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“Is it bad that I want to just stay home and drink a beer rather than going to the gym?” these were my words spoken to Isaac and his Dad around 6:30PM this evening. They were both drinking a beer and hanging out, it was cold outside, and all I wanted was to stay in as well. They started giving me high fives and were so excited about what I said (note to self- those must be magic words). In all the excitement I grabbed a Skinny Dip and plopped on the couch. Turns out they were actually waiting for me to go to the gym to bring in a couple surprises that were waiting in the car. I totally ruined the surprise, but it was cool because I didn’t have to wait until after the gym to find out that Isaac’s Dad had brought over our CHRISTMAS TREE and a DYSON VACUUM.

The funny part about all this is that the Dyson is Isaac’s Chanukah present! Merry Chrismukah to us!!

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I couldn’t bear to decorate the Christmas tree when there were rugs to be vacuumed so I went straight to work vacuuming all the rugs (and couches) in the house. So it turns out I got a little workout in anyway, yes I count vacuuming as a workout.

I think I’m in love with the Dyson DC14 All-Floors Cyclone Upright Vacuum Cleaner.
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In other food related news, Dreena did it again folks. Did what you ask? Impressed me with her sweet (recipe) skills. I made the Sweet Potato Lentil Chili from Eat, Drink & Be Vegan on Sunday evening. The best part- I didn’t need to go out and buy a ton of ingredients, the directions were easy to follow, and it only had to cook for 30 minutes. Plus, it’s soo darn tasty.

I have been day dreaming about the Pumpkin Cornbread that Meghann recently made and Sunday was the perfect opportunity for me to whip up a batch. Since I was making chili I had to make cornbread, right?

I followed this recipe but decided to cut the brown sugar down to 1/2 cup instead of 2/3 because the recipe also calls for molasses. It was still sweet, as any good cornbread should be. (I was raised on Jiffy so I like my cornbread sweet!)

Isaac enjoyed this meal as well. We both had it for dinner on Sunday and for lunch yesterday and we still have a big container of left overs! I’ll probably have it again for lunch and then freeze the rest.

I also had some brown rice sushi recently…

It just so happened that Carytown Cupcakes was giving away mini chocolate peppermint and eggnog cupcakes when I was walking to a consignment shop on my lunch break.