Jello Shots

X-Tend Jello Shots!

That's right kiddies, this morning Kim and I sat at the gym desk and did jello shots: Branch Chain Amino Acid (BCAA) Jello Shots. Yesterday post-tanning I had to pick up some asparagus so I popped into the Lowes Food and grabbed me a little bundle (which was way too expensive at $3.49lb). While I was there I did a little adventuring, because sometimes I get curious about what I could possibly safely add to my food. Kim and I had been talking about the idea of BCAA shots for a while so I thought I'd check out what the Jello section had to offer. There I found plain ol' gelatin 0 carbs, 0 sodium, 0 everything, except 5calories and 2grams of protein. Nom! I mixed up my favorite flavor of Scivation X-Tend: Refreshing Apple and added the gelatin & hot water. A night of refrigeration in my pyrex pan resulted in tasty little cubes of muscle-making goodness!

News from the war-front, aka exam week: I took my final exam in Japanese today and I'm pretty sure that I passed - which means the ONE huge responsibility I have towards graduation is under my belt! It makes me quite happy. I feel like a huge burden was hoisted off my chest. Amazing. Today after the exam I met up with my sister and we went over to riverbirch lodge to pick up my phoned-in steak. Nom nom nom. I had to pick it up instead of dine-in because I had to work over at the gym from 5-7 and my steak-and-potato meal fell square within it at 6pm. So there I was at "the six," the WFU satellite gym on the Friday night of exams with no one else around... 10 minutes 'til a client at 6 I started scarfing down my much awaited meal. It was almost heartbreaking. This is my one sacred meal of the week and I look forward to that juicy tender steak so badly... and I had to practically inhale it. I licked out the entire container and sucked the juice out of the frozen cherry bag too. The three guys doing martial arts on the mat room across the hall gave me some pretty strange looks. Eh. I am comforting myself with the idea of a big fat sweet potato tomorrow morning.

Tomorrow is going to be an interesting day. I've got a way early shift at the library for the annual "Wake The Library" hours here - we usually don't open to 10am, but the hours are extended because of exams. I'm working 'til like 11am when I'm gonna have to hit the prowler at 150lb several times before high-tailing it over to Fitness 2000 to do some posing practice and then zip it back over to the libs to work and hopefully make some headway on a paper due Tuesday. My last undergraduate paper ever! I'll let you know how the day develops, but for now I'm finally feeling some relief and I'm really enjoying it...