Holy Crap week 5!!

DAMMIT I so owe you all a post

sorry, but you'll understand!

I can't believe its week 5!  I'm not actually counting the week I got laid off, especially since I was in Mexico at the time!  The layoff happened the 21st of January, but I didn't get home until the 24th, so that is where I'm counting from, and now its Feb 24th!  One month plus!  Damn.

OK, so real quick, I just don't have the time or energy to do the full posts on what went down in the last few days, but I'll give you the best summary I can!

• Thursday:  Drove up to Portsmouth to work on my friend Steven's boat for the day.  I promised him I'd help.  I took a bunch of fun pictures, which will be posted very soon.  That night, had dinner at Dali, a Tapas restaurant in Somerville, with our friend Lisa.  Good stuff.  More on that later.
• Friday was pretty uneventful.  Cleaned, relaxed.  The BBB had a Doctors appt that morning, and sadly the cast cannot come off yet.  So she worked from home, I cleaned, and we watched TV.  Ten Tables of course that night, which was yummy.  I had the calamari salad, an amazing spicy lentil soup, and the steak.  yummers.
• Saturday is the beginning of the real reason I'm too damn tired to post right now!  I started a Yoga Teacher Training.  I don't know what the hell I'm thinking, but I love it.  Yes, the Yoga studio that i TRY to go to each week, but haven't since before the BBB broke the foot, the people I go to Mexico with, et al, do a Teacher training at the studio.  Its pretty damn intense, I'll tell you.  And I'm in the thick of it.  It started Saturday, and ends this coming Sunday.  And that's just the first week.  I have a few more weekend sessions and 2 more full 7 day sessions to go.  Good lord!!!!   And for anyone who's done Yoga and is familiar with Primary series, well, its the second most intense yoga practice in the states, and that is what I'm learning all about.  Its the basis for the style of yoga that happens at my studio.  So, I have to learn all the poses, the sanskrit names for the poses, the different modifications students need to do if pregnant or injured, and the different adjustments that teachers do for the students when in the poses!  its Nuts!!!!  So, more on that in a minute!  I still want to wrap up my other extra curriculars!!!!
• Saturday night I was too tired to do anything, so I think we just chilled out.  I don't remember.
• Sunday, after Yoga, was a PARTY!  and not just any party.  It was the TEN TABLES CAMBRIDGE pre-opening party!  And it was a blast.  Got there at 7, drank lots of wine, hung out with the staff and friends of the restaurant, ate lots of yummy passed snacks (cuz i dont feel like spelling ourderves correctly right now), and had a blast!  Left there at about 10, drove my buddy and his wife home, and came home.  Tried to watch the Oscars, but SOOOOOO BOOOORING!   Passed out on the chair.  woke up at 3 am, went to bed!  
• Monday, yoga at 830!!!  to 330!   The picked up the BBB and headed to Cambridge for the actual opening night of TEN TABLES CAMBRIDGE!!  You know it.  Yeah, I went to the party, buy I had to go and actually have dinner on the first night!  Yyyeah!  We were there about 3 hours, and had a great dinner!  Its a really nice restaurant.  I'll have to put up a link to the blog Mike made about making it all happen.  But, too lazy right now.
• Today, yoga again.  Was supposed to have acupuncture after, but the BBB was stuck in meetings, so we just headed home and cooked a bunch of stuff!  I made Farrow, sauteed onions, tempeh bacon, and peas, and roasted tomatoes. She made Mac and Chrees (not cheese, she's vegan), with peas.  I have a cat on my lap right now that isn't happy with my typing cuz I'm not petting him.  
• Heroes was only ok last night.
• Oh, I remember on Thursday maybe, or no, it must've been the weekend after the BBB went to bed, I watched the Incredible Hulk with Ed Norton.  Can't remember what day it was, but it was actually pretty good.  
• Also watched the Descent on Saturday night, which was a fun little scary movie about 6 women who go speelunking, and run into scary flesh eating man things underground.  Actually not bad!

So, just a quick fill in on why I'm so tired from doing Yoga Teacher training

• The weekend sessions aren't bad, 1230 to 630.  Primary series class at about 2.  Crazy tiring and intense, that yoga.
• Weekday sessions are 830 to 330.  Actual yoga class is 945 to 1115.  
• Before hand is discussion or review of some poses.
• After class, we break down poses and how to adjust.
• Lunch
• after that, we partner up, guide our fellow trainees through the poses, and then they do the adjustments and we do the adjustments
• I did the actual practice on Saturday and Sunday, but yesterday just observed (which is encouraged), and today observed and did adjustments when I could.  Fun, but scary at first.
• When we were doing the partner sessions, I did my first successful headstand.  My back hurts a bit now, but my whole body is sore from Primary series, and I feel pretty damn badass about doing a headstand, cuz that shit ain't easy.

So, I guess that's it.  I'm gonna go watch some TV before putting away all the food I just cooked for lunches.  

I promise I'll post up pictures from Sunday soon enough.

TEN TABLES CAMBRIDGE IS OPEN!!! To all my friends across the river, get excited!  They're on Opentable too!  Go eat!  

I guess that is it!  I gotta shower and stuff too, cuz i smell!  

lates

My goodness! Week 4, day 3, and the rest of week 3 and 4

Woah, almost a whole week?!  What the hell happened??

So, Where did I leave off (sorry, Jacob, but this is going to have to be a bit of a catch up post!)?

Wednesday ended after picking up the BBB, went home, ate a tad, and went to Band Practice.

Have you not listened to Burnt Fur yet????   GO NOW!!!!!!!

Oh, wait, I already did Wednesday.  Whoops.

Thursday is not memorable in any way.  I'm sure I watched some television and ate some food, but I can't remember anything significant.  I may have vacuumed, but I don't think so.  Dishes, probably.  Oh well.

Friday the BBB worked from home, so I slept in until like noon.  Did some house cleaning I guess.  Oooh, and I think I did some Laundry.  

And then, of course, Ten Tables.  Had a lovely meal.  Calamari over lemon salad.  Portuguese Fish Stew.  Pasta with Lamb Ragout.  Stinky cheese.  YUM.  

THEN, I came home, and realized that we were going to my mothers the next day and hadn't cooked a damn thing!  We were going to make that Fritatta, but it wasn't very good.  Mom had already had the Sausage Potato thing, and we wanted to continue showcasing new Vegan foods that are good, so not that again.  It's supposed to be just lunch, and I knew Mom was making 2 soups, so............A-Ha!!!  CHICKPEA SALAD!!!!    

This is a great and easy thing to make.  It was passed on to us as Mock Tuna Salad (seaweed gives it that fishy taste), but I prefer it just as chickpea salad.  YUMMSY on sammiches.

Just 2 cans of chickpeas, pickles, celery, onions, lemon juice, and Mayo (veggenaise, cuz its just as good and way less nasty when you think about it).  Recipe is posted and linked above.  I recommend giving it a whirl!  

Made 2 batches of it at like midnight, cuz, well, why not!

Saturday is easy.  Woke up, picked up flowers for Mom and her cousin Bonnie who came to visit my mom for the weekend.  New Leaf Flores is the best florist, if I haven't mentioned them already.  Gotta plug my friends.

Then we stopped by Flour in the South End to pick up these yummy chocolate cherry sourdough loaves as Hallmark Day gifts (VDay is a myth.  its all Hallmark!!!) and some vegan chocolate cupcakes, which are YUM.  got 2 loaves of regular bread for the chickpea salad, and some dirty heart cookies for the band.

Drove down to Plymouth to the Mom's house.  Nice day.  Niece chloe (age 5) was there.  Sister came too.  Had some cheese, chickpea salad on bread, Split Pea Soup, and coincidentally, Portuguese Kale soup with Linguica.  All Yummers.  

Went for a drive with the sister for a bit, Mom's cousin showed up, BroInLaw came over, and we had a nice afternoon.  Wine, talking, eating, fun.  Sister n BroInLaw n Niece left, had Pizza with the ladies.  Drove home at like 1030 (crap), watched something, went to bed.

Sunday was a nice calm day.  Slept in.  Laundry.  Had a fire all day.  Did some computer stuff.  I figured out how to put a password on my wireless router all by myself, with the internet to help.  I'm impressed.  And posted another recipe to the Vegan blog.  Other than that, relaxed, watched TV.  Nice calm day.

Monday was the same.  BBB had a holiday.  Fire all day.  More Laundry.  Made smoothies (chocolate soy milk, peanut butter, bananas, vanilla protein powder, ice - YUM).

Then met up with my oldest friend in the world, Todd, who I met just after I was born (he's about 3 weeks older, our Moms are friends), and his wife.  The 4 of us went to Oleana, one of my favorite restaurants.  Its an Arabic Turkish restaurant, very much bent on the spices they use.  Fantastic very high end yummy food.  I had:

• 3C's Ale, a beer made special for them by Cisco brewery on Nantucket (containes cumin, coriander, and cardomom).  So yummy, and Cisco is one of my favorite brewers.
• appetizer of Seared Pork Belly (confit style), Prosciutto, Fried dates stuffed with cheese, and frizee.  YUM
• Entree was  Venison Shish Kebob with Carrot Kibbeh, Escarole, Dates, and Haloumi
• Dessert was Muscat!

Amazing meal, and got back early, cuz it was an early dinner.  Actually, we were there 4 hours!  Came home and watched the season finale of Dr. Who, which I've been getting in to lately.

Crap, I gotta go get the BBB in a minute!

Tuesday, which was yesterday.  What did I do.  Very little!  

Drove the BBB to work, visited the xoffice friends, and came home.  Cleaned a bit.  

Watched Heroes from last night while eating Ten Tables leftovers.  Then watched the newest Incredible Hulk with Ed Norton and Tim Roth.  WAAAAY Better than I expected.  Not amazing, but way better.  Applied for a job (not telling where), cleaned a bit, and picked up the BBB.

Acupuncture.  Then home.  Cooked Trader Joes frozen Arrabiata pasta with Vegan meatballs, made salad.  Watched House, America's Midol, the Negotiator.  BeD

OOh yeah, and i got my first unemployment check (why, since i signed up for Direct deposit, i don't know!)  YEAH!!!!

today.  drove BBB to work.  We've actually been ontime this week!  visited the friends.  came home.  dishes.  met the 3 xcolleagues for lunch at Fugakyu. Sushi Lunch.  Yumm. 

 Now this.  Now off to get the BBB, then band, then Lost.  then Bed.

Tomorrow I got visit my friend Stephen in Portsmouth NH and help him work on his boat.  then dinner with friends.

busy busy busy