Feeling Great!

The dinner party went great! The tacos were extraordinary and the lava cakes tasted excellent- though if I ever make them again I’ll bake them in individual ramekins instead of a muffin tin because extracting them after baking proved nearly impossible without inverting the pan, and inverting a pan with 8 cakes in it was difficult. I’ll also take it easy on the cayenne pepper. I wanted the cakes to have a hint of heat to them but added about a pinch too much. They weren’t ‘hot’, but they did have quite a zing. I think it would have been better if the zing had been more subtle. The gorgeous, fabulous, amazingly delicious cinnamon whipped cream did an excellent job at cooling them off, though. Oh man, that was good.

Yesterday I skipped my workout and worked from 10-5. After work Dave and I joined BK and Michelle at the Twins game against the Rangers. The stands were packed- I don’t remember ever going to a game in which the stands have been that packed and I’ve been to quite a few games as Dave had season tickets both last year and this year. Anyway, the Twins were shut out. It was lame.

Today I had a pretty good run. I didn’t quite make it the full two miles before cutting back to a fast walking pace. To punish myself I did increase the incline for the 2 1/2 minutes that I did walk. I picked it back up again, ran at an incline, and then reduced the incline and made myself run for 2 minutes longer than I usually would.

I’ll get there eventually! I just don’t want to push myself too hard. I’ve only been working out for a week and I don’t want to burn out or end up messing up my knee again.

The bet has been going very well, though. Both Dave and I have met our goal for the week and as of today I even exceeded it by working out one more day than I needed to. I feel remarkably good. I haven’t lost any weight (although I suspect that there is something wrong with my scale because it’s given me the EXACT SAME weight every day this past week. Even the decimal number is exactly the same, regardless of what time of day I weigh myself. Weight usually fluctuates- mine is usually constantly fluctuating- so this is very abnormal. Especially considering the fact that I have my period right now.), but I feel better about the way that I look and how my clothes are fitting- even though I’m quite certain that any change that I’ve noticed is all in my head.

My parents are going to be in town in about two hours. My little sisters are officially moving into their new apartment either tomorrow or Tuesday (I’m not sure) and we’re all going to help them move. It’ll be great to see my parents and hang out with my whole family- though I’m not particularly looking forward to helping my sisters move.

Alright, shower time!