Hello & Happy Sunday!

Here I am hanging out at my parent's house for the day. This day is some housework, cooking (both of which I don't seem to mind, even though I don't feel as good about it at my house - weird), and a few little things that I forget to do during the week. Usually, I can easily convince my mom to change the channel from CNN, her favorite, to The Food Network - which I love.

Anyway, two notes about my days here, which are kind of connected. First, we LOVE the Food Network and every once in a while we watch a show with a new recipe and get to make it... and usually that comes out easy. Strangely enough, with my love for watching people on TV cook, and even cooking when I am at my parent's house, I cannot seem to get myself to get excited about cooking at my house. Now, do I have a nice kitchen? eh, No. Do my parent's? ABSOLUTELY. So that could it be, but I still need to finds a way to translate my love for cooking to my personal/solo life. Also, on a side note, it is obviously easier to cook for 3 then just for 1. So that's another issue all together.

Second, I am slightly obsessed with reading blogs. Sometimes they are people that I know, or have known in the past... sometimes I find myself reading about someone that I do not know. The reason that these a tied together is that I have landed on a blog about preparing lunch (not really cooking, but it mixes bringing my own food to work with trying to be more environmentally friendly - which is another goal of mine).

So the other blog is called Bento Lunch , and is written by a mom who sends her children to work with Bento Box Lunches. This seems like an easy way to make lunch - and make it healthy, rewarding and we rounded. So I might give it a try for my work lunches. Then I need to start planning out meals that can translate into lunches the next day... maybe not always as leftovers, but maybe the ingredients could work for lunch also... who knows.

So, it seems easy enough, I just need to get in the mode of planning my meals again - something that I did before but it only lasted a couple of weeks, as schedules got crazy - I know, story of my life.

I am going to try to blog about how this goes - trying to be budget friendly, health friendly, enviro-friendly, and to not stress myself out too much... though I will admit I am a little stressed out just thinking about it.

Alright, away we go... Have a great week...

C

Happy Wednesday! I hope this week is going well for everyone... For me? This is week 1 of August, so I am busy closing out July a work... which just means high stress and anxiety. But I have an uneventful weekend ahead of me - which makes me happy. It's gonna be a whole lotta sleeping, visiting my parents, cleaning, hopefully some scrapbooking :), farmer's marketing, YOGA!!!, and gardening... :) See, uneventful. :)

Last weekend, well, last Wednesday, Sarah and I drove down to Orange County to go to Disneyland and my Creative Memories Scrapbooking Showcase. Our day at Disneyland was AMAZING, obviously, though I got the WORST pass picture EVER!!! (Yes, this sentence does require that many exclamation points) :) Imagine a picture of me smiling. Now make all of the creases in my face upon smiling, a nice blank color... now imagine I just finished eating an entire bag of Oreo cookies... and smiling... Yup, you get the picture. The funny thing was that she took the first one, didn't like it, and then ended up with this one... I mean seriously, how bad could the first one have been?

Ok, I am breathing and moving on. :)

Disneyland is my happy place, though spending 14 hours there (non-stop) after a 6 hour drive, separated only by about 4 hours of sleep... let's just say that it was not my happy place for the WHOLE day! :) But I did have fun.

I will post pictures, but not now because I am on my Dad's computer and my pictures are on mine, at my house. Soon, I promise.

The weekend before that Jeremy and I spent the weekend in Santa Cruz, CA. It was the weekend after our 4 year anniversary and so it was nice to spend a little time together. We had a wonderful Saturday shopping in downtown Santa Cruz and even had Woodstocks for lunch, which I have not had since my days in Chico... :)

Then on Sunday I got to run my first Wharf to Wharf 6 miler from Santa Cruz to Capitola and I got to run the entire thing with Heather!!! It was a GREAT and so great to be able to keep up with Heather for the whole 6 miles. It's so rare that we get to have a challenging (and fun) run with a good friend and see all of the sights and listen to all of the music that the course had to offer. Also, it was a great chance to get my next (shorter) run in after completing the Seattle Marathon at the end of June.

I have a few pictures of the trip to Santa Cruz, which I will be happy to post shortly. :)

Alrighty, I have got some dinner dishes that aren't going to do themselves... :) Have a great night.

C