Immediately after @TheWelshWookie and I hung our decorations and lit our Christmas tree tonight, the power in our village went out!
😮
Coincidence? I hope so!
And so, this is the briefest of posts, as we’ve already had a couple of false returns to electricity; this may be another!
It’s very snug and Christmassy, though 😉
And the treadmill is obviously not an option this evening!
It’s advent! This year, @TheWelshWookie and I have advent calendars. Every year, we have an advent train, that we fill with chocolates every year.
However, this year we succumbed to temptation, and bought advent calendars, too.
TheWookie has a Lindt chocolate one, and he has kicked off advent with a dark chilli cherry mousse chocolate. Here’s his calendar:
I have a zero-calorie calendar, a Yankee Candle one:
My first tea light is a Christmas cookie one, it smells delicious!
It’s lovely, that the first Sunday in advent has actually coincided with 1st December!
Do you have any advent traditions?
Well, now that we’re at the end of Movember, and staring down the barrel of December (yay!) I thought I’d do a quick Movember round-up.
Favourite run this month?
@TheWelshWookie and I really enjoyed the MoRun earlier this month:
And @TheWelshWookie has been sporting his Mo all month:
All in the name of charity 😉
I was delighted to find out that my MoRun race report was mentioned on the Mo Running website’s MoBlog!
Favourite food this month? Well, it’s been a toss-up between a bag of metcalfe’s popcorn and my pizza and salad last week:
 
What has been your Movember highlight?
I think I may have been born on the wrong continent. I LOVE Thanksgiving; it is so powerful!
While many of you are celebrating, holidaying and having family time, I’ll be working: but I’ll be thankful for that. I’ll be thinking about all of my own blessings, and those of my family today.
I’ll then be heading home to share in your traditions: good food, good company and football.
So, whatever you are doing, and whomever you are spending it with: enjoy. My thankful blessings are with you all!
It’s time to ‘fess up. We’re now nearing the end of the Pile on the Miles challenge, and I’m off target, with little chance of recovering- unless I somehow fit in a couple of marathons this week.
I had initially planned to achieve 150K this month. It looks like my mileage will be closer to 100K 😦
Thanks, padres- I feel better now I’ve gotten that out in the open! The main reason for my short mileage is a combination of being a wuss and not running in the dark, along with busy weekends away with no running, and with busier-than-usual evenings too.
So, I’m going to celebrate what I have achieved, and not get too downhearted. After all, we all know:
How have your November challenges gone?
Back in September, I shared with you my product review of the CrossTrain ID Bracelet. I’d been super-fortunate, and I had won it on Run Eat Repeat‘s fab blog.
I wouldn’t say I’m usually lucky: I seldom win raffles or anything like that, but this year I also won the ‘guess the number of midges in the jar’ comp at Tarbet Seafood Festival back in July:
My prize was champagne, sweeties and skin-so-soft to stop the midges biting! They say that the best things come in threes. And I’ve won my third comp of the year: a £50 voucher to spend at the wonderful Pink Poodle Boutique which is located in the West End of Glasgow. I’ve been shopping there since I was at University, waaay back last century, and they have all kinds of quirky, pretty gifts and treats for sale. 🙂 Here’s how I found out:
It’s also my third FaceBook competition win: in the past, I won six cupcakes and a Modalu handbag.
I love winning! I might never win a race, but that’s OK with me! 😀
What have you won before?
On our drive home today, I was thinking about the coming week: with Thanksgiving, followed by St. Andrew’s day on Saturday. As @TheWelshWookie and I will be in Coventry this weekend, I thought we’d better have haggis at some point this week, since we won’t have it on Saturday.
And so, we stopped off at the George Hotel in Inveraray for dinner. And what did I have? Oh, there was only one thing on my mind: haggis, neeps ‘n’ tatties, with a green peppercorn sauce. Yummy. Very winter-warming!
In keeping with foods with an ‘n’ in the name, @TheWelshWookie has fish ‘n’ chips:
We’re now home. And I’m road testing my new slipper socks…
I hope you’re having a comfy, cozy Sunday. Did you have a busy weekend or a quiet one?
Welcome to another week, laid out before us, full of possibility and opportunity.
What do you have planned? My plan is to get back to it. And to get my Christmas cards written, and pressies wrapped 😉
Hope this helps, if you’re struggling with your Monday Mojo!
Have you had a busy weekend, or a quiet one?
Mine has been busy. We had my nephew Nathan’s Christening yesterday, and we had a fantastic day.
After the church service, we had a family meal in Paperino’s, Byres Road, which was great. Pizza and pasta. Yum!
We then had a brilliant family-party night, with lots of food, fun, dancing, and a few drinks 😉
Nathan liked his cake:
We’re now home: @TheWelshWookie is finally feeling a little more human!
Back to the running, rowing and strength work tomorrow 😉
A few weeks ago, I wrote a short post abut how some people had found my blog by searching ‘depressed quotes’!
Well, things must be looking up for me, as someone found me this week by searching for this:
Yay! Cool Movember motivation? That’s more like it!
It’s ‘fess up time. I’ve had some late nights this week, and so my POTM has slipped. I’m about 10K off target, which is not good; but is entirely recoverable, I hope!
How are you doing with your November challenges?
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