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!!

Going for Speed

I was going for speed….not distance.  I can’t tell you how many times during a run this song pops into my head.  I should probably stick it on my iPod.

 Distance:  2.0 miles
Time:  17:58
Avg. Pace:  8:59/mile

I was going for a liiiittle faster, but at about 1.25 miles, my iPod lost its charge.  Running without music is hard!  I know I did mile 1 just about or even under 8:00, so mile 2 was definitely slower. 

My groin is absolutely KILLING me today.  And there’s no hot yoga class today and I can’t make tomorrow’s.  What’s a girl to do?  Methinks yoga download hip opening flow this evening.

AM Snack:

  My first Vita-Top!  I bought these this weekend.  I got the banana nut flavor.  It was delicious!  I absolutely loved it and cannot wait to try other flavors!

Lunch:

Randomness:  I had a bowl of leftover roasted broccoli and cauliflower from the previous night’s dinner and a grapefruit (which I ate orange style…never did this before).  I was going to have the Chobani and granola, but I was too full.  I wound up digging into the granola only and having just a bite or two of the yogurt. 

That’s my green tea hiding in the background.  My school only has styrofoam cups.  BUMM-ER.  It kills me a little inside every time I use one.

PM Snack:

I finished up the yogurt before I left school and then munched on these strawberries on the way home.  They don’t look too appetizing in this picture, but they were tasty.

Dinner:

I made my three bean turkey chili.  It was awesome as per usual.  A little spicy this time – but that’s the way (uh huh uh huh) I like it.

Dessert: 

I had a TJ’s soy creamy mini ice cream sandwich.  See those ice crystals in the upper right hand corner?  Yeah, I’ve had these since summer.  It still tasted good!

Thursday:

Breakfast: 

I had a bowl of oat bran.  In the mix:

• 1/3 cup oat bran
• 1/3 cup each of water and almond milk
• pinch of sea salt
• splash of vanilla
• cinnamon
• mashed banana
• spoonful of chocolate soynut butter (liked it much better as a mix-in than as a topping)
• topped with plain Chobani

This was a tasty little bowl.  Not my favorite, but how could one compete with pumpkin and apple pie oats?  I mean, that’s just not fair.

It’s almost Friday!  Hooray!

Favorite Running Weather

  

Yesterday afternoon/evening, I had such a nice outdoor run.  It was warmer than it has been, probably about 68, but with that nice fall crispness in the air.  I wore shorts and a longsleeved shirt.  It’s probably my favorite running apparel in my favorite running weather.  I was aiming for 4 miles (still haven’t purchased a new Nike+…note to self…do that this weekend!), but wound up stopping at 3.6, not because I was tired, but because I was home.

Distance:  3.6 miles
Time:  33:40
Avg. Pace:  9:21/mile

AM Snack:  CLIF Chocolate Chip Zbar

Lunch:

  Amy’s black bean and vegetable burrito.  This was SO delicious.  I didn’t even want to eat that naner so I could savor the burrito flavor in my mouth.  I’m getting more of these ASAP!  I also made a blunder and ate that naner after lunch when I had brought it for PM snack.  It was meant to be eaten slathered with PB.  I was supposed to eat strawberries with lunch.  Oh well.  I ate some berries anyway.

PM Snack:

I had this lowfat French vanilla yogurt in my fridge, so I swirled in some PB and crumbled some pretzels on top for a tasty snack.

Dinner:

I made shrimp picatta over orzo and roasted broccoli and cauliflower.  My mother-in-law made this while we were visiting last month and I loved it, so she photocopied the recipe.  I think it’s from Family Circle.  I made a few healthy substitutions like Earth Balance for butter and cut the olive oil from two tablespoons to one.  I actually did the same with the Earth Balance.  It was delicious!  I have to say that roasting cruciferous veggies might be my new favorite thing.  Jillian Michaels would be proud.

After dinner I had a Heiny Light while watching the Yankees game and listening to Hubbers scream/clap with his loud manly clap/jump around a little bit.  He is a Yankee fan.  Could you tell?  I am NOT a Yankee fan.  I am a MET FAN.  But my team doesn’t make it to the playoffs, so I may as well root for NY!

 

Wednesday:

Breakfast:

Pumpkin Pie oats:

• 1/2 cup oats
• 1/2 cup each water and almond milk
• mashed banana
• pumpkin pie spice
• spoonful of pumpkin butter
• topped with PB&Co Cinnamon Raisin Swirl PB

I tried to get all Jenny-like with my PB drizzle, but I couldn’t be patient.

Have a Happy Humpday!

Spooky Weekend

   

I had a very busy weekend and a very long Monday at work…hence the Tuesday post.  This weekend, we went to the village of Sleepy Hollow for “Legend Weekend.”  It’s a festival centered around Washington Irving’s book “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”  It’s a spooky and fun little festival complete with headless horseman.  I am so upset I forgot to bring my camera!

I baked these pumpkin cupcakes, which by the end of the night became known as simply “pumpcakes” to bring to Hubbers’s coworker’s house (the host).

They are FAR from healthy, but they were super tasty.  You can find the recipe here.  I highly recommend you do.

And now for some eats…

My previous favorite oats (see next bowl), cranberry apple butter oats. You should know the mix by now…but in case you don't:

• 1/2 cup oats
• 1/2 cup water
• 1/2 cup almond milk
• 1 mashed banana
• handful craisins
• 1 spoonful cranberry apple butter
• cinnamon
• 1 scoop almond butter
• 1 scoop plain Chobani

And now…my newest favorite oats:

Apple Pie OATS!!!  In the mix:

• 1/2 cup oats
• 1/2 cup water
• 1/2 cup almond milk
• lots of cinnamon
• splash of vanilla extract
• splash of maple syrup
• 1/2 chopped honeycrisp apple
• topped with cinnamon raisin swirl pb (crust??) and plain Chobani (ala mode)

Heaven.ly.  I am in love with this bowl!

I then went to a baby shower (again), had some brunch-y foods and came home for a food shop.

Feast your eyes on these goodies: Broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, organic baby spinach, basil, organic carrots, Starbies coffee

Bananas, lemons, garlic, oats, seltzer, pasta, beans and tomatoes (someone’s making chili this week!)

Amy’s soups, Kashi cookies, Vitatops, Amy’s burrito (cannot wait to try), Zbars, coconut water, buttload of Chobani (they were 10 for $10…score!)

Large plain Chobani, soynut butter, Annie’s dressing, organic milk and Starburst (Hubs of course), chicken sausage, ground turkey

I’m most excited to try this little jar!

And now a peek inside my fridge (since I cleaned it)

Monday:

Breakfast: 

Chocolate-covered strawberry oats:

• 1/2 cup oats
• 1/2 cup water
• 1/2 cup almond milk
• 1 mashed banana
• cinnamon
• vanilla
• maple syrup
• topped with sliced strawberries and chocolate soynut butter

The soynut butter is a little gritty.  I was deciding between that and PB&Co Dark Chocolate Dreams.  Next time I’ll go with DCD.

AM Snack:  CLIF Zbar

Lunch:

Amy’s Lentil Vegetable soup, whole wheat pita, apple

PM Snack:

TJ’s organic vanilla Greek yogurt with Panda Puffs

Dinner:

Penne pesto with broccoli and asparagus – YUM!

I was totally vegetarian on Monday…three cheers for me!

Tuesday:

Breakfast:

   Apple pie oats again.  Seriously…make this.  NOW!

Monday was hot yoga.  Not as rigorous as my practices have been (it was a different teacher), but more focused on form…which is good.

Make it a good Tuesday everyone!