Guess what I found?!!!!

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SPAGHETTI SQUASH! ok so maybe you aren’t as excited as I am but honestly I am thrilled.  Since my friend Alyssa wrote a post about spaghetti squash I have been searching endlessly for it in the grocery store.  I searched Trader Joe’s, Giant, and Whole Foods! NOTHING. I had all but given up hope when we stopped by Wegmans to get stuff for Lejia’s BBQ, and there it was… in all its glory.. I bought two, one ginormous one and a baby one, just because it was cute.  I cooked both of them last night. The first time I tried this was when we went to Bone Fish Grill and they had it as a side, and I fell in love with it, but never knew how to cook it.  So thanky Alyssa for reminding me how delish this veggie is.

After you cook it (375 degrees for 40ish minutes, upside down) it looks like this, literally like spaghetti…

Erik said he gives the dish a 9.5 on a scale from 1-10 (10 being scrawsome (super, cool, awesome)), so I think this was a win:

I whipped up some sauce and sprinkled some cheese on top and stuffed my face.  We had a lot of leftovers so we both get to eat it again for lunch today….is it noon yet?

Before we had dinner, Erik and I headed to the gym for about an hour.  I ran 2.5 miles in 24 minutes :) woot! I am really proud of myself, I had a bit of shoulder pain this morning but I ignored it. Tomorrow I have my long run, 3 miles, I am pretty nervous about it.. I might have to slow my pace down a bit in order to finish it.

This morning I met Lejia at the gym (she was late :-p), and I did 3.41 miles on the Elliptical in about 35 minutes.  The last 5 minutes was a cool down, so I probably shouldn’t even count it.

Anyway, it’s raining here again.. for the fourth day in a row… I miss the sun! I hope everyone has a great day!

Cheers!

To my running friends: Is it bad to slow down my pace in order to complete the entire distance? 

 

Must get back on Track!

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Hello friends!

I was doodling around with my pocket calendar ( I know totally old school)

when I realized that my first 10K is in 7 weeks! Since my accident, I haven’t been 100% on track with my training, but I really need to kick it into high gear and get on track. Since I really can’t lift weights right now, I have decided to incorporate some of the P90x videos into my training. I am a bit behind… Monday I was supposed to run 2.5 miles ( I only did 2), and today I am supposed to run 2 (I didn’t go to the gym this morning), but I am hoping the rain will hold out for a little bit this afternoon so I can get my 2 miles in for the day. Friday is my long run day (3 miles this week), I hope I can do it!

Depending on how this 10K goes, I have been thinking about running my first half marathon in March.  I know I will have plenty of time to train for it, if I choose to do it.  And there should be plenty of time for me to recover if I have to have shoulder surgery.  Maybe I am letting this injury hold me back too much, but I hate living in limbo….. If I have to have the surgery just get it over with already so I can move on with my life… I have been in this state of limbo for almost 8 weeks now, and I am tired of it.

Alright well that is all for today, I hope everyone has a great day!

Should I run a half marathon?

 

MRI Day

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Hello friends!

I hope everyone had a nice long weekend! You can check out what we did this weekend in my last post.  It was fun, but I am exhausted today.  I am very proud to report my last run.  Yesterday I ran 2 miles in 17 minutes!  I have never run that fast in my life, I know that is probably really slow to most people but I am really proud of myself!  I am hoping to repeat it again on Wednesday, since I can’t run today because of my MRI (more on that in a min).

Last night we went to Arlington Cinema and Drafthouse with Lejia and Hyojon.  This place is AWESOME!

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They have tables in the theater, and you order food and beer and they bring it right to your table while you watch the movie.  Amazing.  This is the only way I will go see a movie from now on.  We saw Friends with Benefits, ps if you haven’t seen it, you should, it is hilarious.  so good… haha. The movie was relatively early so we were in bed at a reasonable time, because yes after the long weekend we had to head back into work today.

But not before I had my MRI. yuck!  I had an MRI with Arthrogram, which is a contrast they injected into my shoulder (ouch).  They had to inject the fluid into my shoulder

before they stuck me in this sucker:

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Good thing I am not claustrophobic, oy! Not fun, but I survived, and now I have this really cool disc of images I don’t know how to interpret, just waiting for my appointment next week.

I did treat myself to a few things today:

 Have you tired this stuff!? O.M.G it is so good.  I put this in my plain Greek yogurt today!

I also had this delish Mojo for lunch!

I think I like the Peanut butter pretzel one better, but the Trader Joe’s I went to did not have that one. I must go back to the one by my work to get it! YUM. haha. Alright well that is all for today! I hope everyone is staying dry (it’s supposed to rain for the next 7 days here on the east coast! yuck).

Cheers!

Labor Day Weekend Fun!

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Hello friends!

Welcome to my new bloggy! I have a lot to share.  I do have one more recap from Vancouver but I will most likely put that up sometime later this week, or even next weekend.

This weekend has been jam packed with fun.  We had a lot of cleaning to do but we somehow managed to get that done and still have loads of time to hang out with our friends.

Friday night, Erik, Lauren, Leija and I went out to Tandoori Night for dinner. That place is amazing.  If you have never been and have a Tandoori Nights near you, I recommend going (if you like Indian food).  Afterwards we came home and Hyojon came over and we just hung around and laughed our butts off.

Saturday morning we headed over to Erik’s parent’s house for Diana’s birthday brunch! Sunny made a fantastic spread of food, that left us all stuffed for most of the day.

After brunch, Sunny, Diana and Erik went off to football practice, and I headed home to vacuum and start the laundry. We hung out with my family for the rest of the afternoon before coming home and getting ready to go out for Diana’s birthday.  We went bowling, and of course I did not bring my camera, so I am waiting on Lauren to put some pictures up on facebook so I can steal them and call them my own. We had a great time and I know Diana did as well, haha.

Here are the pics from Lauren’s camera..

 

Hyo, Lej and I… we should be on the cover of AMF bowling magazine

Diana’s new Phone camera

Birthday Cake

Sunday

Sunday morning I got up and 8 and completed another on of my 101 in 1001 tasks!  My friend Leija and I went to Bikram Yoga for the very first time! It was awesome, but oh man were we sweaty.  There was a man in the front of the room, who we later named “the rain man”, because it sounded like it was raining in his corner of the room.  He was that sweaty ew.  Don’t get me wrong it was really really hard, the instructor had told us that the goal for our very first session was to stay in the room! And I am happy to say we did that!  Depending on my shoulder situation, we will be going again.

You can’t really tell from this picture, but we were soaked!  Lejia and I headed to Costco to get stuff ready for her BBQ, while Erik headed off to play football.   When we got back from costco, Erik and I headed to Lejia’s house to help her prepare.  We had an awesome spread of food (this has been a great food weekend)

red Velvet cupcakes with homemade cream cheese icing!

Lejia’s brother brought over their dog Max, and him and Ella played for HOURS.

needless to say, Ella had a great time as well!

We are spending most of today cleaning, so I better get back to it!.. Tomorrow morning is my MRI eeeek.. wish me luck!

Have you ever tried Bikram Yoga? What did you think? -I loved it!

What did you do during this long weekend?

Vancouver Part 3

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Hello friends!
You are probably bored with my Vancouver posts, but there are so many pictures I want to share, that I simply cannot put them all in one post. So please, stay with me, I am almost finished (not really).  Here are some of my delish eats from yesterday.  I went to the gym in the morning with my good friend Lejia, and did 3 miles on the elliptical.  It felt great. I was hoping to go back again this morning but I was super exhausted and I just could not get myself out of bed, that and Lejia stood me up too.
Well, because I went to the gym, I had zero time to fix my lunch, but luckily at work they had gotten bagels for breakfast, so I took one and saved it for my lunch.

I couldn’t wait for the day to end so I could go home and make dinner. I really love Trader Joe’s.  I cooked up some Red Quinoa with veggies, while Erik grilled the Pesto Chicken Genovese. This. was. so. good.  Most def a do it again meal.

Okay back to Vancouver:
I honestly do not remember when we went to Gastown, but I have a feeling it should have been part of my last post, haha. We went to Gastown, in downtown Vancouver to see this famous steam clock, and to have dinner.

The clock was actually pretty cool.  It chimes every half hour and hour, like a grandfather clock, but instead of “chimes” it literally sounded like a steam engine of a train.

We also got to see the site where they held the opening ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympics, or well one of the sites of the Olympic games. The hotel that was attached to this site was where my cousin had her wedding, which I will recap in the next few days.

The following morning we headed out to Granville Public Market.  My aunt, Erik and I decided to walk across the bridge to get there, while the rest of my family drove (lazy.. haha jk).  We just didn’t want to have to pay a bazillion dollars for parking.

When we got there, Erik and I stopped off at the Granville Brewery and had a little tasting.

Their limited reserve, was the best IPA I have had in a long time.  I am a sucker for IPA’s right now, and have been since our trip to Boston.
We walked around the Granville most of the day, did some shopping
 see my new hat (I wanted to get those sunglasses too, but I didn’t)
And took some pretty silly pictures

On our walk back downtown we had a really nice view of the city, and managed to get some good shots.

By the end of the day, I semi regretted walking to Granville Market, it was great exercise but man we were pooped!

Tomorrow I will recap Grouse Mountain (ziplining.. whhhaaat), and our mini trip to Victoria! Stay tuned!

Vancouver Part 2

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Before I get started with part 2 of Vancouver I want to take a minute to share a great website with you guys! Have you ever heard of The Clymb? This site has great outdoor gear for crazy good prices. You all know how much I love a good deal :) haha. If you sign up for their deals through this link you will receive a $10 credit, and who doesn’t love free money :)

Also I would like to share some of yesterdays grub:

My super yummy and healthy lunch :)

All mixed up. I only used about half of the Coconut chili dressing because it was super spicy, but so yummy.

This is my first ever Mojo Bar and I loved it!  I went to Trader Joe’s again last night and bought a few more.

And I thought this little birdy was super cute, I saw him on my drive home yesterday!

ok back to our regularly scheduled post:

Day 3 we headed out to Stanley Park, and took some really wonderful pictures.  The following pictures are all from Beaver Lake:

I had a nice standoff with a black squirrel.  He was actually really cute. I won, because after about a minute he ran away! haha, and I sat in the Tree chair.

After we walked around Beaver lake, we drove around Stanley Park and got out of the car when we were near the bay.

The weather was amazing and the clouds were even cooler!

After doodling around Stanley Park we headed back across the Lions Gate Bridge to have a picnic in the park.  My cousin was still a little tired from our crazy trip up to Vancouver,

but woke up promptly when the food was ready

I took some pictures while my sister took pictures of me haha. 
We all then took turns changing in our minivan to head over to my cousin, Niusha and Niaz’s house. I hadn’t seen my cousins in yearrrrrs, and it was so amazing to finally get to see them.  My cousin, Niusha (in the purple) was the one who’s wedding we were there to attend!
                                         

We got to see some pretty amazing views from their 11th floor condo!

Day 4 was a rainy one, so we decided it was a great opportunity to do something indoors.  So we headed back to Stanley Park and went to the aquarium.  I really don’t think I have ever been to an aquarium, but I could be wrong.  If I had, I was probably too young to actually appreciate the beauty.
My best friend Bethany can probably tell you the names, species and what all these animals like to do in their free time.

These little snakey worm things were awesome. They would come up from the sand when there was food approaching them.

I obviously had to take a picture of Nemo.

And a giant sea turtle

and some really cool jellyfish

In the aquarium they also had a rain forest section set up, it was really humid, but the animals were free to fly and move about as they pleased, it was really cool:.

We got to see an outdoor show of the baby beluga

and three active dolphins

along with this really awesome sea lion who was showing off for us in order to get some treats. There was a little girl sitting in front of the window with coffee and he kept putting his nose up to it and dancing around, hilarious!

Scuba Steve was also there:

and some really cool pics of plant life:

cute little poisonous tree frog, no big deal:

Creepy looking crocodile

along with many other unidentified animals:

haha, we had a great time!

Alright enough picture bombardment for one day! Have a great day!

Vancouver Day 1

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Hello friends!  This is the start of our vacation recap, I won’t do a post for each day (that would take way too long), but I do believe certain days deserve their own post…. especially the first one/two.

We left for the airport on Friday the 19th, for our flight at 5pm, getting there with plenty of time to doodle around, get iced coffee and what not. Two hours into our plane ride, all the flight attendants, started running up and down the aisles saying, ” we need to collect all of the beverages and food we just gave out”.  When I say running I literally mean running.  I don’t know about you but I personally do not like to see flight attendants in a panic when we are thousands of feet in the air.
The captain comes on the speaker and says, ” Sorry folks but we need to make an emergency landing in Charlotte, NC, it seems that some of the hydraulic systems on the plane are not working correctly”… 
Me- Excuse me, did you say emergency landing?!?!?! Oy! *panic sets in*
Captain- ” It should be a pretty normal landing, but you will see lots of emergency vehicles around the plane, but there is nothing to fear, that is a precautionary measure.” 
Me- *still panicking*
The captain wasn’t lying tho, I don’t know if he was just really good at what he does, or if it really wasn’t that big of an issue, but the landing was relatively normal.  He did have to apply the breaks a little more intensely than I would have liked but we landed safely and I could not wait to get off the plane.
Obviously we had a major problem, you see, we were on our way to Phoenix to catch a connecting flight to Vancouver… we obviously were not going to make that flight.  After getting off the plane we ran to the ticking counter to see how we were going to get to Vancouver.  The lady at the ticketing counter told us the next flight out to Phoenix was not until 9am the next morning, then we would be able to get on a flight to Vancouver at 8pm… No thanks, please keep looking….
She ended up finding us a flight to Toronto, where we would stay the night at a hotel, and fly out the next morning. Cool we will take that one thanks!  I asked the lady at the counter if we had to pick up our bags when we got to Toronto or if they would just go straight to Vancouver and she told me we didn’t have to worry about the bags, awesome!
*huh I thought we were going to Vancouver*

Well we got into Toronto around Midnight, and I suggested we go to the baggage claim to make sure our bags were on their way to Vancouver and not sitting there waiting… sure enough there they were, good thing I didn’t listen to her…  It took the Toronto US airways lady about 2 hours to get us a hotel voucher, and by then it was already 2am and we had to be back at the airport at 6…. In hindsight we probably should have just slept at the airport, but we went to the hotel anyway and got a couple of hours of sleep before heading back to the airport.
oh wait, but not before another fiasco, you see the shuttle from the hotel to the airport ran every 30 minutes, and when we got down to the lobby to get to the shuttle it was already full of pilots and flight attendants….AHHHH. We really thought we were going to miss our flight. Luckily I yelled at a few people, ( do not mess with me after only 3 hours of sleep, and an emergency landing), and we hopped into two taxis and made our flight!
*finally*
We picked up our car and headed over to the apartment we were staying in, in downtown Vancouver.  It was a really nice day in Vancouver.

Pretty blue skies, and some cool buildings along the way.

We settled into our apartment, and headed over the Lion’s Gate Bridge

to have some lunch:

The kabobs were pretty good here, not as delish as my mom’s cooking but not bad for a restaurant.
After lunch we headed over to a shopping center that was having a really cool antique car show:

and grabbed a few food items at the Whole Foods, while gazing at the pretty flowers.

before heading to a family’s friends house for the evening.  A lot of people in West Vancouver live on a hilltop with amazing views of the city:

We took advantage of the nice day and the pretty views..

It was a very hectic start to our vacation, but now that we have been through it we can laugh about it!
Alright that is all for today, more tomorrow!

Doctor says…

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I had my second doctor’s appointment today for the torn labrum in my shoulder and after 5 weeks of physical therapy, the doctor asked me if I was getting better (slightly), and if I could live with the pain I have now.. to which I replied absolutely not.

So I am currently scheduled for an MRI with Arthrography next Tuesday.  I’m not gonna lie, I’m not really too excited about this procedure.  I don’t consider myself claustrophobic, but I feel like being in a scary metal tube for 30 minutes could change that. The are going to inject a contrast medium into the joint ( I feel like that is going to hurt), apparently my doctor said that they were going to be able to get a lot of fluid in my shoulder because there is a lot of empty space? (say what?) I don’t have any idea what that means, but I’ll go with it. 
Good news is that, if I do have to have surgery the recovery time is only 4 months.  And I have a feeling that is full recovery, which means I will (hopefully) be able to run my 10k in October, Woot (this is me not getting my hopes up), and go snowboarding this winter. 
I will have more updates on that when I know more, next week.
For the next few days I will recap our Vancouver vacation, so stay tuned :)

Happy 2nd wedding Anniversary to us!

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Hello friends!

We have been on vacation in Vancouver for the past 10 days!

I am very behind on my blogging and commenting I promise I will catch up.

Today is our 2nd wedding anniversary!!!! We spent the entire day on a plane but we were together :)

We had a great vacation and over the next few days I will share our vacation with you all.

I have a doctors appointment tomorrow morning for my shoulder so we will see what happens. Wish me luck!

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