Moose Tracks

As I get my mind ready for my 4-5 mile run tomorrow morning my stomache continues to digest moose tracks ice cream. I eat ice cream about once every two months. Liz on the other hand, had Ben & Jerry's Marsha, Marsha Marshmallow. It sounded good and we went for it. I'll pay the price tomorrow when I burn 600-700 calories on my run. You have to indulge once in a while. Liz is pregnant which pretty much gives her card blanche on what she wants to eat.

About that run tomorrow morning, it will be an early 6am wake up call. Luckily the temp will be around 40 or so and perfect for a run. I love December weather in the 40's and 50's when it happens. If I am so inclined and I got up on time, I may try to stretch it out to a 6 miler since today was a rest day.

Veggie Revisited
I wanted to swing back on the vegetarian topic. We uncovered a lot of great recipes over the course of the year. We learned to love "meatless meatballs," plain cheese pizza, black bean fajitas, and a lot of other substitutes for those meaty favorites. I think we will always maintain those eating habits to an extent but we are willing to eat those meat products that are not loaded with steroids and antibiotics.

Five things we ate the most:
1) Penne pasta in pesto with broccoli
2) Tostadas with pinto beans
3) Vegetable stir fry
4) Black blean fajitas
5) omelettes

Tonight we had pork chops and they were D-LICIOUS. I am happy to say that Anneliese has developed a taste for lots of fruits and vegetables. Not an easy task for many two year olds. She loves broccoli and asparagus. That is sort of a "postive externality" of our experience as the economist might say.

The Thing About Christmas Lights

As I was driving to get gas in the car and pick up the ice cream I noticed many of the same decorations that I see everyday. Our house is somewhere between "are they just starting" and "why did they bother" on the outside decs so I am not passing judgement. But I do wonder to myself if there are people who feel like they really need to put one more inflatable snow man or Homer Claus in their front yard. How many strands of lights before you get to too many? Thank you to all who have decorated as Anneliese thinks they are all so pretty.

SOME MORE '06 Stuff

Best Bob & Tom Show Guest Song- Drew Hastings, 'I Guess I'm tired'--says many of the things that we are probably thinking. check out bobandtom.com for a link.

Best race- I have to say that Ken Long runs a great race here in the Indy area and I support his races regularly, however, my top race of the year goes to the Tuxedo Brothers for the On Your Mark for the Park 5 miler. I PR'ed and Anneliese had her first kiddie romp. Also, the Carmel High School XC team was out to help on the course and they did a great job.

RANT

Definitely is definitely not spelled "definately."

More to come...