Highs and lows

Happy almost New Year, bloggie friends!  Apologies for my long absence; I spent every waking moment of my “vacation” (it was fun, but wasn’t very relaxing at all!) catching up on sleep, catching up with family, and running around like a crazy person.  I also ate close to my body weight in cookies, a fact my pants are not letting me forget today. 

The past week has been full of awesome highs and not so great lows.  Here are a few:

Highs:

• A fun and stress-free Christmas Eve with my family and Christmas Day with Matt’s
• Spending Christmas morning relaxing and opening presents with the in-laws
• Getting cute new cold weather running clothes from Santa!
• Spending some of my hard-earned $ at the mall – I never go to the mall!
• Buying this bad boy on crazy sale
• Playing Clue for the first time and winning my first game
• Spending time with Matt’s wonderful grandmothers
• Shopping at Wegman’s, also known as the best grocery store in the history of the world
• The rental car agent who was SURE she knew me from somewhere (nope, lady, I live in a city you’ve never visited) and who removed the $0.40 per-mile surcharge on our car rental; 400+ miles home=an additional $160 we did NOT need to spend

Lows:

• Not sleeping well on the soft mattress at the in-law’s house (and the 5-day backache that followed
• Horrendous cramps all day yesterday
• Our 7-hour drive home taking over 8 1/2 hours, thanks to tons of snow and icy driving conditions between Buffalo and Syracuse
• Coming home to a flooded kitchen in our apartment
• Staying up until 2am cleaning our apartment alone (Matt drove out to my dad’s to pick up our pup)
• Matt’s morning today: driving to NYC in rush hour traffic, spending 30 minutes looking for a parking spot, finally finding a spot and dropping off the pup at our apt. only to get a ticket in the 5 minutes he was upstairs ($95!), then coming home from dropping off the car to dog poop all over the floor

Here’s hoping that today is a better day!

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