Ramping Up!

Today is the day I start paying attention again!!  I had big plans to finally get back to the gym (it’s been two weeks since I worked out at Tiffaney’s condo gym!!) however Mother Nature seems to think that I’m more suited for shoveling than running today.  Oh well.  Exercise is exercise right?  The clearer the driveway, the sooner I can brave the storm and get my workout on!

(Um, our shovel just broke.  Uh-oh.)

After a totally awesome entire night’s sleep, I think we are finally back on East Coast time.  I know a lot of you were stunned by our 6am bed time on NYE, but remember I was still on a 4 hour time zone change so my body wasn’t too sure what to do.  It’s fixed now.

After tackling the driveway last night at midnight I slept like a log.

Of course, we arose only to find we had to tackle it again.  And today it’s the hard crunchy snow…not the beautiful fluff of last night.  (I forgot to take pics before, but you can see in the after shots how big the road side piles are…)

 

I made my first Amazing smoothie of 2010, using my fabulous new Kitchen Aid blender. 

*hugs*  You all told me it’s OK to hug my appliances if I love them.  :)

In the blender today: 

• ice
• frozen blueberries
• flax meal
• organic baby spinach
• Amazing Grass Kidz Chocolate Superfood
• unsweetened vanilla Almond Breeze

 

Next up, a yummy croissant!  And plans for a healthy dinner!

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Rewind to yesterday.  Our New Years Day feasts!

Breakfast by FH:

Dinner of leftover NYE snacks:

I dominated the veggie plate and sipped on a virgin Caesar.

nom nom nom.

And now… Out with the old and in with the healthy!

HAPPY 2010!

Our New Years Eve really could have been titled “Beatles-palooza”!

Good friends, food, drinks, Beatles Rock Band, and the entire new Beatles CD box set.

FH and I started with wine while getting ready…

The second bottle was pulled from our small wine collection.  Happily this bottle was not corked (the last two we tried were…booo).

I had to do my hair twice.  Why do I always attempt a new style when I’m pressed for time?  Silly girl.  It wasn’t awful, but certainly not a very good New Year’s hairdo…the second attempt was much better!

As usual, I planned too much food!

I didn’t have time to do anything from scratch this time, but came up with lots of yummy and quasi-healthy snacks to get us through the big evening…

(ummm…and a jalapeno cheese ball because I love FH that much!)

Later in the evening we cooked off some bacon wrapped scallops and veggie egg rolls (the egg rolls missed out on a photo op!).

I switched to a couple of vanilla Cosmopolitans for the rest of the night…

FH has gotten very good at shaking with glassware.  We really should invest in a martini shaker.  LOL.

Our party was small.  Just six of us.  Perfect for our Beatles Rock Band adventures!!   Everyone got pretty into it and took turns on the singing and instruments…even me!!  I’d never played any of these games before (aside from some group singing with the girls at Thanksgiving).

 

Don’t I look awkward?  lmao.

In all honesty, I was terrible…but it was fun!!

At midnight we scrambled to get the champagne open and poured…

Almost missed the 12 o’clock moment!!  haha.

Silliness continued to ensue…

Until after 5am!  I was trying to get the boys to call it quits so I could go to sleep, but they had only 4 songs left to finish the main part of the game so we had to keep on trucking through.  I finally rested my head by about 630am…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

What a night!

Thanks to our musical friends Frank, Joanne, Mark and Cosette for making New Years Eve a fabulously fun time!!!

Here’s to a fabulous 2010! 

Thank you all for supporting me and Embracing Balance this past year.  I look forward to keeping up with you all in the coming months.

Cheers!!!