Yes, indeedy, it is Super Bowl Sunday when I am typing this. For those who aren’t sports fans or aren’t US sports fans, that’s the championship game in American professional football. While I like most sports, (yes, even golf!) we do closely follow football here. Neither of our teams made the Big Game this year, but we will watch it because, well, why not? It’s a sport we like and this is the end of the season game to determine this year’s champ. I am hoping it will be the San Francisco 49ers. I don’t like Mahomes, and as a Las Vegas Raiders fan, well, the KC Chiefs are the enemy! So, go Niners!
Of course, it wouldn’t be Super Sunday without food, right? This year, we are having Vietnamese rice paper rolls, sticky baked Chinese chicken wings, and chickpea salad with miso ginger dressing. Not really what most would think of as football food. That’s usually things like chili, or nachos, or some other fried/heavy/decadent stuff. The wings fit in there, so we do have one thing that could be on the usual list. But we are trying to stay within the parameters of our “diet”, so some of the foods you usually see on Super Bowl tables are not as good. And I put the “diet” in quotes because, honestly, although I am losing weight, this doesn’t feel like dieting. We are eating the sorts of foods we normally would, just watching the macros a bit more closely. I do not feel deprived at all.
Middle daughter will be here for the game, and since she is a Swifty, I am also making French Blondes as our cocktail. That is apparently Taylor Swift’s favorite cocktail. It’s gin, grapefruit juice, Lillet Blanc, elderflower liqueur, and lemon juice. It sounds pretty decent. I will have to make daughter’s with a regular dry vermouth as the Lillet has quinine in it and she doesn’t react well to quinine.
I have an appointment with my orthopedic doctor on Tuesday. It can’t come soon enough! My knees, in particular the right one, have been brutal lately. There are days I have a hard time just walking around the house, nevermind getting some more aerobic walking in. I can’t use the treadmill at home anymore, and lately, even the stationary bike at the gym has been less than comfortable. I had x-rays done last week, and my primary doctor’s report says they show arthritis (yeah, knew that) but not really much change from two years ago. That surprised me because holy heck, they sure do feel a whole lot worse. But we’ll see what the ortho says. He’s the expert.
We had some really nice, sunny days this week. I got out in the yard yesterday and cleaned up some dog poop (yay, such a fun job!), and deadheaded the hydrangea. Ours is the type of pannicle hydrangea that flowers on new wood, so I leave the dry flower heads on over the winter because they look cool, but need to trim before it starts growing again in spring. Otherwise, we wouldn’t see flowers this year. I checked the row of shrubs we put in along the back fence last year, and as far as I can tell this early, all of them survived their first winter. They all seem to have new buds on them. I was happy to see that.
Drink your water. Eat a vegetable. Get outside and refresh. Be nice to one another. And Go, Niners!
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