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Lazy Iced Coffee and June 2012 Highlights

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 09:05 AM PDT

Happy Monday! I started my day off with a speedish run – 1 m w/u, 4 800s and 1 m c/d. It was just okay. I need to do this weekly again to see improvement because I was def slower than in the past.

When I got back I realized there was only a few sips of iced coffee left from yesterday so I had to make a fresh batch.

Luckily Tina sent me a bag of Marylou's AMAZING coffee for my brewing pleasure.

Supposedly the "secret" to Marylou's amazing iced coffee is that they add in Swiss Miss Hot Chocolate to it. I love iced coffee and I love hot cocoa so I am definitely down for experimenting with this.

But I'm lazy so I added the hot chocolate mix straight to the grounds to brew up together.

I've done this before with cinnamon too so I figured it would work, but I wasn't sure.

I brewed up the pot and then set aside a cup to cool for a bit. Then, I added a lot of almond milk and ice. So so good.

Breakfast was the usual.

Time for my June 2012 Highlights…

Favorite RUN:

I LOVE running when I'm traveling, so it's a tie between

my run in Seattle and my run in Central Park

Favorite EAT:

The huge delicious donut I had after Rock N' Roll San Diego was pretty amazing.

Favorite post I'd like to REPEAT:

Tie between my 3 Year Anniversary post and my Fitness Bucket List

Question: What was your favorite moment or meal from June?

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Hamcakes and Sunday Set Up

Posted: 01 Jul 2012 07:56 PM PDT

Ben and I did a little exploring around our neighborhood yesterday and ended up stopping at a Korean restaurant for dinner.

They start you off with kimchee and two other things that I can't identify / am too lazy to Google.

Ben ordered the tempura Udon and I drank most of the broth.

I got some dish called bibimap

Okay I googled this one and found the Wiki definition for your reading pleasure:

Bibimbap (비빔밥, Korean pronunciation: [pibimp͈ap̚]^[1]) is a signature Korean dish. The word literally means “mixed meal” or “mixed rice”. Bibimbap is served as a bowl of warm white rice topped with namul (sautéed and seasoned vegetables) and gochujang (chili pepper paste). A raw or fried egg and sliced meat (usually beef) are common additions. The ingredients are stirred together thoroughly just before eating.^[2] It can be served either cold or hot.

The waiter advised me to put this bbq kinda sauce on it before eating and I gave it a whirl. Eh. I wasn't into that red bottle, but I drowned this thing in soy sauce.

After dinner I got a text from someone named Skinny Runner telling me to get to Yogurtland immediately or she was kicking me out of the Mediocre Bloggers of the OC Club.

Yes, it's a real club and we have meetings where we dress up in costumes and brain storm dumb blog ideas. You're welcome.

Anyways, she said I had to try the Birthday Cupcake Batter fro-yo as research for our meeting tomorrow and I jumped on this project!

I don't know if you are aware of the blogger hierarchy, but when SR says to eat fro-yo – you eat fro-yo.

That, or I really wanted fro-yo anyways…

Okay – on to Sunday!

I started my Sunday with a nice little stroll while talking to my mom on the phone. Ben slept in, but chatting made it feel like I was on the walk with someone Smile

45 minutes later I got back and Ben was just waking up. I asked him what he wanted for breakfast and he said, "Hamcakes".

I'm sure he was joking, but I delivered. I made pancakes and added some chopped ham to his. He was very impressed.

I've been so busy with work and traveling that I haven't cleaned since before Chandra came to visit! I would be embarrassed, but I'm not. I'm messy and not at all Type A so it is what it is.

But, it was getting pretty gross over here so Ben and I spent most of the day cleaning.

I went through part of my closet and found my college diploma! Um, but it was empty?! I never even put my diploma in the frame!

I know it's hard to believe by the less than stellar quality of writing on RER, but I have a degree in Communications.

I also found Ben's fancy degree. P-town writes the entire degree in Latin! So, I have no idea what he studied. I think it was Ivyleagueology, but I'm not sure.

We cleaned all the way through to lunch and broke around 1pm. I made Ben a snack plate and stole a cracker with cheese.

It's all about the presentation.

I had a huge salad and of course cherries and watermelon.

By this time we had enough of cleaning for one day and I went out to run some errands. I had to hit up the health foods store for more natural supplements for my thyroid.

I spotted a rice cream treat on super sale and grabbed one, but my very very long Target trip turned it into a pile of mush. Sad sad face.

But the Target trip wasn't a complete loss because I got a new head band to try. At first I thought I finally found a head band that would fit my HUGE HUGE head, but this is already slipping off.