money/save more. I made the change last summer to Farm Bureau’s underwriting department and it has been an awesome change! I hope Jason can soon follow finding something he loves in IT. We also need to save more. I’ve been taking my lunch and cutting my random $50 Target runs, but we need to get stricter (see below).

4- get pregnant (how scary & yet exciting to type!). Mom don’t go getting a crib already (oh, wait she’s already done that! ha!). We’re trying to do #1 & #3 to get ready for us to try to begin this journey in late spring/summer for a 2011 baby. I’m not very good with secrets, so I’m sure this blog will be a great outlet for baby (or baby trying) updates.

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The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

I’ve been on a Diana Gabaldon kick recently gearing up for the sixth & final Outlander book which I’m still waiting on from the library. I’ve read I believe everything else she has written now since I finished Lord John & the Hand of Devils Monday night. I realized I’m pretty short of my goal of 50 books in 09 so I wanted to start something else.
I’d recently received The Glass Castle from PaperBackSwap. I’d requested it after hearing others recommend it. Its also a different read for me being a memoir instead of fiction. Let’s just say I couldn’t put it down~ I read the whole book Monday after work! I loved how the writer told the story of her life in a way that made you feel like you’d been there yet not in a self-pity type of way. I can’t believe she & her brother & sisters not only survived but have thrived & become normal & successful adults based on the way the grew up. It is easy to forgot that not everyone has things as good as I do/have had and it was good for me to read this and realize this again especially this holiday season. I’m so thankful for my family & the life I’ve been so blessed to have. I’m not sure what else she has written, but I’d love to read more from her.
Next up fro my Christmas holiday week reading: Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets, Hoot (ya’ll know I can’t resist an owl book!) by Carl Hiaasen, and The Curious Incident of the dog in the might-time by Mark Haddon.

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Getting Ready…

For Christmas!
I think we’re about done. Decorations are out. Nothing but Christmas music playing on the radio. Christmas cards sent~ two years ago we sent super cute wedding photo ones; last year I found fun owl cards at Target. This years are a lil more boring but they work!
Cookies baked & exchanged. I’ll get around to posting my favorite recipes of ones I received soon.Gifts are purchased and most are wrapped. I need to pick up a few gift bags & bows but everything looks nice under the tree. I can’t put bows on until we get up to my parent’s~ due to Moe eating them &/or getting smashed on the car ride up. Oh and it might snow this weekend~ what a great way to get even more in the holiday spirit!The owl tree!

Our manger scene, along with a few wooden carolers.
This end table has all red & white items like snowmen & candy canes.
This end table has a tree theme. Just need to add a good picture of Jason & I in front of the tree to that frame.

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Christmas Decorating!

I made an unexpected trip to Midlothian this past week to help my parents and grandparents decorate. I went after work and made it home in time for dinner with family including my brother & his girlfriend. We then decorated the living room & more formal Christmas tree.
The plan for Saturday was to decorate the stairs in the AM, then get a tree, decorate the outside then decorate the tree & rest of the inside. But that plan changed because of the rain & SNOW (it didnt stick but was still pretty to see)!! So instead we decorated the inside then Mom, Nana & I ran a few Christmas errands. I can’t wait for Christmas morning; I might just have pick out the Kitchenaid stand mixer I’ve dreamed about at Costco with Nana!!!!! I’ll update with pictures from my parent’s house and of my mixer Christmas morning. Until then look at it from the Amazon picture. 🙂I left Sunday morning and kept up the decorating spirit at our house. I put up the owl tree, decorated the tables & mantle. We got our tree from Lowe’s and I think we picked a good one! We finished decorating the tree late Sunday night.
My grandparents & Bocce then stopped by our house on the way home Monday. Jason & I left work and did a few projects. Nana & I made bows & hung pre-lit wreaths on the windows & front door.Jason & Pawpaw gave our mailbox a major makeover. They sanded off the peeling paint, repainted white primer, put on a new rubber box that won’t rust and redid the hanging numbers. It looks awesome!