I'm feeling really good. I'm down ten pounds. I'm tanning some color back into this casperesque body of mine. My teeth are getting whiter. I've drank more water in the past week then I have in the past three months. I had ZERO beers in 7days. And my DC intake is now down to "on occasion." To celebrate all of this, I shall crack a beer & blog! Okay. No beer. I'm on a winning streak.
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| Sisters & SuperStar Directors |
A fabulous Scentsy sista Casie Stevenson sent this to me. It has a bottle cap magnet for every big Scentsy event I have attended. I so badly want to start coloring in a map of the world based on places Scentsy has taken me.
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| Cruising into 2009 - Director Leadership Cruise, Mexican Baja Shine in '09 - Convention, Salt Lake City, Utah Dream it, Do it! - Director Leadership Retreat, Puerta Vallarta, Mexico Cablecars to Coconuts - Hawaii Incentive Trip Intensity 2010 - Convention, Denver, Colorado Beantown Bash - Boston Incentive Trip Director Boot Camp - Boise, Idaho All Hands on Deck - Director Leadership Cruise, Bahamas Spring Sprint - Detroit, Michigan Magical Memories - Disney Incentive Trip Stampede - Convention, Fort Worth, Texas SuperStar Director Summit - Boise, Idaho |
Onward. So month end happens and my house is so disheveled from the craziness that I cannot find a matching pair of slippers. No pair ever stays where I put them, thanks to my cats who carry them in their mouths and then hide them (for certain they were dogs in their past 8 lives...). No shame. I'll sport two rights from two different pairs.
Then Thursday night rolls around and I am ready to be super productive. Until, I open my balcony door to go adjust the timer for the balcony lights (from daylight savings, mind you) and in flies a bird. For 45 minutes, Autumn and I ducked and weaved as a frantic bird flew around the living room. My pedometer tallied 5.1 miles Thursday night. I'm certain 4.3 of them were calculated during my bird escapade.
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| Hard to see. But he's in there. |
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| Toldja. |
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| Fun fact: No, I don't have a couch made by NASA, nor am I slob. Laying tinfoil on the couch cushions when we aren't home keeps the dog off the couch. |
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| Feather remnants. On the ceiling. |
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| This ledge is where Mr. Bird had begun to take up residency. I'll show you, Bird. |
My friend Kelly, immediately after hearing my bird fiasco, shares with me her latest achievement. A family of rats was found living in her attic. She is averaging catching one a day.
You win Kelly. I will gladly take an indoor bird for 45 minutes over knowing rodents are running above my head as I sleep & having to set traps.
Being the Christmas movie fanatic that I am, I of course saw Arthur Christmas on Friday night. The movie was BAD. Don't go. And though it looks to appeal to children, half the time I couldn't understand what the characters were saying in their thick accents and vocabulary choice. On the other hand, going to the theater allowed me to stumble on this exciting little ditty. Titanic is coming back in 3D.
Saturday I had a successful Scentsy party, then Autumn and I headed downtown to the Detroit Urban Craft Fair to feed our Cellar Door Soap Obsession. I'm excited to report that I ordered 100 bars and Brandon will be scurrying in his Elf Shop to get my order fulfilled by Christmas. Check that off the list!
After the Craft Show, we had an AMAZING dinner at one of our favorite places: Texas de Brazil, a churrascaria in Campus Martius Downtown. My mouth is watering just typing about it. If you have never been and are a carnivore, put it on your bucket list. It is dining like none other. Passadores (meat waiters) come to your table with knives and a skewer, on which are speared various kinds of meat, be it beef, pork, filet mignon, lamb, chicken, sausage, or any other sort of local cut of meat. The house meat is a beef top sirloin cap known as picanha, as seen below. YUM.
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| If your table card is flipped to green, that means "Keep the meat coming." If you flip it over to red, they don't stop at your table. |
After dinner, we walked around Campus Martius, so beautifully lit for the Holidays. I love Detroit. I love downtown. I doubly love downtown Detroit during Christmas.
Sunday we tackled mega-Christmas shopping in Birch Run. I am happy to report that half of my shopping is complete. This is a first. Remember, I am deadline driven, so Christmas Eve is typically my shopping day of choice. BUT not this year!
The house got cleaned. Shopping got started. Laundry got done. To-Do list for the week made. Meals planned for the week. And, I relaxed Sunday evening.
For the first time in a long time, I beat Monday out of the starting blocks.
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| mjg |
