Winter is NOT coming

Last night we made another Blue Apron meal. For those who don’t know, Blue Apron is a pretty awesome food delivery service. They deliver recipes with all the correct quantities of ingredients (like a single stalk of celery or a little cup of bagoong) you need in a refrigerated box to your door.

20150119_175008We get 3 meals at a time and they’re supposed to serve two but we almost always have leftovers. The recipes are typically atypical and feature interesting ingredients and cultural influences. Last night we made a Mexican style casserole with beef, quinoa, veggies, cilantro and a few other things. It wasn’t our favorite so far but it wasn’t bad.

20150119_183917After dinner I spent a few hours buried in C code for a class I’m taking and then took a Dr. Who break. I needed the break after bashing my head against the monitor for hours. My coding skills are pretty rusty but I managed to get some peripherals for the microcontroller configured before stumbling to bed and rudely removing Indy from my her spot on the bed.

Today it was 67 degrees! I don’t think winter is coming no matter what the poor mostly dead Stark family says oops, spoiler ;)hmm, now I want GoT to come back… and House of Cards, yay TV!

Amanda and I decided to cancel our TRX class in the basement dungeon of the old NCSU gym and leave work early to take advantage of the sun and the warmth. We wanted to run but decided that we should take it easy on our injuries since we ran yesterday. We did take Indy for a great walk though and she had an awesome time jumping in the creek and getting very stinky. 20150120_164840She would disappear from time to time over the bank of the creek but would always come bounding back soon.

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Spot the Indy!

Tonight, more Blue Apron, yay! More Dr. Who, yay! and more coding, blerrg.

Camera Shy

Hi! Happy Monday! (If there is such a thing)

Today’s a bit of a slow day since we’ve got the day ‘off’ for MLK day. We lazed in bed and watched  whole episodes of Dr. Who before actually getting the day started. Well…ok I made coffee for the second episode but that’s just the basics.

Since it’s such a weird great/gorgeous day outside, we went for a run!!

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Now, for those of you in the know I think running is kinda awesome. And during my last marathon (City of Oaks), I inconveniently tore my IT band and haven’t run in a couple months. Needless to say, I’ve been a little cooped up and frustrated….sorry Steve.

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So I took it short and slow and had NO KNEE PAIN!!! (insert backflip/happy dance). I also got to try out my new heart rate monitor. That’s the number with the heart next to it, aka my Garmin not-so-secretly loves me or has approximately 167 loves.

Indy came on the run with us and had a great time trying, and failing, to catch the squirrels. One day….

We tried to get a picture of how happy she was, but she’s a little camera shy and refuses to look at me when I’m holding my phone. Seriously, she’ll back up to you when you call her. Weirdo. (Note Steve trying to get her to look at me. Oh well)

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I’m off to get a little work done since grad school never sleeps. Seriously. It never does.

What are you up to if you have the day off?

The First Post

It’s still somewhat the start of a new year, so let’s just keep rolling with that theme shall we? New year…..new blog….you get the idea. The idea for this has been in the works for some time now, but during the adventure that was our anniversary dinner last night, Steve and I decided to just go for it. Cause why not?

Cause, let’s be honest, reminiscing about 2014 reminded me of just how much happens in a year and how much gets forgotten (awesome dinners, cool day trips, little ins and outs of the day). So here we are. Grad school. Running adventures. Crazy dog stories. Dating. Recipe wins. Recipe disasters. Travels. All documented for the world to see 🙂

So!

Last night was our 1 year anniversary dinner (a day early but who’s counting) at The Melting Pot.

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We had made reservations for 8, and, as usual, arrived early. Gah. Maybe one day I’ll get timing down. Until then I shall be perpetually freakishly early to everything. Yes. I’m that person. Anywho.

So we get there. Get a table. Look at the menu. Aaaand nothing. Nada. We sat there for 23 min (yes I counted because I’m hungry and impatient) before Steve flagged down someone and asked who our server was. While we never did figure out who was supposed to be the server, Roddy took us on and grabbed us a bottle of wine and tried to turn on the burner. I say tried because, as adventurous dinners go, it didn’t work. Sooooooo then we moved tables, got a burner that worked (yay!), and had a fantastic rest of the evening made even better by the free bottle of wine as compensation for the rough start to dinner 🙂