Da Bulls and Da Bed

Well, once again I've been a bad blogger and haven't written for a long time. Things have been busy, I got sick, and I haven't really been doing the best at healthy eating/living. There was some exciting stuff in my life last week, so I'll share that for now.

On Tuesday I went to my first professional basketball (NBA) game. My husband is in the business world which is much different than what I am used to in the education world. The team that my husband belongs to had, for a lack of better words, a "Christmas outing." We were bused to Chicago in those limousine buses that have the laser lights, title floors, snacks, and built in coolers with beverages waiting for us. I didn't want to go picture crazy in front of the hub's work colleagues, so I barely have any pictures. Not everyone knows that I'm a blogger and I don't want to scare people off by taking pictures of everything I eat and do!

The first stop in Chicago was La Luce (an Italian restaurant). They had half a floor reserved for us and an eight course meal. I'm lactose intolerant and allergic to oregano and basil, so an Italian restaurant is the last place I should really be. I had lots of bread and salad along with dessert. While we were there, the boss of the team handed out funny Christmas gifts along with some gift cards.

After the meal we headed down to the United Center on our buses to the Bulls vs. Clippers game. I've never been to the United Center or an NBA game, so I was excited for that. I used to play basketball and remember watching the Bulls with Jordan, Rodman, and Pippen during the three-peat. I know that those were the golden days and the team is much different now, but it sparked a little flame inside of me to want to get back into shape and be able to shoot hoops or scrimmage again. I have a long way to go fitness-wise until I can do that though. I did take a few pictures from our seats at the game.

Since it was such a late outing and I don't function well on less than 8 hours of sleep, I took a personal day off of work the next day. I got to sleep in a bit and get a few things done around the house. We also traded in our standard size box springs for our new king size bed for the shorter, more compact ones which were delivered on my day off.  I didn't mind the standard size for myself personally, but sometimes the doggies jump out of bed when excited and I don't want them to paralyze themselves from jumping from too high of a place.

The standard size box springs.

 

The shorter box springs.

Last weekend was supposed to be full of fun for me, but I ended up getting sick on Friday and felt absolutely horrible on Saturday and Sunday. On Saturday night I was supposed to hang out with a few friends from work. My aunt that I go to concerts with was at my sisters, so I was going to go visit her sometime during the weekend. I'm sad that I didn't get to do either thing, but the rest did help quite a bit as I am able to hack my way through one more week of work before Winter Break.

If I get some time later this week I'll write about the whole healthy living or lack thereof...