So Much to Say

???I guess??? We went to see Paranormal Activity last night. For most of the movie I felt ok about the insanity I was watching. For the rest I was completely horrified.

This chick popped into my head several times during the night. I was not happy about it. She is a freak.

There was a group of teenage girls (probably more like tweenage honestly) who belonged in the Hannah Montana movie (if she has one out right now) rather than this movie. Their screaming and giggling kind of ruined it for me. We definitely told them to shut it a few times during the movie. If you can’t take the scary, go see a G movie homegirls.

In other news, I got a little hair upgrade today:

Don’t mine my unmade bed and clothes strewn over my dressing table bench. Also don’t mind that blurrified pic. It was the best I could do with my ‘berry.

And the best news yet… I’m going here today:

Jack Rabbit

Jack Rabbit is a running/yoga/swimming/biking store in NYC where they custom fit shoes for you after running on a treadmill and analyzing your “biomechanics.” Sweet. Maybe this will ease my groin pain? I’ll be back later with an update. I have a sick feeling in my stomach that I’m going to wind up with shoes sized in the double digits. Gross.

Glorious eats from the past few days:

Friday:

Breakfast:

Brekkie a la Mama Pea. A honeycrisp apple cut into chunks and microwaved with cinnamon for a minute topped with plain Chobani and TJ’s pumpkin spice granola. Delightful, delicious, delovely.

Honestly, I don’t know where the rest of Friday’s eats have gone…or quite frankly what they were. I know I stopped at TJ’s after work and got these:

It just so happened I needed an afternoon snack, so I dug in right in the car! Delish!

I also know my morning snack was this:

New flavor for me. Deliciously exciting. Did not disappoint. You can get an exciting peek at school events via my desk calendar. Yep, we’re visiting a news studio next week on Wednesday. Get excited fourth grade! We will be standing in front of a fake weather map.

Saturday:

Breakfast:

Pumpkin pie oats:

• 1/2 cup oats
• 1/2 cup water and almond milk
• 1 mashed nana
• pumpkin pie spice
• pumpkin butter
• topped with cinnamon raisin swirl PB

AM Snack:

Vanilla Chobani with Raspberries

Lunch:

When a Long Islander is near All American Drive In, a Long Islander must eat All American Drive In. It’s an icon. It’s delicious. I had a burger, a few fries and a big ole seltzer.

Needless to say, I skipped the pm snack.

Dinner:

My FAVORITE restaurant. We started with the baby arugula salad with shaved parmesan, tomatoes and lemon dressing and the baby beet salad with goat cheese and pistachio and split them up between three of us.

I went with the cilantro marinated grilled shrimp with vegetable cous cous and English pea puree. This picture doesn’t do it justice. The puree is 1,000 times greener and 1,000 times less Exorcist throw up color.

Oh Reagan, you will always scare the pants off me…

and apparently give me inspiration for hair cuts…

Sunday:

Breakfast:

Remember this?

I whipped it up for breakfast this morning:

Served it with some maple syrup and strawberries and bananas. These little babycakes were phenom. Light, fluffy, pumpkiny. What more could a girl ask for?

Random gross eat:

I ordered a chicken stir fry…Thursday I think? It came like this:

Would you like some stir-fry with your sauce? Why do people think this is a good idea? Who eats this? Apparently I do. I remove veggies and chicken strips from the saucy madness onto another plate and begrudgingly eat it. My fingers swell from sodium intake and I must drink mass amounts of water with lemon and then get up to pee all night. Never again. Next time it goes straight back.

We’re leaving for Jack Rabbit in about 45 minutes. Time to get out of my jammies and get this party started!!

Oat-a-licious

I enjoyed a fabulous hip-opening flow on Wednesday to sooth my achy legs.  My groin was so tight.  It felt so good when I got down in half pigeon. 

{yoga journal}

 

Here are a collection of eats I photographed from Wednesday and today

Pumpkin oats for breakfast – In the mix:

• 1/2 cup oats
• 1/2 cup almond milk
• 1/2 cup water
• 1/4 cup pumpkin
• lots of cinnamon
• dash of vanilla

Toppings:  Cinnamon Raisin Swirl PB and plain Chobani

Honey Graham Z Bar for snack

Veggie wrap with hummus, spinach, carrots and red pepper

and a gorgeous, juicy pear.

For dinner, I made mini turkey meatloaves.  They were chock full of veggies and had a spicy glaze on top.  I will definitely make these again.  They were in this month’s Self magazine and you can find the recipe here.  

Today’s breakfast was beyond.  Chocolate-peanut butter oat bran – In the mix:

• 1/3 cup of oat bran
• 1/2 cup almond milk
• 1/2 cup water
• 1 mashed banana
• 1 Tablespoon chocolate/peanut butter chips mixed in

Toppings:  1 more Tablespoon of chips and plain Chobani

heaven-ly.  Move over, pumpkin oats.  There’s a new sheriff in town.

I also invented a new snack today.  I put a big dollop of plain Chobani in a dish and crumbled some PB-filled pretzels in along with a tiny dab of TJ’s superfruit spread.  Mixed it all together and voila!  It was awesome.

Dinner was out.  Hubbers and I tried a new restaurant.  We split a mixed green salad to start – my blackberry was NOT taking good pics for some reason.  The salad was good.  My wine was good.  My entree was vegetable risotto…should be a grand slam for me.  It sucked.  The rice wasn’t even risotto rice.  It looked like plain white rice in some weird oily reddish sauce.  It was full of huge slices of pepper and zucchini.  NOT what I had in mind.  Worst part was no one came over to see what the dealio was when I ate three bites of my meal and then wasn’t touching it.  When the waiter came to clear our plates he apologized and offered me a meal to take out.  I was done at that point and politely declined.  I felt badly sending the food back.  I’ve NEVER done this before, but I could not justify paying $17 for something I didn’t and wouldn’t eat.  So they removed it from the check and I came home and had this:

Ezekiel with cinnamon raisin swirl PB.  It hit the spot.  I just gave myself a mani/pedi and did a pretty fantastic job if I do say so myself.  Now it’s time to let these babies dry and hop into bed! 

Cramping My Style

This post is going to be quite the mother-load. First off, I have to say that I totally identified with Hangry Heather’s post the other day. It’s always hard getting back into the swing of things for a new school year. Throw in hosting a party over the weekend and a long run and football on Sunday and I was toast Monday. So let’s catch up.

Since we chatted last, I had a long run Sunday, biked on Monday and a three-miler today.

Sunday:

Distance: 7.01 miles
Time: 1:31:42
Avg. Pace: 10:30/mile
(I’m too lazy to fetch my HR monitor and get you those stats…be honest, you don’t care)

Monday: 45 minute bike ride with Hubbers

Tuesday:

Distance: 2.86 miles
Time: 25:06
Avg. Pace: 8:44/mile

(My Nike+ was acting up again…I paced a 9:22 on it for some reason. So mad I didn’t get credit to make this month’s speed goal!)

I also had some MAJOR cramping in my stomach during this run. It was really painful and caused me to walk a few times. It was not a fun run.

Since my groin has been bothering me lately, I decided to ice, ice baby after my run:

Then Hubbers was a doll and stretched it out for me. I sat in that exact position and he sat next to me and just pulled my leg to make an L with the other leg. It felt reeeeeally good!

SUNDAY:

Breakfast:

Kashi H2H, Nature’s Path pumpkin flax granola, almond milk, strawberries

Lunch:

Leftover pasta salad from Saturday’s block party

Dinner:

was at our neighbor’s house for the Giants/Redskins game. Hubbers and I are Giants fans, they’re Redskins fans. We watch the games they play each other together and take turns hosting. I was so glad it wasn’t my turn. I was beat from Saturday and the 7 mile run!

MONDAY:

Breakfast:

Pumpkin oats…see what’s in the mix here.

Lunch/Snack:

A.M. snack was a mini CLIF bar.

Veggie/hummus wrap on lavash bread with spinach, tomato and carrots

and a kiwi

Dinner: was out – I was craving a burger and forgot to photograph. Sometimes a girl just needs a burger. It was awesome.

TUESDAY:

Breakfast:

Creamy Oatbran

In the mix:

• 1/3 cup oatbran
• 1/2 cup almond milk
• 1/2 cup water
• cinnamon
• vanilla
• 1 mashed banana

Topped with plain Chobani and strawberries…delightful!

My throat was feeling a little sore, so I slammed back some “EmergenC” on the way out the door.

Lunch/Snack:

Snack was a mini CLIF…I know, shocking.

Amy’s Light in Sodium Minestrone and a mini ciabatta roll with some…

grapes!

Snack: One of my former students came by with a birthday treat of a Carvel flying saucer. I don’t know what possessed me to do it, but I ate it. It was delish.

Dinner:

Wild Sockeye Salmon broiled with salt, pepper, fresh garlic, lemon juice, olive oil, red pepper flakes and oregano and spinach salad with carrots and tomatoes and balsamic vinaigrette. This piece of salmon was HUGE. I couldn’t finish it, but it was really good.

Then I put together some mini caprese paninis for tomorrow’s lunch. While the press was heating, I finished my bottle of Sauv. B. I’m still savoring this glass.

I know I said I’d take pics on Saturday, but honestly I was running around so much I completely forgot! Here are the appetizers and dessert. I showed you the pasta salad earlier. I also made teriyaki chicken, BBQ shrimp and chicken sausage – all which Hubbers grilled to perfection and served a green salad.

Beer bread with spinach dip (I got a million compliments on the dip…thanks, Joe ;) Trader Joe that is!)

Potato chips and fake pirate’s booty from TJ’s

Chips and salsa

Veggies and dip

Pina Colada cupcakes

The party was a success. I had one too many vodka and pink sparkling lemonades for the day. Running on Sunday was painful. Everyone had a great time, though!

In other news, I’m super excited that Antonio won HGTV’s Design Star!

I’m a big fan!

Also, as we speak, my DVR is recording…

I’m beyond excited! I LOOOOOOOOOOVE me some BL. Can’t wait to see what’s in store this season!

AND, if you thought all that was good…look what was on my doorstep when I arrived home…

The AMAZING folks at Amazing Grass sent me some products to test out and review for the blog. I’m super excited and can’t wait to start taste-testing! Thanks again, Teri! I smell an “amazing” giveaway in your future, readers! Time to come out of the woodwork and make yourselves known!

Have a great night!