is anybody watching mad men?

It is SO GOOD! I got season 1 for Christmas and I've only got to episodes left. Love it. But I think it's wearing off on me.

Hubby's birthday party on saturday. I spent 2 whole days cleaning and baking and cooking and prepping. I had our kitchen table AND the folding card table FULL of food. Not just chips and packaged dip. Here's the summary:

bacon wrapped mini-smokies with brown sugar glaze - (these are delicious, but ridiculously bad for you, worse than you think. I had none.)
spicy tortilla wrap-ups
ham pastry spirals
tons of Christmas baking (everything that was left)
hot spinach artichoke dip
veggies and 3 different dips
3 different cheeses
3 different crakers/breads for dipping
homemade salsa and chips
elk smokies
deer pepperoni
rhubarb punch with pomegranite seeds in it
AND the best things - wonton hot dips - these were basically any kind of hot dip you want (I had spinach, cheese, and shrimp kinds) but not cooked in a casserole or anything, but spooned into indiviual wonton cups and cooked like that. They looked so intensely fancy and were so crazy delicious it was awesome.

Plus I had honey roasted peanuts through out the house, and 2 different boxes of chocolates and pretzels and chips everywhere. I was AWESOME. Very 1950s housewife. Plus I played hostess too. We had several groups who didn't mesh and know each other so instead of hanging out with the fun people and going sledding and playing pool, I manned the living room and made small talk and introduced people. BORING. Oh well. I didn't mind. that was my role...

Anyway, it was alright. I didn't eat supper on saturday so I just nibbled on a few things all night. I don't really think I did that badly. Lots of veggies, none of the worst thing. I did drink a lot of punch (no booze) which had calories I forgot about. But it was sort of the big bang last day of bad food for hubby and I. We cleaned out all the junk and served it (hence 2 boxes of chocolates). The leftovers hubby's gonna take to work to share with the office.

I'm glad to be back into the regular routine I guess now. At the same time I really dreaded coming back to work since I'm so swamped and with not fun work (just fast deadlines and working and focusing all day so I get a headache). But eating lunch of a salad and veggies feels good. Plus I've got exercise class tonight already. I'm looking forward to making a weekly routine up with the different classes and my treadmill at home. I'm out of running shape. Well maybe, I used to run on metric machines, this one's in miles/hr so I'm having a hard time remembering what my speeds were and stuff. Plus Daisy just sits and watches me or else butts her nose into my knees because she wants to run so I feel guilty and we either go outside for a walk or I let her walk on the treadmill with me (which she loves!) but she can only go 2.5 miles/hr which is a slow walk. Any faster and she freaks out. Anyway, so far I've only done short stints on the treadmill like 10 minutes here and there. But yesterday I set up the laptop with Mad Men and watched a whole episode, running for half and walking with Daisy for half. That was nice. Look forward to more of that. Plus I haven't even used my dumbell set I got for Christmas yet. The basement is a little cleaner so I can keep everything set up down there.

Anyway, I know I haven't done my Resolutions/Goals yet for 2009. But I haven't forgotten, I am planning on doing it. I'm having a hard time coming up with many for this year though. Most things are exactly how I want them in my life, or are out of my control. I guess that's ok, I can just have a few. Maybe later today. I love reading all of yours, definately giving me some ideas.