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Such a great weekend!! August 8, 2010

Filed under: Food,Happy,Los Angeles,Running — Kelocity @ 10:19 pm
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I had such a great relaxing, yet productive weekend!! I started it out by organizing and cleaning up so I had the whole rest of the time to have fun without guilt.

I really did three things all weekend: Run, Cook and SCRAPBOOK!!

I really HATE to cook. I hate all things related to cooking: grocery shopping, meal planning, and the actual cooking part. (Don’t let my sporadic recipes on the blog fool you!)

But I got the itch and suddenly my kitchen looked like this:
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I made a Blueberry & Peach Crisp, Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies, Blueberry Muffins, Israeli Cous Cous, and a few other random meals in there. I don’t know what came over me!

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While I was baking, I was listening to the “90s” music station on the cable box. I literally squealed when this came on!
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Circa 1990 baby!

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After I got all of my domestic duties out of the way…. it was on to SCRAPBOOKING!

My Dining room went from this:
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To This… in 10 minutes FLAT!
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Seriously, it looks like I own a scrapbook store.
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It was “Operation-Make-My-Wedding-Scrapbook!”
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This is my STACK of things to get into that book:
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I have SO many wedding-related things to use, it was so much fun.
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Our colors were Teal and Brown, so I saved all the ribbon I got over the past 2 years!
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The Carnage:
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I promise to show you the finished pages when it’s done. I’m really proud of how it’s coming out. Stay tuned!

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This morning, I headed out to the beach with the Los Angeles Racers for a 6-mile run (per my training plan). Mile 3 was pretty slow for me, but I was able to pick up the pace at the end (thanks to my friends!!)
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The weather was perfect. Overcast and a  little cool. PERFECT!! We even saw dolphins swimming off the coast towards the end!!
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And speaking of dolphins, I just wanted to share this picture of Irving unknowingly swimming with dolphins in Malibu in 2006!
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Heading out into the surf:
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Here are the dolphins playing in the waves!
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Irving ended up right next to them! He told me after that he didn’t see them and when he turned around he thought it was a shark. Scary!! But they just wanted to play!
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I love Los Angeles!!! Have a great week everyone!

 

The Dreaded Thanksgiving Commute…. December 1, 2009

Filed under: Uncategorized — Kelocity @ 7:29 pm
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This year, we did Thanksgiving in the Bay Area, which means we (and half a million other people) drive from LA to San Francisco for the holiday. I think everyone else gets out at noon on Wednesday so EVERYONE leaves at the same time… it was horrendous leaving LA through the Grapevine, but overall, not a bad drive.

Per usual, we stopped at Harris Ranch about 4 hours into the drive. 

We picked out some Thanksgiving desserts to bring up, and I got a little snack for the rest of the drive! A desserty parfait cup! It has layers of Pound Cake, Chocolate Cake, pudding, berries and Whipped Cream.

Oh… and topped with Nuts and Chocolate Sauce…..

I ate it while working on my marathon training plan! 

Yep… that was pretty much a whole post dedicated to cake, chocolate and whipped cream. 🙂