YUP TO DA YOOP!

So the other day, I think it was Monday maybe, I was out at Lower Harbor taking pictures and Rip Tide rock. The pictures did not turn out the greatest but it was WINDY!!!! I don't remember what the wind chill was but I remember seeing the snow blow so hard across the park and the harbor, it was beautiful! Cold as all hell though! When I got out of my car, the wind blew my door right shut. Hahaha. Hello winter!!! She was laughing and talking and saying hello today...yes she was.

So I am on a new venture. I have a new motto - "Yup to da Yoop!" - I have stickers and bumper stickers being made and will be selling them. Not sure where yet. It's me saying YUP to the U.P.! Already copyrighted and everything. :-) I can't afford to do T-shirts, but we will see. Maybe if I find someone with a printing press, we can cut a deal! It will go well with my all things Yooper :-)

So I am on this 'watching what I eat' kick. NOT a New Years REsolution, I don't make those. Just an OMG I am getting fat I need to start watching what I shove in my face kind of resolution. Epiphany maybe. So I have been doing OK. Not wonderful, but OK. Have not had soda or chocolate for like a week now. I did drink a whole 1.5 L of wine last night so that doubled my calories that I was NOT supposed to have. Um...ya well, yesterday I did not feel like adulting so I didn't. Until I got home and guzzled wine like it was the last cheap brown bag covered bottle I'd ever see. (It really was not covered in a brown bag but still sounds good). I did wake up at some ungodly hour of the morning with a pounding headache and an empty wine bottle pointing and laughing at me.....'You want to be an adult, here you go, muahahaha'. Dirty rotten wine bottle. Anyhow, it worked. I woke up totally adulting today. :-) Which leads me to the whole point of this paragraph - Bigby Coffee - located next to Arby's. I SO WISH THEY HAD A DRIVE THRU. Of course then I would be broke. They have AMAZING smoothies. So today I opted for strawberry banana, ok that is the only one I ever get. But it is made with real fresh fruit. I love it. And 99% of the time, I am too lazy to go there and park my car, I just want to drive thru and get my fruit smoothie. But today I went in. NOMNOMNOM. Loving it. Still wishing they had a drive thru.

So I am looking forward to a couple of events this year - The UP 200, which is from the 11st to the 15th of February and the Trenary Outhouse Classic - Feb 27th. AWESOME!!! I have a new Mad Bomber hat I am dying to wear out in the cold and my bright red Cardhardt. I will probably look like a real Yooper, blending right in.

That is all for this gal. Any of you who don't know, I work for the Home Builders Association of the UP, down on Front street, and we are selling garage raffle tickets for $10 a ticket. Win a 24x24 garage (if we sell enough tickets). If we don't - well then it goes to a 50-50 and the winner gets a buttload of cash. Last year we gave away $4300 to the winner! Get your tickets at my office - 309 S Front Street, Suite 102 or call me and we can do a debit or credit card over the phone. 906-228-2312. Winner winner chicken dinner!


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Not adulting all the time - S