I don’t think I’ve mentioned before that I have Fridays off. Before you get too jealous, that means I put in 10-hour days Monday through Thursday. All the same, I love it. For the last two weeks, I’ve taken advantage of the cooler Friday mornings to pedal, as you’ve seen before. Today took me on a 6.7-mile trek, yet another distance record for me so far. The first half was easy, but the return trip was a little rough. I guess I didn’t notice that a lot of the way out was slightly downhill, making it a bit of an incline for about three miles back. Poor legs and booty.
My lovely readers seemed to enjoy the last bicycling playlist I posted, so I will oblige again. This one is almost too repetitive to share (really, three Rilo Kiley songs? and two by Fiona Apple?), but it’s reality, folks; it’s the cold, raw thrill of my Nano’s lack of good shuffling ability.
- Rilo Kiley, “Accidntel Deth” (an ominous start)
- The Black Crowes, “Kickin’ My Heart Around”
- Dolly Parton, “I Will Always Love You”
- Rilo Kiley, “We’ll Never Sleep (God Knows We’ll Try)”
- Fiona Apple, “Parting Gift”
- The Lemonheads, “It’s a Shame About Ray”
- Creedence Clearwater Revival, “Long as I Can See the Light”
- Rilo Kiley, “Dreamworld”
- Interference, “Gold” (from the Once soundtrack)
- Tom Petty, “Depending on You”
- Fiona Apple, “Extraordinary Machine”
- Portishead, “Sour Times”
- Kathy McCarty, “Living Life”
- Pavement, “Range Life”
Bam. These delightful harmonics had me pondering a whole bevy of things whilst pedaling: “I honestly don’t think I care too much about Ray;” “How long will it last before I go insane?”; ”I, too, have that old travelin’ bone;” and “I wouldn’t really say Stone Temple Pilots are terribly elegant bachelors, and they certainly aren’t foxy to me.”
I returned quite hungry having skipped breakfast out of laziness. So what’s a famished lass with leftovers to do?
Yep, eat breakfast and lunch together. Hello, old friends.
(By the way, I apologize for the clutter in these photos. The only good lighting in my entire apartment is in the computer room, so I either take food shots in the dark kitchen, on my computer desk, or on the carpet in that room.)
The salad is basically identical to the one I posted on Wednesday, except that I didn’t use tomatoes (I’ll explain my tomato thing one day) and that I made my own dressing. This isn’t much of a recipe, but I combined a tablespoon of tahini, about 2 1/2 tablespoons of red wine vinegar, a small minced garlic clove, a tiny dribble of toasted sesame oil, two dashes of ground ginger, and enough water to thin it out a little.
The scramble, too, is almost the same as Monday’s, except that I omitted the spinach and accidentally used double the amount of curry powder. ‘Twas still a delight. In fact, I may have preferred the spinach-free version, but spinach is one of the few foods I don’t love that I try to fit into my diet any way. That’s why I add it to smoothies.
I almost couldn’t finish this meal. It felt huge. I’m sure I’ll be hungry in 20 minutes, though.
Also, I would like to thank the neighbors – who may or may not have seen me in my underwear while I took the above photos — for not calling the police or starting a riot. I opened the blinds to maximize the natural light and then realized I wasn’t wearing any pants. And yes, I do live on the first floor. Whoops.
Tasty food, some cardio, and flashing the neighbors make me feel a little less lazy on the beginning of my four-day weekend, but here’s hoping I actually start on that to-do list now.
What food do you eat for health reasons that you don’t particularly like? I refuse to eat anything I dislike, but I do sneak in spinach whenever possible. I’ve learned that baby spinach is far easier for me to stomach than the big leaves.
