Friday Favorites and Happenings

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Happy Friday all! I survived my first week after surgery. Thank you for all the thoughts and prayers. They were heard and felt!! I am slowly feeling better each day and hope (and know) that this will be my last surgery for a long time. I don't want to say ever because you just don't know the future, but for now, it will be the last for a long time (years hopefully).

Onto Friday Favorites and happenings.

ONE. I have been binging shows like crazy. Especially this week. I finished Tiny Pretty Things and Dare Me. Plus I caught up on some movies that I had saved on Netflix. Oh and my guilty pleasure, Riverdale, is back!

Anyways, I definitely recommend Tiny Pretty Things. It is about a ballerina school and it is a bit dark, provocative (lots of sex scenes) and the dancing is amazing. It is like Pretty Little Liars meets Gossip Girl. 

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Dare Me came up as a recommendation and it is very dark, has a lot of kids drinking and partying, some murder and cheerleaders. It is full of vulgar rap music, and makes you a bit worried for our kids as they grow up. BUT it was still good. It took me a bit to get into it as some of the cast members are a bit hard to handle, but I did enjoy it. Plus I love watching cheerleader shows and seeing dance routines.

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So tell me more shows that I can binge on Prime, Netflix or Hulu. I still will be stuck to my chair for the foreseeable future.

TWO. So remember how I told you that I received the Bala Bangles for Christmas from my sister and brother-in-law? Well I have been using them for about a month now and I love them. This is (was for right now) my workout schedule...Monday, Wednesday and Friday I do a combination of stair stepper, walking or elliptical and then weights. Monday is legs, Wednesday is arms and Friday is back/core. On Tuesdays and Thursdays I walk on the treadmill and do a lot of stretching.

But I have incorporated the Bala Bangles when I walk on the treadmill. I usually put them on my ankles, but sometimes my arms. It adds just enough weight to notice it and the calorie burn goes way up. After I am healed, I want to use them on the stair stepper.

If you have been going back and forth on these, I say get them. I love them.

Bala Bangles

THREE. So after talking to my husband about Valentine's Day, we decided to go out for it....BUT not on actual Valentine's Day. It is tough to get a reservation as we are at 25% capacity in restaurants. And they usually offer a prefix menu which is costly and not always what you want. AND we are doing this for our monthly date night. My parents (hi! and thank you) are taking the girls overnight the day before V-Day and we are going to a new-to-us steakhouse in town. Plus my friend is a waiter there and will be serving us! So fun for everyone.

Now normally we do something at home like a little date night and spoil the girls with something small, but this year we are just treating ourselves to dinner...oh and spoiling the girls a bit.

What are your Valentine's Day plans?

FOUR. This is your yearly reminder to back everything up to your iCloud, external hard drive or where ever you keep your data. I have been awful about this and my personal laptop is now 10 years old. 

After my mother-in-law sent us a video of the girls in the NICU, I realized that I don't have those videos on my phone anymore. I am not sure if they are on my iCloud or not as I took them with an old iPhone. I pray that they are as back-up. But I have been trying to update my laptop, so I can add them to my iCloud from there. It is just a slow process. 

And I also bought an external hard drive to put everything on. We have one somewhere, but last year after we finished the renovation, we moved all that stuff into a room in the garage and haven't brought it back out yet. So I bought this one as a back up, so I can add everything as soon as it arrives.

This is the one that I bought.

 

1 Terabyte External Hard Drive

FIVE. Weekly funnies.

Been there, but not this bad.

This is how 2020 felt.

Sadly, I am sure a lot of people who don't know how to cook have done this.

This has happened way too many times to count.

If you can even read the shirt, bravo. It was sooo poorly designed.

Have a great weekend. I am linking up with A Little Bit of Everything.