Hungry

"Mom, I swear I didn't eat the pancake mix. I think it was Ari."
"What are you looking at? Do I have something on my face?"

Fail

Remember the super cute Power Cat cookies from a couple of weeks ago? Here, I'll remind you:

I decided to make them again for the game today, but feeling slightly pressed for time I took the easy way out and bought Pilsbury pre-made dough. (I feel like Trophy Wife is crossing me off her blogs to read list as I write this!) Big Mistake! This is why I don't use store-bought cookie dough:

Is it a Power Cat or a bear??? Either way, it was ugly. Worse yet, it tasted like crap. I didn't even bother icing them. Power-bears are now in the trash. You know it's bad when I don't even want to eat the dough. Blech. I wrangled up some peanut butter swirl brownies to take to the tailgate instead, because you can't go empty handed. And when cookies have me down I like to turn to peanut butter. They are really crumbly and falling apart, but they taste amazing! You have to either be pretty or delish to meet my high standards.

On a happier note: It's Game Day!!!!

Bucket List

Random story before I get into the actual post today; About a year and a half ago (or whenever this movie was in theaters) my dad was offered a pretty sweet job in Jefferson City, MO. He & my mom were giving it a lot of consideration, and honestly I thought he was going to take it. Well, then they decided to go to the movies and see The Bucket List. Apparently something that Morgan Freeman or Jack Nicholson said was really life changing because after the movie my dad decided not to take the job. When I asked him why, his response was, "Life is too short to live in Missouri." I'm not kidding, that's what he said. Old people are funny.

Anyways, back to today. I read a lot of blogs. I read a lot of health & fitness related blogs. And there has been a lot of talk about "Fitness Bucket Lists." in the blog world lately. Basically it is your list of all things fitness related that you'd like to accomplish in life. If I were to make a list, it would be pretty boring and just say, "Qualify for Boston."

But, it got me thinking about a bucket list in general-non-fitness-related terms. I was actually thinking about my list during my 5 mile run this morning and I got really excited! It made the run fly by! Clearly I've only given this a couple of hours of thought, so there will obviously be additions made later in life... but here's what I've got so far.

1. Qualify for Boston. This will require me to take 41 minutes off of my best marathon time. Scary! Plus, there's been talk about making the qualifying times more challenging, so I'd better get this done ASAP before they ask me to knock my time down by an hour or something.

2. Run the following marathons: Big Sur, US Marine Corp, Memphis, NYC, Chicago, London, and something in Hawaii.

3. Go to Italy with Drew.

4. Run a 10K with Drew.

5. Go back to Maui and stay at the Napili Kai Beach Resort and relive our Honeymoon... best week of my life.

6. Plant a garden that produces more than 2 cucumbers.

7. Learn how to sew.

8. Get my teaching license and be a teacher!

9. Write a children's book about Ari's life. Kait, will you illustrate??

10. Hike the Appalachian Mountains.

11. Take a road trip to Mt. Rushmore with Drew & the doggies.

12. Go skydiving. (Did I mention I have a crippling fear of heights?)

13. Go back to Spain with Jess.

14. Run a fast 5K & half marathon. I don't know about specific times, but I think it would be fun to train with speed in mind. Did I mention I'm super slow?

15. Party with Britney. (Hey, its my list.)

16. Be Debt Free. I heart Dave Ramsey.

Mmm-Kay. That seems like a good list so far. I'm surprised how many are actually fitness related. Whatever.

What's on your list???