Series of Indulgences

I don't know how I'm not 600 pounds right now because this week was PACKED with gastronomical indulgences!

Thursday - Was craving comfort food so I treated myself to lunch at Whole Foods...and didn't realize until I paid for it that I had 2 more Thanksgiving meals this weekend! Mmm it was still good...loooved the mushroom gravy

Still using up classes on my dance pass so I decided to give modern dance a try since I've always made fun of it...I was thoroughly unimpressed.

We spent most of the 45 minute warm-up (it was a 90 minute class) rolling around on the floor. I don't like how loose and undisciplined it all felt. It's like when I gave West African dance a try and learned what kinds of dance I prefer (see blog post). All the moves in modern seemed so arbitrary and I didn't even break a sweat, nor did I feel beautiful, graceful, strong, or challenged. None of the reasons why I dance were fulfilled (see other blog post) so I was thoroughly frustrated about the big waste of time. At least now I can say I've tried modern dance and still dislike it!

Friday - the 7th floor of the med school building had a Thanksgiving potluck

My plate. Favorite: corn pudding

with 2 great coworkers

Dessert table

I'm a "sampler" when it comes to dessert...the chocolate mousse was my favorite

After work, Mike met me at my work for our date. It started with an intellectual indulgence at Barnes & Noble (we both love books/bookstores). It was such a cute date idea - we each had 25 minutes to find 4 books that best define/describe us. It was harder than I thought! I came back with 7 books so he said we could each choose 5. Then we spent the next 2.5 hours talking about why they represented or were significant to us. What an adorable nerd I'm dating :)

Wish I had time to read all these!

Then came the culinary indulgence - we went back to his place and baked red velvet cake!

Mike made us popcorn in a wok while the cake baked hahaa - he's more Chinese than I am in some ways

Lesson learned: don't bake cake in a bread pan...unless you want a molten lava cake!

It kinda fell apart, but wasn't any less delicious with cream cheese frosting!

Tried to watch one of my favorite movies that Mike had never seen - Life is Beautiful - but we both fell asleep haha. I highly recommend it (the movie, not falling asleep during it)!




Saturday - Mike's mom was in town so we got to show her around Georgetown and she treated us to "breakfast" at Georgetown Cupcakes (my 1st time!). With all the many cupcake places in DC, I wanted to see why this one gets the most fame.

Unlike the modern dance class, it did not disappoint! I picked the key lime and caramel apple. They spilled over in the box but WOW - I'm a believer.

It was a beautiful and unusually warm day!

No room to sit in the shop so we ate on the cow bench outside Ben & Jerry's haha. Gotta go back for their ice cream some time.

Spent the rest of the day helping with our big ward Thanksgiving activity and temple trip. I helped at the registration table.

We had this much food multiplied by 5. Great turnout...

...great food... tho it's rather embarrassing when my plate is fuller than anyone else's at the table, including the guys'. Favorite: Honey Baked Ham's turkey - that store lives up to its reputation as well. Yum!

...great company! Former roommates, current friends :)

Then over 100 members of our ward headed to the gorgeous Washington D.C. temple...almost too beautiful for words.

It's not Thanksgiving yet but I'm grateful for...

1) wonderful people in my life
2) all the good food I was able to indulge in this week
3) two more dance classes on my pass to help burn off the excess calories