Springtime Walks

Today was a beautiful day here in South Texas.

buttercups (pic by Kim Linh Phan)

The thing is, spring doesn’t last  It was a little warm today, but the breeze was lovely.  I come from a mild climate, so I totally dig the mild weather.  Spring is definitely one of those times…why hadn’t I realized that before??

So, I apologize again for the lack of posting the past couple of weeks.  It’s winding down in the semester and I had to take time to get things done.  Technically, I should be working on my story (creative writing) rather than writing this, but sometimes you’ve gotta do one thing to help yourself move on with something else, if that makes any sense.

Let me begin with a quick recap of some the highlights of eats for the past several days (not everything, or I’d be here all day):

Starbucks Perfect Oatmeal

I got this last week after my chiropractor appointment and before a class.  It was really delicious.  I would have preferred if the guy hadn’t mixed it for me, but I know he did it to make it easier on me.  I just didn’t care for the dried fruit as much.  I needed a quick breakfast to go along with my Earl Grey Tea Latte.

the chaos that is my desk

That is my desk while I was working on some homework.  I think it was for my senior capstone class, judging from the book of poems there.  This is how my desk looked a lot last week (and the week before).  I saved myself some embarrassment and refrained from any more pictures of the disheveled mess of my apartment.  During the week I barely have enough time to get the necessary things done and out of the house, let alone keeping it spotless and so tidy that it looks like no human ever stepped foot in the place.  What do they call that look?  Lived in?  Yeah, I’ll go with that.

pure heaven from my freezer and pantry

Now, that is just as the caption says.  To be technical, it is Haagen Dazs Five vanilla ice cream with some Marantha Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter drizzled on top.  Pure heaven.  I limited myself to a couple spread out over the week.

Beef (flank steak), feta, and spinach

Delicious.  James did good by buying these lovely things.  It made for a tasty Friday dinner.

Lunch on Friday was:

Sausages!

Amazing that he kept a running theme for the day!  He had gone to the store to make a ceviche (didn’t have the fish he wanted) and was supposed to bring back my Pirate’s Booty (aka, my crack)…..he forgot the booty.  These two goodies made up for it, though.

Barely

Lunch is Served

We stopped at Sun Harvest for my Pirate’s Booty and some other things and he got some Potato and Cheese Perogis and some asparagus that we roasted in a pan with olive oil.

I could only eat three perogi, but devoured ALL the asparagus and wished for more.  They were delicious.  I discovered that I like my asparagus tender (and the thinner, the better).

Now, I had my fair share of smoothies, random sandwiches and whatnot, but since my camera had temporarily died, I didn’t photograph a lot of them.

I did, however take one of a smoothie I made that was served in my new glass from Leave No Trace:

Green Monster

That’s a little picture of Bigfoot  Isn’t he cute?

As far as workouts go, last week and the week before had one or two days of workouts.  That is including last Tuesday when I did a short (very short) leg exercise workout in between homework assignments and reading.  It literally was only 4 moves:

• plie squats – 2 sets of 12
• hip abduction – 2 sets of 12
• squat – ONE, because my legs were DYING.
• some sort of kicks (not sure of the name) – a few at the end

Yesterday I decided in the evening to go for a walk.  I decided it would be a two miler.  Now, that may not seem like much, but I have never walked two miles on a walk before.  I didn’t have a pedometer other times, but I know it wasn’t that far.  I walked with my boyfriend, my best friend and her boyfriend.  I was dragging.  I thought I was going to die during the last leg of the walk.  My foot began to hurt about halfway through (the bones on the top of the foot – not sure what that is that is causing pain, maybe a stress fracture of some kind, though it goes away) and I was limping sometimes.

But, I finished it.  I stretched.  I showered, and then we went to dinner  I felt glorious.

Now, I need to get back to work on my writing, but I will leave you with a picture of the enormous tree that hovers over the sidewalk on the way to my front door.  I love watching it change from barren to full and ready for trimming.  Spring is here

the walkway leading to my apt - and a HUGE tree