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Excitable

May 7, 2010

Definition: Easily excited. That’s me! As you’ll see from all the random things that excite me in this post.

First off, Happy Friday! I can finally say that now because I have a job! Actually mine has weekend hours but for this week it doesn’t so yay! I made it 3 straight days with my commute :) Yeah, I need to start out slow to work up to 5 days a week.

The only thing I’m hating is that I haven’t had time to exercise and my race is coming up on Sunday. I was okay with it (I am at least walking almost an hour a day) until my top search for my blog showed up as: “how tough is north face bear mountain challenge?”

This tough:

I’m basically running up the mountain and then back down. Am I nervous? Yes. Excited? Yes! I got my parents to come cheer me on which I’m so happy about. I’ve been solo for all my past races.

Yesterday’s breakfast was a fried egg on a whole wheat roll, with cheddar.

Good thing I had some protein for breks because I didn’t get to eat lunch til 4pm! That’s 8 hours of no food and I was taking notes in a meeting, so my brain needed the fuel! I headed straight up to the cafeteria after and was blessed with riding the elevator up with the gentleman restocking the food. Yay for fresh free food!

I had white fish over rice with half a plate filled with broccoli, carrots, and cauliflower. No picture though :( I think from now on though I’m going to go with Ellie’s suggestion of just telling people about my food blog. I think it’s pretty cool. And if they don’t think so, well, then I don’t really care!

I had some time to kill before work so I had called my Dad and heard about all the fresh produce he bought while food shopping. When I got home at 9 last night, I was still so excited about all the fresh veggies hiding in my fridge I used my remaining energy to cook up a healthy dinner.

I stir fried some mushrooms, broccoli, and tomatoes in a little walnut oil and served it over leftover polenta mush. I didn’t add any spices or anything. It was just fresh, pure vegetables and it was delicious.

In Defense of Food got me excited about cooking and eating whole foods again. I just started a new book, “French Women For All Seasons,” by Mireille Guiliano, which also raves about eating real foods and taking time to cook. So, you might hopefully see more cooked meals on the blog. I used to make a new recipe every night and in the past year I’ve gotten a bit lazy. Here’s to getting excited again about cooking, real food, and escaping the Western diet!

Anyone else with me?

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Spammed

April 28, 2010

So spam is driving me crazy! Over the last week it seems that they have finally found the key to getting past my spam box. I am getting a million random guy names posting your old comments to my old posts. At first I was like, ooh new commenters! And then I’m like, wait, that sounds familiar! Way to burst my bubble :(

I have good news! For those who have been reading for a while, you know I graduated from college last April and have been working part time while looking for a job. Its been a long year but.. I found a job! It’s part time right now but there is a possibility of eventually going full time and it seems like something I’ll really really like :) Also, I’m staying at my current job for right now so It’ll be like I’m working full time.

For privacy reasons I won’t say what it is but I will say it’s in NYC, which means an hour train ride, so maybe I can buy something where I can blog during that time. Any suggestions? Mark keeps telling me to get an internet enabled phone but I can’t imagine blogging on one of those! I’ll need to do some research..

Ok, on to the food! I had a -gasp- change in breakfast yesterday morning! I stayed at Mark’s, where there’s always limited breakfast options since they don’t buy non-dairy milk (and, even worse, they buy whole milk). After thinking about going for water based oats, I spotted the biggest wraps I’ve ever seen. They were whole wheat so I went with them to create the apple wrapover.

I put a diced apple in the center, topped it with cinnamon and a tbsp of almond butter, and closed it apple turnover style. Then I put it in the toaster oven for a few minutes and ate the warm apple-almondy goodness.

I stopped at Stop & Shop on the way home to use my gift card from MyBlogSpark so I can enter the Hybrid contest. I got the products I needed, and more, and only had to pay $1.75. Awesome!

I decided on the tofu for lunch. I loved how it was already cubed. It was so easy to throw into my stir fry of onions, garlic, spinach, and cherry tomatoes. I mixed it all with barley and italian seasoning.

After digesting a little bit, I went back to Mark’s and ellipticalled for an hour while he painted (his living room, not artwork). Yesterday I also did an hour of low impact cardio on my stationary bike. It’s been raining and I just haven’t felt like running. Also, I have a million magazines to catch up on! I need to cut back on my cooking ones. I tend to rip a million recipes out and then never make them because there are always other yummy sounding ones in the next magazine I read. Frustrating!

After cardio, I actually did some strength training! Slowly but surely I’ll get back into it. I did 3 sets of each bicep curls, tricep extensions, and overhead shoulder press – with 5 lb weights.

Dinner was Alaskan wild caught cod – the best choice on the Sustainable Seafood list! I almond crusted it using a recipe on Eat Better America, which is gone now. On the side I made garlicky broccoli rabe.

Ok, off to my first day of job training :) Have a good day!

Questions:

1) Do you rip recipes out of magazines? Do you ever end up making them?

2) Do you ever blog on the go? How?

3) How much spam do you normally get?

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Popcorn Time Machine

March 31, 2010

Good morning!

I’m not feeling too hot today :( I’ve had a headache since yesterday and it just won’t go away. It might be because I had movie popcorn for dinner. I’m never doing that again!

At least I had two decent meals before that. For breakfast I toasted an English muffin and topped it with Sunland Cinnamon Currant PB, Golden Delicious apple, cinnamon, and flax.

Then my training plan called for 2 miles walking, 2 miles running, 2 miles speed walking. Since it’s still raining, I had to resort to the treadmill again. This time it only took me an hour and 35 minutes since I finally learned to lower the incline on my treadmill!

Afterward, I wanted a protein packed lunch – but quick. I scoped out my grain selection and decided on bulgur since it cooks in 20 minutes. Apparently my Dad is waiting til Easter to food shop so we still have no veggies. I pulled out the only frozen bag in the fridge – corn – and stir fried it up with some onions and black beans, adding cumin in at the end.

I headed over to Mark’s after lunch and took him to Wal-mart to buy paint (he’s redoing his bathroom – yellow!)and while we were there we got some snacks for the movies. My pick:

Then unfortunately we decided to get $8 popcorn anyways and proceeded to munch on half the bag during Hot Tub Time Machine. The movie was good, the stomach ache I got after wasn’t! I had meant to eat dinner after but was too full to eat anything for the rest of the night.

I’m gunna take a page out of Caroline’s book and have a clean eating day today! Hope you have a wonderful Wednesday :)

Questions:

  1. Do you buy snacks at the movies or bring them yourself?
  2. What color is your bathroom?
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