On-The-Go Mix

This morning before I went to the gym I threw together a quick "On-The-Go" gym mix, it could have been a bust, but it was suprising very motivating, enough to the point I was fist pumping while on the treadmill. But i'll chalk that up to the good pace I was keeping.

As requested on twitter - here is a list of the songs, it was on shuffle so the below order was not how it played.

Boom Boom Pow - Black Eyed Peas

I Gotta Feeling - Black Eyed Peas (this one came mid run and was key)

I'm Shipping Up to Boston - Dropkick Murphys

Poker Face - Lady GaGa

Right Round - Flo Rida (this will make every mix for the foreseeable future)

Stronger - Kanye West (was ok, but I may be over it)

Who Knew - Pink (another one that always makes the cut)

Mr. Brightside - The Killers (everyone MUST try this one, it is sure to please)

Love and Memories - O.A.R. (always like to add a little O.A.R.)

Live Your Life - T.I.

As I said, before I left the house I threw these together on my iPhone. I normally only use my iPod while at the gym as it has about 4,000 more songs then my phone does. But didn't want to bring anything more to the gym then I actually needed. No I do not use or check my phone while at the gym but was going to the store after and needed my "list". haha...as if I need to explain myself, judgey judgey pants...

Happy snowy Sunday from Boston, if you're watching the Pats do you feel Christmas in the air?

Christmas Parties and Coughing

So I'm still sick and like Music Guy said we shouldn't go to our friends Christmas Party because of it. But I've been so ba humbug the last few weeks that I figured a fun filled Beacon Hill Christmas Party would do the trick to get me into the spirit! I think it worked! Though my cold is not any better (dare i say worse). Here's a little picture of my new friends I met at the party last night, Hadley, Kim & Kimba. Kim and I of course bonded over our name, at one point she asked her friend if she should starting using "Kimberly" instead of "Kim", too cute! They were a fun group to hang out with! MG's sister J and her husband G were there also, it's always nice to see them!

My doctor was on call today and I spoke with him this morning and he said "God you sound terrible", I pay good money for that advise people! He told me to keep doing what I'm doing and to come in tomorrow morning and see him. Just by talking to be on the phone he thinks it's bronchitis. So I did ask him if I could skip the visit and if he could just give me some drugs, he didn't think that would work and wants to do a chest x-ray as I have asthma. So let's look at the upside of going to the Doctor's: the office is in Beacon Hill right by the Whole Foods, and I need to do our Christmas dinner shopping. I can then run quickly to Trader Joe's to get the rest of the shopping done, i.e. buy wine! Has anyone had the Trader Company wine (Velvet Moon, Honey Moon) it's $5.99 and pretty good! Thanks A for bringing it over! I'm already taking tomorrow as a vacation day so I'm happy to not have to go during work.

Did i mention my ribs hurt from all of my coughing? I don't think I'm a baby when it comes to being sick, but this cold might be different. Let's just pray I get better in time for Christmas, no body wants me coughing all through mass.

Has anyone ever tried a Neti Pot? My dad says it worked wonders when my step-mom was sick. So I might quickly run out and get one, why not?! Though the going out part doesn't seem to appealing.

Can I tell you Facebook is the new "we need to exchange phone numbers/email address", it's now, "Are you on Facebook, if so what's your last name so I can friend you", it's a good way to know way more about a person then you ever wanted to. And you have a better probability to hang out if you're seeing what they're doing all the time. That being said, I have three new friends from the party last night. They were super fun girls and I look forward to seeing them again!

Random post I know, I'm watching the Pats game, blogging and trying not to annoy my husband by coughing all over the place. I think he's fed up with the extra noise in the house! :) In sickness and in health my friend!!

Back to bed for me. Humph!

My day....

A time line of Kimba's Sunday:

7:42am: Woke up

7:56am: Sorelle's for a latte

8:10am: gym

9:38am: leave gym head to Target

10:25am: check out at Target and laugh to the cashier about how I can't believe I spent under     $50. With absolutely NO reaction. Whatever, you guys would have laughed.

10:33am: drive across the parking lot to Costco and pray this does not take too long

11:00am: thankful I was in and out, off to spend over $50 on gas (still not "full")

11:14am: head to carwash to make Music Guy proud I washed the Jeep all by myself

11:30am: swear at myself for washing the Jeep as now I'm soaking wet (we're not able to go         through the "real" wash so I have to do it myself) 

11:35am: off to Cambridgeside Galleria to return a dress at JCrew 

12:00pm Starbucks second latte of the day

12:30pm Johnny Foodmasters for the final touches to our Super Bowl "party" (along with every other person in Charlestown)

1:15pm back home to clean, shower, start cooking and wait for my partner in crime to get home from NYC

2:33pm MG home!!!!!!

2:34am clean, cook, chop, clean, cook, cut...Miller time?

3:58pm blogging watching the pregame

Can anyone tell I'm trying to distract myself from thoughts of the game this evening?/! 

LETS GO PATS!!!!!!!!

Super Saturday

I'm checking in to let you know my first day went very well, so well I’m writing this post from work! Ok it's not that bad! Music Guy and his buddies headed to NYC this morning to visit our buddy Kinger. Why I wasn't invited to ride along so I could visit Suz I don't know, men!


I have a pretty good weekend on tap if I do say so myself! A, J and Kateson are headed to see 27 Dresses. It seems most of you who have seen it have really liked it; I also know one of you out there did not like it. I know it'll be "cute" and it's a good girly movie when the boys are away. I'm about to head to the gym and then to do our Super Bowl shopping!!! J & G are coming over to watch the game and I'm in charge of putting the menu together (per Music Guy) he also said he'll be home in time to do damage control! What’s that suppose to mean! :) So I’m thinking I’ll head to Costco, can’t go wrong right? J & G are taking care of the main course so the rest is up to Kimba! Giddy up!

Enjoy the weekend, it’s in the 40’s here and I’m loving it! Smells like spring!

GO PATS!!!!!

Dear Pats,

Music Guy and I like most of New England have spent the last 16+ weeks glued to our TV watching every play and in the last few weeks I have been close to a heart banger. But after Saturday night's game I'm more than ready for the playoffs!

This brings me to why I'm writing. Your next playoff game is scheduled for January 12th at 8pm. That would be all fine and good normally but see I have had that date reserved for months. You see we're having an engagement party at 7pm that evening and 99.9% of the attendees are Pats fans. You see where the issues is? Music Guy already told me if it wasn't his party he wouldn't go. So talk it over and let me know what time to plan for the game on Sunday!

Your biggest fan,

Kimba

That's right ladies the first Pats playoff game is set for the night of our engagement party. Which is awesome  as every Pats game we spend yelling, cheering and giving high fives.

I called the restaurant and the Wine Cellar and Lounge we have reserved does not have TV's but the bar downstairs next to it does. Which leads me to my next questions, would it be rude to skip out at 8pm and watch the game? Alright I'm not going to stress about it as there is nothing I can do. Unless Bob Kraft reads my letter and has a talk with Roger Goodell and they move the game to Sunday.

Music Guy did not work from home today but did come home early so we're relaxing and planning out our evening. A friend of ours is having a party at his apartment in Beacon Hill, he has a roof deck that you can see the fireworks from the Boston Commons so that will be neat. I think we're going to head over early and get a drink at the new Liberty Hotel. We've been waiting to since it opened so what a better time than New Year's Eve (famous last words, i think i'll be crowded and we'll end up at the Sevens). The hotel use to be a jail and the lounge is call Clink how fun is that. Similar to the famous hotel chain Jurys bar Cuffs. 

I hope you all have a wonderful New Year's Eve. And at the stroke of mid-night one of our favorite non-bloggers A of fave couple will celebrate her birthday!!! And a happy belated birthday to B of fave couple who's birthday was Friday. Lots of exciting things in the Fave Couple household. 

Happy happy New Year's!!!!

Hats off to us...

I simply love Randy Moss' press conferences he has some good one liners!

What a football game last night, a tad stressful but good. The couple below us came up and watched the end of the game with us. After the game we were all chatting and out of the blue S tells me she got a boob job. WHOA Did you just say what I think you did. I felt bad I hadn't noticed. Of course after that bit of info I had to interrupt the guys conversation to tell Music Guy the news. She said it took about a week to recover and her boyfriend also had to take the week off of work to help her while she was out of commission. She said she'd give me the number of her doctor if I ever wanted to think about it. And for only 8k! Thanks but that 8k can go towards entertainment for my wedding. It was a good chuckle. The things that happen right under my nose I have no idea about. The gal I talk to regularly and who we share washer and dryers with (even though they're not suppose to use ours) just got a boob job. So of course she's been the brunt of our jokes today. 

Also if any of you saw the beginning of the Pats coverage or know anything about Tedy Bruschi he always does the team pep talk and it's pretty good. If you check out this clip of last nights you'll see what I'm saying. So that's another common joke around these parts. This morning when I woke up Music Guy was in the kitchen making coffee so I sent him a text message from upstairs "How do you feel about making me breakfast...Ahhhhh Yeah" It really was pretty funny. Libby can back me up! 

I hope you all had a great weekend and are ready for the New Year!!! I took tomorrow off and I'm very much looking forward to not being back in the office until Wednesday! If we get all the snow we're suppose to Music Guy is going to work from home. Which would be great! 

ENJOY!!!

BTW, Suz will you now at least cheer for the Pats?!

When I was choosing the "label" for this post I noticed I don't have one for boob job. That's odd!

Football....

What a great Pats game! My Sox love goes to Mike Lowell but if I have to pick a Pat to cheer for...of course I'm going to have to pick my boy Wes Welker! How on earth can you go to him 5 plays in a row and not catch on! 

Hope you all had a great weekend! I sure did!

LETS GO FIRST ROUND BYE!!!

Back to work

It's been a nice few days off! But i'm already starting to get stressed about work so I know my vacation is over! 

We...err Music Guy spent some time today on  our wedding website and it's almost done! We decided to create our own and it sure is our own! I have to get pictures of the wedding party and add our registry which means I have to actually start to register. Which won't be to big of a deal as we're pretty sure what we're going to register for. 

I did some annoying cleaning today,  wiped down the cupboards inside and out and cleaned the floorboards under the cupboards. Also did a lot of dusting, which is project that could be done daily. Has anyone used the Mr. Clean Eraser DUO? It works pretty well though you don't get as much use out of them for what they cost but it is a time saver. And most of the time that is priceless! 

Well we're about to put up our Christmas decorations, bring on the garland!

Enjoy the Patriots game all you Pats Fans!!!!!

60?

Will the Pats score more than 60 points tonight, hope so!

They really are making the Bills look silly, love it!

GO PATS!

Sunday Sunday Sunday

We rented Knocked Up this afternoon and damn it was funny! I can't tell you the last time I've seen a movie. I'm not a movie person whatsoever. The last movie I saw in the theater was Failure To Launch. So that was about two years ago. Just not a fan.

What a heart breaker the MLS Cup was. Maybe next year Revs!

Almost one hour to kick-off. Go Pats!!!

P-A-T-S PATS PATS PATS....

Happy Sunday, after sleeping in and going for a run we are making some French Bread Pizza. We saw the recipe on 30 Minute Meals, and it is going to be gooood! Thanks Rach!

We are heading over to Music Guy's sisters to watch the game, I sure hope the Pats win, but I don't have the best feeling about it. It's crappy and rainy here in Bean-town. So I thought it would be a wonderful idea to go for a run outside along the harbor, shit it was cold. Of course Music Guy went to the gym to run, smart if you ask me!

Below you'll see the French Bread recipe...Yum-O!
(Don't for get the EVOO) :)

Super Stuffed French Bread Pizza Rustica
1 (2 foot long) loaf French bread
1 pound sweet Italian sausage
1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
1 small red bell pepper, seeded and chopped
1 small onion, chopped
2 large cloves garlic, chopped 1
package frozen chopped spinach defrosted and squeezed dry S
alt and pepper
1 1/2 cups part skim ricotta
1/2 cup grated Parmesan
1/2 pound sweet sopressata, from the deli, sliced thick, chopped
1/2 stick pepperoni, chopped
1 sack (10 ounces) shredded mozzarella
1 sack (10 ounces) shredded provolone
1 teaspoon dried oregano
1 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.

Split bread lengthwise and hollow it out. Cut in half across, making 4 shells for pizzas.

Heat a skillet over medium high flame and brown sausage in extra-virgin olive oil. Brown and crumble sausage. Add red bell pepper, onion and garlic. Cook 3 to 5 minutes, add spinach. Remove mixture from heat and season with a pinch of salt and black pepper, to your taste.

Transfer to a bowl. Combine sausage and veggies with ricotta, Parmesan, sopressata and pepperoni. Fill bread shells and top with mounded mozzarella and provolone cheeses. Place in hot oven on cookie sheet and bake until cheese melts and bubbles and bread is super crisp, about 10 to 12 minutes. Top pizzas with oregano and hot pepper flakes. Serve immediately, or snack all night!

We did not use spinach, but did one veggie and one meat and veggie. I can't wait to have a little taste, our place smells like a big cooked sausage.

GO PATS!!!!

GO PATS!

I'm on my way over to Music Guy's sisters place. They are always fun to watch the game with. I sure hope the Pats blow then away, i can't deal with a stressful game. I made my famous shrimp platter. I use two packages of 1/3 lite cream cheese spread it on a plate and put cocktail sauce over it and then put shrimp on top of that and drizzle more cocktail over it. Then use serve with crackers, yummm! :)
And being a Wisconsin girl I'm also bring cheese and crackers and of course Coors Light. I love FOOTBALL SUNDAYS!!! Now all i need is my fiancee gosh darn it!

I have a ton of pics to post, just no time. That'll be a work project, hehe!

Enjoy the nice New England weather!

GO PATS!