{"id":2300,"date":"2008-12-21T11:20:09","date_gmt":"2008-12-21T15:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=2300"},"modified":"2008-12-22T11:47:20","modified_gmt":"2008-12-22T15:47:20","slug":"december-21st-2008-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2008\/12\/december-21st-2008-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"December 21st, 2008: Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good morning!\u00a0 Happy 21st of December!\u00a0 We are in the final stretches now, hooray! :woohoo:<\/p>\n

\"brrrr\"<\/a>

brrrr<\/p><\/div>\n

I was freezing cold last night as we watched TV.\u00a0 Our family room sort of sits off by itself and it only has three walls.\u00a0 Two of them face outside and the third one backs the garage, so it’s basically is an icebox.\u00a0 We turned on the gas fireplace last night for a bit.\u00a0 The first time this winter!\u00a0 I love my little gas fireplace.\u00a0 I know that it isn’t the same as a real wood burning one, but I will take gas over that every time.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because Scott and I used to live in Raleigh, NC and the first winter in our new house, NC got hit with a severe ice storm.\u00a0 The whole state was covered in ice and we didn’t have power.\u00a0 Since our water was well water, no power meant no running water either.\u00a0 Everything in the house was electric.\u00a0 And we had a wood-burning fireplace.\u00a0 We couldn’t find any wood except for those Duralog things, that you light and they stay lit for however many hours.\u00a0 Yeah those don’t give off a lot of heat but that’s all we had.\u00a0 So us, Rocks, and our kitty all bundled up and stayed around the fireplace.\u00a0 For five days.\u00a0 It was cold and it sucked like you couldn’t believe.\u00a0 The upside to it being winter is we didn’t have to worry about losing any food.\u00a0 But I’ll never be without gas again.\u00a0 Gas fireplace and gas stove always and forever. Amen.<\/p>\n

Along with the fireplace on last night I also made some tea.\u00a0 Peppermint tea to help me warm up!\u00a0 It worked. :D\u00a0 We watched the Pens for a bit and then at 10pm I headed up to bed to read.\u00a0 I read for about an hour and then it was lights out.<\/p>\n

\"Blueberry<\/a>

Blueberry X3<\/p><\/div>\n

I got up this morning and it was windy outside.\u00a0 I was also starving!\u00a0 I welcomed that feeling, it’s been awhile since I’ve woken up hungry.\u00a0 I took Rocky out for his potty run and oooo it was cold. :o\u00a0 I decided to eat and wait a bit to see if the wind died down any.\u00a0 I had some coffee + creamer in my blueberry mug with blueberry oikos topped with some blueberry bear naked.\u00a0 It was a blues kind of day!<\/p>\n

I ate that and did some stuff on the computer.\u00a0 After a while I couldn’t take it anymore and got dressed to run.\u00a0 I decided to brave the elements!<\/p>\n

\"missed<\/a>

missed you!<\/p><\/div>\n

I bundled up and wore gloves for the first time on a run.\u00a0 As gross as it sounds the gloves come in handy when you have to wipe your nose!\u00a0 Hey the cold and wind make my nose run.\u00a0 It wasn’t so bad outside.\u00a0 The wind did suck but it wasn’t constant so my run was actually pleasant.\u00a0 Plus I was just happy to be outside!\u00a0 I ran on the road since the sidewalks were covered in a small dusting of snow and ice.\u00a0 I passed some people who I’m sure thought I was crazy.\u00a0 But whatevs, it felt awesome to be outside running!\u00a0 I did feel a little more “hardcore” today since this was my running weather:<\/p>\n

\"brrrr!\"<\/a>

brrrr!<\/p><\/div>\n

That was a first for me, I believe that’s the coldest weather I’ve run in.\u00a0 About 1\/4 of the way from home the wind picked up tremendously.\u00a0 Thankfully I was close to home!\u00a0 If it had been like this earlier I wouldn’t have been able to run.\u00a0 It’s stronger and much colder.\u00a0 It is too cold and windy for Rocky to be out, even with his big boy jacket.\u00a0 Wind like this means something is blowing in, so I’m waiting to see what happens.\u00a0 Then hopefully I’ll be able to take him later.\u00a0 Glad I didn’t wait any longer before going out to run!<\/p>\n

I slammed my CS<\/abbr> and realized how much I missed it!\u00a0 Then I changed and am writing my post.\u00a0 Now I’m going to go and get breakfast made which I’ll just keep warm till Scott gets up.\u00a0 I want to get the kitchen cleaned up so I don’t have to do that later.\u00a0 Then it will be a nice hot shower and comfy jammies for the day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Good morning!\u00a0 Happy 21st of December!\u00a0 We are in the final stretches now, hooray! I was freezing cold last night as we watched TV.\u00a0 Our family room sort of sits off by itself and it only has three walls.\u00a0 Two of them face outside and the third one backs the garage, so it’s basically is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KYWa-B6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}