I figured the easiest way to catch up on everything going on would be a list (of course) of things currently going on around here, so with out further ado:
Currently, I am.....
Needing......another cup of coffee and maybe a couple hour nap? In case you didn't hear, the Alabama Crimson Tide won their 16th National Championship last night. The game was really exciting, I mean REALLY exciting, and didn't end until after 11pm. I was kind of secretly hoping the game would be a blow out and I could go to sleep early, but that was NOT the case. We had some friends over for the game but because we're all old and have to wake up early during the week, everyone left at half time. I think I barely made it to bed before midnight....Eric being the diehard Alabama fan that he is, was whooping and hollering the entire second half so I couldn't have gone to sleep early if I had wanted to. He managed to help the Tide pull out a victory, and went to bed with happy little elephants dancing around in his head along with all of the other Bammers who weren't out at Academy picking up their Championship swag immediately after the game.
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Loving......this cold weather that we are FINALLY having around these parts! It finally feel like winter and I'm so happy I get to break out my hats and boots and coats. Now if it would just snow my winter would be complete! But not on a day/weekend when I have something to do like it did last year...kthanks.
Wishing......I had a heater at my desk. I really love this cold, but I only want to mess with it outside. My office is ridiculously cold for some odd reason, and the thermostat does nothing to control the temperature....it's set on 85 and feels like 65...maybe. It's not that cold in the general office space, or the offices adjacent to mine, just my little office. For example right now I have on boots, a scarf, and my coat I wore in this morning (still) and I am fuh-reezing. I could ask about getting it fixed but the last time I tried that on another floor, it got colder, so I'm hesitant to do that. I'll just sit under my Snuggie and deal with it.
Peanut and I clearly have similar opinions on the cold; Hawk does not share our opinion.
Dreaming......of vacations and trips that we are hoping to take this year. We have a couple of ideas we've been tossing around and I really hope we can find the time to go!
Looking forward to......lunch (of course), but it's mainly because I've got some really delicious things to dive into like my favorite Avocado Chicken Salad and some No-Bake Energy Bites, whose recipes I will be sharing soon because the original pinterest links I pinned are no longer active. We started Biggest Loser 2016 this week and I am ready to stop eating like crap like I have the past few weeks. I wasn't as bad as I was last year, but there's something about Christmas that makes me feel like it's appropriate to eat every piece of chocolate or bread I can get my hands on and that's not good. Eric tightened up the belt on our treadmill which is also going to help (because slipping a few inches every time you take a step on the treadmill is not safe.....or smart).
Glad that I......had the bright idea to put some of my favorite pinterest recipes into a recipe book on shutterfly a couple of years ago. I know blogs don't always stick around forever, so I took several of our absolute favorite recipes and put them into a photo cookbook so that I have them forever. It is also a great gift, and I have had requests from several friends for their own copies. I really need to do another one soon with another installment of recipes.
Hoping......to continue blogging and not disappear like I did last year. I really of wish I hadn't let myself take so much time off from writing. When I was writing my 2015 Recap, I realized I skipped nearly 2 months in the fall. Granted it was in the middle of some trying times with my grandmother's passing and Eric's surgery, which aren't particularly happy fun things to write about, but they're things I definitely don't want to forget about because they're a part of our life. This little space serves as a place for me to record our memories as they are happening and I hate that I let the ball drop because I don't want to leave anything out. Sometimes I wonder where the first five years of our marriage went, because it certainly doesn't seem like we've been married that long. Thankfully I have this little blog to help jog my memories for the majority of that time, and I hope that I can continue to document the big and little things in our life as they happen.
