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Life Is Good

August 11, 2010

Happy Wednesday!

This week seems to be dragggging on. You know it’s bad when Monday felt like a Thursday! Anyways, thoughts of an upcoming week off is helping a bit. I’m hoping to make a trip to Rhode Island. The problem I’m having is I don’t know where to go because there are so many cool places there for such a small state! Anyone ever been?

Right now I’m hanging on to my last mini vacay to Lake George (ok, I’m a bit travel obsessed at the moment) last month. Lake George is a big lake in upstate NY – 32 miles long to be exact. I went there once when I was little but all I have is a picture of me in swimmies and a tarzan bathing suit. I would scan it in actually but that’d be embarrassing.

Highlight of our trip? Dinner of course! We went on a dinner cruise on the Lac Du Saint Sacrement.

It was a buffet dinner. What was weird though was that you ate before the boat even started moving. I’d rather have eaten while it’s moving but I don’t know, maybe that’s just me. As long as the food was good I couldn’t really complain!

There were rosemary potatoes, pasta with feta/olives, bread, string beans, and fish. After the cruise we walked along the lake and practiced some poses.

And, since you might have spotted my shopping bag, we of course went shopping! Little towns always have the cutest boutiques. I kept with my ‘buy dishware on vacation’ theme that I have going on and bought a Life Is Good mug.

“Do what you like. Like what you do.” It’s a motto to live by! I made sure to follow it by not passing up an ice cream offer later on.

Question:

What’s you’re favorite saying/motto to live by?

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Licorice & Lace

June 11, 2010

Happy Friday :)

Sorry for being such a horrible blogger lately. Life has been busy!

Yesterday I brought back steel cut oats since the weather was actually pretty cool. Not that I was complaining!

Mixed with half a banana and topped with Crazy Richards chunky pb, flax, raisins, walnuts, and craisins. With some black coffee on the side, for the health benefits ;)

After that delicioso breakfast, I got out ED&BV to find a corn free dessert I could make since I had dinner plans at Corn Free Cass’s. With minimal ingredients in my house, I decided on 5 spice almond cookies. I didn’t have any 5spice, and all my vanilla extract includes corn syrup so I kinda winged it by using pumpkin pie spice and anise extract.

I taste tested one and the first bite was good, but the second had a weird aftertaste. I think I could’ve gone easier on the anise :( I’ve officially renamed them licorice cookies.

Later on in the day I met up with the boyfriend and his Mom at Costco so I could take advantage and get some (moderately) cheap maple syrup.

She also treated us to lunch there. I had a slice of pizza and a berry smoothie, which didn’t look anything special.

Later on I headed over to Cass’s to have dinner with her, Miranda, and her boyfriend, Andrew. Of course I forgot to take any pictures of us! It was a lot of fun though! We all haven’t seen each other in over a month since their time at Swarovski has ended :( Note to self: make time for friends more often!

We started the meal with a zucchini-eggplant casserole, compliments of Miranda.

The main event was baked macaroni and cheese, compliments of Andrew.

I love those big noodles!

Although I was stuffed, I made room for dessert (obviously).

Miranda made her famous lace cookies. They’re seriously the best cookies ever! When I was little they were always my cookie of choice when my Mom took me to the Italian deli…

Anyways, back to the present, I have to go get ready for work.

Have a great day!!!

Questions:

  1. How often do you see your friends?
  2. Do you have any childhood cookie memories?
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A Simple Life

June 7, 2010

Happy Monday!

I hope everyone had a fun weekend! I had a weekend of working. I’m sticking by the notion that if you go to work happy, work will be a happy place! So far it’s been working for me :)

My life has been a bit stressful for the past couple of days. I’m not a stress eater, instead I usually eat less food and less exciting foods. So unexciting that I hardly took any pictures.

I made quite a few salads. My favorite was just plain with cherry tomatoes, pepitas, and Italian dressing. Sometimes simple is best.

I also treated myself to an Au Bon Pain Mediterranean Wrap since someone else brought in a wrap to work and I started thinking about it all day.

It was totally worth the 7 dollars. Whoever made it had superior wrapping skills. I got a little bit of everything with every bite.

Breakfasts were simple as well.  Example: Cascadian Farms Honey Nut O’s with blueberries, nectarine, and almond milk.

Even with my non appetite, I managed to have pasta on Sunday. I guess that’s the Italian in me!

For the past 2 days I’ve been spending my time with my nose in a book, studying up for a meeting I have tomorrow. Unfortunately I’ve been watching this pest at the same time.

Don’t let the pictures fool you, she’s laid down for maybe 4 minutes! I guess I should go give her some attention…

Questions:

  1. Are you a stress eater?
  2. For bloggers, is there ever times when you just don’t feel like photographing your food?
  3. What’s your favorite simple meal?
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