Serious Moonlight

Good morning!

Even before I enjoy some breakfast, I wanted to post my supper! B-May, who has been working at the Portsmouth Film Festival yesterday and all day today and tomorrow, got home around 645, 7. Like I said before, I was waiting for her to feed me, and I was glad I waited. She took some cheese tortellini from Buitoni and layered it in pie dish with spinach, sauce, and more cheese. It was an interesting presentation of this typical pasta! She thought the sauce needed to be boiled first but I thought it came out fine.

Then we went and saw one of the premiere movies of the Festival: Serious Moonlight. It starred Meg Ryan, Tim Hutton and Kristen Bell with a strange appearance of Justin Long as well. We really enjoyed this movie and hope that it circulates wider as it is worthy of much bigger audiences! Perhaps the highlight however, was catching a few glimpses with Brett Cullen - better known to me, at least, as Goodwin from LOST. He's starring in one of the films here and is apparently hopping about and catching some others. We didn't get his photo or anything. Oh well!

Breakfast awaits: later!

Successful Taming of the Craving!

Good evening!

I just got back from my bike ride from work and on the way felt two things: a headache and after seeing a bag from Wendy's, a strong craving for fast food. Then, I got to thinking: I am dehydrated! I don't think I drank enough water at work and the Wendy's wanna-treat was actually craving the salt! Well, now I'm sitting comfy watching a little Cash Cab and sipping some cranberry pomegranate juice while dipping some Food Should Taste Good: Olive chips in a garlic hummus. An excellent alternative!

A little catching up: For dinner last night, I enjoyed a small bowl of B-May's macaroni and cheese (how much of this stuff did we make anyways???) and a handful of the aforementioned chips I picked up at the grocery store during my break. Oh, and two Reese's, dark chocolate. I don't know if they make me healthier but I wanna believe that they do.

So in over-preparation for my cold bike ride today, I loaded up on probably unnecessary energy: eggs - without yolks -, whole wheat toast with peanut butter slathered on top, and a bowl of oatmeal. With milk. What was I thinking? I wasn't about to take off for a killer run or something and I got hungry at work like I would anyways. What gives?!

For lunch, I nuked a canned veggie soup from Hannaford that loaded me up with more sodium than I'll need for the rest of the day. Not that I need sodium. Isn't that bad for you? After my warming soup, which it wonderfully was, I snacked on a cheesecake slice with cream cheese and pumpkin that B-May made for her work and this tiny box of Multi-Grain Cheerios from CNN we picked up in Chicago at a health fair.

As I watch the idiots of Cash Cab I'm waiting for B-May to get home and feed me. Wish I was kidding!

Later!

Winter is Coming!

Oy vey!

It's getting cold outside! I feel a little head-cold coming on and a cough that brings up the nasty reminders of phlegm and...winter. Granted, I am totally psyched for skiing, snowshoeing and winter backpacking. I can't wait to welcome the warmth of hot cocoa after a day of sledding and the coming holidays of Thanksgiving and Christmas. Fall is definitely my favorite season so I'm trying to enjoy it while I can. Accordingly, I will be biking to work today, tomorrow and every other day I can until the snow falls. Perhaps when that happens, I'll run to work on Micro-Spikes or something.

So when B-May and I were preparing for our trip to Chicago we finished off all perishables, which given our lunch and dinner tendencies, that was nearly everything. I had dry cereal and the one remaining slice of whole wheat bread with crunchy peanut butter with a glass of milk for breakfast.

This morning I was productive in cleaning the apartment, dodging jury duty owing to my move to New Hampshire and paid some bills. To reward myself for these efforts, I took a walk into town and stopped in at the Works on Congress St. for a Thai Chicken wrap. As I recall, there were sprouts, onions, red peppers, chicken of course, and a spicy thai peanut sauce. They called it "hot" but it was not "hot." Slightly disappointing but I enjoyed it much-ly.

Knowing work will prevent me from eating for another four hours, I snacked on three of the peanut butter blossoms which are actually not peanut butter but a chocolate base with pumpkin Hershey kisses in the center. A B-May original, I might add.

Off to layer and prepare for work! A cold bike ride awaits!

Chicago Recap!

Good evening!

B-May and I just got back from a three-day vacation in Chicago, visiting my brother. We did not stop. It's almost too much to bullet-point the entirety of our trip - we got a complete experience. The "integrity" of the food went from bad to good, but B-May mostly kept me on the straight and narrow. Highlights included the requiste Chicago Deep Dish Pizza with vegetarian toppings (pictured below), a black bean burger with guacamole and sweet potato fries from local organic grocery Fox and Obel, pub fare of pulled pork and fresh beer from Goose Island Brewery and two light breakfasts of coffee and bagels from two prime bakery/shops less than five minutes from my brother's apartment.


We flew in on Saturday night, just in time to wake up early for the Chicago Marathon. We met up with my uncle, a multi-marathon veteran, for color commentary and true runner insight. While we didn't run, we did walk just about everywhere.

On Monday, we headed down south of the city for a look at Hyde Park, the neighborhood with the University of Chicago and Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House. I'll do my best to satisfy the historic preservationist in B-May by adding that the Robie house provides a clear demonstration of Wright's signature prairie style.

Behold the standard tourist photo of Millenium Park's Bean with city skyline. Despite the type of gawkers it attracts, it's still pretty cool.

Perhaps the most unique visit of our whirlwind tour was an hour-long trip north to the suburb of Wilmette, home of North Ameria's only Baha'i House of Worship. It's a place of devotion for the members of the Baha'i Faith, a fledgling independent religion exported from Iran in the mid-1800s, whose beliefs are an inclusive amalgation of nearly all major faiths throughout the world. I'll post a good sized bite about it sometime. Really, a beautiful building.

Oh! We also bought a bottle of wine from 7-Eleven. Yellowtail Merlot though, so it was legit.

Proper food and strength training updates to resume tommorow!