10 Things I Did This Week

Hello from Atlanta! Another weekend of traveling which means I'm going to try to be posting from my iPad. The sad part is that I haven't yet figured out how to post pics on here without them being ridiculous in size, so until I figure that out these iPad posts will be pic free.

Here's 10 things I've done this past week:

1. Celebrated Adam's 30th birthday! Birthday dinner at Trulucks in downtown Austin with presents and love.

2. Worked out with my personal trainer twice. My thighs, glute and pecs are so sore that it hurts when I sit, climb stairs, or take off or put on shirts.

3. Wrote an email to everyone in our house with 'house rules.' There are currently 7 people loving in our house... That email was necessary so we don't piss each other off. And by that I mean so they don't piss ME off. :)

4. Went to a single release party in downtown Austin where AFC Pictures (Adam's Film Crew) filmed a live stage performance! Adam was in charge of the film crew with a 4 camera set-up complete with a crane and a presenter! I was the bodyguard. :) My job was to make sure no one walked in the roped off area where the equipment was. I can be intimidating when I need to be. Hehe.

5. Unpacked my bags from last weekend in Seattle to repack for this weekend in Atlanta. Always on the go!

6. Stayed in bed for a full day and a half and went through an entire roll of toilet paper from blowing my nose. Then drank hot chamomile tea with honey to soothe my throat and slept for 15 hours straight. Crazy congestion, sneezes, sniffles and throat scratching up in here. Also rocked a packet of Emergen-C every day. Is it possible to overdose on Vitamin C?

7. FaceTimed with my parents. Becky and Ray live in Chicago and we're in Austin. Adam and I convinced Becky to get an iPhone and she now thinks FaceTime is the best thing ever. Skype was great but you're not always at a computer and when you use it you're then tied to the computer. The phone is easier, more portable and more convenient. And I love being able to speak to and see my parents in betweennthe visits back up to Chicago every few months.

8. Tried the SleepCycle app on my iPhone. It's an app that analyzes your sleep patterns and wakes you up in your lightest sleep phase. You tell it what time you want to be woken up by and for about 15-30 minutes beforehand it monitors your movements to find the optimal time to wake you up. I had heard GREAT things about it and it lives up to the hype. There is no jarring alarm that startled you awake, it's very natural and relaxed.

9. Ate proper English style fish 'n chips from an English pub. Adam says the fish and chips from this pub, Ri Ra, are the closest thing he has eaten to real fish and chips from London. The chips are more like thick potato wedges and the fish is lightly breaded and fried instead of deep friend fish sticks that we get here in the states. Yum!

10. Made Adam a creamy and frothy gingerbread hot chocolate! It's his favorite. I warmed up 1.5 cups of nonfat milk and .5 cup of dark chocolate soy milk.... Then mixed that with dark chocolate cocoa powder and melted milk chocolate. Added a few pumps of gingerbread syrup (we got the bottle from Starbucks... They don't sell it but it's a seasonal flavor and when winter was over we asked if they had extra bottles!). On top of that, I made my own homemade whipped cream to top it off. It was so good and Adam asked me to make him another cup right away! Our instructor Cary even asked me for the recipe. :)



That's my week in 10 quick points. What's something fun or interesting that YOU did this week?

O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree...

Christmas is coming! We finally put up our tree and it took over 24 hours to do so. We have a 12-foot tree and I was really the only one to assemble and decorate it so it took a while. Adam was busy filming about 50 videos with our marketer this week so I was on my own while he worked hard!

I've been asked what is on my Christmas list and there is actually nothing extravagant or glamorous on it. Since we just purchased a new condo and close on it this week one thing I was is an interior designer to come in and make it pretty and livable. I decorate like a 2-year-old and nothing matches! Another thing I was is one of those iRobot Roomba vacuum cleaners. It vacuums on its own! So domestic.

So there's my list. No handbags, no jewelry, no shoes.... All practical. What's on YOUR list?