Sitting All Day

January 19, 2012

I have an office job, that means that most days I am sitting from 7-5. Minus trips to get water, heat-up my lunch, or just walk around for some mental health breaks. That also means that for the most part I am relatively sedentary during the day and that drives me a bit crazy.   [...]

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Wine Wednesday: 2008 Borsao Berola

January 18, 2012

I am sure you know someone who turns their nose up at spending less than $15 dollars on a bottle of wine. Me? I love finding good value wines. Price really isn’t an indication that you will like a wine or that the quality is better. A recent find that was on sale for $10 [...]

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All Things Wedding + Giveaway Winner

January 17, 2012

Since it has been a few months since Scott and I got engaged I figured it was time for an update. We have had time to figure out what we want and who we want there. It will be small, 100% us, filled with friends, family and good food and wine. That’s it.   What [...]

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Mendoberri Cafe and Wine Bar

January 16, 2012

  Saturday I spent the day, from 9am until almost 4pm Wedding Dress shopping. Multiple stores and many dresses later I ended up buying the first one I tried on. I find a lot of humor in that! Meg at the Wedding Shoppe really knows her dresses. All I had to do was describe what [...]

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Workout Gear Favorites

January 14, 2012

I might have a slight obsession with wine shoes purses workout clothes. And by slight it may mean two drawers of shirts/sports bras and a drawer of just pants. They are small drawers I swear Over the past month I have donated some of my older, doesn’t fit right, don’t like, stretched out, was from [...]

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I Work Out: Legs

January 13, 2012

You can thank me letter for getting this song in your head. Sorry As stupid as that song is I love to listen to it at the gym. A great song for cardio and lifting weights. Especially legs! Just try not to dance while you are working out like I do.       Now [...]

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Curried Quinoa and Cranberry Salad

January 12, 2012

Tuesday night I went to a Curry Night at my friends Amanda and Brian’s house. The goal? Bring a curry dish to share. Ok that is easy enough to do but I wondered what the heck was I going to bring.   First thought? Quinoa of course. It is usually the base of any dish [...]

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Wine Wednesday: Sasyr Sangiovese & Syrah

January 11, 2012

Pairings in Minnetonka is a favorite date spot for Scott and I. They have good happy hour specials and we can walk over to the wine shop and pick out a good wine to enjoy with our dinner.   Our latest pick? A 2008 Sasyr Sangiovese &Syrah. 60% Syrah and 40% Sangiovese. A smooth easy [...]

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HIIT- Try It Out

January 10, 2012

HIIT. High Intensity Interval Training. Sounds like torture or something strange but I promise it is a butt kicking workout. Designed to use intervals to help increase your resting metabolic rate and maximum oxygen consumption.   Great it helps with scientific things but what is it really? Following a warm-up you spend 30 seconds going [...]

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Calcium Intake

January 10, 2012

  Women aged 19-40 need 1,000mg of calcium a day. It can be done with food but sometimes you need to supplement to get to that magic number of 1,000mg. I recently had a bag of milk chocolate and a bag of dark chocolate Adora Calcium Disks sent to me to try. 30 calories each [...]

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