Rockstar Emma

Emma Grace -- ROCKSTAR!!

Happy Birthday LeeAnn.

Movember

Happy Movember!! Can you see that shadow under my nose? Right now it's a raging hairy monster!!
Here look:

Look at that blurry monster! Today is the tenth day of Movember! you gotta grow out your stache so you can be an ambassador of men's health awareness!! In November, growing a 'stache is very similar to the pink ribbons for women's health awareness!

Anyway, see you guys! GROW THE STACHE cowboys!

Bizzy

So... I just pretty much achieved my bench press goal, so for the end of the year I'm starting this "Bizzy" 21 day work out and diet plan with supplements! Something I've never done before... let's hope it works :) I'll start the first week of December so I will finish before Christmas... it's a lot of work, but hopefully I'll get some good results! Here's what the plan is like: 20 minutes of 1min rep HIIT slow/fast followed by a superset of circuit weight training x 2, with 5 minutes jog + 5 minutes run and 2 more circuits! I did legs today and it's pretty awesome! By awesome I mean... painful!

It's almost Thanksgiving so it's time to start planning dinner! I haven't even bought the turkey yet, but we'll take care of that on Thor's Day. We'll just do a simple dinner... stuffing, turkey, mashed potatoes, succotash...  and pie!

See you space cowboys!

Top Chef!

Today Top Chef is back! I love cooking shows so much, I suffer through buffering on hulu for some Rachel Ray TV shows!! Anyway.. with no relation to Top Chef, I made Tequila Spanish Mussels and Clams!!  I think it's spanish.. only because I put tomatoes in it and it looks like a paella without the saffron rice!

Anyway, that brings me to my new favorite kitchen tool... and this tool has been around forever! This tool has given me the nickname of "Sauce Master" -- the mortar and pestle:

Here's my favorite recipe for salad dressing: 3 cloves of garlic, 3 pinches of salt, a few pepper berries, a dash of cumin seeds and a pinch of habanero. Mash it up nicely then pour in a tablespoon of vinegar and 1/4 cup of olive oil. pour this over your salad and mix well!

---
Now that today's cooking is out of the way.. let's talk about my mood. I've been really out of energy lately.. and I'm pretty sure why. I've been spending a lot of time in front of the pc and it's kinda wearing me out I think... I've been at a real energy loss, I've been having to push it sometimes to give Emma Grace the energy she deserves.

I had a good day today getting away from the computer and shopping so I can see that that is causing some trouble. I'm losing weight lately so hopefully that will help too!

Finally here is me and my angel!!

See you space cowboys!

Meat

It's been a while since I've posted. I hope everyone had a great Halloween. We sure did!

So..well, Emma is a little small for trick or treating, but we gave out some candy to neighborhood kids and apparently in Japan, it is starting to grow in popularity but the tradition seems to be that you have to give candy when you get candy... it's very interesting!
So.. not really since it was halloween, but it's kinda grotesque, I made oxtail soup! It was really really really good!!

Making chili tonight :) it's a meaty week.