I Feel Good

Let me enumerate the reasons why:

1. After much searching, we have finally booked our winter vacation. After several false starts, including an all-inclusive in Mexico we thought would be the destination, we have booked a six-night stay on Big Island, Hawaii for February. V&M will be using miles to fly up here first since tickets to Hawaii are considerably cheaper from Portland, then we'll all leave from here for six lovely nights. This is yet another excuse to get my favorite cake for the night V & M here, which pleases me to no end. And to top it all off, I didn't realize until after we booked that this means we'll be in Hawaii for Valentine's Day - perfect! D and I don't buy each other gifts for Valentine's Day, but if we did, this would be an excellent gift.
2. After hearing so many rave reviews about the Easter brunch thrown by RG and JG, we have decided that we will be attending this year's festivities. We haven't booked those tickets yet since we're trying to use up our United miles and their website is giving us problems, but we'll do that shortly to get plans all sewn up. I'm very excited to partake in this legendary feast, as well as to see everyone in Denver, particularly RG in her very pregnant state at that point.
   
3. We worked out today! It's our first trip the gym this year and it felt good to finally get our butts there. I told D that I'll go workout with him in the mornings if we start going to sleep earlier, but I can't get up that early with our current bedtime.
   
4. I made what turned out to be a delicious stew/soup for lunch today. It's the Zuppa Osso Buco recipe I tried a while back, but this time I used ground turkey instead of ground veal. I also left out the celery (forgot to buy it), doubled the amount of carrots, added a bit more wine, and substituted sardines for anchovies for the gremolata. It was so much better than the first time I made it. Since it's so easy and tastes better as a left over, I'm quite pleased with this as it can now be something I make fairly regularly. And how great is it that the turkey tastes better than the veal?
5. I didn't eat any candy at the movies last night and it wasn't even that hard! I am most pleased with this. All of my resolutions are still chugging along. Hopefully they will continue to do so. It's only day 6.