{"id":1595,"date":"2010-01-06T03:30:59","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T03:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/?p=1595"},"modified":"2010-01-18T04:38:12","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T04:38:12","slug":"what-i-did-on-my-winter-vacation-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/06\/what-i-did-on-my-winter-vacation-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What I Did On My Winter Vacation – Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Continued from Part 1<\/a>…<\/p>\n

Sunday – Hat Pick – stay in, play video games, and order delivery.\u00a0 Yeah, if you insist.\u00a0 We played Peggle, Crystal Chronicles, finished Brutal Legend, and started Dragon Age.\u00a0 We ordered way too much chinese delivery (although, you’d be proud of me, I stuck mostly to my egg drop soup, shrimp with garlic sauce, and vegetarian delight and saved half of the latter two for the next day).<\/p>\n

Monday – Hat Pick – make the trek to ikea and buy ONLY what’s on this list.\u00a0 This is huge – we usually are AWFUL at Ikea and buy way too much stuff.\u00a0 We had a set list – new curtains, a new comforter, a new body pillow, a wok, and a few other things.\u00a0 We ended up with a few odd things in the cart, but it was less than 10 bucks extra.\u00a0 We had a lot of other shopping to do that day, plus we had hit the gym first for a run.\u00a0 It was a long day!<\/p>\n

Tuesday – Hat Pick – Make a movie.\u00a0 FAIL!\u00a0 I wrote up a script, and then my back decided to go all rogue on me.\u00a0\u00a0 We went out to help my parents pick out a TV and then went up to help them set it up and have dinner.\u00a0 I’m not sure if moving around a bit helped or hurt it, but it was what it was.\u00a0 We decided to put it back in the hat for another time.<\/p>\n

Wednesday – re-organize the DVDs.\u00a0 FAIL!\u00a0 I was just in so much pain I couldn’t really leave the couch.\u00a0 We played lots of games and watched movies.\u00a0 Zliten went out with a friend and I couldn’t even go with.\u00a0 I sat on the couch and felt sorry for myself, and tried to mow down some chocolate to make me feel better, but instinctively after 3 hershey kisses, I exchanged it for a mad large bag of carrots and pea pods.\u00a0 Srsly, I can’t even emotionally eat properly.<\/p>\n

Thursday – Not a hat pick- New Years Eve outing.\u00a0 I was still hurty when I awoke but better than I had been.\u00a0 We cleaned the house and headed out early to have some dinner and drinky shenannegins!<\/p>\n

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It was cold and windy so we pretty much stayed inside everywhere we went.\u00a0 I had some appetizers and wasn’t hungry so I skipped dinner when everyone else ordered, but then forgot to grab anything later.\u00a0 Needless to say, I remember toasting champagne at the bar, making a resolution to spend next NYE in Cancun (I was very specific), and then woke up in my makeup and contacts around 9am the next morning.\u00a0 Yay NYE fun!<\/p>\n

Friday – Not a hat pick – Hangover day.\u00a0 Zliten and I woke up early feeling pretty good, so he whipped us up some breakfast and we had another couchy day.\u00a0 Then, the hangover started to settle in mid-afternoon so we ordered some pizza.\u00a0 I ended up eating 5 slices of pizza and most of a gigantic family size salad.\u00a0 Not my finest hour, but not ridiculously horrible for 2 meals worth of food when I forgot to eat dinner the day before.\u00a0 Early sleep was awesome.<\/p>\n

Saturday – Sort of a hat pick – Day trip to Fredricksburg.\u00a0 It was going to be in the hat, but we had made plans to go with some of our friends so it had to be planned.\u00a0 I woke up early to finally get in a workout because I friggin’ felt better (fiiiinally).\u00a0 They drove us up, we met one of their friends and had beers and lunch at a brewery (my god, the best meatloaf I’ve ever had, and Zliten got down a whole sausage sampler – bratwurst, knockwurst, and pepperwust), and then we walked around shopping for a while.\u00a0 Want some slabs of marble?<\/p>\n

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Geez, everything was ridici-expensive.\u00a0 I’m sorry, but thrift stores have spoiled me.\u00a0 The only thing I found that I would have purchased was this vintage-y looking black and white psychadellic coat that was a one of a kind from France somewhere, and only 80 bucks.\u00a0 Alas, it was a little too small.\u00a0 Zliten found an awesome cowboy hat, but it was too big.\u00a0 So we left to drown our shopping sorrows with more alcohol.<\/p>\n

We hit up a fancy little wine bar where I had a yummy french chardonnay and a truffle or two (yes, breaking my no sweets and alcohol together rule but now I understand why people who drink nice wine eat chocolates with it – yum), and then we moved on to another german place to have dinner.\u00a0 I ordered some goolash and a salad.\u00a0 Goolash = sounds gross but it was AWESOME spicy beef stew.\u00a0 One of our friends ordered a dish – I don’t remember what it was called, but it was pickles, onions, and mustard rolled up into slices of roast beef, baked, and smothered in gravy.\u00a0 Sound FREAKING GROSS, right?\u00a0 Nuh uh.\u00a0 It was way yummy.\u00a0 The boys loved it too.<\/p>\n

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The verdict?\u00a0 I could never live there, as I would get super fat on German food.\u00a0 As it was, a lot of people in the town had a beer and brat gut –\u00a0 call me superficial, but it was VERY obvious healthy living was not generally the norm there.\u00a0 It was freaky weird.\u00a0 I forget how healthy-fit Austin is sometimes compared to the rest of the world.\u00a0 It was a cute little town and the people were SUPER NICE (though we were being led around by a local friend of a friend who was super awesome too).<\/p>\n

Sunday – Not a hat pick – Laundry, Cleaning, and Grocery-obtaining.\u00a0 Normal Sunday stuff.\u00a0 I didn’t want to go into Monday with a tumultuous house, no clean clothes, and no menu for the week, so we did stuff.\u00a0 But mostly, we spent the day glued to the couch for one more day.\u00a0 Zliten made yummy burgers for lunch and we rid our fridge of leftovers for dinner.\u00a0 Finally, at the end of the day, I realized I was very very much ready to return to routine the next day.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, my first day at work, it wasn’t so bad to be back.\u00a0 I enjoyed my run.\u00a0 Waking up at 8:45 (which was 45 minutes later than I wanted) was freaking early, but 11pm came and I was tired.\u00a0 Like normal.<\/p>\n

So, is it spring yet?\u00a0 This is my least favorite time of year.\u00a0 At least when it’s starting to get cold, I have the holidays to look forward to – but now it’s (Austin’s version of) butt-ass cold here for at least the next week, and I don’t have another super cool thing to look forward to until the half marathon (which right now, means running outside so I’m not entirely sure I’m looking forward to it at the moment… though I did actually sign up and pay today so I’m pretty pumped).\u00a0 What was the coolest holiday thing you did?\u00a0 What are you feverishly looking forward to now?<\/p>\n

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