Running

I thought I beat my record this morning but no. Last run I did 1.97 miles in 32 minutes. Today, 1.95 miles in 32 minutes. My right shin is still a bit tender. Not ok with that, I am going to try icing it later.

Bri ran his 5k today in 25:40min. We hate him.

On another note Brian picked up some vitamins and pre-workout products from GNC. I am little nervous, some of my pills are REALLY big and I REALLY hate pills!

'til next time,

me

Santa Hat Brownies

Finally a project in the kitchen that turned out! And were so yummy! I brought these to Lainie's Christmas party at dance and I think the adults liked them as much as the kids!

Recipe:

boxed or homemade brownie mix

mini muffin tin

strawberries

2 cups of white chocolate chips

Instructions:

Prepare and cook brownies (according to package) in mini muffin tin

I love to use my mini scoop from Pampered Chef. Perfect for filling all the little spots.

I believe my brownies took about 11 min. @ 350 degrees

Let the brownies cool

clean the strawberries and cut off the stems

place the strawberries upside down on the brownies, smaller ones work best!

melt the white chocolate chips most recipes call for using a double boiler for this but I am just not that good so I microwaved them. Watching them carefully and stirring every minute or so until done (about 4 minutes)

Then quickly place the melted chocolate in a frosting bag and pipe the around the outside of the brownie and a quick tip on the top!

And done! Cute little Santa Hats!

A word of caution, PLEASE if you decided to go the microwave method with the white chocolate chips, be sure to use a microwave safe bowl, and check every minute or so. Benefit from my mistakes otherwise you too could could have a smelly gooey mess and a ruined bowl. It's not pretty, not at all.

'til next time,

me

Peppermint Bark Fail

This was supposed to be a nice Holiday type post about making peppermint bark.

Instead we will interrupt the previously scheduled post to bring you a What Not to Do post instead.

Don't dump a whole bag of white chocolate chips into a cheap plastic bowl and hit the 5 min. button on the microwave.

The result will look something along the lines of this..........big hole, cheap bowl.

Oh and curiously a very strong s'more smell?

'til next time,

me

The Gym this Morning....

I seem to have found my preferred bedtime for the mornings that Bri makes me get up and go to the gym at the unreasonable time of, are you serious, otherwise known as 4:30 (a.m.). 10:30 p.m., I'm not to sure how I feel about that right now. I am really used to staying up until about 12-12:30 so this feels verrrrry early to me, but I did manage to get my butt out of bed this morning with minimal amount of fuss.

Anywhoo, went pretty good today, I noticed my right shin hurts a little bit when I walk but not so much when I am running? Weird.

For today's workout I did: 1.97 miles in 32 minutes. That includes a 2 min. warm-up and a 2 min. cool-down. I walked between 3.0-3.3 and ran between 4.7-5.5 (I actually preferred the faster pace, was easier to get into a rhythm).

That's up from the 1.83 miles in 32 min. from last time. But still a really LONG way from getting in 3.1 miles in under 30 min.

Still haven't lost any weight but I was not good to me this weekend. Trying to do better!

'til next,

me

p.s. I may have gone back to bed again when I got home, keepin' it real.

Back to the Gym...

Heading back to the gym tomorrow. Last week didn't go so great for me as Max thinks sleep is overrated and I get unmotivated if things don't go exactly to plan.

This week in my training plan calls for me to start Monday out with 2 min. of running and 1 min. of walking. Sadly, that makes me nervous. I will let you know how it goes.

For fun I think I will start throwing Bri's times in too.

'til next time,

me

Things I Hear......

A couple of days ago Emmy got mad at me because I wouldn't read her a story before bedtime (in my defense it was waaaayyyyy past bedtime), she looked at me so serious and said, "I'm going to cross my arms at you and tomorrow I am going to take daddy to Disney World and get candy and you will have to stay home, if you won't read me a story."

She told me.

But I still didn't read the story.

'til next time,

me

Yum.....

......favorite thing I found this week.....will be making these for a Christmas party next week! Santa Hat Brownies!

'til next time

me!