We went to another prenatal class the other night. Those things are awesome.
On the one hand, there’s a sort of “this good for me” quality, like medicine. These classes are full of women, just a few men w/ the women, totally a female run space, men introduced by the women and stuff. I like it but I don’t just like it. I imagine bits of it are what it’s like to be a woman in male dominated scenes like punk and the political stuff.
On the other hand they’re just fucking awesome. We spend like an hour and a half being really focused on the fact that we’re going to have a baby. I love that.
The last one was about nutrition and it made me paranoid, not for my wife (I trust her judgment) but for me - I’m a vegetarian but I don’t pay much attention to what I eat. But then today… well, this evening…
I went to the gym. I bouldered for like 15 minutes (they’ve redone all the routes, almost all seem really hard and above my level, but it’s something to aspire to), did a bit of lifting then 25 minute of eliptical machine then a bit more lifting. Weighed myself - down to 205 lbs. Fuck yeah. I was starving to pieces afterward so I got a banana protein shake and a small thing of potato salad and a bottle of water. Then I came home and made some cabbage with butter then a beet with butter. Butter and pepper and cumin seed. Other than the butter, very healthy. More importantly - super fucking delicious. (I hereby laud How To Cook Everything Vegetarian.)
fuck yea!
this is great man. I love cabbage…. all kinds. I recommend chinese/asian varieties. a mix, if you will. With some sesame oil or in a soup with seaweed broth (umami flavor) : that’s the shit. This cuts out butter.
Tons of vege recipies to share from the pacific rim my friend: I gotta call you up soon.
I’m happy the pregnacy is going well. Can’t wait to catch up on this stuff. oh… i’ll be in Minn in August for sure. Maybe we can catch up more then.
love.
Tzu
Comment by tzuchien — April 2, 2009 @ 9:37 pm