Sunday Night…

And what a peaceful night it is.

 

Since I had a tremendous day I though I’d share it earlier than usual with you guys.

 

I hope you all tried my gnocchi recipe that I posted on Friday. And if not, give it a shot and let me know what you think.  The thing that’s so great about this blog / website is that you can post feedback. And you don’t have to be registered either (in case that was holding you back), I enabled the comment function for everybody.

 

Friday was day one of the ROH TV tapings. Because that’s only about 40 minutes from where I live I was able to start my day like I start all of my non show days. Get up, eat, and go to the gym.

I love my new workout (can be found here) so I had a great time at the gym. It didn’t start so well when I realized that I didn’t pack my mp3 player, but even without it I had a great workout.

 

Speaking of my mp3 player, I still haven’t found it. After 3 days of searching I’m close to giving up and admitting that I lost it. I just don’t want to believe that I lost it because I absolutely loved this one, it’s a Sony NWZ-A818 and my favorite mp3 player I had so far.

 

But I don’t want to think about sad stuff. Staying positive is the key.

 

So after afore mentioned workout I headed to the tanning salon where I enjoyed getting darker for TV. Nothing like a healthy tan.

 

Another big advantage of the TV tapings being so close to my house is that I can bring food from home. Bringing food from home is probably one of the greatest things ever. Thank you Tupperware and cooling bags!

 

On my way out I also came across this huge ant! It was gigAntic (get it?) of course I took a picture for you guys:

 

Can you see it? Well of course you can. At this time I’d also like to plug my shoes. Aren’t they awesome? Nothing tops Italian shoes.

 

Now came the frustrating part. If you’re part of my twittourage you’ll know that I had bad encounters with Philly traffic twice this week already. If you’re not part of my twittourage, what are you waiting for? Sign up!

 

I figured on a Friday at 2pm there wouldn’t be any traffic and I’d just fly to the theArena.biz. But I was wrong. I hit traffic and enjoyed it for a full 36 minutes. Yes I timed it. The best part about it was that when the traffic finally lightened up, there was no reason for traffic!!

 

Like I understand if there would have been an accident… Construction… Two fat chicks fighting over a bag of donuts… Just give me some reason for it! But no, Connecticut style, there was no reason for people slowing down and creating a traffic jam.

 

Finally I got to the arena and enjoyed the usual TV taping routine which consists of sitting around, shooting promos, sitting around some more, eating, talking to people (while sitting around) and then wrestling. And you’re doing all that while having a great time.

 

And that’s what I did. My family is wrestling and it’s always fun to talk to people you usually don’t get the chance to. Because normally show days can be quite the rush and you don’t really get to talk to people outside the ones you’re traveling with. But on TV days there’s plenty of time.

 

The first night went well, and you shall enjoy a tag match featuring myself and Jimmy Rave against Brent and Colt. The crowd was good too and there were lots of kids which is always good for atmosphere.

 

On my way home then the big surprise… wait for it… No traffic! Hurray!

 

Saturday was essentially the same, minus the going to the gym part. That part was substituted by something else that I love doing, sleeping in! A luxury on a show day.

 

That luxury was of course followed by the mandatory traffic jam to the building. Oh what a fool I am for believing that it would be different. “Fourth time’s the charm” thought the optimist in my, but he should be disappointed. Only this time I was prepared and thanks to music from my home country I sang my way through the traffic.

 

Now if you’re a fan of the Survivor Series you’ll love the match on Episode 23 (I hope I got the number right) of ROH TV on HDNet! The Embassy plus myself vs Colt, Brent, Necro and Grizzly! More kids plus a bigger audience = awesome and I though this was one came off great! I can’t wait to see it on TV and so should you!

 

Now there was some traffic on the way home, but I won’t go on about it because it was almost Sunday and I didn’t care.

 

Did you notice the lack of pictures so far? Well that’s about to change. Because Sunday came and with it great food!

 

So after sleeping in I decided to make myself some breakfast. Home made pancakes with eggs! Now if you’re thinking “He eats home made pancakes every day” you are right my dear reader. But it’s Sunday, so I packed Hershey’s kisses in there! Chocolate chip pancakes = awesomeness! (Lot’s of = in my blog today… I’m bringing it back)

 

It doesn’t just look delicious, it also tasted delicious! Next on the agenda was grocery shopping. Well I didn’t really had an agenda I will admit. I was sitting around, watching TV and eating my Birchermüsli  when I got hungry again. That’s when I realized that I’ll need some stuff from the grocery store, like bananas and strawberries for tomorrow.

 

So I went to Giants our local neighborhood grocery store. As a frequent reader you know that they have great coffee there and this time I actually tried one of the biscotti's there too!

 

 

After looking at the list a.k.a. menu for about 10 minutes I decided to get a caramel macchiato. Since those biscotti’s have been looking at me every time I order a coffee there (and that’s quite a lot) I decided to finally try one.

 

I asked the lady which one’s the best and she told me that she gets rave reviews about the lemon ones. So I decided to get the lemon one. She gave it to me but it' didn’t taste like lemon, it tasted like anis. You know the Christmas anis cookies? Like that. 

 

What happened is that they didn’t put the biscotti’s in the right place when they refilled them. Because of that the very nice lady told me that I could get another one for free since I didn’t get what I ordered. And that’s when I ordered the 3D brownie one that you can see in the picture above.

 

Thank you Giants!

 

While walking through the grocery store I decided that I wasn’t in the mood to cook anymore today and since I cook a lot during the week I though it would be a nice treat to get some food that’s already made.

 

Which led to me looking at frozen entrees for about 20 minutes. I ended up with a lasagna and some tremendous hot pockets.

 

 

 

Whole grain, chicken, broccoli and low fat cheddar cheese hot pockets to be exact! And some great lasagna.

 

I’m like Garfield, I love lasagna. But I haven’t had it in a long time mainly because I don’t make it myself. I bet I could it just takes some time.

 

To round out the complete Sunday experience I also decided to rent a movie. “Taken” with Liam Neeson it was.

 

The Lean Pockets ended up being my appetizers while the lasagna was cooking in the oven.

 

  

And look how great they came out! They come in this great wrapper thingie. So you put the wrapper around (left) and put it in the microwave. Then you take it out and pull the wrapper down and fold the bottom in (middle) and voilà you have a perfect pocket holding thingie! And as a bonus when you took a couple of bites and the holder would be in the way you can tear off a layer! I wish I invented that.

 

“Taken” was very enjoyable and went by quickly. Not only because it’s only an hour and a half but also because it’s very entertaining. Not something you’ll talk about for days or will make you think, just entertaining to watch with lots of action and some cool fight scenes.

 

Now I’m sure you’re wondering where the picture of the finished lasagna is. Well I cooked it a little too long in the oven so it didn’t look that pretty because the top was burned. So I decided to not post it.

But I will tell you that it tasted awesome. If you ever come by above picture lasagna and you’re in the mood for it, pick it up, it tastes great!

 

For desert I had home made frozen yogurt. Plain yogurt, protein powder, I added some chocolate (I love Sundays), some granola (gotta have some crunch in your ice cream) and put it in the freezer. Soooooo delicious!

 

While I’m writing this I realize what a great day it was. Not that I didn’t knew it while it was going on, but this just gives me confirmation…

 

With a happy smile I wish you all good night!

 

Claudio