MERRY CHRISTMAS & only 36 more days!!

I woke up about 7:30am and braved the crazy wind and cold and went for a 40 minute run in Golden Gate park. Ominous clouds were threatening rain and... of course... as I hit my turn around point, it began to POUR and loud claps of thunder... good times. And no, my "water resistant" jacket is just that. It resists some amount of water, but not water proof. LOL. I was way less conserned about me being wet than I was about my iphone in my pocket getting wet!

Garrett and I loaded up the car with the turkey, my cake, egg nog and rum and headed out... well tried to - the car wouldn't start. Good times. Luckily I have the most handy boyfriend ever!! The battery cable was loose and dirty so he got it all straightened out and we were on our way and not running too late.

Kristen made Grammy's famous cinnamon rolls - mmm..... and we had egg nog and cookies - then we all had serious sugar comas for about an hour or so, lol. It was a lovely day, just being lazy, listening to xmas music, hanging out and waiting for the 7 hour grilled turkey. It was worth it - oh what a feast! We had the grilled turkey, stuffing, (I made the gravy), a yummy mango/avocado salad, baked potatos and artichoke & spinach casserole and of course topped the feast off with my Rum cake and some pumpkin ice cream. Garrett's friend Austin joined us for dinner as well.

I hope everyone had a Wonderful Christmas!

Much love,

Shelby

Christmas Eve - Wednesday no track night

Christmas Eve I had to work until about 3:30pm. Then I went to the grocery store to pick up stuff for a last minute planned xmas eve dinner - a "festive" pork loin :) It was fun, Garrett and I opened some champagne and cooked dinner together. Along with the stuffed pork loin with a side of mushroom sauce, we had roasted new potatos and asparagus and it turned out really well! After eating we opened our stockings. I got 2 movies - Wall-e and the Sex in the City movie!! :) I also got some dark chocolate candy mix and the funniest part - hand warmer thingys... I forget what they are called, but they come individually wrapped and you shake them to get the chemical reaction going and they heat up. People usually put them in their gloves when skiing and stuff. Since I am ALWAYS cold, Garrett thought they would come in handy and now I am a ton! hahaha. I gave Garrett a book, some favorite candy and an itunes gift card. I wasn't able to get out and run due to cooking dinner and then also having to bake my chocolate rum cake for Christmas Day. We capped off Christmas Eve with "It's a Wonderful Life" and fell asleep.

Happy Holidays!! Monday my personal day off

I knew the holidays were going to be rough for training...

Monday 12/22 I met up with the gang to do our morning buddy run, painful as usual - my body is just so tired and stiff on Mondays. Once I'm done with the run I feel awesome and ready to conquer the Monday, so that's a good side.


I took off this Monday for some holiday lazy time since I wasn't taking off any other extra days during the holiday season. Garrett and I met a friend for breakfast in Union Square and started with Irish coffees. No comparison to the divine Buena Vista Irish coffees, but good enough. I mean, it's Monday... I'm not working... it's a beautiful cold day in SF and I am starting it with an Irish coffee... see what I'm saying? :) Then I took Garrett down to see the Macy's window displays with the SPCA puppies and kittens in different dressed up windows, all up for adoption - sooooo cuuuuute! We decided to go see a movie and picked "Yes Man" since it was starting at the right time. Cute/funny typical Jim Carey movie. Garrett & I then wondered about and decided to pop over to the St. Regis Hotel to visit our friend Barrett who bartends there.

After hanging out for a bit, we wondered our way over to the Metreon where I showed Garrett the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial (very cool btw) and then browsed a bookstore. It was 3:30, too early for dinner and we didn't want to leave downtown.... so we saw another movie! 7 Pounds this time. Can anyone tell me what 7 pounds is referring too?? It's driving me crazy! Pretty good movie, but moves kind of slow. So after the movie we went down to North Beach to our favorite mom-n-pop italian restaurant for dinner. The End. :)


PS: Found out what "7 Pounds" refers to:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Pounds

Prior to the film's release, the title Seven Pounds was considered a "mystery" which the studio refused to explain. Early trailers for Seven Pounds also kept the film's details a mystery. Director Gabriele Muccino explained the intent, "The [audience] will not know exactly what this man is up to."But, as later revealed in the film, 7 pounds is the average weight of a human heart. [9] The human heart, in fact, weighs about 10.5 ounces in an adult male. [10] Seven Pounds is actually a reference to The Merchant of Venice, and Shylock's demand of a pound of flesh in exchange for a debt.[11] Ben/Tim was responsible for seven people's deaths in the accident, hence he has seven pounds of debt to repay

Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound_of_flesh