Today’s been a bit of a slow start for me, part of that being related to the fact that I’m moving slow as molasses today. Working out with your husband is no joke, but I have to admit- I love the feeling of sore muscles. We’ve been experimenting with high-intensity interval training, and as hard as it is to get through, I feel GREAT afterwards! And perhaps after my body acclimates a bit more to the workouts, I’ll stop descending stairs as though I have arthritis :).

And here’s a picture of some gelato cones from Rome last spring. Because I like sugar.

Our heating system failed last week- it was super fun! I walked into the house Tuesday afternoon and thought “gosh, am I getting sick? It feels really cold in here!” and sure enough, the thermostat said the temperature was 61 degrees. So I did what any self-respecting woman would do and I Googled what the problem may be. And after reading an article with the “Top 10 reasons your heating might not work,” I decided the easiest solution would be to take apart the thermostat with a screwdriver. You know, to see if the battery needed to be replaced.

Turns out it wasn’t the battery (I actually couldn’t even FIND a battery after taking the thermostat apart), and when I tried to put the thermostat BACK on the wall, it was completely dead. Now, in addition to not being able to control the temperature, I could also no longer see any numbers on the panel.

But the good news was, the problem wasn’t the thermostat. I made sure Matt knew what a great job I did in ruling out that possibility.

As always, lessons learned/events that transpired over the last week!

• I ran out of coffee filters this morning, and it was tragic. Just thought you all should know.
• Fun fact: dogs make life happier. Sometimes all I have to do is look over and see Lily’s crazy ears, or Sirius’ goofy one-floppy,-one-pointed-straight-up ears, and it makes me laugh.
• I’m nearly done with my Bridal Guide! I bought this template 1.5 years ago from Katelyn and just could. not. get it finished. But our business coach has been SO amazing in helping me set goals to get it finished before wedding season starts back up, and I can’t wait to see it in print!
• I rearranged the apps on my phone in order to better hide the Mail app (to keep myself from checking email on my phone), and it’s been driving me bonkers. I replaced the Safari app with my Messages app, and so now every time I try to go check news headlines on CNN it instead pulls up my most recent text message conversation. Which has been good for reminding me to respond to friends, but also drives me slightly nuts.
• GUYS. I just remembered I have a French press! Coffee filter problem solved!
• I’m going to Las Vegas next week and I think I need to buy something with sequins to take with me. That’s like, a pre-requisite for Vegas, isn’t it? Sequins?

We’re trying something new over here! With the exception of Monday Mash-Ups, I’m doing my best to get all my posts PRE-written for the week, so that posts are live and ready when you check in in the morning! Mondays are now my pre-blog days, and I have to say- it’s a relief to get up in the morning knowing that my blog is already live. Mondays will typically be posted a bit later (because I don’t work on the weekends, and it would be weird to write a MMU post on a Friday), but I’m hoping you guys’ll just roll with it :).

A SUPER exciting post is coming to the blog later this week, featuring this handsome dude! Betcha can’t guess what it is!