Hey everyone!!! Are we all having a great weekend?? I know I am! Last night was so much fun. We went to our friends Dan & Nicole's wedding rehearsal. They are getting married in this really cool, artsy place and it was fun to check it out while the hubs was practicing with everyone else actually in the wedding. After the rehearsal, we all went to dinner at a restaurant in downtown ATL called Social. It was pretty yummy. Not rock-my-face-off good, but better than a typical meal. The night was a FAIL because my camera failed me. It was too dark to get any sort of picture without the ridiculous flash. So I have no foodie pics! And when I actually had ones that would be exciting! 🙁 Oh well. I will just have to describe the goods.

It started off with a spinach salad (mmmm spinach :)) with gorgonzola cheese (my fave), dried cherries, walnuts, and a date vinaigrette. Holy yum! This was the best part of the meal! I liked it even better than dessert. And THAT is saying something 😉 The main course was a filet mignon brochette with cous cous. Hmmmm. The meat was tender, but it was about 3 bites worth. It was served basically like a kebob and had a bite of filet,  2 chunks red bell pepper, and what I thought was squash on each of the 3 kebobs. The squash...was lemon! And you had no idea until you put it in your mouth because it 100% looked like squash in the darkness. That was an, um, interesting bite. All of us did this too, so it's not due to the aforementioned blondeness. And the cous cous wasn't really cous cous-y. Each of the 'granules' (for lack of a better word???) was very large for cous cous. So that was odd. Still tasted decent, though. And the final course was a dessert of a dark chocolate tart with orange marmalade. This was good, but the orange was a bit too overpowering. I still enjoyed it all though! 😀 Shocker, right? 😉 And to top it off...some decaf coffee...with salt. Yes, they actually brought out salt with the coffee on accident. Wow. So, as I said, this wasn't the best dinner but at least it was still enjoyable with good company and some tastiness. And fabulous wine. How could I have forgotten that?! Two delightful glasses of Pinot Noir.

Today, has already started as a success though! 🙂 We woke up and hit up the gym. I went to spin, which was an awesome class. After the class, I decided to talk with the instructor who is also the head of group fitness at my gym. I went up to ask her if she could give me some information on where to get started with getting certified and if she knew of anywhere that I could look for picking up some classes or if our gym was looking for anyone in the future. Well, she said they are wanting to add a few more kick classes and so it would be great if I was interested in that.

I told her I would be and so we got to talking more when the main kick instructor walked in. I've taken her class a few times and talked with her quite a bit as well and she clapped her hands and said "OH yes!! Put these dates on your calendar because you are doing this!" when she heard I was interested. Soooo....it seems like I may have a probable opportunity to pick up teaching some in the near future. The training and certification isn't until the first week of April, but they sounded very interested in working with me and getting things going. 😀 I'll keep you all updated! And I know it would just be for the Les Mills kick, but since I'm wanting to start out small and many of the local gyms use their classes I think it should be okay. I might do spinning too if the director decides she needs more of those or ends up wanting to drop some of her classes to someone else, which she mentioned. 🙂

Well, I have to get going. I just wanted to get you up to speed on all of that. We have to hit up the grocery store today and get ready for the wedding tonight. And before I forget - stay tuned early this week for an exciting post!!! 😀

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It's Friiiiidaaaayyyy!!! Which means another installment of my Fun Fact Friday. Remember last week's? I stumped a lot of you good (like my grammar ;)). Let's see who all can guess this week's Fun Fact Friday correctly. Remember - only one of the below is a true fact about me. Which one is it???

1. The only way I like to eat fish is raw aka in sushi form. I don't even care for cooked sushi.
2. Sounds gross, but my favorite pizza is pizza from the chain Papa John's. It beats ALL kinds.

So, post which you think is correct 😀

Okay, onto the rest of today. First of all, I want to say WOW to all the comments from yesterday's post. It is amazing how many of us battle or have battled with feeling guilty for missing a workout.  I hope that we all can support each other through this fabulous blogging community to have healthy mindsets and focus on the great lifestyles we live. I know it's all too easy to try to compare ourselves to others, when in reality all we should be doing is lifting up one another on making the best out of our lives. Which includes letting other parts of our lives take the forefront of workouts, how things should be. Or just enjoying  pure laziness. Like last night. Keeping with the "no guilt" theme, the hubs and I ended up skipping the gym and chilling together as a family since neither of us were in the mood for it. 😉 And I didn't gain 10 lbs from it! Yay! *please note the sarcasm - in fact I have no clue how much I weigh since I haven't stepped on a scale in months and don't care to know either - another post for another day*

Anyways....

Today has been eventful and will continue to be. I woke up this morning early, had my quiet time with the big man upstairs, caught up on blogs/comments/emails, and then got the Mster and myself ready for our Mommy Group visit. We went to an indoor playground today and there were a lot more women from the group there this time. So, it was a great time. I am really really loving what this group has to offer. And quite a few of the moms have kids M's age. Mostly boys. She was a flirt. Even though you might not be able to tell from this picture:

the rare fussy M

Ha! And oh. I almost cracked up because one mom asked me how I found the group and I told her through Google. It made me laugh because funny story - I live in Cumming, GA. So when I googled Moms of Cumming (which is what I thought I remembered the name of the group being from a flyer I got a couple months ago), it was scary. Do not google that. You put the two together. Yea. Ewww. What a lovely place to live, no? Especially when the local Cumming BJ's likes to have Huge Blowout Sales. No joke. Big sign with that one last year. Alright, enough crudeness.

After the mom group, I came home and put M down for a nap so I could shower and get ready for the wedding rehearsal dinner we have to go to tonight. We're going to a restaurant in downtown Atlanta called Social. Check it out here. Looks interesting 🙂 I wanted to give you a preview snapshot to tide you over until I can get official updates of the evening and this is what I got:

stop taking shots! your vision is blurry!!!

Please excuse the fact that I am blonde special and didn't think to take the picture on timer and instead went to the only full mirrors we have to take it. Those mirrors are grungy because they are in the basement in my workout area (see the cool step and mini TV in the background which is soooo fancy old school). But, hey, you get the point. And you can see the measly point and shoot camera I have to use. Once again, wish list = new nice  camera! So it can better capture beauties like this...

doll

...and this...

leftover oat chicken tenders in gigantic salad

That's last night's dinner, which was uh-mazing! Spinach & spring mix with cucumbers, tomatoes, onions, leftover oaty chicken tenders, and light caesar dressing. Mmmmm...

Ok. Time to get some lunch in my belly, pack up some things for M's stay at Nana & Papa's tonight, and head on out. I'll catch up with all you fab gals (and guys) later!

PS - Check out this giveaway at Jasmine's blog Sweet & Fit! 🙂