A weekly round up: eats, workouts, watches, and reads. This week I'm giving big ups to a new lunch discovery, a TV show, a movie, and a book.
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Lately I've been watching Cheap Lazy Vegan youtube videos for entertainment purposes which is how I came across her soy curl buffalo wrap and I dropped everything to make up a batch and then dropped everything to make it for lunch three days in a row. My only change to the recipe is that I skipped the vegan cole slaw dressing in favor of the non-vegan buffalo ranch dressing that came with the chopped salad mix that I bought.
Anyways, this is very easy and OMG so so so good and will be a frequent flyer in my lunch rotation going forward.
As far as new and exciting things to eat for dinner...yeah let me get back to you on that.
Workouts
Ah good ol'half marathon recovery week. All of the walking left me with seriously sore calves and shins so I took a full three days off and then eased back into it with a few easy runs. Next up: a lotta speed work and a lotta shorter distances in pursuit of the elusive sub 9 minute mile in late June.
Watching
Hubs and I knocked back the rest of The Dropout over the weekend and it was excellent.
On The AFI Top 100 rewatch front, I have one for the "I changed my mind" category. For me, Charlie Chaplin movies fall into two categories: they're either terrific or completely snooze worthy. From what I remembered, The Gold Rush was in the snooze category, and the only reason that I took another look was that the Unspooled crew raved about it.
The problem with this one is that there are two versions. In the 40's Chaplin tried to make silent movies cool again by replacing the title cards with narration and reediting the movie, and I believe that's what I had previously seen. What I saw this week was the original 1925 version and there's a world of difference. The 1940's version is just a movie about a guy who eats a shoe and the original version is a great movie.
My top three Chaplin movies are The Kid, Modern Times, and City Lights and now The Gold Rush has a solid hold on spot #4. It's been a long time since I've seen them but I have good memories of Monsieur Verdoux, "meh" memories of The Great Dictator, and pretty much no memories of anything else on the Chaplin list.
Speaking of Unspooled, I'm almost at the end of the AFI movie episodes! I'm rationing them out and I will be very sad to get to the end of this journey.
Reading
More thumbs in the air for You Should Have Known by Jean Hanff Korelitz.
Werk
I'm still looking for a job and I still have a job, but it's hard to tell sometimes. I applied to a grand total of one (1) jobs last week and things were painfully slooooow at my current gig for the second week in a row.
It's interesting that Chaplin tried to make silent movies cool again in the 40s. I wonder why he thought that the idea would be popular.
ReplyDeleteYesterday, I saw an interview with a Swiss actress who had played Margot in Hitchock's "Dial M for Murder" over 450 times. She played it at 25, 35 and again at 45. She's now 51.
During the interview, they showed excerpts from the film. It reminded me that I should watch older movies again. They're so well done! (and Grace Kelly is so beautiful!)
Yes, all Grace Kelly movies are excellent because of Grace Kelly! The most recent movie that I saw her in was Rear Window.
DeleteThat wrap sounds yummy! Thanks for the recommendation!
ReplyDeleteI hope you make it! It was so easy and soooo good.
DeleteGlad you liked the Jean Hanff Korelitz! I definitely want to read it! And so sorry to hear that work is going through another slow patch. I hope you find something soon!
ReplyDeleteThe book was great! I want to look into her other books as well.
DeleteI have an interview for a job tomorrow morning and I'm hoping this leads to a positive outcome for me. Every time I apply to another job, I think about you and feel better because I'm not in this alone!
ReplyDeleteYES YES YES!!! I'm sending you all of the good luck vibes!
DeleteOOOH! I've heard of Cheap Lazy Vegan but haven't watched any of the videos (not sure why, since I'm all three of those things.) That wrap sounds amazing and my son will love it- he'll be home soon and I'll need lots of lunch ideas for him. I'll make it for sure.
ReplyDeleteI'm only two of the three things but I've loved everything of hers that I've made. I go for long periods of time where I forget about soy curls, but they are so easy to make.
DeleteOkay, that chicken buffalo wrap sound simply divine. I'm going to have to give that (or something very similar) a whirl. ;-)
ReplyDeleteDo it!!! I know that you're not a fan of the fake meat so just sub in real chicken and you're set.
DeleteBetter the job be painfully slow than crazy stressful! I hope you find something soon. I totally think you can get that sub 9 minute mile in June!
ReplyDeleteWord!!! While the job search is a game of waiting for The Right One, the fast mile is totally in my control. I am having the best time with the speed workouts right now.
DeleteMmh, that wrap looks delicious!
ReplyDeleteIt's really good! I made it again for lunch this week.
DeleteI've never heard of Cheap Lazy Vegan! THANK YOU! I am trying to eat mostly vegan and her site seems accessible and practical and... yeah, now I want to buy soy curls. :)
ReplyDeleteExcellent! I really like her videos, and everything that I've made from her site has been excellent. Soy curls are the bomb - they're cheap, they're shelf stable, they're so easy to work with, and they're delicious.
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