Looking at this picture, it tells you many things:

a) I was at the gym at 5:51 am
b) It takes me 4 minutes to get there
c) I desperately need gas (shh! don’t tell Shaun!)
d) It was 33 FREAKIN’ degrees this morning!

For the Bay Area that is COLD! I know for those of you east of me that that is nothing but for us it’s COLD.  You also lose your ability to be in cold weather pretty quickly.  The winter I was in DC I went mountain biking when it was –20* with the wind chill.  It was cold enough that our water bottles froze SOLID while we were mountain biking (the water was being jostled constantly). I also remember remarking that it was quite warm one night and the thermometer said 25*. Besides all that, this morning I felt pretty dang cold!

All I want to do is curl up in bed and read:

But instead, I get to work.  An 8 am meeting at that 🙁

I love how you can see my tree in the reflection of the table 🙂

I have a pot luck later today and I’m going to need to control myself.  I think I’ll be able to do it.  Sadly, I made pumpkin bread for the pot luck and it’s NASTY.  So I have to throw ALL of this away:

I was trying to “healthy it up” and instead I “nastied it up”.  Sometimes that happens 🙁 I’m going to get some dark chocolate and fruit and then stop by the local Beard Papa (we JUST got one in San Mateo) for some cream puffs.  I may take in some pumpkin butter but I can’t figure out what to take with the pumpkin butter that is desserty.  We shall see.

Speaking of pumpkin butter-the giveaway is still going on! You have until noon tomorrow.  In all my excitement to get the giveaway up, I forgot to mention that it’s homemade by me! My own recipe that you can try at home!  All of your comments from the giveaway are making me HUNGRY.

Okay, off to work…