Running Chick

How can you know love a crock pot meal?  Get a hunk of meat, season it up, chuck it in the crock pot with a bunch of veggies, add some more seasoning and some stock, turn it on low and walk out the door.  When you get home from work, presto!  Dinner is ready!

I had high hopes for this roast, but it turned out to be too dry for me.  It was really tasty, so I had the seasonings spot-on, but I just couldn’t get past how dry it was.  Boo.

Oh well, maybe next time.  If  you want the recipe, click on the image.  Any suggestions for not drying out the roast are welcome.

In other news, holy crap do I have a serious case of camera envy.  It’s bad, people.  Really bad.

This is the Canon Rebel XS.  It’s a digital SLR (single lens reflex) camera and about a billion times better than my point-and-shoot Olympus.  The Rebel would allow me to take some seriously bad-ass pictures of, well, anything.  It’s pretty pricey, so that’s my biggest hold-up at the moment. 

Maybe I’ll magically win the lottery without buying a ticket?

My illustrious system administrator finally got around to installing a wiki on good ol’ feep.org so now I can have my very own recipes section!

My very first recipe in the wiki was for turkey meat loaf, which I yapped about in a previous post, but I made again last night (click on the image to go to the wiki).

The second recipe, the one I made with Josh tonight, was chicken bok choy.  I’ve had bok choy in various Asian dishes in the past, but always passed it over in the grocery store because I wasn’t sure what to do to it.  This time I decided to take the plunge and was I ever glad I did.  This stuff was like crack!  It tasted just like it does in the Chinese restaurant.

I paired that up with a glass of Little Penguin Chardonnay, it was the perfect dinner.  I’m definitely going to add bok choy to my weekly shopping list.

I’ve been thinking about getting myself a RoadID for quite a while now, but never got around to doing it.  Finally, after seeing mentions of it on two of the blogs I read and an ad in Runner’s World, I finally quit procrastinating and ordered one.

I do all my runs and rides by myself.  My previous method of identification when out running or biking was an old driver’s license with my contact info written in permanent marker on the back.  It would have worked fine, except that I never remembered to take it with me.  And then the info I wrote on the back wore off.  So much for permanent markers.  I carry my cell phone, which has my contact info in it, with me all the time most of the time, but what if my phone got smashed and my contact info couldn’t be accessed?  Or the battery went dead because I forgot to charge it before I left the house (the most likely case)?  RoadID seemed like the perfect solution.

I debated about getting the ankle ID, but I’m not really into ankle bracelets, so I passed.  Then I debated on the elite or the sport.  I thought that maybe the nylon band on the sport would get stinky over time, so I went for the Wrist ID Elite.  Then I debated about the color – there’s about a billion selections!  Okay, there’s only nine, but anybody who knows me knows that I am horrible at making decisions when there are multiple choices.  Especially when it comes to colors.  Ooh, purple!  No, that would look weird.  Pink!  No, I’m not really a pastel pink kinda gal.  Red!  Too racy?  Orange!  Nah.  Yellow!  Meh.  Green!  Ehn.  Finally, I decided that I should select a color that fits my personality.  So, I chose boring black.  Because I’m boring.  As soon as I ordered it, I wished I’d have ordered red.  *slaps forehead*

ANYWAY.

The laser engraving of my emergency info on the tag is done really well.  You can sort of get an idea of it in the picture above.  I blurred out my info because even though I want first responders and ambulance people to read it, I don’t necessarily want all of the internet to know my emergency contacts or that I’m allergic to peanuts.  Not that I’d wind up having to have a shot of peanut juice in an emergency situation, but I had one line left and didn’t know my blood type or have any witty or inspirational quotations to add.  So, I thought – hey! I’m allergic to peanuts.  That’s probably important to someone besides me! I’ll throw that on there.  I bet the person who set up the engraving got a good giggle out of that.

ANYWAY. AGAIN.

I figure the best way to get into the habit of wearing my ID is to wear it all the time.  So, I’ve been doing that for two days now, and it’s quite comfortable.  And, since I got black, it goes with all my work outfits.  Score.

As an additional bonus, the nice folks at Road ID have extended a little discount to my friends who order one for themselves.  To get $1 off your entire order in the next 30 days, using the coupon number:  ThanksNancy559738

One final note.  Accessories are pretty cheap.  If I do decide to get that red wrist band, it’s only $12.99 and the id tag is, obviously, easily interchanged.  Speaking of the tag, if my contact info changes (say, for example, if I were to give the BF the boot and wanted to remove his number..HI JOSH JUST KIDDING LOVE YA! xoxo, or I were to find out my blood type – which probably wouldn’t be a bad idea in the first place..) replacement tags are only $16.99

If you’re out working on your fitness by yo’self like me (ahem, Bad Decision Bicyclist), please consider a RoadID.  You can thank me later.