Fri night Alice PR’ed the mile again - 6:27. There’s one more middle division meet this season, and then she’ll run varsity for another couple months.

I’ve started reading “Healing with Whole Foods”. I’m trying to catch up on the lack of nutritional education I received growing up in America. I love that their food pyramid includes exercise and thinking time to create a full body balance.

We spent the day working on plumbing. Not fun, but more fun than not having a dishwasher in the kitchen. (Due to hot water problems, we’ve had an actual dishwasher forever.)

me "under" the kitchen sink

The girls and I are visiting my parents soon, so I got them packed up - which allowed me to go through their closets and pull out dresses that don’t fit for the Girl Scouts who are collecting dresses for a local mining community.

Eventually Brian and I cleaned up and went out for his birthday. We ate at Texas Cattle Company because we had a $100 gift cert, and everything was “B” level and slightly overcooked. We started with Cedar Plank Crab Cakes- which were the best thing all night - and Wood-Grilled Bacon Wrapped Scallops - which would have been great with about 3 mins less cooking time. The crab cakes had a light glaze of the sauce that came with the scallops. It was a marmalade/apple/red pepper combo (I asked). I enjoyed it but figured it was mostly corn syrup so I didn’t OD.

For dinner, Brian ordered a filet with Roast Garlic Red Skin Mashed Potatoes. They kinda failed to mention the mashed potatoes come with cheese and bacon on top, but he loved them. They were very thick. It came with a salad which they said was “famous”, which is funny because I’ve lived here nearly 12 years and never heard anyone talk about it, and it was nothing special, except some green olives were thrown in. And there were dinner rolls that I avoided because they were white.

I ordered the 1/2 order of Tuna Sushimi from the app menu as my meal (totally overcooked, but surprisingly came with chop sticks) with a side of BBQ Spiced Sweet Potato Fries. I thought (based on the name) that the fries would have seasoning on them, but I think they came out of a frozen bag, and the “BBQ Spiced” referred to a spicy BBQ sauce on the side.(More corn syrup…)

Brian’s drinks were good, I drank water. For dessert we got the peanut butter pie, which was amazing, but I’m guessing they didn’t actually make it. We got a HUGE piece of chocolate cake to take home to the kids, but it was freezer-burned.

Because it was only $13 (after the gift cert), it was fine. But because we so rarely go out, I want to be WOWed and this place was just OK. But if you want crab cakes and peanut butter pie, I recommend it. Or a free steak on your birthday, because they offer that too.

This morning we woke up to Wendy puking. She threw up 7 times from 7am-9:30am. I think due to raw cookie dough last night because nothing else seems to be wrong with her. She fell back asleep on the bathroom floor until 1:30pm.

Today I took Alice to buy art supplies at Wal-Mart so she can make a display of what it looks like to have Yellow Fever for school. Then we went grocery shopping. I cooked up some black beans with onions and peppers for lunch and to have at work for lunch this week. I also made Aloo Gobi…so good and so easy!!

Yummy Aloo Gobi!

Do you like Indian food? Do you ever make your own?

2010 goal update (forgot this after Fri core class): 2630 crunches, 64 minutes of plank remaining.