It’s been snowing here for 50 hours straight. It entirely depends on what elevation you live at and in what area because we have 11” of snow at home and down the hill, 3 miles away where I work, there is barely a skiff, you can still see grass! We’ve had the snowplow in our cul-de-sac twice this weekend and I don’t think other municipalities have even taken their snow plows out of the garage!
This weekend seemed really long, for some reason….like it was more than just two days. Friday night I left work and went to get my hair cut. I had intended on just getting a wee trim of the ends but when I got there I had a moment of insanity and told him he could cut it quite a bit shorter. I absolutely love it! I love the length and the cut and the way it feels.
Saturday morning my sweet hubby dragged our sleep-disrupting dog out of the bedroom and closed the door and went about some of his own errands while I got to sleep in, it was blissful! We did some errands and I did some cooking and there was napping and then we dolled up and went to a pub fundraiser for the Boxer Rescue that we’re a part of. That was a really fun evening, crappy food, good wine and great company. We would have liked to stay out later but the entire group of 50-odd people all packed up and went home early….because…..4am Gold Medal HOCKEY!!!!!!!!!!! In British Columbia, if you wanted to watch the Gold Medal Game live, you had to get up at 4am! We did just that and it was great! Ray lit a fire (which we kept burning until 10pm last night, living room so toasty, rest of the house, SO COLD!) and we made coffees and I put together a new recipe that I like to call “Gold Medal Oven Pancake”. It was super easy and SO delicious! And, if you don’t drown it in maple syrup (ya right), it’s not awful for you but it is a higher calorie recipe so I would consider it a special occasion treat. I’ve linked the picture below to the original recipe and I’ll also put it on the FEED ME page. I highly recommend this one!
A couple of other things that are on the go right now. I have 5 days left to come in on the Century at my original goal of racking up 100 kilometers by March 1st. 5 Days left and 31 kilometers left. If I’m going to be completely honest, when I originally decided to do this challenge I had a sneaking suspicion that I’d end up in the last week with a big push to finish. I’m not sure why I thought that……because if it hadn’t been for my injury in early February, I would have been done by now. I have to average 6.27 kilometers (3.9 miles) every day this week to have a shot at succeeding. So what will I do? I’m going for the big push and the successful finish! It will be hard to get there but I really have no reason why I can’t do it. Between the gym and an evening dog walk each night, I’m determined to pile those kilometers on and finish what I started!
With only 4 days left in the month, I’m starting to tally up my February goals and results as well and see how things went. I am VERY surprised by how much momentum I lost at the beginning of February. Getting sidelined by injury/recovery really threw a wrench in my works in ways that I didn’t really see coming. For instance…..we did not eat at the dinner table once last week. Anyway….there were some successes and some flops…..I have a couple more days this month to work on getting some positives….but mostly I’m just really looking forward to a fresh March start!
As far as my previous post about groceries goes, I was really glad to read the comments and see that a few of you don’t budget for groceries because you enjoy what you eat too much. We do as well and I tend to buy groceries based on what I feel like eating rather than what may be on sale however I felt that we had room to make an improvement on just how much we were spending. I think I’ve done that really well between January and February and I hope to make another little dent between February and March. One thing that I will not do though is compromise on what we eat. I would like to reduce our grocery bill and if going a couple different places & planning our weekly menu based on the meat or veggies that are reduced pricing does that for me without too much hassle then I’d be crazy not to do it. But I will not sacrifice our enjoyment, our health or our overall nutrition for the desire to knock a few bucks off our bill every month. Just wanted to clear that up.
And finally…..if you made it this far into my post, that’s good…because you get to hear the happy news! Ray’s daughter is expecting a baby in September and we are going to be grandparents! His daughter and her husband have been trying for quite a while now and have suffered some loss along the way so we’re all very excited with this great news! I’m sure, as things progress, that you’ll hear more about this….we’re so excited!
That’s it for me today, trying to stay warm, watching the snow fall and contemplating my walking route after work today to cram in the most kilometers possible!
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