Showing posts with label points. Show all posts
Showing posts with label points. Show all posts
Friday, July 13, 2007
I Love Lucy Sneaks into the Chorus Line
There I am, big hair and all! Hehe! Amaryllis gave us our videos of our first performance Wed night at BD class.
Ok guys, be nice. We are beginners. I can see those mistakes in posture and the occasional flubbed move. But hey, we were working it!
But my little sneaky looks at the teacher to check out what to do next are apparent. I feel like Lucy when she snuck into the chorus line, remember that episode?
Anyway, everytime I replay it I giggle because I look like I have been transported back to six years old (but this time I didn't quit ballet because the teacher said I had bad posture and a stomach that sticks out).
Anyway, I am pleased with the effort and know next time will be better! It was fun even though my expression says the opposite. I thought I was smiling, really.
(By the way -- Today my arms hurt from hurling, I mean, gently waving Alice, my silk veil around during the first class of Bellydance 2 Wed night. Yes she has a name to force me to be nice to her. She is no longer a nameless, faceless veil. You want a good arm workout? Try veil!)
Yesterday was the WW day from hell. I worked FOUR meetings (subbed one) so I didn't have my usual midafternoon break to come home and unwind before revving up and driving off again. There was nothing left by the end of it all. Talk about that run over by a Mack Truck feeling. I had no voice left by the middle of my third Getting Started Session of the day.
I won't let that wipe out any warm fuzzy feelings from helping 55 people yesterday (small classes due to summer).
On a positive, I wore a great "multi-tasking" outfit (heals, knee highs, sport coulottes, tank, flowy overshirt) so I could easily kick off my heels and sneak in a 1:30 BD class at the gym.
Here is the combo du jour:
shimmy with arms going up in the air
right bump bump up with arms "directing/pulling" over the hip
left lift with arms in that direction
Figure 8 (forward)
To right, travelling hip circles with arms out and then hands over mouth
reverse to left
keep hands over mouth (so eyes show, very dramatic) 3 full mayas (flat-footed, erghh!)
roll up with hands moving toward head and ending in "migraine position" (very dramatic, see Dina the famous Egyptian BD superstar)at the same time as chest lefts up and down
R foot brushes floor to direction of R front, side, back hip lift with matching arm "directing"
Back to "migraine"
Same on Left
Repeat on Right
Repeat on left but instead of returning to migraine, hands in air and squat lean, pose with hands back in migraine
I know this sounds wierd, but the moves are very dramatic. It is supposed to exude emotion. I think on a nice Jewish girl like myself the moves bespeak, "Oy veyesmere, vat a headache!"
It was fun and I made it do the second half of my "Day of Heat and Hell" on time.
I didn't get to track, but I am deducting 6 points from my WPA to make it 21.
This morning I met R and L for a great run out at Bootleg Canyon. It is a challenging course, but it is so much fun with all the undulating singletrack.
Maybe I will run St. George afterall. L is trying hard to motivate me to do it. She says she thinks I can run it well. I know that is the truth. The heart of the matter is how much I want to dedicate myself to training for it. Well, if she is willing to run those miles with me, perhaps I can change my mind. It isn't too late.
She wants me to come and run 13 with her on Sunday before my meeting.
And tomorrow I will meet Ernie and Steffen at Red Rock Canyon for six "easy" miles at the crack o' dark. Oh summer how I love/hate thee!
Todays journal so far:
coffee/ff milk/splenda
oatmeal, banana, ff milk
six mile, hilly trail run
2 pt bar/propel (3)
carrots/veggies
cottage cheese/yogurt/fiber 1 (1 -- yogurt was a lite n'fit, all I have left!)
turkey salad with veggies, salsa, evoo, few spriztes Wishbone, few pretzel thins thrown in (1)
la tortilla (1)
sf creamsicle, part, rest melted and I forgot about it (0)
Golden Spoon frozen yogurt, small (3)
veggie stir fry, evoo, ff cheese, nf milk (to make a sauce w/evoo & cheese)
watermelon -- seemed like lots
shared choc smoothie w/hubster
2 ww choc cookies (1)
WPA's left: 18 (took 5 from AP's)
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Got Lettuce?
Yeah "Title" is Working Again!
Nothing exciting today yet. Just food. Bored yet? I would like to stop posting my menus once this week is over as I am embarrassed by sharing my high use of lettuce and spinach as the cornerstone of my "diet." But "salads" make everything bigger, even nibbles that just start as "bites" "licks" or "tastes." Eating these things as part of a salad forces my brain to register what I am eating is in fact food to be counted in some way.
Anything can become a salad. Got some crackers? Break them up and toss them in with some lettuce. A little leftover corn? Toss it in. One ounce of turkey? Add that too.
On the other hand salad is the food that keeps on giving. Still want to munch on something? Add more lettuce. Need some crunch? Add a couple baby carrots. Need to make it through an episode of "America's Got Talent?" Throw together a two point salad in a HUMONGO tupperware bowl and you are set :D
Tonight is the start of a new BD session yippee!!!!!!
I thought I would share an NSV (non-scale victory). My co-worker last night remarked on my "muscle tone" while I was reaching to put product away on the high shelves. I was wearing a tank top ;)
Ok, so call me motivated to keep up the tv weights.
So here's today's eats:
coffee, splash ff milk, splenda
yogurt, fiber one, small banana, sf ff van pudding mix
broke down and had bread, alt. pita, just because, pita (1) Darn it!
diet coke
gum
apple before my 2nd meeting -- this was "fast food" I picked up at Walmart, down from Taco Bell, on the way to my meeting, taking the same amount of time as "fast food." It thought I could just break into the bars in the trunk or I can bide my time until I passed a supermarket and get to enjoy a nice big juicy apple. Notice how these things taste better when we are actually hungry? And the world didn't stop spinning on its axis because I had to wait 20 minutes until I found a store.
BIG salad with corn, shredded chicken, avocado, salsa, evoo, rwv, mushrooms, carrots, lettuce, five spritzes of Wishbone cesar dressing
20 cal creamsicle (0)
British herby WW biscuits (1)
ww choc smoothie w/coffee, ice, little sf pudding mix
pretzel thins (2)
gum
2 hours BD classes (veil, zills, basic moves)
eggwhite omlette w/onion, mushrooms, Core guac, evoo, Core fried potatoes, ketchup, carrots, brocc, ff cheese
ww cookie dough sundae (3)
Extra points: 7
WPA's left:20
Nothing exciting today yet. Just food. Bored yet? I would like to stop posting my menus once this week is over as I am embarrassed by sharing my high use of lettuce and spinach as the cornerstone of my "diet." But "salads" make everything bigger, even nibbles that just start as "bites" "licks" or "tastes." Eating these things as part of a salad forces my brain to register what I am eating is in fact food to be counted in some way.
Anything can become a salad. Got some crackers? Break them up and toss them in with some lettuce. A little leftover corn? Toss it in. One ounce of turkey? Add that too.
On the other hand salad is the food that keeps on giving. Still want to munch on something? Add more lettuce. Need some crunch? Add a couple baby carrots. Need to make it through an episode of "America's Got Talent?" Throw together a two point salad in a HUMONGO tupperware bowl and you are set :D
Tonight is the start of a new BD session yippee!!!!!!
I thought I would share an NSV (non-scale victory). My co-worker last night remarked on my "muscle tone" while I was reaching to put product away on the high shelves. I was wearing a tank top ;)
Ok, so call me motivated to keep up the tv weights.
So here's today's eats:
coffee, splash ff milk, splenda
yogurt, fiber one, small banana, sf ff van pudding mix
broke down and had bread, alt. pita, just because, pita (1) Darn it!
diet coke
gum
apple before my 2nd meeting -- this was "fast food" I picked up at Walmart, down from Taco Bell, on the way to my meeting, taking the same amount of time as "fast food." It thought I could just break into the bars in the trunk or I can bide my time until I passed a supermarket and get to enjoy a nice big juicy apple. Notice how these things taste better when we are actually hungry? And the world didn't stop spinning on its axis because I had to wait 20 minutes until I found a store.
BIG salad with corn, shredded chicken, avocado, salsa, evoo, rwv, mushrooms, carrots, lettuce, five spritzes of Wishbone cesar dressing
20 cal creamsicle (0)
British herby WW biscuits (1)
ww choc smoothie w/coffee, ice, little sf pudding mix
pretzel thins (2)
gum
2 hours BD classes (veil, zills, basic moves)
eggwhite omlette w/onion, mushrooms, Core guac, evoo, Core fried potatoes, ketchup, carrots, brocc, ff cheese
ww cookie dough sundae (3)
Extra points: 7
WPA's left:20
Monday, July 9, 2007
Core of the Matter
Like I mentioned recently I would like to drop a few pounds. Well, "dropping" any weight for me lately usually isn't the case. Let's call it slowly losing tenths of a pound.
So I decided to bite the bullet and give Core a shot this week. I will attempt to document it here. Perhaps that will add to the accountability. I warn you, your eyes may glaze over reading this:
7/8
coffee with splenda and ff milk
Alternative Pita w/sf jam (1 point plus 0)
Ran 5.2 miles (5 AP's to account for 5 points unCore foods like my pre-run breaky)
1 bottle of propel (30 cals -- 1 point)
WW choc smoothie w/FF milk and frozen banana
Golden Spoon regular size frozen yogurt -- it's HUGE! (3)
SF Wintermint Gum (0 --but chewed whole pack all day long and during movie)
Diet Coke -- 2 (not points, just bottles during the day)
Salad with lettuce, ff refried beans, 1/3 of leftover chicken breast, corn, salsa, onion, couple squirts Wishbone Asian dressing, rice wine vinegar
La tortilla factory tortilla (1)
watermelon nibbles while cutting it up
small baked potato with salsa, icbinb spray, ff yogurt, hot sauce
2 oz core hamburger with ketchup, no bun
big salad with lettuce/core veggies, 2 tsp evoo, rice wine vinegar
carrots, raw
chocolate pudding and 1/2 100 cal snack of chips ahoy cookies dipped in (1)
note: I think I ate too much. Wasn't stuffed, but it just seemed like too much
Weekly Points Allowance Used:2
Activity Points's used: 5
7/9
Three small pieces of watermelon
Coffee with splenda and FF milk
FF plain yogurt, ff cottage cheese, Fiber one, banana, sf vanilla pudding mix, cinnamon (whoops -- I don't think I can mix cereal with yogurt anymore on the recent Core plan. I think it is just milk. I will count it as Core today and try to change for the rest of the week. This used to be my favorite Core breaky/snack/dessert.)
Gum
Suhaila Salimpour's Beginning Bellydance Yoga Fusion: Good for stretching, glute and bellyroll undulation isolations, mayas and figure 8's. It takes a while to get (like patting head and rubbing tummy at same time). Includes bonus features like cute little daughter's performance (worth it right there for that!) So cute!
Small piece of watermelon
45 minutes Elliptical and abs
Mex. shredded chicken, salsa, 1tsp evoo, carrots, lettuce, roasted bell pepper slices, mushrooms, rice wine vinegar, canned corn
Western Bagel Alternative pita (1 point)
diet coke
watermelon (a good "on the go" food packed in my WW cooler)
Golden Spoon yogurt, mini 1/2-1/2 cookie dough/pb cup (1)
1 each ww chocolate and orange "biscuits" (1.5 pts -- member brought back from England and shared in my meeting tonight... I need whole boxes of cookies hanging around my house like a hole in my head. Funny how the measure points to the 1/2 point on their packaging.)
baked potato with evoo, ICBINB spray, broc, cauliflower, ff cheese, ketchup, spices
spinach/lettuce mix salad with turkey veggies, rice wine vinegar (Nagano brand, seasoned)
dessert will be a WW smoothie and fruit shared with the Hubster
4 WW herb "biscuits" from England - 2 (doh!)
AP swapped: 4
WPA's left: 31
Like I mentioned recently I would like to drop a few pounds. Well, "dropping" any weight for me lately usually isn't the case. Let's call it slowly losing tenths of a pound.
So I decided to bite the bullet and give Core a shot this week. I will attempt to document it here. Perhaps that will add to the accountability. I warn you, your eyes may glaze over reading this:
7/8
coffee with splenda and ff milk
Alternative Pita w/sf jam (1 point plus 0)
Ran 5.2 miles (5 AP's to account for 5 points unCore foods like my pre-run breaky)
1 bottle of propel (30 cals -- 1 point)
WW choc smoothie w/FF milk and frozen banana
Golden Spoon regular size frozen yogurt -- it's HUGE! (3)
SF Wintermint Gum (0 --but chewed whole pack all day long and during movie)
Diet Coke -- 2 (not points, just bottles during the day)
Salad with lettuce, ff refried beans, 1/3 of leftover chicken breast, corn, salsa, onion, couple squirts Wishbone Asian dressing, rice wine vinegar
La tortilla factory tortilla (1)
watermelon nibbles while cutting it up
small baked potato with salsa, icbinb spray, ff yogurt, hot sauce
2 oz core hamburger with ketchup, no bun
big salad with lettuce/core veggies, 2 tsp evoo, rice wine vinegar
carrots, raw
chocolate pudding and 1/2 100 cal snack of chips ahoy cookies dipped in (1)
note: I think I ate too much. Wasn't stuffed, but it just seemed like too much
Weekly Points Allowance Used:2
Activity Points's used: 5
7/9
Three small pieces of watermelon
Coffee with splenda and FF milk
FF plain yogurt, ff cottage cheese, Fiber one, banana, sf vanilla pudding mix, cinnamon (whoops -- I don't think I can mix cereal with yogurt anymore on the recent Core plan. I think it is just milk. I will count it as Core today and try to change for the rest of the week. This used to be my favorite Core breaky/snack/dessert.)
Gum
Suhaila Salimpour's Beginning Bellydance Yoga Fusion: Good for stretching, glute and bellyroll undulation isolations, mayas and figure 8's. It takes a while to get (like patting head and rubbing tummy at same time). Includes bonus features like cute little daughter's performance (worth it right there for that!) So cute!
Small piece of watermelon
45 minutes Elliptical and abs
Mex. shredded chicken, salsa, 1tsp evoo, carrots, lettuce, roasted bell pepper slices, mushrooms, rice wine vinegar, canned corn
Western Bagel Alternative pita (1 point)
diet coke
watermelon (a good "on the go" food packed in my WW cooler)
Golden Spoon yogurt, mini 1/2-1/2 cookie dough/pb cup (1)
1 each ww chocolate and orange "biscuits" (1.5 pts -- member brought back from England and shared in my meeting tonight... I need whole boxes of cookies hanging around my house like a hole in my head. Funny how the measure points to the 1/2 point on their packaging.)
baked potato with evoo, ICBINB spray, broc, cauliflower, ff cheese, ketchup, spices
spinach/lettuce mix salad with turkey veggies, rice wine vinegar (Nagano brand, seasoned)
dessert will be a WW smoothie and fruit shared with the Hubster
4 WW herb "biscuits" from England - 2 (doh!)
AP swapped: 4
WPA's left: 31
Thursday, July 5, 2007
Thermal Thursday
Ay yay yay! It is 114 outside! Summer is here for sure. No more teasingly hot days followed by an 80 degree day.
But I did get to gym today for a one mile warm up on the TM followed by 75 minute BD class.
The combo du jour is a spin-off on Tuesday's:
shimmy rrllrrll forward while raising arms
shimmy rrllrrll backward while lowering arms
iceskating move with kick to
4 right hip bumps/lifts while raising right arm
spin to left and figure 8
flamenco grapevine right and then left (unsure what this move is called)
half circle with foot forward to back with hips drop (2)
travelling hip lift (sort of Egyptian) forward
snakes arms (4) shimmy (3) quick shoulder lift and drop (1)
It was fun and I feel like a million bucks. Now I wish I was as motivated to drive all the way across town in the heat to lead another WW meeting tonight!
Points are at 13. I am counting again.
But I did get to gym today for a one mile warm up on the TM followed by 75 minute BD class.
The combo du jour is a spin-off on Tuesday's:
shimmy rrllrrll forward while raising arms
shimmy rrllrrll backward while lowering arms
iceskating move with kick to
4 right hip bumps/lifts while raising right arm
spin to left and figure 8
flamenco grapevine right and then left (unsure what this move is called)
half circle with foot forward to back with hips drop (2)
travelling hip lift (sort of Egyptian) forward
snakes arms (4) shimmy (3) quick shoulder lift and drop (1)
It was fun and I feel like a million bucks. Now I wish I was as motivated to drive all the way across town in the heat to lead another WW meeting tonight!
Points are at 13. I am counting again.
Saturday, June 2, 2007
Living the Good Life
Who would have thunk it? Six years of maintenance under my size small belt (Mother's Day was my Goaliversary) and here I am doing things like waking up to run 8 miles (yep on a 100 degree day even!), eating a healthy breakfast (never ate breakfast unless someone was offering me Cocoa Puffs or a donut) and leading a Weight Watchers meeting. Next I stop at the community center to see if it is open in case I decide to stop later on to practice my routine in the dance room which was followed by a trip to the store to pick up bags of salad (not a day goes by without me doing this), mushrooms (another strange addiction -- I dip them in salsa like chips), carrot chips, sliced turkey, La Tortilla wraps, egg substitute and lots of balance bars (breakfasts for an active day when I don't want stuff bloating my belly before a workout).
Given I was hungry when I made it to the market. It would have been just as easy to drive through Mc Donald's on the way home, but I didn't. I actually enjoy and crave my tasty filling salad-wich-wraps.
I forgot to mention how good it felt to pull on pantyhose (yes, they make us wear them to WW meetings in LV of all places, but I am a good girl so I do) and slip on my dress and zip it without any drama or tears.
So I am leading the best meeting of the week. Nothing beats a Saturday meeting and this bunch is the most upbeat group... so much so that they lead themselves. In the middle of the celebrations a member announces how much he HATES Weight Watchers. (Now he is a little mentally challenged so much so that he may not always control what comes out of his mouth, but his thoughts and speach are clear so I take the challenge seriously.)
Whoa! The whole room went silent. So I did what any good leader does... enlist the group for support. Of course they all jumped in and helped out and even suggested he stay after so I could go over the Core (he HATES to track).
Then the good time suddenly became work. I didn't want to bring down the whole room. After a flurry of problem solving I went directly into direct/redirect mode until I proceed with celebrations and send them on their way after a mention of the topic and motivational close.
Meantime I had two new members sitting there probably wondering what they were getting into. My energies were literally divided until this young man left with his caretaker.
Ever since then I couldn't get him out of my mind. It has been so long since I struggled like he is. I have my moments, but the show is mostly on for me now. But as a youth who was told she was OBESE by her doctor, I resented being told I had to lose weight and to eat a certain way. I know. It took me many years and several tries before I "got" that I truly had to change my thinking forever. It can take a while to go from deprivation to land-o-plenty mindset, from can't to can.
Another new member voiced her concerns about all the changes she would have to make to lose weight. Again, if we kept doing the same thing we would stay the same.
Sigh. Can't I just take my magic wand and wave it over everyone and make their fat go away. They will all be transformed into program-loving running fools like myself. But alas this is reality. Weight loss doesn't happen on its own without working through the process.
Between you and me this member left me almost speechless. I don't have all the answers. But I am danged proud of my new lifestyle and hope just by living it others will pick up on the vibe and start feeling capable and worthy of the benefits themselves.
I must remind myself I am totally justified in wanting to eat healthy, wear cute tiny clothes and run down the street without extra weight on my bones. This is my motivation. Each person must find one's own to burst through the barrier of their own deprivation mindset.
Today I ran 8 tired miles (these early mornings are killing me -- did I mention I hate summer?) Yeah me!
Given I was hungry when I made it to the market. It would have been just as easy to drive through Mc Donald's on the way home, but I didn't. I actually enjoy and crave my tasty filling salad-wich-wraps.
I forgot to mention how good it felt to pull on pantyhose (yes, they make us wear them to WW meetings in LV of all places, but I am a good girl so I do) and slip on my dress and zip it without any drama or tears.
So I am leading the best meeting of the week. Nothing beats a Saturday meeting and this bunch is the most upbeat group... so much so that they lead themselves. In the middle of the celebrations a member announces how much he HATES Weight Watchers. (Now he is a little mentally challenged so much so that he may not always control what comes out of his mouth, but his thoughts and speach are clear so I take the challenge seriously.)
Whoa! The whole room went silent. So I did what any good leader does... enlist the group for support. Of course they all jumped in and helped out and even suggested he stay after so I could go over the Core (he HATES to track).
Then the good time suddenly became work. I didn't want to bring down the whole room. After a flurry of problem solving I went directly into direct/redirect mode until I proceed with celebrations and send them on their way after a mention of the topic and motivational close.
Meantime I had two new members sitting there probably wondering what they were getting into. My energies were literally divided until this young man left with his caretaker.
Ever since then I couldn't get him out of my mind. It has been so long since I struggled like he is. I have my moments, but the show is mostly on for me now. But as a youth who was told she was OBESE by her doctor, I resented being told I had to lose weight and to eat a certain way. I know. It took me many years and several tries before I "got" that I truly had to change my thinking forever. It can take a while to go from deprivation to land-o-plenty mindset, from can't to can.
Another new member voiced her concerns about all the changes she would have to make to lose weight. Again, if we kept doing the same thing we would stay the same.
Sigh. Can't I just take my magic wand and wave it over everyone and make their fat go away. They will all be transformed into program-loving running fools like myself. But alas this is reality. Weight loss doesn't happen on its own without working through the process.
Between you and me this member left me almost speechless. I don't have all the answers. But I am danged proud of my new lifestyle and hope just by living it others will pick up on the vibe and start feeling capable and worthy of the benefits themselves.
I must remind myself I am totally justified in wanting to eat healthy, wear cute tiny clothes and run down the street without extra weight on my bones. This is my motivation. Each person must find one's own to burst through the barrier of their own deprivation mindset.
Today I ran 8 tired miles (these early mornings are killing me -- did I mention I hate summer?) Yeah me!
Monday, May 28, 2007
Now it's time to say goodbye...
Don't worry, I won't sing -- LOL!
It's just kind of sad that my whirlwind weekend visiting the 'rents in perfectly sunny So-Cal is coming it an end :(
It was my parents' 40th anniversary weekend. From me they got some CD's that celebrated the Summer of Love ('67), the summer of their honeymoon :-) Finding those CD's was a coup! (still chortelling)
Yesterday Mom and I enjoyed a leisurely 5 mile trail run together in the Santa Monica mountains followed by a crazy baby-filled 2 year old BDay party for my 2 year old cousin Maia in Long Beach.
I "snuck" in my own blueberry Western Bagel (one point) to save points for the delicious chocolate chip chocolate cake with creamcheese icing. Hey, you gotta pick your poison. This way I had my lox and bagel AND could eat my cake too. I ended up slowly savoring the frosting and picking out the chocolate chips and was rather proud of myself for putting down the plate. (I could hear the food police in the background shouting, "Back away from the cake!")
In any case, "no guilt, move on" (as The Dotti says).
I made a conscious decision to forgo afternoon snacking figuring I could survive until dinner. Well after an hour bellydancing demo/practice session for the benefit of my Mom who was impressed with how much I have improved (hey Moms are impressed with anything we kids do, right?) and a couple long drawn-out meanderings around Home Depot (I HATE that place) and the newly remodelled Topanga Plaza Mall (I think I HATE that place too), I was ready for a Cliff ZBar in chocolate chip flavor (tastes like cookie dough -- yum!) for less than 2 points since I shared the 2 point wonder with my mother.
I went to sleep dessertless last night and survived! The sun still rose this morning without the extra treat (rarely does a night go by without a dessert).
Today was a day off from running or the gym. I still spend an hour doing yoga/BD isolations and then freestyling some moves together. Also got out the cymbals and scarf and fooled around with those too. Gotta get a REAL scarf as the one I fashioned for myself from something I got from Ross won't cut it for some of the maneuvers --not flowy enough.
After my cousin C came over. She is studying to be a Plant Spirit Medicine practitioner and was using me as a guinea pig. It took two hours while she practiced doing an intitial work-up which includes a medical history, life story and drawing little dots on different parts of my body.
By then we were famished. The four of us (included my parents) tried a new restaurant called Cici's on Ventura Blvd. The menu was quite varied and creative. The place was noisy with very little ambience. I would go back for the food though. I liked my roasted veggie salad with the feta and dressing on the side.
C and I caught a movie, "Paris, Je T'aime" at the Laemmle and tried a new frozen yogurt place afterward. The yogurt place was good, but I don't know how well it will go over with the senior-set-in-their-American-ways crowd that frequents the area. There were four flavors, one being green tea which wasn't that good. The rest were fine for 25 calories an ounce. The place offered some nice chopped fresh-fruit toppings. I got a plain/blackberry swirl topped with mango chunks. The furniture was plastic neon and the menu sign was electronic and always changing. I felt like I stepped into the anime future of yogurt -- hehe.
The movie was mostly good. It was a patchwork of 5 minute vignettes of various scenes having to do with love set in different neighborhoods of Paris. If a vignette wasn't good, I knew a new one would start soon. Talk about the perfect movie for the arthouse movie lover with severe attention deficit disorder! Now the mime scene had me worried for a minute, but that ended up being one of my favorites along with the Metro scene.
I highly recommend it, though. There will be enough scenes in there you will like if you have any inkling of a romantic bone in your body.
Dinner was the most tender filet grilled on Dad's BBQ along with some salad (made by moi) and baked red potatoes -- yum!
Tonight there was dessert though -- a WW 2 point wonder. The sundae cones are great. This was vanilla, second best to chocolate, but delish.
BTW, my tracker is looking a little blank these days. (looking around innocently) Time to rededicate!
Gotta wake up early for my flight back to Vegas.
It's just kind of sad that my whirlwind weekend visiting the 'rents in perfectly sunny So-Cal is coming it an end :(
It was my parents' 40th anniversary weekend. From me they got some CD's that celebrated the Summer of Love ('67), the summer of their honeymoon :-) Finding those CD's was a coup! (still chortelling)
Yesterday Mom and I enjoyed a leisurely 5 mile trail run together in the Santa Monica mountains followed by a crazy baby-filled 2 year old BDay party for my 2 year old cousin Maia in Long Beach.
I "snuck" in my own blueberry Western Bagel (one point) to save points for the delicious chocolate chip chocolate cake with creamcheese icing. Hey, you gotta pick your poison. This way I had my lox and bagel AND could eat my cake too. I ended up slowly savoring the frosting and picking out the chocolate chips and was rather proud of myself for putting down the plate. (I could hear the food police in the background shouting, "Back away from the cake!")
In any case, "no guilt, move on" (as The Dotti says).
I made a conscious decision to forgo afternoon snacking figuring I could survive until dinner. Well after an hour bellydancing demo/practice session for the benefit of my Mom who was impressed with how much I have improved (hey Moms are impressed with anything we kids do, right?) and a couple long drawn-out meanderings around Home Depot (I HATE that place) and the newly remodelled Topanga Plaza Mall (I think I HATE that place too), I was ready for a Cliff ZBar in chocolate chip flavor (tastes like cookie dough -- yum!) for less than 2 points since I shared the 2 point wonder with my mother.
I went to sleep dessertless last night and survived! The sun still rose this morning without the extra treat (rarely does a night go by without a dessert).
Today was a day off from running or the gym. I still spend an hour doing yoga/BD isolations and then freestyling some moves together. Also got out the cymbals and scarf and fooled around with those too. Gotta get a REAL scarf as the one I fashioned for myself from something I got from Ross won't cut it for some of the maneuvers --not flowy enough.
After my cousin C came over. She is studying to be a Plant Spirit Medicine practitioner and was using me as a guinea pig. It took two hours while she practiced doing an intitial work-up which includes a medical history, life story and drawing little dots on different parts of my body.
By then we were famished. The four of us (included my parents) tried a new restaurant called Cici's on Ventura Blvd. The menu was quite varied and creative. The place was noisy with very little ambience. I would go back for the food though. I liked my roasted veggie salad with the feta and dressing on the side.
C and I caught a movie, "Paris, Je T'aime" at the Laemmle and tried a new frozen yogurt place afterward. The yogurt place was good, but I don't know how well it will go over with the senior-set-in-their-American-ways crowd that frequents the area. There were four flavors, one being green tea which wasn't that good. The rest were fine for 25 calories an ounce. The place offered some nice chopped fresh-fruit toppings. I got a plain/blackberry swirl topped with mango chunks. The furniture was plastic neon and the menu sign was electronic and always changing. I felt like I stepped into the anime future of yogurt -- hehe.
The movie was mostly good. It was a patchwork of 5 minute vignettes of various scenes having to do with love set in different neighborhoods of Paris. If a vignette wasn't good, I knew a new one would start soon. Talk about the perfect movie for the arthouse movie lover with severe attention deficit disorder! Now the mime scene had me worried for a minute, but that ended up being one of my favorites along with the Metro scene.
I highly recommend it, though. There will be enough scenes in there you will like if you have any inkling of a romantic bone in your body.
Dinner was the most tender filet grilled on Dad's BBQ along with some salad (made by moi) and baked red potatoes -- yum!
Tonight there was dessert though -- a WW 2 point wonder. The sundae cones are great. This was vanilla, second best to chocolate, but delish.
BTW, my tracker is looking a little blank these days. (looking around innocently) Time to rededicate!
Gotta wake up early for my flight back to Vegas.
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