Mondays don’t seem so bad when you’re coming off a great weekend and you have a short week ahead

. Right? Sometimes? OK.
A recap…
Friday I headed over to the gym after work to keep up with my non existent 5k training schedule. Then, D picked me up and we stopped by to have a beer with friends that were out on a bar tour. I had a Flying Dog Snake Dog IPA. Lighter than most, which was great that night. With an early morning and long day ahead, we headed home after an hour (plus I was probably offending people out in my gym clothes…classy).

my how Friday night activities have changed
Saturday morning, despite chances of rain, it was nothing but sunshine and blue skies! Having to leave the house for work at 7:30 meant no morning gym trip with D, so that was a bit of a bummer, but Pops, StepMa and Sam (lil sis) were coming down for the day so I was really excited to see them. I like that my family can come visit while I’m working and have a fun day too. The day started off like most others.

does the shadow make the ever-present oat bran bowls more exciting?
I had oat bran with pumpkin, coconut butter cinnamon and some vanilla chia mock cream cheese frosting type stuff I made in my attempts to clean up
this recipe I got from
Maggie. The frosting still needs work, but the pumpkin bread part came out pretty good. I’ll work on it again soon.
Perfect weather for the game and my fam got to be involved in our gameday promotions…

on the big screen- they are cracking up

on the field for the coin toss with players and refs
After the game we headed back up to Baltimore and over to the Fells Point Festival…the camera was left behind in the car. Pops took pics but I never know if I’ll see them
so I’ll just recap and hopefully post later.
We sat outside V-No and had snacks and some drinks then headed to Miss Irene’s (where D and I had stopped on Friday) for dinner. I did take some action shots in the car though…booooring.

loading D and his bike in the back
We got up early to go to the farmers’ market on Sunday. There was a sponsored farm to table tour that brought local chefs to the market, cooking and serving up dishes with ingredients found right there in the market. After getting D his first round of coffee, we headed over to Jesse Sandlin of Abacrombie…you may know her from Top Chef! She made a delicious broccoli cheese soup that I will try to replicate this week. It was delicious even at 8am! I got all starstruck and nerdy so D asked her the ingredient list for the soup.

D cheesin it up with Chef Jesse

human coffee shop- he had a tap to fill up your cup- so cool



I wanted something different for breakfast- something ‘brunchy.’ I saw this…
and made this…

mmm. southwesty!
Ezekiel english muffin with the beans, avocado, fakin’ bacon tempeh strips, poached egg and some hot sauce (used to cover the plate after pic was taken). This, my friends, was a spot hitter. Don’t you love putting things together at home that end up being 100x better than if you had gone out to a restaurant?
For the afternoon, I dropped D off at a park so he could do some hiking (jealous
) while I ran some errands. I scored a new pair of Mizunos for 40% off at DSW so that made it worth it. Shopping for clothes and stuff just isn’t my thing. I wish I had a guide. Grocery stores are a whole other thing, though. I tend to make a special trip to one whenever I have to go clothes shopping to get me back to a happy place. After this trip, I went to Wegmans
All better!
Last night to end the weekend, we met up with K&T at Ra for a roll (that counts as our seafood sunday) and to greet some of her family that arrived for the wedding this weekend! The wedding’s on Friday, so I’m off Thursday and Friday to help out and do bridesmaidy stuff. This is going to be a great party.

sake bomb for the bride!
Sorry for the randomness- but I wanted to fit the whole weekend in. The 5am wake up call was one of the easiest today after such a relaxing weekend. Hope yours was great too!
Have you:
1. Had one of those moments where you stop and think, ‘this is EXACTLY where I want to be?’
2. Ever listened to The Underdog?