Me! The husband, understandably, wanted to use his own computer the last few days and my blog has suffered. However, as of today I am the proud owner of a new laptop – yippie! As UB students we can download all the programming for free so it’s not quite ready for use yet, but by tomorrow afternoon blogging should be back to its regular schedule.
When was the last time you got a new laptop?
Don’t even ask if I’ve eaten nachos for the last 5 meals because you know I have! Basically, the last two days have looked something like this –
Yum 🙂 I’m fat 😦
I would like to be posting breakfast right now but Adam left the car in a night only parking lot and I’ve got to scurry and move it. As long as my coat is on I’m going to run to the grocery store too. I guess I’ll have to make a big brunch when I get back.
On the agenda for today –
Do you ever get a one-track stomach?
My burnt nachos were fabulous, but I just couldn’t get the idea of gooey cheese out of my head….So I made a second (smaller!) plate; hello tummy-ache! I regret nothing!* (*said with a French accent)
I did NOT however, make nachos for breakfast 🙂 Ever since my fabulous overnight nog oats last month I’ve been dreaming about new overnight bowls. I finally decided that chocolate milk would be the way to go.
Sadly, I bought this for nutritional stats and the flavor was lacking.
(sorry about the janky images, I’m not happy about using the husband’s laptop for blogging) I’ll trade a few more calories for more chocolate flavor next time. Maybe soy milk? Breakfast was still ok though –
1/3 cup each Almond Breeze and oats were put in the fridge last night and this morning 1/3 cup each plain nonfat yogurt and blueberries were added.
The plan for today includes housework, schoolwork, and some tv watching. I want to make a real dinner tonight (you know, like a wife) so I’m moving the gym trip to earlier this afternoon. Happy Hump Day!
What is your favorite kind of flavored “milk?” I’m a skim-cow’s kind of girl, but nothing can beat Silk Soy Nog.
School went well today; I know it’s only the 2nd week but I’m really enjoying everything I’m learning in my classes so far.
I ate a Kind Mango Macadamia Bar during Chemistry to refuel.
I think my macadamias-make-me-happy faces were freaking out my neighbors 🙂
When I got home all I wanted to do was veg – ya know, read a few blogs 😉 – but I headed to the gym anyways and was glad I did. I almost always regret skipping the gym but I’m always happy when I go.
I did a similar treadmill workout to yesterday, followed by my pt exercises for a grand total of 55minutes and 540calories.
After a quick shower it was time for dinner. Yesterday Tina asked readers to name their 10favorite foods. I could come up with my list pretty easily, but when I looked at tonight’s dinner plan later I realized I had forgotten one of my very favorite things – Jalopeno and Cheddar Nachos!!! Here is my updated list:
1. baby carrots
2. roasted brussels sprouts
3. Pad See Eiw (Thai, broad rice noodles)
4. diet soda
5. soursop juice
6. black and white milk shakes
7. nachos!
8. baked sweet potato fries
9. popcorn
10. buffalo chicken sandwiches
And now you already know what dinner was –
And they were delicious! I topped 2oz of blue corn chips with black beans, jalopenos, and 1/2cup of 2% sharp cheddar cheese. Baked at 450* for 10minutes, which ended up being a bit too long.
They were awesome, but since that size and cheesiness level was almost 600calories I shudder to think how much damage I do with restaurant nachos.
What are your top 10 favorite foods?
It’s barely noon and it’s already been a quite tasty day! Breakfast and lunch both prove how sweet simple can be.
Breakfast was Pineapple Chiobani topped with blueberries and a drizzle of organic agave syrup.
I don’t actually love blueberries, I eat them because I know how healthy they are, but this was delicious. And I liked the agave better than my first try too. The whole combo knocked my socks off!
Lunch was equally stunning.
This was the perfect kind of tasting plate.
Leftover grilled veggies and blackened chicken from dinner at Pano’s on Sunday,
1/3 of a sliced cucumber,
1/2cup Cedar’s Aegean Edamame Salad,
and 2T Cedar’s Artichoke Spinach Hommus.
Cedar’s just might be my new favorite brand.
In just a bit I’m heading to campus. I have Anthropology and ChemII today, but I also need to return something to the bookstore and do a few things at the campus library.
We’re doing a gym visit when I get home and then we have something fun planned for dinner.
Do you take restaurant leftovers home? Why or why not? We always try to, leaving it is wasteful and usually they are tasty!
Woo – who; today has been a rollercoaster! I’ve gotten good news and bad news, but mostly Adam and I have had a blast on his day off.
Today was my first day back at volunteering and it was good to be “home” again. I didn’t eat before I went and by the time I headed home my legs were actually shaking with hunger! Adam and I made plans to go to our friend Benji’s house so we hit up a favorite neighbor of his, Wegmans!
I know the salad bar got jealous but the sushi was pretty fantastic. I got the brown rice veggie combo with carrot, cucumber, and avocado.
Veggie sushi with brown rice is just so tasty! I ate 3/4 of the package.
Wegmans has a section where you can bag your own candy so for dessert I got 50cents’ (tenth of a #) worth.
I ate an adorable gummi heart,
but mostly I stuck to sour worms.
I also tasted Adam’s Divine Bar, milk chocolate and hazelnut.
We had a fun time with our friends, we all played some rounds of Eucher and then Danielle and I studied while the boys shot zombies.
Sadly, when I got home the bad news started – my laptop is broken! I actually typed this post on the husband’s computer. Mine works ok for a bit but then the screen randomly goes black. So frustrating!!! My goal is to back up all my files by Wednesday and try to get a new one (which we can’t afford) this weekend 😦
I created a GoogleCalendar and a Todoist list for both of my classes today and my ‘puter issues made it take forever. I started freaking out as the clock moved closer and closer to gym closing time but thankfully I managed to make it for a work-out! My first, in fact, of many since my 1/2 Marathon is officially in 47days!
It was good to get back on the treadmill; 5min walk + 10min run + 2min walk + 10min run + 2min walk + 4min run + 2min walk = 3.1miles. By the by, I’ve created a GoogleDocument to log my training over the next 7 weeks, you can check it out here.
Running often kills my appetite and my crappy sports bra gave me a killer neckache so I’m actually going to shower and haul myself to bed without dinner. I hope everyone had a good MLK day!
What is your favorite kind of gummi candy? I love anything sour but my all-time favorite is coke bottles.
Don’t even ask me how I managed to make it to 8pm today with accomplishing or eating a single thing, but that’s what I did. Fortunately from 8 on I managed to squeeze in a days worth of fun!
We had to go out to Kohls on an errand for my mom and we went to a spur of the moment dinner at Panos.
Yes, I did rock this hair-do at a nice restaurant.
There were lots of choices on the menu, and the lobster mac and cheese! really caught my eye but the in the end I went with a healthy salad.
It was Cesar with blackened chicken, grilled veggies, and smoked gouda.
Yums! I love smoked gouda so much and I liked how fresh and healthy the whole thing felt. I ended up with tons of leftovers to box home though.
For dessert Adam ordered the chocolate peanut butter pie.
This was to die for, I ate about 30% and I couldn’t stop swooning!
After dinner we weren’t ready for the fun to stop so we ran by her house and picked up our friend Danielle and we all went up to ….. Niagara Falls!
This was my first time on the American side and it was gorgeous. We took a long(ish) walk and even got to see the river run up to the fall.
So much fun! Adam has school off for Martin Luther King day tomorrow but I’ve still got volunteering so it’s time for bed.
Have you ever been to Niagara Falls? American and/or Canadian side? This was only my second time; I went to Canada with my parents when I was 13 and I’m dying to get back.]
P.S. Brandi’s had her blog for a year now! and Janetha has some jewlery to share. or you could win some chocolate.
It was a fun day, but not a very successful one 😦 Adam’s poor time management actually caused me to miss the gym, for the second day in a row. I now have 50 – 2 days until my half and I’m freaking out. But I guess I can’t criticize the hubby about watching the clock as I’ve been a major instigator in the fact that it’s after 1am and we’re still up. And I still have to shower!
Hanging out this afternoon I snacked on a serving each of these guys –
Cedar’s makes the best Spinach Dip I think I’ve ever had.
Dinner was a “Cooking Light” recipe, Mao Pao Tofu.
The only substitution I planned was subbing turkey for pork. Unfortunately I’m an idiot and I used double the meat called for but now at least we have extra leftovers.
It was good but not great; the texture was there but the seasoning was off.
Adam brought home his dessert – Brownie Obsession – from dinner last night and it ended up being so tasty that I ate more than half of it, whoops! We devoured so quickly I didn’t get a picture so I pulled one from the website.
Delish! Between SNL, Modern Family, and Scrubs we laughed hard it’s a wonder I managed to swallow my food 🙂
What is your favorite tv comedy? Scrubs is near and dear to my heart (I mentioned it in my wedding vows!!!) but Modern Family has really blown me away.
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