-Virginia Woolf
hahah i LOVE food. like seriously! so much so that i blog about it, yelp about it, take pictures of it, take a bite and try to decipher the ingredients, yadda yadda. so it boggles my mind how husby doesn't! haha. well, not that he hates food, but he says that eating is a chore for him. a CHORE?? what the? crazy guy. and it's even sadder when i bake desserts bc i'm pretty much all by my lonesome on eating it all. it was easier when eric & seester lived w/ us bc they'd at least help me out and finish it. hahaha but now that it's just the two of us, sometimes i have to beg him to eat more than 1 piece. geez=P. so my co-workers love when i bake, bc they know that i'll be bringing some in to work.
with that said..it was raining this past sunday. what does that mean? perfect time to be indoors and bake! got to watch the kiddos w/ charv and lou while ate & jason were at the lakers game. so during babysitting downtime, i tried making whoopie pies (aka moon pies to some). quite happy with how they turned out and everyone seemed to like them. funny how i was the last one to take a bite of one. i think i really just like seeing people enjoy the desserts i make. makes me happy. i want to try a different flavor next time. maybe a red velvet w/ a cream cheese filling? hehe i should be nice and do it as a valentine's treat for my coworkers=P.
lou's been running a lot again bc of his tri coming up in a few weeks. makes me really, really miss running. i hate this stupid ankle injury. i can't bend my right foot as far as my left and it hurts when i sit indian style. i've been trying out some exercises to stretch the scar tissue so hopefully that helps out. i read this article yesterday and thought it was so spot on! i've been away from running since november..i should at least try doing some 1 mile runs to get back into the groove again.
study/workout log:
saturday, 1/29: study 3 hrs
monday, 1/31, study 1 hr
tuesday, 2/1: study 1.5hr
wednesday, 2/2: biked on the trainer for 25 mins
thursday, 2/3: study 1hr
hectic week, better at studying (sorta..still need to put in better hours!) and i got in a bike workout. haha, got to test out this bad boy:
cobb v-flow plus saddle
right off the bat i don't think this was the right saddle for me. kinda hurt my buttocks after the first few minutes. and umm, see that lovely hole/cutout in the saddle? that's supposed to help my (tmi for some=P) uhhh lady parts. hahahaha. but was totally uncomfortable and i kinda felt numb for a few seconds after getting off the bike. so, back to the drawing board in testing out saddles. bleh..not fun. i've read forums about bike saddles..and supposedly you'll know right away if it's "the ONE." hahah so dramatic i tell you!
i guess i've been trying to avoid the topic. but hmm on a more serious note...my uncle passed away on wednesday. my dad's youngest brother and also one of the brothers with parkinson's. he's been really sick for awhile so we knew he only had a short time. i'm not sure if that's why, but when i found out i wasn't as sad as i thought i'd be. is that horrible to say? i don't know if it's bc i'm not surrounded by the fam (seeing them all tomorrow for the viewing/funeral), and it hasn't hit me yet. when i was talking to my dad on the phone i wanted to make sure he was okay. my dad's the eldest of the siblings and i know he's been sad lately knowing that his youngest brother was sick. and my dad's health has been shaky too, so i kept asking if he was okay while he told me about tito boy. geez, i felt like a robot afterwards. no emotion. i was sad to hear the news, but my reaction was so different compared to when i found out my lolo had passed away. i will admit, i tend to try to shut out any bad news. like i'm in denial about any of it happening.
i am thankful i got to spend my childhood years when tito boy first came to the states. him and 3 of my dad's other siblings stayed w/ us for awhile until they moved in w/ my aunt in corona. he was an engineer too, so he'd constantly ask about my studies and projects while i was in college. hehe i remember asking him for help too w/ calc and physics and he'd tease me saying how easy those problems were. my dad & tito boy are 16 years apart...so i always saw it as them having like a father/son relationship. i know when my dad was really sick, tito boy took it really bad and it was super hard for him to see my dad in the hospital like that. and despite his parkinson's getting worse, he was still able to attend lou and i's wedding. yeah my dad and all of us would tease him (more than my other uncle w/ parkinson's) about his sudden body jerks..bc he'd be so silly about it sometimes! so i'll leave it at that. just remembering all the funny moments (hehe like when he gave my dad a crew cut haircut and they both had the same style!) and thankful to have such a silly and crazy uncle in our lives. we'll miss you tito boy! ha, and i know you'll be watching from above smiling & laughing at all of us=P...hmm and the eyes are welling up. look at that, i'm not as robotic as i thought.
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