Halloween Recap and How I Eat on a Hangover November 2, 2009
Posted by aprillove1625 in Uncategorized.Tags: goddess dressing, Twilight trailer
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How was everyone’s Halloween? I haven’t been on here in a while, last week was just too busy! There was something going on every night after work and those somethings would keep us out late! Here’s a highlight of some stuff:
Wednesday: Mountain biking! Too much fun! Followed up with an evening at our friends house to toast some cocktails to my best friend on her new engagement! I’m so excited, she’s marrying in wine country next year in California so I have a big vaca to look forward to!
Thursday: Scoured the town for Halloween costumes. Todd actually cooked crablegs! The guy barely cooks but it sure is nice when he does! We chowed down while watching the Office. Sadly, no workout 
Like the butter warmer? It’s a Bath and Body works oil burner. Worked like a charm!
Friday: Dinner with the in-laws and their friend from Colorado. We went from there to our friend’s house to help get things ready for the Halloween party she was hosting on Saturday. Again, no workout. I’m a loser.
Saturday: After getting off of work at 3, ran to Sam’s, ran home to get my costume finished and get ready. Spent an HOUR and a HALF on my hair then dashed out the door to take my grams to dinner before the party. Eat at the Golden Corral (yuck but my grandma wanted buffet and there is never a wait at the Golden Corral), drop her off and jet out to West Omaha for the party. Oh, no workout squeezed in there. Workouts for last week in general? BIG FAT FAIL.
The theme this year (every year we have a theme to help the less creative people such as myself) was vampires and werewolves. This theme also made it very easy to find costumes this year what with all the Twilight hype! We all left the house party around 10 and headed over the The Prestige for the last bit of the evening.
There was a fog machine downstairs and I think that’s part of why my pic came out kind of crappy. Here’s most of the people that attended the party.
Sunday: After staying out late and indulging in a little too much of my friend’s homemade “moon juice” which is a carbonated vodka concoction, I got to go in to work at 7am! Thank the sweet baby Jesus for the hour time change! Needless to say though, I still didn’t get near enough sleep and had a killer headache! Sunday I started out in detox mode. I had yogurt, strawberries and granola for breakfast…when I really wanted some greasy eggs:
Mid-morning I walked up to my favorite coffee shop and shockingly enough, got a fruit smoothie instead of a latte. Just trying to replenish some fluids and lost vitamins what with the alcohol intake from the night before and all:
Lunch was a spinach salad with goddess dressing:
Oh, and some grapes from a co-worker:
Later in the afternoon is where I slid a little. I had a slice of veggie pizza from Zio’s, the greatest pizza in the whole city of Oma-hell. Strangely enough, pizza sounded good to my still slightly queasy belly. The nice thing about Zio’s pizza is it’s not greasy and drowning in cheese like most pizza places. Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE CHEESE, but my booty does not.
For my “dessert”, I nabbed a chocolate covered marshmallow someone had brought in. Not one single person I work with ever brings in healthy treats.
I managed to squeeze in about a mile worth of walked while at work and after work, Todd and I took the supermutts to the park for a fall picture.
This was not easy to capture but aren’t they cute little turds?
After the park, Todd offered to cook. Again! He managed to take advantage of the SEVENTY SIX degree weather and go mountain biking so he was starving. His specialty are egg sammiches and seeing as how I love egg sammiches myself, I took him up on his offer. I did help though and cooked up some hashbrowns.
And I’d also had some carrots and hummus earlier to fit in some more veggies.
How I ate what with my hangover Sunday wasn’t too horrible. I feel like I ate too much all day since I didn’t do much but walk a little but oh well. You win some, you lose some.
I had better wrap this up as it’s 6:30 pm and I’ll probably be going in to work this evening at 11pm. I’m about 90% sure I’ll be getting called in for some overtime. ‘Til then, check out this video. Are you on the Twilight bandwagon like I am? This is pretty hilarious if you have a sick sense of humor like I do.
Weekend Eats Part II October 27, 2009
Posted by aprillove1625 in Uncategorized.Tags: Amazing Grass, Amy's, Annie's, goddess dressing, green smoothie
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Yesterday I managed to post that sweet Oprah video but when I came back later to post about Sunday’s foods, my computer pooped out. I’ve been complaining about this POS for a while but still haven’t bought a new one. I cringe every time I have to use this thing and waiting for it to load pics and open web pages is possibly worse than listening to the Jonas brothers. Oh well, a new computer is on the list.
Here’s Sundays eats:
It probably looks like I’m about the last person in the blog world to try these Amazing grass products, but I have had some of them before. This berry flavor is new to me though so I picked up a little trial packet and added it to my green smoothie which also contained:
- Banana
- Frozen peaches
- Mango
- Acai berry juice
- Spinach
- Vanilla protein powder (EAS brand)
Thumbs up on the Amazing Grass addition. Lunch was just a salad, one you’ve seen on here many times. I didn’t get a pic but I must talk about this dressing though. It’s GOOD. I’ve been a big fan of Whole Foods Italian dressing for a while and once I find a good dressing, I really don’t stray but I’d been eyeing this one for a while. SO GLAD I tried it, it’s awesome! It’s so good I could almost drink it with every meal and there was a time when that was only reserved for gravy.
Here’s the description:
“Creamy tahini mingles with lemon, soy sauce and chives creating this well-loved dressing.” Go try it now!
I had grand plans of coming home and doing something with sweet potatoes but this sight greeted me when I walked in the door:
Not much cooking going on in the kitchen that night! Todd had to paint some trim that was still unfinished so he brought me back this Mediterranean sammich from Panera:
Oh, I also finished off this little bag of goodies….um yeah, I bought these Saturday, whoops! I love ‘em though! Restraint is not my middle name so I can’t have these in the house too often.
I didn’t work out Sunday but did manage a run on Monday. I had a great run Friday but Monday’s run….not so much. I barely eeeked out 2 miles. I had a side stitch about 3 laps in around the track and I barely get those so I’m not sure what my deal was. I just wasn’t feeling it. Perhaps because I didn’t eat much on Monday? I cleaned my house ALL day and sometimes when I’m at home all day, I just don’t get hungry. I had a couple of cups of coffee and a veggie burger later in the afternoon and that was it. Veggie burger compliments of Amy’s All American burger on a sandwich thin with hummus and a slice of chipotle cheddar cheese…way better than Boca…
All right, I hear old episodes of The Office in the other room. I’d better go check it out. Good night!
