Saturday, February 13, 2010

The King Cake

I'm not trying to 'milk' the recovery from my marathon - BUT I like taking time off of running. LOVE it actually. I don't hate running by any means, but sometimes I just need a break :) Anyway, I ran for the first time on Thursday and felt great. So, we've made up. But I'm still waiting for a few toe nails to fall off. Next week - back at it full force since my first Tri of the season as in a MONTH! Bring on the wetsuit - I'm ready.

Big J tried to pick up a king cake for me last week on his way home for a two day visit. But since the Saints won, NOTHING was open. So I had to settle for one from Winn-Dixie. Which was still pretty darn good. Let me tell you about my love for the Kind Cake. I'm not a huge sweets person. Chocolate Cake? No thanks. Ice Cream? Umm. Nope. Candy bars? Pass along. But a KING CAKE with cream cheese filling? YES YES YES! I could sit town and eat the whole thing. Which I did. Ok, it took me two days. But it was AWESOME! Thank goodness they are only around a few weeks out of the year.




Speaking of Mardi Gras - that means that lent is right around the corner. Last year I gave up FACEBOOK AND WINE. Not so much this year. But I will give up wine. Well, overall liquor. I can do it.

Random picture:



This is my cutie brother with his 'South Butt' shirt. As you can tell it's a spoof of North Face, some kid in St. Louis decided to sell some of these fun shirts to make $$$ for college, and it took off. Well, the North Face is now suing him. Interesting. And the best part - is that a friend of mine's father is one of the top dogs for North Face. Needless to say, I give him a pretty hard time for suing a kid just trying to better his life :)

Since the Olympics have started - I'm going to have to start throwing out Olympic Hottie of the Post. And today's eye candy? Only the HOTTEST SKIER ever - Bode Miller. Yum!

12 comments:

RR said...

Your post just reminded me of Lent. And I need to get me one of those shirt!

Emily said...

Okay, I have never had King Cake, but man it looks delicious! Almost as delicious as Bode Miller...mmmmm

Judi said...

delish! you are lucky not to crave sweets. i love them. too much.

Mark said...

I am also a huge fan of my post-race eating binges. I always ask the wifey to make an apple pie. Following any Ironman, this is my great post-race recovery supplement. Amen.

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Anonymous said...

King cake is definitely good and yes, Bode Miller is hot.

Anne said...

South butt, that's funny :)
Glad you've made up with running and that king cake looks delish (as does Bode)!

ONEHOURIRONMAN said...

You know what Bode and I have in common...... nothing I think, except he probably likes King cake.. that might be one.

Christi said...

I love the pic of Bode! Great choice for Hot Olympic bod!

kristen said...

Yummy......both King cake & Bode.

you Sony crave sweets?! Hate you. I'm devouring a blackberry pie that I got yesterday and I fully expect it to be gone by tonight. Ugh!

Heidi Austin, PT, DPT said...

i ate half of one a couple weeks ago...ooopps! it was that good. i had the bavarian one. yum yum. yay for IM FL :) maybe we can do some training weekends together this summer!!!

Missy said...

yummy and I mean the last picture...oh, did you say something?