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Today - softball game for an extra team, should be fun.

Food: B: Good Friends mixed w/ GoLean Crunch, milk. L: Leftover indian-ish food (it turned out really good last night!), a big chocolate chunk cookie that someone brought in. Sn: Gnu bar (these are pretty good!) D: Fire Roasted Tomato Soup w/ corn, think I'll make some biscuits.

Bummer news from last night: our new DVD player won't play my Pride & Prejudice dvd :-(

Another Tuesday

Yesterday was not a good day.  I think mostly because I was (still am) very tired from this weekend.  It did end well, with some time w/ hub. and some cheesecake pudding with graham crackers. 

Food today: B: Banana over Good Friends, milk; L: 3 corn tortillas, leftover rice & beans; Sn: Banana, Pretzels; D: grilled pizza

I got some latvah? bread - flatbread anyway, from trader joes to try for the grilled pizza tonight - they only had onion pitas.  Will use the rest of the canadian bacon from last week, pineapple, mushrooms, etc.  the bread is 120 cal for 1/2 of it (which is huge...)  It's thinner than a pita, so will have to be careful not to burn it :-)

I played a softball game last night.  We lost - they hit probably 10-15 grounders right up the middle.  Our pitcher has bad knees so they get past him pretty easy (great pitcher though!).  I have no excuse, on the other hand.  Played a short left center/rover, then 2nd base.  Missed probably 8 of them.  They beat us off of singles.  :-)  Oh well, we had fun.

I like Clairelaine's painting of the day thing - I'm going to add photos sometimes.  This one is from last June, at Cape Lookout State Park, near Tillamook, OR.

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Today I'm going to step class.  Hopefully the normal teacher is back this week.  I got a new pair of workout shorts this weekend - don't usually wear shorts, but like to have 1 pair.  Maybe I'll check them out tonight.  They are from the Columbia employee store - mountain hardware.  I love shopping there - quality stuff for a LOT less money. :-) 

Guess that's about it for now.  Have a great Tuesday!

 

Been a while again...

Ok, so I nearly daily post on a website called Calorie Count, so I decided that I'm just going to copy it over to this as well, and see if anyone picks up on it. It will be a bit heavy on the what I ate stuff. Will try to get back into including recipes, maybe photos. Post from today...

What a weekend. Drove down to Portland Friday am, made it in good time - 4hrs almost exactly.

Friday activities: went to the Columbia Sportswear employee store, as is customary when we visit. Ahh the discount - 50-60% off is awesome! Dinner w/ my parents also included some friends from down there. Also met w/ our financial advisor.

Friday food: b: cereal probably w/ fruit (don't remember); l: half a reuben sandwich, fruit plate (1 banana, few strawberries, bit of cantelope, watermelon); d: really good german sausage (made in Portland by Zenner's Sausage Co), with some baked beans, pasta salad, fruit and chips, followed by dessert of strawberry-blueberry-rhubarb crisp (stuff from parent's yard) and vanilla ice cream.

Saturday activities: Took husband to a friends house (people we had dinner w/ Fri) to play D&D all weekend. Stopped at my favorite coffee shop, Insomnia Coffee Co, but have given up coffee for a bit - ended up w/ a racing heart last week, decided I'd had enough caffeine for a while... Got jasmine tea. My FAVORITE tea right now. As long as I can support them, it's good. Then my parents and I went to my grandparents for lunch - hadn't seen them for a while, so that was really good. Then went sailing for a couple hours on my parents Thistle. It's a very active sail, and we were on the Wilamette, which is a very...blustery sail. One of my friends came down after she got off work and we took her out for about half an hour also. She and I grabbed some burgers afterward, then I went back home w/ my parents.

Sat. Food: B: multigrain cheerios w/ a ton of freshly picked blueberries, 2 slices of pumpkin bread; L: a responsible sized piece of salmon, grandma's coleslaw, too much pumpkin bread and cookies; D: heart attack on a bun - Burger I got was a 1/2lb (locally raised/grassfed beef) burger, complege w/ canadian bacon and bacon bacon, bbq sauce and cheese. YUM. I cut it in half and actually only ate half! Ate all the fries. Had more crisp w/ ice cream when we got home.

Sunday Activities: Church, Krispy Kreme, Lunch, Bike Shopping, relaxing, train ride home.

Sunday Food: B: Same as Sat, no bread. :-); S: Apple fritter, 1/2 a strawberry milk at krispy kreme; L: 1 egg (steamed - kinda poached) 3 blueberry pancakes w/ syrup, ice lychee tea (grandpa's favorite...); snack: wheat thins, grapes, 8oz mojito; d: roast beef sandwich, string cheese, too many kettle chips, and a cookie I shouldn't have eatten.

All in all, it was a great weekend. The bike shopping was good - I think I'm definitely ready to try riding some now, and hopefully buy one in the next few weeks.

Softball game tonight at 8:45. Trying to decide if i want to work out before that...maybe bike ride?

Food for today: Breakfast: Good friends mixed w/ a bit of GoLean Crunch, bunch of blueberries, milk. Lunch: leftover Spanish rice w/ black beans, two corn tortillas, pretzels, snap peas. Dinner: mac & cheese from a box (um...we definitely have no food in the house...), possibly some hotdogs in the m&c.

Ok...enough :-) Have a great Monday!

Try Again?

So, I keep trying this blog thing. The honest to goodness truth is this. I LOVE reading other people's blogs about what they are doing, what they are going through, etc. It's a great way of keeping in touch and feeling like you are closer to people. But, for some reason, I can't seem to keep motivated to write on my own blog.

So, here's the quick update on me! I have a new job! I start on Monday, after meeting the team tomorrow at a lunch. I'm not sure exactly where I fit on the team, so I'll let you know more about it later. But that's the good news anyway :-)

Seattle is great. We've gotten mostly settled. Caught up with some old friends, and have even managed to stay fairly in touch (though never as much as we'd all like, I'm sure) with people in PDX.

My current 'creative outlet' is our wedding album. I'm hoping to be done with it (yes, 2 years later...) before I go back to work on Monday! It is an attainable goal, I think.

After that, it's on to Christmas cards. And Christmas gifts ;-)

How nuts is that - it's the middle of October! Can you believe it?!?

Last night I went to a card making class - 6 easy-to-mass-produce Christmas cards in 2 hours. It was a lot of fun and I learned some things too! I think I'll check out more of their classes.

We're supposedly in for a big storm here today. Rain, wind, etc. Hopefully nothing too serious. It's cooler today - wasn't even 50 when I got up this morning. Our apartment would stay a lot warmer if someone would move in below us. You want to move? We'd love new neighbors! ;-)

Anyway...I'm off to work on the album, and cook a pumpkin. I know it's easier to make pumpkin pie from canned pumpkin, and it probably tastes just as good, but...sometimes it's fun to do it the old fashioned way, right? I think so anyway. Got the pumpkin at Smith's Berry Barn last weekend. It's a fun place. Lots of fun gifty stuff in addition to the seasonal produce.

Hope you have a terrific Thursday!

Packing Packing Packing

I've been packing lately...well...some anyway. And other than that, I've been hanging out with friends and family. Adam's away in Mt. View, CA, until sometime around the 21st, and has left it to me (haha...don't you think you're funny, ;-) ) to do the packing. Hopefully he'll be around to help with the actual moving.

Speaking of moving...if anyone's available...we'd LOVE to have some help on either end (or both if you want to take a trip! :-)

I've been taking photos of the packing as per a request from Adam so he can see it. Haven't gotten them off the camera yet though. I need to keep taking them throughout the process though.

I'm going up this weekend with my parents & sister, it's a combo weekend for all of us - my dad's riding STP, sis has a wedding, mom and I are going to hang out at the new apartment. We'll take as much of a load up as we can - no big stuff though. It should be fun. Adam and I didn't get much of a chance to explore, so I'm hoping we can do a bit this weekend. And I hope the pool is nice! :-)


I'm grilling salmon w/ my parents tonight. And having homemade blueberry cheesecake ice cream for dessert. YUM. Oh - if anyone has a spare $175, I'd LOVE a White Mountain electric ice cream maker. :-) I'll make you ice creammmmmmm...

Ok, that's all for now. Happy Tuesday.

A New Place

We found a new apartment this weekend. It's small and expensive, but cute. Don't have pictures yet. And no one would see them if I did, cause no one took me up on the coffee offer from the last post. Oh well. I guess you have to have a lot of friends to make it so someone reads your blog eh? Or just be more exciting? :-)

Anyway...more later about that I'm sure.

So much stuff...

The last few weeks have been pretty busy. We went up to SPU for my sister's graduation the 2nd week of June. I took lots of photos, but haven't finished going through them yet to decide which to post, etc. We also got to see Anne in The Seven Keys of Baldpate at Taproot, which was awesome (as usual)!

Last weekend we hung around home and spent Father's Day with my family, which was a lot of fun.

This weekend we went camping with 3 other couples from our small group at Cape Lookout, near Tillamook. We had a lot of fun just hanging out & talking. We were lucky and got a whole afternoon of sunshine on Saturday. We went to the cheese factory, and then spent the rest of the afternoon on the beach playing around. Had a great bbq followed by yummy banana boats (smores in a banana instead of a graham cracker!) and smores. Saturday night it poured. We stayed mostly dry, cept for a few things left outside, but didn't get much sleep. Rain on a tent is surprisingly loud! All in all...we can't wait to go camping again!

Here's some photos from the camping trip.

We're going up to Seattle this weekend - for a wedding reception and to apartment hunt.

Have a great week. And if you're reading this...let me know & we'll go out for coffee. Ha.