Heyyy…

Thursday is over!! I’m in love with Fridays. LOVE. My day went quite smoothly. There were no problems in the office and it was a nice day outside though ridiculously hot.

Pumpkin oats for breakfast + a banana:

Some dry Kashi Heart to Heart (herein referred to as Kashi<3 )at some point too.

I decided to take a walk to the Strip at lunch to stock up on cinnamon and a few other things.

Walking…

I got cinnamon plus a few other things at Right by Nature:

This stuff is on sale for 99 cents!!! I bought 5 and ate one with Kashi <3 for an afternoon snack.

Please notice that I didn’t show you lunch. I’m also not showing you dinner because they were both BORING.

Here is something exciting:

Kohlrabi! I couldn’t help myself as I got off of the bus and walked through my weekly farmer’s market. I didn’t really need anything but I decided to get some nicely priced bell peppers and then spotted the kohlrabi. I questioned the guy behind the table and he said it’s delicious raw. I obviously can’t pass up a new vegetable so I got a bunch. I’ll give you a review once I taste it.

I just read the Wikipedia info about kohlrabi. Apparently it is a German turnip that can be eaten raw or cooked. Kohl means cabbage in German. Didn’t know that. Why would there be a department store named Kohl’s? Anyway, kohlrabi is one of the most commonly eaten vegetables in Kashmir. Interesting food facts for you!

Moving on…

I was supposed to run today but I thought about doing it tomorrow morning instead since it was like 85 degrees today! I also considered going to the gym but then remembered how much I HATE running on a treadmill so I figured I’d just do a short run and walk a little.

Here’s the Garmin:

I ran that much then stopped and got a drink and walked about a mile home. It was nice to walk a bit. I turned off my iPod and actually listened to my surroundings. Good. Relaxing.

And it’s almost 9 PM already so I’m going to put my laundry in the dryer and then read.

Oh also, I have a …beef… with unnecessary purchases. It really, really irks me when people buy lots of items that they don’t really need. You only need so much stuff. Whenever I want to purchase things, I really try to consider whether it’s something that is useful and I will appreciate. I don’t want to just collect things. Here’s a bad metaphor for you that will bring my discussion back to some relation to food.

Buying tons of unnecessary things is kind of like over-eating. You don’t appreciate the food as much when you aren’t actually hungry.

Sorry I’m not very insightful or perhaps I just can’t put it into words but people place WAY too much emphasis on material things.

The end.

Happy Thursday to you!