A Beautiful Sunday Spent Inside

It has been completely gorgeous in Los Angeles recently. Every morning I brew my coffee and throw open my sliding door. Which feels miraculous after 6 years of facing the freeway. Also, so great in terms of my electric bill.

Today was a beautiful day for a hike or a bike ride. But instead, I used my beautiful day energy to beautify my space - starting with laundry, cleaning the fridge, taking out the trash - and my mind - movies, books. In terms of productivity, this was a day where I cleaned my tall kitchen garbage can.

I know, you're so jealous, right? You totally wish your garbage can was sparkly clean like mine.

And I finally finished an audio book I had planned to finish during my last week at the studio. That plan got torpedoed by an evil cold which left me simply concentrating on driving and staying alive. So I was glad to finally finish that one and feel more on track with my reading.

I watched my Netflix disk (The Informant!) and my first complete Netflix streaming movie on my television with my shiny new Wii streaming disk (The 39 Steps).

And mostsuperawesome, I made Much Vegetable Goodness. The past few days I've been whipping up all the vegetables I have on hand *before* I go grocery shopping again. I was feeling a little buried in vegetables for a beat there. (For a "beet" there?)

For breakfast I whipped up stir-fried cabbage with fennel seeds (from Madhur Jaffrey's Quick & Easy Indian Cooking) and then had it in a whole wheat tortilla with some eggs and low-fat feta. Delicious! I wasn't sure if the cabbage would be good with the eggs, but it totally was.

For dinner I used a cauliflower and two green peppers for this vegetables in Thai red curry recipe from my new love, Vegetarian Times. Yes, I'm ordering a paper magazine. I thought I was done with paper magazines forever, but I picked up a copy of the March 2010 issue, and it is AWESOME. I already made the greens and quinoa pie, and this week I'm going to make mac and cheese for grown-ups (whole wheat penne, spinach, garlic, and Parmesan).

I've pretty much committed to free-range meat only at this point. There are a few exceptions, most notably my monthly trip downtown for cheap beer & wings. But I'm primarily back on track eating vegetarian most days, getting a Rosie chicken on occasion, and I'm hoping to pick up some more Lindner bison soon as well. I don't really have anything in my freezer but ice cubes, Boca burgers, and some frozen peas and edamame, so I'm thinking I'll pick up a couple cuts and keep them in the freezer for when I'm craving a little red meat.

Now the day is drawing to a close. I just got off a call from an old friend who's visiting in a few weeks. So nice to chat, and so nice to have a visit to look forward to.

Tomorrow, the job hunt resumes, and I feel caught up, fortified, and ready to kick-ass. It's a good place to be.

Comments

[Rob]

Wow, people are still commenting on your grey hair blog entry? You are going to be making new friends for the next 50 years from that one.