back from the doc

Well, after some anti inflamatory, a knee alignment brace, and some excersises the doc visit is over I took the rest of the day off and did some p90x I finally got a pull up bar its pretty awsome wish I would have gotten it sooner! GAH! lol. well, Off to work!

Visit

So Mom called on Friday and said, hey what are you doing want us to visit? So of course I said YEA! they came up and we visited the Pink Palace, Gus' fried chicken, and a few other places around it was great just to spend time with them again! I love my family and feel really lucky to have them around. later after they left I took my camera out for a quick afternoon shoot to try to catch the "golden hour". It was like 98 degrees at 6:00pm so I saw this sprinkler and had to capture that great water shooting thought it!

Yeah for food!!

So, here is some glazed eggplant that I made that was pretty great I covered that in some couscous and it was just a good day from then on! It is glazed with some curry and honey but thats the major tastes that came through anyway. Hooray for good food! especially when it turns out looking like the picture in the book, unlike looking at the burger on the Mcdonalds sign only to get a smushed looking wrapped up solid substance that they pass as a burger.hehe!

The vegetarian returns

Well, my girl came in for a visit over Labor day and it was great fun! We didn't do anything to spectacular but we enjoyed the time with each other. It was a great weekend with great weather and the Hurricane Gustav may have even helped the weather in Memphis stay breezy and cool. I'll leave you with a picture of some salad I made us....it was like greans and tofu with mushrooms cooked in a curry and coconut milk base. Although both of us are sceptical of my skills with vegetables this one turned out pretty good!

LEED seminars

So we took a trip to Little Rock to check out the cool things going on there involving LEED design. It seems Little rock is taking off while Memphis is soo slow in even getting involved. Some things that stick out in my mind were the business that loaned bikes to their employees (also had showers in the office). They collected rainwater to use for flushing the toilets landscape watering...and so on. Heifer uses a moat around the building to naturally bring a draft through the stair well so they don't have to condition it! There were some great features! In all it took up a Friday but I'm glad I went! we visited Heifer International, Clinton Memorial Library, and Winrock International.

Training?

What in the world have I been doing? well, I did go to my new apartments so called fitness room and have been doing cardio on that. I think I may go mountain biking today because it isn't scalding hot outside. This past weekend I was in Galveston eating icecream and eating oreos! It was kinda nice to not have to worry too much about what I'm putting down the ole chute. But I got to see my girl Christina and we just enjoyed each others' company.