Keep Calm and Love Brooke

Or so I thought! So on Tuesdays and Thursdays are my strictly cardio days..and for me I feel its kind of a pain, because I like to take my time getting ready in the morning.which I usually do on most mornings,however; this fall when Sam started Pre-School, I wanted to put that time to good use. And I just wanted to get my workouts out of the way so I could essentially do what ever I wanted for those 2 and a half hours.      Okay so we are going to rewind the clock and go back to September 19,2013. Its Thursday morning and I had also just gotten home from taking Ken to the bus stop. For those of you who don't know my hubby, Ken is an IT guy out at the INL. And for the record NO HE WILL NOT FIX YOUR COMPUTER!!! j/k he might if you ask him. So he catches the bus to go out to MFC around 5:40. I came home and the thought hits me that I need to go running...I wasn't in the mood to work out to a DVD today. I wanted my runners' high! I needed my endorphin/drug to take effect on my

So every year our ward has an annual chili cook-off... Where a bunch of people bring their homemade chili and cornbread and is judged accordingly. Either by peers or this year they did something new...they had a panel of judges. Which I thought was very clever! Two years ago Ken and I were assigned to be on this committee and I wish that we had thought of that... ANY WHO, back to the story. I made my chili that morning, just threw all the ingredients in the crock pot. Who doesn't love the crock pot!?? CRAZY not to. About 45 minutes before it started I made the cornbread like I always do. No big deal, right, I was just hoping that it would finish in time so we could be on time. Contrary to popular belief I HATE BEING LATE!!! Fast Forward about 1 hour later and Ken and I are stuffing our faces with this Chocolate and LAMB chili!! SHUT THE FRONT DOOR!! I know, weird combo but it totally worked!  When I went back to get seconds( don't judge me!) I saw a recipe that totally ca

Yes, I know I have many obsessions! I can't help it... it just happened...and sometimes its the only thing that I can think about.    Yeah...ya see it all started about 4 months ago....when I borrowed my oldest daughters I-pod shuffle that she got as a present about 4 years ago. She hardly uses it and I thought. "What's the harm?? She hardly uses it anyways, right". I wanted to try running...to see IF I liked it, then maybe I could add it to my workout routine. Kylie's is blue. Anyways, for starters I just ran up to 20th Street Park then back home. It was alright...I felt like I could keep up well enough. One draw back to using her I-Pod...she has a TON of teenie-bopper music on there. For example, Jonas Brothers, Miley Cyrus( before she went bat sh** crazy), Taylor Swift, Carly Ray Jeppson, and some of the Disney channel stars....Not that this genre in music is bad...in fact I like at least 3 of them..the trouble was that most of these songs were TOO SLOW!!