Went to Santa Fe with spouse. We ate at Outback Steakhouse. I got seared ahi tuna but it tasted more like pastrami or corned beef. I asked for plain wasabi and soy sauce but waiter said they didn't have any but then later, after I ate tuna, brought out soy sauce. Well, anyway, the salty sauces (supposed to be wasabi vinaigrette and a creamy orange sauce that tasted of soy sauce) that came with the tuna tasted all right and were also good to dip the tender vegetables in - yellow squash, snow peas, carrots and broccoli. Sweet potato was a very welcome touch. I deferred on the butter and brown sugar! I made a salad out of the quarter head of romaine underneath the tuna. Had a little of the pumpernickel bread but it tasted like it had sugar in it. Asked them to turn down music and thankfully, they turned it off instead.They were giving everyone a $10 off coupon for visit in March so we'll go back and I'll try the Atlantic salmon. Spouse had 6 ounce steak, baked potato with all the trimmings, including cheese which he said he could have done without and a nice salad - better than at Red Lobster. Outback normally opens at 3pm on Saturday but today, Valentine's Day, opened at noon.
Spouse bought antenna at Walmart. So horribly hard to get a decent picture using converter box. Our roof antenna needs replacing but we're too lazy to bother. I bought a new Totes black golf umbrella. One cannot have too many golf umbrellas and it was only $12!
We stopped at Trader Joe's. I usually don't eat their samples but couldn't resist the 72% chocolate-enrobed strawberries. Didn't buy much because bought plenty yesterday at Smith's in White Rock. Spouse stocked up on seafood and that's a good thing. I bought three bags of organic carrots, a bag of sulfured dried Blenheim apricots and a bag of freeze dried mangosteen. Try to avoid sulfur but the sulfured dried apricots are so much better than the hard, dark unsulfured ones. Sulfur makes me cough a bit, though, but I don't have them often.
Breakfast smoothie included: spinach, strawberries, carrot, almonds, half red bell pepper, apple, herbal tea, tumeric, rosemary, ginger, hibiscus. You can get a lot of fruit and veggies in a morning smoothie.
Tonight's supper will include rock lobster tails purchased from Smith's and scallops from TJ's.
Dorothy called to tell me she's giving me a copy of her revised guide to Bandelier. It's finally completed but now she has to labor over the historic roads book and income taxes. I'll pick it up from her bag tonight when I go out walking. Was some snow blowing around when we rolled into town. Could be cold and windy tonight. I'll have Prairie Home Companion to listen to.
My big toes are feeling a little better. An unexpected and unwelcome pain had developed in them, perhaps initially caused by the neutral Brooks shoes or, maybe more likely, the Keen waterproof hiking boots - who knows.
My biceps were horribly painful all day yesterday but that seems to have gone away today and I'm thankful for that. I took the LA Fitness Center's muscle strengthening classes Tuesday and Thursday and each day my biceps got exceptionally sore. It should stop happening when my muscles get used to the class. It's not like this is the first time in my life that I've lifted dumbbells!
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