Farmer’s Market

Walk Away Day

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Where oh where did the day go?

It walked away!

Tate and I ran errands this morning on foot.  I love that I can walk to the Downtown Mall and go to the library, post office, bank, and CVS! So convenient and car free, more points for C’ville!

We also swung by the Holiday City Market, the December version of the Saturday farmer’s market, to eye the produce.  Nothing jumped out at us and we still had a crisper-full of veg at home so no purchases.

Lunch was thrown together without a plan of attack but it turned out to be a mighty fine mountain of food!

Red Curry Tofu-Veggies topped with a drizzle of peanut sauce.  It was super satisfying!

I opted for yoga over studying and enjoyed most of this Vinyasa routine (my current exercisetv favorite!) before it was time to meet Kath for another errand walk.

She and I walked to an awesome local health food store, Integral Yoga, that is a mile or so from my house.  Our mission was chatting, exercise, fresh air, perusing the sales in the bulk bins, and grabbing a few items for dinner.

And before I knew it, it was time to get ready for dinner!  I did manage to finish the final 10 minutes of yoga before heading over to Matt+Kath‘s for a dinner date.

Dinner was a lovely of butternut squash and mushroom soup.

The soup was delicious but the real highlight of the night was the SNOW!  Little, icy flakes started coming down just before dinner and it was so pretty!

SO pretty in fact, that we had to get out in it and take a walk after the table was cleared.  It was chilly but I love that excitement of the first snow of the year.

Back at the house, we warmed up quickly with steaming cups of Pero and it was time to break out the Plum Crumb.

The Crumb was decent but Kath totally one upped me by making fresh whipped cream with bourbon in it!  Yep, it was as good as it sounds.  And, no, all of that white stuff is not whipped cream, just the bottom dollop, the rest is homemade plain yogurt.

The Crumb disappointed a little.  The plums are so sweet raw that I thought cooking them would do amazing things but they actually lost a lot of their sweetness.  I think this is a better suited breakfast crumb than dessert.  No problem, there’s plenty left for tomorrow morning!

It’s 10pm on a Saturday night and I am DONE!

Goodnight.

Sista’s

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My very special house-guests have come and gone :(.

Two of my three sisters and my niece came over from West Virginia for their first visit to C’ville (since I moved here, which is really what’s important 🙂 ).  We were having so much fun that I forgot to snap pictures!  My sister did get a few of my niece leading me in a post-lunch workout yesterday.

We started with weights and moved onto yoga.

There were twists

And many an upward-facing dog

Savasana, of course

And a final seated meditation
Yes, this 8-year-old lead me through all of that-and more!
This girl gets me every time!
Unfortunately, the ladies had to leave this morning, something about Christmas play rehearsal, but we had a great time while it lasted.  Having them here reminded me once again why we moved “back East”, it’s awesome to be close to family!
Today’s yoga was eh, I was not impressed but she redeemed herself at the end with pigeon pose.  Any class that includes pigeon is at least alright in my book. This is the class I did today, from exercisetv.
Post yoga the skies were blue and it was time to get out of the house.  The Farmer’s Market was the perfect destination!
The C’ville Market goes through this month but starting today it stays opened until 2 instead of noon, which I think is great.  It’s so easy for a Saturday morning to slip away from me!
I love our proximity to downtown!  We are less than a half a mile, perfect for a stroll.
I feel like a little bit more exercise is in order but the day is suddenly slipping away.  Next I am going to make some soup for an impromptu and simple dinner party this evening, then I really need to get some reading done, and I had hopes to work on the house (print and frame pictures, shop for furniture).  I am really not looking forward to Fall Back tomorrow!  Once it gets dark in the evening I lose motivation to be productive and just want to curl up with a book or movie.
At least we are celebrating tomorrow with a fun outing.  Do you ever watch How I Met Your Mother? It is my favorite sitcom, it’s well-written, well acted, a great ensemble,  and a little inappropriate at times, everything a sitcom should be.  Well, tomorrow night we are going to see Josh Radnor (Ted from HIMYM) present his new film happythankyoumoreplease as part of the Virginia Film Festival.  I know that the character of Ted says nothing of Josh Radnor’s ability to write and direct (he did both for his new film) but it will be fun to see him in person and the film has gotten good reviews, including an audience choice at Sundance this year.
Better move on to the soup!  Enjoy the light while we’ve got it!