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Cute Cards & Strange Presents

Posted Feb 14 2012 8:25am

Look what arrived in the mail for yesterday! A Valentine’s Day card from his pug girlfriend, Olive !

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Olive lives in Wisconsin, so she and Murphy have a long distance relationship and often send each other things.

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Murphy and Olive have never met, but I know they will someday. Until then, they’ll continue to send each other fun things in the mail, like cards with pug puppies on them because…

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Yep, they are. Wicked cute.

Look what also arrived in the mail yesterday! My Valentine’s Day present from Mal!

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Ever since I purchased Mal’s Valentine’s Day gift, I’ve been excited to give it to him, so I suggested opening our presents a day early. Mal loves presents (he’s like a 5-years old when he has one to open), so he was totally on board.

I gave Mal a funny Valentine’s Day card (inside it says: “I can’t stop chicken you out”) with my present inside.

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His present: tickets to see The Black Keys next month! Mal was PSYCHED!!

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Then, it was my turn to open my Valentine’s Day present—or what Mal and I thought was my present.

Mal and I don’t typically wrap gifts for one another, so he just handed me the box from Amazon to open. I honestly had no idea what he bought me, but I definitely didn’t expect what I saw inside the box: a media cable. How romantic!

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Oops! Wrong box! Mal forgot that he ordered a media cable for his classroom at school, so he thought the package was for me. LOL!

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Hopefully, my Valentine’s Day present will arrive today. Now, I’m really curious to see what Mal bought me!

Workout

Last night’s CrossFit workout was a lot of fun, but I am so sore today. I woke up this morning and checked out today’s WOD … and let’s just say the thought of handstand push-ups sounded terrible to me, so I decided to take the next two days off to rest. Sunday’s and Monday’s workouts were really tough, so I just need a break to recover and come back stronger.

Anyway, three “cool” things happened at CrossFit last night:

  • I did 4 Double Unders and then 5 Double Unders two different times!
  • I ripped my first callus. It didn’t look this bad , but it was still gross.
  • I used the Level 2 weight (55 pounds) for the WOD!

Strength:

Romanian Dead Lifts

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WOD:

For time 50 Back Squats
5 rope climbs
40 Back Squats
4 rope climbs
30 Back Squats
3 rope climbs
20 Back Squats
2 rope climbs
10 Back Squats
1 rope climb

Rx: (75,65) Back Squat/15 ft. Rope Climb

L2: (65,45) Back Squat/Sub. 4 Strict Pull-ups for each climb

L1: (45,35) Back Squat/Sub. 4 Band Assisted Pull-ups for each climb

Fifteen rope climbs just weren’t happening for me last night, so I subbed 4 Band Assisted Pull-ups for each climb. I finished in 14:23.

Dinner

Mal and I went to the later CrossFit class last night, so before we left the house, we prepped dinner. Chicken stir fry was on the menu, so Mal grilled the chicken while I chopped up the veggies. When we got home, all we needed to do was stir fry it all together.

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Delish!

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I finished off the evening with a couple of handfuls of peanut M&Ms. Love them.

Question of the Day

What’s the strangest gift you’ve ever received?

P.S. I’m hosting a giveaway on Trading Up Downtown to win an adorable cupcake cookbook!

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