Zucchini

June 7, 2012


This whole "moderation" thing doesn't work for me unless I'm forcing myself to keep a food diary. The Weight Watcher system has an online tool for tracking food as well as activity. We've now actually found some recipes we like. This one doesn't look too appetizing, but it was decent. Zucchini with balsamic vinegar and maybe some other stuff. I don't remember.

Another Tattoo, Baby...

June 6, 2012


We were at the mall today looking for particular shoes for Mike. His physical therapist wanted him to get exactly the brand and model that would help his arches. The store Fit 2 Run had them and a very helpful guy got Mike all set up with the right shoes. I noticed his tattoo when he led us over to the register to make the purchase:

He is checking off various kinds of races as he runs them. I can't remember if he called the 70-mile race the Iron Man, or if it was the 140-mile one. Whatever "Ultra" is, he said he had actually just recently completed that but hadn't gotten the tattoo "X" in the box yet.

I'm going to cheat and put in a 2nd picture because I really liked the colorful wall of shoes in the store:

Oh yeah, the title for today refers to Weird Al Yankovic's "Another Tattoo (Parody of "Nuthin On You" by B.o.B. feat. Bruno Mars)".

Tilting at Windmills

June 5, 2012


The health club has this fairly new workout system called X Force. I don't know the specifics of it, but it's supposed to work you more by making you move slowly to release the weight after you've lifted it...or something. Anyway, they have these large posters up promoting the system. I realized the other day both posters I've seen have the people in this weird tilted position. Apparently X Force gives you incredible abs at the cost of constantly having the look at the world from an angle ;)

Hawks

June 4, 2012


The hawks around our house have another batch of young ones it seems. They have been really noisy lately, but I love having hawks so I accept it. I was out getting the mail and saw one of the adults swooping around the court. The other adult was in the nest calling, along with baby hawks piping in their own 2 cents. It was one of the few times I've actually seen any of them in the nest--it's pretty big and usually they are obscured from view down here on the ground. I took a picture even though I didn't hold out much hope the bird would be visible. You can kind of make out the lighter colored breast peeking out from the shadows about 1/3 of the way down the photo.

This is zoomed in, and I've complained about the zoom on the iphone before--the quality is pretty bad

Ansel Adams I'm Not

June 3, 2012


Seth and I were leaving Piesano's Sunday night and saw this gorgeous huge moon rising over the trees. At times like this I wish I did have a better camera, but then again I've never been able to take a really good clear picture of the moon. I'd have to have a really really good camera.

Weight Watchers

June 2, 2012


Mike and I are trying to get going on Weight Watchers. So far it kinda sucks. I picked out a few recipes yesterday and today we tried a couple of them. Both had issues. I think it had to do with the fact Mike tried to cook the meat on our little mini-grill. It just didn't cook evenly enough for me. The huge slabs of shark steaks really didn't cook well, but the parts that were done were good. Hopefully the next experiment will have better results.

Hurricane Season

June 1, 2012


Today is the official start to hurricane season. However, no hurricane to celebrate it. I'm ok with that; I'd much rather have a few tropical depressions--they do less damage and still bring the rain.

Today Mike and I went for a walk after dinner. We both need to get out and walk more often, and he needed to break in a new pair of shoes. It's more of a challenge for me when Mike walks with me than when I'm solo because we talk and that takes more breath :)

Spiffy new clean shoes :)