My Life in Pictures

I haven’t been really filling you in, now have I?

Quick recap, after getting engaged I headed to Miami for a week. While there, my brother and I got to see Spam Allstars play in the Grove and they were just awesome. Once back in NYC, Gaius, Los, Cindy and I went to see Incubus in the Dirty Jerz. A week later I headed over to Rhode Island and experienced the Washington County Fair.

The weekends have definitely been fun even though all the while I’ve been planning the wedding and harboring an intense cough (it’s over now). Here it is in pictures:

Words Are Hilarious

“Wolfman Jack Burgers are the invention of a particularly fantastic burger joint in Austin called Hut’s. Eric made a version of them with green chiles, Monterey Jack cheese, sour cream, bacon, and mayonnaise. Once, long before the Project, Eric fed a Wolfman Jack Burger to a friend of his from college who had not eaten meat in three years. His friend vomited for two days straight, which is the kind of thing that happens to you when you do something stupid like not eating meat.”

Flaming Crepes! Day 237, Recipe 357 (page 203) Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously by Julie Powell

Weekly Weigh-In

Walking is not enough.

Still at 150 lbs this week and it’s starting to annoy me. Yes, there are environmental factors that may be influencers – being on two flights in the past week being one of them. I can’t remember if it took a while for my metabolism to start up last year or not.

This year has been immensely frustrating on the physical activity front. Last year, as soon as the sun came out, I began running in Central Park and it was liberating. This year, I really wasn’t able to take advantage of the summer weather what with spraining my knee in May. Now I see that the sun has already started coming up later and setting earlier with the fervor of a teenager with a summer job. It feels like a final countdown. Now, I’d like to lose 20 lbs before the end of the year, but the change in seasons really frightens me seeing as when fall and winter set in, I go into full hibernation-and-cream-soups mode. Somehow I’ll need to avoid that this year.

Perhaps I need to start a diet more constricting that Weight Watchers? In any case, I’ve made a schedule of all the fitness classes offered at the Chelsea Gym. Starting Monday, I’m walking to work and taking a class in the evening. Hopefully that will make a difference.

Suggestions on all fronts?

*UPDATE* I just realized that I was 151 lbs so this week was actually a one pound loss. Woo! There’s hope once more!