Saturday, October 24, 2009
Monday, October 19, 2009
Cheeseburger Throwdown!
BAM!So this weekend if I wasn't ripping the old laminate floors out of my new apartment... err... more like, watching my dad and my brother meticulously take each floor board out, careful not to break each one so that we could recycle the floor boards. And me, just waiting to take away each board to pile up neatly. ok ok so if I wasn't busy this weekend I would have participated in this cheeseburger throwdown!
Just check out that burger on the left! nom nom nom! I work with M, the creator of this burger. MmmmmMMMMmm... and we talk about food at work ALL the time. For the last few weeks he even talked about making his own hamburger buns and testing out different hamburger recipes. This guy is making his own HOME-MADE HAMBURGER BUN! Well that's just intimidating, right?? Who would enter the throwdown arena with someone who makes his own hamburger bun?!?! But alas, he did not use his own home-made hamburger bun, he used one from Cob Breads. I'm a little more food snobby, I would have used bread from the Swiss Bakery. :-P
I wish I could have participated in this throwdown but I am juggling waaaay to much right now. When the dust settles down, I may just put on my chef's hat and apron and sharpen my knives.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Winter Olympics are just around the corner!
I attended an event put on and organized by my company today that featured John Furlong speaking on the topic, "With glowing hearts." I'm not going to summarize the event or anything cuz we have professionals to do that here (at my office and that is the director of communications, Terry Hadley and our intern Allison Tanner -go ahead you can see the video and summary of the event here!) I'm not a writer, I'm just sharing a little bit of my life with you... ANYWAAAAY, toward the end of Furlong's speech he presented a slide show with images spanning the time from when we won the Olympic bid to today and the music that played along the presentation was this K'naan song...
Friday, October 9, 2009
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Rest day...
Today is my rest day according to my training schedule. My original plan was to ignore that completely and go for my morning run anyway or go to the gym and do some weights. I don't mind running before sunrise, it's really nice to either get home just before sunrise or stay out, keep running AND watch the sunrise. Anyway....
How yesterday forced me to rest today. It kind of went like this...
My boyfriend and I were going to go to Sushi Maki on Hornby. I used to go there ALL the time because my friend had her office in the old BC Hydro building, the Electra (you can see it's corporate colours in building tiles) there and I did freelance work for her. When we worked on projects we would go eat there almost everyday. I even became friends with the original owner, Ken and he just made really really good sushi... going there almost everyday, how could he not? Right??? Ken sold this business opened up a new business on Commercial Dr. now and I hardly ever leave the downtown area....
ANYWAAAAY, I had heels on which I forgot to change out of after work and didn't want to walk up to Sushi Maki. We were already on a street where there are THREE sushi restaurants in a row. The one I wanted to go to, Sushi Spot #1, was PACKED! And for good reason - pretty good food for a good price. I felt the shakes coming on... My blood sugar was dropping. I wanted to avoid the even stronger shakes to come, the sweating, confusion and clumsiness I opted out of waiting in line. Even though I knew Sushi Spot #1 was pretty good. We walked up the street to check out the others.
Sushi Spot #2 had a few people in there but we walked on to check out the other one further up. Sushi Spot #3 was empty... hmmmm... it's probably best to go to Sushi Spot #2.
Or so I thought.
Service was meh, my boyfriend got his food first, he even got his tempura next. I got my miso soup but that came first thing right after tea only because it's easy to make. I used to work in a Japanese restaurant and if you are expecting a busy night you just stack the clean miso bowls up, each bowl with a few cubes of tofu, few dried pieces of wakami and a sprinkle of chopped up green onion and you ladle the the hot miso soup into each bowl as needed. I sat there for 30 minutes waiting for a chicken teriyaki bento box. My boyfriend was trying to eat in slow-motion so that he wouldn't finish before I got my food. Boy, was I starting to get shakey and agitated. I was HUNGRY. My little bento box finally came. I ate it. I left..
I got food poisoning!
How yesterday forced me to rest today. It kind of went like this...
My boyfriend and I were going to go to Sushi Maki on Hornby. I used to go there ALL the time because my friend had her office in the old BC Hydro building, the Electra (you can see it's corporate colours in building tiles) there and I did freelance work for her. When we worked on projects we would go eat there almost everyday. I even became friends with the original owner, Ken and he just made really really good sushi... going there almost everyday, how could he not? Right??? Ken sold this business opened up a new business on Commercial Dr. now and I hardly ever leave the downtown area....
ANYWAAAAY, I had heels on which I forgot to change out of after work and didn't want to walk up to Sushi Maki. We were already on a street where there are THREE sushi restaurants in a row. The one I wanted to go to, Sushi Spot #1, was PACKED! And for good reason - pretty good food for a good price. I felt the shakes coming on... My blood sugar was dropping. I wanted to avoid the even stronger shakes to come, the sweating, confusion and clumsiness I opted out of waiting in line. Even though I knew Sushi Spot #1 was pretty good. We walked up the street to check out the others.
Sushi Spot #2 had a few people in there but we walked on to check out the other one further up. Sushi Spot #3 was empty... hmmmm... it's probably best to go to Sushi Spot #2.
Or so I thought.
Service was meh, my boyfriend got his food first, he even got his tempura next. I got my miso soup but that came first thing right after tea only because it's easy to make. I used to work in a Japanese restaurant and if you are expecting a busy night you just stack the clean miso bowls up, each bowl with a few cubes of tofu, few dried pieces of wakami and a sprinkle of chopped up green onion and you ladle the the hot miso soup into each bowl as needed. I sat there for 30 minutes waiting for a chicken teriyaki bento box. My boyfriend was trying to eat in slow-motion so that he wouldn't finish before I got my food. Boy, was I starting to get shakey and agitated. I was HUNGRY. My little bento box finally came. I ate it. I left..
I got food poisoning!
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
My training schedule
Here's my training schedule that I got through the Smart Coach training tool at www.runnersworld.com. I set it on "moderate" I've already run more than this schedule for this week - so I think I'll be good! This training schedule ends right on the day of the Fall Classic!
Current race time is: 2:16:38 for a Half-Marathon
Distance training goal is: Half-Marathon
Currently train: 17 - 24 km/week
How hard I want to train: Moderate
My long-run day: Sunday
My training program Starts: Monday, 10/5/2009 and Ends: Sunday, 11/15/2009
Length of my training schedule: 6 weeks
Current race time is: 2:16:38 for a Half-Marathon
Distance training goal is: Half-Marathon
Currently train: 17 - 24 km/week
How hard I want to train: Moderate
My long-run day: Sunday
My training program Starts: Monday, 10/5/2009 and Ends: Sunday, 11/15/2009
Length of my training schedule: 6 weeks
Monday, October 5, 2009
Friday, October 2, 2009
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