We have a house full of dogs this weekend while we’re babysitting my mom’s chihuahua. Miko has been competing for attention with him, I can’t go anywhere in the house without them following me and trying to get to my lap first. Leela has been thrilled to have all the fireplace beds to herself frequently […]
Dressings and Sandwiches
I’m over this week. Not to whine too much about work, but this week has been nuts with multiple major upgrades going on at once and our team being short handed. I work in IT support, so I spend a lot of my days working with users and fielding requests from other employees in our […]
Curried Tomatoes and Quinoa
I really hate the lack of pockets in women’s clothes in general, but especially women’s running clothes. Thanks to my job, I usually have two and sometimes three smartphones with no pocket options for carrying them. Guys can run in baggy shorts with huge pockets, but we’re lucky if women’s running leggings or skimpy shorts […]
Weekend Love
Whew, it’s been a great weekend so far and we still have two more days left of it! The last two days have been a bit of a blur of playing, shopping, and eating out in a good way. Disclaimer: I don’t usually eat out or spend this much, but once in awhile is fun. […]
Simple Tofu Soup
I am sooooo glad tomorrow is Friday and it’s a 3-day romantic Valentine’s weekend because it’s been a long and exhausting week with loads going on at work and me dragging a little from stress. It hasn’t been a stressful week for Skipper, he’s been having a blast. It’s become a ritual for him to […]
Dilly Carrot Soup
I’ve been a member of my current gym now for 2 years. I originally joined because for $10 a month, it’s cheap treadmill access that’s close to work. But I’ve started using more of the weight machines and features of the gym to mix it up from home Bowflex workouts. In the last month it […]
Cheesy Avocado Salad
It’s been raining all weekend here, nonstop! And it’s great because this area needed rain so bad, I don’t even mind having to go to the gym to get my long training run in this morning. Heavy wind has also been part of the storms and Miko is very unhappy about that, we have to […]
Comfort Foods
Friday eve, finally! We’ve been getting rain and that’s great for the drought, but not great for my sinuses apparently and/or it’s a cold. Either way it’s annoying. I’ve been feeling stuffed up the last few days groggy with sinus headaches and other cold symptoms and tired and sluggish at the gym. So this will […]
Dilly Blue “Cheese” Dressing
It’s feeling more like winter here again and that’s a welcome thing after weeks of warmer drought weather, we actually got some rain last weekend and more is in the forecast for this week – yay! The house actually got chilly enough tonight for Leela to share a bed in front of the fireplace with […]
Simple Quinoa Chili
I have a confession to make about football. Well maybe it’s not quite that extreme, I do enjoy games a little bit sometimes. Still the Superbowl is sort of like this for me. Because I work with a lot of football crazy co-workers and listen to some passionate and angry debates about this player’s performance, […]