Tuesday Tune Up, Weekly Check In, Food, Fitness, Family, Duran Duran

 

Hey there!  How are you?  What’s been going on?

The Tuesday Tune-Up is where we can have a weekly virtual coffee date and catch up a bit.

This week has been full of some unexpected surprises.  I’m trying to incorporate a “Facts Of Life” attitude about it (“You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and there you have The Facts of Life, The Facts of Life….) but the below quote seemed much more highbrow:

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If you don’t know the above referenced TV show, don’t tell me!

Here’s my week recap:

Food, Tuesday Tune-Up

I was exceptionally lucky and got invited to a luncheon sponsored by the American Pistachio Board at Chi Spacca last week.  Chi Spacca is a meat focused restaurant jointly owned by Mario Batali, Joe Bastianich and Nancy Silverton – not exactly the place I thought I’d get to experience the wonders of pistachios but it was an unbelievable experience!

I will be doing a full write up of the meal (and the very interesting pistachio facts I learned – Did you know that 1 serving of pistachios is equal to 49 nuts?).  This is just a preview of what I got to taste:

American Pistachio Growers, #pistachiopower

 

Watching Nancy Silverton cook even inspired me to do a little of my own cooking – a bit of kitchen sink turkey chili with red and black beans, onions, peppers, Ro*tel (diced tomatoes with green chiles), diced tomatoes with various herbs and spices.  It’s been a little cooler here in LA so the chili is nice and warming:

Turkey Chili

 

Fitness, FitFluential, SweatPink, BurnThis, Tuesday Tune-UP

After being advanced to the Pilates Reformer in Physical Therapy and working out with Jillian Michaels last week, I thought I was ready for anything fitness related but I was so very wrong.  I was invited to take my first SoulCycle class by the Pasadena location of the beauty and skin care brand, LATHER and let’s just say it was not my finest hour.  I was nervous about going to a spin class.  I love spinning/indoor cycling but every time I re-injure myself it’s in spin class.

I didn’t injure myself this time but let’s just say that I have a way to go before I’m truly ready to be back in the saddle again.  I may have had a tough time in class but I did get a goody bag to make going home a little easier.  

LATHER, skin care, beauty, vegan beauty, Soul Cycle, fitness

 

Once I can get over my ego and write up my experience at SoulCycle, I’ll be doing a giveaway of one of the goody bags JUST FOR YOU!

 

Family

We’ve been a bit down for the count at our house recently.  A stomach virus hit 90% Wild Boy’s second grade class on Friday and Saturday so we didn’t have much of an exciting weekend.

We did hang out and watch a few movies together including Pitch Perfect* PG-13 (which didn’t go over well with an 8 year old boy):

Pitch Perfect, Anna Kendrick, Cups,

and the original The Bad News Bears (1976)* PG

Bad News Bears, not for children

Be forewarned!  If you watch this with kids, the profanity and adult situations that garnered a PG rating in 1976 would be considered PG-13 or R today – it is definitely not a politically correct movie so get ready to do some explaining).

This little guy has also been under the weather.  This is our nearly 1o year old pug, Griffin.  He had surgery (the growth you see on his eye below was removed) and a double ear infection just 2 weeks ago and this weekend started having some issues walking.

Griffin, pug

The vet says Griffin needs some anti-inflammatory medication and to shed a little excess weight.  I guess I get to be a dietitian for my dog now.

Duran Duran, music, 80's music, New Wave, Tuesday Tune-Up

I was supposed to be seeing Barenaked Ladies, Colin Hay and Violent Femmes at the Greek Theatre on July 21st but unfortunately just realized that the soccer match between the L.A. Galaxy and Barcelona at the Rose Bowl is the same night.

Barenaked Ladies, Greek Theatre LA

If you live in the LA area and are interested in 2 very discounted tickets to this concert, let’s chat.

  

 So that’s a summary of what’s been going on in my world this week.

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I did get to see “Pitch Perfect 2” this weekend and liked it even better than the original. Did you see it?  If so, what did you think?

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