lucky.

i am lucky.

lucky to have 47 people who said something making me feel better about my last post. THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART.

lucky to have several people email me, telling me that everything is going to be OK.

lucky to have a fiance who is willing to go to the store and get all the groceries for the trip to the cabin while i am still at work, allowing me to have time to go to the gym before heading out of town for the night.

lucky to have endurance and strength.. to be strong enough to power me through friday’s HIIT:

(treadmill)

minute #	speed (MPH)	incline (%)
1	5.0	5
2	5.5	5
3	6.0	1
4	6.5	1
5	7.0	1
6	7.5	1
7	6.0	1
8	6.5	1
9	7.0	1
10	7.5	1
11	6.0	1
12	6.5	1
13	7.0	1
14	7.5	1
15	6.0	1
16	6.5	1
17	7.0	1
18	7.5	1
19	6.0	1
20	6.5	1
21	7.0	1
22	7.5	1
23	6.0	1
24	6.5	1
25	7.0	1
26	7.5	1
27	8.0	1
28	2.0	0
29	3.0	10
30	3.0	10

30 minutes, 3.12 miles.

lucky to have a mom who is selfless enough to give me her HRM watch after i lost mine.. only to buy another one for herself.

lucky to have pups who miss us when we leave.. and roommates who take care of them while we are gone.

lucky to have the chance to spend the night at such a beautiful cabin.

lucky to receive products like POM wonderful and kombucha for free~ to make stellar fizzy cocktails.

lucky to have a friend all the way from norway send me some chili nuts. they are delicious.

lucky that i won averie’s giveaway for a mini food processor so i can make TWO INGREDIENT sun dried tomato hummus anywhere i go.

lucky to be in the company of people who LOVE delicious appetizers, just like me.

veggies & greek yogurt ranch dip~

bruschetta~

 

chips & salsa~

 

fruit & dip~

spinach artichoke dip & pita chips~

lucky that we had not one, not two, not three, but FOUR bags of stacy’s pita chips. how did we get so lucky?!

lucky there are yellow labs named sage that remind me of my sweet mable, RIP.

lucky i have the best friends in the world to cheer me up and forget all my worries.

lucky we had a delicious BBQ feast friday night.

pasta salad~

grilled veggies & chicken~

green salad~

lucky someone had a birthday which gave us a reason to make better than (subpar) sex cake!! (a cabin tradition!)

 

lucky i am friends with this birthday girl. i love her to pieces.

lucky i have the ability to throw all rules out the window for a night, and eat cake straight from the pan with everyo else. it tasted like chocolate french toast.

lucky i am slowly but surely becoming a morning person (thanks to the wakeup call challenge) and have the chance to go on nature walks before everyone else wakes up. just me and my shadow.

 

lucky i live in such a beautiful state.

lucky i know how to work a french press, since nobody was up yet and i wanted coffee.

lucky to have such gracious hosts who make us breakfast!

fruit~

(i ate probably half of this bowl of fruit while breakfast was cooking. i cannot tell a lie.)

bacon~

eggs~

and cinnamon bread.

my plate~

(add about 7 pounds of melon to this picture to get the real story.)

lucky we made it home in one piece. goodbye cabin!

lucky marshall loves me enough to spend a whole day inside on the couch with me.. even when i turn into a complete spaz and do silly dances and sing ridiculous songs for hours on end.

lucky i had time to read ALL the blogs in my google reader.. since i sat around all day.. and it is so nice to be caught up with all my favorite friends (no, i still didn’t comment, sorry!)

lucky i have the sense enough to take the day off from working out when my body tells me it needs a break, both physically and mentally. take. a. break. and i did. no workout yesterday.

lucky for sunshine, so we can enjoy our libations on the patio of salt lake city roasting company.

lucky i’m not marshall, who’s sunglasses are missing, thus making him do this adorable frowny face when the sun is piercing his eyeballs. (okay, that was mean, but he is so cute.)

lucky for birthday dinner for my friend darrell, which took me to a new-to-me restaurant.

 

lucky i completed elementary school, so i could read the menu and make my selection:

“grilled chicken piadine: portobello mushrooms, fontina, mixed greens balsamic reduction”

for the record, a piadine is described as a warm, tender, unleavened bread (read: tortilla) wrapped around a variety of savory fillings.  if you want it put into terms that make more sense.. it’s an italian taco, folks.

lucky marshall gave me a bite of his margharita pizza. yum.

lucky we decided fro yo would be a good choice!

lucky i realized it is smartest to put your fruit on the bottom, before the fro yo.

lucky they had graham crackers AND coconut for toppings.

lucky we have jobs so we can pay for 1.69 lbs of fro yo.

lucky to find out i won FOUR giveaways recently. four! thanks coco, amie, danica and ruth! wow.. someone’s luck is turning around.

lucky it is a beautiful day today!! time to get off the computer and enjoy this lovely weather.

see ya later, alligators!

Qs~

1. why are YOU lucky? you saw that question coming from a mile away, i’m sure.

2. weekend highlight?

p.s. my wedding is TWO MONTHS from tomorrow! eeeep!