Showing posts with label New Year's Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Year's Day. Show all posts

Friday, January 4, 2013

Just Hanging Around The House Cause It's Too Cold - Fashion Friday


I don't handle cold weather very well and the past two weeks have been miserable for me.  I'm tired of Winter and ready for it to be Summer again.  Really.  I can't take any more of it!


 Phantom has the best idea.  Find the sunniest spot in the house to nap and refuse to move until the sun moves to another spot.  Then move to that spot.  The cats know where all the sunniest napping spots in the house are.  I'm following them!







Jeans:  True Religion (old);  Black Tank: Express (old);  White Shirt:  Abercrombie and Fitch (old);  Scarf:  Portolano (old);  Necklace (old);  Leather jacket (old);  Shoes: Carlos 

With all these "old" items I'm wearing in these pictures, I think it might be time to go shopping!  It's been all wedding planning for months and now that that is behind me I can focus on other things like shopping, getting back into the pool and getting in some 50 mile bike rides.  I'm newly motivated and ready!

While we were briefly outside, we caught a rare glimpse of the Boy leaving with a friend.  He went out his "apartment" door to avoid going through the main part of the house and having to talk to us.  It's still daylight outside and therefore kind of early for him to make an appearance.  I would like to take him to breakfast or lunch before he goes back to school, but he's usually asleep during those normal times. 

 He went to his dad's for dinner last night and I forgot to set the alarm so it wouldn't go off automatically when he came in the door.  He wasn't too happy when he came in and the alarm went off.  We weren't too happy that he was so late coming home and woke us up by setting the alarm off.  It's been an adjustment for all of us.  Scheduling anything is tough with vampire boy around.  We'll probably get it right just as it's time for him to go back to school.


This was our New Year's Day dinner.  Black eyed peas for luck, cabbage instead of the usual greens (not sure why you're suppose to eat greens on New Years) and the Murph made a stuffed pork roast using a recipe from the Barefoot Contessa, Ina Garten's cookbook.   I thought it was delicious, but the Boy didn't like it that much.


I went online and discovered that the beach condo was rented out all of January and February so looks like no beach trips for us until March.   I'm not going to be able to do the Pensacola Beach Half Marathon this year since we won't be down there.  I did find another one to sign up for in January and one in February too.  I haven't signed up for a marathon yet, but am considering the Little Rock Marathon in March.   I wish I could find an April one that's close instead of the March one.  That would give me more time to train.  March may be a little too soon.  I had a really fun holiday and need more time to recover from it.

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Happy New Year 2013!


I just wanted to do a really short blog post wishing everyone a very Happy New Year!  Last night the Murph and I spent our very first New Year's Eve as husband and wife at home in our pj's.  I had champagne and he had his usual assorted imported beer selection.  It was wonderful!

Today we hung our new 2013 calendars. This Yoga Cat one is my favorite.  I hope it inspires me to participate more in the dangerous sport of yoga.  Cats are much more flexible than triathletes though so we'll see...




I don't know how anyone can do that scorpion pose.  It must be trick photography!

Below is me in the cozy socks I wore for my private New Year's Eve celebration with the Murph.


And the Murph wore his plaid "leisure" pants and a t shirt.



Today we will have black eye peas with our dinner because that's what you're suppose to eat on New Year's Day for luck.   Fresh Market was out of the can peas on New Year's Eve.  I looked all over the store as the Murph was in the meat department.  The Murph saw me running all over the store and later told me I looked like I was in some kind of game show.  A game show where you had to see who could fill their shopping cart up the fastest.   I would win that game!  He had already noticed the assortment of items I had already added to the cart, including my favorite almond pillow cookies.

Since I couldn't find any black eye peas at Fresh Market, today after our late workout, we went to Publix where there were only 5 cans of black eye peas left in the entire store.  I got two of them.  I felt that I should get greens too but the Murph said we never eat them so why get them now.  I backed down and went over to the cashier with only my two cans of black eye peas.  She immediately said, "Well I guess you guys already have your greens then, huh?"  I looked at the Murph in panic.  I KNEW I should have grabbed a can of turnip greens or collard greens or something before we left.  The Murph laughed at me.  He said he's just not that superstitious, especially when it comes to produce.

I'm still not sure, but I'm hoping that the leeks he cooked with the pork roast tonight and the cabbage will be all the greens I need for luck or money or for whatever reason I'm suppose to be eating them.


I don't know why I'm suppose to eat them on New Years Day, but I just don't want to take any chances!

Hope you ate your black eye peas and greens today!