I am a bit tired of the usual (read: average) pasta dishes. When I went to watch Dona Elena Cuisinera Club cooking class last Saturday, I made the dish they presented, Almond Crusted Tilapia Fillets and Pasta, with a few tweaking to suit what I have at home.

Here are the adjustments I made.

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The North Face brings you Thrill of the Trail NUVALI happening on Valentine’s Day, February 14, 2010 at the Nuvali, San Pedro, Laguna.

Since this is an event happening on Valentine’s Day, Thrill of the Trail NUVALI decided to add twist to the fun of doing trail running! What is it? There is an 11k Couples category where the couples participating in the trail run need to cross the finish line together while holding each other’s hand. No gender restrictions for the running couples.

Did I get you interested? Then be a  fan of the Thrill of the Trail Facebook fan page.

Sweeeet! Talk about HHWW (holding hands while walking or in this case, while finishing a trail run).

This trail run seems so much more fun than doing a run on paved road.

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Last Sunday, my youngest daughter commented over a brunch of ham, eggs and fried rice that she noticed we have not been eating vegetables lately.

That tugged my heart because I have not been feeling well since Friday and have not had the chance to cook “real” food. Friday and Saturday are also busy days for me so we either have packed food that has no sauce (read: chicken tocino) or like last Saturday, we had food delivered.

I know we may have been missing on a lot of vitamins and minerals and that may have contributed to this bout of allergy which was made worse by the cloudy skies.

Before the hubby goes to work today, I made him promise to bring me to the market so I can get lemongrass for my tea plus more fruits and vegetables too.

For now, I think I need to go back to bed and snooze for a bit.

Friday morning my allergy started acting up. As of 2pm yesterday, I started to get real sick. I still am officially sick since I am having: bad taste when I eat, itchy throat, some aches and pains, red and puffy eyes, difficulty breathing and having weird dreams when I sleep.

Having weird dreams when sick is one sign that I am really sick because I rarely have exciting dreams. I get boring ones like a day-to-day existence kind of dream. I am not complaining though, I would rather have these than the more exciting and thrilling weird dreams.

Last night I remember dreaming about giant pancakes as big as flying saucers (like there are like that huh). Maybe because I was worried about those zit I had, I saw people with really big adult acne breakouts, ugh.

One of my most unforgettable dreams would be when I got chicken pox which happened after the big earthquake that hit the country. I dreamt of body bags being passed over me while I was in bed and sick. Reality mixed with my dreams and it frightened me.

Around 4;30am, I’ve been up and about to ready food for my older daughter, I hope I will get better today because I still have a lot of things to do and that includes tending to a boy who is having asthma attacks.

This is just one of the days I wish we have house help.

Frozen yogurt from Red Mango. Froyo.

How could this ever be undesirable? Frozen yogurt with almonds and sweet blueberries (on the other side). This is certainly a healthier choice than other cold and sweet snacks.

Never mind the sweet blueberry preserve sauce that I chose

The kids wanted to have this when we went to the mall the other day to buy a black belt for my son who had his first Communion rites today but we didn’t have time to do so.

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Yes, I signed up to run but I was a no-show. Booo!

Congratulations to Chats and Bambie who finished 5k. Woot!

I didn’t chicken out, I just didn’t want to further do damage on the shin that hurts like crazy.

The fact that I was not able to get my shirt and number packet from the Izod store in TriNoma where I registered despite going there several times last week (including Friday afternoon) is probably a sign that I am not ready yet should go easy before going to my rounds again. If I got my packet, that would be another story.

I have prepared for this run (not so that I have to take thermogenic fat burner, lol), oh well, maybe it was not meant to be. Yet.

I know I still have to do better or  maybe even should not over do things and NOT jump over those excavations on the streets. Gah.

Now, about that run with Piolo…