15 | July | 2009 |

Hello!

Well let’s see… It’s Wednesday. This week is going pretty quickly. Sooo I woke up this morning at 5:15 AM and convinced myself to get up and run. I almost didn’t make it out the door. Sitting on my couch, drinking coffee and watching the news was VERY tempting but it just seemed like a waste since I had already gotten out of bed.

Sooo I was out the door at 5:30. The plan was four miles but it was cut short a bit. Ohhh well. Almost. For some reason, this run was really hard. I was going a little faster than normal I guess. I ended up doing 9:06/mile.

The Garmin:

Also, the blondies were great! The finished cookies:

My only issue with blondies is they are SO boring. I don’t know. I think I’d like some frosting or something?? Yes, that would be good. I LOVE frosting. It’s bad.

NF was singing on TV Monday night! Yes, I took a picture of my TV…

Work yesterday was not memorable at all then I came home and thought about tracking down Gina to hang in a coffee shop but eventually convinced myself to go to the picnic in North Park that I had been planning on attending. I almost talked myself out of it because I figured I’d be sitting in rush hour traffic PLUS I’m used to driving like …at most…3 miles to get anywhere and this was around 17! Whoa!! That’s far when you are a city dweller like myself.

I ate prior to the picnic because I wasn’t sure about vegetarian friendly options. Turns out — there were LOTS. Here is NF’s plate of a whole bunch of side dishes:

There was a fruit salad with ORZO. Interesting, eh?

I had a chocolate covered strawberry!

The picnic ended up being lots of fun and I got to meet some new people which is good. I’m generally not great at that…

So I got home around 9 or so (after returning my embarrassing movie rental) and got into bed by 10.

Pumpkin oats with Twigs + a banana in the morning:

BIG salad for lunch plus a mug of soup:

At lunch, I took a short walk around the city but I didn’t really have anything to do. I went to CVS and bought some lotion because I was out.

PM snack was yogurt with Twigs… I am so boring.

I got home and ate some egg whites with ketchup and did not photograph it because it was really ugly then I ate some frozen strawberries then I finished the jar of pickles that I purchased Sunday…

I seriously love pickles.