Diet Update...

A week ago Sunday I began my new diet. Every morning I have to weigh myself to see my progress. Owning a scale is somewhat daunting to me. Scales and I have a checkered past and haven't always seen eye to eye. Currently this scale is my friend. Mostly because it keeps telling me I am losing weight (except this morning) and gaining more muscle. As of this morning I have lost 9.6 pounds. Bringing my cleanse and diet total to 14.4. I didn't do the best upkeep after the cleanse since I went on vacation the day after I finished.

Here's a picture from last night. Mind you it was taken at 10:30 and was a last minute type of thing so that I would have a picture of my progress for this post. Be gentle.

For the love of... BOOKS!

For my birthday in March I splurged and bought myself the whole set of these Penguin Books. They are the classics and have these fabulous covers.

I was just reading the design sponge blog and found out that Penguin Books is releasing 8 of these same titles in the US, but with different covers. Penguin how could you do this to me? You know I must get those books too. The covers are so fabulous!



Guess I need to save my pennies, and that wii purchase is back on the back burner.

Phase 2

Yesterday I started the next step in my weight loss adventure. Yes, adventure. I didn't plan ahead enough to get a before picture. I'll try and get Jon to take one tonight, so that it's not Myspace style in front of a mirror.

I'll post my weight loss progress next week.

***UPDATE***
I kind of slacked on the whole getting a before shot, so here is a picture that Jon took before I started the diet, but was mid cleanse. It's kinda embarrassing to see myself this way. Check out the other hot ladies in the pic though.

Rooster

Back in early July Jon and I ventured down to Utah County to try out a new restaurant, Rooster.

It's a nice little restaurant. Emphasis on little though. We decided to sit outside and enjoy the nice weather.

We had already planned on ordering some dumplings, but took a look over the menu to see if there was anything else we wanted to try. The waiter sold us on the idea of trying their bubble tea. I'd heard of bubble tea but hadn't had it before. It's a milk tea that has boba balls in it. Boba balls are made from a mixture of tapioca and carrageenan powder. The straw for the drink was huge, maybe a half inch wide. I don't think Jon was sold on it, but I might get one again sometime.

For dinner we ordered the Rolled Rice Noodles with peanut sauce and hoisin, an order of Shrimp & Roasted Red Pepper dumplings and Veggies & Tofu dumplings. I tried both of the dumplings and thought they were great. Jon only had the Veggies & tofu but agreed that they were good. Neither of us were really in love with the rolled rice noodles. We both love sticky rice with peanut sauce and thought the rolled noodles might be just as good, but didn't think so in the end.

(We were so excited to dig in I forget to get a picture until we were almost done.)

For desert we got their Chocolate Lava Cake with Vanilla Ice Cream. It was *A-MAZING*! I checked their menu as I am typing this and found they don't have the lava cake with ice cream anymore. I wonder if they will substitute ice cream.


If you are in the area or looking for a new place to try out, I recommend it. Plus what can it hurt going to some place new?

Cleanse & misc. housekeeping updates

I know I was going to post this on Saturday, but between everything going on at Craft Lake City and then leaving the next day for the saltflats it got looked over. Finally tally after 28 days is a weight loss of 10 pounds. Woo hoo!

I am going back to the wellness center in a little over a week and will see what will be the next step.

In other news.. thank you to everyone who came out to Craft Lake City and stopped by my booth and said hi. My apologies to those of you who came early while I was still having a minor stress out. Thanks to the fam who ran and got me a plug adapter. I never ended up getting the laptop hooked up to the wireless, but at least I am now set with an adapter if I ever need it again. Also, thanks to my mom and Chicka & hubby. Without them I never would have been set up in time.

I hope everyone had a good time and picked up some fabulous things from the vendors. I know I did!

Studio 5

Just a heads up.. I will be on Studio 5 again tomorrow. Studio 5 starts at 11am.

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Craft lake city

We're here come stop by and say hi! The festival is going on til 10 pm.




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the salt.

It's that time of year again. What time is that? Speedweek!

As if my life was not crazy enough, trying to get everything done for Craft Lake City, I am also heading out to the salt (salt flats) for a few days to check out the cars and hopefully see some new land speed records get set.

Some might think that the salt doesn't sound like a great place to vacation. But.. I love it! Being out in the middle of the salt flats is like no other place. If you have stopped at the rest stop off of I-80 and walked onto the salt you haven't gotten the complete experience. You need to take the exit after the rest stop (heading west), drive by bend in the road until there is no more road. The races are then held a few miles out from there in the middle of the salt.

Jon and I have been going to Speedweek for that last few years. We get to kick back for a few days, hang out with our friends and watch history be made. I am taking my laptop with me and am hoping to be able to post some pics out there, but we'll see what happens.

(Us last year with Lucy)

Here are some photos Jon has taken previous years.