Running, Running, Running, And Then.... WHAT!?!

Ben and I had a bet before we went out to Salt Lake at the end of May. We started it some time back in March. The bet was if we worked out at least 3 times a week, every week until the trip, we get a prize. Woohoo!

I was already in the habit of working out 2-3 times a week. I designed the bet to mostly be a challenge for Ben. :) Despite this, it was actually hard for me to do 3 times a week consistently, every week. Ben fell off the wagon early on. Sad, because we really made the bet to help him with working out more than we did it to help me. But I totally got my prize.

But then I got overzealous and I started going up to 4 times a week for some weeks. I say overzealous because NOW my ankle is totally sore and I cannot run!!!! No!!!! It's all stiff. As if I needed a reminder that I am not an olympian. Give me a break! Not literally, please.

So I have been biking and doing the arc trainer at the gym instead. I am trying to be nice and not run too soon on it because I would really like to be able to run when we go on vacation -- mostly because I don't anticipate I will have access to the gym, the arc trainer or the stationary bike. But i will inevitably want to exercise and could run, if my ankle would cooperate.

Two weeks and counting till we leave. I'll let you know if my little ankle is nursed back to health in time.

A Lovely Sunday

Yesterday was a nice day. I woke up very refreshed at 7:30am. Not bad for the weekend, if I do say so myself. We had signed up to make dinner for one of the family's in our ward and I had a lot of lofty goals in that department -- redemption mainly. The last time we signed up for dinner, our schedules were so swamped we ended up ordering them chinese food. Pathetic, no? So, I was excited to get on with cooking.

This time around, we were doing it all different. I started by making fresh bread. Yup, you read that right. Once the bread was going, I started the roast in the slow cooker with some yummy veggies. And then I made a chocolate thunder cake. Mmmmm. Okay, so I don't know if it was actually mmm because I have never tried it before and we gave it all to the family. But it consists of chocolate cake, sweetened condensed milk, hot fudge sauce and melted white chocolate with peppermint on top for decor. It sounds mmm, right? And with vanilla ice cream, how could one go wrong?

I loved cooking that much food! Ben and I don't cook a lot. And for the most part, that is because we are lazy. But it is also because we just don't have that many eaters. And I love to cook for a crowd, for some reason. They are a family of 6, so I got to cook LOTS of food. I just like doing that.

That took up most of my morning and we don't have church until 2pm. I taught the laurel class. And the girls actually said how much they enjoyed my lesson. We talked about the house of Israel and the Covenant of Abraham. Who enjoys that lesson?!?! I was totally stoked they didn't fall asleep, even more stoked the professed they liked it.

Late that night before we went to bed, I was looking at a sale email I got and something caught my eye -- an LBD. I have been trying to find an LBD. Despite all of my formalwear, I actually don't have one and have had need of one on a couple of occasions. I had to improvise with separates (which I achieved with mixed success). Finding a cute, modest and affordable LBD is kind of a challenge. I thought this one might qualify. So, I bought it.



I'm hoping: 1) it's hemmable. This model is probably 5'10", which means this "knee-length" skirt would come to my mid-calf. :) 2) it doesn't look matronly. The good news is if neither of those things prove to be true, it's returnable.

Oh my. I just admitted that I bought this online on Sunday. It was at like 11pm. And I swear I was incredibly focused on sabbath-like things the whole time. Don't tell Ben. But it kind of put the cherry on top of my Sunday.