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Fulfilled

What a perfect Sunday!

Errands were run (groceries and lots of wine for Thursday).  Cleaning was accomplished.  Living room yoga flowed.  Studying in the sunshine zipped by.

Good food was eaten

Salmon and avocado sushi, a little treat from the grocery store.  It was so good, Tate said “we don’t eat sushi often enough!” and I think he was regretting agreeing to split one roll.  The leftover butternut was delicious too!

A salad from the garden topped us off.

O.k, the greens are from the garden, the pomegranate and pickled ginger are, sadly, from far, far away.

Now that’s some baby spinach!

And fresh air was breathed!  Heavily at times…

Tate and I went on a lovely 10 mile bike ride.  True to Cville’s reputation there were plenty of hills.  Total interval training!  Most of the hills didn’t last more that a minute or so but I was huffing and puffing a few times nonetheless.

I am so looking forward to Thursday!  I LOVE Thanksgiving.  I already started on my dishes, the bread crumbs for the vegetarian stuffing are toasted and I am soaking dried shiitakes for both the stuffing and the gravy.

What’s your favorite Thanksgiving dish?  For me it’s a tie between cranberry sauce and stuffing.

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I Feel Hardcore

I did it!  I got out of bed at 7:30am (with the help of a wake up call and coffee delivery by my awesome husband) to go running.  It’s not that 7:30 is an early rise but when you’ve got the day off and it’s 35 degrees out at that hour it can be a little hard to motivate.

I did not, however, do 8 miles.  I cleverly planned a route that started with Kath and Matt leaving their house, running 1.5 miles to our house, picking us up, running nearly 5 together, then splitting for them to complete a total of 8 and Tate and I 5.  Since Kath ♥’s the hills there was many an incline!  (Sorry Kath!)

Once we got moving the temperature didn’t bother me at all, in fact I liked it.

As soon as we got home I hit the mat for some yoga.  I did about 20 minutes of this flow, with a few additions.  MISSION: Yoga 5 for 5 is going great.  Last week I did one class, three dvd’s, and one self-led practice.  This week I plan on two self-led practices, two dvd’s, and a podcast.  I have never tried a yoga podcast but I have heard lots of great reviews of Dave Farmer so I think I will start there.

I didn’t realize it was going to frost so hard last night and I feel like a jerk for leaving my little baby greens out!

They are probably done for.  Shoot.

Off to play in the sunshine!  Tate and I have a big day planned of scenic driving, hiking, and wine tasting.

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