The 25 Year Old Troublemaker

Ah, Tuesday- it's much better than Monday right? That's all I can say!

I am ashamed to admit that I sort of got yelled at AGAIN for talking during spin class. Apparently I am exactly like my most irritating kindergarten students! Okay, but seriously. Earlier this year I got yelled at for talking during spin class and at the time I truly didn't even know you weren't supposed to talk. So, lesson learned. Since then, I have been going to spin with a different friend (and a different instructor) and we don't talk all that much! I mean, sure we may say something quick during warm up, or during recovery say a song was a really tough one, or something like that. But I certainly wouldn't say we hold full on conversations or anything.

Anyway, yesterday our instructor (not the one that yelled at me before), probably the most chill guy you'll ever meet, said he has to make an announcement before class starts. Basically he says that people have complained to him about talking during class, and he didn't really say anything but people have also complained to his boss so now he has to say something. Then he went on to say that he is not the spinning Nazi, and if we want to ask someone what resistance we are on or what not, we still can. I got the general vibe that he does not care at all if people talk but he'd like to keep his job. Though some other people talk on occasion it definitely seems like it was directed towards us, or at least us and some other people.

All I can say is I do NOT get it. It's BIKING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is not test taking, yoga, reading time...

BIKING!

I'm okay if you don't want to hear our whole life stories, but if we talk for a minute at the beginning of class and then 20 seconds here and there (with the music blasting might I add, how can they even hear us?), who seriously CARES?! You can still hear the instructor and the insanely loud music. I promise.

How is it acceptable for crazy Saturday morning spin guy to completely ignore the routine of the class, breath so loud he sounds like he might die at any moment and bike so insanely that he actually moves his stationary bike forward and to the side throughout class? But, quick chatter to your neighbor? Banned! Let's take out all the fun out of exercise.

Needless to say, I do want to be respectful of the instructor so I won't talk at all any more. Plus, obviously I am the minority and most people would prefer a quiet class. I probably won't even ask what the resistance is if I don't hear it. But I also may not go to spinning as often...

Vent over.

On to some lucky successes of the day...

I had very early morning parent conferences today so I had to make a quick breakfast. In spirit of my challenge to include veggies in my breakfast, I present to you, the YELLOW monster...

1/2 frozen banana
10 pieces frozen mango
1/2 cup cooked (cold) butternut squash
a few chia seeds sprinkled on top...

I was a little bit scared about the butternut squash, but it ended up being a delicious combination. This, plus an Arnold's Sandwich Thin with peanut butter, was a perfect breakfast.

I also had a dinner success: my first experience with tempeh! I bought the same tempeh that Gina had from Trader Joe's- Organic 3 Grain Tempeh. I didn't have the soy sauce that she used but I used some delicious honey teriyaki sauce and just simply cooked it in that for about 3 minutes on each side and then done :)

I ate it with some yummy mashed potatoes.

Don't worry, I ate about a cup of carrots too, but I may have munched on them while cooking so they didn't make the picture. Today I reached my 2 1/2 cups of veggies goal, yay!

Inspired by the great Ten on Tuesday posts, I want to know what are your favorite hobbies? I love blogging and reading the most probably- but I've gone through phases of card making and knitting as well. Also, I consider working out a hobby actually, is that weird? Well I do.