Health, In the Kitchen, Photos, Soccer, Triathlons / Duathlons

Preparing for the first race of the season

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(All the photos on this post are clickable to be enlarged)

I totally just realized I’m eating a lot of carbs. Naturally, this would be totally fine for my boyfriend who is a triathlete, but not so much for me. Last night I had to cook a carb filed meal since it was the first race of the season the next day (being today). Plus, I felt the urge to cook something different each night. I failed to realize there was carbs in everything that I made this weekend. My belly feels full just looking at it all (even though I had an iddy bitty portion).To top it off, we went to McDonalds tonight, after my soccer game and his duathlon.

In case you haven’t checked my recipe section in a few, I updated one of the recipes I made (last night) with a photo. It was ooey gooey with cheese, and oh lord was it ever good — in moderation. Meaning once every 4 months, haha. This will be a good meal pre–Ironman race in August, don’tcha say!?

0We woke up earlier than usual this morning because boyfriend had his first race of the season (the only duathlon he’s doing this season, the rest are tri’s). Of course, everyone gets excited over the first race of the season so everyone comes out from the woodwork and race their little tight butts off. I even saw a license plate from NY today. Dedication people!21

I was playing with the settings on my camera (exact color too!) today  and 5got some good results that I was quite pleased with.  (There he is on the right with the blue jersey on)  That guy would  move out of the way, he wasn’t even in that wave group! Having the flash on in daylight/outdoors is total key. The only fail of the day was spending it all outdoors without any sunscreen on. Slap my wrist now guys :( My honker is bright red. Not cool.

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There he is! Going out for the 30k bike. I wish this was a bit more clear, even though boyfriend is in focus … sorta? I don’t know. Whatevs right? I got lots of photos of him he was like “Enoughhhh already” (in the photo where he’s carrying the bike. Hee hee.

feetSoccer was brutal tonight. Again, first game of the season, with a few new girls on the field. I ended up getting knocked down when I was trying to score and landed on my left shoulder AND HEAD! My temple is bruised a bit, and I have a dirty ol’ mud stain on my shoulder. How the eff is that going to come out in the wash? Tips anyone? The stupid woman didn’t even apologize, and the ref wouldn’t let me race off the field. I was like COME ONNN people. Not my day for a good game. No photos of that unforunately, only the one I took of my shoes while waiting for boyfriend to pick me up. Oh, we tied 3-3 and can you believe it Legs (me lol) didn’t get a goal. Jeesh!

Alright, this is getting to be a novel here. I’m going to take a nap (at 9:30 at night!)

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Tax Crunch

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Have you filed your taxes yet? (Gosh, I sure hope you did! BF only filled his out like two weeks ago. Went through my “books” for my yearly expenses (you can now claim bus passes! lol awesome). I had mine filled out the minute I possibly could, and sent it over the interwebs the next day. I got a really decent refund, that automatically (first time everrr I was that diligent) put into my savings account. It didn’t even bother me one bit, because I knew it would be going to my car fund. hee hee!!

This is the first year my taxes were relatively easy to do, myself. I used a free program called Studio Tax, and you can download it by entering it into google ( but you’ll have to download a new one each year). It’s really simplified, especially for someone like me to gets confused by new programs, easily. There was no way I was going to go through work and have to pay the guy $50 to do them. I’m quite capable myself, thank you very much!

  • Have you/Are you expecting a refund?
  • If so, what do you plan to do with your refund?
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Health, In the Kitchen, Photos

and this…

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and this is what I made for supper tonight.

We headed out to the farmer’s market even thought it was disgustingly windy outside, just like the weather back home. Torrential winds messing up my hair. Shocking.

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Whatevs. At least we got this huge honkin’ piece of salmon for again, a ridiculous price. Monster fish. Basically, Boyfriend’s swim coach loves giving us deals. Can you see how huge that piece of salmon was? Look at the size of it compared to my thumb on the bottom left hand side of the photo. Though, taking off the scales/skin whatever it was, nearly made me want to deeeelishgag. Seriously. I was doing a “ewie gooie dance” saying “omfg I hate this” while ripping the skin off. Disgusting, but well worth it in the end. Melt in your mouth salmon is to dieee for, and those potato mini–fries I made — a hit with the two of us. I’ll be making those again. All I did was peel the white potatoes, sprinkled a bunch of pepper, salt and Italian seasoning and add some olive oil (bertolli is my fav!), and this … voila, is the final product. Mmm I wish I had made enough for leftovers. But then again, I remembered I actually don’t like leftovers.

Well. It’s nearly 1AM, so … Good night!

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