Another Monday is over!

I’m currently writing this post in my kitchen at the kitchen table. In my case, it’s also the dining room table because I don’t actually have a dining room. I dream of one day having a dining room with a table big enough to seat more than four. Then I will have people over for dinner all the time. I love to cook for people but in my current situation (one bedroom apartment with tiny kitchen table, it’s not so easy. Some day. SOME DAY.

The set up:

Anyway, weekend recap post time. First of all, there was a decent amount of running. I realized today that I ran Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. That brought my weekly total up to 20.5 miles. I think that’s a record for me.

3.79 miles on…Friday?

A terrible 3.5 on Saturday. Late nights will do that to you.

And a gloriously awesome 6 miles on Sunday early evening.

I wasn’t even really planning to run Sunday but then realized that I hadn’t run more than four miles in TWO weeks so I decided to head out. I was planning to do five miles but the weather was so perfect that I just continued. I reasoned with myself that I would get a cookie or something on the way home. (See brownie at the end of this post).

I was also very pleased with my pace! I started toward East Liberty and ended up running all around Shadyside. It was nice to change up the route a little. I can’t really do that on mornings before work because I tend to get lost…and I have time constraints in the morning. I have to get to work..

Bowie is ruining my life right now.

I’m dramatic.

So moving on to the weekend. Friday night I was thinking about staying in but friend Laura mentioned that she was thinking of going to the Thunderbird for a show and I was also sort of considering it so…we decided to go.

It was a good time. There were three bands Ben Hardt and his Orchestra, Jupiter One, and Meeting of Important People. I would link to them if I actually had internet in here but I do not. Ah well. Anyway, the show was good. All three bands were good. Hanging out with friends was good. Even though I was at the bar from like 10 – 2, I only had one beer. I got home around…2:30 and was kind of wired so I didn’t go to sleep until around 3.

This didn’t bode well for my planned early morning run.

The long run didn’t happen as you already know unless you skipped the first part of this post.

I haven’t run in North Park in two weeks. I’m sad about this. I LOVE going there. love love love. I need to get out of the city more often.

Soooo Saturday afternoon, Andy came to pick me up in his father’s truck and we ventured to my Aunt Isabel and Uncle Ed’s house in Robinson. They offered me their old bed because they bought a new one. I already have a new mattress but Andy was in pretty desperate need of a real bed so he got the mattress and I got the headboard.

Uncle Ed and Andy managed to fit everything into the truck. Aunt Isabel and I observed.


Annnnd a few hours later we had attached the headboard to my bed, dragged the box spring, mattress and frame up to Andy’s second floor apartment and assembled everything.

Good thing I occasionally lift 8 pound weights.

I got home and took shower #2, harvested some tomatoes from my porch plant(!!) and then a friend who will remain unnamed indefinitely came over to chat and drink iced tea on the porch.

I think I went to bed around 1:30 that night.

Sunday morning I was up around…okay I can’t remember at all but I did make it to church at 11:10. I’ve never been to that service before. I like it. It was crowded. I like crowded. I think my favorite one is 9:50 though. That’ll be the plan next weekend.

After church, I came home and relaxed for a while. I can’t remember exactly what I did all yesterday… Running, eating, reading, some chores. That’s about it I guess.

I’ve been on a tuna kick lately. I keep making tuna wraps:

With tons of spinach:

Oh I grocery shopped yesterday too. I accidentally bought cinnamon sticks instead of ground cinnamon and tried to food process them to remedy the situation.

It didn’t work.

Here’s the run reward brownie:

Delicious!

Thennnn work today. It was an uneventful day. It was busy and it went quickly.

Oats with puffins and peanut butter for breakfast:

Banana snack in the morning.

Tuna and spinach sandwich and a bell pepper for lunch:

Yogurt snack in the afternoon and then VEGETABLES for dinner.

2 zucchini, some onion, a few Brussels sprouts roasted for 30 minutes plus 2 pieces of toast.

Uncooked:

My blog writing hasn’t really been flowing lately. I guess it’ll come back eventually. I realize I’m saying this at the end of a really long post but you know. yeah.

Alright that’s about it for now. I’m going to a wedding on Saturday so I’ll be out of the city at a berry farm(!) all day.

Have a nice night!