Baguette and Nectarines

D'Paul and I took his brother down to the farmer's market this morning. Smoothies and  gorgeous thick cups of chocolate milk were consumed along with freshly fried donuts. This is one of my favorite things to do on Sunday morning. Today I picked up a delicious baguette and some beautiful nectarines. This is what my afternoon looks like:

I've been cooking and focusing on eating a lot lately (even more than usual) for a number of reasons. I've been introduced to my new favorite blog, which makes it impossible to avoid wanting to make delicious food. Rehearsals have also been taking a good bit of time, so when I get a few hours I like to take the time to eat a real meal and get my head on straight. The rehearsal process is going wonderfully, I just have too much on my plate. It's always been this way, and will continue to be until I find a livelihood that is satisfying on a personal level that also pays the bills. This could take awhile...

Back to the food. I just tried this next recipe and you should probably stop whatever you're doing right now and go make this delightful Baked Vanilla Yogurt! It was a hit with everyone, even after an evening of stuffing ourselves full of my wonderful potstickers. I prefer a smoother filling to my potsticker, so when you're looking at the recipe know that I use onion, garlic, and ginger powder instead of actual chopped veggies. It's a personal preference, you should do what sounds delicious to you. I definitely use the cabbage, it's wonderful.

I did my first run yesterday to start my training for the 5k. It went pretty well, and I plan to go back to the gym tomorrow and do another. I will run outside when the weather is more comfortable. I also got my feet and my stride analyzed yesterday. Turns out I have what they call "islands" for feet. It means that my arch is so high that when you take a print of my feet from below you only see the ball and the heel of the foot. I thought I was probably closer to being flat footed since I spend all of my time barefoot or in flats if I can help it. I hate arch supports in shoes, they all feel uncomfortable, which makes D'Paul uncomfortable. He's wildly concerned that without arch supports my arches are going to collapse, but the girl at the store didn't seem bothered by the idea of that happening. Her rational was that I've spent so much time as a dancer that my feet are so strong and so stretched out at this point that I'm unlikely to hurt myself. Just keep stretching...

Then they took an analysis of my running, which was really interesting. I got on their treadmill and ran for about 30 seconds with a camera looking at my feet. I'm almost completely neutral. One side of me (I forget whether it's right or left, don't worry it's written down at home) is perfect and my other side only turns in slightly. I may run reeeeally slowly, but I also run near perfectly. This means that I need a completely neutral shoe. I will probably be investing in new shoes in the coming weeks. My current shoes are basically crap and a few years old so they're not doing me any favors.

I finished out my summer semester with an A in my Religion and 20th Century Drama class, so that's wonderful! The course was great and I am taking one with the same professor this fall that I'm looking forward to attending. I've picked up the banned books project again, but with less urgency than before. I'll probably plow through them over the course of the next year. I'm going to try and keep it stress free.