Cravings after a long day

Today, I got a free pass to buy whatever food item I want. What do I do? I walked by the cheezies (a major weakness!) and brought home frozen corn, and coconut water.

Frozen corn, and coconut water...

...Well let me tell you, minced garlic, butter and corn atop of rice, is a killer comfort food.

All of my world, a part of yours

Life works in mysterious ways. A constant lesson I've learned over the past few months is that, someone of significance to me may mean everything to me. They were a defining character in my life, at one point. For them, I may have been a small passerby, a small ripple in the big sea. 

I can never thank them enough, for their impact on me. I only hope I can pay it forward for someone else. 

I'm glad to hear you are as well as can be, Grandpa Lee. I wish you an abundance of joy and peace, and may you continue to have good health for a long time to come. 

my Yorkville 5k run + musings

It was difficult to start and complete my 5k run:
- Cold #5
- Mini fevers on and off all week...
- Headaches on and off all week...
- Slept funny one night, and woke up with the right side of my body feeling tingly, and my right knee "weak". "Weak" as in limping, tho I cannot see a wound or understand how to fix it...
- While I routinely do 2-3 miles on the treadmill or elliptical each time I visit the machines, I haven't trained for this race. I've probably been on the cardio twice in the last month... T_T

To date, I have yet to miss a run or a stair walk, and I hope to stick to this. While I will sit out on gatherings if I'm not well, it simply hasn't crossed my mind to miss a race I've said I would do.

So off we went...

Very grateful that today turned out to be a perfect race day - no extra humidity, no rain, clear skies and a gentle breeze. We got down to the race site in good times.

Following the run, I learned:
- I don't know how to jog. I know how to walk, speed walk, or sprint. And sprint faster. But jogging, is a foreign territory to be further explored.
- DH has extra love and patience for his stubborn little wifey. I'm glad he kept me on my jogging pace, and humored me when I sprinted at the end
- I am limping more now, but that is ok. The post-run food was worth it, as was the swag...
- I can do anything I focus attention on. I actually did jog about 4 of the 5k, and at the time, my body definitely would have preferred that I didn't jog...! I'm already feeling the stiffness and soreness, but hey, I did it!!

No one and no pain can take that away from me.

Lazy day with dinner made...already!

I enjoy having a slow cooker. It means on a day like today, I can go out for a few hours, and not worry about rushing home to make dinner.

So far, things I've learned about slow cooker cooking:

- always brown the meat

- ignore the tips on chopping down veggies into smaller pieces. Keep these in large chunks so they won't be complete mush at the end of 8 hours

- if someone cooked me for 8 hours, I'd lose all my liquids. Same goes with veggies in slow cookers. 

Now for a break from my veg-ing, time to start the rice cooker!

Edit:
- Use the excess juice/water from the slow cooker, as the liquid when cooking rice.

Old song, new lyrics

Sometimes I run (...run!)

Sometimes I hide (...hide!)

Sometimes I'm scared of you (... Nah!)

But all I really want is to...

Eat cookies! Nap all day! When the sun comes out, go out and play!!

Riddle me: what animal is this?

2014

Time to re-visit my wee bit of writing space! I'm planning to add bits and pieces of my whims and fancies learn what it means to focus on me.