Food coma

The bridal shower for Craig’s cousin was a lot of fun this afternoon.

One of the guests was a lady that is in the yoga classes I go to at the YMCA. I recognized her right away, so I introduced myself and we talked about how much we like our yoga teacher and how yoga is so good for our bodies. Turns out, she was one of Craig’s cousin’s teachers and now teaches at the same school as the bride-to-be. What a small world it is!

Holy food coma though. The hostess of the party had such a great selection of food to choose from. Here is what I ate:

I won a few prizes too–peanut butter sandwich Girl Scout cookies and a big jug of glass cleaner! Turns out, I knew how to match up famous couples pretty well. It’s my strange ability to memorize random things like that which serves me well at times. I couldn’t remember the silliest ones, like who Donald Duck’s lady was (Daisy), but I did know Grace Kelly was married to the Prince of Monaco and Humphrey Bogart was married to Lauren Bacall.

Here is the beautiful bride-to-be with some beach towels my sister-in-law and mother-in-law gave her.

When I got home, I had tons of energy and sort of a sugar/caffeine high (too many desserts and a cup of coffee will do that). Then I crashed and literally took a nap with Karma on the couch.

After meditating, I went for a 2 mile run, per my 10k training schedule. I did ok. I ran that distance in 18 minutes and I consider that pretty good, seeing that it was cold and windy out. My lungs were sure burning at the end! I just signed up for daily mile, so it’s cool I can map my route and keep track of my runs on there while training.

We’re watching the end of Inception now because we didn’t finish it last night and then it’s Amazing Race time!

Indian food bliss

Yesterday was the opposite of my previous Saturday. Last Saturday, I felt like the day went by slowly and was productive.

On Saturday morning, I woke up late and my legs were aching from walking 6.65 miles at work. I didn’t want to do anything all day. I got home at about 1 a.m. on Saturday morning and I did not have the best night at work.

I am just going to throw this out there even though I know co-workers could be reading this post (well, one of them knows how I feel about this subject, so she won’t be shocked). As a result of this constant cycle of unhappiness with my career, I keep coming back to the fact that I feel like my current job isn’t what I am passionate about. I really want to pursue something in the nutrition and fitness fields sooner rather than later. Now how to go about doing that, I am not sure. Maybe certification in nutrition? Personal training too? My husband would say that I should learn how to deal with my unhappiness at work first and then I could move on to a new career. He is partially right, but I am still not happy with the daily duties of my job, nor am I fulfilled by them. I feel like this is a common theme among the blogs I read. Many bloggers earned their degrees in fields they thought they were passionate about, started working and realized sitting behind a desk and doing administrative type tasks just wasn’t what they wanted to do the rest of their life. Can any readers out there relate to my situation and if you can, are you switching careers currently or thinking about it?

I started my Saturday with boring old Honey Nut cheerios and coffee.

I purposely ate this light breakfast because I knew we were going to an Indian restaurant for a buffet lunch.

We went to Royal India restaurant on the south side of Milwaukee for their lunch buffet. Now, I don’t like buffets at all, but I love them at Indian restaurants. I was so pleased at the selection they offered and I usually am at Royal India. I got grilled seasoned veggies, naan, a veggie samosa, something similar to paneer tikka masala (my fav) and for dessert, delicious mango ice cream. For once, I actually limited what I ate and didn’t feel overstuffed, because then I usually feel sick the rest of the day.

The rest of the afternoon, I lounged around, napped, did laundry, etc. I went to Kohl’s to use some Kohl’s cash and got new Nike shorts for a mere $4.00. Craig and I came home from the mall and watched Inception. We had seen it in the theater last summer, but wanted to watch it again.

Now, I am just watching CBS Sunday Morning, ate this for breakfast…

And I have to get ready for a bridal shower in a little bit. It’s a shower for Craig’s cousin who is getting married over Memorial Day weekend.

I’ll be back later to recap my Sunday afternoon. I hope to get to the gym today because I didn’t yesterday and then I’ll be mourning the fact that the weekend is over and I have to go back to work tomorrow.

Hope you’re enjoying your weekend!