Yesterday afternoon Ben and I headed out on a little date. I bought a Groupon earlier this week for a local pizza place. It included an appetizer, medium pizza and wine or beer for $15. Nice! 
The appetizer options were only garlic cheese bread or wings, and I let Ben decide figuring he’d get the wings. I was going to “save room” for pizza.
But, he ended up going with the garlic cheese bread and I enjoyed one.
I went with the white wine and loved it! I am usually pretty finicky about wine and have been known to leave a glass if I don’t like it (like the one on my counter from Thur. night), but I chugged this one. We made sure to find out what kind it was. 
I love pizza.
We went with mushrooms and bell peppers. So so good. I stopped at one piece plus Ben’s crust, because I was saving room for dessert. 
Normally “dessert” means fro-yo, but since we saw that Cleopatra movie last weekend and smelled the movie theatre popcorn I have been craving it! Don’t judge, I have the popcorn disease.
Our plan was to see The Campaign and I knew I wanted popcorn. Ben and I shared this and I cut myself off before we finished it. 
The movie was good, not as funny as Taladega Nights, but what is?
This morning my Garmin played nice and turned on for me! This pic is from Friday when it was “sleeping” – note the cat rubbing his face on the chair in the background. 
I ran 3 miles to meet Skinny Runner at a local park. From there we did 7 miles together. It was HOT.
I suggested we wear our Refuel gear…
But she insisted on wearing her Minnie Mouse outfit and that I dress up like Goofy and run 10 paces behind her. Fine.
The things I do to make friends…
Not really, I convinced her this was how Goofy dressed. I think she bought it.
After we parted ways I ran home another 4 for a total of 14.3 and walked to 15. I was supposed to do 16-17 so this was less than ideal – especially because of all the carb loading I did yesterday! I take full responsibility that I didn’t push myself enough and should have started earlier. Just making notes, not excuses.
Post-run food:
An entire watermelon. Seriously.
I bought this watermelon yesterday during my lunch and it’s almost gone. I’ve been trying to make my watermelon last and pace myself, but that is out the window this week. It makes me so happy, not sure why.
Egg and cheese quesadilla.
Now I’m blogging while Ben watches the Rhythmic Gymnastics. He says this is his favorite summer Olympic sport.
Seriously. 
The big plans for today include finding out where I can buy a bottle of that wine and drowning my sorrows while Ben rolls his eyes and tells me my life is awesome and I shouldn’t feel sorry for myself because I ran 14 miles and now get to sit in the AC and sip gin and juice. Something like that.
Great miles. I am super jealous your weather is so much nicer than ours!
How adorable, I love when my dog photobombs my blog posts. I have a great shot of a protein muffin in which my yorkie is creepily stalking my lunch in the background.
That pizza looks DELICIOUS! I’ve been craving pizza like a mad woman, but trying to watch the carbs nonessential carbs as well >.< I must find that wine! Or something similar! Loving the garmin picture with the cat in the back ground as well. Cats are such photo bombers!
I think you woke the cat up she was having a nice sleep.Love watermelons. Thanks for sharing.
Oh my gosh, I LOVE popcorn too!!! It’s an addiction that I truly need to work on. Recently I had a bag for dinner followed by one for dessert and later had one as a midnight snack! I SOOOO love my popcorn! Yum! 🙂
That pizza looks A-M-A-Z-I-N-G! I’m not sure how you curbed yourself to only eat one piece! Not possible for moi!
What is up with this So.Cal weather this week. I’ve been living off chilled fruit and feel like I need to swim in a watermelon. My goodness…
Has anyone ever told you just how friggen awesome you are???!! Seriously girl, you crack me up!! I’m quite jealous of that delicious looking pizza you had for a pre-run dinner!! Maybeee you can send me some.. i’m not sure if it’d make it the whole way to kuwait though 🙁
I would kill to have done 15 miles! Only managed 3.6km this morning – local relay race – before heading to the gym for a shoulder workout! Enjoy the rest of the weekend!
oh my gosh that pizza looks incredible. 2 slices please:) and yummm watermelon! i can’t wait to see the campaign movie:)
Why don’t you call the restaurant and ask what the wine was?
Be a Nancy Drew!
And then report back to us, please.
I could eat watermelon until the cows come home. Seriously. There is no upper limit on how much watermelon I will eat. I get sooo full from it and the 5 minutes later am ready to eat more.
Me too. All the way.
Seeings as how I nearly just died running 3.1 miles tonight…I would be delighted to have run 14!! I did just start training last week, but hey, I think I get tired driving 14 miles! Good Job!!
I’ve been thinking about you cutting back on your watermelon intake – and I think you should just eat it as you want. Watermelon is only around during the summer (well, the good kind), and that’s probably why you want to eat so much of it – it’s only here for a few months! I know you’ve tried intuitive eating, and watermelon may be a food you tend to overeat on, but it also might be good to give yourself the license to eat it when you want & forget about rules for that particular food you love.
Just a thought 🙂
I do give myself full license to eat it, but eating something until you feel overly full is not IE so I’m working it out 🙂
14 more miles than me!
Yeah, what wax the wine? I live me a cold, crisp glass of white wine!
I don’t know how you stopped at one piece of that pizza, it looks amazing! Way jealous of your wine
Mmmm that pizza looks delicious! I haven’t had pizza in SO LONG. I want to see the Campaign but (and I know you’re going to hate me…) I’m not a fan of Will Ferrell at all, so I don’t think I can do it. Loving hearing about it from everybody else, though.
Good job on the miles! Atleast you ran! Boo me for being unmotivated! Have you ever put watermelon in your smoothies? I’m going to try this tomorrow!
Omg, you seriously crack me up! I just happened to catch a youtube video of you today for the ING Nation, and I’m like, hey she looks familiar. Duh. Yeah, I am out of the loop… a lot! And I agree… what is funnier than Talladega Nights?
I can’t wait to see The Campaign! I’m glad it was funny!!
I love rhythmic (yea, that’s a hard word to spell) gymnastics too! It’s one of those sports I feel like would be super easy but KNOW it’s actually really hard, lol.
That cheese bread and pizza look so good! Now I’m craving pizza! Good job on the 14 miles, that is an accomplishment in itself.
I could probably do the research on my own, but I know that you LOVE watermelon so I thought that I’d ask you a random question. LOL. How many calories & sugar are in a regular sized watermelon? 😉 It just came to me as I was reading your blog. :p
Watermelon is about 50 calories per cup, not sure the sugar.
I just googled and found answers for a full sized regular watermelon to be anywhere between 1000-1300 calories. It’s a lot, but it is hydrating as well!
For the sugar – one cup of watermelon has about 9.5g of sugar.
Don’t leave us hanging- what kind of wine???? I’m on a semi-desperate mission to become a better wine drinker, since the only ones I seem to like are sweet ones like Moscatos or Torrontes.
Sadly we looked it up and realized the guy must have said the wrong thing. He said “Grand Cru Pinot Grigio” but that is a wine making kit and it was from a regular bottle. Fail.
I work in a wine shop, and “Grand Cru” is a real wine label. We carry it. I am not sure that it still is, but it was a restaurant-only label. Meaning, you can’t just buy it in a liquor store, wine shop, or grocery store. We carry it because we are also a wine bar with a full restaurant license. Like I said, I am not sure if it’s still restaurant-only.
Thanks Kim!
Watermelon is my favorite. I could eat an entire one in one sitting too.