It has been a busy week since I last posted. As I mentioned, I started at my new job. I am loving it there and am so blessed to have this opportunity. I work with a great, young group of people who have been very friendly and welcoming. I am also excited about this job, because some of my good friends work just down the street at Nike. The company holiday party was on Thursday afternoon at the zoo. Pretty neat to get out early your first week of work to celebrate the holiday's :). It also didn't hurt it was a beautiful day out!
One of the nice things about where I am working now, is the options to eat around my building. Even at my last job, I usually brought my lunch 4 days a week and treated myself one day a week. This week was no difference. On Friday I was supposed to meet Michelle at Cafe Yumm but she unfortunately had to cancel. I decided to still go on my own and had a delicious original Yumm bowl on top of mixed greens and garnished with tortilla chips. It was very good! I do enjoy the Yumm sauce, but only like a small amount. I love that this meal comes with brown rice, black beans and avocado; these are some of my favorite foods. After lunch, I was dragging and decided to try out Edge Coffee, located next to Cafe Yumm and across from where I work. I had a soy latte that was very good. Since it was so beautiful out, I decided to soak up the sun and walked around my building a couple of times. Now that I am back to working and spend much of the day sitting, I have gone walking either inside (there is a big loop) or outside on breaks and lunch. Usually at break my co-workers go to and it has been nice getting to know them.
Besides work, not too much else was on my radar. It took a little adjustment getting back into the full time work routine, but I haven't minded it. Despite having to take 217 each day to get to work, I have been pretty lucky traffic wise. Unfortunately, I wasn't feeling top notch this week and felt like I was getting sick off and on throughout the week. I was more than ready for Friday to arrive and have spent this weekend resting, working out, babysitting and celebrating the holidays at my family's annual Christmas brunch.
Each year it has been tradition for Big Jim and I to go get our Christmas tree. We usually chop it down and then get Starbucks together. Because the weekends have been busy for my parents, it worked best for my dad to go get the tree himself this year. He did a great job picking out a TALL tree. We have put it in our family room this year, which is a nice change. We spent Friday evening decorating it and once I get a picture, I will post for all to see.
Workout wise, I have tried to stay active despite not feeling well. I have done some circuit workouts, HIIT workouts and a mix of other cardio/weights. Today I covered 4.25 miles on the treadmill in 35 minutes (30 min. running, 2 1/2 min. each warm up and cool down). For the first time in I couldn't tell you how many years, we haven't made any Christmas cookies... This has been good for the waistline! However, ice cream consumption has not been deterred and I actually just returned from the store to re-stock our ice cream supply!
I hope this week flies by because on Thursday, Adam finally arrives home!!!!
Have a great start to your week and thanks for stopping by :)
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