I was thinking yesterday that I should do some sort of weekly thing on this blog. I decided on “Wrap-up Friday” and I will hopefully remember to keep it going. Ha! It will encompass hopefully good news on lots of workouts, the healthy food that I ate this week, and then other misc. items.
Workouts
· During CP’s long stint away from home, I started to take Fuzzy Britches to a nearby Recreation Area. The loop is about two miles so I was getting a nice run, walk or combination in whether I did one loop or two. After he stopped traveling, I started to invite him to take walks with us. It has been a nice time for us to discuss the move to CT, discuss having children, etc. while getting some exercise. We have started to do this at least three times a week and I love it!
· This week also marked the first time running since my surgery. It had been almost FOUR weeks so I was really nervous as to how my body would react. Thankfully, although I was going pretty slow, I was able to run two miles. Yay! Now I just have to build on that….
· This week also marked the first time I was back in the gym and lifting weights. I’m a bit sore from all of the lunges, squats, etc that I did with weights, but I was happy with the workout.
Food
· This week was just okay in terms of not eating processed foods. We still had some leftover white flour and didn’t want to waste food and money by throwing it away, so CP and I made three different kinds of homemade empanadas.* Because we ended up making 36 of them, we each ate two for dinner and froze the rest. The good news? We finished the white flour. The bad news? The flour is in the empanadas that we will be eating for the next couple of months.
· We also made shrimp tamales with green chili sauce. (I don’t have a link to a recipe because CP made it up himself!) CP even used whole wheat flour to thicken the sauce. Mmm shrimp tamales are so tasty- and the ones we made I’m pretty sure did not have any processed food in them.
· Sidenote: it has made me very proud to head to the store with CP and see him check out labels and really think about what goes in our food. I’m happy that he has embraced the organic/non-processed food way of eating. To be fair, he had been doing some things already. The one thing he won’t budge on? Whole wheat pasta. The sauce covers the pasta so I don’t understand why he doesn’t like it…..
Misc.
· This week it is a question for you guys. Do you go back and read comments on people’s posts after you have commented to see if the blogger responded to your comment? Blogger doesn’t allow me to reply to comments, except by just posting another comment. I can only make sure the commenter gets my reply by sending them an email and I often don’t have people’s emails. If I do respond to a comment left, the original commenter probably doesn’t see it, right? So maybe this Friday post is a good time for me to respond to comments made throughout the week?
· If so, here goes the next section:
Replies to Comments
· On moving to CT: it was funny to read your comments on my post. Almost all of you mentioned how it was a “rational” or “logical” decision. While that is VERY true, it saddens me that I have grown up enough that I make rational and logical decisions on where I live. I’m kidding of course, but when moving somewhere in the past it has been mostly an emotional decision. I of course had to have the job or the school offer letter before I moved, but when picking a place it was mostly saying “yes, that is where I want to go” and then somehow making it happen. With some many other things to think about- CP, Fuzzy Britches, jobs, all of our possessions, our future, etc. it makes purely going on emotion difficult, if not impossible. I still hold out hope that we will make it to Denver, but I am going to move down to CT with an open mind and an open heart to finding great friends.
· On our realtor search: I never even thought of calling my realtor out west to see if he knew of someone in CT! I didn’t use some from a big-name place like Coldwell Banker or RE/MAX so I’m not sure that he would have a referral. But good to know for the future. I spoke to my parents’ friend’s daughter’s realtor and she seems to be fantastic. We had a 50 minute conversation about what we are looking for, our next steps, how she is going to work with us, etc. I’m excited to start checking out places soon!
*Unfortunately, I can’t seem to link to the Cooks Illustrated recipe- if you want it, you have to register for a 14 days trial. Just search for empanadas and it is the May 2010 recipe. We made that version, a chicken and black bean and a vegetable empanada (with swiss chard and cheese). Yum!!
5 comments:
mpanadas are awesome, this past weekend I made a hand and goat cheese ones with sauteed onions. So delish!
I don't go back to look for responses to my comments in general, because I leave so many I can't keep track of them all. But if I asked a question or found a post particularly intriguing, I will try to go back later to see if there has been some follow-up.
The blogger comment thing drives me insane.. I've recently switched from wordpress where you can just reply to everyone's email addresses left when they commented - so there have been SO many times when I've wanted to write back to people, hit reply, and got the no-reply email reminder. Darn! I just need to remember where I've been/what I've asked - and if I want to communicate with that person in more detail, I stalk their own blogs to find a contact email. :D
P.S. Thanks for commenting on my blog! I love running in the pool - I do an Aqua Run class all the time, and it's amazing. :)
Oops! I just realised I left that previous comment with my old login.. ARGH. Must remind myself to STOP DOING THAT. ;-)
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