Three-Posts-In-One

Okay, so my blogging has been pretty sporadic. I'm sorry. I didn't want to bore you with the mundane so I've been waiting for something exciting to happen. Nothing exciting has happened, so instead I've decided to do a summary of what you've missed. Consider this three-posts-in-one.

"Get in Shape, Girl" Update:

Let's refresh. The goals were these:

• No more than 3 (diet) sodas per week
• No more than 3 desserts, sweets or sugary snacks of any kind per week
• No more than 1 meal with anything fried per week (french fries, regular chips, etc)
• At least 20 days of exercise (20 out of 44 days)

Yeah, so I'm a loser. Not the Biggest Loser unfortunately - just a loser. I did so well some weeks and some weeks, not so much. Here's the good news -- I DID meet my goal of exercising 20 of the 44 days. The last few weeks I've started walking/running with my next-door neighbor several mornings a week in the dark-and-early. It's a great system because there were MANY mornings I would have pushed snooze but I knew she would be waiting for me so I got my rear out of bed.

And I had moments of great restraint. Let's focus on those for a minute. There was one day at work when a coworkers brought the most amazing looking cupcakes.
Key lime, OREO, chocolate and red velvet! And there were dozens of them.

I had to endure all of my coworkers comments about how delicious they were. Several people even said they were the best cupcakes they'd ever tasted. I took pictures, but I abstained from partaking. This act alone is worthy of international commendableness (That's really a word! Look it up).

So now that I have talked about all of my triumphs, here is the confession part. 1) I am totally addicted to diet soda (especially Diet Pepsi) 2) Sugary carbs call to me 3) I am weak.

I will set new goals (or the same goals again) AFTER my upcoming vacation.

TV: I was going to write an entire post about the new TV season -- since we all know I love TV -- but is it just me or is everything just mediocre so far? Oh except for THE OFFICE; it was a good season opener. The bad news is that it's only week #2 and I am already behind. I can't keep up with all the shows that I DVR. I'm still trying out a couple of the new shows. Note to my fellow telephiles: let me know what you are liking/not liking and what new shows you're watching.

Concerts & Craigs List:
So many of you know about my love for the band, Switchfoot. I've seen them 4 times in the last couple years. Anyway, they were here last night. I had tickets. I did not go. I'll make the sob story as short as possible. When they first went on sale, I decided not to buy them because they were 60 bucks PLUS it fell on General Conference weekend and so most of the guys in my life would be attending the Priesthood meeting that night. But a few months later, Live Nation had a one-day sale where you could get concert tickets for 10 bucks a piece. I got 4 hoping that I could find someone to go with me. Fast-forward to this weekend -- I couldn't find anyone. (I blame the Buxtons for moving!!) I had to sell the tickets on Craig's List. The good news is that I made 50 bucks. So there's a silver lining in my sad little Switchfoot storm cloud. Oh and I found out they're going to be here for the rodeo in February. Maybe I can find friends by then. :)