Well, I just finished Day one of our healthy living competition,
and scored a FULL 100 points for the day! Now granted, we did give ourselves a little leeway today since we were meeting until later to do any sort of check in. So, I ended up having two of my five meals together in the morning (a smoothie and an egg white omelette), but on future days, they
will be evenly spaced out as they're supposed to be. We picked the teams, and, at random, it ended up that Lori, the other full-time-worker-part-time-student and I are on the same team, so that'll be great. We can whine to each other and urge each other along which will be great!
We also got together and did a bunch of cooking together which was a blast, though we missed Lori who wasn't able to make it. We each went home with some Indian chicken burgers with yogurt sauce and hummus (made by Sara- hummus prep pictured above), tuna salad which was actually much better than any tuna salad I've ever had (made by Alyssa- picture of her toasting some whole wheat bread for us to eat with it), and butternut squash soup (made by Deb- long live immersion blenders!). By popular demand, I made a repeat of the roasted chicken recipe I referred to before. It came out a little differently- I used stock instead of wine, and I tripled the veggies (doubled the meat), so the moisture level was off, so instead of having all the veggies caramelize nicely, there was more of a vegetable sauce (which may have actually been the original intent of the creators). So we're all pretty much stocked for the week with all the food!
Oh! Also, I had a birthday in the past week. It was lovely, though I've postponed the full-on celebration for a while until I'm up for a larger gathering. But my birthday was amazing. My friends surprised and spoiled me by going in on a Kitchenaid mixer for me. It is beautiful and I can't wait to start using her in all of my new recipes! I named her Betty, apparently after a beer I was drinking on my birthday, and because... come on. She looks like a Betty.
I also got another cookbook to add to the list- "Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker by Beth Hensperger. It seems to be filled with a lot of really interesting slow cooker recipes which I can't wait to try out. I ALSO got my favorite Gilbert and Sullivan performance on DVD!!!!!!!! I cannot tell you how excited I am about this. It's a stage production of the Mikado done in Canada at the Stratford Festival in 1982. As a child, I probably watched this weekly on a slowly dying VHS. The blow was struck however sometime in late high school or early college, when my mom confessed that she'd accidentally recorded over it. Over the years, I've searched for it, and never found it (or at very least, never found it at a reasonable cost), and somehow, my mom finally found it, and on DVD no less! God bless the internet! And my mom! I watched half of it yesterday, and found that I still know the entire show by heart- choreography and all. If I ever get Alzheimer's, that'll be the thing that I don't forget. Nobody better give me a fan in the nursing home, or I'll start wandering the halls singing "Gentlemen of Japan" and unfolding the fan on cue.
Still no church today, and as I'm fading fast, I'm foresee no meditation today either. Maybe tomorrow.
Remember that tomorrow commemorates the birth of a very important individual who pointed a finger at the invisible line that had been drawn here in America and spoke out against the discrimination that plagued(s) our land. May we all hold his dream in our hearts tomorrow, and henceforth.
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