Me=Slacker

...but work has been busy, we've had visitors, I'm trying to get the Christmas shopping done before Christmas Eve, I have food to eat, wine to guzzle ... excuses excuses, I know.

The visit from Ailish & Hugh was awesome! I love having visitors -- I wish I could have taken time off work (trial that whole week!) but it was great to hang with them in the evenings, I easily packed on a few pounds showing them the favorite places Kieran and I like to dig in. Then, they go back to Ireland and GET ENGAGED! Me = wishing it was a Chicago proposal.... yes, it's all about me, I know. :)

Thanksgiving was great, more pounds packed on, but so happy to see Nicole, Ben, the kids, my parents, family and my friends. Ate like crazy... but only boozed a little bit, just a few beers and glasses of wine here and there. I was kind of proud of my restraint. I'm growing up.

Now I've been on the jury diet this week, the only good thing about jury trials. I don't have time to eat! If I am not putting on a witness, I'm reading up on something that I will have to argue when the jury takes a break. So it's been Clif Bars, coffee and, today, a jelly donut. But I was shopping for an outfit for Kieran's work party tomorrow (the procrastination is not my fault this time!), Banana Republic was serving wine & beer, mini-cheeseburgers and chips & guacomole, and mini Sweet Mandy B's cupcakes! It was their Not Black Friday sale or something... so I found a dress and a sweater, it was all 30% off and I ate something more substantial (albeit just as unhealthy) for dinner. Always multi-tasking.

But back to the gym tomorrow morning, back to running on the treadmill to prep myself for the December portion of my "it's the holidays" feeding (& drinking) frenzy! :) We're still on Baby Watch for Noreen (my cousin Ryan's wife).... as I type this, she's pushing away, and has been for the past few hours.... yikes.