Good morning blog friends!
I hope that each of you had a fabulous day yesterday, whether you were celebrating Christmas or celebrating that it was Friday. Ours was another fun-filled day. I spent a lot of time working on the blog, trying to get a particular plug-in to work (no luck yet). I also did some rearranging of the widgets in the sidebars and footers. I finally took the time to set up my affiliate link with JustHost, where FitFeat is hosted. So if you have a blog that is not currently self-hosted, and you decide to go that route, feel free to click on JustHost from the banner in the sidebar and if you sign up, they’ll know I sent ya!
I have so many things to share that I don’t even know where to start!
I suppose since I’m writing this post at 6:38 in the morning that I’ll start the post in much the same fashion as I start every single day: with coffee.
Early readers of my blog know that I have a thing for coffee mugs, especially Starbucks coffee mugs. My mom included two new SBUX mugs for my collection this Christmas (thanks Mom!) I used the “Ohio” mug right away.
You know it’s a long holiday weekend with lots of spare time when one arranges their mugs for photos:
Those are just my mugs from Starbucks. I have another group of fun mugs NOT from the BUX.
MSP also surprised me with mugs for Christmas. He found two really unique ones. A “Dunk Mug” that has a slot on the bottom to hold your cookies:
Is that genius or what?? Now I have a place to store my Newman O’s while they are awaiting their dunk into almond milk! 
The second mug was just as fun:
There has been a lot of coffee and cocoa drinking going on at my house in the last few days, playing with my new mugs! (Apparently I’m easily entertained!)
It was definitely a ‘kitchen’ theme for my gifts this year and I feel so incredibly blessed to have received such loving and thoughtful gifts. I’ll be detailing them in the days to come. One of the gifts Santa brought was a SPIRALIZER!! Wahooo, happy dance! You’ll be sure to see some zucchini pasta pics very soon!
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Because we’ve had more snow, I’m exercising indoors and dreaming of a warmer day soon to get out for another run. In the meantime, to keep any exercise boredom at bay I’ve done a few days of DVD fitness, one of which was Cathe Friedrich’s CORE MAX. (FitTV shows edited versions of her videos daily, calling them Cardio Blast, if you ever want to check out her training.) YOWZA – it’s been a long time since I’ve focused on abs for a solid 30 minutes. My abs were burning so bad I thought for sure that the next day I’d be curled up in the fetal position, unable to get out of bed. As it turned out, my core was the right amount of sore.
However, where I DID feel it the next day … was in my neck muscles! I guess that means I need to spend some more time holding my head up in different angles besides just standing. It felt like I’d been doing this:
The 30 minutes went by quickly, my abs were crying at the end, and as usual she worked me HARD. I pretty much give anything Cathe produces “two thumbs up”. Her “Legs & Glutes” video is my favorite of DVD fitness. I mix it in from time to time (I’ve had it for YEARS) and it never fails to absolutely fry the lower half of my body.
Today’s discussion topic: Do you ever workout to DVDs or audio fitness? What’s your favorite and why? Drop a comment and let us know!
Have a SPLENDID Saturday friends!
– Shari B. =)
