Stampede!

This week was a bit slower as it wasn't so busy for me at work and I think I napped a lot this week too. I was really tired! I think it has to do with the summer weather. When it's so hot outside all you want to do is either go outside to chill on a patio or stay inside and just take a nap.

On Friday I had another half day. After work I went to 1886 with a friend for some lunch. I had an Ed's Benedict with gouda cheese and tomatoes, it was really good! Then I went to Starbucks after my friend had to go back to work, and I got the free tall size of their newest tea infusions. I got the pineapple black tea and it was interesting. Not too sweet but it also didn't have too much flavour, so I'd like to try it with the lemonade sometime. Afterwards, I went to spend time with my family and to welcome Tofu back home from the hospital. He was so happy to be home. :) It was so great to see he is getting better.

We went for a walk after and decided to head to Inglewood. We didn't know the night market was taking place, as we wanted to go to Rosso to buy some coffee beans since we were running out. We decided to check out the night market first and then we went and got our coffee beans. We also bought some chickpeas and chips so that I can make some hummus!

Saturday was all Stampede-fun! We got up in the morning and went for another Stampede Breakfast. We went much later than last time and wow, the line was really long. We had to get meal tickets first and then we stood in line for about 20 minutes or so. The pancakes were delicious and they also came with bacon and hashbrowns. We walked back with the breakfast as they didn't have any more forks available, and eating with our hands would've made things quite sticky because of the maple syrup. Afterwards, we went home for a short break and then headed to the Stampede. We watched the canine dog bowl show first, then went to watch a bit of the acrodunk performance and then we raided the midway food and BMO centre vendors. We tried the donut chata (mini donut popsicle with rice milk drink, cinnamon toast crunch cereals, toffee pieces and a ton of dripping caramel) and Mr. Crab (tempura shrimp, crab, and tempura bed of rice with nori). Then we went and watched the motorcross show, checked out the wine garden and then hung out with a friend and their friend for a bit. We wanted to go to Nashville North to go see our friend who was working there, but the line was SO long... so we couldn't go. Since we were there for a few hours already, we headed home just before 10pm but got some mini donuts before then. We ate the mini donuts at home after and played some PS4.

Today we were going to go to the zoo, but I was just so sore and exhausted from yesterday's Stampede festivities. So it was a chill day today. I did laundry, cleaned the floors, cooked us dinner and did some dishes. I also edited a little bit to minimize my workload tomorrow and well we thought we were going to have friends over on Tuesday, and so I wanted to have all my editing done before then, but it looks like there are some who aren't available that day, so we'll be having people over later in the week. We went grocery shopping today, had homemade mango, banana & peanut butter (for that kick) smoothies and played more PS4. It was surprisingly very chilly after our shopping trip and the hazy smoke made it's way into the air, the smell was strong. :(

I think this weekend was quite productive as well. I got a lot of chores done and also had lots of fun!

I was thinking about my weekday schedule throughout the summer. It varies so much and since I napped way too much this past week, I really need to plan out this week a bit better.

There's still quite a bit of cleaning to do, so I'm going to make some time to do that on Tuesday. We also need to workout, so we will workout tomorrow.

I also realized that it sucks waking up last minute. But this is only because I go to sleep pretty late nowadays. It's 11:05pm right now and so I'm going to hit the hay soon. I'm going to make it a routine to sleep a bit earlier since I want to wake up earlier and have some chill time before I head to work. I want to make my breakfast, maybe make my lunch too (I don't really like making it the night before, but I've skipped bringing in my lunch for a few weeks now, so I need to get back into the habit) and just relax for a bit. Then it feels like the day is a bit longer but also more productive.

Cooking is another thing to do again. I don't think we cooked anything last week... We did make rice bowls but that's not really cooking, haha. We also had leftovers from family dinners as well and then went and grabbed food when our friends were over. Time to cook more this week! Quinoa salad sounds really good and I have been meaning to make an apple pie as well.

I should also start bringing more snacks to work. I find that when it's a slow day I get hungry much easier because my mind is trying to fill in the slow gaps throughout the day by doing something productive... eating. And so I got some chocolate raisins to munch on, and should snack on some apples and we also got pita bread, so I could bringing in some jam or peanut butter to snack on as well.

I've also been getting pretty lazy with putting on makeup, but that should stop once I start waking up earlier in the day. Anyway, time to hit the sack!