Bring it, Irene!

August 26, 2011 by Leave a Comment

“Come on [Irene], 
I swear…At this moment you mean everything”

 

Once upon a time I would brag that New York City was devoid of extreme weather.  This year we’ve had a blizzard, an earthquake, and we’re now gearing up for a hurricane.

Guys, I think I jinxed us!

As New York gears up for (and sensationalizes about) the impending storm, I am totally bummed.

You see yesterday was my dad’s birthday.

Happy Birthday Papa Miller!

Every year for his birthday I take the family out to a baseball game, buy my dad a new baseball hat, and treat him to a beer (my dad is not a drinker, so this is considered a special treat) and a hot dog.  It has become a summer time family tradition that we all look forward to.

My guess is that the game is going to be cancelled.  As is, most likely, my trip home for the weekend to hang with the folks

All I’m saying is: Irene better be a badass mofo to be screwing up my daddy-day plans!  Bring it, Irene!

In the meantime, most likely I’ll stay in, write a little, catch up on sleep, and maybe watch a few movies.  Nothing like a natural disaster to force a little R & R on you.

Breakfast

Smoothie made with lowfat kefir, frozen berries, pineapple and banana

Lunch

I’m so going to try and recreate these at home.
Sushi rolls made with carrot, cucumber, avocado, hummus, spinach, and tomato

Dinner

Salad with lettuce, tomato, cucumber, onion, olives, chickpeas and vinaigrette

Exercise: 45-spin class

 

Kim

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I have a bone to pick with demon fighters

July 7, 2011 by 5 Comments

Random thought of the day:

How come ghosts, demons, vampires, and evil clowns are always vanquished by crosses and references to Jesus? I have nothing against Jesus, he seemed like a pretty awesome fellow, but I have a hard time believing that all the spirits featured in haunting shows and horror movies are Christian. There are a lot of other religions in the world, not to mention atheists, agnostics, and general deists.

Can you tell I was watching crappy TV today?

The day started out great. I got up at 6am, got all of my worky-work done by 10am, did some exercise and made a big pot of chili. That’s when the procrastination started to sink in. The reason I got up so early is so I could spend the rest of the day working on class work. Just like in college, the assignments for my writing class seem to be produced in the wee moments before they’re due.

Instead of writing things that would aid my professional development I watched about 9,000 episodes of Psychic Kids on Netflix. Seriously, are there no Shinto ghosts? What about Hindu or Pagan? Where my Jewish ghosts at? The demon fighting world is not politically correct, that’s all I have to say.

Now if you’ll excuse me, it’s time to brew a pot of coffee and start my all-nighter.

 

Breakfast


Mixed grain hot cereal with flax seed, wheat germ and lite sour cream

Snack


Apple and lite Cheddar

Snack


Honey dew melon

Dinner


Since I was silly enough to use the stove for breakfast and lunch, I figured it was only fair to let someone else make me dinner.
Yay for sushi by delivery. After all of my talk of meat yesterday, vegetable sushi sounded mighty good.

Sweat time: Element Pilates Weight Loss for Beginners (my fav exercise DVD of all time)

Kim

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My Mother’s Crush on NBC Reporter Ben Aaron

January 28, 2011 by 10 Comments

Ben Aaron is apparently taller than J. Alexander

See this guy?  I don’t know him, but apparently he is a reporter and he went to the same college as I did.  Oh, right and my mother LOVES him.  Every time he’s on TV I get a gchat, text message, or phone call asking if I know him.

Mom: Do you know Ben Aaron?

Kim: No, should I?

Mom: He went to Emerson.

Kim: Err, with me?

Mom: He’s on LX New York.

Kim: Where is this going?

Mom: I think you should go out with him.

Kim: Great.  I’ll get right on that, let me just whip out my magical Emerson Alumni roladex and dial him up and explain that my mom’s a big fan and thinks we should get it on.

Mom: You should interview him

Kim: [This is where I start thinking of ways to placate without insulting my mom.] Mom, I work for CBS, he works for NBC, it would probably be a conflict of interest.

Mom:  Well, he’s on a chat, you should talk to him.

Kim: Mom, you should ask him out for me and see what happens.  If he says yes, I promise I’ll go.

[This is the part where I assume people in their rational minds will think it's a bit odd of my mother, who I love dearly and only has my best interest at heart, for trying to fix up a reporter with her daughter who could resemble Sloth a la 'Goonies' for all they know, over live network chat.]

Mom: I think I’ll send him your picture.

Kim: Go for it.

Dear Ben Aaron:

If per chance this lil blog of mine ends up popping up in your Google Alerts, please be nice to my mom.  She thinks you’re dreamy and is therefore trying to pimp out her only daughter to you.  Best of luck to you, and hey, did you hear Emerson has sports and straight people now?  Weird.

Sincerely,

Kim Miller, Class of 2004

LOVE YOU MOM!!!!

Now for some food.

I ate food today, my appetite seems to be returning. Perhaps it was that super competitive, my-spandex-is-tighter-than-your-spandex, yoga class I went to last night.

Breakfast

Comfort food breakfast: vegan banana bread, coffee with almond milk and stevia

Lunch

Tuscan white bean soup and a half wrap with avocado, tomato, goat cheese, and spinach

Dinner

For dinner I decided to impose on my friends Sarah & Sebastian.  They’re gracious like that.  We sat by the Yule Log sipping wine and eating cheese while they read my tarot cards

Cheese

Wine

Toasty electronic fire
Wow, that did not photograph well

My future laid out before me.

Verdict: I’m excellent.

Then we decided to eat food that wasn’t entirely dairy or fermented and called for Japanese take-out.  I needed some veggies to balance out the cheese so I ordered the vegetable sushi plate.

Ooh, colorful.

What do we think of the iPhone photography?  Should I go back to standard issue camera work?

Kim

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Appetite Remedy Needed

December 9, 2010 by 2 Comments

I do not know what is up with me, but, okay and this is going to sound crazy…eating has been a bit boring to me lately.  I’ve completely lost my appetite!

Yup, welcome to bizarro land, population Kim.  I have no idea what has been going on in my body, but I have a pretty limited interest in all foods that aren’t pineapple.  Apparently tropical fruits are safe from my digestive anomaly.  The food that I have wanted, has been none too exciting.  Like right now, as I write this I’m jonesing for some oatmeal, plain oatmeal.

I’ve been eating of course, I’m not concerned with starving to death, I just miss wanting to eat.  Eating is awesome and perhaps one of my most favorite pass times, this is very unlike me.

I’m not sick, and I’m not pregnant, but thanks for asking ;) .  Unless, of course, there’s some sort of Christmas miracle brewing, my super single self is just pretty sure I’m just in a food funk.

I may not know what’s going on, but I trust my body.  If it’s going to stage a revolt against anything with flavor, well fine.  I just hope it ends soon; I’m having a Pot Luck birthday party next week and want my appetite back.

Does this ever happen to anyone else?

Breakfast

Whole wheat pita with egg whites and salsa
Pineapple

Lunch

Most boring salad ever.

Lettuce, cucumber, carrot, turkey, egg, apple, vinegar
Vegetable soup

Snack

More fructose!

Dinner

Under that sauce are Brussel sprouts.  I’m not sure what the sauce was, but it resembled teriyaki, and perhaps was teriyaki.

Avocado roll

Kim

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Dirtgurt

November 29, 2010 by 2 Comments

Confession:

I’m pretty cool with germs. Some folks are anti-germ.  Me, notsomuch.   I totally come from the ‘you have to eat a pound of dirt before you die’ school of germ management.  While I am a fairly neat and tidy lass,  if dared, I would probably lick a subway pole.  I credit this nonchalant attitude about germs with my rock-solid immune system.  Gotta build up immunities somehow, right?

All this to say, dirt doesn’t freak me out…except: WHEN IT’S IN MY FOOD!

I was a wee bit (re: monumentally) disgusted when I opened up my little single serve peach yogurt container and saw that the rim was completely coated in dirt.  Hey, at least germs are invisible!  The dirt was just staring back at me, taunting me with it’s dirty dirtness.

I don’t usually call out brands for their operational oversights, but I am seriously disappointed by the good folks at Stonyfield Farms.  I don’t think I’ll be buying these again.

Obviously this snack was never ingested, luckily I packed extra fruit today for just such a dilemma.

Breakfast

Whole wheat pita with scrambled egg whites and spinach
Pineapple chunks

Snack

Banana

Lunch

That pot of southwestern lentils I made a while back is the dish that keeps on giving.  I froze a bunch and use it whenever I don’t have time to grocery shop.

Brown rice with lentils and avocado

Snack

Grapefruit

Dinner

If I could make out with a food, it would be sushi.  I love sushi.  I would have sushi’s babies.

5th Avenue Roll: brown rice, avocado, jalapeño, tuna, yellowtail


Kim

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The Universe is Hairy

May 6, 2010 by 2 Comments

Round two of ‘Hair’ last night.  This time I was in the second row.  I like to think that the universe gives you what you need, and what I’ve needed lately is a little inspiration.

I’m excited to slowly be finding my roots in the theatre world again, with my weekly improv classes, voice lessons, and my movie about to premier in June.  It sort of feels like coming home.  2009 was a rough year for me, and I definitely lost sight of my goals in all aspects of my life: acting, writing, body.  Finding my way back to those things makes me feel more grounded, and more like me. I even have an audition next week.  Baby steps to getting back to normal.

Thanks to all of you for telling me I’m not a quitter.  I’ve decided to just stick to the strength training schedule, and do cardio I actually enjoy.  I am definitely of the belief that you need to enjoy your workout of choice, or you’re never going to stick with it.  I enjoy Tony Horton three times a week.  More than that we’re talking committed relationship, and I’m going easy on the men for a while.

Here’s the food rundown from yesterday:

Breakfast

Egg white omelet with cheddar and spinach
Whole grain toast
1/2 cup grape juice

Lunch

Salad with mixed baby lettuces, broccoli, cauliflower, red & green bell pepper, kalamata olives, grilled chicken, diced fennel, and lemon vinaigrette

Whole wheat mini pitas with hummus

Snack

Orange

Dinner

Miso soup

Sushi platter with brown rice
(I probably had less than half of this, the fish tasted off to me)

Kim

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The Meager Wish List

April 28, 2010 by 5 Comments

Yesterday, inspired by a news report that the MegaMillions Jackpot is now $191 million, I played the lottery.

I play the lottery maybe 2-3 times a year with full scale knowledge that I ain’t gonna win a damned thing.  I do it, because for the five minutes after I buy the ticket, and for the five minutes before I check the numbers I fantasize about what life would be like if I didn’t have to worry about cash flow.

I decided to make a fantasy money is no object life list.  Here’s what’s funny:  I really wouldn’t change much.  I’d leave my job in a hot-second, heck I might do that anyway.  I would continue living in my cute little two-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn, roommate free.  Honestly, my list was strikingly short, and went something like this:

Quit
Spend days sipping coffee and writing in coffee shops, and splurging on Americanos instead of regular ole drip coffee
Finish my book proposal(s)!!!!
Buy a new house and car for the folks
Get an iPhone
Personal trainer
Redecorate my office/guest room/home fitness room
Travel wherever, whenever

That’s really all I could think of.

In one sense, it’s kind of a sad list because, well I don’t want anything truly outlandish.  No renaming of my alma mater after me, no giant yacht, heck, I don’t even want to move to Manhattan proper.

In another sense, it’s actually a kind of an uplifting list.  With the exception of my jobby-job, and somewhat satanic blackberry, my life is pretty great.  I have wonderful friends, and family, and readers.  I have a home that I love.  Seriously, the fact that I love my apartment so much is the only thing that has kept me in this evil office job so long.  I have writing jobs that lend me the opportunity to try new things and get paid for it.  I have a well worn passport, that I don’t get to use too often anymore, but I have great memories from when I did.

Sure, life could be way more comfy had I $191 million in the bank, but there’s really nothing on my dream list that is particularly unattainable.  I don’t want any huge life makeover, just some more free time and freedom to fully pursue my goals.

Alas, upon checking the numbers this morning it was revealed to me that I am not in fact a multi-millionaire.  At least, at the end of the day, I know that the things I want I can have in the little lifestyle I have now…well, minus the new house and car for the folks.  Mom, Dad, you’re going to have to wait till I become a star.

Question: If you had a huge windfall of money (presuming you’re not rolling in dough now), what would you buy?  How would it change your life?

Breakfast

My new favorite milkshake, err smoothie: almond milk, peanut butter, frozen banana, and chocolate whey protein

Lunch

Amy’s Organic Frozen Meal (so unlike me, I know, but I need to buy groceries):
Vegetarian enchilada with beans, rice, and half an avocado

Dinner

Salad with carrot-ginger dresssing

Alaska Roll

Once again my eyes were bigger than my stomach and I packed up most of this udon soup for lunch later this week.

Kim

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Challah if you hear me!

June 19, 2009 by 2 Comments

I have a confession: I haven’t worked out at all this week.  Ever since my BBQ this weekend my body has felt a bit off.  My stomach most specifically.  I hope I get my shit together (no pun intended) soon, because I’m planning on taking a two-hour spin/strength training combo class tomorrow night.  I think I have a touch of food poisoning.

What I did do while no working out was make bread!  Whole wheat bread.  Tonight, I took a challah baking class (I’m a sucker for free learning opportunities) and ended up making three challahs: Mo, Larry and Curly.

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Left: Chocolate Chip Braided Challah-Whole Wheat
Middle: White and Whole Wheat Break-apart Challah (there are chocolate chips rolled into the balls)
Right: Seseme Whole Wheat

I’ll have more pictures a review of the class and some challah recipes on Forkful of News tomorrow.

The rest of the day was less than eventful.  It’s rained the entire month of June here and I’ve given up on leaving my apartment.  I prefer instead to give my ass ample time to accurately mold into the shape of my right couch cushion.  You don’t want to rush these things.  It takes time to get it just right.

Here’s the food:

Breakfast

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3-egg white omelet w/2 slices American cheese
Whole grain bread

Lunch

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Left over sushi from last night
And I wonder why my stomach hurts.  Sigh.

Snack

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Low fat peach yogurt

Dinner

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Tuna wrap
Class was catered, I’ve learned from past experience that the tuna is the most edible of the offered wraps.

If I could do today over I would eat more vegetables.  I miss vegetation.

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Scrub-a-dub-dub

June 18, 2009 by 2 Comments

I often joke that I’m amazed that the members of my family have successfully made it to adulthood.  I love them, but sometimes I wonder about them.  You know, things like the fact that my father is 62-years-old and has a diet that consists of 95% cupcakes, sort of make me wonder if we ever really mature ifyaknowhatImean.

Today was cleaning day at my aunts apartment.  No one in my family is particularly enthusiastic about domestic responsibility.  Myself excluded.  I tend to be a bit on the anal side.  This little tidbit about my personality is what made me a perfect helper for her apartment cleaning adventure.  The thing about NYC apartments is that they’re small, and most people I know have a hard time when they’ve lived in one for many years (in my aunts case she’s lived in the same building for over 30 years)  juggling all the stuff they accumulate. I on the other hand, tend to throw things out with abandon.  So…from 11am-till about 6pm I cleaned.  It was kind of fun coming accross pictures of my aunt and mother when they were kids, my grandparents wedding photos and the recipes she worked on when she was going through culinary school and she even gave me one of my birth announcements which was a bottle of champagne with my name, birthday and weight on it (3lbs. 2.5oz -in case you were wondering). Let’s just say that was my exercise for today.

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Aww.

Now for the food…

Breakfast

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Newman’s Own Bran Flakes
Strawberries
1% Milk

Lunch

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Protein shake w/chocolate protein powder, banana, skim milk

Dinner

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We grabbed dinner at a sushi restaurant near her apt.

Miso Soup
Sushi Rolls: Spicy Tuna, Salmon Avocado, Cucumber Eel.  I only ate about half-there were a lot of rolls.
Orange slices on the way out, mmmm.

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