Happy Saturday my lovelies!! Are you having a wonderful day? It’s so SUNNY where I am!!
Today also marked the first day of my marathon training :O :O I had to shift it all forwards a couple of days, cos my proposed 14mile run falls on the Sunday of the Healthy Living Summit…so instead, I’ve planned it so I do that the day before I leave, then I can have a few days off at the HLS, and get back on track when I get home 🙂 Genius right? Anyway:
Day 1 of my programme called for a simple 3 mile run – easy! I did 5k in 27minutes (I was slow cos it was way hot out) and then had my precious EGM:
Straight after, I went out on a reading walk. I was obviously feeling very emotional today…I finished the end of my book, which was just your average chick lit, rom-com type thing – yet I burst into tears not once, but TWICE reading it. It had a happy ending for goodness sake!! What can I say…I’m a romantic. I tear up at weddings in films, when people talk about love, at people who have boyfriends…I’m hopeless 😛 I just want a boyfriend of my own really. Alas!
I then played with my favourite breathing animal in the whole wide world – Chika! We just did 25mins or so schooling, but she was trying very hard and was all light and soft, so there was no need to push it 🙂
The rest of the morning was spent killing some time (apparently, cos I can’t remember what else I did :/), then, something kind of amazing happened….
THAT happened! I broke into my first spaghetti squash 😀 To make it look like above, I just cut it in half, scraped out the seeds, seasoned it, and baked it for about 40mins or so, or til it was all soft. I then let it cool while I got on with the rest of lunch.
I had a sweet section – spaghetti squash, mixed with the same gooseberry/pear concoction as yesterday, with a sprinkle of grape nuts:
A random bit of spaghetti squash on the side, just so I could reaaaally taste it:
And a lentil mix thing – 55g dry weight of green and red lentils, boiled with stock, tomato puree, sundried tomato, cinnamon, celeriac and green pepper:
All together:
A lunch fit for a King, wouldn’t you agree? Squash verdict: It hasn’t got the flavour of kabocha, but I love the texture, and in its’ own right, it has a good taste. Overall I’m pleased – but if I was on the Titanic, and I had one seat on my lifeboat left, I’d have to pick the kabocha…sorry spaghetti!! 😛
Straight after lunch, my mum, Hannah and I went to go and see Chahara’s new foal again. My aunt really wanted me to see him today, cos I saw him 2 days ago so I could judge if there was an improvement in his dodgy leg situation. Sadly, there really wasn’t 😦 His back legs are awful 😦 To be honest, the chances are he will have to be put down. He’s probably in a lot of pain already, he just isn’t aware of it because he was born like it. But the more he grows, the worse it’ll get. It’s terribly sad, especially for Chahara. She’s a fab mum, and he’s her first foal 😦 But anyway, I think my mum is going to recommend the vet comes out to give him lots of scans etc to see if the leg can be splinted – but her gut feeling is the problem is too high up, right in his hips, so it can’t be helped.
HOWEVER, I did get some nicer pictures today 🙂 He’s such a sweetheart, I have to show y’all!!
I love him a little bit 🙂
This is the other foal too (this guy is now about a month old I think):
His mum, Aurabelle:
Precious!!
After the foal fun, we shot off to Poplar Park – Hannah has an event there with Tig tomorrow, so we walked the cross country course. I snacked on an apple on the way (I wasn’t hungry, but I missed my apple from the morning :p) and then we walked…oohh, like a mile or so round the course. Some randomer on the course had the most BEAUTIFUL German Sheppard type dog…ohmygosh, it was stunning!! Jess will know what I mean when I say it floated about like a warmblood 😛
My lunch today held me over SO well! I totally wans’t hungry for the afternoon snack :s but it was an old favourite, so I couldn’t say no 😛 Bear granola with yogurt:
HURRAAHHH!! It’s been too long, Bear granola, too long. Never again will I leave such a gap between eating you!
Dinner – immensely dull, I am sorry!! I had had bigger plans, but then I was tired and to be perfectly honest, I couldn’t be bothered to do them anymore 😛 sooo, I had tempeh, with a peanut, banana and maple sauce, usual veggies as well as some leek, and a 3grain mix:
I can truly say, that was the best sauce EVER!!! Recipe –
Peanut-Maple-Banana sauce
- 10g peanut butter
- a few dashes of soy sauce
- a pinch of salt
- a tsp of maple syrup
- approx. 1inch piece of banana, frozen then ‘melted’ in the microwave
- a dash of cinnamon
- splash of water
Mix everything together, microwave it, mix a bit more. I then let mine cool so it thickened up. Serve on tempeh, chicken, whatever! And ENJOY 😀
That’s all from me now 🙂 I’m going to do what I do best- read the newspaper and watch something crap on TV. Wild night right?! 😛
Question – what makes you cry? Romance does it for me, every time 😛
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Lovely post. 🙂
Good luck with your marathon training! Love the three part lunch. Cute foal photos (hope everything works out with his legs!)
Love how you described the German Shepherd floating like a warmblood. 😀
Hope you have a great rest of the weekend!
way jealous of your dinner as i am everytime i see them.
i like kabocha and bnut squash better than spaghetti squash too but i loooooove pouring marinara sauce on spaghetti squash. it’s so good!
i am still go jealous that you are coming all the way from britain to come to the HLS. i live 3 miles from the hotel it’s at and i dont even have a ticket. boo to me. FAIL for missing the “buy time.”
Oly 3miles away!? You should come by anyway! I’m arriving on the Thursday so I have all of Friday to explore Chicago 🙂
Something GUARANTEED to make me cry is the moment in Schindler’s List where they are all freed and able to leave the factory, and Schindler breaks down and takes his ring off and says ‘I could have saved more, if I sold this, I could have saved more lives.’ EVERY. TIME. I am so predictable. Other than that, general injustice and cruelty to vulnerable people or animals. I carry a lot of guilt, yet, strangely, am not religious…
On a lighter note, gorgeous foal pictures 🙂 , beautiful sunny day, and just supping a 2001 Rioja. Yes, I am 30, single, in on Saturday night and loving it dammit 😉 !! Jx
Good for you!! You should enjoy being 30 and free 😀
Don’t be silly – dinner looks fab and super creative! Even when you’re food is “dull” by you – it’s still amazing by me!!
And I loooove german shephards. Such gorgeous dogs, and I totally know what you mean 😉
Such a sad thing about Chahara’s baby 😦 Sounds like your aunt is just looking out for his best interest, though – which as hard as it may be, is so admirable. I didn’t realize how crooked they were – more noticeable in these shots 😦
Have a good time at the event tomorrow, though! Good luck to Hannah!
Yeah these pictures are a bit more clear – it’s even worse when you see it in person. He can’t even lie down gracefully (he kind of falls over), and he can’t trot or canter properly 😦
Ooh I am totally going to try a sauce like that on my tempeh! YUM! I am so so jealous of these adorable little foals you get to play with. And congrats on your first day of race training!
we had a foal with ricketts once 😦 because of the vitamin c defecienty it was a sadd time, we had it splinted though and he came right so fingers crossed x
Wow that’s good- is he all alright now still?
we had a foal with ricketts once 😦 because of the vitamin c defecienty in the mare it was a sadd time, we had it splinted though and he came right so fingers crossed x
Awwww….that’s so sad about the foal 😦
How exciting that you’re officially starting your marathon training! I can’t wait to follow along!
Even though I don’t dig spaghetti squash, I’m glad you did 🙂 I can live vicariously through you, haha!
Nostalgia always makes me cry, like the end of Toy Story 3. I don’t know…I’m becoming a sap in my old age. I used to not cry at anything in movies or books, but I’ve been crying during movies more lately – Benjamin Button, The Duchess, UP, Toy Story 3, the end of POTC3…man, the list seems endless!
I hear ya about the BF thing, though…I’ve decided that I’m just going to be the creepy food/cat woman for the rest of my life. Oh well 🙂
OH my gosh, that’s exactly what I say too!! If I hit 60 and I’m still single, I want to be known at The Crazy Cat Lady and have 20 cats and smell musty :p
hey what book were you reading? do you recommend any others for light summer reading? id love to hear some new ones 🙂 thanks!!
I was reading My SIngle Friend, by Jane Costello – it’s just very simple and easy 🙂 her other two books are good too 🙂
And I’ve also just finished Everybody Worth Knowing, by Lauren someone, who did The Devil Wear’s Prada? That was fab 🙂 Anything by Elizabeth Noble is good too…I’ve read a lot of light reads :p
That sauce sounds absolutely AMAZING! holy yum!
And yeah, romance makes me cry every. time. and anything sad involving animals, babies, or old people… just gets me.
I CAN’T WAIT TO MEET YOU AT THE HLS!!! EEK!
Love ya!
I can’t believe you’re going!! I am seriously SO happy about it!!! 😀
I’m so sorry about the foal. I hope that everything works out for the best!
And, I always tear up at sappy things, too. From commercials for dog food to movies with a happy ending–I’m a mess! I generally try to avoid things that are tooo sappy, otherwise I’d always have red eyes 🙂
–Monica (formerly of shenanvegans.blogspot.com)
Dog food adverts? That’s amazing 😀
waaaaah i want to go to the HLS so much now 😦 every time people mention it i get a little bit sadder.
THAT makes me cry! and so does romance. i was at a wedding last weekend and i cried when the bride walked down the aisle!
the foal pictures are just too adorable. sad about his legs though 😦
Hha I would have been in floods along with you if I’d seen someone walk down the aisle 😛
congrats on starting training!!!
the date of registration opening for the marathon i want to run NEXT APRIL is just a couple weeks away, and I am already anxious over that! pretty pathetic… haha. But it will be awesome. you are going to do great!
I love horses, looks like you had a great time.
Cute pictures of the foal 🙂 ❤
I cry very easily..births, romance novels, emotional songs…anything lol
I ALWAYS cry when babys are born. Granted, i’ve never actually seen one being born in real life, but whenever on tv a new life comes in to the world and you see the emotion and love on the parents faces, i’m in tears, without fail!!!
A delicious bunch of eats..i’d like to try squash spagetti! xx
Awh that’s quite a cute thing to cry at!!
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