Do a little dance...

It's Thursday!  

I'm so happy.  Because...that means tomorrow is Friday.  The weekend is right around the corner.  I hate to say I've been living for the weekends lately, but I've definitely looked forward to them much more than usual!

*This weekend looks like it will be fun and relaxing.  Two of my favorite things.  More on that tomorrow...

*This song makes me happy.  It reminds me of road trips with one of my favorite college friends.  It also has good lyrics.  And when I'm alone in the car, I can belt-out some Deana Carter!

*I skipped the gym entirely yesterday.  It wasn't planned or on purpose, I actually meant to bring clothes to go on my lunch, but lunch with the hubs was a better idea.  Oh, and I'm using wakeboarding as one of my cross-training days this week.  Think it counts?  I do...

*I just finished reading

I thought the book was wonderful.  The story sucked me in from the first chapter and I enjoyed the entire book.  It was probably one of the best books I've read in a long time.  I'm so excited to see the movie.  I would recommend this book to anyone.  Pretty cool story.

*Back to work.  I have an entirely new scope of work that has been thrust upon me.  Woo...

Happy Almost Friday friends!

And the giveaway winner is...

Michelle at Living a Life of Love!

I've never seen #1 picked before!

Congratulations Michelle!  Email me your address or let me know if you want to meet up and I can give you your goodies!!

It's cold outside--Thank you Florida!!

Well, ok, it's not exactly cold...but in the high 70's and 80's the past couple of days here in not-so-sunny Florida.  Thank God!  We needed this break from the heat and we really have needed all this rain we've been getting!  I wouldn't mind it keeping up until Saturday at 6am! I was almost in shock when driving home from the gym at 6:30 last night, I saw 77*F.  What?!  I did a dance!

Speaking of the gym, I went last night.  I ran.  8 miles actually.  In 72 minutes.  I was happy with that.  That's about the pace I want to run during my 1/2 marathon in November.  I told myself I was going to do between 8-10 miles.  If I ran it within a 72min:--second time, I could quit at 8, if not, I'd have to run to 10 and hope to get to a 9:00/mile pace by then.  Well, I was quite speedy after my first couple miles.  I ran the last 1/2 mile at a 6:58!  Hey, gotta do what you gotta do to finish.  I had to force myself into running last night (as I have had to do a lot lately) but I was happy to have finished it.

Stuff's been going down in my neck of the woods.  Not the best kinds of stuff either.  I'll be happy to be eating hibachi with some of my girls here in a bit.  Maybe take a bit of a mental break, although the hubs has been awesome at mental breaking with me lately too.  We enjoyed some of the finest foods today for lunch:

 We had "Messy Mexican Dogs"...it looked a little something like this...with jalapeños!

Delicious!  But so, SO unhealthy!

I'm not gonna lie.  It was worth it.

Don't forget to enter my giveaway!  This is your last chance!  I'll be drawing the winner via random.org and announcing tomorrow!  Good luck!

Barefoot Blue Jean Night

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Never gonna grow up

Never gonna slow down

We were shinin' like lighters in the dark

In the middle of a rock show

We were doin' it right

We were comin' alive

Yeah, caught up in a Southern summer, barefoot, blue jean night

Maybe I should become a travel agent...

This weekend went by too quickly as always.  I kept saying Saturday yesterday like it still was Saturday instead of Sunday.  John kept reminding me it was Sunday in the tone of voice that people tell children things right before they pat them on the head.  It kept bringing me disappointment.  Oh well.  It's real life.  And thankfully I have to a job to go to on Mondays, although, I'm really praying that the whole lottery thing works out for me...I could be so productive outside of working!  Like, travelling the world!

I've been dying for a vacation lately and I love planning trips.  Planning trips is almost as much fun as going on them for me.  So, I give you...

My Top 10 Vacation Plans

1. Costa Rica

It's beautiful

has great surfing

and an amazing rain forest!

I would like to get there in the not so distant future.  If I can get our miles for our credit card squared away by then, it's a done deal!

2. A trip up the Pacific Coast Highway with many stops!

The Redwood Forest 

The trees are huge

beautiful and magnificent.

California Wine Country

San Fransisco

Big Sur Coast

3.  Germany

There are many reasons I want to go to Germany.  The countryside is spectacular (so I've heard and seen in pictures) the architecture is a work of art and has a history that has effected the entire world.  It is somewhere I've wanted to go since a 4th grade history lesson on World War II.

Frankfurt

Rhine Valley

horrible concentration camps

and lots of pretty castles

4.  Fiji

Hello gorgeous!

amazing reefs and scuba diving

and when I go, I want to stay in one of these!

5.  New York, New York!

I've been to New York once and I thought the city was awesome!  It had so much going on and there was so much to see.  I have to go again and soak it all in once more!

6. United Kingdom

Dublin, Ireland

Edinburgh, Scotland

London

Wales

My heritage is English, Scottish and Irish, so hence this trip.  Beside the fact that it's a beautiful area of the world.

7.  The Swiss Alps

Hiking

Snowboarding?!  Yes, please!

8.  The Grand Canyon & Las Vegas

I've never been to Vegas, but John and I will make it there eventually.  We've talked about doing a white water rafting trip through the canyon where you stop and camp over night a few nights.

9.  Tour of Italy

I went on a whirlwind tour of Europe with my mom a few years ago, but now I want to go back and actually explore certain areas; Italy being one of them.

But I'd also like to see 

Vineyards 

Tuscany

10. A Tour of the Northeast United States

I'd start in DC and revisit the Capital

head through Pennsylvania for a stop in my favorite city of Philly

check out Boston

New Hampshire

A Vermont B&B

And the coast of Maine

If you could go anywhere in the world (forgetting about money) where would you go??

Hurricane Parties & Giveaways!!!

I know most of you aren't Floridians and will think I'm crazy, but I'm excited because it looks like Emily (the storm) will be coming to Florida this weekend!

It looks like it will just be a tropical storm, but we might get Friday off work if that thing speeds up.  Plus, I think storms are pretty neat.  It's amazing how a force like that can come together and become so powerful.  I would never wish a big storm anywhere, but a tropical storm or category 1...I'll take it.  My dad and I would always go out and watch the storms blow through.  When I was young I remember tropical storm/hurricane days being days where you hung around the house with the family, dad made pancakes, and it rained a lot.  I know they can be dangerous, but they're kind of exciting too!  We will see what the end of the week and the weekend brings.  Hopefully, it's a free vacay day on Friday!!

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GIVEAWAY!!!

Next Thursday is my 1 year blogaversary!  So, I figured I would host a giveaway!  The giveaway will include:

Nathan's handheld in pink!

RoadID gift card valued at the cost of the Wrist ID Slim

plus a few other goodies!

To enter (please leave a separate comment for each entry)

1. Must be a follower and tell me what your favorite candy is.

2. Blog about the giveaway and leave a message with the link.

3. Tell me about your favorite workout in detail.

4. Tell me: what do you think the best thing about blogging is?

The winner will be drawn August 11.

hello monday.

This weekend went by entirely too fast...as usual.  Why is it that the weekdays seem to drag by (mostly) and the weekends fly by (always)?

This morning's workout was biceps, abs and a 3 mile run.  I was not feeling the whole gym thing this morning, but after snoozing 3 times (oops) I did drag my happy rear out of bed and to the gym.  I only got in 3 miles because of this, but at least I made it!

This weekend, we had a lot of running around to do, a beautiful wedding and a bit of relaxation and fun-in-the-sun.  Oh, and movies.  A couple of them, actually.  We have become movie-watchin' fools lately haha.

I did make the key lime pie on Friday and it was yummy!  The bro&sis-in-law came over to watch

and eat pie.  I thought Hall Pass was overall entertaining.  A good rental movie.  

Last night, we had sushi for dinner and made our way to bed at 6:00 to watch a movie and put in 

I thought it was a little slow, but it was good.  They really just left you guessing about what the heck was going on until the end. 

On another note: Apparently Congress was listening to me last Friday, and I was happy to hear last night we might have that whole little mess straightened out in Washington for now.  Hopefully they were really thinking about what was best for the American people instead of themselves.  We shall see...

Did you do anything fun/exciting this weekend?

Watch any good movies?