Sunday, July 30, 2006

working hard, working out

This week's been awesome productive. I was IMing w/ a friend about it yesterday, how I've been getting stuff checked off my to do list that's been on there for months! SO STOKED! And he replied "nothing beats that feeling, except maybe orgasm.... MAYBE." and I replied, "ya, seriously. The two are practically equal for me. haha" I seriously get off on being productive!!

Truly though, this week *life is in order* and it feels great. I've been working really hard all day every day, and working out hard every day all week, too. Between weights at the beginning of the week, a relatively intense yoga class and cardio on all the other days around that, I've been feeling sore, fit and alive. SO AWESOME.

Unlike last week's party marathon, this week I only went out Thursday night & Saturday night... both just having a nice dinner out amounting to maybe 3 drinks total each night. yay!

Me & my good friend Rachel @ the LAC: Rachel used to live here & we were really close about 3 years ago,
but she's moved to San Diego since then & was just up here visiting! It was good to see her again! xoxo

Lastnight, while everyone else was Consumating at Promsumating (can't wait to see those photos! :), Holly I were in Oakland, first having a delicious dinner at Luka's Taphouse... I highly recommend it!

For starters I had the chioggia & golden beet salad w/ arugula, toasted walnuts, pt reyes blue cheese & a muscatel-walnut vinaigrette (yumm) and Holly splurged and ordered chicken liver paté w/ walnuts & balsamic figs and a cheese plate with both a blue and one other one, I can't remember which. Both were amazing though of course.. you can hardly go wrong with cheese! :) For a main course she had the grilled creekstone all natural black angus ribeye steak w/ grilled asparagus, roasted potatoes, pickled shallots, shaved reggiano & extra virgin olive oil and I had the grilled yellowtail jack on grilled squash puree w/ sautéed spinach, roasted tomato coulis & black olive tapenade, which was SO delicious I could literally have it every single day and never tire of it! yummm!

Holly has a favorite drink there, called the Green Hornet. I was pretty excited to try it, mostly because I love tequila, but it turned out to be a bit too sweet for me. Still, what a pretty green, huh?

Green Hornet @ Luka's Taphouse: herradura silver tequila, cilantro-mint infused, simple syrup,
fresh squeezed lime & a splash of ginger beer, served on the rocks w/ a jalapeno rubbed sugared rim

After dinner we hit Nacho Libre @ the Parkway: HILARIOUS!!!! I love Jack Black so much!! We were cracking up the whole time. I got home around 11:45 and contemplated stopping by Prom to say hi, but after a full day of a workout & working and then dinner and the movie, I was wiped out. I read a little of the book I'm reading, and was conked out by 12:30! The best part of that was that I was up feeling wide awake and refreshed at 8:30am & took a hike up the hill! Gorgeous day out already.

OK, I'm off to make some breakfast, get a bit more work done today & then I'm headed down to Santa Cruz for a little family gathering/celebration for my brother & Samara's engagement! yay! Have a wonderful Sunday everybody!

p.s. there's a few more photos from these various events in my July 2006 album.