Today was a beautiful day, as you can see. Cathedral of St. John the Divine and Columbia University looked golden in the afternoon sunshine, almost like a painting, no? Not that I would know firsthand, since I changed back into my jammies in the afternoon (woohoo!) because it was just such a relief not to have to go anywhere or do anything. Woke up early (the early bird catches 5 washers!) and tackled the laundry, fed my sweetie breakfast, and got a Fresh Direct delivery (including 5 lbs. of sweet potatoes for next weekend's dinner at my friend Ellen's place)
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Last night, for example, my sweetie and I attended the annual banquet organized by the Wing Tsun school he attends. While it was lots of fun (as you can see by the destruction we wreaked upon our table, Table 4) and the inactive disco lights at Grand Harmony Palace were morbidly fascinating, it was nice to cocoon with my engineer today.
Tomorrow night I'm looking forward to visiting this year's Canstruction NY exhibit after work with my coworker Julia. Sadly, I missed last year's CANda panda display, although the time lapse video of its "canstruction" was entertaining. I will have to keep an eye our for the entry submitted by my engineer's firm. Here is a link to their 2006 entry (although my sweetie was not working for them then.)
Last Monday was my last follow up visit with the surgeon (which I completely forgot to mention since I was rushing around after my mom's health problems last week... she's better now, thankfully, but it's really frustrating to realize that older parents will just never follow medical advice about changing their diet -- I should just get used to that fact RIGHT NOW). Good news on my medical status at least: he was very pleased with my post-radiation healing progress, and indeed, the surgical scar seems oddly better after all of the post-radiation skin peeling & healing. So he kicked me out until next year (yay!) which prompted the receptionist to say, "Wow. You must be doing really well -- a whole year and not 6 months or whatever."
Speaking of diet, I am making excruciatingly slow progress on the WW front, but at least it IS progress, minute though it may be. I just have to get back into the habit of being more attentive to what I eat.
Well, as they say, take ownership of your choices. So while yes, last week was very stressful, which causes me to want to eat, I made a conscious choice about my stress eating (i.e., "Yes I am going to do this"), instead of just mindlessly grazing. Do you see what I'm saying?
At least I can control my own homemade meals. The recipe for this curry, for example, came from Whole Foods and used LITE coconut milk, and not regular. Not only was it surprisingly simple to whip up, but I even had most of the ingredients on hand. I substituted chicken thighs for the pork sirloin, though, since that's what I had on hand. (Bonus: it's less WW points with chicken than with pork too.) Plus, all of the tasty veggies add fiber.
However, staying up late and being tired the next day is NOT helpful, so I need to go to sleep now. More updates on books and ceramics another day (night). So I leave you all with a shot of tonight's sunset. Ciao!
.Last night, for example, my sweetie and I attended the annual banquet organized by the Wing Tsun school he attends. While it was lots of fun (as you can see by the destruction we wreaked upon our table, Table 4) and the inactive disco lights at Grand Harmony Palace were morbidly fascinating, it was nice to cocoon with my engineer today.
Tomorrow night I'm looking forward to visiting this year's Canstruction NY exhibit after work with my coworker Julia. Sadly, I missed last year's CANda panda display, although the time lapse video of its "canstruction" was entertaining. I will have to keep an eye our for the entry submitted by my engineer's firm. Here is a link to their 2006 entry (although my sweetie was not working for them then.)
Last Monday was my last follow up visit with the surgeon (which I completely forgot to mention since I was rushing around after my mom's health problems last week... she's better now, thankfully, but it's really frustrating to realize that older parents will just never follow medical advice about changing their diet -- I should just get used to that fact RIGHT NOW). Good news on my medical status at least: he was very pleased with my post-radiation healing progress, and indeed, the surgical scar seems oddly better after all of the post-radiation skin peeling & healing. So he kicked me out until next year (yay!) which prompted the receptionist to say, "Wow. You must be doing really well -- a whole year and not 6 months or whatever."
Speaking of diet, I am making excruciatingly slow progress on the WW front, but at least it IS progress, minute though it may be. I just have to get back into the habit of being more attentive to what I eat.Well, as they say, take ownership of your choices. So while yes, last week was very stressful, which causes me to want to eat, I made a conscious choice about my stress eating (i.e., "Yes I am going to do this"), instead of just mindlessly grazing. Do you see what I'm saying?
At least I can control my own homemade meals. The recipe for this curry, for example, came from Whole Foods and used LITE coconut milk, and not regular. Not only was it surprisingly simple to whip up, but I even had most of the ingredients on hand. I substituted chicken thighs for the pork sirloin, though, since that's what I had on hand. (Bonus: it's less WW points with chicken than with pork too.) Plus, all of the tasty veggies add fiber.
However, staying up late and being tired the next day is NOT helpful, so I need to go to sleep now. More updates on books and ceramics another day (night). So I leave you all with a shot of tonight's sunset. Ciao!
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