Yeah, I know. But, in all honesty, the blogging just tends to be what falls by the wayside when I have other options! I'm going to try (yet again) to be better.
So. What have I been up to this past year...
Well, LOTS! (Including gaining 10 pounds back.)
I've made a couple of wedding cakes:
And a baby shower cake:
And I'll be making a birthday cake for my goddaughter's birthday party this weekend.
The hubby & I went on our HoneyVersaCation in June. We celebrated our 13th wedding anniversary by finally taking our honeymoon & an honest-to-god vacation all rolled into a 2 week trip.
We spent 5 days at Disney World Resorts (we stayed at the Pop Century). Epcot, Magic Kingdom, Hollywood Studios, Animal Kingdom. So much fun! We'd like to go back in October of this year for Oktoberfest & the 5K around Epcot... but we'll see if we can make it happen.
Then, we hired a Towncar to deliver us to Port Canaveral, where we boarded the Carnival Dream for a 7 day Western Caribbean cruise. That was AWESOME! We went SCUBA diving (fot the first time ever) in Cozumel. (That's a story in its self... so I'll post that later.) We took a Rum Runner River tour in Belize, where we tried 22 different sugar cane alcohols and bought 6 liters and I lost my sunglasses overboard on the river portion of the tour. We were going to learn how to wind surf in Roatan, but I picked up a lung goo & we decided that wind/ocean/exertion was probably a bad idea when we still had 4 days on the boat to go. In Costa Maya, we went on a tour of some Mayan ruins (Chochoban) & got to climb on a couple of the pyramids. (If you want to see pictures of our trip, check out the HoneyVersaCation folder on my Smugmug site.)
It was rough coming home & getting back to the grind of work.
But, I had a little bit of INXS to make it a bit better at the end of July!!
I saw them at the Mountain Winery in Saratoga, CA on July 19:
And at the Pearl Theater (Palms Resort) in Las Vegas, NV on July 23.
The A.MAZ.ING thing about the Vegas show?? I won the fan club contest!! That meant I got to Meet & Greet the band:
AND!! I got to see the show from the wings of the stage!!
And the guys signed the stuff I brought with me (just in case, ya know) and Tim & Kirk gave me picks:
Now, on to the purported reason behind the blog... diet/exercise!
So, I'm back to logging all of my food in Spark People. And rather than trying to eat to a strict "diet" plan, I'm doing a sort of Clean/Low-Carb hybrid. Basically: Meat, vegetables, fruit, & some dairy. A little bit of whole grain, but very little. I also am working on eating 5-6 small meals a day rather than the 2-3 huge meals. I'm getting right around the same calories, but my blood sugar is treating me much better.
I'm signed up to do my first 5K! In Lake Tahoe on September 24. Hopefully, now that I have a set-date goal, rather than a nebulous one, I can get my tukkus in gear and get to the point where I can maintain a good speed.
Also, I'm signed up for the Edible Pedal 50. A 50 mile bike ride on September 18. And I bought a new bike!! I'm really excited for this one. I did the MS150 mumblemumble years ago, and had a great time on it. My friend Allie is the one who suggested this. She wanted to do it, but didn't want to do it alone. So... Hubby & I will be joining her!
My new bike, the Fairfax:
Okay. Enough for now... I'm going to try to post a minimum of twice a week. We'll see. :-)
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