#LiveFully Girls Night In

I can’t remember if I told you guys that I have today off.  My law firm is closed for Martin Luther King’s birthday and this girl is happy to have another day because this weekend was pretty jam packed.

Friday at lunch I treated myself to lunch at Roti across the street from my office.  I am really getting into journaling and making plans for my the weekend to make sure I am getting the most out of my time.  It isn’t set in stone, and I am okay with not crossing things off my list if they don’t get done, but I did refer to it a lot this weekend.

I’ve seen all the pictures of bullet journaling, and let’s just say that I am no where close to how pretty those are, but I did buy a ruler over the weekend – Hannah was kind of making fun of my messy lines being the Type A person she is.

Hannah and I ran some errands on Friday night, and by the time we got home it was nearly 9:30, I hadn’t eaten dinner yet and I didn’t do my 30 minute workout, as I had put in my journal.  It was very tempting to just scratch it all together, but as my mindset is changing these last few weeks that I have fully committed to Weight Watchers, I’d been doing the same thing pretty much all of 2016 – do great Monday through Friday, then not count any points for food or wine over the weekend and basically maintain my weight, or lose and gain the same 2 pounds over and over.  So I turned my stove on, got my workout done on YouTube, and made a pita pizza and was eating dinner by 10:20.  (and I got a large Venti water when Hannah got her nightly Starbucks!)

Another “resolution” that I told myself I wanted to do more of in 2017 is take advantage of the group classes at my YMCA.  There are a lot to choose from, but when I saw the Les Mills class, I decided to take that one.  One of my long time blog friends who doesn’t blog anymore, but I follow on Facebook (Erica from Itzy’s Kitchen) teaches these classes. 

The class was an hour long and no joke, it was tough.  Um, just turns out I am not that coordinated and some of the kickboxing moves had me scratching my head a bit.  I was still proud that I was able to do about 85% of the workout – not bad for my first time.  And it felt good to have my workout done for the day by 10 a.m.

Hannah and I had a very eclectic group of women at our #LiveFully Girls Night In Party sponsored by Weight Watchers.  As one of the WW Ambassadors, I was provided a box full of goodies, from wine glasses to crafting supplies.  The idea was to have a Vision Board party.  A vision board is basically to display images that represent whatever you want to be, do or have in life.   I love the door mat they sent me too!

I had the party start at 7:00 p.m., and we spent nearly the first hour just having everyone get to know each other.   It was a nice mix of generations!  This is also the first time I haven’t obsessed over the food when having people over.  I am going to share a new ground turkey wonton appetizer I made later this week – the photos didn’t turn out too well and it deserves it’s own post.  But I had veggie chips, cheese and crackers, nuts and Hannah made her amazeball jalapeno poppers.

Then we spent the next two hours telling stories, drinking wine, laughing – OMG, so much laughing!  But we also talked about serious stuff too, everyone has such different lives – a couple women are divorced, another one just got separated from her husband, I am a widow.  We found a ton of stickers at Hobby Lobby for 60% off – love!  And we had various magazines to draw inspiration from.

We placed them all on the floor so everyone could see what each had made – I loved all of them!

Group photo!

Hannah and I both said we’d love to have more parties like this – next time Jacky I’ll have you and your daughter make the trek to my neck of the woods!

If anyone is thinking of joining Weight Watchers, I have a coupon code – just follow that link below and it will give you the info.

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I worked yesterday and will be sharing recipes for homemade bagels and smoked salmon – holy balls, both looked amazing – I didn’t actually eat either one because our group ate literally everything, but everyone raved about them.  It’s been a while since I’ve made bagels – and Lori, you’ll see how easy they are to make at home!

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Here is your Monday motivation – make it a great day!

UPDATE:  My blog has now been posted over at my part-time job at The Chopping Block – I’ve made my copycat Starbuck’s Muesli bread even easier by letting it rise in the refrigerator while I am at work – less than 8 minutes of hands on time for this delicious bread!  Go check it out here, and if you can leave me some comment love over there, I would appreciate it!  Can’t you find 8 minutes in your day to make this?!