Hello, and yay for the weekend being here!
As you may have guessed based on my alliteration of a blog post title, I’m keepin’ it light and sharing some random things with you tonight (and also partly because it has been a homemade pizza & wine night for me, so I’m sipping a glass of local grenache wine and feeling all nice and relaxed at the moment 😉 ).
#1 – Though I think it’s ridiculous that Halloween & even Thanksgiving decor is already popping up in stores everywhere since September began, I am all about getting on the fall pumpkin bandwagon. This week I bought a pumpkin pie candle — smells so yummy! It’s only a matter of time before I start making pumpkin pancakes and smoothies on a daily basis. I think I’ll wait until it drops below 90 degrees here!
#2 – I’ve been wearing kinesiology tape from my Achilles up through my calf, as suggested by the physical therapist I recently met with. Although I’ve seen a lot of athletes (many tennis players) wearing KT tape, I wasn’t really sure of the science behind it until this week. Basically it works by gently lifting the layer of skin and attached tissue covering a muscle so that blood can move more freely in and around that muscle. KT Tape provides targeted pain relief by relieving pressure and increasing circulation to help speed recovery.
Since wearing the tape, I almost feel like I have a nerve pinching, which is weird. I’d blame it on my hubby’s lack of KT tape application, but it felt the same way when the doc applied it on the other day. I figure I’ll keep trying it out for awhile before I formulate a concrete opinion on the tape.
#3 – On Wednesday night I decided that I’d try cleansing on Thursday just for the hell of it. You can do anything for ONE day, right? I was doing great and felt fine…until I went to the gym. I had planned on doing a lighter workout, but it inevitably wound up being sweatier and quicker paced than I told myself I’d do. Towards the end while I was rowing, I noticed that my muscles felt seriously fatigued. I actually forgot I was juicing during my workout until then, and then my mind started reeling about how I NEED food to feed my muscles.
I lost my willpower and it went all downhill from there… I came home feeling famished, then shoved cereal, then pretzels, then peanut butter in my mouth. Major fail my friends!! I was slightly disappointed in myself, but not enough to prevent me from eating the nacho goodness I posted a pic of last night.
Guess as I said when I did the Vegetarian Times cleanse, I really don’t do well without chewing. I’m not saying that I really couldn’t juice if I wanted to. I think I would have been fine had I not worked out. However, I think I must chew some time in my day to feel satisfied with life (#foodieproblems)!
With my grandma (and her dog Koko) last year on Christmas
#4 – Yesterday I booked my flight home to Jersey for the holidays! I’m planning on coming in for a couple of weeks, and as always, I’m sure it’ll be a ton of fun. The gauging of flight tix during Christmastime can get way out of control — one year we had to pay $1,000 a ticket to fly from the West to East coast (robbery!!!). I caught a flight on a nice low price, so I jumped on it. Score!
At a winery in Italy
#5 – Tomorrow I’m going to an Italian Harvest Festa in my town. I’m covering it for the newspaper, and am looking forward to spending an afternoon surrounded by all things Italian…especially with my trip to Europe and Venice coming up so soon!
And I’m out — enjoy your weekend!!
I also LOVE pumpkin!!
That’s too funny about your cleanse attempt. Don’t feel bad, I would have a hard time only juicing too!
Thanks, Tanya! I might give it another go sometime (and not have a tough workout!) when I get the urge…. And oh yeaaaa for pumpkin!