Archive | March 2010

Sun glare will become a problem today in Pittsburgh

It’s Tuesday. I can’t WAIT for the weekend. Nothing too exciting going on though. I think I’m going to try my hand at some Tartelette macarons so stay tuned for that very exciting post. It’s Easter weekend so there will be some new family time and sunrise Church service and probably some finishing of my taxes. Also, there will be basking in the glorious Pittsburgh weather.

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What have I been up to lately? Well, Aaron broke his finger. He has a lovely green cast now which I took a sharpie to…

We had thai food at Thai Gourmet some time last week. Shrimp Summer rolls for an appetizer:

And then I ordered basically a giant plate of vegetables in a brown, garlicky, spicy sauce. It was delicious! I now know that I’m a fan of baby bok choy. I later wikipedia’d it and found that it’s in the cabbage family. Aaron and I kind of thought it was some type of onion. It definitely has an oniony texture. Aaron had Pad Kee Maw which I bet I spelled incorrectly.

Thai Gourmet is sooo much better than Thai Cuisine (both on Liberty Ave. in Bloomfield) so why are there always so few people here. It’s byob!

Our fortunes:

Saturday afternoon I made it out for an outdoor run. It was a great run! The weather was perfect and I was listening to the O Brother, Where Art Thou soundtrack. Yayayay

Long sleeve t-shirt and shorts running weather (plus sweet sunglasses).

Then I made a spinach/frozen blueberries/banana/chocolate almond milk smoothie. Aaron says, “someone got mud in your glass.”

After shower and smoothie, we met Aaron’s parents, friends and parent’s of friends for dinner at Max’s Allegheny Tavern in the North Side. I opted for the only vegetarian option, the veggie delite sandwich with a side of purple cabbage. It was actually pretty good for vegetarian food at a German restaurant. Everyone else had some form of sauebrauten/wurst/schnitzel thing.

After dinner, we didn’t feel like going home so we drove to the Waterfront and wandered around Barnes and Noble. I checked out this cookbook which looks pretty awesome.

I’m trying to narrow down my cupcake flavors for the wedding cupcakes. I’m thinking of going with three flavors:

blueberry cupcake w/lemon curd filling and lemon buttercream
carrot cake cupcake w/ vanilla buttercream
chocolate cupcake w/ strawberry jam filling and champagne buttercream

Do you guys have any other ideas for flavors? I’m trying to keep all of the frosting colors pretty similar for cupcake uniformity. I like ORDER. That’s why I blog.

Okay time to get ready for work. It’s going to be 80 DEGREES in Pittsburgh this weekend!!!!

We booked our honeymoon!

Mar24

Good Morning!

It’s 6:10 AM. I woke up at 5 this morning for some reason and couldn’t go back to sleep. I was hungry and had all sorts of wedding anxiety so I got out of bed and ate a piece of bread with yogurt on top then made coffee and read Bon Appetit until I saw a giant bug, threw my magazine at it, screamed and ran away.

So now I’m on the couch. I just shut off the local news because I couldn’t take it anymore and am sitting here in silence. I grabbed my camera to see what kind of pictures I have on it but all it had were a bunch of pictures of Bowie and one of Aaron at MedExpress with a broken finger. As exciting as those sound, and believe me I was going to blog about them, I left my camera cord in the other room and am too lazy to get out from under the blanket to retrieve it.

Since that’s the case, I figured I’d finally blog about my birthday weekend at Aaron’s parents house in Mars, PA with his parents, brother, and brother’s gf.

We had a whole bunch of food and many vegetarian options.

There was a cauliflower/tomato/cheese casserole of sorts which was good!

Aaron and I also brought over a wedding invitation sample which I will show you soon but will block off the address just in case any of you were thinking of crashing my wedding.

Invitation on top of the cookbook gift from Aaron’s parents. Thank you! It’s a B&B cookbook and I love B&B’s and will hopefully own one some day.

The table:

There are Brussels sprouts!

For dessert, Aaron’s brother and his girlfriend made fruit tarts. They were delicious!

They sang happy birthday. I made a wish.

This blog post took way less time than I expected. I always put off blogging because I feel like it’s a big time commitment that I don’t want to undertake when in reality, it takes about 10 minutes. Quit being lazy Pam.

As for the exercising of late, I’ve been doing some Shred with the 15 oz cans of beans, I took a yoga class at lunch on Friday which was hardcore and I’ve noticed my chaturangas aren’t quite as pathetic as they used to be, Aaron and I went for a run/walk Saturday in North Park in the lovely weather. We ran about 2.5 miles then walked about 2.5 then had a picnic!

Sunday and Monday were no exercise days and then yesterday, I went to the gym after work and ran 4.75 miles on the treadmill in quiet competition with the people running next to me.

Alright, laptop will soon die.

Oh by the way, Aaron and I are going to BERMUDA for our honeymoon!!!!!!! We booked it officially yesterday. CANNOT WAIT.

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It’s Friday! I put extra sugar in my coffee today.

Mar19

For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin – real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. – Fr. Alfred D’Souz

Enjoy the weekend!!

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