31 candles on her birthday cake

And yikes… how did I get to another birthday so quickly I ask you? I am actually quite excited to celebrate my birthday this year, I just have a feeling that this year is going to be full of fun an all sorts of surprises.  Since my birthday actually falls over a weekend, I am going to celebrate starting with a happy hour after work at my favorite place for margaritas. I cannot get too crazy because in the morning I am running a 10k in Central Park (I am nervous about the cold, the distance, and well the hangover too if I am being completely honest).  Saturday night is going to be the insane night out though, heading to see Professional Bull Riding with my friends. I am ridiculously excited for my cowboy themed outing – it best not disappoint.  Hope you also have a fun weekend lined up – hopefully I have lots of fun stories to report back on.

Ode to Postagram

Who doesn’t love a good iPhone app? How about one that turns your pictures into a lovely postcard that gets sent to your friends and family via the US Post? I started using Postagram right after Thanksgiving, and it’s my new favorite way to send little hellos to my friends and family. I love that you can pick out a photo right from your phone, write a personal message and then just send and less than a week later this fun little postcard shows up in the mail about a week later. I am a huge fan of sending a postcard from something fun I’ve done with people, or just of things I know they like to see.  I am a bit addicted to sending them these days- it’s just too fun not to do. 

(Photo from Postagram)

promise of a new day

Champagne and Raspberries- Lunch of Champions

Hello readers- are we sensing a theme this week? Not all intentional – just as I thought about what I want for 2013, and things I’d like to do to challenge myself to do in the new year, well the words just couldn’t be stopped.  One thing I am hopelessly bad at is bringing my lunch to work, I am one of those habitual buyers of lunch just because it’s so easy (I have a work cafeteria so I don’t even have to go outside, ever). I am not a big eater of the bad things, it’s typically salad, but I am wondering if I can actually rise to the challenge of planning enough ahead to bring my lunch to work at least four times a week in January – if I am successful, then I’ll see if I can continue the trend throughout the rest of the year. Seems like a rather simple thought, but I really struggle with that pre-planning that goes into being able to do this on a regular basis. Lame- I know but this is really one of those things I’d like to master, mainly because it means I can really be responsible for what I eat during the work day. One of the ways I plan on tackling this little challenge is trying to cook a few things over the weekends and freeze up some portions so I can just pop things into my lunch sack (ha, I wrote sack, and laughed like a bumbling idiot for like 15 minutes, yep I am about as mature as thirteen year old boy). Hopefully, I can keep up my good intentions through out the year, but lunch is just one of those things I think I can tackle.

all is quiet on new year's day

Welcome to 2013- I decided that I’d take off the end of the year from my blogging so I could start off 2013 with a fresh outlook and feeling ready to dive back in. It was nice to relax and just not worry about trying to think of fun things to post, or think of fun things to post but get ready to have fun and busy start to 2013.  Right now I am debating a blog name change- I just don’t really love the way “a few of my favorite things” sounds any more. I also don’t really feel like it fits the blog. I am not really that into showing things around the web to buy or new trends, etc. I still like to do that on occasion, but it’s much more a back burner blog post these days. I find the blogs I like to read are just very life style orientated, taking on the life of the blogger, which is where I think I started to head more and more throughout 2012.  For now, I’ll be jotting a few ideas on my notepad at my desk, so maybe in a month or so you’ll see a better more aptly named space.

Also on the 2013 agenda is to just enjoy the little things more and more – take more time out of the busy life to do simple things, like cook dinner, make it out for a jog, sign up for some strange class or discussion. Hoping that I can stick to this plan this year… hold me to it won’t you please?

(photo from pinterest)