Winning Friends with Salad

Hey guys,

Sorry for the unintentional blog hiatus - just got busy relaxing.

Saturday morning I woke up early (compared to P, who went out Friday night and was nursing a hangover) and was uber productive. I cleaned the apt, picked up the laundry and put it away, did the dishes, and Magic Eraser-ed the kitchen and bathroom. Eva called my cell around 11 - she was in the neighborhood and wanted to get coffee. I met her at a nearby Starbucks for an iced coffee and some laughs.

When I got home, P was almost ready to get it together. We decided to go to the Paris Commune for brunch - so P could get their world-famous French Toast. Well, I realized when we got there that I forgot my camera! I was so mad! (That’s what started the blog hiatus - I didn’t have any pictures to post!) I had an iced coffee (numero two), truffled eggs, half an English muffin, and fruit. I also snuck a good amount of Peter’s fries. P got the french toast, of course - and it was only so-so in my book.

The rest of the afternoon was spent reading, TV watching and relaxing. I had a snack around 5 PM of 1/2c 0% Fage, a banana, and some honey:

Around 8, I had 1/4c cranberry antioxidant trail mix:

P and I decided to order in sushi for dinner. I had two plates. Here’s my first:

and my second:

Sorry for the slight blurriness! After dinner, we hit hit the sack.

The next morning, I slept in, and met Eva for brunch uptown at the Neptune Room around 2:15. I love this place! It is my absolute favorite brunch on the UWS. We started out with some of their delicious cinnamon walnut bread (I had another 1/2 piece after this):

I got a lavender lemonade with vodka for my drink. THIS.WAS.SO.GOOD. I told Eva I wanted to bathe myself in this drink. If I only could drink one thing for the rest of my life, this would be it it. AMAZING.

For an entree, I got my fave, the smoked salmon plate:

Delicious.

After brunch, we took our tipsy selves on a tour of Central Park - where we got ice cream from a cart! Eva was buying, so she stole the last Chipwich. I got a Reese’s bar:

It was sooooo delicious. And surprisingly cold for a hot summer day. We spent the rest of the afternoon walking all around the park and then down Madison Avenue, where I tried on possible birthday dresses at Barney’s. And we saw Janice Dickinson and that Gossip Girl/Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants girl and her bf. Eva was excited about that; I was more excited about Janice. We saw her taking a picture of herself in front of one of her billboards which I thought was great. Pssh, if I came across a billboard of myself, you can bet I’d take a picture of me with it!

We walked over 5 miles and I was starving when I got home! I had some sushi from the night before:

Later, when P got home, we made dinner together. I have to wrestle to get him in the kitchen usually, but he was good about it - and we had fun! Plus it was so much quicker preparing dinner with twice as many hands. We made turkey sandwiches on whole wheat chollah bread, with tons of CSA veggies, laughing cow, and mustard:

A few hours later, I had a coconut bar for dessert:

Sadly, the weekend came to an end.

Monday morning breakfast:

1c shredded wheat, 1c nonfat milk, banana.

Kinda sad that it’s Monday but not too sad!  Short week coming up that leads into a couple packed weeks!

Monday - Training with MaryBeth at 6; C25K 7.1 Run

Tuesday - Gym Workout/C25K 7.2 Run; Appt @ 8:30; Packing

Wednesday - Leave work at 3:45 to take AirTrain to JFK; flight to Cali @ 6:15

Thursday-Sunday - California!

Monday morning - Flight back to NYC @ 11 AM

Tuesday - ?

Wednesday - Appt with Keri; Writing Class begins (every Wed night from now til the end of October)

Thursday - ?

Friday - Training with MaryBeth @ 8

Saturday - 4 Mile Race

Sunday - ?

Monday - 1 yr anniversary!

And then another 5k that weekend and my birthday the week after that.  Whew!