I really did intend to post something earlier in the week, but when I’m home it’s always so hard to sit down and take the time to do it. I’m hoping I’m not the only one though since most of us our outside of our usual routine anyways. This week has been wonderful! I got a lot of really great useful things for Christmas, I’ll be putting that post up soon! I spent a lot of time by a fire, it was heavenly! Usually with a cup of coffee or hot chocolate. I stuck with my training schedule this week except for 1 day, I missed a short 2 mile run. Overall I did 12 miles this week. I’m training for the New Orleans Rock n’ Roll Half-Marathon. I got tangled for Christmas and had never seen (I know, AWFUL, right?) and so I watched it THREE times this week. It’s so good, y’all! Yesterday was Christmas with the boyfriends family. It was a perfect evening. I got a $25 Amazon gift card, score! Then we had our Christmas meal and then let the food settle. Everyone went off and did their own thing the rest of the evening, but Nick and I went for a 5 mile run, then we went back to his house and he kept the fire going, I made some hot chocolate for us and we watched parks and rec. It was so relaxing!
*My night in a nutshell*
This week, I got a lot of baking equipment for Christmas, so I’ve been baking away! I have 2 more things I want to make while I’m still home, but I made some blueberry tarts and coconut cherry cupcakes already!
On Christmas Day, we went and saw Les Mes, which was wonderful! I didn’t like it at first, but I started to love it by the end. It was a great story!
This week, I also found the wonderfulness of Once Upon a Time. I finished watching Season 1 on Netflix and I’m working on Season 2 on abc.com. It’s so great!!
I also adopted a soldier, which you should do too!! I think it’s such a great opportunity! I’m looking forward to getting to know her!
And lastly, I started work on 26 acts of kindness in memory of the precious lives lost on December 14th. I’ll have a whole blog post on it once I’m done, but I’m still working out what all I’ll be doing and creating the things for it. I started my first act of kindness by adopting the soldier. I got the idea off of pinterest obviously, but I hate that after an event like that people assume there is no good in the world. What happened was terrible, but those people were good and they were precious, and we should honor them for that. So I’m delighted to bring happiness to others through my acts of kindness in memory of them. I know a lot of people are doing things like this, and I’m so excited about that!! Good can overcome evil, I strongly believe it!
Hope you all are having as great of a week as I am! It’s been very relaxing… I’m not looking forward to heading back to Starkville and getting back to the office, this has just been a wonderful holiday!
And sorry, but all of my pictures lately have been from instagram because I’m kind of lazy right now and I’m not taking legit pics!
Which adopt a soldier program are you doing? I’d love to get involved and do it, too!
I’m totally with you, I was on a crazy long blog hiatus for the last week+! Sounds like you had a fab little break. Happy Holidays, lady!
P.S. Not sure how on EARTH it took me so long to follow you! Adore the blog. 🙂
Courtney @ Little Miss MBA
Tangled… always a good choice! HOpe that the training life is going well!!!
Ahh I love Tangled! And cooking equipment is the best for Christmas, I am about to go use my new food processor now haha. When is your half? I have one in California in a month but we just got 14 inches of snow…KILLING my training right now!! That was a lot, but I’m excited for you about everything in your post/life 🙂
I have yet to see Tangled however I got Brave on Black Friday and its in my pile to watch 🙂