Wonderful Wednesday

It is a sunny and cool morning here in Houston and my mood has drastically improved from yesterday.  I am very pleased with myself.  Rebecca and I knocked out a 2 mile walk this morning that we thought was going slower than usual, but we ended up being right on target with our usual pace.  Great start to the morning.

I finally remembered to gather one of my stocking stuffers and bring it to work with me this morning.  Check it out!

Bright Colored Pens!

Santa knows me so well!  The interesting thing about this package of bright colored pens is that it includes a brown pen.  I have never seen a brown pen before.  Pretty cool if you ask me.  Yes, I am that girl.

The pen color today will be turquoise, not brown, because I am trying to be unpredictable.  :)  Have a wonderful Wednesday everyone!!

Hmmm, Tuesday

I am having that kind of morning.  The weather yesterday was very blah, but the bonus was that I got to leave work early.  They were letting people head home because of the weather and flooding.  I had a great time hanging out with my mom and Sam for a few hours and then I headed home.  I had a relaxing afternoon, made some dinner for me and the hubs.  No pictures since I wasn't very thrilled with it.  I did my baked tilapia from this post, but did it with mahi mahi and I was not impressed.  It's not a very pretty fish either...no offense.

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I didn't expect the taste to be all that different between the tilapia and the mahi mahi, but the mahi mahi was definitely a much stronger tasting fish and did not do well in this dish.  Oh, well lesson learned...I will stick with the tilapia for that particular recipe.

I went to sleep watching the LSU/Alabama game, so at a reasonable time, but I was wide awake at 2:30 AM.  I am sure this is the cause of my blah mood today.  I was awake for a couple of hours and ended up sleeping in past my walk with Rebecca this morning.  I almost feel like if I had sacrificed the sleep and gotten up and walked I might feel better.  What do you think?  Is movement or sleep more important?

I leave you with a picture of Sammy since I can't have that fish be the only picture I put in this post.  :)

Weekend Recap and Weigh In

It is a gloomy day here in Houston!  Ugh!  That didn't stop workout buddy and neighbor, Rebecca and me from getting our walk in this morning.  I was proud of us...we didn't have any rain while we were out there, but we did have some thunder and lightening.  We got our half hour in and almost two miles done.  I didn't get on the scale this morning because by the time I had remembered it was weigh in morning I had already had way too much water for the weigh in to be accurate, so I skipped it.  I am glad I make the rules for this.  :)

This weekend was boring in the blog sense, but busy in the chores and errands department.  We did have lunch at Lankford Grocery which is delicious and Guy Fieri approved. 

If you are in the Houston area, I recommend it.  The burgers are awesome, cheap and HUGE you could definitely split one with someone and be plenty full.  They don't take credit cards though, so be sure to have some cash on you if you stop in.

We took down our Christmas tree...exciting I know.  It looked like a dead Christmas tree exploded in our house.

And then made a run for it.

Oh, wait...that's pretty much what happened.  After we cleaned everything up (thank you husband for doing most of the work on that!) we got to put our other new end table in place.

Love it!

Sammy did a lot of pretending she was the cat by lying on the back of the sofa in the den.

She's so pretty.

This morning's tea is being enjoyed from my Valentine's Day mug.

We watched a Bones episode last night (love that show) that took place on Valentine's Day.  The characters were having the usual disagreements about Valentine's Day.  I am and have always been okay with the day...single or in a relationship...I like hearts and candy.  I do tell my husband not to get me flowers on that day since I think they are over priced.  So tell me, how do you feel about Valentine's Day?

The Boulders

As promised in yesterday's post here are my thoughts on the resort we stayed at in Arizona...The Boulders.

First of all the resort (at least most of it) is located in Carefree, AZ...how can you not love a vacation spot called Carefree?  The guest rooms were awesome, we stayed in what they call a Casita and it was the perfect size, complete with sitting area, private patio/balcony and fireplace.

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Our room looked exactly like this photo from their website, which I loved since I got exactly what I expected...and it was amazing.  The fire was super easy to light and they cleaned the fireplace and reset it each day while you were out.  Speaking of which housekeeping was awesome...each morning when we would go for our walk and off to breakfast we would return to a perfectly clean room.  It was as if they knew our schedule.

The resort is surrounded by nature/hiking trails, which we loved for being active each day and they were gorgeous.

The golf courses made me wish I played.

Another thing I liked about the resort was that their resort fee covered gratuity for everything (except restaurant service) so you didn't need to have a tip ready for spa service, someone carrying your luggage or housekeeping.  That was nice.

The resort had a main lodge which contained two restaurants, a gift shop and a lounge/bar; a clubhouse which had the golf and tennis shops and two restaurants; a shopping center which had a lot of shopping and 3 restaurants; a spa which had the fitness center, a salon and restaurant.  There was plenty to do right on site.

The only negative I can come up with is that if you did not have a car you pretty much had to eat all your meals on site, which the food was delicious, but got expensive after a while.  The resort is so big it made walking offsite to restaurants not very easy to do...and cab fare to offsite restaurants could really add up.  We did stock our room with snacks and wine (duh) so we only paid for about two meals a day.

The resort also had a lot of suggestions of things to do.  We decided on a hot air balloon ride with Hot Air Expeditions.  It was amazing.

 

The trip was awesome, I would definitely recommend a stay at The Boulders!