Happy New Year!

I hope you all enjoyed your New Year (and your time off). I certainly have. Here’s a run down of my epic New Year’s adventures.

I got off of work early on Friday. (Always a treat)

Saturday I went to yoga, ate some strawberry pancakes, then went to a party at my friends’ apartment. Aren’t we pretty?

The best part was this party was about 10 blocks from my apartment, so I didn’t have to ride the subway with drunken idiots. The worst part was I decided to wear my new heels and my feet were killing me. We couldn’t find a cab at the end of the night and I ended up walking home 10 blocks in my stockings. Not ashamed to admit that at all. (Ok, maybe a little)

Sunday afternoon was brunch with my friends. I made a super tasty egg strata with asparagus, mushrooms and red pepper and homemade salsa (made with my snazzy new food processor). We also had our very own New Year’s baby.

New Year's baby looks sleepy :)

On Monday, I watched the Rose Parade and did my laundry in the morning. In the afternoon, Josh and I went to sushi lunch and the Sherlock Holmes movie. All in all, I say it was a pretty good weekend.

Now to the important stuff- the New Year’s resolutions. I treat my resolutions different than other people. I don’t like to make resolutions that you can fail at, like no more chocolate. I like resolutions like eat less chocolate. Sometimes you might fall off the wagon, but then you don’t have to feel like a total failure. So here’s my (kind of long) list of things that I’d like to work on in 2012.

• Pay off my credit cards. Just one more to go!
• Become a legitimate staff member at work.
• Run Chicago marathon in under 5 hours. I’d also like to actually train properly and push myself a little harder. As much as I hate it, weight training (and having muscles) is pretty important to marathon running.
• Eat smaller portions at meal time and SLOW DOWN.
• Just because food is free, doesn’t mean I NEED to eat it.
• Eat less meat and certainly less “mystery” meat. If I’m going to eat meat, it should be something quality and organic.
• Play piano once a week. I always liked playing the piano, and now I can barely read music. Not cool.
• Blog more. I know you’re all DYING to know what I’m up to :)
• Set up blog analytics.

Seems like a tall order, but I think I'm up to the task in 2012. Here's to an amazing year!

Christmas Adventures

Ok, as promised, here’s a run down of the rest of my Christmas adventures.

MUPPETS! My mom and I went to see the Muppet movie. It was wonderful and so much fun. I love the Muppets!

EPIC SHOPPING! What would Christmas be without lots of shopping? I got that covered. Thanks to Megan and Andrea, we literally spent hours at the mall and Target. Our epic shopping trip also included the Muppets. I found the last DVD of the Muppet Christmas Carol. Megan was sad.

RUBY’S! Apparently I really like going to Ruby’s. Megan, Andrea and I took a shopping break for lunch at Ruby’s. (Later we went back to Andrea’s, played games, and took silly pictures.)

The next day I met up with Danielle and we went the Ruby’s in Huntington Beach. Not only did I get to see Danielle (YAY!) it was a perfectly beautiful day to be on the beach.

EPIC NUTCRACKER WATCHING! Ok, this might not sound epic, but trust me. It was. Ovation has a Nutcracker marathon on Christmas eve and all day Christmas. My mom and I watched four different productions of the Nutcracker. It was really fun to compare the different productions. I now consider myself a Nutcracker connoisseur. My favorites were the traditional Royal Ballet production and a production from Australia called Nutcracker: The Story of Clara.

It should also be noted that I drove on the 405 without injuring myself or others. Hurray!

The next adventure….NEW YEAR’S!!!

Good Riddance

At the end of every year, we celebrate Good Riddance Day in Times Square. You can shred, smash and shed all your bad memories from that year.

I think the picture speaks for itself.

You can't always get what you want...

I will post more about my epic Christmas adventures later, but first, a little story.

Last year my company gave us all gift cards to the cafeteria for Christmas. Sure, it's not some big Christmas bonus, but at least it's useful. I was really looking forward to my cafeteria card and all the tasty cafeteria sandwiches I was going to order. When I got back to work today, I found out that we all got umbrellas instead of cafeteria cards. I was kinda bummed.

When I left work, it started to drizzle. By the time I got out of the subway, it was pouring and I was pretty happy to have that umbrella.

Make what this what you will, but it seemed like there was some moral here.

So far, in Cali...

Here's a brief run down of what I've been up to in California:

-Visited family in the desert then out in El Centro. We even made a pit stop at Salvation Mountain to look at all the pretty colors.

-Eaten LOTS of Mexican food

-Gone to LOTS of yoga. There's a new studio in town with a great deal for new students, so I've gone to yoga every day. I've done yoga with weights and an Iyengar class. I even did my first ever headstand!

-Did some work (boring)

-And finally (this is what I'm most proud of) I watched the entire final season of Avatar: The Last Airbender. It was pretty awesome.

Tomorrow I get to see my friends and I think we're going to do some last minute shopping!

You may have noticed I haven't been posting as much. Well I'm back in California for the holidays. Pretty much just hanging out with Opie.

Once I get the wireless set up here I'll post more.

Pilates Bootcamp

Since I had taken a sneak peek at this class, I knew what I was expecting, but somehow I thought I would be better at it. Turns out, I’m not. Things like jumping into and out of plank were really hard for me, and there were a lot of things that required a whole lot of coordination, like bicycling your arms while jogging up and down from this bench. I’m surprised I didn’t fall flat on my face. It was overall a good workout, and it worked more than just the core, which some people might enjoy, but I don’t really think this class is for me. My whole body is definitely a little sore today, but not really as bad as I expected. I like classes that focus more on form and how to do things, but this (being a bootcamp and all) was more about just doing it, even if it sounds totally absurd and you’re not even sure how you could possibly do that. If I want to run around in circles while someone yells at me, I can just go run with Coach Ramon. For now I think I’ll stick to regular pilates.

But, hey, at least I didn’t die. So that’s good.