fiesta!

yo girls. and boys if you are lurking about. how’s the weather? salt lake city is wet. wet wet wet. you know what is bad about rain and being me? wet bottoms of my pants. a misfortune i am doomed to deal with for the rest of my life.. true story. i wonder if it will ever stop raining? i am hoping yes, i need some sun and some pool time and i am supposed to be going to a water park on saturday. 50% chance of rain. i think i’ll just plan on a rainstorm. i didn’t want to venture outside at all this week or anything…

sooo.. yesterday i did a little bit of working out right after work!  easiest way to get myself to the gym–straight from work.

upper body workout!

overhead tricep cable extensions: 3 sets of 15 reps @ 35#

jumping jacks: 3 sets of 30 seconds, did these between the above exercise

cable bicep curl: 3 sets of 15 reps @ 65#

oblique crunches: 2 sets of 34 & 1 set of 32= 100 reps, did these between the above exercise

upright barbell row: 3 sets of 15 @ 30#

standing side crunches: 3 sets of 20 (10 each side) with 25# plate, did these between the above exercise

dumbbell chest press: 3 sets of 15 @ 30#

bench tuck crunches: 2 sets of 15, 1 set of 20 = 50 reps, did these between the above exercise

single arm dumbbell rows: 3 sets of 15 each arm w/ 15# db

ball crunches: 2 sets of 25, 1 set of 80, did these between the above exercise

whew! good workout. and i already have DOMS in my chest today!  for those of you who don’t know what DOMS is.. it stands for Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness.  it typically shows up 24 to 48 hours after a workout. could come sooner and could last for a long, long time. like my hamstrings still are killing me from monday! but it hurts so good :)

after my workout i ended up here..

oh, what’s that you say? you can’t tell what the sign says because of the intense amount of raiiiin? i went to costco. oh and yeah that is a dog collar hanging in my rear view mirror.  it actually was the collar that my lab, mable, was wearing when she was hit by a car and died :( i like to keep it hanging there though, makes me happy.

i grabbed a bunch of stuff for the luncheon we had today. more on that in a second. i also ran to target but they were remodeling the whole grocery section! everything was all sorts of disheveled and so i bought two dresses and a piggy bank instead. oops!

and i had a fuji

that meant i had to go to another store to get some groceries.. which i did.. and then finally made it home. i only had about 50 minutes to whip up all my food for the luncheon because i had a movie to catch. luckily i had my trusty new knives marshall got me for my birthday!

and i had 3 roomies helping me chop/cook/etc. which really worked out well for me time-wise.  although i didn’t manage to get my shred in, aww shucks.

i bolted up to marshall’s just in time to catch the hangover.  yeah, it is as funny as you have heard. go see it. i dare you. double time.

you may have noticed a lack of food photos thus far on my post, eh?  well that is because i didn’t really have anything proper for dinner. i had a few bites of fruit and the pasta salad i made, and then i ate maybe nine gallons of popcorn at the movie and proceeded to guzzle half a gallon of water to flush out the salty nonsense i had just ingested.  i then went to marshall’s and preyed on his bowl of wheaties like a vulture. so what?

THURSDAY!

woke up today knowing i couldn’t have a humungo bfast because the luncheon was scheduled for 11 AM and i ate breakfast at 8:00.  but i really wanted a parfait, which is not giant but is still filling, meh, i had one anyway!

blueberry almond parfait ala k!

this was bangin’. be jealous of my taste buds because it was heaven in my mouth.

• oikos 0%
• bluebran vita
• crunchy almond butter

i really wanted some hot blueberries to put on top, but due to my blueberry avalanche the other night this was impossible. darn.

okay so i only have 12 more minutes to type this, and a whole fiesta to recap,, so i shall do so via photo fest! yayer..

as i said before we have these mexican dudes that makes the authentic-est carne asadaness evvver. so, this is what they made:

carne asada

grillin’

beans

rice

cabbage slaw

spiciest salsa on the planet

and this is what janetha b made:

guacamole (avocado, lime, cilantro, tapatio, tomatoes, red peppers, green chiles)

multigrain food should taste good chips

pasta salad (farfale, grapes, apples, celery, chicken, crushed pineapple, poppyseed dressing)

fruit + dip (most fattening dip ever: cream cheese, fresh whipped cream, sweetened condensed milk & vanilla extract)


haha, like my sign?

my mom came for lunch again! she was camera shy, or actually i just failed to photograph her. but here is my plate:

closer..

yeah i have a bit of a carnivorous side when it includes the most deliciously marinated carne asada!!

a few hours later i was feeling weird. i didn’t know why. i felt gross. then i figured it out. lack of vegetables.  yep.. that was it. so i fixed up a glorious vegetable plate + hummus..

i can’t decide if i like eating my hummus with broccoli or cauliflower better. it’s a toss up.

alright WELL the reason i am in such a hurry is my RAD friends paid for my enrollment in a thai cooking class tonight at sur la table!! YAAAAY!  i am so excited, i have never taken a cooking class! i think it will be a super dope time. you can bet i will share the recipes sometime or another!

ok well i have not even had a minute to spare today because of the fiesta + work so i have not caught up on all your fab blogs, but you better believe i will tonight after my class!

hope you are all ready for the weekend because it is almost heeeere. yes.

oh! how about some questions?

1. what is hanging from your rear view mirror and why? mine is mable’s collar, as i showed earlier.

2. what is your favorite vehicle for hummus? while i can’t decide on what veggie my fave is, it is for sure veggies in general. i don’t love eating hummus with chips as much as i do with fresh crispy veggies.