Tiny (Chicken) Breasts
November 4, 2009
{Written by Jeremy}
So, tonight I had the smallest chicken breasts ever for dinner. Seriously, they were the size of my index finger. I am very much a meat and potatoes kind of guy. I love huge hearty chunks of chicken, or pork, or beef…and Emily has this gigantic bag of frozen chicken breasts she got from costco for a pretty good deal. Alright, great. Let’s take a look at these babies…
I would love to see the chickens that these breasts came off of. They must have been guiness world record holders for the smallest animals ever to be consumed by man. I’m used to chicken breasts roughly the size of my palm, and about half an inch to an inch thick. These things were laughably small! Did I mention they were tiny? Anyways, I’ll come back to those later…
Today was a pretty good day. I’m always glad once Tuesdays are over because it’s my busiest day and the rest of the week is pretty much a cakewalk. Breakfast was a bit rushed since Emily and I slept in a bit, so I grabbed a slice of toast and a yogurt as I ran out the door to class. Emily met me after class and we went to the gym and had a nice workout. Today we stepped up our cardio just a tad and did running spurts of 1 minute and 10 seconds followed by 1 minute 20 seconds of walking and alternated that for 10 minutes. We will slowly work our way up until we are running more than we walk. After the gym we came home and had lunch together. We each had a sandwich and I had a small salad with mine since our romaine lettuce is going bad. Emily then ran off to her section.
After Emily left for her section, I cleaned up a bit while she was out (I also secured a Wii and Wii fit plus for her on Ebay, for our anniversary/xmas, which I was going to surprise her with but have since had that plan ruined so here it is, out in the open). When she got home we did some re-figuring of my budget, made some phone calls and arranged for our trip to San Jose this coming Sunday as well as our trip to San Francisco next week. I’m really excited because we’re going to see Wicked at the Orpheum theatre and I have been waiting to see that show live for years.
For dinner we had the very small chicken breasts, lightly breaded and baked with a side of mashed potatoes and steamed vegetables. Dinner was a bit heavier than usual, but it was gym day so we were really hungry. I had a (100 calorie) fudge pop for dessert.
As I’m writing this blog Emily is taking practice tests for her CSET. She has to take both the CBEST and the CSET in order to prepare for her Masters in Education program, but the CSET is definitely going to be the most difficult. Polishing her rusty math skills and learning how to read and answer the questions just right is going to take some time, but I have faith that she’ll nail this test like she nails everything else academically. She is far more skilled in test taking than I am.
I’m trying to get all of my schoolwork done by Saturday so that we can spend all day Sunday in San Jose and not have to worry about school stuff. We’ll be going to Red Robin on Sunday with my mom and a couple friends before heading to Valley Fair mall to do some clothes shopping for Emily.
We are both very excited for the upcoming weeks and we hope you continue to come by!
Struggling to lose more than our minds,
J&E
