A Letter of Apology

Dear Old Navy Breezy Blouse,

I owe you an apology.  I was so excited when I put you on this morning and was looking forward to spending the day with you.  But I got lazy and didn’t do my hair.  Then my skirt was a size too big and the belt I tried to keep you in place with just wouldn’t stay put.  I fidgeted the whole day.  I started having angry feelings towards you and questioning our relationship.  Luckily I realized it wasn’t your fault and I just wasn’t prepared to take you out that day.  I was rushed and it was thoughtless of me.  Instead of having a nice time, we had a frumpy dump day.  Next time I promise I will plan better and do my hair just for you. 

Nancy

I’ll make it up to you!

Yoga

I was doing Yoga & Pilates twice a week up to about a month ago.  It helped a lot with my back pain that I get at work being hunched over my laptop all day long.  The Chiropractor didn’t seem to be working as well so per their suggestion I started up Yoga at the gym.  However my work schedule changed about 2 months ago or so and I tried to keep going even though the class started at 8pm and I now got off work at 6pm.  Well about a month ago I gave it up, it was too nice to be done with work and the gym and make it home by 7:30pm to eat dinner, instead of after 9pm like I was doing for so long.  It was a luxury I hadn’t had in years and I didn’t want to give it up.  Well the back pain returned these last couple weeks.  So I’m faced with a decision.  Either start going super late to the gym twice a week or try to do it on my own at home.  I have not been very disciplined in the past to do things on my own at home. I still can’t get myself to do 5-10min of crunches before I go to bed and I’ve done that about only 3 times in the last several months. I’m a person who needs accountability from others, even if it’s strangers at the gym. So tonight I started what I hope becomes a habit.  I went to the gym like normal after work, did cardio for 20-30min and then went home.  I looked up on Netflix Instant play what yoga videos they might have. I clicked on the first one I saw and I really liked it. It’s broken up into five 10 min groups of Yoga workouts for a total of 50 min.  Yoga Basics, Yoga for Buns & Thighs, Yoga for Abs, Yoga Burn, and Yoga for Flexibility & Relaxation.  It was pretty basic yoga moves a lot of it was similar to the class at the gym I liked.  It wasn’t as challenging as I would have liked but I think it will get the job done.  I may try and check out some of the other Yoga videos on Instant play too, maybe I can find a more intermediate workout.  But if you are interested in trying Yoga than I recommend this, if you have Netflix that is. There are other 10 Minute Solution Videos that look interesting: Target Toning, Rapid Results Pilates and Kickbox Bootcamp.  May just have to try all of them.  I’m just thinking I may be able to pull this off.  But it’s only the first day so I don’t want to get ahead of myself. 

Music Monday: Songs of the Fall Season

Growing up I don’t remember noticing the music on the TV shows I watched.  But I would say in the last 5 to 7 years its become a really big trend to play great music during network TV.  Network websites do a good job of posting the playlist of songs on during the season.  The reason I can’t get enough of the music played on my shows is that I’ve usually never heard the song before and I love finding these new gems.
One of my new favorite shows on ABC this fall is Revenge.  I would have never thought it would be so good.  I read that it was an adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo.  And who doesn’t love a good story about someone getting even with their enemies.  The other thing I really like about this show is the music.  Each week it has amazing songs.  Here is my new favorite one, oh and it has piano in it…LOVE IT! I downloaded this on iTunes immediately. 
You can see the complete list of songs played on Revenge this season here.

I heard another great song this week on Grey’s Anatomy.  Grey’s is known for playing great music they even have 2 soundtracks out.  I couldn’t find a good video of the song on you tube.  This is the best I could do.

Sunday Cupcakes

I’m back to baking more cupcakes.  I made some carrot cake cupcakes a couple weeks ago when my parents were in town.  They were probably one of my new favorites.  It’s fun to come up with new ideas and play around with different combinations and flavors. 
Tonight I made Orange Creamsicle Cupcakes.  I came up with the idea one day while driving home from work.  With each cupcake idea I think of I have to do a little Google images research.  I prefer to search images, I guess because I’m mainly a visual learner. But anyways, apparently I’m not the only one with the Orange Creamsicle idea, there were tons out there on the internet, cupcakes, cakes etc… all a little bit different.  I use the different ideas to help complete how I want to make my cupcakes taste and look.  This idea took a lot of different steps.  I had to flavor and color the vanilla frosting to taste and look orange, cut up the little candies for decoration, and make the creamy filling for the center of the cupcakes.  This batch made about 36 cupcakes. I could have filled the cups a little higher for a more puffy top, which might have held more filling, but then I’d have less cupcakes to share.  I tasted one and it was very orangey, not sure about the cream part.  I think I taste tested one too many of the orange gummy candies.  Even now I can still taste the orange candy flavor on my tongue and I just brushed my teeth. Orange you wanting one right about now???