Spontaneous day!

Ohhh my I haven’t woke up at 8am on a Saturday in a looong while… Much less after a five hour night of sleep. Started my day with my hood to coast training–four mile logged with my Nike Flynit one at Forest Park–Leif Erickson Trail with my co-worker.. i was happy to log 4 miles again. Adrenaline/endorphins rush it was! Finished my errands by 1230 and then a spontaneous day to the beach. After heading to cannon beach a few weeks ago I added to my bucket list to go to cannon beach with a sunset. A post for another day. Beach filled day of spontaneity with friends and my half, it was checked off my bucket list! Took my friends to the coast–Seaside and Cannon beach–Success! Plenty of sunburst–made my weekend. Here are some INSTAsnaps to share of my Saturday..Enjoy! All photos taken with iPhone. Hope you enjoyed yours and is still enjoying it if your on the West coast like myself. The night is still going. Follow me on Instagram for more updates.. @tee2envisage.

Last photo of the night..silhouette of the guys next to the whale statue and
The lovely sunset!

Breathless

Post work training. I was breathless–not enough oxygen and taken more away by the colors of the sunset. and this is why i look forward to my training sessions every time running around Hillsboro. It has not gotten old yet. The way the colors radiates and is so vibrant, with some tree silhouettes. Looooove! I was so sore and I had to keep going. The hills were a killer.. It’s ok I keep telling myself “train hard now and my run for HTC will be easy Peezy and ill thank myself after its all said and done” !

Have a great Friday and I hope your fitting in your daily workout…go create some endorphins in that body!!!

Thenaday Thursday- St.Pete Bridge

Last December I went home to go visit my nephew back home in Florida and got the chance to catch up with a friend from college.  YES, this post was suppose to happen months ago and it didn’t.  I knew with all the craziness start of the year this post was going to be one of my thenadays.  J, I hope you enjoy and YES it was well worth it going across both sides of the bridge view!

I was lucky to catch this bird in mid-air just perfectly aligning with the St. Pete Bridge.

There was plenty of pelicans sitting on the side waiting for the moment to snatch their lunch off a line of a man working hard in the sun to catch his.  Photos taken with Nikon D80 and Nikkor 35mm lens.  Hope you enjoyed the photos..now go out and take advantage of the sun if it came out to play on your side of the town!

Start of my week- Monday INSTApic

Yesterday started off really nice–woke up sore from my training sessions.  Received this lovely card from my friend Jenny in the mail.  She never seems to fail me with her words of encouragement and the timing is just PERFECT.  Blessed to have a friend like you in my life and YES 2 years out of school and we are still keeping in contact STRONG!  Distance shouldn’t be a problem for any KIT.  I love quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson and especially this one.  Thank you JENNY for starting my week JUST right!  All photos taken with iPhone 4.

During my lunch break I ended up at Wassabi for happy hour with a co-worker.  I was enjoying my hot water (as it was soo chilly outside even with the sun beaming) in this ceramic white teapot and teacup.

Before heading back to work there was a small park nearby and we went for a stroll.  The flowers, blue sky, and the clouds were just lovely!

Have a GREAT Tuesday and make EVERYDAY your BEST day.

Sunset during my training

Brave thing for me this year! Before moving to Oregon I was soo thrilled with all the organizations that is offered here in the city of Portland! I am still stoked about them and finally after a year and some. Here I am lucky and blessed to be able to join with my Zoomer Team to run in the longest and largest relay in the world: Hood to Coast! Post about this in the future when the day gets closer! Here are some photos taken by my iPhone 4 during my training yesterday! Logging miles with my Nike Flynit One after my 12 hour shift. I had to make time and I was able to fit my training at the end of my shift before the gleaming light turned dark!

Have a happy Friday and awesome weekend!

CLAMS

Last weekend I was craving for seafood.  I chose to make Manila Garlic clams–of course the asian flavoring was a must for me!  I love cuisines of all types and my favorite is ASIAN cuisine.  Recipe shared below for your interest.  All photos captured with Nikon D80 and Nikkor 50mm lens.

1. Pick your clam.

2. Gather your vegetables/herbs/spices.  Whatever you refer your onions, garlic, and ginger as..I refer them to vegetables.

3. Skin the ginger with a spoon.  It does it perfectly well–learned it from food network a few years back–and a reminder from my older sis.  Then slice them into pieces as shown above and cut it into rectangle shapes.  Anything close to mince is what you want.

4. Mine your onion–I chose to use red onion–you can use white onion as well.

5. Mince the garlic to small bits–gotta love the garlic.  The home remedies for many illnesses. Posting on this later!

6.  Time to roast the garlic and onion with 2 tablespoon of oil for 2 mins.  You can use regular Olive oil—I used extra virgin olive oil. Then add the ginger and keep stirring for another 2 mins.

7. Add 2 tablespoon of oyster sauce and continue to stir the concoction for 2 min.

8. Add your 2 lb clams to the pot.

9. Now add 1/2 cup of water to get the clam to start cooking.  Seems a little bit and when the clam shells start to open the juice from the clam will be just enough mixed with the concoction.  Let it cook for 5 minutes.

10.  Any clams that did not open up–toss it out.  Its probably a bad one.

You can add other spices like thai chili pepper and green onions to add some color to your clams!  Have a GREAT Thursday!

Hondo DOG park.

My first time going to the Hondo dog park (Hillsboro) and Remsen was the lucky little man to experience this.  There were plenty of obstacles for dogs to play in and on–Remsen liked the ramp the most.  As you can see on the second photo he decided to sit on the ramp like a king on his throne. Remsen must have felt empowered.  The night was quite chilly as we were out there.  Photos taken with Nikkon D80 and Nikkor 50mm lens.  YES, the 50mm lens is my favorite.

It is Wednesday..my favorite day of the week and it started with Remsen today.  Mid-week..that means two more days closer to the weekend.

Beach day filled with fun!

More photos from Cannon Beach.  The sky was really blue that day and so was the ocean.  Pretty as can be.

Beach day filled with plenty.

Couples cycling on the sand…

Kids from Africa having fun in the sand…

Me enjoying the exfoliation in the soft grains of the sand…

Soothing sound of the ocean waves creating ripples in the shallow water…

and even the lady bug decided to give us a visit.  I hear its lucky to have a lady bug land on ya! *wink*

  Better half enjoying the peaceful sound of the beach and sun bathing–with a little nap.  Enjoy your Tuesday.  Only less than 24 hours closer to my favorite day of the week!

Young and fearless.

Savannah: a gal with pretty blue eyes and fearless trait.  One of my co-worker’s cherished litte one.  If only we can all live without fear like kids many great things can be accomplished.  Savannah wasn’t fearful of anyone saying no to her.  I handed her a wrapped lollipop.  Soon after she asked for me to open it for her.  I told her to ask her mom if it was ok for her to have sweets.  After asking mom, she was told “If you can get someone to open it for you, then you can have it.”  In a room full of people she went to everyone with a lollipop in her hand waving it to get it open.  After making 1 round and the lollipop still wrapped she came right back to momma and politely asked for her to open it.  No fear of rejection what so ever…she continued to go around the room again.  By the way, Savannah did get her Auntie Traci to open it for her!  Persistent she was!  All photos captured with Canon Mark II 5D by my better half and I.

A lesson to take with you today!  Be fearless of rejection or failures. Today go conquer one thing/dream you always wanted.  It can be something simple and little.  The little dreams lead to the big dreams.  Happy Monday!