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Current Mood: Love

Another weekend comes to an end.

Recap as follows:

Friday night I took Brandon out to dinner to celebrate his promotional awesomeness of Captain. I’m sure I’ve mentioned that a few times already, hehe. But now I have pictures!

I really like this picture of us.

The wine was good…

Really good!

Brandon eying the foodage. He got Blue Crab Crusted Mahi Mahi, which are hiding behind my Crab Cakes.

This thing was in fire when I took the picture! Wish the blue flame came out.

Saturday is kind of a blur for some reason and Friday night really wasn’t that crazy to induce memory loss… We pretty much just chilled, rented a movie, and made yummy chicken quesadilla’s for dinner. And a bit more wine.

Sunday was pecan pancakes and the Superbowl! Go Saints?! Ya, go SAINTS! OK, so I only cheer for them because they are Brandon’s team. But that’s one of the best reasons I can think of.

This week I changed around my diet some. I increased calories at the advice of some people and I also tried to reduce my carbs to be about 50% rather than the almost 60% they were before. Even with some of the bad eating over the weekend there was nothing horrible number wise. Workouts were good too except I didn’t get something in over the weekend like I wanted.

This week I’ll be sure to be a little better with it.

So that was all the fun and good, but I guess it can’t always be like that… Isn’t it amazing how we can be such punks to the ones we love at times? I was totally this at a few points in the weekend. I hate that. It bums me out. Everyone does it here and there I suppose. I’ll assume the most important thing however is making it a rarity. So I’m not gonna sit here and make excuses why I acted (or at least think I acted) that way but I will be sure to keep myself in check and not let small things make me snap at the people I care more than anything about. I’m 99% happy right now and I want to keep it that way.

Oh well. So now I’m just finishing up some laundry and preparing myself for the work week ahead. Light of the end of this weeks tunnel is a 3 day weekend however!!! I love 3 day weekends!

Current Mood: Happy

So that’s the name of their large ice cream anyways. But have you tried this?!

If not, you must go grab yourself a Coldstone Ice Cream Cookie Sandwich! It is AWESOME!

Funny that this post comes right after the post where I was wondering if I should sign up for a gym? HAHA.

But this is how amazing Brandon is. Showing up announced at my place at 7:30pm bearing creamy ice cream between soft and chewy chocolate chip cookies. It was the perfect-ist little surprise ever.

There are 2 more awaiting their fate in the freezer but they’ll at least survive until the weekend.

Just roughly 32 hours ’til the WEEKEND! Friday night I am taking Brandon to dinner to celebrate captain-hood. We’re going here:

to eat:

It has some great reviews on Yelp. I’m pretty sure we are going to have a great time! I can’t wait!

Since this post seems to predominantly be about food here’s an interesting thing I noticed the other night… Every time I cook some form of turkey, last night was a turkey burger, the tortoise wakes from his deep slumber and sits in his dark habitat looking out at me. Doesn’t do it with salmon or the jambalaya I made the other night. It’s happened 3 times now though with turkey burgers and turkey meatloaf.

What does this mean? He’s a herbivore. Nevertheless, it’s pretty cute. He’s all curious about what’s going on so I give him some more of his food and then he goes back to sleep. He’s not getting my turkey damn it.

And now for the last thing about food. Tonight I’m making a yummy Maple Salmon for dinner as my attempt to get fish in my diet at least twice a week. I actually remembered to take it out of the freezer before I left for work.

Things are good!

Current Mood: Confused

Oh how I hate the gym. Though every year I seem to consider it again. I have no problem working out on my own and honestly don’t need a gym… Except for the fact that I want spin classes. I get a decent amount of enjoyment out of them.

I’ve been through this 3 times now at L.A. Fitness. I’m getting emails from them currently for no initiation fee and $20 a month. All classes are included in this fee. The problem is I can’t get there to spin at lunch w/o taking nearly a  2 hour lunch. To go in the evening meant I’d have to get there at least 30 minutes early just to wait in line to make sure I got a bike. So again a 60 minute spin class turns into a 90+ minute ordeal.

No to mention some of their instructors were not what I liked. I don’t want to punch air on a bike.

I used to do the 5:45am classes and would consider those again… But just not at L.A. Fitness. I think 3 chances are enough.

Across the street from where I work there is a nice gym. I called them up the other day to inquire about classes and membership. They said I would have no problem getting a bike at lunch, the evenings I should come a little early, but Saturdays are the really busy spin day. I’m fine with that, I’m not spinning on a Saturday.

Price? Well here is where I need to start wondering if the fun I get out of it is worth the price. It’s $95 a month for a membership and unlimited classes or I can pay a flat $125 for 10 spin classes only, no other gym usage. Honestly with that break down I might as well just pay the monthly membership. But is spinning really worth that? It would be a better experience than at L.A. Fitness for sure…

Seems kinda pricey… but maybe it’s inline for a smaller more people oriented gym. I’ve never tried a non-chain gym.

Worth a shot? I dunno. There’s a lot I could do with that $95, none of it would be useful of course. I was having this chat with a coworker the other day and said that’s $1200 a year on a gym! He responded some people spend that same amount on Starbucks…

I guess I should see if I can pay for just one class and see if I like it. Maybe I’d make use of the rest of the gym, who knows. I just know I have a free one in my apartment building that never holds my interest because I’d rather do other forms of workouts.

Maybe I’ll stop by there during lunch and chat with someone today.

Current Mood: Smitten & Tired

It’s now Tuesday and I’m still tired from this weekend. This is going to make for a long week!

Friday night we went out and saw Legion… The Angels Gone Bad movie. How much can you really expect from something like that? Not much. But the angels had black wings and were covered in tattoos, my kind of people! I have black wings and also sport a few tats.

Saturday we went to Julian for a hike. That was awesome! Took about 90 minutes to drive there. Dirt roads and everything! It was a 3 mile trek down the mountain to this awesome waterfall where we chilled out for a bit and had lunch. Took a few pictures.

Then the 3 mile trek back up! It wasn’t too rough getting back up, we were passing up everyone else making the ascent. Brandon could probably go much faster even than we were but I’m slower.

I used RunKeeper on our little adventure. The times weren’t quite that long since we stopped to take pictures along the way a few times. You can check out the journey map even!

That was pretty exhausting. We had plans to go out later that evening but we were pooped! So we chilled out the rest of the night.

Sunday we were still rather tired so we didn’t do anything too adventurous. We headed off to Seaport Village for a few hours to look around. I had never been there. It’s cute! We grabbed lunch then ate some awesome fudge from a candy store. Then Brandon made some new friends.

And that was that for Sunday!

Unfortunately I woke up at 1:30am with a horrible tummy ache and wasn’t able to get back to sleep until 3:30am… Only to be awoken by a small earthquake at 6:20am. Good morning Monday. So I guess that’s why I’m still tired!

Last thing, Brandon made Captain yesterday! How awesome is that?!

I can make it till about Thursday night with my current food breakdown and by then I feel insatiably hungry! So I gave in to a pack of Oreo’s at work today. It must be the sugar because after I had those I feel awesome again. So perhaps I’ll add a bit more fruit to my diet though that works against my cutting carbs down to 50%. Or perhaps a Friday packet of Oreo’s is not the end of the world.

I like tracking, it gives me something consistent to work on.

Last night I made Almond Maple Salmon. I was tentative to cook salmon myself but I was assured it was easy enough. One little 3 oz. fillet drizzled with a maple syrup/orange juice/lemon juice/soy sauce mixture and topped with chopped almonds. Quite yummy. Fish has been the other thing I’ve been trying to incorporate into my week somewhere. I guess I can’t live on turkey forever!

Here is the recipe:

servings: 4
ingredients

preparation

Obviously I cut that down to make just 1 serving which is easy with my awesome FoodSaver.