Weekend Review 8/5/12

Hey, y'all! Sorry about the impromptu blogging hiatus. I wish I could tell you I'm really busy and important hence my absence, but really I just got burnt out. I'm on the computer all damn day for work and sometimes it just gets to be too much screen time, ya know? My cubicle will be the death of me. But let's not talk about depressing things. How 'bout that weekend?!

Saturday

I woke up bright and early on Saturday, despite my desire to sleep in until at least 9am. But once I'm up the dogs are up and once they're up everyone's up so 7:30am it was. I stretched and headed out to the living room to get my workout over with right away. One round of Shred later and I was wide awake and ready to get on with the day.

And sweaty. I was also very sweaty.

While I showered off the glow, Sam whipped up a protein shake and a perfectly fried egg for me, which I added to a breakfast burrito of sorts. It was really just an egg and half an avocado with a few shakes of hot sauce, but it was magical.

Pure yolky perfection

After breakfast we headed out to visit our friends, Tricia and Spencer (of previous weekend review fame) in Harrisburg. I'm just being polite. We didn't really go to visit them. We went to visit this little lady.

This is her happy face.

This is Daphne, the cutest little floppy-eared puppy you've ever seen. Isn't she such an Eeyore?! She's so cute it hurts. As do her puppy teeth. She has a fondness for biting feet and I was lucky enough to be wearing sandals. Ouch.

We hung out with Daph for a bit but hunger soon drove us back out to the streets. Tricia and Spencer took us over to Dockside Willies where nothin' healthy was happening. Not on our table, anyway.

Beer. You know how I do.

Our gracious hosts

Fries with Boom Boom Sauce (I had to guys...I mean, Boom Boom Sauce? I had to.) River Rocks in the back there. They were like mini calzones. 

A small (yes, that's a small) Philly cheese steak pizza for me...

And a small pepperoni for Sam. 

Ahh, pizza. It sings to my soul. After lunch we got the grand tour of Harrisburg (burbs) which just so happened to lead us right past an ice cream place that we had to stop at. I forget what it was called, so we'll just call it Heaven. I got some sort of gargantuan brownie and ice cream concoction. As per usual, I couldn't really eat it, but I gave it the old college try (and suffered for the rest of the evening- why do I keep doing this to myself?!). Then we went back to the apartment to play with the pup some more and watch a movie. Or nap, depending on who you are (Saaaaaam).

We were supposed to go out to dinner, too, but we were all still so stuffed from lunch that it didn't happen. We left around 7pm and made it home two hours later then promptly passed out for the night.

Sunday

Sunday was a very exciting day because we got to hang out with Lauren and Greg again (and meet their famous dogs, Jackson and Lance)! They invited us to their house for lunch and we gladly accepted. It'd been a while since I'd seen Lauren in real life (of course, I always know what she's up to thanks to the wonderful world of blogging) and I don't think we stopped talking the whole time we were there. Except when we were eating, of course. Lauren set up a very impressive build-your-own salad bar with everything you could ever want. Green and veggies, proteins and carbs. It was glorious! And so pretty to look at.

If I was proactive enough to put that kind of prep work into my lunch salads, I'd look forward to lunch every single day. Also, I really need to find Twin Oaks tofu, and fast.

After lunch Lauren and Greg gave us a personal driving tour of Frederick. Lauren is a true Frederickan, so we got to hear lots of interesting tidbits about the city, and, more importantly, which restaurants are really good. We definitely need to go back soon.

When we got back to the house we had some chocolate tofu pie that I made earlier that morning. I got the recipe from Chocolate-Covered Katie and it was so easy to whip up. The refrigerator did most of the work! And it was gooood.

We spent a few hours with Lauren and Greg but the time went so fast! Before I knew it it was time to head back to the city to do laundry. (Yeah, that still hasn't happened. We got lazy and clearly still are.) Thank you so much, Lauren, for inviting us over! I can't wait to meet up again!

Like I said, we never did get to that laundry so the rest of the evening was spent watching the Olympics before heading to bed. This weekend was one of the ones that just flies by and, before you know it, it's Monday again. Clearly a sign of a good time.