Yo Ho Ho!

What a great day it has been! The Girl and I have just returned home from an afternoon/evening chalk full of laughs, smiles, amazing food, great gifts, and wonderful company. I honestly cannot remember the last time I’ve actually enjoyed myself this much during the holidays. I normally turn into a bitchy hot mess at the mere thought of a holiday gathering, but here I am; enjoying them in droves.

When you no longer spend all of your mental energy worrying if the chair you’re sitting in is going to buckle beneath you or if everyone is questioning why you’re reaching for seconds or if your feet are going to become frost-bitten en route because you’re wearing Crocs in 13 degree due to not being able to reach and tie your shoes, you tend to spend all of your energy engaging in your surroundings rather than cursing them.

I’m digging it.

Before heading to the gym, I checked to see if Spongebob Squarepants was slated to make an appearance on Nickelodeon at some point. Yes, its true. I often schedule my Planet Fitness workouts around that silly Square’s agenda. It is a guilty pleasure of mine and with the exception of catching a Bruins game on NESN, Spongebob is my absolute favorite thing to watch (closed caption with my music blasting) while riding the belt. I ended up heading to the gym at 10:45a, giving myself enough time to catch one full hour of everyone’s favorite Sponge.

Since pilates is over for the time being, I needed to come up with something to occupy my hour. I decided to mix things up a bit by jogging for 10:00 @ 5.2 mph / 2:30 @ 5.5 mph / 2:30 @ 6 mph + 5:00 of walking x 3. When I hit the sixty minute-mark (4.99 miles), I reset the treadmill and busted out another fifteen minutes of jogging @ 5.2 and fifteen minutes of walking @ 4.1 plus a five-minute cool down. I was rocking that shit.

Dinner itself went swimmingly. Upon arrival, I devoured five turkey sausage stuffed mushrooms, seven scallops wrapped in bacon (half slice per scallop), two Triscuits smothered in a teaspoon of cheese spread, two mini pigs in a blanket, and one piece of chocolate-covered shaved coconut. I recorded everything to the best of my ability and estimated my Hors d’amage at 540 calories.

It was unanimously decided that a break was in order and gifts were to be opened. I received a bunch of loot, but the biggest and best had to be a fancy-schmancy bread-maker and a quilt my mother’s co-worker put together for me using old t-shirts and sport uniforms. It’s gorgeous! I’ll have to take a photo of it at some point.

After opening gifts, we attacked the lasagna.

Mmm.

My mother’s lasagna never disappoints.

I ended up paring my plate of lasagna with a half slice of super soft Italian bread and a half cup of squash. My whole meal came to roughly 478 calories. Add in 599 calories for one homemade butterscotch cookie, two small slices of burgundy pie with crumb topping (OMG), and one cubic inch of homemade chocolate and walnut fudge and you’ve got yourself a total of 1667 calories consumed between the hours of 3:30p and 8:30p.

And I enjoyed every fucking minute of it.

Total estimate: 1,933

Merry Christmas my dear friends! May your day be filled with good choices and much happiness.

1. My dad ripping open a gift while The Girl watches in awe (..or fear?)
2. Modeling my new footie pajamas while pretending to down a bottle of Sangria
3. Mmm. Lasagna.
4. Mom trying to cut through her delicious homemade fudge
5. Burgundy pie (..the other half followed twenty minutes later)