Way too long

I hate that I've gone a week without a blog post. I have to find a better way to get on here and blog. As a result, sit back and relax, I've got a lot of blogging to catch up on ;)

I'll start with food highlights

A christmas or two ago I ordered my husband a gift basket of cajun food products. We had one remaining item, and no it wasn't expired, jumbalaya mix. I finally got it out and made it with shrimp and turkey sausage over brown rice this weekend and it was delish! I got him the gift from Cajun Grocer. I orginally found them when I was looking to buy a turducken, which wasn't half bad by the way. I had leftover jumbalaya for dinner last night but rather than rice added greens to it and it was dare I say even more delish. On to todays foods

B - McDonald's egg mcmuffin. I was originally going to go for a nonfat latte and eat some Kashi granola cereal with strawberries at home but the mcmuffin was calling my name. In retrospect I wish I had held out for the cereal but ah well.
L - I met my mom for lunch at Beef O' Bradys. She usually takes me to lunch on my birthday but my birthday is tomorrow and I'm working during the day so there you go. I had a blackened fish sandwich and fries. Shouldn't have eaten the fries but their curly fries are so darned good :)
D - Lean Cuisine asian potstickers, banana
Snack - Ghirardelli dark chocolate with raspberry filling

Exercise -
I've gone to Zumba for the past 2 fridays and just love it. I found out she's also offering the class on Monday evenings so if I can swing it I'd like to go to that one as well. With doing zumba it's really gotten me into the groove of exercising again. Both Sunday and last night I walked 3 miles and today did 45 min. of legs,abs, arms, etc.

Weight loss -
I'm now 8 lbs away from my original goal that I set to be at on September 16th. I knew 2/3 months ago that there just wasn't any way that I'd reach it but being so close has definitely given me that added fire I need to get there as soon as I can.

Life - I'll be 33 tomorrow. Yuck, yuck, yuck. I've gotten into a really good routine with the Oil of Olay Regenerist serum which I really like by the way but I figured as a birthday gift to myself that I should go out and buy an arsenal of "good god don't let me look old" stuff. I went to CVS because while I'm willing to put out a bit of money I certainly am not going to nor am able to break the bank for it. I was headed for the Olay section when I walked past a display of cool looking stuff. Vickery and Clarke Natural Apothecary products. They had a bunch of really cool stuff (check out the link) for really awesome prices so I thought, oh why not. I'll have to report back in a few weeks with a review but for now I have the vitamin A&E face moisturizer, eye cream and anti-aging lip treatment. We'll see. I read an article in a recent issue of Allure about how you can pretty much slap as much stuff like that on your face as possible and not to worry about it causing zits and such. It also said to layer with the thinnest layer of product on bottom working your way up to the thickest for maximum penetration. I can't find the damn magazine to quote what exactly they said but regardless, I'm painting on as much stuff as I can in my war against wrinkles ;)
I read a really good book this weekend The Last Queen by C.W. Gortner. My only regret is that I read it so fast it was over with. It's historical fiction based on Queen Juana, often referred to as Juana the crazy or Juana la loca, daughter of queen Isabelle and King Ferdinand of Spain. She was also sister to Catherine of Aragon, 1st wife if King Henry the VIII. I just adore this time period. I've started a new book, Mr. Darcy, Vampyre by Amanda Grange. It's supposed to be a follow up to Pride and Prejudice and I'm only into the first couple of chapters or so so there jury is still out on how I feel about it. I adore Pride and Prejudice so much that I'm finding it difficult to really get into this one. I tried reading Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife a few years ago (another contemporary follow up) but after several attempts just couldn't get into it. And lastly, I saw a cute movie today, New in Town, starring Renee Zellweger. It wasn't oscar worthy by any means but a fun movie none the less.
And lastly, I'm officially attempting to be an active twitter user, my username on there is amyms5 if you're so inclined to look for me ;)

I'll try to blog to my so that I can be a total douche and wish myself a happy birthday.

Until then
~amy

ack! totally forgot to mention - super excited about the premier of Biggest Loser tonight!