Where to begin today? Hmmm…
Today will be filled with the all inclusive, nothing corresponds, random bullet points! Yay! I can feel your excitement building already!
• I haven’t shared with you yet – because it’s not the New Year – my resolutions or deeply imbedded intentions for 2011. And I am still withholding that post until then, but I do want to share with you that in 2011 I will resolve to have a 6 pack! Hell Yeah! You read correctly! And I’m not talking about Mojitos over here! I’m talking about a flat, yummy, 6-8 pack stomach baby! Mr. Strong has one and I am jealous and now I think I need my own! Food is going to play a HUGE role in my success, so WATCH OUT! The crazy, schizophrenic, bitchy, and narcoleptic side of me might slip out every now and again. But rest assured that it is due to the food chemical dependency that I have and not because I am actually ANY of those things! Mmmmkay?!
• Ten miles a day until the end of the year is my goal. I want to finish 2010 strong and I have even impressed myself! Last night I met CA at the gym where we accomplished our 10 miles in the short timeframe that I had to work with. (7 miles on the bike - 1.5 on the elliptical – 1.5 on the treadmill) CA started complaining right off the bat about how sore she was already feeling in her butt and I think we had gone 3 minutes? So what that she had done like 20 miles the night before? She’s a pro – she is not supposed to complain! :-) She did require a little extra motivation to finish the 7 miles on the bike or maybe I just offered her my “Drill Sergeant” services for free – I don’t remember… ;-)
The elliptical went smoothly and if CA did any complaining I didn’t hear because I had Nickelback screaming on my iPod. We get on the treadmill to finish our last 1.5 miles and after about 2 minutes we both start running. This happens twice and then we both quit. CA is worried that her ass is jiggling way too much and the people behind her are getting in a good laugh and all I can think about is when I run my shirt rises up and I was praying that the people behind me weren’t staring at my sweaty ass crack if I had one. We got the 10 miles done in just over an hour and I was very impressed with both of us. (doing the cabbage patch – oh yeah – we're bad – woooo!)
• Last night driving home from supper Kiki is farting in the backseat of the HUMMER and Kitty is gagging in the front seat yelling at her to STOP IT! Kiki is replying with a “better out than in, I say” and Kitty is yelling at her “you’re not Shreck!” I opened the sunroof just so we could breathe – it was a cold, stinky ride home! Okay – I expect this from boys, but girls?! Come on!!!!!
• We will be traveling again this New Year’s holiday – which means more packing and laundry – and more laundry! Ughhhhh! I wish I owned a magical wand that with just one wave – POOF – all the laundry is done and organized and put up! Until then, it will keep building or I will have to break down and go to a laundry mat to get it all done at once. *sigh* (See! This is where my sickness of gobuymoreclothesinsteadofwashing comes into play - it's my own fault - I know!)
• What are your plans this New Year’s holiday?
Days 198-202 Christmas Story Condensed
We are back from our Christmas holiday vacation and man am I exhausted!
Needing a vacation after my vacation is definitely appropriate in my case!
The drive up to the ranch house was met with fog covered mountains and a feeling of Christmas energy.
The day was filled with a round of air gun wars, a little sight-seeing (the wind was too cold!), opening presents and enjoying the gifts of Santa Clause.
The next morning we packed up and headed home and the trip home was a quite one! Everyone was exhausted from hard playing, lack of sleep and the crash of excitement overload.
This is my Christmas story condensed because well - I'm back and WORK calls! It is not because I promised to not talk about some of the extremely funny happenings and conversations that took place or the lack of CLEAR pictures because of operator error or some unexplainable void that is going on between me and Mr. Strong!
Needless to say, I had a great time. I laughed harder than I have laughed in a while and it was great that the whole family could spend time and be together in harmony. We need to do that more often than once a year!
How did your Christmas go?
Needing a vacation after my vacation is definitely appropriate in my case!
The drive up to the ranch house was met with fog covered mountains and a feeling of Christmas energy.
Christmas Eve night was spent gorging on great mexican food and cocktails. After dinner we spread out and 20+ played games, watched movies, got caught up on what everyone had been doing and the little children sneaked away to jump on the Air Bed in the back room. My younger sister boarded herself up in the back room so she could finish putting together and semi-wrapping her Christmas gifts that she had bought a few hours before - now that is last minute!
Finally ALL the bebe kids children were off to bed and the house was quite (and the atmosphere was peacful!) Somehow Mr. Strong and I ended up sleeping in the bedroom that housed all the children...WTF! NOOOOOO! The romantic side of being away from home was ruined! We had Doodlebug's feet in our faces all night in this extraordinarily small queen sized bed, because he just couldn't sleep with all the other children! I didn't get "any" much sleep that night. Grrrrr!
I was up early the next morning to watch the beautiful sunrise off the back porch. Man was it COLDDDDD! I was going to go running - but....now I can stand cold - but when the wind is blowing - that is just plain torture!
The morning was filled with cooking the tradional Christmas dinner - turkey & dressing, ham etc.. My younger sister was making all of us laugh as she tells my mom "to leave the kitchen if your not going to help..." and the promises from me to NOT blog about some of the conversations that were taking place! LMAO! Doodlebug also got to spend some time with Great Grandma playing at the breakfast table.
The day was filled with a round of air gun wars, a little sight-seeing (the wind was too cold!), opening presents and enjoying the gifts of Santa Clause.
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| I took a ton of other pictures of all the Wild Game that the ranch has on it, but i forgot to take the paper film off my new camera phone so they (along with about 100 other pictures) were too blurry to see ! Pitiful - I know! |
Needless to say, I had a great time. I laughed harder than I have laughed in a while and it was great that the whole family could spend time and be together in harmony. We need to do that more often than once a year!
How did your Christmas go?
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