A Very Interesting Week!
What a week last week was! There were a few “firsts” that took place. Then it ended with my birthday yesterday which included a fun little road trip with Amanda to Ikea (complete with Swedish meatballs) and sushi and chocolate. Not a bad way to start my next trip around the sun!
I mentioned last week how I’ve now dipped into the smallest pant size of my adult life. Well, add to that list someone wanting to set me up with someone else (both the engagement and wedding rings are laughably large - on my thumbs even so there is no visual clue to my married status!). Too, too weird. Neither party knows me that well so they didn’t know I’ve been married for almost a decade now so that was a little ackward. But flattering.
I also had my first “oh, you’re just whithering away” comment. I knew to expect these as both my mom and sister have experienced them. It is kind of amusing though when someone who is likely a size 4 or at most a size 6 is telling you that at a size 12 you are “wasting away.” This particular person sees me weekly as she is one of my yoga instructors. All winter though she happened to see me most often in oversized sweaters (frequiently my Wisteria which has about 10-12 inches of ease now). I know she was very surprised the first time she saw me in a more fitted top with my yoga pants and to be fair I missed the week prior due to a bug so likely a 2 week spread in seeing me brought some change to my body into stark contrast for her. But it still made me chuckle.
Of course if I don’t stop the birthday celebrations soon I won’t be keeping my size 12 pants! ;-) Today is the last day of celebrating. I brought my rhubarb filled cupcakes with almond buttercream frosting to work. I have to say - I should have brought in baked goods much, much sooner! :-D I’ll be bringing some to knit night tonight as well and then I’m done with the celebratory refined carbs and getting my butt back onto the treadmill doing intervals at 5am!
Another advantage of working outside the home - I have coworkers to eat up my baked goods so I can enjoy making them and eat one and not have to worry about eating the rest! I think I may have to resurme semi-regular baking. They were definitely more than appreciative of my efforts! More of them were fans of rhubarb than I expected. I wonder how they feel about cardamom? Also, can I pull off an at least partial whole grain version of bullar? Hmmm….
