Archive | November 2009

Thanksgiving & Save-the-Date photos

Good Evening!

I’m healthy again! The mono seems to be out of my system for the most part and I’m feeling normal again. Time to catch up with the blog now. Aaron is currently sitting next to me reading and making fun of the fact that I took about twenty pictures of my new running shoes. I’ll show you those in a different post. I have to break up the five million pictures that I took since Thanksgiving.

First of all, Thursday morning I woke up feeling a little better. Aaron and I had breakfast together (egg sandwiches on the George Foreman!) and then I set Ted (bread machine) to work on making dough for the dinner rolls for Thanksgiving dinner. We went to Aaron’s parent’s house first around 2 PM after watching Thanksgiving parades on TV. Look how pretty the table was! Dinner rolls came out well and are in the far right corner. I used this recipe from the King Arthur Flour website for soft white dinner roll with the exception that I used two tablespoons of raw, cane sugar and one tablespoon of honey in place of the white sugar. I also let them rise (second rise) for about 2 hours total.

Aaron carved the turkey…sort of:

Aaron’s brother’s girlfriend and one of his grandmother’s in this picture:

Action shot of Aaron pouring gravy onto his plate:

My plate = sweet potatoes/white potatoes, mashed potatoes, stuffing, carrots, & brussels sprouts (+another serving of brussels sprouts):

Aaron’s pumpkin pie which I tasted:

I made Aaron’s mom a wreath and brought it along. I’ve had LOTS of free time while sitting around trying to rid myself of the kissing disease so crafting it is.

After early dinner at Aaron’s parents north of the city, we ventured to the exact opposite of the city to my Aunt and Uncle’s house. We had cookies and coffee and sat around talking until about 8:30. I was EXHAUSTED by this point so we headed home. It ended up being a great Thanksgiving! Aaron’s parents house was lots of fun and the food was great and then seeing my family was great too. Aaron finally got to meet a couple of my relatives! I’m curious to hear what Aunt Isabel reported to my mother about him….

Friday I worked for a short amount of time then came home and rested some more. Monoooooo. Saturday was pretty uneventful. Aaron was in Toronto for a show and I was just doing some chores and attempted to Christmas shop unsuccessfully.

Today (Sunday), Aaron got back into Pittsburgh around 4 AM and picked me up to go to Church at 10 AM. He’s crazy. We went to church together for the very first time then came back to my house and decided to do our little Save-the-Date photo shoot for our wedding save-the-date cards. Fun!

Mini-tripod + ladder = this plus about 30 more pictures. We haven’t decided on the exact picture or card yet but hopefully will this week!

Alright that’s about it for now. It’s almost midnight and I think time to get to bed. Back to work full-time tomorrow. Yay for the mono being gone!

Have a great week!

-Pamela

Hey Friends, I’m still alive.

Nov24

Just a QUICK update to let you know that I’m still around. My “flu” turned out to be MONO so I haven’t been doing much of anything except sleeping, reading and watching Bones on my laptop.

A symptom of mono is also lack of appetite so the eats of been particularly boring. All I can bring myself to eat is eggs, oatmeal and bread. Not so well-rounded. I tried to eat spinach last night and almost puked. Cool.

I also haven’t been to the grocery store in OVER A WEEK. I have pretty much no food. You know I’m tired when I can’t even get myself to the grocery store. I LOVE grocery shopping. Tomorrow might be the day as I’m craving popsicles like crazy. I’m actually considering going out right now to buy popsicles and numb my painful throat with them.

Okay so that’s about it. Hopefully I’ll get some exciting pictures of Thanksgiving for you and start to feel well enough to blog like normal. Until then, have a great week and a great holiday!

Ring #2 & Mancakes

Nov17

Hello! The rest of the weekend looked something like THIS.

Aaron came over and made pancakes.

Serious business:

Not so serious:

Pancakes:

MANcakes:

Sick and wanted veggies for lunch:

Saturday evening, I went over to Aaron’s house and watched him assemble a futon while drinking green tea with a fan blowing on me so I didn’t start sweating. THE FEVER! I had to look presentable for dinner with the FUTURE IN-LAWS. WHAT? Diane & Jeff!

There are two articles of plaid and two instruments visible here:

For dinner, we drove A LOT into the Northern parts of PA and eventually made our way to the back woods of Mars, PA and then toward Grove City which is A DIFFERENT WORLD than Pittsburgh. We had dinner at the Iron Bridge Inn which was packed on a Saturday night but also quite enjoyable. The company may have been what made it most enjoyable. Also, Future Mother-in-Law got me/us a book about Real Food. She knows me already! Maybe she stumbled upon ye blog.

Anyway, I had a salad consisting of field greens, apples, cranberries, candied pecans and shrimp with raspberry vinaigrette. It was pretty delicious. Aaron wasn’t too fond of his entree but I bet he enjoyed the French onion soup. We’ll just assume because he didn’t actually say so. So that concludes Saturday night.

Onto Sunday. Church then my very last group then grocery shopping then pushing the limits and going for a run. My fever was gone! My body temperature was back down to 97ish and I was feeling pretty good .

I wore a hat & took a picture. Serious face:

4 miles! The weather was great. I ran 2 miles then stopped in Giant Eagle and had some water at the water fountain then ran another mile then walked a minute then ran the last mile. My legs felt kind of weird after not running for an entire week! Overall my body felt okay. I’ve definitely lost some endurance over the last two weeks or so but I’m not trying to keep up the ability to run 10 miles during the Winter. Not so possible in Pittsburgh unless I was more hardcore and also purchased things like Under Armour and managed to get over my whole, “if it’s below 50 degrees, I’m not running outside” thing.

So running isn’t going to be my main form of exercise going forward. I’ll talk more about my new plan soon.

Sooo the Garmin hasn’t made an appearance recently.

Sweaty and…scared or something.

MONDAY! Back to work after three days off + the weekend! I managed to get through most of my e-mails and urgent matters and then Aaron picked me up from work. We went straight to Leechburg (trip #3) to SIGN THE PAPERS! We went over the contract, discussed some wedding details and signed. We’re officially booked for June 26, 2010! Yayayayayay.

Also, I have a new ring. Pretty, huh???

I won’t go into details about why I’ve had two rings so far because it’s a LONG and personal story. All seems to be well now though.

TUESDAY…today.

Breakfast= pumpkin oats with peanut butter

Lunch=tuna on an Arnold’s Thin and a spinach salad then for dessert… pumpkin cake courtesy of Andy. Thanks Andy! It was delicious.

Stuck to the foil! The frosting was great though.

Afternoon snack was yogurt with an oats n’ honey bar and then….SPIN CLASS. It’s probably been a year since I’ve taken spinning. I’m going to be SORE tomorrow. It was great though. It was an hour long and I was DRIPPING sweat by the end. Awesome!

I got home, ate dinner, showered, then Aaron stopped over to say goodnight. He just left now so I’m getting to bed! 10:53 PM.

GOODNIGHT FRIENDS!

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