I Walk In This World

Happy Saturday Bloggies!

Last night’s dinner took me back to the time I spent in China, back in 2004.  I had an amazing opportunity to travel there during grad school, to help teach a stream ecology course at one of their universities, up in the northern province of Harbin.  In that part of China, there’s a heavy Russian influence, and the foods are more bread and dough-based as opposed to rice-based in the central and southern provinces of the country.  In any case, I remember having these amazing steamed buns and dumplings that were super doughy and chewy, and filled with steaming vegetables and spices.

Well.  We tried a new Chinese restaurant in our town, and I ordered the vegetable dumplings on a whim, and BAM, I felt right back in Harbin!  They were AMAZING and I coulda just eaten them all for my meal.

Instead, I was a good girl and ate…

• broccoli in garlic sauce (over quinoa instead of rice)
• 2 steamed vegetable dumplings
• a handful of those amazing crunchy things with duck sauce

OMG was this an amazing dinner!  Good, real, Chinese food is hard to find, and this meal totally did it for me.

During our eats, Hubz and I watched Ghostbusters.  Talk about your classic 80s movie!

Exercise!  On a Friday, yours truly did a 20min run, 10 mins powerwalking, and 160 crunches/ab work.  That helped me justify the Chinese food for dinner, lol!

I’m a hot mess in this picture, no question.  But I wanted to show off the dress I ordered to wear to my sister’s wedding shower in 2 weeks.  Cute, right?

Lunch was g.g.g.g.r.r.r.r.eat!

I made a wrap that had smashed avocado as the 1st layer, topped with lettuce, then ham, then garlic hummus, then tomato, then spinach.  All wrapped up into that amazeballs beaut!  Plus…cherries on the slide.

Yeah.  So despite my 3 alarms, I managed to turn them all off and sleep in til 7:45am.  So.  That might be fine for all you college gals home on summer break, but this gal has a job that requires her to leave at 8:30am.  And I take quite a while to do all my morning prep stuff.  So, I was a super hot mess.  Ran to the shower, got dressed, ran out the door.  No breks or coffee…so thank goodness for the DD right by work!

• DD veggie eggwhite flatbreaad + HOT sauce
• hazelnut coffee

Ok kids.  Hubz is off to visit his bro and parents, who are in town this weekend, all the way over from Pittsburgh.  They’re staying at his bro’s house tonight, and then up here with us tomorrow.  I’ve got the day to myself, but it’s already full of stuff I need to get done, ordered, purchased, etc for my sister’s shower.  I hope to squeeze in a movie if I can.  I adore my alone time, so I’m kinda excited to see where the day goes.

Do you like alone time or are you a total people person?