No Doubt I'm old

Last night, my friend Shelly and I went to the No Doubt/Parmour concert out at Sleep Train Amphitheater. My sister wanted to come and bring Jasmine, my 12 niece, but I kept saying no I don't think it's a good crowd for her. Well at it turns out there were probably more kids her age or younger than mine. The more I go to concerts the older I'm feeling as the crowd seems to get younger and younger. I guess I forget I was once 20 something and spent my summers going to concerts and probably just as obnoxious as the group behind us smoking pot all through the show (except I never smoked pot, just drank).
The concert was GREAT and I think I sweated enough to make up for the appetizers I had for dinner. No Doubt was so high energy and Gwen is a great motivator to get you wanting to workout again. Her abs are ridiculous for someone who has given birth, TWICE!
Unfortunately my concert high was quickly lost as it took us an hour to finally clear the parking lot only to get stuck another hour in traffic to finally get home at 2:30 (3 hours to make an hour drive). So this morning to add insult to injury I found that I must have tweaked my ankle from jumping up and down for almost two hours and felt like I was hungover even though I only had Pepsi.
This is how I know I'm getting too old for this.......

Failure to plan is a plan for failure

Tonight I'm one step closer to actually start my healthy cooking plan. Half the reason I don't cook is that whenever I get the urge I don't have all the ingredients on hand or when I go to the store I go without a complete list of all the ingredients I need.
So I decided to go through my cookbook and bookmark the recipes that jump out at me to make in the future and then I wrote up ingredients I'll need to buy, so when I go to make the meal I will already have my shopping list. Just a little helpful hint that I figure everyone could use.
Now I just have to go the to market....

Welcome to my blog

I have had many ideas for blogs in the past. I think the idea first came up when I did a photo album along with my travel journals for my family when I first visited Italy 10 years ago. I believe it was my dad who said I should try to become a Rick Steve type. Since then I've done blogs for people to follow along with while on vacation, on facebook and myspace, but I always thought a blog about my normal everyday life would be, well boring.
After giving it some thought and lack of funds (and patience) to host my own website for my photography I thought I would try to combine my photos along excerpts of my life.

This summer, I have been put on a self imposed home arrest, mostly due to the unrelenting heat and no money to take a vacation anywhere cool, literally and figuratively. I've decided I needed a new hobby that I could do from comfort of my newly improved air conditioned house and still have contact with the outside world.

So what will you get from this blog? After stealing ideas from the Barefoot Contessa and from the book Julie and Julia, I've decided to take my love of eating food to a different level and try cooking a healthy meal at least once a week and posting the results with photos. I recently purchased Food You Crave by Ellie Kreiger who makes healthy food that actually looks tasty.

Of course I will also be posting about my family, friends, dogs and travels as they are always my favorite subjects. And then anything else that strikes my imagination. Here is a sneak preview and I hope you follow along to see what I'm trying to cook up and my world as I see it through my camera lens.


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