Another Monday

I really do need a day between Saturday & Sunday. 

I didn't share last week that Dean was in The Netherlands & contrary to what someone I know thought, The Netherlands is not near where the Patriots play. Yes, I know. Anyway, I got fussed at by several friends for posting on FB that he made it because then everyone knew I was home alone. He left Sunday & came home Friday. I don't enjoy being home alone. At all. 

Tuesday afternoon I went for a run.

It was hot! Since we're all registered for the Wine & Dine Half & the provide wine at the finish line we have to train for that as well.

I had a glass after I had some water. 

I went to dinner with friends Thursday night. 

It was happy hour at Lava Cantina. The mango margarita was good but it took 25 minutes to get to the table. I always feel like I'm cheating on Caliente when I eat Mexican somewhere else but this was closer for everyone to meet. Of course when it takes 25 mins. for a margarita then I'm really annoyed that we aren't at Caliente. They have us spoiled.

I hadn't gone walking with my friends in awhile so I did that Friday morning. 

Again, it was hot. I should say it was just really, really humid & muggy.

Dean got home about 5:45 Friday evening. YAY!!! We went to Caliente for Jeff's birthday.

A birthday shot, Mexican food, margarita's & bundtlets. It was a good night. 

Logan's t-ball season started this weekend. They won Friday night so they played at 10:15 Saturday morning. 

on deck

He got a hit!

That's Logan sliding into home. That's his thing. I guess he just wants to get dirty. 

Bulldogs win & go to the Championship which was supposed to be Sunday but it was rained out so they'll play next weekend.

After the game we went to eat at Johnny's Pizza. Logan was so funny. We told him we were going to eat & he said "The whole family? We're going to all  sit at the same table?" He was so excited! We had a good lunch & he told us about how much fun he had in Disney. He was not a fan of It's a Small World. When Dean asked how he liked it he immediately said "BORING!!". 

After lunch it was home to do yard work. Well, Dean did yard work while I went to Lowe's to buy stuff to deal with our pool which was a lovely shade of green. That stuff works quick because this morning it was a lovely shade of blue. 

Dean brought these home from Amsterdam. 

They're so good! 

Aren't they pretty?

Yesterday I went for a run.

I wanted to go more than 4 miles but I thought I had a t-ball game to go to so I didn't have enough time. Then it was rained out. Oh well.

Since I didn't have anywhere to be I did a leg workout.

Pretty good that I burned almost 200 more calories. 

Dean enjoys cooking, everyone knows that. Dean also enjoys BBQ. Dean also tends to cook more than we need. This is what we ended up with Sunday.

Burgers, chicken, ribs, sausage & who knows what else. Did I mention I'm not a huge fan of leftovers after about a day? 

How was your weekend?

Toodles!

Guess What??

I'm going to Disney World!!!

I'm going with Cindy & 2 of her friends to run the Wine & Dine Half Marathon! I'm soooo excited! I've been wanting to do a Disney run. I'd love to do the Princess Half but it's during tax season so it would be difficult to take off work. 

We're going to stay at The Caribbean Beach Resort.

Pretty huh?

After perusing the Wine & Dine Facebook page there are a lot of very unhappy people. The race sold out in less than 45 minutes. This is unprecedented apparently & people aren't happy. I'm just very thankful we were able to get in. Anyone else running Wine & Dine?

Toodles!

Monday Musings

At the LSU game in honor of the National Guardsmen from Louisiana that were killed last week.

Saturday morning was a long overdue hair morning. 

This looks like the old school dryers but it's actually a steamer. You sit under that & the steam processes your highlights. There's definitely a alien look to it.

We went to Mass & then to eat at Caliente. We FINALLY had a beautiful day & were able to eat on the patio.

I had fajitas & my last Jose Special made by Jose & I didn't even know it! Jose is moving on. He tried to teach Eric how to make it but Eric's doesn't turn out right although Eric thinks it's perfect. #notafanoferic

I guess Jose didn't want a big deal made about him leaving because he didn't even tell us. We found out after we left. 

I'll be drinking mango margaritas on the rocks from here on out.

This is Analiss, the owner's baby. It was our first time to meet her. She's so cute!

After Caliente we went to the LSU game. That was a nightmare. After leading most of the game, Ole Miss tied it up in the 9th. Lovely. They played 14 innings & LSU lost. That's annoying. If you're going to lose, lose in 9.

Sunday was a lazy day until Fleet Feet's St. Patrick's Day 3.17 race. 

Me & Karen ran & Allison cheered us on. My eyes look like that because the sun was BRIGHT & it was HOT! Like 80 degrees hot. I'm ready for spring but not summer & not when I'm running.

That's me & a new PR - 30:39. About 2.5 seconds after this picture was taken I was sitting on the curb hoping the nauseousness would go away. HA! Like I said, it was hot. I also only beat my PR by 6 seconds. My 5K PR is 30:45 & this was 3.17 mi. so it was a tad longer. As I was approaching the finish line I was trying to go fast because I knew how close I was. That led to the nausea. Thank goodness Allison was there because she held my bag that had a towel & wet wipes in it. After that & a cup of NUUN I was all good. We moved on the post race party & had some Salad Shop food. It was good! 

Something occurred to me yesterday - pizza is the perfect post run food and nobody ever has pizza at a post race party. I've been craving pizza for a few days so I stopped at Little Caesar's on the way home. It hit the spot!

While I was running Logan, Lydia & Scott were at the LSU game. 

This pic just makes me laugh. He's so serious.

Logan wanted Mark Laird's autograph because he "made an awesome catch" Saturday night & Logan told him so. Have I mentioned Logan's never met a stranger?? 

This morning was leg day.

 

The final results of the race were posted online.  4th in my age group & 13th overall female isn't bad. It's a small race but I'll take it!

 

Toodles!

Tired & Sore

Yep, that's me. But a rest day is coming. No workouts Saturday. I slept "in" until 5:30 Monday because the time change messed me up & I was awake awhile during the night. I'll never understand why that happens. 

Monday night was the first night of the Lenten Mission at our church & it was so good. 

A Priest from another Church did the mission & he's so relatable & easy to understand. 

Tuesday, I got up & did this kettlebell workout.

I really liked this workout. It was tough & I was sweating!

I burned 165 calories in 37 minutes. Not great but not bad either. I'm still sore! Wednesday I did an arm, leg, ab combo. 

Thursday I went back to this arm workout.

It's tough & always makes me feel like I'm doing something.

I found this workout on Pinterest so I did it this morning. It was tough but I did it. I took longer than 15 minutes to do it but that's ok. It's done.

I added a few other leg exercises too. 

I'm not a fan of burpees. At all. They're a necessary evil though. 

Tomorrow morning will be an arm workout & then yay for a rest day Saturday!! I have a hair appointment so that will be relaxing. I love a good head massage!

Toodles!

The Weekend

This one was a busy one. Friday night Dean, Cindy & I ate at Caliente & then Cindy & I went to the last LSU home gymnastics meet of the season. I've never been before but I've been wanting to go. Cindy has a friend with season tickets that couldn't go so we were able to use her tickets. We had really good seats. We picked a great night to go. Over 13,000 people were there. It was a record crowd. LSU won with a record score, it was Senior night & we got to see 3 perfect 10's! 2 on the vault & 1 on floor exercise.

This is Llominicia Hall. She's a senior & puts on a show with her floor exercise.

This wasn't her first 10 with this routine. So fun!  Something I noticed was that these aren't the little gymnasts that I expected. These girls have serious muscles. 

Saturday morning was the Komen Race for the Cure. Lydia got a team together for Logan's Pre K Teacher last year. She's going through chemo now. She had a team of 25 & they raised $1200.  It was FREEZING Saturday morning but it was fun.  

These two. No words I swear.

Logan & Lucy Ann love each other. They held hands the entire time. It's the cutest thing ever.

Thank goodness for the sun or we would've frozen to death. Lydia & I walked with the team. There were so many people there was no way we could've ran. This year there was a different option & you could pay more & get a timing chip & participate in the timed race but they limited the time to 30 minutes. Scott did that option because Mr. Competitive isn't going to just run when there's an actual race to be ran. He was first in his age group & 10th overall. 

More hand holding.

Then when you said let's take a picture you got this

Is that not the cutest thing ever???

Allie came too. Don't we look cold?

More hand holding.

At one point Logan had a girl on each side holding hands with him. These kids kill me & they're all so adorable!

After the race I went to my parents to visit, then to Mass & then to meet Allison for dinner at Bistro Byronz. Fun night but I ate entirely too much. Dean went to Mississippi to help a friend bring a refrigerator to their camp so I got in all my girl time while he was gone.

Sunday I had a lazy morning before going to meet Vicki for lunch at the Velvet Cactus. The shrimp tacos were amazing but I wasn't a fan of the beans at all. 

Since the Komen walk was sooooo slow - I'm talking 1:09 to walk 3.1 miles slow & with the food that I'd eaten, I knew I needed to run so off I went when I got home from lunch. 

I got in 5 miles & then I went to lakes to walk/run/mostly walk some more. Allie is training for her first half marathon & she's recovering from an Achilles injury so we were taking it slow. 

But we got in another 4 miles so I was excited about that. Of course going home & eating Girl Scout cookies kinda messed it all up. Oh well. I'll get back at it tomorrow.

Tonight is the first night of a Lenten Mission at Church that I'm excited about. A young Priest in our Diocese is leading. He's training for the Boston Marathon & the mission has a running theme. Should be fun. 

How was y'all's weekend?

Toodles!

Merry Christmas!

I'm not confused. We celebrated Christmas in March. I'll back up. For Christmas our "krewe" bought all of the husbands a cooking class at Ruffino's for Christmas. It was sooooo fun!!!

Ruffino's has a party bus that you can rent. Since we planned so far in advance 

we were actually able to rent it. 

The bus picked us up at 5:30 Tuesday. Yeh, Tuesday was the only bummer but they only do the cooking class twice a month - a Monday & Tuesday. 

"3900 Krewe and More"

On the bus. We even had music!

We had one long table for all 16 of us.

Wine bottles were the place settings. I thought that was so cute!

There was a lot of wine! But, we had the bus!

So this was better than a cooking class. It was more of a cooking demonstration. The chefs cooked, we ate & drank. 

First they brought out some delicious bread & oil & vinegar stuff.

 The first course was a crab spring roll. 

It had avocado, mango, crab & asparagus with a strawberry sauce.

 It was delicious & would be great during the summer.

Second course was Oyster Chowder. 

This may have been my favorite thing of the night. 

It reminded me of shrimp & corn soup.
 So so so good! 

There were door prizes & I won the first one. 

The prize was a bottle of  Ruffino's signature salad dressing. YUM!

Then there was shark, yes shark and white beans. 

Seemed like a super weird combination & I'm not a fan of beans except green beans

 so I didn't expect much.

Y'all it was SO good! The bacon that they used in the beans was amazing.

 The shark was good too. It reminded me of mahi mahi. 

I'm not sure if that was the main course or the next thing was the main course or what.

 It was shrimp pasta. 

It was good but needed more seasoning. It was a bit bland which I thought was odd.

 Not bad but not as good as everything else. 

It had lots of portobello mushrooms which I love. 

Then there was dessert!

Banana's Napoleon! I'm not a huge banana fan. 

I like them in things & this was no different.

 About this time I was chatting with my friends so I'm not sure exactly what this entailed.

Some sort of pastry crust type thing with bananas & some sweet stuff inside.

 Delicious! 

It was a really fun night.

 They gave us each a booklet with all of the recipes & wines that were served. 

The Chefs also told us lots of little neat tidbits. Stuff about catching oysters, the bacon, etc. 

Toodles!

Crack

Let's talk about crack. Not crack you snort. Or do you snort it? Maybe you inject it. I don't know. I have had zero experience with it or any other drugs. Based on how sinus medicine affects me I have no idea why anyone wants to abuse drugs. Anyway, does anyone play Trivia Crack? I'm awful. Like really awful. I love to play but it never fails I get some random question about science or God forbid History. Every time I get a history question a message pops up that says it's my worst subject & I'm wrong 50% of the time. Well, that also means I'm correct 50% of the time so really how bad can I be?? Judging by wins & losses? REALLY BAD. Occasionally I get a pop culture question or something sports related that I know but it never seems to be enough to win. Sigh. But I digress, Trivia Crack isn't the crack I'm talking about either. 

I'm talking about BUTT CRACK. You know, plumbers crack or whatever? TMI? Yeh probably but it's something I don't understand. I realize for the most part it has something to do with big bellies & men not buying their pants the correct size. I can't just say men either because thanks to the low rise  trend going on I've seen more thongs than I ever thought possible. That's not what I don't understand. My problem is how do they not know? Isn't there a draft?? You may be wondering what brought me to this scintillating topic. Well, I'll tell you. Friday night Dean & I were at Caliente, just sitting there minding our own business when what in my line of sight should appear? Yeh, you guessed it, Crack. This dude was probably in his mid to late 20's & he was sitting with a couple of normal looking girls. Pretty much every time I looked at Dean I saw crack. Then it got worse & I was pretty much just seeing butt. I told Dean there needed to be a sign on the door "No shoes, No shirt, No crack". Of course I made him turn around & look. No way was I going through the misery of having to see that alone. Besides, he thinks I exaggerate & I had to prove that it was as bad as I was saying it was. He didn't believe me but boy he was wishing he would have before he looked. Again, don't you feel a draft??? I just don't understand how you don't know half your butt's showing to everyone that walks in the door of Caliente. Maybe you do know & you don't care. If that's the case I sure wish I had that self esteem. 

Oh & believe me, I wasn't the only one to notice. I saw the ladies in the booth next to us whispering & making eyes. They saw it too. 

It's unusual for me to have a post with no pictures so in light of the topic, I'll leave you with this.

Toodles!