Wild To Child

When I arrived home from work yesterday, our babysitter was sitting in our living room. To my surprise, my wonderful husband had arranged for us to go out to dinner sans children, which couldn't have come at a better time. He made reservations at Branzino, a restaurant which previously employed chef Ashley Merriman, a contestant on the most recent season of Top Chef. Once we arrived, we realized that she was no longer employed there, but the food was still amazing and the service was flawless. Proof that the food on Top Chef is every bit as wonderful as it looks!

I had Roasted Cauliflower Soup, Gnocchi (which included rabbit, mushrooms, and ruby chard), and for dessert...cannoli. While the rabbit meat could not hold a candle to the rabbit my grandmother makes, it's safe to say that it was one of the best dinners I have ever had. The only thing I didn't care for was the Heirloom Beet salad that Evan ordered. But to be fair...I never liked beets to begin with. He also had Duck Confit as his main course and Poached Pear Sorbet as dessert...each sample equally delicious.

For all you wine lovers like myself, they have a great selection...even featuring some from my old stomping grounds out in the Walla Walla Valley!

For all of you from and visiting Seattle I completely recommend giving their food a try! Here is their website for more information:

http://www.branzinoseattle.com/

Now that the New Year is upon us and our lives have settled down a little, it's time to start this blog back up again. Don't worry, I don't have any bad ass resolutions to share. Mine are never original, I always end up with "lose weight", "less coffee", or "no soda", etc. I can't even think of something obscure or unoriginal. I thought about dropping the celebrity gossip, but I haven't kept up on it anyway because I've been so busy....so that one is eliminated. When I found out that a Jonas brother had gotten married recently, I died a little inside.

Between work and...well...work my spare time has been diminished to nearly none. I leave for work early and get home late. After eating dinner and playing with the kids for about an hour, it's time to put them to bed. By then the exhaustion has set in and I'm virtually useless anyway. Long story short...I don't need to make a resolution because...I don't have time...I'm too lazy...and I like who I am already. This year I'm going to continue being the best person I can be....and try not to lose my sense of humor...because then who would make the monkeys dance???

Ahem....can you please pass me the potato chips? I am planning on putting myself into a trans fat carbohydrate coma this evening because I've decided to make the "lifestyle change" and abandon all the junk food that's treated me so well the past few....I dunno...25 years. I've finally become tired of being tired. That's not to say that I won't eat a twinkie or two in the future, I just won't be consuming mass amounts crap and then wonder why I never feel like doing anything super active.

It seems like the perfect time to transition into better eating habits, simply because of all the other changes that are going to take place this week. We are going to finish moving out of our home, I'm going to be on a new shift at work, we'll be across the state, etc.. Might as well rip the band aid off quickly. I wish that there really was a pill that could cause you to lose weight without diet, exercise, and maybe even a clause that encourages stuffed crust pan pizza from pizza hut! I'm just not a big fan of voluntary exercise, it's NOT fun. No. Bueno.

Wish me luck with my journey to getting healthy. It's going to be a long ass trip.