Holy cats!!! So my weekend attempt to find a scrapbook for the road trip was unsuccessful due to the modern day page protector obsession. I went to an actual scrapbook store with a gabillion albums available and they only had one option sans protectors that came in blasé forest green and burgundy and navy blue...with white pages inside of course. So I researched a bit on the internet this morning, and everyone and their mother lectures newbies in these forums about how they ALWAYS use page protectors and that you'd be an idiot not to for x, y, z, a, b, c, d, e, f, g reasons. I completely understand that most people WOULD use page protectors because they have children, or they want to show 349235232 people their book and that's a lot of fingerprints, or they literally have OCD about archiving and posterity. I just wish there was an easier way to find albums that don't have page protectors. However...I think perhaps I'd be able to buy a strap-hinge type album and manually remove the protectors if they are included??? The only companies I've found without the protectors are Westrim and Creative Memories (from whom I bought my first album). The thing is, I would definitely like to purchase a book with black or cream or tan pages...not white. I want to save on paper by not "wallpapering" the entire page with a full 12 x 12 sheet of scrapbook paper/cardstock. I guess those two companies might be my only option. I just wish someone made a more funky cover and kept those damn protectors out of the equation. I'm going to start a revolution.
In any case, I don't have anything else really to update. The end of the month is rollin up real fast, so I have to come up with a new atypical and no-no food. I gotta admit, this month's no-no food idea didn't work out the best (not eating after 7:00pm/or after dinner)...I cheated a couple times either because I forgot or because my meal schedule was way screwed up. I'll try harder this next time around ;)
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Thursday, June 21, 2007
untitled?
I'm so proud of myself! Lots to update!
#40. Pilates: I'm up to 20 so I should officially "SEE the difference" now...however Joseph Pilates said it. But I definitely do! My legs are the best part...very strong and shapely! Gotta work on the 'dumps' region though...theeee worst part for my fellow ladies, right? Ugh. I want to say that by the time I'm done with this 30 Day Challenge, it'll just be too hot in my apartment...so I think perhaps I should switch over to working out at least twice a week at John's gym for a month. Nice and cool there. We'll see!
#45. Recipes: (4/4!) The third recipe this month was Poached Tilapia with Papaya Slaw on top of Avocado Mash. WOW! A taste explosion! Tonight I'm using the rest of my abundant papaya to make Papaya Bruschetta...interesting hey? I'm going to change it into more of an Italian salsa though I think. But anyway, this also takes care of...
#50. Papaya! I've never had it before (without knowing??) and way delish! It takes awhile to cut up because of the size, but honestly easier than a mango (hate that pit). And the taste is sort of a cross between a mango and cantaloupe. Highly refreshing!
#49. I finally perused the East Town Farmer's Market (1/4)...very cool. They have a lot more "stuff" than food though which is fine because most people want to go shopping-shopping rather than grocery shopping, but I hope once fall nears, there will be more fun food to purchase! While I was there some local celebs were judging this Battle of the Chefs contest, so that was amusing.
#69. Donate Blood: I ALSO gave blood (1/12) with like five hours to spare until the first day of summer! They had to do a lot of digging around in there to get the blood going, but that's pretty typical for my lame ass arm. I made my next appt right away (August 15th), so again, sort of right under the wire. I'll be caught up then though. Haha! The radio dj just said that summer officially kicked off at 1:06pm today (about 30 minutes ago), so I guess I had a little more time afterall ;)
#95. 10 Books: Rock ON!! I'm really rollin with these books now that I've finished Atlas Shrugged! I finished He's Scared She's Scared (to fulfill a non-fiction requirement), and now I'm onto my Floyd Collins biography, which is fab so far!! I should finish that one by next week or so, as it's a quick read. My next choice will be A Tale of Two Cities...a classic I never read in all my days of school surprisingly! But it's one of my sister's faves, so I really look forward to it. In any case, I wrote down a bunch of excerpts from He's Scared that I might type up here for posterity (is that the word I'm looking for?)...when I'm in the mood.
Yep yep! Moving right along here! This weekend I should be able to get some scrapbook items...the actual BOOK (or two?) is my main concern.
#40. Pilates: I'm up to 20 so I should officially "SEE the difference" now...however Joseph Pilates said it. But I definitely do! My legs are the best part...very strong and shapely! Gotta work on the 'dumps' region though...theeee worst part for my fellow ladies, right? Ugh. I want to say that by the time I'm done with this 30 Day Challenge, it'll just be too hot in my apartment...so I think perhaps I should switch over to working out at least twice a week at John's gym for a month. Nice and cool there. We'll see!
#45. Recipes: (4/4!) The third recipe this month was Poached Tilapia with Papaya Slaw on top of Avocado Mash. WOW! A taste explosion! Tonight I'm using the rest of my abundant papaya to make Papaya Bruschetta...interesting hey? I'm going to change it into more of an Italian salsa though I think. But anyway, this also takes care of...
#50. Papaya! I've never had it before (without knowing??) and way delish! It takes awhile to cut up because of the size, but honestly easier than a mango (hate that pit). And the taste is sort of a cross between a mango and cantaloupe. Highly refreshing!
#49. I finally perused the East Town Farmer's Market (1/4)...very cool. They have a lot more "stuff" than food though which is fine because most people want to go shopping-shopping rather than grocery shopping, but I hope once fall nears, there will be more fun food to purchase! While I was there some local celebs were judging this Battle of the Chefs contest, so that was amusing.
#69. Donate Blood: I ALSO gave blood (1/12) with like five hours to spare until the first day of summer! They had to do a lot of digging around in there to get the blood going, but that's pretty typical for my lame ass arm. I made my next appt right away (August 15th), so again, sort of right under the wire. I'll be caught up then though. Haha! The radio dj just said that summer officially kicked off at 1:06pm today (about 30 minutes ago), so I guess I had a little more time afterall ;)
#95. 10 Books: Rock ON!! I'm really rollin with these books now that I've finished Atlas Shrugged! I finished He's Scared She's Scared (to fulfill a non-fiction requirement), and now I'm onto my Floyd Collins biography, which is fab so far!! I should finish that one by next week or so, as it's a quick read. My next choice will be A Tale of Two Cities...a classic I never read in all my days of school surprisingly! But it's one of my sister's faves, so I really look forward to it. In any case, I wrote down a bunch of excerpts from He's Scared that I might type up here for posterity (is that the word I'm looking for?)...when I'm in the mood.
Yep yep! Moving right along here! This weekend I should be able to get some scrapbook items...the actual BOOK (or two?) is my main concern.
Thursday, June 14, 2007
updates and thoughts a plenty
To begin, a few 101 Things List updates:
#6 - I thought of the TBA project! But it's a secret, so it will remain TBA for awhile. I really hope it turns out because it could be way rad. I'm excited!
#17 - last night I surprised John by cleaning his entire condo while he was off cleaning/painting his sister's garage!
#40 - I'm up to 16/30 days for the Pilates challange! It's all downhill from here? My Finish Date projection is mid July??? But obviously I will continue after that :)
#45 - two new recipes: 1. Salmon topped with Mango Pineapple Chutney (from recipe book #46) and 2. Grilled Steak on a Bed of Greens with Homemade Blue Cheese Dressing and Grilled Garlic Bread! I love summer...
#76 - I've been kickin some greeting card ass lately...not just birthdays either! But I purchased a "scrapbook kit" for $50 or so...I gotta make it worth my while!
#84 - I'm kind of on the spec book organizational train. I had to print off 12 copies of the spec revisions (at about 500 pages a pop...ouch trees), and I started organizing our incolumn ads. I'm not sure where to go from here, but at least it's something.
I can't even begin to describe how busy I've been lately. Not so much at work, but my personal life has exploded!! I guess that's what summer is all about. I want to make a schedule of things I could seriously accomplish in the remaining month.
• INKYTNMO scrapbook: will start to purchase items next Saturday or Sunday
At least I looked?? And I have a vague idea of what I need now!
• East Town Market THIS WEEKEND!!! I'll go before or after my orientation at St. John's
• Maybe tomorrow I'll have time to burn some soundtracks...have a "It's Summer...go on a road trip" theme?? If I had been ON IT I would have dumped a few treasures on my own road trip, but the thought didn't occur to me until now. I have nothing too spectacular going on tonight, so I could brainstorm a map of somekind for that hipster Geocache flair
• I will also make time to GIVE BLOOD before the 21st which is next Thursday. Because even though I've said "it's summer" like 39280352 times in this post, it technically isn't yet and I can still get in my "donate blood once a season" for Spring!
*Scheduled!! For Wednesday, the 20th. Whew!
Ok done...I will do these four things in the next week and a half. I promise!!!
Other thoughts? Not much...I want to be happier and just the other day I was wondering how I possibly couldn't be with so many nice things going on. I have an odd sense of impending doom going on behind the scenes. But why??? I'm exercising a lot (I can tell! I have muscles in places I didn't know had muscles?). I'm eating very well...produce a plenty. I'm dealing with a decent mix of social and homebody for the MOST part. I mean there are days, but I still have time to chill out and watch So You Think You Can Dance! ;) I don't know, maybe I do have too much going on. I feel stretched thin sometimes and yet feel guilty when I don't get everything done. Oh well...I mean there are people out there that do a hella lot more than I do on a daily basis, so I really should complain. But I definitely feel a level of anxiety. Hopefully it's just a hormonal thing...maybe Jupiter is aligned with Mars or something.
#6 - I thought of the TBA project! But it's a secret, so it will remain TBA for awhile. I really hope it turns out because it could be way rad. I'm excited!
#17 - last night I surprised John by cleaning his entire condo while he was off cleaning/painting his sister's garage!
#40 - I'm up to 16/30 days for the Pilates challange! It's all downhill from here? My Finish Date projection is mid July??? But obviously I will continue after that :)
#45 - two new recipes: 1. Salmon topped with Mango Pineapple Chutney (from recipe book #46) and 2. Grilled Steak on a Bed of Greens with Homemade Blue Cheese Dressing and Grilled Garlic Bread! I love summer...
#76 - I've been kickin some greeting card ass lately...not just birthdays either! But I purchased a "scrapbook kit" for $50 or so...I gotta make it worth my while!
#84 - I'm kind of on the spec book organizational train. I had to print off 12 copies of the spec revisions (at about 500 pages a pop...ouch trees), and I started organizing our incolumn ads. I'm not sure where to go from here, but at least it's something.
I can't even begin to describe how busy I've been lately. Not so much at work, but my personal life has exploded!! I guess that's what summer is all about. I want to make a schedule of things I could seriously accomplish in the remaining month.
At least I looked?? And I have a vague idea of what I need now!
• Maybe tomorrow I'll have time to burn some soundtracks...have a "It's Summer...go on a road trip" theme?? If I had been ON IT I would have dumped a few treasures on my own road trip, but the thought didn't occur to me until now. I have nothing too spectacular going on tonight, so I could brainstorm a map of somekind for that hipster Geocache flair
*Scheduled!! For Wednesday, the 20th. Whew!
Ok done...I will do these four things in the next week and a half. I promise!!!
Other thoughts? Not much...I want to be happier and just the other day I was wondering how I possibly couldn't be with so many nice things going on. I have an odd sense of impending doom going on behind the scenes. But why??? I'm exercising a lot (I can tell! I have muscles in places I didn't know had muscles?). I'm eating very well...produce a plenty. I'm dealing with a decent mix of social and homebody for the MOST part. I mean there are days, but I still have time to chill out and watch So You Think You Can Dance! ;) I don't know, maybe I do have too much going on. I feel stretched thin sometimes and yet feel guilty when I don't get everything done. Oh well...I mean there are people out there that do a hella lot more than I do on a daily basis, so I really should complain. But I definitely feel a level of anxiety. Hopefully it's just a hormonal thing...maybe Jupiter is aligned with Mars or something.
Monday, June 4, 2007
sunshine on my shoulders
It isn't shining today, but it's semi-officially summertime (post Memorial Day), and time to get crackin on some 101 list items. To begin: This month's atypical food of choice is papaya. As for the give-up food, I'm really struggling with this one...I was still on vacay for two days of June and, aside from candy, ate every kind of food I possibly could...so do I give up candy for a second month in a row? And if so, does Watermelon Bubblicious count as candy? Cuz I just had some of that. I could do 'no eating after 7:00pm'...unless it's my actual dinner. See last night I ate some wheat thins and had a bowl of cereal around 9:00pm, but that was my dinner...so we'll just go that route. I like it!
Now, things to cross off: not much. But I DID take trip! First off, I know I said a "surprise" trip, but this was along the lines of a surprise as I didn't know I'd be tagging along until John and I broke up and I was no longer going to Arizona. THUS, we'll call it a surprise. Here is a quick list of everything I did because I know you wanna know:
Indiana:
-Lunch and shopping in Broad Ripple area of Indianapolis
Kentucky:
Louisville-
-4th St. Live and dinner Makers Mark Lounge in Louisville, KY
-Louisville Slugger factory tour (free mini bat included!)
-Tour of the Ohio River on the Belle of Louisville steamboat (classic country lunch of fried chicken and all the fixins included!)
-Stop at the Jim Beam distillery
Horse Cave/Cave City-
-Kentucky Down Under (Australian zoo where you get to pet kangaroos, emu, and sheep of various kinds!)
-Tour of Mammoth Cave with dinner at the most excellent Mammoth Cave Hotel restaurant: the Travertine...HIGHLY recommend)
Tennessee:
Nashville-
-Tour of the Belle Meade Plantation
-Very short tour of the Cheekwood Gardens
-Dinner at Sunset Grill with drinks at Dan McGuinness's
-The Parthenon! Or rather a replica of the Parthenon to scale and everything!
-Breakfast at the famous Loveless Cafe
Memphis-
-Lunch at the Commissary: real Tennessee BBQ!
-Drinks at Flying Saucer (where you drink 200 different beers in order to get your name engraved on a plate and put up on the wall)
-Dinner at Blues City Cafe on Beale St. complete with free show: Gary Hardy and the Memphis Two
-Tour of both Stax and Sun Studios
-Shopping on Beale St. with lunch at Rum Boogie Cafe, the best restaurant in Memphis in my opinion. Two words: Gator Gumbo.
-Mud Island: a mini replica of the southern half of the Mississippi River (I believe from about the Ohio River area down to the Gulf of Mexico)
Missouri:
St. Louis-
-Custard at Ted Drewes
-The fact that our hotel room was on the 9th floor and we had a balcony facing the Mississippi, and more importantly the GIANT ARCH
-Dinner at Charlie Gitto's
-Arch tour
-Courthouse tour: Dred Scott trial
-St. Louis Zoo (free!!!)
-Dinner at Chuy Arzola's: the best fajitas and margaritas in the world
-Drinks at Laclede's Landing (Morgan Street Brewery)
Voila! It was a truly amazing road trip...I haven't packed that much into a trip ever...not even on my road trip out east back in 2001! Plus it was nice to spend some quality time with the fam ;) We all cracked each other up like you wouldn't believe. I probably haven't laughed that hard and often in quite some time :D
Alright, so one giant item is now crossed off the list.....with still many more to go.
Things in the works:
-INKYTNMO scrapbook
-Pilates 30 Day Challenge: 19 more sessions to go!
-Organize linen closet
-Jazz in the Park and the East Town Market open this week!
-along with the old 'to-do' items like soundtracks/hipster geocache, box purse sitch, donating blood and finishing up He's Scared...(and starting my Floyd Collins bio). So I've got quite a bit on my plate! Hopefully now that I'm back, I can stop wasting all my time. Ok not wasting, just spend it more efficiently?
Now, things to cross off: not much. But I DID take trip! First off, I know I said a "surprise" trip, but this was along the lines of a surprise as I didn't know I'd be tagging along until John and I broke up and I was no longer going to Arizona. THUS, we'll call it a surprise. Here is a quick list of everything I did because I know you wanna know:
Indiana:
-Lunch and shopping in Broad Ripple area of Indianapolis
Kentucky:
Louisville-
-4th St. Live and dinner Makers Mark Lounge in Louisville, KY
-Louisville Slugger factory tour (free mini bat included!)
-Tour of the Ohio River on the Belle of Louisville steamboat (classic country lunch of fried chicken and all the fixins included!)
-Stop at the Jim Beam distillery
Horse Cave/Cave City-
-Kentucky Down Under (Australian zoo where you get to pet kangaroos, emu, and sheep of various kinds!)
-Tour of Mammoth Cave with dinner at the most excellent Mammoth Cave Hotel restaurant: the Travertine...HIGHLY recommend)
Tennessee:
Nashville-
-Tour of the Belle Meade Plantation
-Very short tour of the Cheekwood Gardens
-Dinner at Sunset Grill with drinks at Dan McGuinness's
-The Parthenon! Or rather a replica of the Parthenon to scale and everything!
-Breakfast at the famous Loveless Cafe
Memphis-
-Lunch at the Commissary: real Tennessee BBQ!
-Drinks at Flying Saucer (where you drink 200 different beers in order to get your name engraved on a plate and put up on the wall)
-Dinner at Blues City Cafe on Beale St. complete with free show: Gary Hardy and the Memphis Two
-Tour of both Stax and Sun Studios
-Shopping on Beale St. with lunch at Rum Boogie Cafe, the best restaurant in Memphis in my opinion. Two words: Gator Gumbo.
-Mud Island: a mini replica of the southern half of the Mississippi River (I believe from about the Ohio River area down to the Gulf of Mexico)
Missouri:
St. Louis-
-Custard at Ted Drewes
-The fact that our hotel room was on the 9th floor and we had a balcony facing the Mississippi, and more importantly the GIANT ARCH
-Dinner at Charlie Gitto's
-Arch tour
-Courthouse tour: Dred Scott trial
-St. Louis Zoo (free!!!)
-Dinner at Chuy Arzola's: the best fajitas and margaritas in the world
-Drinks at Laclede's Landing (Morgan Street Brewery)
Voila! It was a truly amazing road trip...I haven't packed that much into a trip ever...not even on my road trip out east back in 2001! Plus it was nice to spend some quality time with the fam ;) We all cracked each other up like you wouldn't believe. I probably haven't laughed that hard and often in quite some time :D
Alright, so one giant item is now crossed off the list.....with still many more to go.
Things in the works:
-INKYTNMO scrapbook
-Pilates 30 Day Challenge: 19 more sessions to go!
-Organize linen closet
-Jazz in the Park and the East Town Market open this week!
-along with the old 'to-do' items like soundtracks/hipster geocache, box purse sitch, donating blood and finishing up He's Scared...(and starting my Floyd Collins bio). So I've got quite a bit on my plate! Hopefully now that I'm back, I can stop wasting all my time. Ok not wasting, just spend it more efficiently?
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