regret schmegret

that's what I'm trying to tell myself, now that I've had fried calamari for the second time this week (during lunch). this calamari was from our cafeteria salad bar (it was um, OK - maybe a bit odd because there was something sweet about it, but it wasn't weird enough to keep me from eating it). my entire salad was so salty that I'm sweating right now. I have this odd condition where if I eat something really salty, or sweet, my face sweats. so, now I'm sweating. the weird thing is that I only put a tiny bit of dressing (lite ceasar) in my salad container. could they possibly salt everything in the bar?

check out this yummy blog/magazine. it's related to apartment therapy, which I'm sort of addicted to. I submitted my house to the website, thinking they might ask for more considered photos, or something, but they just posted it as was...you can still find the entry here.

my personal training session was cancelled today, because my trainer, Jamie, is feeling stressed and overwhelmed. I'm sending good vibes out to her (dump that ruinous ex-boyfriend vibes, and your life might get better vibes, to be exact). I've ignored blogging about exercise, but not on purpose, mostly because I went through 4 days without exercising! but I got back on track yesterday with a 3 mile, 37 minute treadmill session. I followed it up with stretching and abs. ugh, it's hard to do anything after lugging my body through a treadmill workout. my legs aren't strong enough! today, I'm planning to do the same. I'd really like to get back to being able to run at least a half-hour. I'm still alternating walking and jogging (1.0 incline, walking 3-3.5mph, jogging 6mph). I get jealous of John who can just walk up to the treadmill and whip out a half-hour (>6.5mph) run, even if he hasn't done anything in a year. not fair.

ok, I suppose I should do something else now.

ewww gross, but still...

I didn't photograph it, but one of the 'healthy' lunch things I packed for today was a box of Pacific (that's the brand) Tuscan White Bean Soup. I was excited for lunch because a) I was hungry, b) I wanted to try the soup (love beans, love soup), and c) I love my mug (thanks to Laura for the awesome gift).


So, I poured the soup into my mug, heated it up, brought it back to my desk, and dug in!

YUMMY! Nope, it was disgusting. Seriously, it was gross. Wait, I don't think I even made it back to my desk before tasting it. I think I tasted it while standing near the microwave. I was that excited. It tasted like liquid plastic that was made to taste like food. Yes, it tasted like poorly spiced, food-like liquid plastic. Decent texture, but horrible taste. I still ate it though! Ha ha ha. I don't think that I'll eat another mug-full, however.

After I finished the soup, I went to the cafeteria with Shareef and made a small salad: approximately two TBSP cottage cheese, about same volume chickpeas, one TBSP chopped, hard-boiled egg, one TBSP peas, two TBSP goldfish, 8-10 bread & butter pickle chips (they were so good!), and three grape tomatoes. Delicious! Shareef ate a cheesesteak and fries. I was strangely un-jealous, but I did have to stop myself from reaching out and taking one of his fries. Had I done that, it probably would have led to an awkward moment. As if eating in the work cafeteria isn't awkward enough.