Picky and Healthy

- Last Saturday night’s late night and lots of booze is still wearing on me. Apparently when I throw up I now get all these little purple dots around my eyes. There were a few that were really big and I looked pretty bruised. Plus I still have a cold, I’ve gone through a lot of tissues. I feel really old.

- Kickboxing this week has been great. Two classes with Mike and a class this morning with Adriana. Adriana is killer, we did side squats around the (very large) room, lots of shuffling around the room, and a lot of punch outs. Plus tons of arm stuff with 8lb medicine ball at the end.

- I started watching Pretty Little Liars on Netflix. I’ve totally been sucked in. I am curious if the mystery will be solved by the end of this season or if it continues. I really hope it’s this season.

- After seeing Hell or High Watermelon on Tina’s blog I decided I had to try it. I had one this afternoon as I watched the Spain vs. France Euro Cup game.

- Last night I was supposed to go to a concert in Prospect Park, but it thundered, poured, and then drizzled the rest of the night. So we went out for tapas in the East Village. The tapas were amazing, expensive in the end, but worth it.

- When I thought I was still going to the concert I made cookies for our picnic. I got a jar of Trader Joe’s speculous spread in my Foodie Penpal package. A few days later I found a recipe for 3-Ingredient Biscoff cookies. They are pretty good, although mine came out kind of a weird consistency.

- I’m supposed to go to a birthday party tonight at the same bar where we went dancing last Saturday night. But now I’m kind of feeling a quiet night in. We’ll see.

- Anyone else really excited for the Olympics? I watched some of the trials today (diving and track and field). I’ve also been reading Swimming, which is a novel about an Olympic swimmer. Plus I’m the first person on the library’s waiting list for Gold.

- Kath turned me on to the dangers of sunscreen. After looking at the EWG‘s site I decided to clean up my sunscreens. I bought the Waterbabies Pure and Simple at Target and today, when I was at CVS, I noticed that it was on-sale for $8.99 (same price as Target) plus a $3 coupon. The packaging is slightly different though.

- I’m going to Portland for my annual trip to see my grandparents, aunt, uncle, and cousins. My grandfather emailed me this week to see what I wanted to do there. If anyone as any good Portland suggestions I’d love to hear them.

- For dinner tonight I made buffalo chicken calzones. I was inspired by buffalo chicken garbage bread I found on Pinterest. I decided that I couldn’t make something so indulgent so I also took inspiration from Meghann’s buffalo chicken calzones. In the end mine came out at about 500 calories each. Not bad for something called buffalo chicken calzones. My biggest issue was getting them closed. The first two I made I tried to completely fold half the dough over. For the second two I realized it was better to put the filling in the middle and fold up the sides.