Sunday morning when I woke up - I was feeling a little sick to my stomach (easy to understand if you look at what my dinner was on Saturday). 
So instead of forcing myself to eat when I wasn’t hungry, I just headed off to the gym to hit up a spinning class & abs class – knowing that I’d get some serious nourishment in when I went to meet my family for Dad’s Birthday lunch!
I was meeting my family at Rocky River Brewing Company – one of my favorite restaurants! 
Whenever we go out to eat and it’s the whole family (read: my brothers come along) – appetizers are always ordered! 
Appetizer – Asian Nachos:
These are SO good! I get them almost every time we go to the Brewing Company. They are topped with sweet/sour/spicy sauce, with chicken, cheese, and a wasabi sauce – AMAZING! 
For my meal, I ordered the blackened tuna, which I ate sans bun, so basically – it was just a fillet. In the sunshine:
In the shade:
That cup on the side was some sort of crazy aioli, but it looks MEGA high in fat, so I stayed away. The tuna was just delicious on it’s own! 
Since Mike was totally bogged down with school work, I figured I would go hang out at my parents house for a while, since we were having such a nice time visiting.
My Mom called me upstairs to look at something, which turned in to me going through the dresser in my old room and cleaning it out. I found some stuff I wanted to keep, A LOT OF stuff I wanted to throw out, and a few good things to give to my little cousins (like bracelets, trinkets, headbands & stuff). What I found most amusing (and wanted to share with you) are these:
Really, Allison? Yeah – YM, circa, like, I don’t know – July 2003?!?!
Two things here -
- Why was I reading YM at the age of 21?!?!?!
- Why in God’s name was I still HOLDING ON TO THEM!?!?!? Because the content is still totally relevant?! RIGHTTTTTT!
My Aunt Barbara & Cousin Gabby stopped over later (it really turned into the family affair, eh?!) – and we all sat outside for a while chatting. Gabby is 3rd Grade Dog Whisperer Extraordinaire – she just LOVED Lando – and Lando just LOVED her!
Two peas in a pod!
Once I finally did get home – I had a hungry husband, and ZERO desire to even open a can of spaghetti-o’s for dinner – so when I said “Would you be interested in going to Ruby Tuesday’s?” – Mike quickly agreed! 
I forgot how much I LOVE Ruby Tuesdays! My old job was basically right next door to one of their restaurants, so I went there all the time! But now – we never go because the one that is “closest” to us is still about 15 minutes away. I swear it’s been at least a year since I’ve been there, because I swear I haven’t blogged about it before!
I got (shocker!) – the salad bar!
This beauty of a plate had:
- Salad with edamame, olives, tomatoes, chickpeas, onions, & broccoli
- Pasta salad (this is my all time favorite “store/restaurant-made” pasta salad!)
- Grapes for a sweet treat!
MMM, MMM, MMM HEAVEN! Just looking at this picture I’m getting hungry again! So good! Just as good as I remember it!
All things considered – the weekend was pretty low-key, and I love that! While we had a lot going out, we weren’t under any time constraints, or worrying about any obligations we had to rush out too! That’s my kind of weekend!
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YM! Awesome!! Did you have any Sassy magazines tucked in there too? I have a confession, even though I’m 33 I still get the urge to buy the August issue of Seventeen magazine every year. Such fond memories of back to school!! :>
Courtney
Adventures in Tri-ing
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By Courtney on 09.22.09 10:14 am | Permalink
YM! That brings me back! What about Mademoiselle and Sassy magazines?
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By Morgan on 09.22.09 10:35 am | Permalink
I LOVE Ruby Tuesday’s salad bar! Yum!
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By Danielle on 09.22.09 10:42 am | Permalink
Holy crap, that YM stuff takes me back! Why Me? anyone?
And why have I never thought about making Asian nachos? Those suckers look delish!
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By Quinn on 09.22.09 10:50 am | Permalink
Ah, Ruby Tuesday’s salad bar is the shiz!
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By Whitney on 09.22.09 11:22 am | Permalink
Oh my god! I saw those YMs and it totally brought me back! I haven’t seen one of those in like 10 years
… oh my god. It HAS probably been 10 years since I read a YM! hehe
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By Allyson on 09.22.09 11:29 am | Permalink
OMG that pasta salad looks a-maz-ing! I think its been 10 years since I’ve eaten at a Ruby Tuesday. Far too long!
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By Therese on 09.22.09 11:39 am | Permalink
oh my YM, I so remember that!! i can’t believe you still had one that’s kind of ridiculous really
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By RunToTheFinish on 09.22.09 11:42 am | Permalink
OMG I found my old SASSY magazines when I moved out of my mom’s house, circa 1992… i think i wanted to keep them for some tiny little story or something
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By Mara @ What's for Dinner? on 09.22.09 11:49 am | Permalink
YM!! Oh my gosh! That takes me back!
Ruby Tuesday salad bar is the best – your combo looks deeeeelish!
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By K on 09.22.09 11:54 am | Permalink
That looks like a delicious salad bar attack
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By Food Makes Fun Fuel on 09.22.09 12:09 pm | Permalink
Aw YM! Such a blast from the past. Did you flip through them? I used to love ym, sassy, cosmo girl, seventeen. Oh so long ago!
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By Julie on 09.22.09 12:16 pm | Permalink
I was more of a seventeen fan than a YM. Funny that you still have them!
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By Lee on 09.22.09 12:18 pm | Permalink
asian nachos look epic! wow, what a concept. dude, cleaning old boxes/rooms out is classic. i love taking that trip down memory lane. i found all my old notes from jr high the other day. “do you think he is cute? check a box: yes no maybe” wowwwwwww.
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By janetha on 09.22.09 12:40 pm | Permalink
I LOOOOOVE RT’s salad bar. I’m so jealous!! We don’t have one here! I use to go ALL the time before I moved here! Your family gathering looks like SO MUCH FUN! I wish my family was close! My Dad recently cleaned out a bunch of old crap of mine. I had some crazy stuff in there! I agree…. why in the world do we hang on to this junk?!?! Ha!
-A
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By A on 09.22.09 12:41 pm | Permalink
I used to love YM! You’re not alone!
A few years ago, my mom threw away my old magazines (YM and Seventeen mainly) because I hadn’t lived at home in, oh, 4 years…and I was still kind of upset she did! I mean, who knows what gems of wisdom that mags contained!?
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By angieinatlanta on 09.22.09 1:24 pm | Permalink
I used to get YM too!!! It’s so lame, you’re right. When I ordered it, I was young (not 21, haha) and at the time I thought they were so cool, but as I got older I was like…what is this crap?! I’ve been reading this for HOW LONG?! Too funny.
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By gina on 09.22.09 1:26 pm | Permalink
Do they make YM anymore?
I cleaned out my old bedroom a few years ago and went through about 4 years of magazines that had been shoved under my bed. I ended up keeping a few to show my daughters one day and chucked the rest. Since my high school days I have thankfully picke dup the habit of reading a magazine and throwing it away immediately after I’m done reading it or saving an important article or work out routine and then throwing it away.
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By Meghann on 09.22.09 1:37 pm | Permalink
First, “Asian nachos” made me laugh. It’s such a culinary oxymoron, hahaha. I’m glad they were Asian-inspired and not made with…real bits of Asians or something. EW, that’s gross.
Second, I totally had that YM because I love me some Michelle Branch!
Third, don’t be embarrassed of lovin’ teeny bopper stuff. We can start a club. (I may or may not be carrying out my grad school work in a High School Musical folder with a picture of Zac Efron on it…)
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By Mica on 09.22.09 1:42 pm | Permalink
LOL YM!! I remember that! But I read it when I was like 13 haha. But girl, Asian nachos sound sooooo good. What a good idea!!
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By Tay on 09.22.09 2:04 pm | Permalink
I totally forgot YM even existed until I read this! I use to read that magazine all the time! Those asian nachos sound really tasty (of course I’m all for anything made with tortilla chips
Great dinner too. Grapes are awesome!
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By Erica on 09.22.09 2:50 pm | Permalink
Ruby’s does have a good salad bar.
Omg, YM?!? I remember reading that magazine! I totally forgot about it!
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By brandi on 09.22.09 2:56 pm | Permalink
hahahaaha I HAD THAT EXACT SAME YM!!!! that just made my day. and ruby tuesday’s too. their salad bar is BOMB!
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By Holly on 09.22.09 3:13 pm | Permalink
BLACKENED TUNA! YUM YUM
and ohhhhhhh my gosh! i have totally been doing the same type of cleaning! i have so many YM and Girl’s Life and Teen Vogue magazines that I am throwing out!! they are hysterical to read! Like hilary duff on the cover?! wtf!
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By glidingcalm on 09.22.09 3:31 pm | Permalink
asian nachos and tuna!? well that is just one of the most perfect meals. Hm.. I have never seen YM. Do they still publish it? I did find some of my old J-14 magazines with britney and justin. oh the good ol days.
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By Peanut Butter Bliss on 09.22.09 3:53 pm | Permalink
OMG. Total flashback. I remember YM. I swear I remember seeing that very issue.
I guess it went out of bizness? Shoot, dang.
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By Rose on 09.22.09 4:30 pm | Permalink
omg! I thought of Michelle Branch yesterday, mostly because I heard the name Michael Branch. Totally random, but what ever happened to her?
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By emma on 09.22.09 5:17 pm | Permalink
I used to get YM! But this was like in the 80s and early 90s because I am that old. :p But the name changed! I’m pretty sure when I got it, it was called, “Young Miss” or something like that.
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By Andrea (Off Her Cork) on 09.23.09 9:20 am | Permalink
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