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Well print me a magazine and call me Oprah, cause this here post is going to outline a few many of my favorite things!  I love how I act as if Iam doin ya’ll a favor, when in reality, this is one of my favorite posts of the year!  Here we go!

1.  TIGER TAIL.  I have been BEGGING for this baby ever since I decided that my foam roller was simply too much work. Come on now, the LAST thing I want to do after a long run when I have achy muscles is to hop on top of my foam roller and “go at it.”  Seated position with a tiger tail?  YES please!  I almost gave in to the temptation at the Half Marathon Expo, but decided Santa might want to bring me one instead 🙂  I see Tina using this a lot on her site and am quite envious.

PS:  Santa!  You can get it here on Amazon for less than 25 bucks!

2.  ALLIED STEET MEDAL HANGER– I have been eyeing this baby on Leslie’s site for MONTHS now!  I even entered to win one on her site with no luck. OH well, I KNOW Santa has a big interest in this gift!  I would just LOVE a personalized one to hang my race bling on. It would be SOOO neat if it said UPSANDDOWNES!  Here Leslie’s-so cute!

3.  An APRON!  So in my attempts to be more of a wifey less of a mess, I really would like an apron.  Not just any apron.  A really nice one.  Maybe one that is personalized?  Like from my fave personalized gift site personalizationmall.com or just a nice classic one from Williams Sonoma.  Dunno.  I’ll let Santa (or Hannukah Harry?!?!) decide.  I saw some adorable ones on Sabrina’s site, and decided it was time to grow up get one.  Wouldn’t I look cute in something like this:

(Source) HAHA NOT! Santa, don’t even….. 🙂

4.  MASSAGE Gift card!  OK, so I use an AMAZING lil’ lady for my massages.  She comes to my HOUSE and is incredible!  Nicki is amazing (another Sabrina find, by the way) and runs her own at-home massage business called Hand-At-Home. I would HIGHLY reccommend Nicki to anyone and would like to say that a gift card to her business would be a PERFECT gift!  AND this lil’ lady won Best of Philly 2009.  Yo go girl!  Love her!  Check it out HERE.

D.  Sprinkles Cupcake mixes (LOOOOOVE the spice cake)

8:  SODA STREAM!  Wait, hold your roll! I am SOOOO serious!  I want one!  Soda stream looks AWESOME!

OOOOOHHHHH KKKKAAAAYYYYY I think I went a lil’ overboard, but I hope you enjoyed PART ONE of my holiday wish list/favorite things.  Now, go!  Get shopping!  hahahah I kid!  What is on YOUR wish list!??!

So, I feel like I have been MIA from the blog lately…and I guess I have!  Sorry!  I was just on SUCH a high post-half and was riding that feeling for a WHILE!  So the question is, what have I been up to since!?!? Well, I thought I’d first start with my fitness regime.  Basically, after the Half, I decided that I REALLY wanted to do a good (better) job at maintaining my RUNNING fitness.  After Broad Street I really went into a running slump.  I was over it.  It was the summer, and for me it was too hot to run outside and too boring to run inside.  So I took a running hiatus.  I did, however, continue to workout via other methods (think: Cybex, Elliptical, Yoga, etc.) but really lost my running “mojo.”  SO, when I began training for my first half in September, it was ROUGH.  And I promised that I would never “do that” again (aka let myself slip in the running-fitness area).  I truly believe that no matter how much physical activity you are doing, you can STILL be in shape but NOT in a “running-way.”  Running, for me at least, is a totally different beast.  Anyway, with that being said, this has been my workout schedule since the Half Marathon (on Sunday November 21):

Monday 11/22- my legs felt STIFF so I wanted to get some blood into them with a bit of low-impact cardio–> 40 minutes Cybex

Tuesday 11/23- OFF

Wednesday 11/24- 4 mile run by the river (I was feeling it again!) and 60 minutes Yoga (I’m baaaaaack!!!!)

Thursday 11/25- 4 mile WALK (ate turkey hehe)

Friday 11/26- AMAZING 4.5 mile run through the glorious and beautiful Pound Ridge New York (we were up for Thanksgiving to visit the in-laws)

Saturday 11/27- OFF (although I shopped my lil’ bum off so shouldn’t that count?!?!)

Sunday 11/28- 5 mile run through my beautiful City of Brotherly LOVE!

Monday 11/29- 30 minutes Cybex, 45 minute SPIN class (yay!)

Tuesday 11/30- OFF

Wednesday 12/1- 5 mile run by the river– THIS one was BRUTAL!  It looked like this:

So, there you have it:  THAT is what I’ve been up to since the halfie.  OHHHHH and other stuff too, like….

– LOVING Thanksgiving with my family

-TRAVELING for the holiday

-SPENDING TIME W FRIENDS AND FAMILY

– SHOPPING and creating lists upon lists for gifts (mine soon to come!!!!)

-HANGIN’ with the HUSB and Oscar

-WORKING

-SLEEPING

-Getting ready to decorate for the holiday

WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN UP TO!??!?