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House in Disguise

by Fitnessista on May 1, 2011

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Hi friends :D Happy Sunday to ya <3 Hope you’ve had an amazing weekend. It seems like the blog is back and running for good, and the new design will be up TOMORROW! Can’t wait to show you guys.

It hasn’t exactly been a day of rest over here, but a very, very… very good day :)

me and bell3

(didn’t chop my hair off- my layers are just sticking out funny)

We started the day by moving a ton of furniture! I bought 16 pieces from an estate sale, and we had to pick everything up today and lug it into the townhouse. Things have been very bare in here since I moved in, because our furniture is in the POD and I’ve been using loaners from the family (like the futon we broke and captured it on video).

We’re finally starting to pick things up for our new house, since we’ll have more rooms to furnish. It’s definitely exciting :)

Here are some of the pieces I picked up – most are for the guest rooms:

furniture

The antique Mexican style will look really cool with our warm color scheme.

ottoman

(Ottoman with two stools)

dresser 

drawers

After moving furniture around –this little funny place actually looks more home-ish!- I got ready quickly and headed to my friend Michele’s bridal shower.

I was greeted with a vegetarian salad :)

***these are all iPhone photos—I was playing “sneaky blogger”

salad

On the tables, they had cookies from the Cravory. I was SO excited to finally try them, since I did a giveaway last year for these incredible treats.

Marisa and I split a cinnamon crunch cookie (holy foodgasm.. pieces of cinnamon toast crunch cereal in the cookies!), and a chocolate chip (so doughy and perfect).

cookies

(I took the red velvet and birthday cake ones home to save for the Pilot)

For dessert, they served cheesecake with berries.

cheesecake

I have to be in the mood for cheesecake (chocolate > cheesecake), but ended up eating about half of the filling part and most of the berries. It was pretty good :)

The shower was BEAUTIFUL, but it made me sad that Michele is going back to Georgia. I’ll miss her, but her family is here too, so I’m glad she and her husband will visit often.

Well I’m off to take Bella for a walk and then plan out this week’s meals, grocery shop and hit up Beefcake and Noble. Maybe Bed, Bath and Beyond if there’s time ;)

Enjoy your night and I’ll see ya in the morning!

xoxo

Gina

Something to talk about: What kind of wedding cake did you have? If you’re not married yet, what flavor would you choose? We had mini cakes in multiple flavors, but they were all covered in chocolate ganache :)

cake

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Hellooooo :D Happy Monday! Hope your morning is going well <3

Yesterday ended up being extremely bueno.

I snacked on some of the raw onion bread from Michelle and Lori, topped with some curry goat cheese (!) that they picked up for me at their farmer’s market.

It was nothing short of foodgasmic:

 

bread

Curry goat cheese?! This sandwich will now be known as the Gina special :D

PS I’m officially hooked on that raw onion flatbread. Expect to see LOTS of it very soon… it may be my new raw food obsession ;)

After I stopped moaning in pleasure at my sandwich, I got ready and met the girls at a Winter festival thing they had here. It was at the convention center and had a lot of cute Christmas decorations and gifts from local businesses and merchants. It was a lot of fun just to have SOMETHING to do in Valdosta!

After that fun, Jeni and I went to Pier 1 to buy stuff I don’t really need look around.

I found a new addition to the yoga family:

buddha

(Note: I do not have sideburns. My hair was in front of my ear. Haha)

A Buddha head!!

buddha2

When we saw it at Pier 1, I told Jeni, “I LIKE her. She would look so great in the yoga room”. Jeni responded,"I think you mean he”. Oops ;)

I’m going to look into purchasing more goodies for the yoga room and will have to find another spot for them when we have guests over, because they don’t match anything in our casa.

I also got this:

tinydancer (2)

We need more ornaments like we need a hole in the head, but I couldn’t resist. She’s beautiful :D

Dinner kind of EPIC.

myplate

A Sunday night grilled meal!! Asparagus, eggplant, zucchini, cauliflower, squash, a lobster tail (marinated in Earth Balance, gahhhhlic, lemon juice, paprika and hot sauce), and half a sweet potato that the pilot and I split.

The pilot also had a mahi fillet (seasoned with lime juice and zest, chili powder, sea salt and pepper) and brown sugar on his sweet tater.

pilotsplate

With Earth Balance, hot sauce and garlic for dipping:

buttah

Nothing like a good Sunday meal :D

din

For dessert, I picked up this 10 layer red velvet cake for the pilot at the festival:

cek

He was a happy kid :D

I didn’t end up going to the gym yesterday because I realized I didn’t take a day off at all last week. It’s hard because I really and truly love working out, but sometimes I have to remind myself (and sometimes force myself) to take at least one day of active recovery each week.. so yesterday was my day :D

The plan for today:

-walk the puppies

-weights and lunch with Jeni

-training appointment

-meeting

-teaching Zumba

Have a wonderful day!

xoxo,

G

Something to do: Meet me back here later for a fun Reader’s Request post! :D

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