Snowy drive to work

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South street dinner

I ate my entire plate of blue nachos and beer sampler last night!

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Weekend

I had work on Saturday morning so when I came back I went right to work making dinner. I made spinach and artichoke dip with chips for the appetizer, black eyed pea masala with rice and broccoli as the main dish and pumpkin chocolate chip blondies for dessert. Everything was vegan! We also drank a bottle of wine that I bought on Friday from Market Street Wine Shop. It was great!

Here are links to the recipes I used: Black-eyed pea masala, Spinach-artichoke dip, Pumpkin Chocolate Chip blondies.

RPM

I went to my first LesMills RPM class this morning at 6 am! This is the second class I have tried at Gold's since joining over a year ago. One of my new year's resolutions was to take one class at Gold's per week and so far so good. Now that I know I like both Body Pump and RPM, I am going to try to attend one of those classes each week. I need to try yoga as well--I'm nervous about that!

Morning tea at work

Monday reading

Starting the week off well...already halfway done with my birthday present from Desiré.

Hopefully I won't have nightmares from seeing Black Swan earlier today!

Too many breaks

I've taken too many breaks from this blog and I want to try to upload at least one photo to represent each day of 2011. I don't know how long this will last, but I'll give it a try. Now that I have a Droid phone it might be a little easier.

Friday included Shenandoah Joe's and free wine tasting at Market Street Wine Shop with Desire.

A make-shift 12-pack purchased from Shady Grady on Saturday night. This is a 24-pack cut in two and held together with tape.

Vegetable and lentil stew and pumpkin brownies (both vegan) for dinner Sunday night.

Summary of the past few days

Virginia vs. Eastern Michigan football game, pregaming bars Saturday night, late night trip to Little John's, pumpkin carving at Alex's house, labels on the shelf at work: "Steamfresh" and "Sun Chips."

North Carolina?

Yesterday I drove to South Hill, VA and back for a home visit. We left at 7 am and returned to Charlottesville at 3:15 pm. I drove for 5 and a half hours total. Needless to say, I was pretty tired last night. I didn't take any photos on my journey, but I wish I had taken a picture of a sign placed in the door of a gas station we stopped at for a bathroom break. The sign read: "We buy gold and silver coins. And Guns." Inside the store, the walls were covered with Nascar signs and advertisements for beer and liquor. The store also sold minnows and serious fishing equipment. I guess that's when you know you are in the south.