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Listed

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This post is check off style, following my to-do list from the last post.

#2 – Feed my sourdough starter. 

#3 – Eat some damn fruit.  All this was blended into a tasty smoothie.

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Er, uncheck. 

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My blender exploded.  That was fun.  So I drank the rest of my sample from Ooba, and ate a Farmer’s Market plum while I cooked.

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#4 – Make dinner.

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We used a Racheal Ray recipe, Mu Shu Stoup, from Just in Time.  I can’t post the recipe, but it had chicken, cabbage, and pot stickers, and was delicious.

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#1 – Fill in my new planner.  I was so frickin excited to start a new planner!  It is kind of sad how obsessively I plan; I used to plan out my outfits for vacations on paper and my friends would tease me mercilessly 🙂

#5 – Find time to curl up with my new reading material.  No check, boo.  But I did eat a yummy dessert while we watched “My So-Called Life.”

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I warmed it in the microwave, so it was nice and gooey.

And now if I hurry, hurry, hurry in the shower, maybe I can skim a magazine!  Night.

Do you keep a planner?

Superfruit Squared

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Good morning all!  I didn’t sleep very well last night but the encouraging comments from my fabulous readers at least had me in a better frame of mind 🙂

No amount of positivity, however, could save my baking skills.  Through a series of mistakes (I wrote them down and I think I can fix it next time) this was my sourdough “loaf.”

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It looks more like Naan!  I am going to try a hunk with lunch but I’m not holding my breath.

I moved past my bread failure, aware that I need to get ready for chemistry review, to make myself a super breakfast.

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Stoneyfield Super fruit Fat Free Yogurt + Crofter’s Europe Superfruit Spread + 2 farmers’ market plums =

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Ahh.  I’m betting there was a pretty darn healthy level of antioxidants in this bowl.  I wasn’t all that impressed with the yogurt or the fruit (I think my plums aren’t quite ripe) but the spread beyond saved this bowl.  It was unbelievable.  Plus, when I got this sample in the mail I about died of happiness – every jar has a bear…holding a berry!

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I call my husband bear so we get pretty excited about them.  For example, did you meet Ulrick?

As soon as I’m presentable I am heading to the coffee shop downstairs to get my study on.  Be back this afternoon!

What is your nickname?  Adam calls me Mouse (or Mife, i.e. mouse + wife), my parents used to call me Bug, and most of my friends call me Wax.

p.s. today is Adam’s first final, think smart thoughts for him!

New Things

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In a major change from our apartment in Brooklyn where it was stiflingly hot, I overslept this morning because I couldn’t sleep last night because I was too cold!  I will never complain about lower temperatures though, I can always add layers, in Brooklyn I would have had to peel off my skin!

In spite of my late start I’ve managed to get most of my to-do’s for the day completed.  We did a little bit more apartment organizing (almost done!) this morning and then I ate a juicy black plum before we headed out.

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We drove up to the North Campus of UB, my campus, today to get our id cards and it accounts.  The campus is a 20minute drive away which means I will have to be careful to schedule my commute around rush hours.  My class is all at night anyway though.  We needed money for the meter so we stopped at the campus Starbucks and I got an unsweetened iced coffee with skim milk.

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On the way home we stopped by the public library.  I can get a card yet because I have no mail addressed to me (you have to show proof of residency) but I am super excited to go back, it was HUGE!  They even had a Mark Twain room 🙂

Now that we are home I’ve been doing all my school/business things on the computer and eating a late snacky lunch.  First we cut into this bad boy (my hand is there to show the size) –

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This was a Crenshaw Melon.  I couldn’t really tell the difference taste/texturewise between this an a cantaloupe but it was fun to try something new.

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Ours was a little too ripe so I ended up throwing out part of my last slice, I think we will have to use the other half for smoothies.

Next I ate a low-fat cheese stick.

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And finally this –

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This beauty was

  • Stoneyfield YoKids Banilla low fat yogurt
  • 2t fat free ricotta
  • 1small banana
  • sprinkle of cinnamon

It was so tasty it even looked enticing when stirred to mush.

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In a bit we are going for a run (the same route as yesterday to see if maybe it doesn’t conquer me this time!) and then the plan for tonight is a low key dinner.  Lates!

What new fruits or veggies have YOU tried this summer?

1, 2, 3

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Good morning!  I need to start by going back to last night.  My husband love me very much, and is ok with the fact that he is my 3rd love.  So he delivered the first two to me last night.

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Devoured.  Also last night, I assembled these ingredients.

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Nonfat plain Fage, 1/4C oatmeal, 1T ground flax, a few unsweetened dried blueberries, and a sliced plum equaled this bowl of muesli this morning.

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The flavors were good but it was very thick, I don’t think I can do both flax and oats.

As soon as this post is up and I am dressed I am heading out to do some studying, see ya later!

What do you love?