Fabulous Run

For the first time ever, I will not be spending Thanksgiving with any of my family. Last year was the first year I didn't make it home, but the twin was able to visit. This year I will be spending Thanksgiving in Houston with E and her family. Which begs the question what do I take with me? They said I didn't need to bring anything. But it's a holiday and I feel like I should at least take some sort of hostess gift if I don't have to make a dish. Here's what I think my options are... One of my favorite candles from Anthro Goodies from my favorite bakery More goodies Flowers from Fresh Market of Central Market, they always do a good job Standard bottle of wine

I'm not even sure why I do weekend recaps anymore. I almost never do anything exciting and this weekend was no exception. I finished reading The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and started and finished The Girl Who Played with Fire. I can't even remember if I did anything else on Friday which probably means I did nothing. Saturday I wanted to get my errands out of the way before I started working. So I went for a run and did a quick workout before heading over to My Fit Foods to pick up a few meals. I did really well this weekend, food-wise. No soda, lots of water and no processed food. For the rest of the day I alternated between reading and working. And was quite productive. Sunday was more of the same. I got up and ran and did the same workout again. Then I ran over to Gap and was more than a little disappointed with what I heard was supposed to be an amazing sale. But I did get three sweaters for a pretty good deal. My next stop was AT&T. Oh AT&T. You are re

I know, I know. I'm still slacking on my blog posts. At least I am aware of the problem. I'm working on it. Anywho...here's what three things I'm obsessed with this week... I got to see The Hunger Games: Catching Fire last night, which was awesome since the movie isn't even out yet. K had some sort of connection from UT, a Big Brothers Big Sisters program was doing a fundraiser by showing the movie at a Studio Movie Grill. The movie was amazing, but you know it's always different from the book and they did leave some things out that I thought were pretty important. But, since none of you have seen it yet, I won't talk about that. Just tell you that I still thought it was really well done and probably was better than the first movie. Apparently there are 33 days until Christmas. But that's ok. Because I think I've got at least half of my shopping done. And I already bought my flight home. For $10 (+40,000 miles). Seriously considering gettin

I was pretty bad at blogging last week, I hope this is not a sign of things to come when I get busy at work in the next two months. But I will try to keep up as we head into the busy season. It was another slow one. Just how I like them. I was a little concerned about Saturday. I was going back to Visible Changes to get a hair cut. The place where they basically gave me a mullet the last time. But I went with a recommendation for a stylist this time and he was fantastic. As he had better be for $60. Paying that much for a cut to me defeats the point of going to a place like Visible Changes - big chain in the mall - but I got a cut that I am happy with this time and I had a gift card that paid for half the cut. (Sorry, no picture.) Sunday I went back to the mall to pick up a pair of jeans that Nordstrom was hemming for me. And of course because I didn't try them on, or even really look at them, when I got home I noticed that they never did the alteration! Awesome.I did get a l

My personal computer at home is an HP netbook that I bought, geez, at some point when I was living in Indianapolis. So at least three or four years old. And while I really only use it at this point to back up pictures, it has def seen better days. A lot of the time I just take my work laptop home and use that. Prob not the smartest thing.  I'd been planning on purchasing a new laptop for myself once my tax check rolls in. But, after having a few issues in the last few weeks when I actually needed to use it for something other that storage, I'm thinking now maybe the time to charge it and I can pay it off when I get my tax check. Especially since Macs are on sale right now at Best Buy! I really want a Mac this time. I think I need the Macbook Pro, not Air. (The Air does not have a cd/dvd drive.) Because when I splurged on Rosetta Stone I got in cd form. And I really should put that on my personal computer, not work.So ya, haven't been able to use it yet. What to do

Ya, ya, I'm late. It's getting busier and busier at work now that we're 10 weeks out from the race. So...two weekend recaps in one this week.   Parents visit recap I love long weekends. I love them even more when I have visitors. Friday night and most of Saturday were slightly boring. I lounged around, went for a run and made sure the apartment was clean.I stopped at Target on my way to the airport and the mobile guy told me I could add a line to my account for $10/month so that I could get the new iPhone for $200...it would be cheaper in the long run than buying a new phone for $650. (More on that later) I picked my parents up at IAH and we just hung out for a while at my place Saturday night. Sunday morning I somehow talked my mom out of going to church so that I could stay home and watch the NYC Marathon on ESPN. It was a great race, but literally the second the male winner crossed the finish line I was hustling them out the door. We had brunch reservations at Ma

I have been so busy and so tired since my parents left after our long weekend together, that I haven't had time to get my shit together and write a post. I'll have a recap of our time together tomorrow, in the meantime...here's what three things I'm obsessed with this week... I'm loving this Strata dress at Anthropologie. I think I may need to get it for Christmas. I really need to get back into running, working out and eating better. For the past few weeks I have completely let myself go. I ate whatever I wanted whenever I wanted, have barely been running and there have been no workouts in sight. That has to change. I need to get back into it. I feel like a total sloth. ugh. I'm thinking maybe I can finally go in for another hair cut. This is the one I wanted last time, but it definitely not the cut that I got. Maybe after two months the layer that crazy lady put in my hair is finally long enough to be the length of this cut.

It's Friday! And the 'rents get in tomorrow night!! And I have off on Monday!!! It's going to be a good weekend. If I could only figure out what we are going to do the whole time. Being a good host is stressful! I stocked up on my mom's favorite drink. I have more snacks than normal in the house. I have some plans made, but not many, for while they are here. I really want to buy fresh flowers, but I am terrified that the fruit flies will come back. It has taken me 3 weeks to get rid of them. Is it tomorrow night yet?!?