· Saturday morning I woke up to do a stair workout with a friend. We did 10 sets of an outside 87-stair amphitheatre. The race we have in late March is 688 stairs but we want to be ready! In other good news my friend and I have both raised over $500 (there is a $100 minimum) which means we will be invited to the VIP after party. Woo hoo!
· I then had a glorious hour in New York & Company shopping for myself. CP and I have ourselves on a strict clothing budget ($150/month) which we generally don’t use every month. But it had been a while since I went shopping and I needed a few work clothes. I found some really cute tops and the buy 1 get 1 free pants event is always great.
I bought this polka-dot shirt (I LOVE polka dots!) in black. 
I got this shirt and a matching red cardigan. I'm wearing it today!
I got this shirt in blue to put under a couple of suit jackets.· CP and I spent most of Saturday afternoon cooking/baking for each other. My new favorite cookbook is Cook’s Illustrated. We get the monthly magazine but last year they compiled 900+ pages of recipes into an amazing cookbook. It was a GREAT Christmas present for CP. That night we feasted on braised lamb shanks, creamy polenta, and broccoletti. For dessert I made a classic fresh fruit tart. The custard alone was to die for. I will definitely make it again (despite the fact that the actual tart shell took a long time to make).
Yes the raspberries are shaped like a heart. I am a dork.· Sunday we spent time at the CT dog show with friends, then tired the dogs out at a local state park.
· Monday I had a glorious day off from work so Buster and I and met a friend and her dog for a hike. (Fuzzy Britches was a little sore and tired from her day on Sunday so she kept CP company while he worked.) Our 2+ hour hike was refreshing and Buster was beat afterwards because he was racing around the woods most of the time with his friend.
· Monday I had a glorious day off from work so Buster and I and met a friend and her dog for a hike. (Fuzzy Britches was a little sore and tired from her day on Sunday so she kept CP company while he worked.) Our 2+ hour hike was refreshing and Buster was beat afterwards because he was racing around the woods most of the time with his friend.
Buster on our hike· Other than that….I’m stuck coming into work all this week and next week because my coworker is out having surgery on her knee. I'm crossing my fingers that I can go back to working from home two days a week after we get back from vacation. I am going to miss working in sweatpants. In addition, I am doing most of my coworkers work so it makes for very busy days and I’m forecasting some late nights.
....and I have no conclusion for this post. :-)
*I was not compensated for the products in this post. All opinions are mine.*
6 comments:
I LOVE NY & Company! They are my favorite place to get classic work clothes for a reasonable price, and I get tons of compliments on them. I love their jewelry and scarves too.
That hike is gorgeous! So lucky that it's close enough to home that you can do it on a regular basis!
Ahhh my guilty pleasure! I love NY&Co. Can't beat the price/quality. I love their credit card program - it saves me so much money, especially if I pay it off right away which I usually do.
Cute puppy! I used to work at Lerner NY eons ago (which is somehow affiliated with NY & Co -- all the clothes there were NY & Co). I would always clean house with my employee discount.
SO much cuteness in this post! Cute clothes, cute pooch, cute raspberry heart...and now I'm hungry for fruit tart. Every time I make veggie pot pie, I draw a heart into the pie crust, so we're dorks together!
I had a friend who made a similar tart with pre-made sugar cookie batter (like Pillsbury) and it was the most delicious dessert I've ever had. It was so, so, so good. The sugar cookie stayed chewy and delicious and it was just dessert perfection.
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