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I feel like a lot has been going on lately!

My last day at my previous job was Tuesday.  Pretty hectic wrapping everything up there.  In fact, I haven't actually finished *everything* and still have my laptop from there.  Need to get that back to them soon, I suppose.

I also haven't officially started my new job yet so it's been 2 nice days of sleeping in...sorta.  At least later than when I was working!

I'll be working from home for the next few months, so I need to get back into the 'Just Because I Work From Home Doesn't Mean I Don't Have To Get Out Of My PJs And Into The Shower' mindset.  Having used to work from home on Fridays, I know how that can just lead to seriously bad things...

On the wedding front...making some progress.  Little by little, right?  Ryan and I have a trip back down to FL planned in a week so hopefully after that trip, we'll have a few more things solidified like a florist and a lighting company.  I think those 2 have been on my 'elusive list' for a while now...

Goal: Four at home dinners a week

I like cooking, but I really don't like coming up with dinner menus.  Every now and then I'll crave a certain dish and that makes things easy.  I'll just make what I'm craving.  The other nights though...that's when it gets tough.

While I was at CVS the other day, I picked up a Cooking Light magazine to flip through while waiting for my prescription.  I ended up purchasing it and then making Sautéed Chicken with Sage Browned Butter for dinner the next night.  I mean, who doesn't love browned butter?!?  Turns out it was a super easy dish and pretty good too.  That is now my new thing.  Should be easy, but still good.

After one recipe down, I decided that I'd just start making recipes one after one out of the magazine instead of having to even think about what to make.  Regardless of what it was.  With that in mind, next up...Ma Po Tofu with some steamed brocollini.  Just ask my family, I do not normally eat tofu.  BUT with an interest in eating healthier, this was recipe #2.  It even tasted mostly like something I would eat at home with my parents.  Mostly!  

Recipe Three was another quick and easy one for broiling up some Salmon and Bok Choy.  I have to say, that I'm loving all these quick prep meals.  So far, we're three for three with recipes from this magazine.  Ryan and I figured we'd aim for making dinner at home 4 nights a week and this one will definitely be one we can make when we need an easy one.

Number Four for the week was another seafood dish.  Not from Cooking Light, but still along the lines of something relatively simple - Spicy Baked Shrimp.  A few weeks back, Ryan was in New Orleans and brought me back some cajun seasonings.  Figured it was time to break out that spice jar.  Shrimp, Spice, and toasted French Bread...to sop up all that cajun goodness.

So that was 4!  Here's to continuing 4 healthy, but still tasty at home meals a week!

And it's goooooooooood!

Here's Ryan kicking a field goal from the 40 :)

Superbowl XLVI Weekend

The year I moved to St Petersburg, Tampa was hosting the Superbowl.  This year Indianapolis hosted.  Again, I didn’t go.  But I at least took part of some of the Superbowl fanfare.

Tiffany’s, maker of the Superbowl trophy, held an unveiling event of this year’s Lombardi Trophy and we went and checked it out.  Breakfast at Tiffany’s…with the Superbowl trophy, some ex-NFLers, and lots of Superbowl ring bling too.

Since Ryan and I were going to be out of town the actual weekend of the game, we made it downtown two different times – one to check out the stadium and one visit Superbowl Village.  Sadly though, we weren’t able to get tickets for the zipline.  Its ok though - Even though we had a really ‘warm’ week that week, I still think it would have been too cold for me on a zipline down 2 city blocks :)

The Sunday before the Superbowl, Ryan and I volunteered at the stadium placing seat covers on about 1/2 of the stadium.  It was a good way to help the city out as well as see the stadium as it was getting decked out for the Giants and the Patriots.  Figured this was the closest we’d get to an actual seat since we weren’t going to spend $3,000 per seat on StubHub.

And we figured the whole experience wouldn’t be complete without going to check out the NFL Experience.  The convention center was filled with all things NFL – replica locker rooms, football making demonstrations, a fake draft stage where you could hold up your team’s jersey in front of the podium, training camps for kids, and tons of football events for fans to try out like kicking a field goal, throwing past cutout defenders that moved, running out and catching a long pass, etc…  I won’t even post the video of me attempting the field goal kick from the TWENTY!  Ryan of course nailed his kick from the f-o-u-r-t-y!

So that was all before Superbowl weekend.  Actual game weekend, Ryan and I were in NYC for Bryan and Tara’s wedding.  Sadly, I didn’t get any pictures from the wedding…or the weekend…except for 2!  God, Tebow, and Shake Shack :)

If I ever move to NYC, I should be banned from the C-line.  I was in that line THREE times in one weekend.