The countdown is on to 2016. Holy cow, it is almost here. I’ve have a fantastic 2015 and I cannot wait to see what this next year brings! We have a lot of plans, yet minimal real plans….if that makes sense. There are plenty of things we want to do and a few trips we have planned (shockingly), yet we have a lot of things not set in stone. It will be a good year. [Read more…]
Archives for December 2015
Mocha Chia Pudding
How was your Christmas?! It was really nice to have a three-and-a-half day weekend. The best part is I get to do this all over again this week! We work today, Tuesday, and Wednesday. We have a half day on Thursday and Friday we get the whole day off for New Year’s Day. We also have our company retreat on Wednesday so we’ll all be out of the office starting at noon on Wednesday. I’m sure this week will fly by! [Read more…]
Anything & Everything Friday – December 25th
Well Merry Christmas! I hope Santa was good to everyone. Hopefully you made the Nice List and didn’t end up with coal in your stocking!
We spent Christmas Eve with my family at my grandparents. We had a gift exchange amongst all of us and enjoyed three different kinds of soup. I made Donny’s aunt Judy’s Clam Chowder recipe that must be made every year and it turned out fantastic! I also made a batch of this Chipotle Chicken Soup. My grandma made a homemade chicken noodle soup. I loved all the soups but I basically ate dinner from the chocolate tray. Hahaha my aunt and uncle always make a ton of chocolate-covered everything and it is all so delicious! [Read more…]
High Rep Bicep & Tricep Supersets
Christmas Eve is tomorrow, meaning Christmas is in two days! Are you ready?!?!?! I wrapped presents last night, which I always love to do. I didn’t have very many but I made them count. I had a few that were oddly shaped and I didn’t want to put them in a box, so I basically threw wrapping paper on them and taped wherever! I’ll just tell everyone that Donny wrapped those…. hahaha just kidding Donny. I’ll take credit for them. [Read more…]
Oatmeal with Avocado & Fried Egg
It is Christmas week!!! I had a huge sigh of relief Saturday afternoon when our Christmas Capital of the Plains events wrapped up. It is fun to do the events but it is a month long promotion that takes a lot of time! It is nice to have it over.
Our ice sculpting competition was awesome. Most of the teams had competed before and I felt like the sculptures were better this year than any other year. Check out Christmas Capital of the Plains on Facebook for pictures of the sculptures. [Read more…]
Anything & Everything Friday – December 18th
You might think I’m kidding but after the week that it’s been this seems like a great idea…… I would obviously be nice and put cups of tomato juice and orange juice around the office so that we can drink our breakfasts. Then by the afternoon we’ll be ready to switch over to other varieties of cocktails. Vodka soda with lime anyone?!?!?
Well it is time for Anything & Everything Friday where I discuss with you whatever I feel like discussing. It could be neat articles that I’ve come across or random thoughts in my head. Here goes… [Read more…]
Workout Wednesday: Quad Sets – Upper Body + Cardio Burst
Holy snow. If you live in Colorado, did you survive yesterday?!?! Schools were closed all over Northeast Colorado, but the radio world continues! It was actually a great day in the office to get things done. There was no need to go out-and-about so I got completely caught up from being gone all last week.
The wind caused quite a few drifts and it tends to drift pretty heavily by our front door and in front of our garage door. We got off work an hour early (so we could get home before dark) and my parents surprised us by coming over to help shovel! My dad & I shoveled the driveway and my mom entertained Donny. [Read more…]
Peanut Butter Energy Bites
We are officially home and getting into the swing of things on our own. Sadly for me, there are no nurses (I am the nurse). Sadly for Donny, there is no morphine (too bad we couldn’t bring some home…). Friday night was rough, Donny slept through taking a round of pain meds, so early Saturday morning (as in 1:00am) he was one hurtin’ unit!
The bad part is that the pain medication doesn’t kick in right away so it took over an hour for the pain to go away. You always lose the catch-up game with Percocet. Always. Keep that in mind. [Read more…]
Anything & Everything Friday – December 11
This week has definitely been different…. I am very lucky that my job and my boss allow me to take basically the whole week off to spend with Donny in the hospital. I could have tried to drive back and forth, but I would have missed visits from the doctors and everything. It was good that I was here because Donny is on a lot of pain medication so his memory might not be 100%. On that note, let’s start this week’s edition of Anything & Everything Friday by giving an update on Donny! [Read more…]
Workout Wednesday: 30-Minute Elliptical HIIT
Donny is doing fantastic! He had a full knee replacement done yesterday…. at 33 years old. His other knee was completely shot and had him in so much pain. The procedure only took a little over an hour and by the time they let me in to see him he was wide-eyed and bushy-tailed. [Read more…]