I’ve added this video to my favorites on YouTube and watch and listen to it to make myself feel better. Try it and see if it works for you.
I am in Rockport for the weekend. There were all kinds of delays in the traffic due to accidents and construction. A trip that normally takes me under two and a half hours took over four – !!! I was listening to podcasts, but I would periodically turn them off and check out the AM news radio station for traffic updates. Doesn’t every city have one of those? Up in the Boston area it’s WBZ. I don’t even know what it’s call number is; I just scanned through other stations and ended up finding it pretty easily. I learned there was big accident in “Grafton.”
Then since the traffic was so slow, I started surreptitiously texting my sister. She was giving me traffic updates too and then I’d ask her a question like “Where’s Grafton” and she’d give me some oh so descriptive answer, not what I wanted to know at all. I texted back “am I near it?” because that’s where the accident was. Finally I made it off the Mass Pike onto Route 128, and there was some kind of delay there too. Then as a final insult, on my way into Gloucester, there was construction and a subsequent delay on the A. Piatt Andrew Bridge. Oy.
When I finally arrived, the last thing I felt like doing was getting back in the car, but I did want to eat (lunch was a bag of chips procured at a rest stop) so my mom and I headed out to the grocery store. We bought all kinds of vegetables (and Smart Balance Light which I heard is vegan) and then came home and I made us some dinner: boiled beets and gemelli pasta topped with stir-fried Swiss chard, mushrooms and onion. (For dessert, there were So Delicious ice cream sandwiches left from the last time I visited.) It was great having a vegetable-filled dinner with my mom. She loves vegetables and she loves when I cook for her.
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As is my tradition I’m in Rockport for the holiday weekend. Plans include a trip to the beach, vegan grilling and watching the rest of the Wimbledon final.
Last night Sweetie and I went for a leisurely walk in Rockport, just enjoy the scenery and the weather. I also bought myself a pair of silver hoop earrings. I love silver hoops, and with the exception of these super huge ones that I haven’t ever worn, all my hoops had gotten lost or broken so I definitely needed some new ones.
Pathway off of Bearskin Neck:
Rockport Art Association:
Front Beach after sunset:
Happy Independence Day to my fellow Americans!
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The main news here is that spring semester is over. Woo hoo! The last week of it had some pretty intense writing (and freaking out), but I got the paper done , did a presentation and got an A in the class. It’s been a week now, and I’m still reveling in being done! At least for now. I need four more classes to get my degree. But still – four more classes – that’s not many at all.
Right now I’m in Rockport with Blue, visiting my mom and Andrea (my sister) and the cats of course. I brought Woody’s ashes with me to give to Andrea. Sweetie and I still miss Woody, but she was my sister’s cat for years before that, and besides, with the ashes of Max (my dog) and Trinka (my cat) on the fireplace mantle, I feel like that’s enough. I don’t think I will be saving the ashes of all my pets for years to come. I mean, it could get out of control. I did put Woody’s personalized ceramic bowl on the mantle though.
During the last few weeks of the semester, I gave myself something of a pass on working out, planning to train for a 5K and hit it hard once I was “free” again. I pictured myself running fast and feeling great. It didn’t really end up going that way. Monday I didn’t have any running buddies so I ended up walking (I ran for like two minutes somewhere in there) the 2.2 mile path at work, then Tuesday I went to Power Sculpt class (more on that in another post), Wednesday I bagged out, but on Thursday I did run-walk intervals for 20 minutes on the ‘mill and 10 minutes on the recumbent bike, and that felt more like it as far a training for a 5K. That is, training to *run* a 5K. I have to do some more cardio this weekend too…
I also kind of took a break from cooking the last couple weeks of the semester, but last week, I got back into it. I guess it’s fortunate that I love vegetables so much since they’re naturally vegan and healthy. Monday night I made of my favorite combinations: braised leek, Swiss chard and corn served over soba noodles, seasoned with roasted sesame oil and nutritional yeast.
I also adore the seitan made by The Bridge, (admittedly, I haven’t tried any other brands yet), but I hadn’t had any for a while when I finally made some on Thursday. I came home from my workout and slapped together an easy but yummy dinner: pan-fried seitan, Road’s End Shells & Chreese, and steamed asparagus. It was all delicious, and especially great to have seitan again. I’m going to make sure buy some more for the coming week. A friend mine who tried seitan after she learned how much I love it commented on Facebook that she’d like to love it but she really doesn’t. Oh well, more for me then!
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