Procrastination, dogs, and sewing

These last few weeks i've been going to school online. I have to say that it's not as easy as it sounds. I'm taking 2 classes right now, Elements of Nutrition (which is really cool and fun) and The Role of Nutrition in Cancer and Heart Disease (5 weeks not so fun). My 5 week class i've been a major procrastinator about doing my work and i really need to get down to do it all cause the class is about to be in the last week, AHHH! Over all i have to say i've learned a great deal that i didn't know before. My professor in both classes are one in the same Dr. Tamura, she is opening my eyes (even though i've been into nutrition for a while) to thing i've not been introduced to. So, i wanted to share a little of what i've learned so far with my family.

At the beginning of the class my instructor told us to start keeping track of what we eat, ie. Snack at 4pm: 1 cup carrots, 2 tblsp ranch, 8oz water. i have to say it's not easy and i want to challenge you all to do it for 3 days and just see how much of something, what, when, and etc. of your eating habits, you can plug it all in here, this will take you to the mypyramid tracker, which is only good for calculating.

I have to say the most intersting thing my Prof posted so far was about Food Porn, yes i said this right. Food Porn is well i'll let my Prof words describe it.

"The Center for Science in the Public Interest is a great food advocacy group in Washington D.C. They first coined this term, "Food Porn", at least I think they did. I think it is a very descriptive and apt term for some of the things that we eat out there. Do you know what goes into a Twinkie? It is shocking.

I have a book called "Restaurant Confidential" that has been a fun and eye-opening book for me. I saw that a "Bloomin Onion" appetizer from The Outback restaurant packs a whopping, pornographic 2130 kcal if you eat the whole thing and all the dressing. And this is just the starter! I felt rather sick after seeing this. Although I have never ordered this particular dish, I have seen many of them on the tables of others and it really made me think, do they have any idea what they are eating and how many calories they are ingesting? Scary." --Dr. Tamura

She went on to ask us to look up our favorite restaurant or fast food place to eat and find out what has the most calories, sodium, total and saturated fat, it could be one item or 3 different items. Jordon and I came to a mutual agreement that we both like going to Red Robin, much to my surprise they had this wonderful nutritional calculator for their foods. Come to find out the most of everything what in the appetizers, the burgers seemed to have a low caloric count (at least compared to other restaurants. :)

I my 5 week course of hers she has us do little online CHD (coronary heart disease) questioners and other similar questions. Here is what she gave us. It's not really meant for those under 40 years but it'a still interesting to see your results.

On to better and brighter things, my wonderful, loving, growing, 8 month old dog Jack is becoming a hound dog. :( I have to say that having a puppy is much like having a kid. You have to worry if they are eating enough, having regular bowel movements, not getting into anything they are not suppose to, and making sure they play with others well, but unlike having a kid i don't get the perks of being able to take him everywhere i go. Well, Jordon or i take Jack to the dog park now on a regular basics so he gets to get out all the wonderful energy that he builds up while being indoors all day long. We have been noticing that our puppy is no longer a puppy when we see him next to other full grown dogs, he still has a ways to go but he is at 46 lbs (last timed weighted) and almost king of the dog park. *sigh* They grow up too fast, i want my puppy back. *sigh* One thing that hasn't changed in him is the look i get of "are you serious," funny as it may be it's the same look i get from Jordon. Ah, the reason i gave in to getting the jumping bean.

Sewing....i suck at it, but i'm good at fixing. Starting there i am slowly getting into learning how to sew. I have my sister's sewing machine here with me and a lot of patterns but i am lacking fabric and either my mom or Tina. (where are you two?!) My new adventure is going to be going out to the markets in Seoul and see if i can find the fabric place i was told about and if not...i don't know. Guess i'll just have to wait till i get back to the States to sew anything big. :(

Below is a video if Jordon showing everyone what Jack has learned. Sorry it's sideways, it's my first time recording to post a video. hehe.

Jordon and I went on a day date all day the other week.We ran errands and did a lot of things together that we haven't been able to do in a long time because of his new work shift. After running all of out errands we went to COEX mall, which is in another area out here, about an hour on the subway. We had been there before and had found some cool little shops that have just about anything that you can think of, and not that expensive on top of that. Last time we went we found Jackie Chan's Restaurant.That day we decided to eat there since it was getting late and when we got home we needed to go to bed. The food was delicious to say the least, we got fried rice, dim sum, and a spicy beef dish (really spicy).

This is the dimsum restaurant that we ate at, we had to get picture proof that we where not dreaming that Jackie Chan really had a place. His Pictures are all over the place on the out side.

Just me, doing the cheesy picture in front of the place.
While we where waiting to order food and in the process of trying to figure out what to order we decided to have a bit of fun with the camera. I love this picture because it shows his personality.
After we ate we decided to walk around a bit and then when we where on our way back to the subway, Jordon wondered if i had ever been up top COEX. (COEX is an underground mall.) I hadn't so we went up to saw a few things then decided when we got to the other side of the area where they had these art structures with lights, we decided to take pictures. The cool thing about the lights was that they changed or blinked on an off to music, classical at that too.
This is me in front of the structure. I have to say Korea has some really pretty art pieces all around the city. Can't wait for someone to come visit so i can show them all of the cool and interesting things i've seen and haven't taken pictures of.