Vegas Bound, New Year's Eve Video, 2 Movie Reviews

Hola amigas! How’s your day going? I’m on Eastern time so I really just woke up. Your comments yesterday cracked me up! Thanks for liking my tres random video! And the recipe – it really is good! I like Cooking Light for its “review” section – you get ideas from other people on how they tweaked the recipe to make it more spicy, more flavorful, etc. I made Cooking Light’s version – but tweaked it a bit based on the reviews!!

Speaking of videos (nice segue, right?), here is my New Year's Eve Video! I finished it up Wednesday and am pretty happy with how it turned out. The ending is a bit abrupt and the Harinezumi doesn't do great in super dark places (i.e. bars) but what are you going to do? Hope you enjoy!

Third Video with Harinezumi: New Year's Eve 2009 from Kelly Shaw on Vimeo.

One more thing, yesterday I found out that me and Stacy will be going to Vegas Jan. 25 - 28! I went to Vegas for work during November 2008 to cover SEMA, and this is kind of repeat of that - basically we're going with a video crew to cover an event via photography, video, commentary, etc. Good times! Me and Stacy partnered last time and had a great time, however, our days were a lot longer. Supposedly this trip will be less time consuming so hopefully we can squeeze in some fun and I can see my stepsister who lives in Vegas! Woo!

K, on to today: I’m super happy about hitting the gym as I haven’t been in three days. During the week. Unprecadented. In all honesty, I was supposed to go yesterday, but it ended up being a super icy snow day so I did what I do best –hunkered down and didn’t leave. Our downstairs heater wasn’t working either. Lovely. No cooking for me! That was the day really – just working, did laundry during lunch and watched the following movies:

The Secret Life of Bees – OMG. I thought this was such a good, sweet story. Dakota Fanning is a wonderful actress and the beginning is just so shocking and sad. Nutshell: Story of a white girl in the 60’s in SC being raise by her father and African American nanny. She runs away for various reasons, enter racial tension, enter sadness but then joy. Great story and great acting!

Revolutionary Road (not to be confused with Reservation Road which I watched last week) – Eh. This one was well acted. And I think the story was good and all. I guess it was just so depressing to watch a marriage crumble to and to see two people who are supposed to love each other treat each other like shit. Very hard for me to stomach, especially with the doubly depressing outcome. But again – it was very well acted.

Later we settled in for Papa John’s pizza where I ate one slice too many, while watching episodes of The Office Series 5. Two episodes were about the weight loss challenge – I thought of you all. They were HILARIOUS. Just all of the things that we know don’t work long-term (cutting out certain foods like cake; going on a liquids-only diet; “sweating” it out, etc.). Very funny! Then around 10 p.m. it was lights out!

Stats for Thursday (which ended up being a great night at Melissa and Jon’s – I got to visit with her new baby Madison, meet nice people and watch it snow!): 1,906 calories, 220 carbs, 45 fat grams and 73 protein grams. Here's what I ate.

Stats for yesterday/Friday: 2,089 calories, 61 fat grams, 292 carbs and 99 protein grams. Here’s what I ate. Really didn't need that THIRD piece. Eh. Bygones - i'll do better today!

So a few questions!

Have you seen Revolutionary Road or The Secret Life of Bees? Like or Dislike?

Have you ever been to Vegas? If so, what is one thing/place/etc. I should do/visit/etc.??

Have wonderful Saturdays!!! TTYS!