Small Scale Victories (Pun Intended)

   Wellllll, looks like a rainy day for me so there's no excuse to not blog... or do my laundry for that matter. I figured I would share the highlights of the week today. Seems appropriate to recap the week at the end of the weekend right? 
f   First of all, I weighed myself the other day... dun dun duuuuuuuuuunnnnn...

153.6, that is the least I have weighed in quite a while. When I started taking better care of myself and my body I was around 170. Needless to say, I'm feeeeeeeelin' goooooood (Like the song, ya know?). It's great when all that hard work you've put into getting back in shape starts paying off. Sometimes you start to lose sight. I am definitely in that rut, I have another half marathon in 2 weeks and I have zero motivation to continue training. I have burnt myself out. Then I saw that number on the scale and it reminded me that I am doing all this work for something, and not only am I working hard but it's paying off in a big way, slowly but surely.

Notice where I am standing, that's a 6 foot drop directly behind me.

   Last Sunday I got a wild idea. I tore up the over grown garden plot behind my apartment and planted myself a small vegetable garden. I will be honest, along with blogging, this is something I am trying that I know absolutely nothing about. I spent a few hours on the phone with my mother trying to figure out how to do it. It would be much easier if I didn't live four hours away from her, luckily she's just a phone call away. I got it done, now let's see if those veggies grow!

   I have been living with the boyfriend for about a year now and as he puts it I am "taking over". My latest "takeover" was on the bedroom wall. I am pretty darn proud of this project. I got all crafty on my boyfriend a side he has never really seen from me. The letters on the wall were $3.50 boring plywood that I painted brown to match the color brown in our bed set. The two paintings are ones my boyfriend did (he's a darn good artist, I think anyway). The Minnesota is just foam that I cut to the shape of Minnesota and wrapped some fabric around. And the small white canvas, which actually says "Home Sweet Home" on it, I left plain and just put the gold glitter alphabet stickers on it. I have been Pinterest stalking gallery walls for a while now and I am pretty thrilled with how it turned out.

Gingerbread surveying the seas... or the Marina.

   Lastly, we finally had a day above 60 degrees in Duluth. It. was. GLORIOUS! I was so happy to have the day off to enjoy it yesterday. I went for a run along the lake in the morning and spent the afternoon helping out my friend fix up his sail boat and get it ready for the season... and there may have been some post work drinks on a deck over looking the lake. But let's not get off topic. My dear fellow ginger friend, Eric, and his father bought a sail boat last spring. It's amazing, I am so lucky he's willing to let me play on it.
   That about rounds up the highs of the week so I will leave you all with picture of Duluth. This is why even though it's freezing and miserable most of the year I love this place. You can't beat a Duluth summer. Not anywhere.