Pamcakes and Eggs

Fiance Guest Blog AKA Chicago 2009

February 9, 2010

Hello Pamcakes readers!

Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Aaron. If you read this blog AT ALL in the last 6 months, you know DARN well who I am. I asked Pam to marry me back in November. She said yes!!! Anyway, I’m entering a guest blog today and so without further ado… let’s get started:

So I’m writing this on sunday morning, Feb 7th. Pam is living up to her blog name this morning by making pancakes and eggs for us!! BUT, my mission today is to tell you about a trip to Chicago that my band and I took back in early December to play a couple of shows. Meeting of Important People is made up of Me (bass guitar), Matt (drums), and Josh (singing and guitar). I’ve been in this band for a few years. I enjoy it!! Yep. I drag Pam out to shows all the time… and she does a great job of acting excited! (kidding).

The first leg of the trip started EARLY on sunday morning (dec 6th). We had a show in Madison, Wisconsin that night. Thats ten hours, so we were loaded up with our gear and AMBITIONS galore!!! Here we are departing from ETNA! (Josh is driving)(Matt is singing)(I’m looking at the camera)

It was a long drive… honestly it was LONG!! Here are some highlights of that drive:

Rest stops: We spend alot of time in them on these trips. It tends to freak me out because they all seem to be identical… So after 2 1/2 hours of driving you get out of the car and walk into a building that looks identical to the last building you were in… WEIRD!!!

Alright… Let me explain… I know MAC donald’s is bad for you and I generally never eat there, but on these trips…. I dunno, we just can’t resist filling our stomachs with TOTAL GARBAGE!!! This is the definition of a GUILTY PLEASURE!!

Good presentation

Also keep in mind that we don’t normally take a camera on these trips… It was Pam’s idea that we take her camera and document everything we eat. So we were enjoying the mission!

I eat pretty healthy since I met Pam. Its like Samuel L. Jackson in Pulp Fiction: “…well, my girlfriend is a vegetarian, which pretty much makes me a vegetarian…” HAHA So somehow that makes me feel ok about all this junk.

The title of this picture is: PARTY JUG. We save money by drinking water from gallon jugs. Josh was really enjoying his drinking water!

More MAC donald’s on the same trip… I feel bad about this now… I didn’t feel bad that day about it.

Around dark we ended up at this outlet mall. They had some interesting eateries. We didn’t eat any… we were there for the bathroom. I love the name of this place though.

So we got to Madison. Funny little town… It’s only like a few hours north of Chicago… The show was good… not very well attended. We played good though. There are no pictures of us playing because I was taking the pictures. Matt and Josh are watching the other bands…

Other band…

Interesting crap around the bar… Check it out!

We had a blast… This was a FUN little show!!! You can tell by our faces as we departed to head back to Chicago to stay with a friend…

HA Ok, so, we drove back to Chicago and stayed with a friend of matt’s from high school, Jason. This guy seriously saved our lives… we stayed with him Sunday, Monday, & Tuesday nights!!! His apartment is pretty tiny, but we don’t care… Here was my bed:

We ruled this room the whole time… Seriously, thanks, Jason!!

We went to sleep right away… It was late and Jason had to go to work in the morning…

So first thing in the morning we headed out for breakfast… This was the first snow I saw this winter…

Nice neighborhood… Pam likes grocery stores… So I grabbed this killer shot…

The restaurant was called “orange” I think… Local chain… a bit pricey… But we got cucumber in our water… seems worth it… right?

Eggs benedict… times two… an omelet… and some pancakes to share… we are a sharing band!

We finished breakfast and came back to Jason’s apartment to practice a little song that Josh wanted to cover… mostly just having fun… It was nice to relax!!

Next we headed out again to visit a famous guitar store that Josh had visited before… as well as some other sights…

Army Navy store… Cool…

Merchandise… I never knew that narcotics agencies had a sense of humor…

I may or may not have bought this for Pam for her upcoming birthday… I cannot say either way…

Matt did this at one point… I don’t know what you call it, but I was impressed… so were the locals…

This store was AMAZING!!! This picture represents probably 1/10th of the stock. I knew that Pam and the blog readers would be THRILLED to see pictures of GUITARS… no…

Reading those price tags causes severe depression…

So at this point it was officially monday night… We stopped at a little convenience store to get some cereal and milk along with some bananas, eggs, and bacon for the morning… SAVE MONEY!!!

We ate some cereal… made some arrangements and planned to go get some Chicago style deep dish…

Its good having a guy who lives in Chicago with us… because he knows where the good spots are… Edwardo’s was GOOOOD!

We got a meat lovers deep dish… This pizza was HEAVY! And VERY GOOD!!!

I was like a regular FOODIE. I guess that means you are willing to embarrass yourself by getting a camera out every time you are about to eat anything… hahaha

That is Jason on the left.

Next we took a taxi to the Green Mill Cocktail Lounge. I’m told that this place was were Al Capone hung out during the prohibition. Its a really swanky jazz club now. All of the insides have been kept original for most of the century. We were warned not to talk at all during the band. I have to admit, it was pretty awesome. Too dark inside to take pictures though… Sorry…

OK… At this point we were exhausted… We came home to Jason’s apartment and (of all things) sat around watching the movie “swingers”. HAHA! What can I say? Afterwards we passed out and got up with a full day of sight seeing planned… But first, BREAKFAST!!! Matt made Omelets for everyone.

I was in charge of frying the bacon. Ha, cheap bacon purchased from a convenience store. We were taking what we could get.

Not bad…

And off we go…

So we took the train into downtown. It was very convenient.

Pam taught me how to take pictures of myself. HA

Guess what city we were in…

I honestly loved this city… I had never really been there before. Here are a few more pictures.

Downtown

Finally, we went up to the top of the building formerly known as the sears tower… I’m sorry to say that the battery in the camera died up there… It was sad, I was really enjoying all the documentation…

But ya know what… Its for the best… that night we played a show and it was pretty good… We played with a Beatles cover band which is probably the only thing that I wish I could show you…

Thanks for reading my guest blog. I am honored to do one… I think Pam is refusing to read this before we actually post it. So keep in mind that none of the opinions expressed within THIS blog post reflect the views of Pamcakesandeggs!

Take Care!

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A Salmon Recipe(!) & Shovel Fail 2010

February 7, 2010

Sunday Evening. Hm. Church was canceled today due to the massive snowstorm here.

Let’s talk about the weekend.

SNOW STORM.

Friday night Aaron and I both left work early because it started snowing around 1 PM. I left around 4 instead of 5. That one hour made all the difference…

Aaron came over around 6 and we got to making salmon for dinner. Thanks Mom for leaving salmon in the freezer! We put it to good use.

I made a spinach salad with the following:

baby spinach (trying to use up the massive amounts from Costco..
1 red bell pepper (I went through SIX bell peppers in one week)
red onion
slivered almonds
feta

I want to mention the dressing we were using because it is the most amazing stuff. It’s Bolthouse Farms Yogurt Blue Cheese. I got it at Whole Foods and can’t seem to find it anywhere else. It’s made with yogurt instead of mayonnaise. It’s AWESOME.

Getting the salmon out of the oven:

Panko-crusted Salmon Recipe

Adapted from Simply Recipes

Ingredients

2 teaspoons olive oil

2 pieces thickly cut, boneless salmon (each 6 oz)

Salt and pepper to taste

2 Tbsp yellow mustard

1 Tbsp honey

1 1/2 teaspoons Italian seasoning

1/2 cup panko bread crumbs

1/2 teaspoon sweet paprika

Preheat the oven to 400°F. Set the salmon on a foil-lined, (non-stick sprayed!) baking sheet skin side down. Sprinkle generously with salt and pepper.

In a small bowl, combine the honey and mustard and 1/2 teaspoon of the Italian seasoning. In another small bowl, mix the panko with the remaining 1 teaspoon of Italian seasoning, 2 teaspoons of olive oil, and paprika.

Using a small spoon, spread the mustard mixture on the salmon; top with the bread crumb mixture.

Roast the salmon for 10-12 minutes (test at eight) or until it is almost completely firm to the touch and flakes when poked with a fork. Serve at once.

Serves 2

Eat with Trader Joe’s Red Pepper & Tomato soup:

Glare at your fiance while cleaning up:

Go to sleep and wake up to 2 FEET of snow.

Aaron ventured out to buy me the newspaper and to see what the roads looked like. I gave him my camera to document.

Aaron’s lil’ truck:

Liberty Avenue:

He makes friends with random dudes like no one else.

Sooo we were pretty much stranded in Bloomfield all day. Aaron took a second walk later in the day while I baked a cake. I’m going to post about that separately. Uhhh what did we do all day Saturday?? Sat around staring outside all morning, ate lunch, baked for about four hours and then Aaron convinced me to walk to Home Depot in East Liberty. This is about a 2 mile walk each way. Wouldn’t be bad if it hadn’t snowed TWO FEET. Who knows why I agreed to this…

It was about 30 degrees and dark outside. We were on a mission to buy a snow shovel.

There was a lot of walking in the middle of the street:

Aaron was so excited about going on this walk. He was like a little kid the whole time, jumping around and being happy and then he fell in the middle of the road. hahaha

The only redeeming factor of this trip was that we were going to stop and get coffee along the way.

We walked to Giant Eagle — CLOSED.

Then Whole Foods — CLOSED.

Plus we passed three Starbucks — CLOSED.

We made it to Home Depot after about a 45 minute walk. They were open but sold out of snow shovels. The sales person pretty much laughed at us and told us we shouldn’t have waited until 7 PM to buy a shovel.

I wanted to punch this man.

Soooo we started walking home again. This time, we stopped at Walgreen’s and bought pineapple for the Hawaiian pizza that we decided to make once we got back. Then we stopped at Panera (OPEN!) and finally got my coffee! It wasn’t very good and kind of hard to drink while staring at the ground trying not to fall but still, it kept my spirits up.

We made it home around 8(?) and Aaron called his roommate (who had previously offered to let us borrow his shovel…) and got a shovel. I prepared the pizza while he dug out his car. We used another TJ’s whole wheat pizza crust and this time, actually cooked it the whole way through. Small miracle.

Note to self: bake crust at 375 for 10 minutes then add toppings and bake another 15 minutes.

Aaron came back in, ate some pizza, and then went out again to finish digging out the car. I sat on the couch in a tank top and shorts reading blogs…

He called me about 30 minutes later to report that he was successful and was driving his car around Bloomfield trying to figure out what to do with it. It’s pretty much impossible to park at this point unless you dig out a spot for yourself.

This is the longest story ever, eh?

Almost done.

He found a spot on the main street about a block away and came back to my apartment. Then…he left again and went to hang out with friends at a bar down the street for a little while. I was pretty happy sitting in my apartment warm and with internet so I didn’t go along.

Sooo that was my Friday night into Saturday Pittsburgh snow storm recap. I’m pretty sure my rear-wheel drive car will be staying put in the garage for quite some time. We’re supposed to get 4 MORE inches on Tuesday. This is freaking lame. I should consider walking to the grocery store at some point soon I guess unless I want to live on 6 pounds of blueberries and 10 pounds of oatmeal for the week. Thank you Costco.

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–Pamela

One more thing: Aaron is currently working on writing a blog post. Who’s excited?!

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Updated my about me page FINALLY

February 4, 2010

I updated my about me page since I last updated over a year ago…

CHECK IT OUT here or click the link over to the right –>

Gracias.

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Single Girl/Married Girl — The Weekend!

January 31, 2010

The weekend is ending. Saddd. It’s 9 PM. I have all of my junk together to take to the gym and to work tomorrow and now I’m lying in bed about to call Aaron and update him on the past few hours. So this is just going to be a quick blog of a few interesting pieces of the weekend.

Wednesday or Thursday night Aaron and I made barbecue pizza for dinner. Heart shaped, yes. It’s a Trader Joe’s whole wheat crust, barbecue sauce, cheddar cheese, bell pepper, and tons of red onion. It was pretty good though we didn’t cook the crust long enough. You seriously need to cook these TJ’s crusts for 30 minutes before even adding toppings. I’m pretty sure it’s not even able to burn.

Thursday at work, Aaron sent me flowers!

Collective awww.

He’s a nice boy.

Friday night, MOIP had a show at the Brillobox. It was PACKED so it was super hot and I was stripping off my layers all night and still sweating. The show sold out so we were packed in there.

A not so clear picture of Aaron below. They played this song –> Single Girl/Married Girl (click to listen) by Jimmy Carter The Carter Family

Gina and Laura came!! And Jason too. Hi Gina, Laura and Jason! Ohh and Erik. I’m told he reads my blog too. Exciting!

Saturday was spent relaxing, then venturing to Robinson to use one of my Elite Runners gift certificates. That store is AMAZING. If it didn’t have to trek to the horrendousness that is Robinson, I’d probably go more often. I finally got a SPIBELT!!!! and some socks. After the joyful trip to the running store, I went to Costco to use our new membership for the first time. Thanks Mom and Dad for the membership! I wandered through the store laughing at how ridiculously big everything was. It went something like this:

I got the following:

10 lbs of oatmeal
6 pounds of frozen blueberries
6 red bell peppers
1 lb baby spinach
2 lbs ground cinnamon… Aaron questioned this one
6-12 oz cartons of egg whites

lol. I laughed the whole time I was there even though that place was a MAD HOUSE.

After Costco (and Target), I quickly exited Robinson and headed back into the city to use my Gold’s Gym membership for the last time before it expires. I did about 4 miles on the treadmill then lifted some weights then headed home. Saturday night was spent with Aaron relaxing and going to bed early.

Sunday…. Church then morrrre relaxing then I messed with this:

Add water and knead to form this:

Then make these:

!!!! Something like these will be on top of each of our wedding cupcakes. It’s experimental right now so more on this later.

Alright time to call Aaron then bed. Goodnight!

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150 Days and Counting!

January 26, 2010

I’m sorry I haven’t blogged lately. I had a crazy weekend with the mother in town to wedding dress shop and then I got a cold. Sooo I’ve been skipping the gym, going to work then coming home and getting into bed by 8 PM the last two nights. This doesn’t make for exciting blogging. The good news is I found and purchased a wedding dress!!! It needs to be made though so I won’t actually get it until the first week of June (wedding is 6/26) but still, I’m so excited that that’s out of the way. Don’t fool yourself future brides, wedding dress shopping is NO FUN.

I also picked out bridesmaid dresses for sure. I can’t figure out how to rotate it but you get the idea. This one was too big for me and clipped in the back so hopefully they’ll fit the bridesmaids better. I’ve decided on “midnight” as the color aka navy. The dresses have POCKETS which is pretty sweet in my opinion.

Alright time to nurse my illness in bed with easy reading –> French Women for all Seasons because I’m French.

By the way, I’m on a mission to tone my arms. Will be doing mucho yoga.

Namaste.

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Chaturanga on the bedroom floor and various wedding updates.

January 18, 2010

There is a lot of noise going on outside of my bedroom. It hits 40 degrees and suddenly people are outside all night again making noise. Lame. Moving out of Bloomfield in 158 days! In case you’re wondering, that’s also the number of days until my wedding. Wooo!

Anyway, I haven’t blogged since Thursday or Friday sooo the weekend went like this…

Friday after work I went to Whole Foods and dealt with that madness for a little longer than planned because I love grocery stores and ended up buying way more than I planned… Ohh well. I could have a worse shopping addiction. Aaron and I had plans of making shrimp fajitas for dinner Friday night. He came over around 7 and we got to work deveining shrimp which is pretty freaking gross. I deveined about half than started to get horribly disgusted so Aaron took over. He doesn’t want me to stop eating seafood too… We sauteed a whole onion and two whole bell peppers, marinated the shrimp in an organic fajita seasoning packet and then cooked it all together until the shrimp were opaque. I also heated up a can of vegetarian refried pinto bins and cut up some grape tomatoes and lime. We also had some Pace Salsa on the side which I received from Foodbuzz to sample as part of their Tastemakers program. It was Pace Chunky Salsa in mild. The salsa is pretty good — simple ingredients and I like that it’s not too thick but I’m definitely not a mild salsa person. Bring on the spice. But regardless, free salsa, thank you Pace!

I had my fajita on an Ezekial sprouted grain wrap and Aaron had his on two whole wheat wraps.

My fajita plus we both just started eating the filling right out of the pan.

Afterward, Aaron did the dishes:

We went to bed early Friday night because Aaron was feeling a little sickly and we’re old.

Saturday we were so productive. Wedding things that were accomplished:

Being VERY displeased with the service at the Mens Warehouse outside of Ross Park Mall looking for tuxes. DON’T GO THERE. They’re rude and condescending.
Being much happier with the service at Tuxedo Junction at Ross Park Mall.
Picking out tuxes for the wedding — Aaron got fitted and we’re both pleased with the tux.
Eating at Brueggers before attempting to register at Target for the wedding/bridal shower.

We both had the half and half thing. I had half a veggie sandwich on a whole wheat bagel and half a side salad.

Aaron had half of a bacon/turkey sandwich and some white bean chili:

Then we registered. It was a good time though the scanner gun sort of stopped working halfway through. We registered for 37 things and decided Target is going to be the only place we’re registering. Everyone keeps recommending Bed Bath and Beyond but I seriously dislike that store. Not sure why.

We also checked out diy wedding invitations and I think we decided on doing that. Target had some nice ones. I think we’re going to use these, have them printed at kinkos or some other printing place (instead of fighting with a printer at home) and then punching holes in the top and tying on our own ribbon. It’ll end up saving us about $150 and they’re really good quality!

After registering, we went and picked out and purchased our wedding bands! Aaron’s was engraved with Aaron & Pam 6/26/10. Mine was too narrow to be engraved but I love it!

Sunday morning, Aaron had to be at church at 8 to practice with the band so I headed to the gym and ran three quick (for me) miles and then met him at church at 10:30. Afterward, we went to Pamela’s in the Strip District for breakfast. This was my second time going there. The first time was Aaron and my first date. Unfortunately I don’t really like their food. It’s typical greasy, diner food which isn’t really my thing. Aaron likes it though.

He had the morning after special or something. Eggs, bacon and pancakes. I’m not sure what they do to their pancakes to make them rough around the edges like that. Fry them?

I had a veggie omelet which I only ate about 1/4 of. It had mushrooms and peppers inside and wasn’t good so I didn’t really eat much of it. Sigh wasted food.

I was hungry when I got home so I made more food. Leftover fajita and the side salad that I didn’t eat from Brueggers Saturday.

Sunday night Aaron and I watched the Shawshank Redemption which I had never seen but enjoyed very much! Good movie and totally kept my attention for the entire 2 hours and 20 minutes. I had off work today (bank holiday!) so I sat around drinking coffee in the morning and then started searching for a wedding photographer online. I found one that we both really like and she’s available and it fit into our budget! We’re going to sign the contract tomorrow. Her name is Jia and she has a beautiful website so check it out — JiaJia Photography. As part of the package, we also get an engagement session so we’re going to have moooore pictures of us. There will also be two photographers there the day of the wedding plus one at the rehearsal. Sweet!

The rest of the day was spent google chatting/napping/watching daytime tv and being super lazy. I napped twice. I fell asleep while watching a Hillary/Haylie Duff movie on MTV with no sound reading subtitles. I only have basic cable (like 20 channels) but for some reason get mtv with no sound. Yep.

I eventually got up long enough to do 1 and half 20 minute yoga downloads from yogadownload.com. I did Power Yoga #3 with Dave Farmar and about 10 minutes of a “vigorous” yoga for weight loss video. After hearing about Dave Farmar on a bunch of other blogs, I finally checked it out. I like him. He’s kind of funny. Talks a lot though. Anyway, yogadownload.com always has free 20 minute yoga videos to download or you can purchase longer ones.

Okay it’s almost 10:30 PM. Time for bed. Gym in the AM.

Goodnight!

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Too much squash did me in.

January 15, 2010

Good Morning!

I didn’t get around to posting last night because I fell asleep at like 8:30! I was exhausted yesterday for some reason. I woke up naturally at 5 AM…with already over 8 hours of sleep.

These pictures are actually from Wednesday but I pretty much ate the exact same things Thursday so it doesn’t make much difference. Wow, the words definitely aren’t flowing this morning. I can’t seem to put sentences together yet…

Wednesday morning I went to the gym before work and did 3 miles at varying speeds on the treadmill.

1/2 cup oats for breakfast with PB, TJ’s High Fiber cereal and about a tablespoon of cinnamon under there. I hid it under the cereal because it’s kind of a ridiculous amount. I ate the apple around 11…

At lunch, I walked over to the Strip District which is about a mile walk and got a few things. I found another kabocha squash at the Asian grocer!!! Also, that peanut butter sucks. Not good at all. It was on sale though and we’re still in a pumpkin shortage I guess so I made due with butternut squash puree.

I also picked up a chobani and ate it with some butternut squash puree when I got back to the office:

I got home and roasted the squash! Soo excited. Those things are good. I ate way too much of it though and felt ridiculous full then decided to have cereal afterward…bad move. Oh well. I didn’t eat ALL of this but probably about half…. The original squash was a three pounder. Oh you eat the skin too. Fiiiiber.

Thursday morning I went to the gym and did 30 minutes on the sort of elliptical/stepper thing then got to work and had oatmeal for breakfast, did an hour long yoga class at lunch that was ridiculously intense and I couldn’t do half of the poses then had a sandwich and MORE squash for lunch..

Okayyyy I have to go or else I’m going to miss the bus.

IT’S FRIDAY!!!!!

–Pam

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Whole day of foods you say? Si.

January 13, 2010

It’s Wednesday!

Yesterday I took pictures of almost all of my eats for the first time in a LONG time. Food post time! I’ll list the couple of unpictured things at the end too for honesty’s sake.

I gymed in the morning. I got there around 5:45 AM and did 4 miles (?) on the treadmill while watching Good Morning America. Not a huge fan of George Stephanopolis/Robyn Roberts still. We’ll see ABC, we’ll see.

Oats for breakfast.

1/2 cup rolled oats

2 TBSP Better N’ PB

1/2 cup or so Trader Joe’s High Fiber cereal

Orange around 11 AM for a snack

I ate lunch around 12:15 at my desk. For new readers, I work at an office job in downtown Pittsburgh and generally eat breakfast and lunch at my desk.

I had a spinach salad with 1/4 of a granny smith apple, some sauerkraut (LOVE), feta and Trader Joe’s raspberry vinaigrette. The sandwich is 1/4 cup microwaved egg whites, spinach, more sauerkraut…, feta, sriracha, and mustard on a whole wheat sandwich thin. And I’m still mastering the toaster oven.

I had some carrots (x2) a little after lunch.

And some tea. Found this in the cupboard. Thank you mystery, tea-drinking coworker.

Around 3ish, I had some Stonyfield plain yogurt with more high fiber cereal:

I left work at 5 and made some soup. Uhhh so my plan was to make acorn squash soup with an acorn squash that I’ve had way too long. Well it turned out to be moldy so that went out the window. Enter random vegetable soup. Into a giant pot went baby carrots, vegetable broth, water, 1/2 a zucchini, frozen peas, an onion, and every spice that I could think. I let that simmer until the vegetables were tender then poured it into the food processor with a can of black beans. I wanted creamy soup!

It resembles mud and wasn’t that tasty but I doctored it up with feta and hot sauce and ate alongside another sandwich thin:

MUD

I also got some chores done while the soup was cooking –>dreaded vacuuming finally happened and cleaning the bathroom and kitchen floor.

The unpictured foods were a small bowl of cereal with almond milk, cocoa powder and sugar and then a bowl of popcorn. I think that’s it…

I also wanted to show you a few more pictures from the Florida trip. Sorry if you’re getting sick of them!

Me and Aaron eating lunch outside:

times 2:

Giant onion ring appetizer:

After lunch, we took a little walk on the beach.

It was hot…. Noooo not at all but we pretended:

Random car trip with little nephew Addison:

Dinner Saturday night. There was chicken parmesan for everyone else and moo shu shrimp for me:

Sister-in-law & grandma:

Other nephew Parker!

Addison wearing Parker’s new shirt:

Other grandma (Tutu) & Papap came over Sunday and brought GIANT lemons from the tree in their yard:

Seriously big lemons:

We had fun with them:

Sunday’s dinner was lobster tails, crab legs and steak!

Lobster:

Crab (+ giant lemon slices):

Addison & Aaron:

Parker & Addison:

Okayyy that’s all the Florida pictures I promise.

Anyway, thanks for reading! Hope everyone is having a happy Wednesday out there.

Adios.

–Pamela

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Floridaaa Trip — Meet the Parents

January 12, 2010

Well I didn’t mention it but Aaron and I journeyed to Ft. Myers, Florida this past weekend so that my parents could meet Aaron (future husband). I have a zillion pictures so I figured I’d just insert a gallery instead of the longest post ever. In the pictures, you will see the following family members:

Me, Fiance, Brother, Sister-in-Law, Mom, Dad, Grandma, Tutu (other Grandma), Papap, Nephew (Addison), Nephew (Parker) & a random picture of steak.

Enjoy!

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Good Morning? ehhh

January 5, 2010

Good Morning!

Let’s talk about my morning for a minute.

Alarm goes off at 5:43 AM
Lay in bed reading blogs/email until 5:50ish
Get up, make coffee, put on gym clothes
Two pairs of pants, shirt, jacket, coat, scarf, gloves
Wander out into the 15 degree weather
Walk almost the whole two blocks to the bus stop
Watch the bus drive by as I’m about 30 feet away

Well I stood there in the snow, mumbling to myself for about 5 minutes then turned around and came back to the apartment.

Defeated by Port Authority.

Oh well.

I decided to do a little yoga in the bedroom while heating up water to make some coffee in my new little French press (Christmas gift from Aaron):

So here I am…sitting in my apartment blogging at 6:41 AM.

Hmmm sort of an uneventful post for you. I do have a picture of my lunch from yesterday. Big, giant salad with spinach/baby lettuces/bell pepper/shallot/almonds/feta/dried fruit/Asian pear with TJ’s raspberry vinaigrette dressing. My cell phone is next to it for size comparison.

Alright I GUESS I’ll shower now. Have a lovely day!

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Pamcakes and Eggs

Fiance Guest Blog AKA Chicago 2009

A Salmon Recipe(!) & Shovel Fail 2010

Updated my about me page FINALLY

Single Girl/Married Girl — The Weekend!

150 Days and Counting!

Chaturanga on the bedroom floor and various wedding updates.

Too much squash did me in.

Whole day of foods you say? Si.

Floridaaa Trip — Meet the Parents

Good Morning? ehhh

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