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Beer Walks and Talks

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Good evening and sorry for the late post!

I have been busy drinking [many bottles of] wine with Kath + Matt + Tate!

T’was a very lovely evening full of food and friends and lively conversation.

The evening started with best intentions and healthy endeavors.  Kath met me at my house in the late afternoon to bike to a FREE yoga class!  Unfortunately the class was only worth free :(.  I suppose we shouldn’t have had great expectations, after all it was free because the teacher is going through the studios teacher training program and it was possibly the very first class she’s ever taught.  The biggest issue for us is that it wasn’t our preferred style, which is vinyasa and the class was hatha (basicly that translates to          s l o w e r to anyone not fluent in yoga talk).  To her credit, she gave great adjustments.  To her critique, she way over-explained poses!

We met the husbands back at the house for the mile walk downtown to Market Street Wineshop to do a little Christmas beer tasting.  I love tasting with Matt and Kath because they are both really good at describing flavors, never something that has been my strong suit.

Back at home we got to work on dinner, which was a random assortment of what sounded good.

Roasted butternut squash

Twin Oaks Thai Tofu (Matt and Kath’s contribution, they visited the factory last week!)

And Matzo Ball soup!

Most random meal ever? Maybe…

We enjoyed it though :).  We also enjoyed breaking into Tate and I’s swelling wine cabinet and chocolate stash ;).

Mid-afternoon I enjoyed a 4 mile walk with this cutie

Her lovely mom, Anna, walked also.

I love walking dates with friends!  Even better than coffee dates!  (Yoga dates are great too, just not as much time to talk!)

My morning strength training was this 20 minute workout from Exercise TV.  This is one of my new favorites, so creative and full body!

Exercise plan fulfilled, yay!

How about you?

Delicious Delivery

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Comment Commit Day 1

Thanks, Bekah, for participating!  How was your class?

I committed to a strength training workout, yoga, and a walk and enjoyed completing all three.

My 35 minute full body strength session was with Steve Maresca on Exercise TV.  This workout was really fun, fast paced, challenging, and creative.  I don’t have a medicine ball 🙁 so I used 5 pound hand weights throughout.  The best part was that I feel like this workout is super efficient, my heart rate was elevated and I was working the major muscles of my upper and lower body nearly the entire time.

Yoga was positively delicious this afternoon.  I threw my mat down on the living room floor, I turned on some Ganesha Sharanam and I rolled with it, or flowed with it ;).  30 minutes later I felt like I had indulged in something healing yet luxurious.

As for the walk, when Tate got home from work we walked just shy of a mile to the library for him to do some faxing.  We hightailed it home for a quick turn around.  I needed to grab a change of cloths to go to dance class.

Yep, I am a dancer.  In fact “dancer” used to be one of my primary identities.  I taught dance, went through 4 years of one of the most respected university dance programs in the country, performed professionally, and had my own company.  Then we moved to Peru.  I tend to give Peru more credit than it probably deserves in this aspect of my life, I suppose it was a combination of factors that led to a two year break.

But now I am ready to get moving again!  There are modern dance classes offered most nights of the week here in C’ville but thus far I have only made it to one.  And it was flipping fantastic.  You can read about it here.

I tried to go to class on Saturday morning but it was canceled due to a big open house event at the arts center.  Which brings me back to tonight.  I grabbed my dance clothes and braved the 25 degree (before windchill, of which there was plenty!) evening and walked back downtown for class.   Unfortunately class was cancelled, “no heat in studio”.  I guess mid-December was not the best timing for my return to the dance world.

This afternoon there was an unexpected knock at my door.  Why, it’s the UPS man!  With a package for Tate and I!  I couldn’t imagine what it could be or who it was from!  There was no way I was waiting for Tate to get home from work to satisfy my curiousity (sorry love!).

Lookie, lookie!

A Hanukkah present!  And what a deliciously appropriate on at that!  Thanks New York family!

The aunt, uncle, and cousins who sent this really know their wine so no doubt these will be tasty!

I love consumable presents, they are some of the best kind!
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