Archive | January 2010

Single Girl/Married Girl — The Weekend!

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.

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Thursday at work, Aaron sent me flowers!
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Collective awww.
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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
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Gina and Laura came!! And Jason too. Hi Gina, Laura and Jason! Ohh and Erik. I’m told he reads my blog too. Exciting!
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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:

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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:

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Add water and knead to form this:
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Then make these:
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!!!! Something like these will be on top of each of our wedding cupcakes. It’s experimental right now so more on this later.
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Alright time to call Aaron then bed. Goodnight!

150 Days and Counting!

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.

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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.


Chaturanga on the bedroom floor and various wedding updates.

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.

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My fajita plus we both just started eating the filling right out of the pan.
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Afterward, Aaron did the dishes:
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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.

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

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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?
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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.
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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.

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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!