It's probably because things are improving. I'm measuring my calories, restricting my food and upping my exercise to
In 2 days I'll be cooking (with my buddy) a big vegan meal for my friends. Last time we did this it cost each of us around $150, so this time we restricted the invitations to half what they were, and kept the ingredients / recipes to in-season, easy-to-make dishes. Less work, less cost, more fun for everyone. Here's what we're making:
- Roasted butternut squash salad
- Seitan bourgoignon with Sage Polenta (served in a roasted pumpkin)
- Fall-themed roasties with an almond-butter sauce
- Fall-themed mashed vegetable something (probably potatoes or yams)
- Pumpkin bread with vanilla rum glaze
- Mulled wine
Delicious, no? Yes.
I've been really organized lately at work, mostly because I've had the time to be organized. So I happily transferred all my organizational prowess into this dinner: I even created a Gant Chart that lists the dishes, their ingredients, where we can get said ingredients and the time to prep. Looks like it's going to be a lazy, fun afternoon of cooking, as none of the dishes is over 45 minutes to prepare. Yay!!!
Yoga is better. My instructor went on a retreat with her instructor and came back gentler and more giving. Which is great. Before she left, I tried to catch her after class to ask her how to improve my side balancy planky pose and she literally said "Look, you can catch me before class, but right now I just want to go home and drink some soup. OK?" Which seemed a bit, I don't know, unwelcoming for a yoga instructor. But I supposed that hey, she's human too and this is her Job and sometimes you just don't want to stay late, you want to just go home and have some soup. She seems much happier now and in less need of soup.
Riding is much better. I learned things today that I've never learned before - how to get my horse to collect and package her energy, round out her back and roll her neck up like a Proper Dressage Horse. I could actually feel my horse doing this (which meant I was doing it right). It was awesome. I tried forever to get my pony to do that when I was younger, but no one knew how to teach me. My current instructor gave me about 5 minutes of directions and pow, there it was. She's awesome. And so is my horse, for getting the idea way faster than I did.
Tomorrow I'm going to Creative Mornings, this cool session for creatives where we sit and listen to someone lecture for 20 minutes, then spend about 20 minutes discussing it. Sweet. Afterwards I'm buying an apron because I don't have one can't find mine and thus need a new adorable one from Anthropologie. Like this one:
Or this one:
I haven't decided yet. But they're both gorgeous, so much that I doubt I'll take whichever one I buy off even after the party's started.
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