photos of food

Here are a few photos of the 2 recipes we made last night. We don't always eat this well...tonight we had oatmeal for dinner ;-)

recipe testing

We have a friend who married a woman who is a food critic and chef. She sent out an email and asked friends to test some of the recipes she is writing for a cookbook. David and I get the recipes and have now tried 2 of them. The first was a salmon and goat cheese frittata with red onion and leeks. This was really good.

We also cooked some blueberry cinnamon struesel topped muffins. These were good, although they didn't rise as much as I would have liked. Maybe my baking soda is old? I just bought new baking powder so I know that is not the problem.

We have some other recipes I think we will try out for her and see how they are. Of course, we've got to write our reviews and give them to her. We better do that before we go out of town or we'll never remember to do it later.

lunges

After doing some hard skiing on the ski trip, and feeling the burn in my thighs, I thought for sure that some lunges would be easy work. On Friday David and I went to the track at the gym and did some walking lunges. I did maybe 15 on each leg. How sad is it that I could barely go down steps on saturday and sunday? I'm still a little sore today, but much better than before. I think my ankle might be good enough to walk around the track. I think I'll try it tonight and see how it goes.

leave it alone!

Seriously, why can't I just rest? I sprained my ankle (not a bad sprain) a little over a week ago. When my ankle starts feeling better, I think it is okay to do something and then the next day I pay the price with new pain!

For example, on Sunday my ankle was feeling better, so I took Sam for SHORT walk. I mean, this was only 2 blocks down the street and 2 blocks back. It didn't feel especially bad that night, but I woke up on monday, and it had swollen a bit more and hurt again. So, I laid off of it for a few days and only walked distances I absolutely had to walk.

Yesterday, I went to pilates. I told my instructor about my ankle, and we did lots of modifications so as to not put too much pressure on it. It didn't really hurt at pilates. What do you know- I woke up this morning with it in more pain than the previous few days.

How long do I have to wait to do anything with it? I'm not going to know if it is getting better if I don't occasionally try something, right? I'm frustrated with this...sorry for my complaining.

Late

Last night I stayed up way later than I normally do because I had to get some work done. Today david told me that he had the hardest time falling asleep without me and that he didn't really go to sleep until a little after I got in bed. I found that to be pretty cute and endearing. Just wanted to share.

best intentions

Every night so far this week, and every night last week, I have lugged home a bag with journal articles and papers in a stack about 4 inches high. Only 2 nights have I actually dug into the bag to use what I keep lugging back and forth between home and office.

When I pack it up to take home, I have the best intentions of working on things. By the time I get home I'm so pooped or just sick of work that I'll decide to not work late into the evening. Why can't I decide to not work in the evening before I leave work? When I'm up against a deadline (as I am now), I really don't have a choice in the matter. The work has to get done and no one else is going to do it. But some nights when I'm not so tight up against a deadline, I should just not bother to even bring stuff home. It would make me feel less guilty, and it isn't necessary.

Today, so far, I have put in a 11 hour day. Unfortunately, I absolutely have to work tonight...going to be a long night.

The only thing keeping me going is that I'll have5 days off soon where I won't be responsible for anything big or important. They will still expect me to answer some emails, but that isn't so bad.

Spoke too soon?

Not sure the fridge is fixed. Didn't feel much colder this morning. We'll see how cold it is when we get home.
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fixed

Well, they came today and fixed the refrigerator. Apparently the problem was the freezer (even though it seemed to be working). It wasn't defrosting itself and so there was a big chunk of ice that wasn't allowing the air to circulate and cool the fridge. Thank goodness that is over.

I'm so glad tomorrow is friday!

warm milk

no-not warm milk in the warm, fuzzy, nighttime drink way, but in the gosh, the milk I just poured on my cereal seems warm kind of way. This weekend we realized that our refrigerator stopped working. The freezer still seems to be working fine, but the refrigerator just stopped cooling anything down. Luckily, we have a second fridge in the basement that we usually just put our soda/beer in, but now it contains the contents of the refrigerator that didn't go bad between the end of the cooling and us noticing the warmth.

Hopefully it won't be an expensive fix. The refrigerator is almost 2 years old, so it isn't under warranty anymore, but I'm surprised it broke down so quickly. The repair people are supposed to come out thursday to fix it. I'll know more then. I really hope they can fix it then and there and not have to order a part. I know this is really lazy of me, but I'm getting tired of walking up and down the stairs everytime I want something out of the refrigerator. Making dinner this evening felt like exercise!