Answer: me, I am always excited about snow. Also Kara, Kara is very excited. Even more excited than me probably.
So anyway, we got a lot of snow last week. Apart from being unreasonably excited, I accomplished a few other things too:
Did some workouts
I went on some runs. I went to the gym. It was all mostly so-so, with two exceptions:
I went to an actual yoga class. I have good intentions about doing this once a week, but most weeks I end up just doing a 15-20 minute video at home because it seems like too much trouble to go to the gym for it….(It’s a 5 minute walk from my office to the gym…so much trouble.) So I actually went last week. It was, unsurprisingly, really not much trouble at all.
I WENT FOR A TRAIL RUN IN THE SNOW IT WAS GREAT. Ahem. And then my hands were numb for about an hour afterwards, which was weird. Not painful, just weird.
I did fun things
Ok, I do fun things regularly, but mostly it’s reading. This weekend I managed to fit in some more active fun things:
I played some piano (by which I mean electric keyboard). This is a song I played well in high school…30 minutes of practice the other day got me back to hitting the right notes. In the first 2 lines. And not at the right tempo. Turns out if you don’t practice a skill, it gets rusty. Who knew? At this rate I’ll be able to play the whole song sometime in January.
I started I sewing project. By which I mean I chose a pattern and washed the fabric. But at least that makes me more likely to actually start sewing.
Earlier in the week I cooked up the last of my CSA apples to stuff inside some soft pretzels. Nom.
I did less fun things
The usual: cleaning house. Snowblowing/shoveling. And calling my insurance, only to find out I didn’t actually need to call because everything I was calling about was in-network. Which is probably the best result you can expect from a call to your insurance.
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The snow looks so peaceful. Beautiful pics! Sounds like a nice week! I would love to pick back up playing the guitar. It’d be great to learn some new songs but I just don’t really have the time right now…
It is hard to find time to practice consistently!
Piano. Piano is a hobby I want and have wanted to pick back up for a while now. One of the last times I was at my parents’ house I borrowed/stole back all my old RCM grade 8 books, and got myself a small little keyboard. I still don’t sit down play nearly as much as I’d like, but like you… those were real good steps to one day getting there, ya? I’m hoping it’s like riding a bike. Maybe…
Winter trail run? Dear lord. I’d be back at home warming up those apple stuffed bagels for you…..
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I’ve “borrowed” some piano books from my parents’ house too. They might have actually belonged to one of my brothers…..but they hadn’t taken them so I think that makes them fair game.
My car said it was 38 degrees…which is really on the warm side for a winter run…but I would never say no to someone offering me food after a run 😉
Beautiful snow pics….but no, not winter already!!!
Great week 🙂
I’m always ready for winter 🙂
I took piano lessons for 12+ years (and graduated from the National Piano Guild — whatever that is). Do I play now? No. Well, rarely. Maybe at Christmas. But, I know that is a difficult piece you were re-learning this week. I’m very impressed! Your snow looks lovely! Thanks for linking.
I did Guild too – and I’m not really sure what it is either! Actually, I’m pretty sure I played this piece for it for 2 or 3 years. But that was long enough ago that I barely remember what it’s supposed to sound like.
Woah. So much snow!!! I’ve never ever seen snow in person!
Those soft pretzels look incredible. I’ve only really made homemade pretzels a handful of times – the first time for a school project for German language classes!
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Never seen snow!! Clearly you need to visit Montana to remedy that tragedy 😉
I’m not the biggest fan of snow, but it looks gorgeous where you are!!
I need to get back to playing piano again too. :[ It’s been so long since I’ve had a chance to practice! I feel kinda ashamed of telling people I used to be a music major because I’m so terrible now, haha. :[ I’d like to think it’ll come back fairly quickly though once I get a chance to start up again! *-*
P.S. Those pretzels look awesome!
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It certainly comes back more quickly than learning from scratch at least!
Wow! Look at that snow! Beautiful! We have not gotten anything besides like 3 snowflakes for less than a minute. I’m looking forward to our first big snowfall. Do you have water-resistant trail shoes? Also, just FYI that my browser gives me a security warning when I try to go to your site. Certificate error or something?
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I don’t have water-resistant trail shoes, although they’re on my wish list. I mostly run on packed snow where my feet stay dry, and when they do get wet they generate enough heat to keep themselves warm 😛
I think the security warning may have been showing up when my husband was setting up a new router. I checked from my work computer and didn’t get a warning, so hopefully it’s ok now!