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I Might As Well Be Working Undercover…

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…because I am wired!  But more on that later.

So last night the fun just kept going!  About an hour after we ate I threw up 😦  I get really bad gas sometimes (upper stomach, not like farting, ew!), especially after eating junky food, and occasionally I will burp 8million times and throw up.  Plus, when I took of my shoe (normally I would be rocking sandals but sneakers are required for lab) we figured out why my foot was hurting so badly; in addition to the sore spots my ring toe is messed up.  I dropped a trash can on my foot the other day and my toe was swollen, bright red, and unable to bend!  It looks better today, although I still can’t bend it, so I’m hoping to be fine in time for a run tomorrow.

In spite of our “fun” night I woke up around 8:45 and took care of some business calls.  Budget still has not paid us for the mattress that they ruined!  Then around 10:30 I headed down the street to the coffee house.

I think I’m developing an obsession for egg and cheese bagels.

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This was much calmer than the last one, but still quite tasty.  Plain bagel, provolone cheese, 1 egg.

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I drank a Cherry CokeZero with it (don’t judge me!).  And a few hours later I broke for a housemade chocolate chip cookie and a nonfat latte.

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I studied at the coffee shop for about 3hours total before Adam came home from school.  On my walk hobble home I stopped at the gas station for another coffee (I told you, I’ve really been craving it).

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I got Cinnamon Bun, to which I added skim milk when I got home.  This finally hit the spot!  I love flavored coffee (like flavored beans, not like syrups) and the gas station had lots of yummy looking flavors (snickerdoodle, blueberry crisp!) so I think I’ll be back there soon.

Now that I’m all hopped up on caffeine I’m going to continue my chemistry studying and head to the gym for some strength training around 5.  We are meeting some friends for dinner tonight so I have a lot to get done still this afternoon.

What is your favorite flavor of coffee?

Huevos Rancheros

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Skipping dinner last night left me ravenous this morning!  I knew I needed to remedy that with a big plate of stick-to-your-ribs food.

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It was like Huevos Rancheros, but better!

  1. Chop 2 maple chicken apple sausages, heat in a skillet.
  2. Add 1T SmartBalance Light and 1/2black beans, season with salt and pepper.
  3. Meanwhile, stir together 2eggs with a splash of skim milk and a sprinkle chili powder.
  4. Add eggs to skillet and cook through.
  5. At the last minute, add 2oz chopped cheddar.
  6. Remove from pan and top with 2dashes Chipotle Tabasco and 1-2T salsa.

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‘Twas good!

The reason I am up so early (for me) is because today is busy busy.  I have a doctors appointment at 9:30 (to deal with my ridiculous foot worts that are still there!!!) and then I have my first lab today!  It is supposed to run from 5-8:50 but we are taking a safety test, not doing a lab experiment, so I hope we get out early.  The doctor’s office is near campus so I’m going to go straight to school from there, it will be a loooong day.  I’m going to buy lunch at school and I packed a snack.  Have a great day!

What is your favorite way to eat eggs?  I adore sunny side up with bread for dipping, but lately I’ve been all about salsa on everything.

The Buzz

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Good afternoon all!  I hope everyone is having a painless Monday.  As you know, I didn’t go to bed until after 2 last night, but once in bed I didn’t fall asleep until after 3!  I don’t know how on earth I managed to wake up at 9am but I think my excitement over breakfast was a factor.

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I pan-heated two chicken apple maple sausages.

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And put my leftover oven-roasted root veggies into eggs.  I heated 1T SmartBalance Light in a pan, heated the turnips and parsnips, cracked in two eggs, scrambled, and added a small handful of sharp cheddar at the end.

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Very tasty!  I will officially say that turnips and parsnips (and whole okra) are a success, they will be entering the regular line up!

After breakfast I hurried to the hospital for my 4hour volunteering shift.  At 20’clock I clocked out and apparently became a cereal magnet.  I used my lunch voucher to buy some granola and skim milk to eat later this week,

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and when I got home I found a Kashi coupon and sample in the mail.

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You can click here to get your own sample, I said “surprise me!”

In spite of its abundance, I knew that cereal was not going to cut it for lunch.  I spent most of my volunteering time delivering blood and medicine, which means I took the stairs a ton! (when I am taking patients places I obviously only take the elevator)  I decided to give Flat Outs a try with another sandwich.

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I know it looks unassuming, but he’s just being modest.

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  • 1 Flat Out
  • homemade honey mustard (1T dijon mustard, 1t honey)
  • 6 thin slices turkey
  • ~1/2C shredded carrot

This was very satisfying.  I still found the wrap a bit chalky but overall the taste combo was fantabulous.  I totally only ended my lunch with almond butter straight into my mouth for the protein.

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It was 100% the 6g of protein in the packet, not that it was maple flavored almond butter, and certainly not that I like squeezing it straight into my mouth 🙂

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I am feeling very lucky to have received Justin’s samples, 2 thumbs up!

In just a bit I am going to head out to campus.  Class isn’t until 6:30 but I need to print off the class notes and pick up some forms.  Dinner will be something thrown together because Adam claimed the tofu leftovers, but I am planning on doing some baking tonight!

Foodbuzz Excitement

I couldn’t wait to tell you guys about the excitement I mentioned yesterday – it’s official, my friend Camile and I will be attending the Foodbuzz Blogger Festival in November!!!  We booked our tickets and hotel room yesterday and we are both so excited!  Do you know anyone else who is attending?

Also, I forgot to mention before, but one of my photos was featured on the main page of Foodbuzz the other day.  It’s clearly not a big deal, but the husband was so proud of me he took a screenshot.

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Balls, of Meat

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Extra to-do’s are done, dinner was made from scratch, it’s been a good day!  This morning was not much of a success.  I wanted to do chemistry review – one last ditch effort before class starts on Monday – so I rode to school with Adam to study at the South Campus library.  We got to school before it opened so I hung around the med school lobby and ate my snack.

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My baggie was about 2servings and very tasty.

Once the library did open at 8 I put in a valiant two hours of day-dreaming before I accepted that I was too cold and hungry to focus.  I trekked in search of a cafeteria, success.

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My egg/cheese bagel and coffee were just what I needed.  I studied in the cafeteria until I was halfway through with my coffee.  I should mention, the coffee machine was one of those push button thingies, and I ended up with English Toffee Cappuccino.  It was very syrupy and halfway through I basically had diabetes.

I trekked again, bought a diet soda to clear my head (don’t judge me!) and went back to the libary for some actual  studyingcompletely worthless blog reading. 

It wasn’t until 12:30 that I finally had some success!  I went for coffee with a blog reader/R.D student at UB (hi, Katie!).  I got to ask questions about the program and catch up on blog gossip, it was great.  We ended up sitting at Starbucks for hours!  While we were there I had a more successful snack.

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Unsweetened iced coffee with skim milk and a KIND bar.

I didn’t get home until after 5, and then Adam and I headed out on errands.  We spent forever at Target.  Among other things, I replaced my devious Sigg,

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and we bought a new blender, woo!

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Before we could head home we had to hit up a wine store too.

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We are having a small get-together tomorrow, the theme of which is wine and cheese.

Somehow at 9pm I managed to force myself to cook dinner.  While I worked I ate two farmers’ market plums for energy.

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We made Giada De Laurentiis’ meatballs, from her Everyday Italian cookbook.  I only had a small serving,

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but it was frickin delicious!  Hands-down the best turkey meatballs I’ve ever had, I’m sorry I can’t post the recipe.

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Dinner was great, and “My So-Called Life” was even better 🙂  We will be very busy tomorrow (in addition to our get-together set up we have to get our car registered) so I probably won’t be posting again until the evening.  See you then!

What is your favorite ground meat, for balls form?  My favorite is extra-lean turkey.

Prep = Snap

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Since I started to prepare ingredients yesterday making breakfast this morning was a snap.  All I needed was a pan and 4 eggs.

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For two servings I used (approx) 2C kale, 2t evoo, 2oz extra sharp cheddar.  Look at those yummy greens.

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Lunch was less than stellar in the greens department for the second day in a row.

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Who could pass up buffalo chicken pizza?  The vouchers we get wouldn’t cover pizza and a salad and I’d rather not spend my own money at the hospital.

Volunteering went well again, although I wish I had more to do.  I’m there 6hours a day and they don’t go by very quickly!

When I got home I made the afternoon snack of artificially flavored champions.

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Diet cherry flavored colas are my favorite kind of soda.  I bought the candy – Kazoozles, which were like Twizzlers filled with goo and made by Wonka – at the gas station yesterday because pink lemonade totally caught my eye.

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Tonight is Adam’s semi-formal.  I’m not planning on taking pictures – tonight is his night, it’s not the appropriate time to explain about the blog – but I will do a full recap.  I will definitely take pictures of my new dress though.  See you when I get home from the ball!

What do you do to ensure a healthy breakfast?

Am I Awake?

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Thanks so much for all the half marathon support guys!  I am very excited and nervous but since I’m not starting training until September I am trying not to obsess about it until then 🙂

I was running too late to post this morning but I did manage to make breakfast for myself and the hubby.  Just barely though, my dreams have been throwing me off!  All this week I’ve been having very realistic dreams that then confuse me when I wake up.  Today I dreamed 3 times in a a row (in such realistic detail that it was like watching freakin Food Network) that I was cooking eggs; I ended up oversleeping.  And then when I got up I made eggs.

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For 2 servings I used 4whites and 1 whole egg, 1t evoo, and ~2/3C chopped broccoli.  I was proud of myself for using leftovers (broccoli from our AnTEAoxident pasta and egg whites from our homemade ice cream) but I went wrong somewhere because I barely made any.  I ended up giving part of my (small) portion to Adam so he had enough to eat.

I got to the hospital for volunteering early so I got a frozen coffee to make up for the eggs.

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This wasn’t the healthiest of choices (although it sort of was, which was disappointing for a hospital cafe) but I was majorly craving frozen coffee and it hit the spot.

Today was my first day on my actual placement for the next three weeks of volunteering – dialysis.  I learned a few interesting things but the ward was really slow today so there wasn’t much of me to do.  I hope I’m not having to stand around as much tomorrow.

For lunch I used my voucher to get a slice of white pizza with black olives.

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Delish!  The only way it could have tasted better is if the olives were green, which I’ve discovered is the best pizza topping ever.

When I got home I realized another positive to having volunteering being my only responsibility for the next few weeks: this gets to be my uniform once I get home at 2:30 –

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Fun fact – I was wearing these pajama pants (which actually used to belong to Adam) on Christmas morning when Adam proposed to me!

On the agenda for this evening is a short run, a super low-key dinner, and a fun project.  Adam has another “first week” event tonight so I’ll be on my own.  See ya later alligators!

Have you ever volunteered?  What did you do?  I volunteered at a hospital in Brooklyn last year and in high school I did most of my 40required hours at the animal shelter.