Exercise:
[MENTION=19948]Showbread[/MENTION] Yet another weird commonality that we apparently have encountered, is that my yoga studio had a special at the
exact same time as yours -- 5 classes for $8 apiece, when they're usually $13 -- that I have to use within the month. I've used one class already, and wasted two by oversleeping (once unintentionally, once intentionally, after my roommates kept me up too late). I'm not happy about it, because I wasted $16, but now I know not to attempt any sort of exercise that requires me to get up before 6am. Unless someone goes with me to hold me accountable.
There was a period of a week and a half where I didn't do much exercise at all, because I had just switched to a standing desk at work and wanted to give my legs time to adjust. Not sure if that was necessary, but what's done is done. Next step is training for a potentially arduous hike that I'm doing with a group of friends at the end of the month. (There will apparently be lots of steep slopes, jumping across crevasses, and a rock scramble.) The plan is to go running 3x a week, do my usual treadmill thing, but program the treadmill to one of its automatic "hills" or "peaks" settings -- giving me some intensive hiking-esque exercise without actually hiking. However! If you all have training recommendations for something like this, let me know. I've got about two weeks before then, so it's last minute, but every little bit helps.
Food:
Roommate will be out of town next week, and I have been spending more money than I am comfortable with recently, so I canceled this week's CSA bag and will be making things almost entirely with food I have around. My weekly grocery total is $20, and $10 of that was a six-pack of fancy beer.
Recipe plans for the week include...
- Spaghetti squash from last week's CSA, with pesto, parmesan, and burst cherry tomatoes (already made this with half the squash and it tasted great! even though I'm not the biggest spaghetti squash fan!)
-
Cold Comfort | The Traveler's Lunchbox (one of my standards -- made a big pot of it today and froze most of it for later)
- Last week I used up some CSA wax beans and potatoes with
this recipe (which was great btw), and had a bunch of dressing left over, so I chopped up some celery and red onion and chicken and made a pretty simple chicken salad, to have on sandwiches for the next few days
- I attempted to make hummus, since I had all the ingredients already and nothing else to do with them. I learned a valuable lesson from the experience: I
desperately need a new food processor. My food processor sucks, and the hummus is not smooth at all. But it's yummy enough to eat until I run out, which is the most important thing.
I'm a lot more comfortable improvising in the kitchen nowadays. Which is great, and kind of exciting. For non-SJs, this should put into perspective how difficult it can be for SJs to switch from Si mode to Ne mode, as it's taken me at least a year and a half to get to this point!