This past Friday, I -- with the help of my gals -- managed to successfully throw ATM a surprise birthday cocktail + dinner. I was certain that he was on to me the entire time, but he had no idea! We started at KMHD's place for drinks + homemade Guinness cupcakes and then a sum of us went to Star of India for supper. I gifted him a bottle of Lagavulin 16 year and new joysticks + paddles for his Atari 2600, which is essentially a gift for me as well.
Matt's a leap year bb, so we celebrated his birthday, too:
On Saturday-Sunday, Alannah stayed with ATM + I. Stella did not end up accompanying her, so instead of going to Oaklawn as planned, we opted to laze around and eat really good food. On Saturday evening, we made your standard liberal elite supper: homemade fettuccine pasta with fresh pesto + tomato, arugula salad with fennel, green apple + shallot vinaigrette, and freshly baked roasted garlic bread with olive oil + balsamic vinegar. If that makes you crazy, then this will make you cringe: we totally read Japanese poetry and some Walt Whitman to each other. Yeah, boooyeeeeeee!
I was beyond stuffed damn near the entire time, so as a result we moved at a real casual pace.
In other exciting news, I'm vouching for this amazing powdered peanut butter product:
Brittany hipped me to a smoothie recipe that's made up of a banana, 1/2 T of unsweetened cocoa, 2 T of powdered peanut butter, maybe a half cup of almond milk, and a few cubes of ice, blended. It's so tasty and has been helping me through this dessert-less hell I'm in. With the exception of a celebratory birthday cupcake and a celebratory Alannah's visiting ice cream, I've been off the sweets. I still have sugar in my diet, but no desserts. It's difficult, but I feel better for it, so much that I may go longer than the set 40 days and I may try to cut out other things like fruit juices + the occasional soda pop.
ATM + I engage in cat torture on a daily basis:
6 seconds:
I watch way too much hockey:
2 comments:
Happy birthday, ATM!
I've never heard of powdered peanut butter! But that's essentially my post-workout protein shake recipe! SO GOOD. xo.
Nicole: I bought the powdered pb @ Drug Emporium. 2T is 45 cals. It's probably nowhere near as delish as the real deal, but it's still pretty ace.
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