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Super Sunday!

The last football game of the year (at least until preseason :mrgreen:  ).  We were up early and actually able to get the car down the driveway without having to shovel the icy crap that came down last night.

Panera Bread was quiet and empty.  Settled in with coffee and a blueberry bagel!

It was so nice to relax.  We did our grocery shopping yesterday, so there was no hurry to get home.  Once we did get home, there was much shoveling to do.  Couldn’t use the snow blower on this stuff as it was too icy.  I was dripping sweat.  Now I don’t need to ride the trainer today!  We normally push the snow off our back porch.  We can’t do that anymore!

It’s actually falling back onto the porch LOL!

For the SuperBowl party, our duty was to make some homemade pretzels.  We used Alton Brown’s recipe (which we have before), except make pretzel bites since there were more people eating them.

I had a quick lunch of a pork burger with laughing cow before setting to making the pretzels.

Pretzel are so easy!  The ingredients are only flour, water, yeast, butter, salt and sugar.  Mix and get the dough ready for proofing:

I turn the oven on for 1 minute, then turn it off.  Then I put this bowl in the oven with the oven light on to keep the temp warm enough. After an hour, the dough has risen and it is ready for rolling and parboiling.  Instead doing pretzels like normal, we did smaller pieces just to be different.

This water has baking soda in it, which helps give the pretzels their shiny, chewy crust.

They boil for 30 seconds, then are placed on parchment, brushed with an egg wash and sprinkled with flavor.  Bake at 450 for 12-14 minutes. We did half with smoked sea salt and half with cinnamon sugar:

Taste test approved!

Afternoon snack time!  Latte and some yummy blueberries.

I can’t even begin to express my joy at these winter berries this year! 😆

Off to the game party!  Everybody brought something to share.

No one is leaving hungry tonight!

Loving some of the commercials so far!

Go Packers!

Superbowl and a 'normal' moment.

It’s superbowl day, the day in which more potato chips and beer are consumed than any other day of the year! Too bad the Broncos aren’t playing. Oh well, I will support the Cards today, for the newbies! In honor of the festivities, I went out for a 35 minute run today. The temps are a bit above freezing, so you have to take what you can get, right? It was actually a really nice run, because I wasn’t dripping sweat LOL! My feet were really hot, though. I have mesh in my shoes, but I swear my feet were almost sizzling through the snow pack as I ran!

I had a very strange moment yesterday. We were out at a craft show milling around, and I had taken off my coat. This show was in some sort of ballroom or reception room, and there were mirrors on one of the walls. I glanced at myself and noticed that I was at the very least the same size or smaller than the majority of the people there. I was normal. Normal looking. I don’t know if someone who has not been significantly overweight can really understand where I’m coming from. It was one of those “Is that really me??” moments.

I mentioned it to my husband last night, and his response was “You are normal, actually smaller than the average size woman.” (Can you believe he knows this fact? – guess he does listen to me after all!)
And he’s right. The average woman is 12-14, and I wear an 8. Which, ironically, is the same size as Jessica Simpson, who is getting crucified in the media for gaining weight!

I really wonder how long it will take to get used to be normal? When normal will *feel* normal….