Slowly, but surely

I'm stepping up my workouts at the gym. Last week I added an extra cardio day to my schedule. So I am still doing the weight training M-W-F, but I have added a couple of days for cardio; running on M-T-Th-F. I confuse myself sometimes.
I went to Streetbar last night, ran into Alan. It was nice spending some time with him. Before my 1st drink was done, somebody bought me a drink and sent it over. It was a Margarita, pretty good actually. He was a younger European guy wearing a hat. I think I've seen him once before, and I have no idea why he bought me a drink. He spent a lot of time on the smoker's patio, so I'm not too interested. Little Aaron came into the bar, without an entourage this time. When he passed, I said hello to him and gave him a kiss. We actually made out briefly, and he is a pretty good kisser. He wanted to go home with me, but what do I really know about him? I ended up going home alone, leaving at closing time. I was pretty tipsy, and somehow stumbled into bed and off to dreamland...

All chopped up and ready for the sauce.

I thought that it may have been too much, but the sauce came out perfect! I actually don't even notice the basil flavor, that's how well incorporated the seasonings and herbs were. I can't wait to use the bell peppers that are growing outside in a future batch. There are two that are growing quite well, and should be ready with the next couple of weeks.

Getting ready for the basil harvest.

I decided the basil I was growing was ready to be incorporated into my pasta sauce that I try to make every two weeks. Although they are still kind of on the small size, by pinching off the leaves, it should make the plants "bushier." It somehow sends a signal to the plant to produce more leaves. I was able to collect quite a few leaves for the recipe, but with basil & pasta sauce - you can never have too much!

Sore...

My muscles, that is. Worked out on Tuesday, which was one day later than I normally do. Forgot to take my creatine, and had a harder time working out. But I made it through all my exercises; doing 70-75 pounds on each machine. The treadmill almost did me in. I set it at 7.0 MPH max with a 13% max incline on the forest walk. The display malfunctioned, and didn't show the progress on the read out like it should have. It also had me going faster on part of the course than I normally do. I was so exhausted at the end, but hung in there. Felt good to hit the showers when it was all over. Went to Trader Joe's afterwards; got more rice milk, salad greens, frozen meatless stuff, vitamins, and a Chilean merlot. Went to Streetbar around 10PM, but just the same old faces there. Still nice to see them. Didn't stay till closing, cut out of there sometime after 1 AM. Was going to check out what was online, but the computer wouldn't connect to the internet. Had to reboot, and all of a sudden the bed looked so inviting. Finally got up around 8:30 AM, it was so sunny, yet we have clouds coming in from the west. Heard some thunder before.