Finding food, revisited.

Finding food, or found food? I was kind of grumpy last week, in case my two blogs (Finding Food & Anti-Fitness Postman) didn't convey that. Though one of my friends thinks that grumpy me is normal for most of the world. I beg to differ, but I will take the compliment!

Right after I wrote the Finding Food blog, Mr. TPG and I decided to check out one of the highest rated Carson restaurants on Yelp.com, which happens to be a Thai restaurant called The Basil. We only ordered two dishes (the downside of eating as two instead of a large group) -- a panang curry and a spicy noodle dish. They were both great. I wish I had room in my stomach for more food, because papaya salad and angel wings are also some of my Thai restaurant favorites. So I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the food and the service was great. The owner herself might have been waiting on our table. The ambiance was nice, and the walls looked like they were covered in Thai silk. We will definitely go back there again, and it made my day to know there's at least one great Asian restaurant to fall back on!

Spicy Basil Noodles. Yum!

I was definitely in a bit of a funk last week though. I think I'm hitting a fatigue point in my bar exam studying. So last night we took the evening "off" and went out to dinner and then watched a DVD at home. We were going to check out the brand new Olive Garden in town, as it's currently the hot spot in Carson, but we weren't the only ones with that idea and my 3.75 mile run + strength training made me starving enough that we left and just went to Chili's. [Side note: the Giants game was on when we were at Chili's. BWeez, I understand the angst, but holy frustration with your beating the water cooler!] Then we watched one of Mr. TPG's favorite movies, and one I like enough that I've seen about 6 times -- Legends of the Fall. As the Mr. said post-video, "they don't make 'em like that anymore!"

This holiday weekend, we are packing in the studying and celebrating in one way: we bought a Weber grill yesterday. Fajitas are on the menu for today and I don't have to cook since Mr. TPG likes to grill! I think I shall plan more grilled menus for the rest of summer. It's lovely to be up here in the dry heat of the Sierras, instead of the humidity of D.C. Can't wait until the bar exam is over and we can really live it up in Tahoe.