economic recession, not so much!

Rise and shine, my Uncle Matt is in town.

I woke up early-ish to get a few things done before the day got too far along. Actually, that's a lie, Kyle got up early and dragged me out of bed with him. So I watched while he did laundry, made coffee, and went to the store for milk (oops, ran out last night curbing my hummus/bread late night fiesta). I'm so lucky to have such a fabulous boyfriend. I do my best to pull my weight, making him dinners on my days off, etc. but there's no denying it - he's one of a kind.


Sorry for the AM mushy stuff. Moving on to the real part of the day...

After 2 1/2 cups of coffee and 1 TALL glass of silk light soymilk, I was ready for the gym.

Or so I thought...


NYSC smelled gross - like B.O. combined with excessive bathroom sanitizer spray...plus, it is like 140 degrees on the upstairs. With a combo of factors like that, it really makes running on an elliptical hard when you can't breath. Needless to say, I got through it alive and hopefully just a bit stronger. Otherwise, I'm not sure it was worth it. I stretched minimally so I could just get the hell out of the place.


While watching football (I love Sundays) I had an open faced breakfast sandwich.

A Street bread with ff Fage, plus egg beaters and soy bacon.

I was lazy and cooked the "eggs" in the microwave.

It looks sloppy, but tasted heavenly. Trust me, even Kyle was salivating at the fake bacon.

After lunch Kyle and I headed out for some continued shopping...
nobody told me there was a recession. I was trying to get a bunch of stuff before leaving for vacation. Time restraints make shopping a difficult experience (I am really picky and tend to take 10 hours just to make up my mind about a pair of socks). What's even WORSE, I get worn out really easily, so I usually only last 2 hours. Do the math. Now it's clear why I come home empty handed 99% of the time. Even though it was the weekend, stores weren't as obnoxiously packed as they usually are. But, it's just a matter of weeks before the holiday shopping season begins - and that scene is one I try to avoid at all costs. Good thing I found some bomb ass stuff in the first few places! Crisis averted :)

After shopping I met up with Uncle Matt and Bart in Bryant Park. We watched the ice skaters and sipped on starbucks coffee. Then we had to hit the road so Kyle could get home for his ride to the airport. We grabbed Thai on the way home for dinner.

Whole Wheat Dumplings: Macro & Vegan. Ingreds: organic whole wheat flour, organic cabbage, organic carrot, shiitake mushroom, organic green onion, organic apple cider vinegar, organic agave syrup, paprika, tahini, sesame oil, black pepper, organic garlic, and sea salt.

They were packed in the container like sardines...I just kept going and I felt like I wasn't making a dent.

But of course I managed to polish the entire thing off (did you ever doubt me?) Here are the last 4 zoomed in. They were pretty delish.

Kyle also had extra Pad Thai Noodles that I stole. Talk about a carbo load! These were also vegan and macro. So, at least it was healthy (woot woot for whole wheat). PLUS, unlike chinese take out, it wasn't saturated with grease and oil. I like food.

fake anniversary - 4 years and still going…

We slept in forever today. Seriously, it was 11 am when we finally dragged ourselves from the bedroom to the couch. It was nice and relaxing to just veg out with coffee and my baby. I had one and a half cups, and then we decided to hit up the gym. But then we had a change of plans, the weather was so fabulous outside that we had to go for a run in the park. I charted the run on mapmyrun.com and it was a little over a 10K and I ran it in less than an hour. So now I am feeling pretty good about the nike 10K coming up. When I got back I stretched a bit, downed propel water, and showered.

Lunch was a Gary Null’s veggies burger on a slice of wheat bread with honey mustard. I ate the edges of the veggie burger off so it was a rectangle and thus fit the bread that I cut in half, so that’s how I got the left picture into the pretty sandwich on the right.

It wasn’t quite enough to fill me up, but I just wanted a little something sweet, so I had the sf watermelon jello and then an organic yellow apple.
Time to get ready to go to Brooklyn!

For dinner we took the subway down to Park Place (bottom tip of Manhattan) to walk across the Brooklyn bridge and then hit up our fav Thai restaurant, Joya. Happy anniversary to us! There was a concert in City Hall park when we got out of the subway that happened to be Ashanti performing. We stayed for maybe 35 seconds and then headed across. The views were as beautiful as always, Manhattan is such a pretty island, and I just love getting out and about in the city on nice days. The weather was great, not unbearably hot, but not yet cold, like goldilocks it was “just right” – plus there was a nice breeze from the water.

We arrived at Joya around 630 pm and were seated right away. Kyle ordered diet coke and I stuck with water (but stole the lemon from his DC and squeezed it into my water). Look how good and healthy I am (no soda for me!!). We got the Fresh Thai Summer Roll as an appetizer to share. The picture of it is HORRIBLE but the lighting and my camera were not cooperating.

Needless to say it was delish. It was filled with tofu, shrimp and fresh veggies with a tamarind sauce. Kyle removed the tiny cucumber slivers so I had extra doses of those.

Next was dinner, I got the Tofu Pad Khing, which was sautéed tofu with mushrooms, peppers, cabbage, carrots and onions in a fresh ginger sauce. WOW!!

It was borderline amazing. The tofu chunks were so savory and full of flavor. The veggies were sautéed to perfection and the sauce was so light and yet so good, with subtle ginger flavor that occasionally burst through in certain bites, but never in a way that was too powerful. The rice was a nice sauce-soaker-upper. I thought there was no way I could eat it all when they set the plate down, but lets be real, I cleaned house! (see below)

Kyle got the Kang Panang Gai, which was sliced chicken with peppers and crushed kaffir leaves in a panang coconut curry sauce. He was also in love with his. I think he could have drank the leftover sauce and would have if it were socially acceptable!

After dinner we went to the Brooklyn promenade and watched the sunset over the Manhattan skyline. Also we saw the waterfall from the backside, then it was back home!