Runzas and Running

When we went garage saling last Saturday, we picked up an air popper at one of the sales.  I've been wanting one for awhile, but I could never justify spending the money.  No, I'd rather just spend $4 a box (three bags) on Orville Redenbacher's Pop Up Bowl popcorn (man, I love that stuff) with all of it's additives and preservatives.  Anyway, Preston saw one at a sale for $1 (which is a heck of a deal, considering we saw two similar ones at two other sales, where the people were asking $5 and $2 respectively) so he insisted we buy it.

I cleaned it up but didn't get a chance to use it until today.  I'd been to the grocery store a few times since we bought it, but silly me kept forgetting to buy popcorn kernals.  Well, I remembered today.  After lunch, I finally used it.

I wasn't exactly impressed.

I love air popped popcorn but for some reason, this stuff tasted funny.  I even checked the expiration date on the kernals and I still have a good two years to use this stuff.  I don't know...it didn't taste stale, but it just tasted weird.  Even the boys said it was different.  I bought some Jiffy Pop butter flavoring to sprinkle on it, and I was pretty generous with the salt, too, but still, it just didn't taste right.

I'm just confused as to how in the heck I managed to mess up popcorn.  LOL  Oh well.  I ate a couple handfuls and let the boys eat the rest (yes, even though they agreed it tasted different, they still ate it.  Of course.  LOL).  Saved me some calories this way, I suppose.  :)

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I've decided to cancel my gym membership for the time being.  I'm basically wasting $40 a month because I never go.  I had this plan to go every morning before everyone else woke up, but seriously, waking up at 4:30 to drive 20 miles so I can work out for an hour and then turn around and drive back 20 miles just doesn't sound like much fun.  I'd rather sleep.  Or get up at 5:30 and run (and hey, even get an extra hour of sleep).

The thought of cancelling it sort of bums me out because I really do enjoy the gym - when I go.  But since I haven't been going, I might as well save us some money, especially since I'm not working anymore.  I can burn just as many calories running as I do using the elliptical and that's really all I used the gym for anyway.

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I made runzas for dinner tonight.  I was never a fan of runzas growing up because I couldn't stand cabbage.  The older I get, the more my taste buds are changing and today runzas actually sounded good.  I hadn't had one since I was a kid and my mom forced them on me, but Preston loves them, so I decided to surprise him.  For never having made them before, they turned out really good.  They were way more filling than I thought they would be.

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Since I ran last night, today was technically a rest day, but I wanted to get an extra run in this week since I'd been slacking.  I decided to go out too late, though.  The sky was looking crappy, but I decided to attempt it anyway.  I was barely a half a mile out before I saw lightning.  I turned around at half a mile and headed back.  I was kind of disappointed that I only managed a mile, but hey, it's a mile more than I had, right?  Since I wasn't going to get much distance, I tried to really push myself but I was a little sore still from yesterday.  I wasn't as fast as I'd have liked, but it was better than usual.

1 mile, time 12:01, 12:05 pace, 142 calories burned