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Tapas with the Hubby June 7, 2010

Filed under: Dining Out — Kelocity @ 10:37 pm
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Tonight we headed over to the cute little area of Montrose for dinner.

We ended up at Three Drunken Goats, a cute little Spanish tapas bar.
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We had a giftcard from restaurant.com and figured it was a great night to use it.

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The menu was pretty good. A lot of it was in Spanish and we had to have our waiter translate. HAHA.

We ordered a bunch of things that sounded good, and it was really satisfying and different than anything I’ve ever eaten before.

Bacon Wrapped Dates with Chorizo
This was the highlight of the meal. It was sweet and chewy.
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Artichoke and Goat Cheese Croquettes
Really good, I think deep fried. The cheese was great!
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Pulled Pork and Piquillo with Toast
The toast was like garlic bread, so good! I had a bite of the pork and left the rest for Irving!
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Patatas with Truffle Oil and Cabrales
This was good… but there was something about it that I didn’t like. There was a slight aftertaste to them.
I wasn’t sure if it was the oil the potatoes were tossed in… or the cheese or the truffle oil, but it didn’t do it for me.
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Paella of Roasted Vegetables
I had my eye on this as soon as we sat down. The waiter told me it was kind of like saffron rice… SOLD!
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When they first brought it to the table, it had clams and shrimp and fish in it. We quickly sent it back. HAHA Neither of us likes fish, eek!

I loved the rice. I am so glad I have leftovers for lunch tomorrow. MMmmm!

It was nice company!
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Sunday Funday June 6, 2010

Filed under: Food,Friends,Running,Workout — Kelocity @ 10:18 pm
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Today was just the perfect mix of friends, exercise and fun!

It started out with a 5 mile run with Erika and Timmy and the Los Angeles Racers. It was awesome. Started out cloudy and got bright and sunny by the end. What a great way to start the day!
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We completed the 5 miles in 1:07 (burning 465 calories!)

Mile 1: 12:29
Mile 2: 12:18
Mile 3: 13:42
Mile 4: 15:03
Mile 5: 13:26

After the run, I came home and caught up on the three episodes of Kendra on my TIVO. Classy.

Then headed out to TWO HOURS of Pilates at Mind2Body! They were having an open house, so Erica, Janet and I headed over for some free classes.

I ended up doing 4 back-to-back 30-minute classes: Mat, Magic Circle, Tower and Reformer.

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I had never done any kind of Pilates classes before, so this was a great intro into each aspect of it. I left feeling like my muscles were exhausted, but not in pain, it was so much fun. Totally relaxing. I focused a lot on breathing and I know I zoned out a couple of times. I totally needed this!

Then I met my friend, Danielle, for some iced coffee at Aroma Cafe.

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We spent an hour or so just chatting and laughing and catching up. It was a lot of fun.

Irving and I had a simple dinner together.
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Just some Trader Joes stuffed foccacia, veggies and a salad.
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…and watched three episodes of Weeds…
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…while munching on Chocolate-Banana popcorn!
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The night ended with a competitive “best out of three” game of YAHTZEE!
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I WON!
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What a great weekend! Whew!

 

Rollin’ with Rosie….. June 5, 2010

Filed under: Home — Kelocity @ 10:26 pm
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Our girl Rosie is the toughest Roomba on the block….

Check out her video that we Irving made tonight!

 

Weekend To-Do List…

Filed under: Home — Kelocity @ 6:25 pm
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I feel like I didn’t accomplish anything today, but I guess I did get a lot done…

I love lists…

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I did all the dishes from last night’s fiesta… including a whole slew of wine glasses!
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I changed out the table cloth to be more “summery”. Feels fresh!
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I love the bright colors!
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I finally brought all of my cans, bottles and paper to the recycling center. 
The bin had been overflowing for a while now!
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I got a whole $2.05 for it all. LOL
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The Roomba did all my floors for me. A+ for the Roomba!
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I also chatted with my dad and sister for a bit. They’re on a road trip to Chicago today!

I caught up with my mom a bit too! Yesterday was her birthday!
Happy Birthday, MOM!

I concluded the day by painting my nails and watching this…

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What a boring, productive and relaxing day!

 

Oh my Manicotti!

Filed under: Food,Friends — Kelocity @ 9:04 am
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We had quite the little impromptu dinner party last night. It all started when we saw we had one bag of Manicotti in the pantry that we wanted to use.
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So Irving whipped up some cheese filling to stuff them with…
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And then we realized that we had WAYYYY too much filling for just one tray of Manicotti… in fact, we ended up with FOUR trays of it…double stacked!

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So we solved the problem by inviting 15 of our friends over dinner. It was such a great time!

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Ma nicotti (x4)!
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Make-You-Own-Caesar-Salad Station:
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Mozzarella, Tomato & Basil Skewers!
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Our friends also brought Homemade Bread, Veggies, Green Bean Casserole, Garlic Bread & Wine!
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Janet brought over an AMAZING dessert! It was gone in like 10 minutes once we cut into it!
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With that many people at our house, we had a fun game of “Apples to Apples” going!
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We played in teams, which was SO much fun!
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Erika and Timmy won in the end!

Then we played a few rounds of “Left, Right, Center”. We had some helpers rolling the dice for us! So cute!
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We have great friends, thanks for coming over and entertaining us!