Confessions of a Fitness Instructor

Heeeeeyyyyyyy  I hope Saturday is treating you well so far!

After posting yesterday, I cooked up some supper on the b-b-q.  Isn’t one of the best things about summer cooking on the b-b-q?  I know you can (and we do) use it year round, but there is something special about doing it in the summer (or spring in this case).

For me, steak and b-b-q’d veggies

And for J steak smothered in ketchup and some over cooked veggies (due to his ulcerative colitis all veggies have to be cooked beyond death).

complete with ketchup splatters

Afterwards we hung out in the basement.  J went for a run on the treadmill and afterwards we watched Rango on Netflix

It was a cute movie – I liked it!

Today things are pretty relaxed, it’s a rest day for me so I’m mostly sitting back and relaxing.

Like I mentioned yesterday I picked up a little something else at Peke’s that I was saving to share with you today – my very Kombucha!  I tried to make a video of my actual first taste but I had difficulties when I opened the bottle and it started fizzing up everywhere :/ so I made this video for ya after I cleaned up my mess

Here’s the Wikipedia article on Kombucha for those of you who want to know more about it.

Tonight we’re going out for supper and then to hang out with another couple and watch the hockey game.

Enjoy the rest of your day!

Have you ever tried Kombucha?  If you did what did you think of it?  If you like it what’s your favourite flavour?  

What a nice Friday we had here in the Valley It was sunny and warm and just what the doctor ordered after this rainy week!

After a double dose of Zumba this morning I decided to let Wendy cook up my lunch

Half Baja Salad & a small frosty

Here’s a little tip for you if you like the Baja salad from Wendy’s.  When ordering take-out, they put your chili in a container so you can add it yourself when you are ready to eat.  They sell two sizes of salad, the half and the full size.  The full size salad is something like $2.50 or $3 more than the half.  The trick is – they give you the same amount of chili for the half as they do the full side salad (but only when you get the take out.  When you eat in they put the chili on the salad when you order).  So really you are paying an extra couple bucks for lettuce and that’s it.  Sometimes (like today) they don’t fill the chili cup to the very top when you get the half-size, but I still don’t think it’s worth $3 to get 1/4 cup more chili and some lettuce leaves.  I’d rather save my money and get a frosty on the side.

This afternoon I got an e-mail letting me know that my card pass at the Athletics Complex on campus had been dis-activated (again) because last week was the end of the school term.  They always dis-activate our cards at the end of the school year and again at the start of the new year.  This is always such an annoyance.  Why?  Because to get it fixed it means a trip to my least favourite place on campus

It seems like every year it become as bigger and bigger ordeal.  I get there, nobody is there, or they can’t find me in the system, or the person that updates the cards isn’t there, or whatever.  Last year it took a full 2 months to get my card sorted out.  No exaggeration.  Thankfully today it was pretty painless. I was in and out in a matter of minutes.  Now the true test will be on Monday when I go to teach class, hopefully they did everything correctly and my card actually opens the door!

Since I was dreading going to get my card updated I promised myself if I went and got it done I could go check out the new Pete’s Frootique that opened this week in Wolfville.

My Nova Scotian readers will know that Pete’s Frootique is a local market with all sorts of fabulous goodies.  Since I live in the straight up country, I was excited to see what new stuff they brought to town for me to try

Well I certainly wasn’t disappointed

Sorry for the blurry pic, that dude was watching me as I tried to be a sneaky blogger taking photos with my phone :/

They have all the produce a girl could dream of finding!  Including what might just be the biggest sweet potatoes I’ve ever seen:

This photo doesn’t accurately convey their largeness

I found all sorts of goodies I wanted to take home with me, but I controlled myself and left with only a few items including a pineapple, raspberries, dates, a mystery item (more on it tomorrow!) and these lookers

FYI – they are not something one should  attempt to open while driving…

What the photo doesn’t show is the cocoa all over the ledge by the speedometer where a couple of the almonds flew, nor does it show the cocoa dust all over the front of my pants in the crotch area.  Lovely.  When I got to the grocery store I had to use on of the wipe things they have to disinfect your grocery cart on my pants.

I’m a classy girl.

Grocery shopping was a bit of a “throw whatever looks good” in the cart situation.  It’s never good to go without a list.  Now that I’m home I realize I forgot to buy yeast.  Crap.

A few of the other items you see are for this month’s foodie pen pal, and some of the others are exclusively for J (the bread, mini pizzas, and bagels to name a few) and of course the pop chips are for me

After all that shopping I decided to rehydrate with my favourite limeade

It’s everything a limeade should be and more, I heart it!

Well, it’s our first evening together since last Saturday (I’m not counting last Sunday since I was a big sickie) so I’m off to hang out in the basement with that guy I married while he goes for a run on the treadmill.

Have a good night!

To my local readers: have you checked out Pete’s yet?  What was your favourite find??