I did eat a piece of sprouted grain bread with PB and jam before my workout but after my workout I had this:

(2 carrots, 2 stalks of celery, and half an apple-I could really taste the celery)

Followed by this:

That’s a Grande Soy Latte in my new reusable Starbucks cup!

I needed the caffeine after my night last night . I couldn’t fall asleep and then when I did, I was up almost every hour.  Then Lucy woke up at 4:30 (which she HARDLY ever does).  I was in the middle of a nightmare and I went right into her thinking it was part of the nightmare (which if I just let her settle, she goes back to sleep and I don’t have to rock her).  She fell back to sleep around 4:45 but I was wide awake.  I got 4, maybe 5 hours of sleep last night 🙁

BUT, I got up and went to spinning.  It was a new instructor and I can tell that she was trained by the same guy that trained me.  She has some kinks to work out but she’s GOOD.  And?  She takes away my desire to start teaching again.  The old Monday teacher made me want to teach again because I didn’t like her style. But teaching spin, in addition to everything else on my plate, is not feasible right now or for a loooooong time.  Plus, you don’t get nearly the workout when you teach as compared to the workout you get when you actually take the class.

Yay for meeting a few of my goals this morning-I also folded last night AND got gas this morning (even though I SO did not want to).  Hooray for the year of 30 (Yo30).

Yesterday was a great last day of my vacation.  I went to brunch with some old friends.

At one time I worked with six of the people in that picture (the rest are significant others).  I now only work with 1 :(. One went to Thailand to teach English and travel and is now in school. Another left to go back to school is speech pathology and starts her new job as a speech therapist any day now, and 3 left to go get that start-up feeling back that we lost once we were bought by the man. I also went to college with five people in that picture.  Man, we’re getting old 😉

Lu was there too:

(Caption: “Who me?”)

And she was SUCH a good girl.  It didn’t hurt that Jesse played with her the entire time.  He is SO hired.  Jesse, we will GLADLY pay for your dinner (and Amanda’s too) anytime you want to come out with us.

She got some very fun pancakes:

And was still hungry for CRAYON:

I tried to get a picture of the blue crayon on her teeth with my P&S.

You can see it if you look really closely.

Alright, I need to face the music and actually look at how many emails I have after being out for almost 2 weeks. *GULP*

But first, did you see my challenge? I invite anyone to join.  No need to pick 30 goals but any goal/s would be fun.  And it’s always better with friends!

How is the first working day of the New Year treating you?

Until later!