I Walk In This World

Happy Sunday evening blog peeps.

I’m trying to wrap up this evening and realized I hadn’t posted Saturday blog life schtuff.

If you recall, I had the day to myself cuz Hubz was out of town.  I did a lot of blog reading and commenting, which was a fun indulgence for me.  If I missed your blog, post a comment on this post so I can find you in blog world!

I considered watching a movie, and decided to fully indulge in 5 epis of SATC (Sex and the City) DVDs instead since Hubz hates it and I had the house to myself.

Speaking of indulging…

I combined some of my favorite things in the culinary world, for dinner Saturday. 

Pizza.

Goat cheese.

Pesto.

HoppyAss India Pale Ale.

!Voila!

Whole wheat Boboli crust topped with pesto + goat cheese + NJ farmers market tomato

With a lovely spinach side salad and a Smuttynose IPA (as y’all know, one of my favs).  In the spirit oh honesty, I had 2 more of those naughty fellas thru the evening.  And a little advil before bed never hurt anyone.  Just sayin.

The full body shot.

During the afternoon, I did…

• a trip to Michaels to get prize gifts for guests that play the “game” at my sister’s wedding shower
• a trip to Target for some snacks for visitors this weekend and next weekend
• pick up dry cleaning
• grocery shopping

When I got home at 4:30pm, I realized I had NOT eaten lunch.  Wha???

As I unpacked all my bags from the afternoon shopping, I blended up a strawberry peach smoothie and enjoyed it in my new smoothie cup.  It’s fabulous, right?

Jungle feva…

The bldg we live in offers continental bfast 6 days a week, so Saturday a.m. I ran down to the Club Room and grabbed half a bagel and some crumb cake for Hubz.  It did the trick of getting him out of bed!

I fried up some eggwhites and peppers and spinach and spooned it onto the bottom half of that bagel.  Topped with some chz and HOT sauce and the other half of the bagel.  Adorned on the side by a small handful of cheeries (heh!) and COFFEE!

I mean, honestly, does it get any tastier than that?

So, I gotta wrap up the evening and figure out how to get my brain ready for going back to work Monday.  What are your Sunday evening tricks for getting back in the groove?

LOL!  I cannot imagine how the scale will have jumped afta are the big meals I’m eating on this vacay.  It’s been worth it (mostly) for the ginorm B&B Breakfasts we’ve had along the way.

Yesterday (Sunday) we drove from Bar Harbor down to Portland along scenic Route 1 instead of the highways.  It was fantastic b/c there are some fabulous harbor towns to stop in on the way.  Totally cute and arsty with sailboats on the water and fancy Inns on the small roads. 

Before heading out of Bah Haabah, we ate our last lovely Inn Breks. 

I ended up not eating the French toast b/c it wasn’t anything special.  But I did eat the bacon and most of the yogurt + granola.  On the 2nd plate, I ate half the eggs (snuck some to Hillybean), 3/4 of the toast, and 2 of the potatoes.  This was my morning view…

We packed up, said bon jour to the pretty little town, and drove on down the road. 

We stopped in Camden for lunch, which is the prettiest little harbor town.  In fact, it gives Annapolis a run for it’s money, and that Is Saying a Lot cuz Annapolis is my favorite town.

I ate the fresh, local crab and veggie wrap, which was handpicked local crabbies mixed with cucumber, red onion, and bell peppers with fresh lime squeezed in.  It was so clean and fresh tasting!  We walked around a bit and then headed on down the road.

I needed a potty/caffeine break and we stopped at McD’s cuz that’s all we could find.  And look what we found while there.

Um.  A crazy guy was walking around with this bird, like this was Okay to Do.  And he plopped her down here while he ran in for burgers and fries.  She just hung out saying Hello to me over and over.  And I musta talked to her for all 10mins the Crazy Guy was inside.  When he came back out, he gave her a french fry and she LOVED it.  It was pretty cute.  In fact, I chatted with Crazy and he told me he rescued the parrot from a local hotel where she was a lobby attraction (and abused).  So he takes her everywhere now, and it was actually pretty sweet to hear him talk of how much he loved this bird.

(((sweet Crazies)))

We got to Portland around 5pm and did a 2 mile walk along the Harbor Greenway.  We let Hillybean play in the water which was HighLarious b/c she’d never done that, so was really excited and kept dipping in the water then doing sprints up and down the beach (with glee).

Dinner was at Gritty McDuff’s, a local brewerey.

I had their IPA and Hubz did the samples.  And for Din I had the bison burger with grilled onions.  It was Fantastic!!  I ate most of those chips too.  They were homemade which is Very Hard to pass up.

We moved on to Sebago Brewery where I had their IPA (plus another) and got a little buzzed.  Hubz was Def Drunk!  In fact, he awoke at 1am to tell me how much he loves our dog and to make sure my hand was okay (I hurt it pretty bad the other day, then passed back out again.  lmao!

Yah.  I’m accident prone.  I twisted my ankle (bad) hiking on the slippery kelp in the tide pools the other day.  And almost broke my hand on Sunday.  I fell and hit it on the corner of 2 walls.  Broke my  fall on the edge of my hand in fact.  It’s twice the size of my other hand!  Hubz was appropriately concerned once he saw the swelling.  He was worried I broke it!  Fortunately for me (and my sister better not rat me out!), I’ve broken my hand before and know the signs.  It’s def not broken this time around…just swollen and very sore.

Ok kiddies, Erin’s heading back to the Jerz Wednesday.  This has been 1 Fabulous Trip.

Methinks our anniversary vacation coming up is going to be rife with stops at New England Brew Pubs!  And I cannot wait!

Hubz and I spent all of late morning planning our stops along our driving tour of New England. 

We found small farms that make local cheese and maple syrup in VT and NH and have plans to stop and see a few.  But most importantly, we found eleven billionty brew pubs to sample!!  They.Are.Everywhere up there.  It’s going to be so fun.    

The reason we spent LATE morning planning our trip is b/c Erin slept in til, oh, 10am.  Whhhaaaattt?  I’ll just thank Ambien and be on my way.  It was amazing.  I now think getting up early on weekends is over-rated.  I seriously haven’t slept in that late since the last time I had the flu.  Finally Hubz came in and asked if I was thinking I’d get up at any point today, lol.  It felt great!

I made  the loveliest of quick Breks since it was getting so late.

• whole wheat muffin + Nutella + banana
• peaches + red raspberries + blackberries
• COFFEE xs 2

Oh Nutella….how I love thee.

Last night, after Din, Hubz and I watched Changeling with Angelina Jolie and John Malkovich.  A very dark dark film.  Worth watching if you have 2hrs + though.  I had a beer and baked Kettle chips for a snack (no pic).  And in being totally honest, 1 of Mallorys butterscotch nut butter cups (the BEST flava).

Din was tandori chicken (homemade) using Penzey’s tandori spice + ff Fage yogurt.  It was good.  Not great though.  I gotta figure out a way to make this taste like REAL tandori.

• homemade tandori chicken + lentils
• half a piece of ww Naan
• steamed broccoli
• Smuttynose beer

Pre-Din I had a Smuttynose IPA, which is 1 of my absolute favs.  I think Matt at Brew and Bake would probably really like this beer, given his review of other beers!

And a little after-work yoga to unwind and stretch out some sore running muscles.  This totally did the trick.  I felt heaps better after.

Hillary helped with some Lazy Dogs.

Hubz helped by doing some Lazy Man Reading.

K, I gotta eat lunch and head out to pick up some items for our dinner tonight.  Having friends over for Din to sample one of my favorite recipes.  Should be fun!

Hi Kids.

I just got back from grocery shopping and my wallet is a peep too lite for my liking.  A few too many impulse purchases in the healthy/organic section.  I mean, what sane person can pass up maple covered pecans?  Honestly.

Ahem…

Lunch today was had at a local street fair.  It was great.  There was a food vendor selling all local meats/breads, etc.  And look at this beast I got!

Spicy kielbasa with kraut and spicy mustard.  The bread it was on was divine and the entire sandwich was outstanding.  It kicked all the other Fair Foods’ asses.

Hillary might or might not have had a taste.

Hubz had a post-breks snack full of dairy, protein, and, um, cappacino chip beautifulness…

Breks was a bowl of grains and was loverly.

In the blue bowl…

• Treehugger Crunch + Cinnamon puffins + coconut + apricot + a few choco chips + skim milk
• COFFEE

This morning I sipped mugs of coffee whilst blogging and doing other random bits.  My friend Kate is coming up for a sleepover tonight (!) so I gotta run some errands and do house prep before she arrives.

Last night Hubz and I spent A Lot of time rearranging the guest bedroom, which is now very much to my liking.  Before it felt hurridly designed and now it feels proper. 

And here’s one of Hubz’ fav pieces of “art” for my Aussie blog friend Ashley’s enjoyment!

We also spent A Lot of time assembling our new nightstands, which I love.  Well.  I like them.  It’s hard to Love wood composite + nails + wood stain.  But they are nice and make our bedroom feel more Grown Up.

It’s hard to imagine just a few hours this was nothing more than parts.  We are Handy. 

I also got in 35 mins gym time, which was nice.  20mins on the elliptical + ab work and arm/dumbell stuff.

Din was my usual Friday night “healthy” pizza.  I deign it healthy because of the following:

• whole wheat crust
• the right amount of sauce
• less cheese than a pizza shop uses
• topped off with heaps of veggies
• served with salad

Oh, let’s talk salad.  This one was awesome!

• chopped spinach
• cukes
• cherry tomaters
• dried orange cranberries
• crumbled Cherry Semolina Dr. Krackers
• blob of outstanding goat cheese
• fresh red raspberries
• lf rasp/walnut dressing

If salad were to be loved, this mix tops the  meter.  Even Hubz commented on its loverliness.

The not healthy part comes from the Beer I Must have with my pizza.  It almost seems criminal not to.  Last night’s choice was Boston’s own Harpoon Brewery India Pale Ale (a goody).

Don’t be fooled by those 2 dainty slices of pizzaria.  I had 2 more (maybe 3) that same size, after finishing my salad. 

<—-has pizza portion issues

Ok kids.  Have great Saturdays.  I may or may not be back later with the rest of today’s pics.