Awesome of the Week - 01/09/12

Masters At Work Edition:

I'm a few months late in finding the following video, but I am so happy to post it as my first Awesome of the Week for 2012.  The video features Marquese Scott, an exceptional dancer who can move his body in ways I didn't even know were possible.  I'm not that into dance, but there is something about watching someone who is a master of their craft; you can't help but appreciate it and be moved by it.  I had a similar experience during the 2010 Winter Olympics watching Shaun White snowboard.  I don't care too much about snowboarding, but he was so remarkably good at it, I couldn't help but be glued to the tv to watch him board.  Hope these videos inspire you to have an awesome week!

Marquese Scott:



Shaun White:

Figuring Out New Blogger

Blogger has a new interface which I have been avoiding as sometimes I cannot get it together to learn new things.  Also, I don't always like change.  John recently questioned why I was holding onto the old one as he swears by the awesomeness of the new one. Time to figure it out, I guess.

This is my first post with the new Blogger and so far I am finding all the buttons and it is already allowing me to do things I couldn't do before.  For whatever reason the old Blogger wouldn't let me upload photos using Firefox, but the new interface lets me do it no problem.  Looking forward to exploring what else has been improved. Change can be good.

Turn This Clock Around

I'm just about to enter into my third day back at the office after my extended break.  Flipping my bedtime from 3:00am to Midnight and my wake up time from noon to 7am was challenging, but I succeeded like a champ on Wednesday and Thursday.  Today, however, all I wanted to do was turn my alarm off and sleep for an adequate amount of time.  Good news is, it is only about 10 hours until nap time, and more importantly, the weekend.  Happy Friday everyone!!

Christmas Vacay By The Numbers

And so it is finally here, my last day of vacay.  What better way to stop thinking about how I will possibly get up at 7:00am tomorrow, than by remembering the good times over the past week.  If you had some time off, I hope it was relaxing and rejuvenating.

Number of days off in a row: 13

Average time slept into each day: 11:00am

Number of car rides to Mom's: 4

Number of Christmas cards received: 23

Number of Entertainment Weekly's read cover to cover: 6

Number of days I ate chocolate as part of my balanced breakfast: 4

Number of new computers purchased: 1 (more on that later)

Number of nieces and nephews hugged: 5

Number of infants I got to hug and be a baby hog with: 1

Number of Wii games played: 2 (Lego Star Wars and Just Dance Summer Party)

Hours spent on a certain Lego themed Star Wars game: 23

Percentage of Lego Star Wars completed over those hours: 54%

Minutes of Aerobic exercise: 30

Number of blog posts: 6 (including this one)

Number of batches of Caramel Popcorn made: 2

Number of treats eaten: all of them

Resolutions made: 0

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New Year's Treats

It is January 1st, so the binge eating of treats and goodies I've been indulging in for the past month is slowly coming to a close. I am getting rid of any treats left in my house through a combination of overeating and unloading them on friends. Spread the wealth!

Although most of the treats are now gone, there is still a rather large stash of sweet ingredients from all the holiday baking I did.  With a great treat idea from The Happy Whisk, I melted and mixed my leftover milk and mint chocolate chips with a bag of mini-candy canes that my Mom unloaded on me yesterday. The resulting treat is super yummy, and served as the perfect 'dessert' to all the other treats I had today.

Candy canes ready to grind.  The smell once ground was powerful
 and intoxicating.

Mix with melted chocolate.

Spread on baking sheet.  Sprinkle with even more candy cane.  Freeze.

Break into pieces and enjoy!

Happy New Year's Everybody!!