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Birds and Beers

Monday: Body pump and spin

Tuesday: Ran 4.5 miles and lifted chest and back

Wednesday: Body pump (new routine!!) and Body by Boyd (That is what I call our cross fit class because my body be BANGIN'. Just kidding. More like pounding, sore, 30 years older.

So Work-a-holics is like my favorite show. Just a little FF for ya!

Umm, so tonight's Body by Boyd was TOUGH!
 I am pretty sure I threw up in my mouth on the 10 wall walk ups.

So not too much new stuff going on. Just been day dreaming about ice cream a lot.
Weird.

I  am thinking about getting a twitter so I can tweet my random daily thoughts that never make it to the blog but I am so completely narcissistic that I think they are worth sharing because you will enjoy them.
You will enjoy them.

Other than that, there is only one major problem I encountered this week; I just now realized that St Patty's day is on a Sunday!! And the Thursday after that I am leaving for Austin. Do I take that Monday and Thursday and Friday off work or do I suck it up and drag my hung over, sorry keester into work?
There is no middle of the road here people. Its go hard or go home. Will.i.am. Respect.

PEACE

Rumble Ramblings

Thursday: Ran 4.5 miles, spin class (kinda) and biceps

Friday: Body pump and two bottles of wine (HA!)

Friday after work consisted of Happy Hour, dinner and Steve the bartender trying to kill me a "glass" of wine. When I say glass, I mean he uncorked the wine barrel and put a straw in it.

Little dinner and live music action

Guinness at Happy Hour. Always a favie. Actually, I was watching The Layover on demand and Tony was in Dublin so I was craving some Irish DRANK. 

Saturday morning was TOUGH. I was mentally exhausted, slightly hung over and just completely unmotivated. Plus there was a blizzard outside. Taking that as a personal challenge I headed to the YMCA and jumped on the treadmill for two hours. Boom. Challenge accepted.

Saturday night, red head and I partied like rock stars. Seriously.

Draft list at the Comedy Club

Santa's brew and Hibiscus blend

My outfit for the evening.

                                                         

We started with drinks and apps at a Comedy Club in downtown Cleveland. I had tickets to see Paul Reiser do stand up and red head had points for a free hotel night at the downtown holiday inn. The Holiday Inn is actually really cool; its actually an old bank they turned in to a hotel (obvy!). And it is right next to the Warehouse district. Cha ching!

Paul Reiser was ha-ha-ha-lariousss. Red head had absolutely no idea who he was. He has never heard of or seen Mad About you!!

Me: You know? Mad About You! Couple? Living in an apt? With a golden retriever? (Ok he should know what I am talking about now, right?!)

Paul Reiser! (Because repeating the name he does not recognize will make him definitely remember) 

Helen Hunt!

Red Head: I thought she was a lesbian.

Me: WHAT?!

Red Head: Yea, she's a lesbian.

Convo Over. 

After the show, we grabbed beers at our favorite bar, CITY TAP. 50 BEERS ON TAP. 50 CRAFT BEERS ON TAP.

I got the Great Lakes Conway Irish Ale and Red Head got something named Weizenboch (sp??)

Then off to the Harry Buffalo for dinner and more drinks! (Where we watched the Cavs BEAT OKC)

((Text MSG Convo with an OKC Fan (eww!)

Me: Go Cavssssss. Boom.

Unfortunate Fan: Good luck to the Cavs in the plays offs...o wait....

Me: Yea well....yea well...OKC sucks? And Kevin Durant gives smelly sweaty shoes to children

UF: Cleveland smells like sweaty shoes. Boom.))

Then to Wonder Bar for more drinks!

Then to The Corner Alley for more drinks and where I met this:

BAM! Most amazing Bloody Mary I have ever had. In MA LIFE.

Hanger 1 Chipotle Vodka and Major Peters Bloody Mary Mix.

Lots of life changing events Saturday night because after The Corner Alley, we went to Chocolate bar for more drinks and THIS!

Flour less Chocolate cake. I could not even snap the picture before Red Head took a fork full! We both agreed it was LITERALLY the best piece of chocolate cake we have ever tried.

Then like true rock stars, we bought a bottle of champagne for the hotel room and watched Hall Pass and ate stale, Holiday Inn Lobby popcorn till 3 am.

Early morning Cleveland

Cleveland is quite the ghost town in the morning which is crazy considering the amount of people out last night. Unfortunately, no one sticks around.

I got a quick 4.5 miles on the treadmill (Lactic acid push) and then were off to the best part of our Cleveland trips; TRADER JOE'S and WHOLE FOODS!!

         

The OVER haul: Foccacia bread, chicken sausages, chili mango slices, rice wrappers, soy ice cream, bundles o beer and wine, lots of mustard's and salsas :)

Now, it is time to relax and watch some PUPPY BOWL!

Good day! Go cavs!

So you think you can blog?

Monday: Body pump and spin

Tuesday: Run 7.5 miles and Power Pump

Wednesday: Body Pump and "Cross fit"



No weakness Wednesday! Ugh! Get some! Do work!

Ok, now that everyone is pumped, let's talk about how hard blogging is!

I really have to sit down and concentrate on typing these things out. I constantly have things running through my head all day but at the end of the day, my head is blank!

There are so many things I want to share, discuss, word vom all over the place...hmmm...

So lets recap the week so far.

Red head is away for work this week so Monday night was GREAT. I came home from the gym, made myself some dinner, poured a giganto (my spell check is so confused) glass of wine and watched Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. SUCH a good movie; Emily Blunt is one of my all time favo fave actresses. I also whipped up this little beauty:
BAM! Lately, I have been obsessed with putting veggies under the broiler. Monday night I roasted some green cabbage with lemon pepper under the broiler. For some reason, the broiler brings out these oils from the cabbage. It also "crisps" with the lemon pepper. No more than 5 minutes though or I feel like it will get a little wilty (spell check suggested Willyt. This is a chicken place in Mississippi).

Tuesday, was a complete BUST. Work stuff.

Tonight, is all Patty and the Real House wives of Bev Hills. ::sigh::

Who is ready for the Super Bowl? and when I say Super Bowl, I mean PUPPY BOWL!!!

I don't have a title!!

A little FF for ya... I am obsessed with Millionaire Matchmaker

I wanna meet Patti.

Bad. 

And then I want her to criticize me. 

Constructively.

Ok. So Saturday was an off day because "someone" had a little too much fun on date night which meant not getting out of bed til 12:30

Friday night started off with some dinner, Phantoms Hockey game, some live music at a bar and THIS

The beginning (or the end) of my demise... Crown Royal Maple will rock your socks.

Your head the next morning.

Saturday consisted of a little house hunting. Red head and I totally did not plan on this but last week a house down the block from our apt building had an open house. Out of curiosity to see what our neighbors house looked like on the inside, we wandered on over. The lady that showed us the house emailed us afterwards with a list of houses that were really cute, in our price range and pretty much exactly what we were looking for. We looked at a few houses during the summer but nothing really struck our fancy. Until Meow. 

So we ran a bunch of errands, looked at houses and finished the night with movies.

So domesticated.

Ugh.

This morning consisted of 5 miles on the treadmill and a two hour spin class. 

And now I am going on a Millionaire Matchmaker Marathon.

That counts as cardio right??

Red Head will be gone all week on business.

I foresee a lot of BRAVO in my future :)

Enjoy your Sunday Funday!

A Little Weekly Re-Cap

Work this week has been crazaayy. I am still doing my job and payrolls job so needless to say its been long work hours with lots of take home work.

Just to get you caught up:

Saturday: 8 miles

Sunday: Lift and spin class

Monday: Body pump, spin and abs

Tuesday: 4 miles, shoulder circuit and spin

Wednesday: Body pump and cross fit

Thursday: 4.5 miles, tricep circuit and spin

Kind of been following my training schedule but not really...

It has been so cold here, I cannot bring myself to run outside for long period nor run on the treadmill. I LOATHE the treadmill. I think I have said this before...

On a somewhat similar note but kinda not really... I found my new fave running song
"Magdalena"  by Sergio Mendes
It makes me feel like a cheetah running through the Sahara dessert.
Despite this being a Latin song...

I am pretty super excited for tomorrow:
1. It's FRIDAY
2. Date night with the red head- dinner and a hockey game! Whoo!

You ever see something and your immediate response is "REALLY?" but not like yelling "really" but more like a sarcastic, unbelievable, drawn out "reallllyyy?"

Few of those this week:
1. Stallone's new movie (really?)
2. Duke's horrific game to Miami (realllyyy?)
3. Serena Williams and Sharapova out of the Australian Open (Ok, Really??)
4. Frank Gore fined $10,000 for his socks being down (really??)
5. It is estimated that 1.23 billion chicken wings will be consumed on Super Bowl Sunday (ew)

Boom goes the dynamite!

Sitting on a Saturday

It is officially 9:15 am and I have yet to make any kind of movement...whaaaat?

Normally, I am up and out the door no later than 8 am but I decided to be lazy this morning. Plus, it is 38 degrees outside. I really would like to get a run outside so I am waiting til it warms up to today's high of 40 degrees. Yaaayy...

Wednesday's cross fit work out was craze-ay. 

After each 20, you had to sprint 200 meters. I have never, ever done a wall walk up and I was exited that I completed twice!

I was completely done-zo afterwards but it was awesome to complete.

And then red head treated me to a beer and dinner :)

Thursday, 4 miles on the elliptical, dirty-30's tricep lift, Pinterest abs and spin.

Friday- Body pump in the morning and then quickly jetted off to Cleveland for a training.

I LOVE Cleveland. It is a small/big city meaning there is this giant city with very little people in it!

HA!

That would be the economy for ya BUT Cleveland is really working on building things back up. The best thing about Cleveland is the FOOD. So, so so, so many good places to eat. 

My favorite place in Cleveland is the warehouse district. One of those places is called Saigon

Spring Roll appetizer. Yes, I ordered an appetizer for one. The lady brought me a box with my meal thinking I would need to take some home with me. Um no lady! I make Happy Plates!

Shrimp Vermicelli with spicy peanut sauce! Nummerzz!!

The best part about going to Cleveland is the drive home. Why you ask?? Because I drive right by a Trader Joe's and Whole Foods!!

I pulled in quite a haul last night. 

Alcohol Haul:

Lagunitas Sucks, Shiner 966, Bison Gingerbread Beer, Blue Moon Valencia Grove,

Charles Shaw Blanc, Harthill Farms Cab, Green Fin White Table Wine (I actually bought this as a gift for someone! Ssshh! Don't tell!!)

Trader Joe's Vintage Ale (Got this for the red head. All other above beers are MINE) I am like Joey from Friends; I don't share food OR beer. 

Snack Haul:

Pop cakes, Dark Chocolate covered espresso beans, Kale Chips (They were 99 cents!)

Sauce Haul:

Mango Chutney, Tabasco Spicy Chili starter, Chalula Hot Sauce, Whole Foods Triple Roasted Tomato Salsa, Trader Joe's Peach Salsa, Trader Joe's Roasted Corn Salsa

More Sauces!

Best Salad Dressing everywhere and something new I have never tried before but I do love Indian Food!

Mustard Haul:

These have already been attacked. As I walked in the door. I did not have anything to even put them on! All fingers!

Random Haul:

Ruby Red Popcorn Kernels from Whole Foods

Wanted to try; still feeling inspired from my lunch?

Bread Haul:

Sprouted Rye bread and spinach tortillas

I also grabbed up some organic pears, sweet potatoes and cauliflower.

RANDOM.

More fun stuff; when I got home red head had done a little shopping and grabbed me up two little surprises:

Notice it has already been opened and drank. While typing this post. SO GOOD.

Very very very delicious! Notice I had already opened and drank half by the time I got around to taking this pic. WHOOPS!

It is officially 10 am and 38 degrees outside. Guess its time to put in that run!

Hmmm...

Ran my 4 miles today...on the elliptical. My legs were feeling heavy after last nights spin.
Did some Pinterest abs. and shared it with a girl at the gym! She was impressed by my side planks...
Red head created our lifting routine today. I was a little skeptical today when he said he came up with our workout for the day but it turned out to be really good! We  super set four sets of three lifts with 10 reps of each. It went a little something like this:

First set (do this four times without a break between sets)
Bench press @ 10 reps
Upright row @ 10 reps
Leg extension @ 10 reps

Second set (again, do four times without a break between sets)
Push reps @ 10 reps
Lat pull down @ 10 reps
Leg press @ 10 reps

Third set (same as before)
Cable cross @ 10 reps
Warrior lawn mowers (lawn mowers while in the plank position) @ 10 reps
Calf raises @ 10 reps

And you are done! Only took us thirty minutes but we were breathing hard when we were done so I said it was "OK" that we went home early.

I officially booked my plane tickets for ZOOMA today. I will be in Austin March 21st thru the 25th. I am getting really excited for this race because I really really really want to set a new PR. PLUS I love Texas! and Austin! And, hopefully, fingers crossed, I get to see my lovely lady friends. It also got me really excited about booking my races for the rest of the year. I know I want to run Cleveland (my "go to" race) and I want to run something in/near Baltimore.

OK. Time for more fun facts:

1. My all time favorite show it No Reservations
2. Second all time favorite show is Man vs Food. I think if I ever met Adam Richmond, I would give him a really long hug. I don't know why. He just looks really huggable.
3. My all time favorite gum is Extra Mint Chocolate Chip gum. I chew this is mass quantities

My purse is literally littered with gum wrappers of this gum. 

OK this post needs more pics of me!

And more!

Yes, I am in the bathroom. At the tanning salon. And proud of my outfit. That I created all by myself. And Pinterest. I am extremely self absorbed. 

Thanks for stopping by!

Toughing it out

Monday was hard! Like really hard!

Body pump; struggled
300 abs part 2; sloppy
Spin; Meh

Today was more mentally exhausting than physically. Everything just felt harder. I was not mentally into my workouts and work felt like...well... work. I just felt on edge and irritated most of the day.

I don't even feel passionate about this post! YELP!

O wait a minute.I know what is going on here. If you have not guessed it from all the signs; tired, irritable and massive, massive chocolate cravings.

Aunt flow! Monthly gift! Skinning of the ovaries! (Wait, what did she just say??)

So I want to start reviewing some of my favorite beer with you guys but I feel like I need to create a consistent and "professional-esq" rating scale.

So before I create that, I will leave you latest drink fave-o-faves:

One of my favorite holidays beers but there are many more that top this one. I just happen to really like Shiner Bock. I had it for the first time 2 years back in Austin, TX. The bar was actually giving them away for free! Apparently in Texas they regard Shiner Bock like PA regards  Busch Light. I like the Shineer Cheer because it is actually a bavarian wheat. Most holiday beers tend to be heavy stouts or porters (my fave) or a spiced lager (Yummm). It is also a holiday beer that I can drink more than one of unlike Brekenridge's Christmas Ale (Another one of my favorite holiday beers and breweries. I have literally never tried anything bad by Brekendridge. Literally)
Not a holiday beer nor a craft beer. BUT I enjoy drinking, In mass quantities.

My absolutely new favorite drink; Crown Royal Maple and soda water. I could pound this all day. And then I would be dead.

I also recently tried a new pairing with whiskey; peach schnapps. I know right?! Who would-a thunk it? The bartender at Georgia City Light's, that is who. Genius.

In my last post, I mentioned the Beer Bourbon and Bar b Que Festival in June. We went there last year with these amazing people:


And saw this amazing sight:


Needless to say, our plans are to return again this year.

Fat head and Stone collabo

New from Fat Head’s Brewery: Oompa Loompa Chocolate Cream Stout http://www.craftbeer.com/news/beer-release/new-from-fat-heads-brewery-oompa-loompa-chocolate-cream-stout

Sunday funday.

Boot camp. Spin. 3 miles. Laundry. Almost went tanning!
Darn. So close!

Cooked up some delicious dinner with the red head. Pork tenderloin on the grill; grilled asparagus; side salad; faux mashed potatoes.

I always see pinterest pins of the caulflower mashed potatoes so I wanted to try them out. I didnt have a whole head of fresh cauliflower so I used frozen.
The verdict: not bad.
Red head even ate them and said they were "not too bad"
The taste was pretty good. I used a lot of garlic and oregano and blended in milk and greek yogurt to "fluff" them up. I think the consistency is what makes them good but not great. Its more like fluffy, mushy rice..
Yum?

Anyone try a pinterest recipe for the first time recently? What was your outcome? ?