Random thoughts

So I've taken the plung and I've ordered a new bike, I'm uber excited about it and can't wait to see what she looks like!

This week was the first build week, which means more time in the pool with higher volume sets, no more boring drills.  Yippee!  It also means some pretty awesome intervals on the bike, this morning I did a tabata interval.  Pretty awesome, really tough stuff.  Love it.  It also means some Zone 2 work on the bike and run, yesss! 

On to the more important matters... Lentil soup.  I made a ridiculously awesome lentil soup on Sunday which was ready just in time for the Patriots to win the AFC Championship over the Ravens in a nail biter of a game.  Anyways, the lentil soup.  Super healthy and delicious with lots of veggies, carrots, onions and celery (you can add leeks, but that's the only vegetable I do not like, so I added more of the other ones).  Fat free low sodium chicken broth, 1 lb of lentils and we added some spicy jalapeno chicken sausage to the mix.  Because let's face it, if it ain't spicy, it's boring.  The recipe makes enough for an entire NFL football team so we were able to freeze quite a bit of it.  Easy dinner in a few weeks or months! 

Oh, and my mom also discovered what is surely to become the most popular salsa on the planet -- Mrs. Renfro's Ghost Pepper salsa.  OH MYYYYY.  You should be able to find it in your local grocery store, if not, you can order it here http://www.renfrofoods.com/Salsa-Ghost_Pepper_Salsa-P31.aspx  I'd personally like to thank whoever Mrs. Renfro is, she has created the Hot Habanero Salso as well as Ghost Pepper Salsa.  Pure genius right there, folks.  I immediately told my friend Erin (who introduced me to the habanero corn nuggets) about this salsa and she found it in Ohio.  If she wasn't able to, clearly I was going to ship her an entire case of the stuff. 

This winter here in NH, well it's been lacking.  We get a few inches of snow one day, then it reaches 50 degrees the next day.  What's up with that?  Not that I hope for zero degree days, but if it's going to snow, it needs to snow, give me alot of snow.  So far, this is the first winter at my job we have had zero snow days.  I will be honest, since it's higher education, I LOVE a snow day, we don't have to make it up like high schools do, and we get paid for it.  Who wouldn't love a snow day? 

It was also my friend Lisa's birthday this past Monday, since she has a crazy work schedule, we shall celebrate... one day... very soon... I hope!

2012!

We are officially in 2012, wow 2011 was a fantastic year!  I'm getting into what is my "busy season" at work -- February through beginning of October, haaa!  Makes for the days to go by super fast though.  On NYE, Steve and I both decided to sign up for Miami 70.3 next October, we are both super excited about this, even though it's (kind of) far away -- 10 months.  We're pretty pumped about it, it's Miami, nice weather, South Beach, super delicious spicy foods, and a little race thrown in there!

I could spend too much time recapping 2011, but it's 2012.  Time to start a new year and hopefully have it be better than last year!  Meet new people, try new things, all that stuff.  I'd like to do a little promotion on my friend Tim, he has a blog here http://abrandnewfocus.tumblr.com/ and he is one of the most amazing people I know.  The most inspiring person I know.  If you ever meet him, you will walk away thinking knowing you can do anything you want to do, put your mind to it, work hard and don't give up.  Amazing.  He's also one of the most selfless people out there, always telling YOU how good YOU are and how amazed he is with YOU.  I hope he knows how amazed we all are with his progress and positive thinking all day long. 

Take a note from Tim, and make this YOUR year, and each year after that.  Life is amazing, and instead of waking up on a Monday morning saying, agh, it's Monday, and Monday sucks.  How about saying, it's Monday, go after it, I woke up and I'm feeling alive (because if you wake up, you are, in fact, alive)!  Yes, no one really likes Monday's, everyone seems to love Fridays, since it's the start of the weekend.  Let's all be thankful we even have jobs in this tough economy and go after it the best we can. 

It's also a Presidential election year, where some of you may get in arguments with your friends over their politics, let's try not to do that.  My cousin, Jamie and I have different beliefs, but we respect each other for them, after all, we live in America and are able to be free thinkers, if you are able to listen to someone, then you can respect them.  Ignorance is always alive and kicking during elections, throw that shit out the window.

It's 2012.  Live it.  Love it.  Enjoy it.