The World Cup Volunteer Rally (for the Aspen Winternational, the Women’s Ski World Cup) is this Thursday from 5 – 7pm at The Red Onion. It’s free and open to anyone interested in signing up to become an Aspen Winternational Women’s World Cup volunteer! Free drinks and food. The first 10 people in the door…
Author: Lyssa
Aspen: CP’s Burger
Aspen needs some mid-price places to grab a quick bite, so I was thrilled to hear about CP’s Burgers, downtown next to the ice rink. We headed over one evening to check it out. It’s not cheap, but it’s relatively well priced–for Aspen. The presentation is gorgeous: Burger, tuna burger, parmesan truffle fries, sweet potato…
Butcher Challenge Pics!
Saturday morning’s Butcher Challenge was awesome! Team Fresh Meat! It IS the Butcher Challenge, after all. My favorite workout buddy!! How fun is this workout?! (sorry Joey, you had to push and do burpees … boo) And, good news, I got all my pullups and hit my previous snatch PR of 95# … so snatching…
HELP! Random Shopping – I Need Your Advice?
I found this for only $80! Should I have bought it? Turns out you need a lot of warm boots in snowy places. Which of these should I get? Or do you have other (not TOO expensive) faves I need to know about? Don’t tell me UGGS!! Snow boots by lifeinaustin featuring sporto shoes Also,…
Hangover for Halloween (Workout or Booze?)
They just announced the workouts for CrossFit Central’s The Butcher Challenge I’m competing in on Saturday morning. Looks like Nature’s Garage Gem/Gym is good prep for most things, but a 1-rep max snatch? Sticks do not compare. Here are the workouts: WOD 1: Butcher push, pullups and bouldering: AMRAP 12 minutes. -Each team will be…
Austin: ZombieBall at Seaholm for HALLOWEEN!
ZombieBall. Is what you should do for Halloween. It’s pretty cheap for a spooky night at Seaholm Power Plant! Musical lineup includes: Roky Erikson, The White Ghost Shivers, PONG, Killa Dilla, DJ Manny and Rion King. At midnight don’t miss The Waltz of the Forbidden Flesh; a Haunte’d Couture fashion show and mini opera that…
Austin: New Restaurant backspace means pizza
I get a lot of press releases, and a lot of food-related press release (something about loving to eat …?). Anyway, a lot of times I save them until I can go visit the restaurant in question, using the info to write a photo-filled blog post about what I liked and didn’t. Rarely do I…
Healthy (Paleo?) Pumpkin Spice Lattes
My favorite thing about winter? I think it’s pumpkin. Particularly Pumpkin Spice Lattes. Now before you getting all “Starbucks has a billion calories in it” on me, here is a super-duper easy way to make dairy-free Pumpkin Spice Latte … and if you consider whey protein relatively Paleo (many do not), then you can even…
Aspen: Sex & The City 2
FREE Sex & The City 2 at Belly Up tonight, Tuesday, 8pm Yep, I’m blogging about it again and I didn’t even love the movie. Hey, it’s off season, what else you gonna do? Nonetheless, to honor Breast Cancer Awareness Month, pink drink specials will be available during the screening of “Sex and the City…
Austin: FREE Lunch Revealed!
Whoever said there’s no … oh geez, that’s a tired joke. Literally, not one but TWO places are offering you FREE LUNCH tomorrow. Free Lunch #1: Pei Wei Thai Laarb Tomorrow, Tuesday October 26th, Pei Wei is giving out free lunch to the first 250 fans who show up from 12-1pm–at an undisclosed location ……