Let’s Play Squash

This week has been a madhouse.

3 midterms + 1 quiz + 1 research paper review write up + a 9 page case study write up for clinical nutrition = WTF are you thinking teachers?!

I promise tonight & tomorrow during my study breaks I will try and catch up on the massive amount of posts that have accumulated for me to read.

On a more happy note, I cotinued my Wednesday overnight oat tradition.

To-Go style

(Chipped mug 😦 )

Today’s topping included 1 cinnamon apple microwaved, cereal, and the last of my pumpkin cream cheese (must buy more ASAP!)

The Oikos container was just used as a travel method.

Midterm #1 was pretty killer. It was such boring, awful information that all I had to do was memorize…but really didn’t. And 40/80 questions were True/False. Seriously?

I miss running fast.  Freeee flyin at the gym:

• .25 mile walk warmup
• 1/2 mile 6 mph
• 1/2 mile 6.5 mph
• 1/4 mile 7 mph
• 1/4 mile 8 mph
• 1/4 mile 6 mph
• 1/4 mile 8 mph
• 1/4 mile 6 mph
• .25 mile walk
• 1/4 mile 6 mph
• 1/4 mile 8 mph
• 1/4 mile 6 mph
• 1/4 mile 8 mph
• 1/4 mile 8.5 mph
• 1/4 mile 6 mph

Total: 3.75 miles running. I doubt you read my workout above. I just felt like posting it, so let’s just pretend you read it, okay?

Snackie while last minute cramming for Midterm #2 (which went better than the first test. I think).

Since I got out of class early due to the test, I decided to embark upon an adventure!

I must live a sad life if I consider this an adventure.

Adventure or not, it yielded a crap load of stringy things.

The Trader Joe’s worker did comment on how I bought “quite the squash” when he saw how big it was. If they’re all the same price, you bet I would pick out the biggest one I could find.

Yay! Now I get to eat faux pasta every night for the next week!

While this was cookin’ in the microwave, I quickly threw together a lunch of Kashi curry rice pilaf + salsa + FF sour cream:

And a Chocolate PB cup vitatop with a little bit of extra sunbutter 😉

Work…Michael’s to pick up something for this weekend…then dinner.

Sauteed broccoli + peas + pasta sauce + parm cheese over my squashy.

Mmmm veggie overload.

I think I had mine, yours, and the lady next door’s week’s worth of sodium in this meal. All I wanted afterwards was water…and a little somethin’ sweet.

Snackage will occur later this night, and I’ll bet you $100 it will be hot chocolate + something with nut butter. Tip: don’t accept this bet since it’s pretty much what I have every night.

In other news, I came across an article in US magazine yesterday (read during my study break) about this little cartoon sketch that Fox aired showing a teammate poking fun at Tony Romo for dating Jessica Simpson “after she blew up bigger than [player] Flozell Adams” and also asking “Hey, is Jessica around? We could use a defensive tackle.” Honestly? I was shocked that anyone would really play something like this. Sure, Jessica Simpson has had some ups and downs with her weight, but so have we all. She’s a beautiful woman, and has been through so much criticism over the years. Give her a break! What good are such comments are leading to? What are your thoughts on this cartoon?

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Good News

Good News: I got my camera back! So you no longer have to suffer through artistic phone pictures (except on occasion) and Vlogs 😉 Unless of course, you request them.

More good news: I had time yesterday morning to cook some real oats. Which meant oats in a jar! Oh baby oh baby.

That would be cream cheese on top. My new obsession on oats.

Great news: When the girlies nap for hours on end, leaving me mucho time to study.

Leftover Kashi pizza for lunchie.

And gingerbread yogurt + cereal for el snacko.

+ an apple…unpictured.

Stupendous news: Lolli while being so studious.

Unfortunate news: No dinner pictures. Too bad I came home starving, and literally ate my dinner standing at the counter before I realized that now having my camera, means that I should get back on track with taking actual photos.

Ehh just imagine 1 lonely last pizza slice & pancakes for din. Chocolate & froyo for dessert. And 2 mugs of hot chocolate for warm study snacks 😉

Best news: the fact that I’m a couple quarters past Senioritis by now. If seniors get senioritis, then what do 5th year students get? 2 midterms tomorrow and I hardly even care. If that’s not good news something to be worried about, I don’t know what is.

Sorry I’ve been MIA from commenting – crazy midterms & essay week. Will be better hopefully by Thursday!

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Oh God…more pumpkin?

First, off I want to say a huge congrats to my little sister Brookie for getting 2nd place on vault at her gymnastics meet this weekend 🙂 9.45 – her best score yet! I’m so proud of her 😀

Second, I’m glad you all enjoyed the le tour de France my house. Or at least pretended to like it. I’m kind of on the Vlog bandwagon now…or at least trying to make up for my lack of pictures and phone photo shots.

Last night I got a bit hungry while in bed, but was too lazy to head downstairs. Then I remembered I had the sample pack that One Lucky Duck sent me sitting on my desk!

Hmm…I’ve obvoiusly been enjoying these snacks unpictured on the blog

I’ve tried the Gingerbread cookies, and they were amazing. I loved the distinct taste of cashew in them. The Cheese-y Crackers crackers were also pretty tasty, although they had a strange aftertaste. But I loved the sharp taste! Last night I tried the Chocolate chips cookies and blech, was not a fan at all! Something was off and I couldn’t even eat one!

But the granola bar was quite tasty! I enjoyed the whole thing 🙂 I loved the sweet, sweet sticky texture from the honey. Yumm!

This morning I woke up to prepare some pumpkin pancakes!

Rather than using a recipe, I just used the boxed Quaker oatmeal pancake mix, and added pumpkin, cinnamon, & pumpkin pie spice. They were delicious, but not as good as my made from scratch WW oatmeal pancakes 😉

Topped with pumpkin cream cheese, sunbutter, & maple syrup.

Fueld my gym sesh quite nicely 🙂

• 2 mile run 6 mph
• .25 mile walk
• 1.5 mile run 6-8 mph intervals
• 4 minute walk 10% incline

Total: 3.5 miles running, 4.5 miles total

I seriously hadn’t done intervals in years. When I was into running long distances, I would just run miles and miles at the same speed – no intervals involved. Back in the day (about 3 years ago) when I was just running on the treadmill for fitness, I ran intervals. And man did it feel good to go fast after going at a constant 6 mph TM pace these past few months!

Post-gym, I stopped by the froyo store to check if they had pumpkin flavor – and left a happy happy gal 😀

~ 1 serving pumpkin + cake batter froyo with some chocolate syrup (I saved the rest of the froyo in the freezer for future consumption)

Sandwich thin with PB & J

A delicious fuji.

And a pumpkin smoothie “don’t jude me, okay?” smoothie.

(recycled picture)

Boring afternoon of errands, studying, and party shopping procrastinating stuff.

And then dinner was thrown in the oven. Kashi black bean mexicali pizza topped with the last of my turkey pepps and some spinach.

I only had 1/4 of this because I filled up on about 5 servings of broccoli. Oh well, more for later!

I did get hungry later on (obviously, after only 2 puny thin crust pizza slices) so helped myself to a treat I picked up earlier.

Pumpkin chocolate chip cookie!

Warmed up in the microwave…..mmmmmm boy.

I also snagged this day old muffin (I think it was spelt bran pecan and berry?). Sorry the picture’s still in the wrapper – I don’t want to unwrap it until I actually plan to eat it.

I may or may not have another Vlog surprise tomorrow to make up for my last day of non-real camera pics. Stay tuned!!

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Honey, I’m Home!

**Still phone pictures** 😦

My hunger never calmed down last night, and post popcorn included the infamous Banana Whip!!

OMG amaaaaazing. Definitely something only a food processer can do. Although my little food processer is so teeny, that it starts to smoke and gets so hot that it actually heats up the banana whip when it goes too long. So I’m not sure mine’s as light and airy as it’s supposed to be.

And I also got a Halloween package from my grandma Sissie!

Obviously dug in a bit already 😉

This morning was a re-make of something I haven’t had in a while. Waffle ‘Witch! (wow what a festive title, no?)

Sandwiched between 2 Kashi honey oat waffles:

• Scrambled eggs with some cheese
• Garlic & herb cream cheese
• Ketchup
• Tomato

To fully capture it in it’s glory, I’ll remind you of it when I had an actual photo from a real camera.

Except that one had guac in it, which mine did not 😦

I definitely got a lot accomplished today:

• Costco
• Old Navy returns/costum shopping
• Post office
• Studying/HW
• Workout
• Taking camera pics of my food (or not)

So to make up for my lack of pictures, I promised you something else exciting today, so here it is! My first Vlog!

I know a bunch of bloggers got on the house tour train a while ago, and I’ve been meaning to do it. Now that I don’t have my normal spectacular pictures to wow you all with, I thought it would be the perfect time.

(Please ignore the awkard ending. I didn’t know exactly how to say “bye”. And sorry my finger kept getting in the way of the lens. Also sorry if it’s grainy at parts due to lighting and makes you dizzy. I realized I moved the camera around a bit too much.  I also like how the beginning shot is of beer.  Nice 😉 )

Enjoy 🙂

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Flashback Like it’s 2003

Tried out my knee strap for the second time today for a 4 mile run broken up into:

• 1.5 mile run; .2 mile walk
• 1.5 mile run; .2 mile walk
• 1 mile run; .2 mile walk

I originally wanted to go 5, but the knee was a bit sore. My knee strap feels pretty good while running – hardly any pain whatsover. But it’s just as sore as normal later in the day. So I’m not sure if it’s doing much work.

Hungry hungry today!

Post-workout snackie was so good, it was like dessert. I tried So Delicious Coconut chocolate yogurt! Wow. Topped with some Nature’s Path peanut butter granola. Amazing. I couldn’t get over how good it was.

Definitely a treat.

Hungry an hour later –

Hungry an hour later – unpictured bowl of frozen mangos.

Then dinner was some of this soup (chili?). (Old picture). Sooo good! Love it. I mixed in some pumpkin to make it more filling and pumpkin chili-ish. Great idea.

Currently munching on olive oil + garlic salt popcorn and more snack definitely to come. I’m so hungry today!

I wasn’t going to do Flashback Friday this week, but seeing as how I don’t have much going on in the photo department today, I thought I’d grace you with some flashback ones.

I don’t have many pictures on this computer pre-college, since I didn’t get a digital camera until my senior year. I do have a 2003 folder filled with random pictures that I suppose I got from my dad’s computer. Anyways, today I decided to grace you with my entire 2003’s random picture collection.

2003 consisted of partly Sophomore year and partly Junior year.

My neighbor/one of my best friends at school. His last day before moving to Colorado 😦

And this is when my sister and I went to wish him off to Coli (if it works for Cali why not Coli?)

Birthday celebration. Go Giants!!

Awww sleepovers 🙂

And our obsession with Mary Kate & Ashley.

Swim meets!!! Love. Obviously was an “off” meet – why aren’t the other lanes filled?

Go me!

4th of July!! Hanging out to watch the fireworks.

Hanging out at our cabin.

Wow. Cool post-it notes guys.

And outside at the cabin.

Gingerbread House of 2003!! It’s a yearly tradition.

Pre-church on Christmas 🙂 I miss you Papa 🙂

And Christmas morn!! Remember playing with your new presents?

And looking quite happy at my sister’s birthday party.

I have so many other 2003 pictures that just must be on my other computer. Booo. But hope you enjoyed my 2003 folder tour!

Coming tomorrow: something else exciting!

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Camera Vacation

I’m glad you all enjoyed the letter to my body 🙂 Honestly, it really helped. Yesterday when any type of negative thought entered my head I remembered what I wrote and I immediately revoked the thoughts. Try it!

I have sad news. I left my camera at work. And I’m not going back until next Tuesday. Waaaaah. 😦

I was going to post my yesterday’s eats since those pictures on are my camera. But it’s at work. 30 minutes away.

So it’ll be Iphone pictures for the next 4 days. Boo.

One thing I can say is that refined carboyhydrate pumpkin bagels do not a make a good lunch (as delicious as they are). Since I was starving again 2 hours later. And then again 2 hours after that. And then again soon after.

Breakfast this morning (bear with me here guys):

Pumpkin oats.

The usual oatmeal mix

• 1/3 cup multigrain oats, 1/3 c soymilk, 1/3 c water
• Pumpkin, cinnamon, pie spice
• 2 egg whites
• Earth balance PB

Topped with

• Banana nut cheerios
• Nature’s Path peanut butter granola
• Sunbutter
• Pumpkin cream cheese

First time trying the PB granola and it was okay. All right, it was good, but not my fave of their granolas. I actually couldn’t detect any PB flavor at all. Pumpkin flax and vanilla still win.

On today agenda:

• Sleep in
• Make Breakfast
• Class
• Gym
• Halloween party shopping
• Study/HW

Fun Friday, right?

Song of the moment (aka song stuck in my head): Luke Bryon’s “Do I”. For anyone who has seen the music video (yes I’m lame and watch country music videos – it’s really just my form of “radio” in the morning), my sister and I are super confused as to who’s the husband, who’s the cheater…what’s going on? Okay, I’m out.

Sorry such a poopy post, but I’m picture-less and gotta get to class!

Happy Friday!!

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B-E-A-U-tiful

As I’m sure many of you know, today is Love Your Body Day. My school actually had a 2-day event on Monday and Tuesday with speakers, booths, and activities that I couldn’t make it to 😦 My roommate ran one of the booths though. She said it was awesome 🙂 In honor of this day, I’m giving my body an extra pat on the back and some lovin’ tonight.

Dearest Body of mine,

You know what’s strange? We spend every minute, every second, every waking moment together, yet I don’t think we have a very close relationship. As much as I should appreciate you, I’ve given you such a hard time over the years, and never gave you the trust you deserve.

You’ve served me well for so many years (22 years, 6 months, and 6 days to be exact), allowing me to breathe fresh air and freshly baked cookies; see the ones I love and the bright colors of a rainbow; hear teachers lectures and the sounds of country music; taste my favorite foods and and ones I could live without; and touch the prickly grass or my little sister’s hand. You’ve given me something that we only get one of, something that so many people get taken away in an instant, something that we all take for granted – a life. You’ve allowed me to laugh, to cry, to love, to run – to do everything I’ve ever done.

I’ve given you a hard time about your thick legs. But those legs are strong and have carried me many miles. I’ve given you a hard time about your poochy belly. But that belly is mine and no one else’s. I’ve given you a hard time about overeating. But I need to learn to trust you and know that you want what’s best for me.

Dear body, I thank you. And here’s something I’ve actually never said to you, and something I should say to you more often – I love you.

Love, Tay (The “Brain” to your body)

What have you done to appreciate your body today?

I completely overslept my alarm by almost an hour this morning (I have been dead tired lately!) So I literally threw my breakfast in a to-go container, and ate it during class. But if you really want to see what I had, check out last Wednesday, or here, or over there. I really am starting a tradition.

Although my oats today were banana-less. And let me tell you, a mashed banana makes all. The. Difference. Definitely not as good.

I then gave up my scheduled gym time to study. Sometimes it’s hard to realize that school does come first. Le sigh.

Snack/lunch#1 (you can call it whatever you want – be my guest) in class.

SB&J (sunbutter & jam) on sandwich thin.

Wow – that looks fabulous.

+ a giant apple larger than my head.

I brought along a couple more snacks to work to make up for my “lunch”, but ended up eating a slice of this turkey eggplant lasagna.

How could I resist that? This calmed my hunger, but then…

Attack of the Munchies!! Unfortunately, I had no gum, but I dug into a bag of BBQ kettle chips.

And carrots

Eventually the munchies departed on their merry little way.

Once home, I made something that’s been missing from my life for quite a while.

No..not a man. 😦

Pumpkin French Toast!

Okay – so they look like pancakes, but I swear it was french toast thins. Sandwich thins to be exact (can you tell I recently brought back a bag of them from home?)

I’ve seen pumpkin french toast on April’s blog over and over again, and finally remembered to make some. I soaked 3 sandwich thin slices in a mixture of:

• 3 egg whites
• Pumpkin
• Splash of soymilk
• Pumpkin pie spice
• Maple syrup

Then fried those suckers up.

Each layer was topped off with a mix of pumpkin cream cheese, sunbutter, plain oikos, and Banana Nut Cheerios.

Mmmmm. While delicious, it was a bit too soggy for my taste. I think I used too much pumpkin and it couldn’t get “crispy.” Or maybe it was the sandwich thins. Or maybe they were just delicious either way.

Open up!

Nom.

Followed by agave-drizzled raspberries.

And a couple of these mini-dudettes (yes they’re girl cookies apparently) that I received in the mail.

I tried the orange mint.

I did not think I would like orange and mint together at all, but they were actually quite tasty! And at 25 calories per piece – not bad.

Oh! I can’t believe I forgot to tell you guys!

Love Your Body Day turns into Love Your Kitchen Appliance Night.

My grandma gave me a food processor! I’m sure it’s the not the sharpest tool blade in the shed catalogue, but it will do to make some banana whip. Thank you Sissie!

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Strawberry Fields

You can tell it’s midterms week when there are 75 people on facebook chat.

Very true.

Although I have no midterms this week, I’m still crazy stressed/busy! Hence why this is a quickie.

Operation “Eat out the Cereal”:

• Nature’s Path strawberry yogurt
• Quaker oatmeal squares
• Almond milk
• Blob of sunbutter

At the end it’s like you’re drinking strawberry milk! Mmmmm.

With coffee and my new favorite creamer I got at Whole Foods on sale.

Deeeelicious. I wish I had gotten 2 because it was on sale for only $2, and the carton was only about 3/4 full upon opening!

Gym Sesh:

• 20 minutes stairmaster level 10-11
• 30 minutes upper body strength

Knee strap felt wonderful again. I wore it on my walk to the gym and my knee didn’t hurt one bit. Can I pleeeease live in it? 😉

Post-gym snackie:

Unpictured raspberries + pumpkin smoothie.

Lunch at work – Kashi mayan bake.

Love the sweet plaintains!

And….snackies.

Mini baby cupcake.

Honeycrisp apple slices dipped in pumpkin cream cheese (don’t knock it until you’ve tried it!)

Unpictured late and easy dinner of

• scrambled eggs +
• deli turkey +
• parm cheese +
• queso dip

Winning combo.

And 2 mugs of hot chocolate while studying.

Okay, I definitely should not have procrastinated the past couple days, but as I can barely keep my eyes open to blog, let alone study…I’m out.

Enjoy your hump-day dear blog friends!

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I’m in love

Hello hello. I am back in SLO town (acroynym for the town I live in), exhausted, and now completely stressed! I never get any type of schoolwork or studying done while at home, so it’s pretty jammed for the next 2 weeks.

I didn’t hit the road until late last night (after a Whole Foods stop of course – will highlight the goods as I eat them throughout the week), so I didn’t get back to school until 11:30 pm. Needless to say, I didn’t make it to my 8:00 am class. At least all the notes are online.

As part of my grocery goals, I’ve been on Operation Eat out the freezer and pantry. I’ve been doing pretty well, but I still have literally 8-10 boxes of cereal. I’m not even close to joking when I say that. I’m also almost completely out of food money for the month, so if you see a lot of cereal in my future for breakfast, lunch and dinner, you now know why.

Started that bright and early this morning with a bowl of

• Plain oikos (from Whole Foods with my Stoneyfield coupon!)
• Nature’s Path Strawberry Yogurt cereal
• Flaxseeds
• Sunbutter
• Spoonful Pumpkin Pie yogurt
• Crumbled part of my pumpkin muffin

This Costco pumpkin muffin was delish in the yogurt.

I saw it at my sister’s gymnastics meet’s food stand yesterday, and had to buy it.

Can’t turn down anything pumpkin!

I actually wasn’t very hungry at all for some reason, so I had a few bites, then threw it all in a container to eat after the gym. On the way out the door, I grabbed the other half of this bar that I ate last night on my drive.

Yesssss. I found them at Whole Foods!! Definitely stocked up on 4 🙂 The taste was okay. Reminded me of another bar of some sort that I’ve had before or used to eat. Can’t put my finger on it though.

At the gym I tried on my brand new knee strap that I received in the mail this weekend! I’ve been trying to avoid the treadmill and take it easy because I can tell my knee has flared up recently, but I just had to try it out today.

• 3.5 miles running
  • 1 mile run/.25 mile walk
  • 1.5 mile run/.25 mile walk
  • 1 mile run
  • Cooldown

I noticed my knee felt better right away when I put it on. I hadn’t even started running yet, but the achy stiff feeling was gone. I’m in love. Can I live in this? 😉

I experienced no pain whatsoever in my knee while running. None. Zip. Usually my knee is a bit achy, and I have to occasionally stop so I can bend and shake it out. However, my knee still felt it’s normal achy stiff feeling throughout the day. I guess we’ll just have to see how it works out. I did only get one though, so I might have to invest in one for my left knee (which hurts, just not nearly as bad as the right one).

Post-workout, I devoured the rest of my yogurt mess from the morning. And because I could barely stay awake in my first class, I had to get a little help to get through my 2nd class.

By the time I got home from class at 2:30, I was starving. I basically devoured the leftover part of my burrito from dinner last night.

• Chicken breast pan-seared in a mango salsa
• Brown rice
• Lettuce
• Pico de gallo
• LF lime sour cream
• WW tortilla

This burrito comes with black beans, but I’ve never felt that the flavors went well, so I always get the beans on the side and save them for later.

My faaaaavorite ever.

And blackberries on my drive to work.

I was still rrrreally hungry, but waited for my brain and stomach to register what I devoured in 2 minutes. However, I never even got remotely satisfied – I was still ready to devour anything in sight 40 minutes later. I didn’t expect myself to be so hungry at work, so I didn’t pack enough snacks. After rummaging through their cupboards, I found a walnut, date, and raisin instant oatmeal packet which I mixed with some of my pumpkin pie yogurt I had brought. Topped with some pecans.

Tasted just like a pumpkin pie 😀

And I ate the remainder of my yogurt on its own.

I honestly wasn’t too impressed, and the nutritional stats aren’t that hot.

170 calories in that little container? 28 grams of sugar?! I’d rather have a full cup of Greek yogurt for less, or even some pumpkin ice cream (which has half the sugar!). I think I’ll stick with my Gingerbread light yogurt 🙂 Just as yummy.

Even after my eating sesh, I was still pretty hungry for dinner. My mom buys Costco sized produce, and it usually goes bad since she and I are the only ones who eat it. So I definitely brought a few good foods back with me from home 🙂

• Sauteed onion & asparagus with taco seasoning
• Black beans (from last night)
• Tomatoes
• Salsa
• FF sour cream

With more aspargus spears on the side.

And just now had a mug of hot chocolate with one of these bad boys:

Funfetti cookies which I made yesterday! I broke up a cookie and sprinkled it into my hot chocolate. Delicious surprise at the bottom 🙂

I also found my new Christmas jammies I want.

We always get new jammies to wear on Christmas Eve night. My sisters want the same thing in different patterns. We would rock them.

I’m going to get around to my first Question & Answer post sometime soon I swear, so if there are any other questions please feel free to ask away!

Also…

How was everyone’s weekend? I probably missed a lot in my lack of blog reading or speed reading through everyone’s blogs!

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Little Rascals

Hello my lovely bloggies – I hope your weekend is going fab!

I’m trying to keep up with blog reading, commenting, and posting, but it’s hard while home. I’m trying 🙂

The concert last night was amazing. I thought of you all jealous folk 😉 and Jenny, I specifically did think of you during “Life is a Highway”.

Before the concert, we literally wolfed down some Fresh Choice. My sister and I have been on a mission to go to Fresh Choice for months (it’s an old family tradition type of place), and I really wanted to go this month, figuring that they’d have delicious seasonal pumpkin flavored foods.

Well, there was 100x more traffic than we anticipated, and we ended up with 15 minutes to stand in line, get food, and eat. I piled my salad plates (yes, you read that right. Plural) sky high. I wanted to try everything!

Apparently they serve 79.77% organic. Not 80%. Not 79%. But 79.77%. Make sure you get that right.

(awful blurry, hurriedly taken in line photos)

Roasted beet salad + jicama + feta cheese + sunflower seeds.

I only ate some of the hummus, mushrooms, taboulleh, and a bite of the broccoli salad on this plate

And no – I did not eat all this. I only got so much because I saw more and more I wanted as I made my way down the salad line. I probably ate less than 1/4 of each plate. Plus 1 small slice of pesto pizza. 1 small slice of zucchini nut bread. And a mini vanilla froyo bowl with oreos and chocolate sauce.

And no seasonal foods. None. How disappointing!

Unfortunately, my camera died before Rascals even came on stage (yes – I fail at life). But I did get a picture of Darius Rucker! (opening act) Love him – so glad he was opening.

Ahh love him so much – I think he’s such a cutie 😉 I love the little “dance” he does while singing.

Then Rascies came out to blow us all away. The main singer just has the strongest voice – he belts it out and it’s amazing. As much as I loved the concert, they have so many hit songs, that they didn’t even get to play a couple of my favorites.

I tried to get a pic with my phone.

Those are some little Rascals.

Sisters before heading out.

At the concert.

And that’s the extent of photos I got 😦

Dead camera + charger left at school = various food pics taken with the phone all weekend.

Lunch thrown together after my drive home yesterday.

Black beans (found in the fridge – since when did my fam start eating black beans?! Apparently since my sister accidentally opened the can thinking they were pinto). Mixed with delicious salsa, sour cream & random turkey. With a handful of Kashi Roasted Vegetable crackers.

The crackers were very disappointing. I actually didn’t like this flavor at all. I still want to try the asiago cheese flavor, though.

This morning I found some Ezekiel cinnamon-raisin english muffins I saved in the freezer from the summer! Topped with some sunbutter (brought from school) and my beloved Tay-berry jam 🙂

And then not long after, the whole fam met up at Yogurtland.

Pumpkin & S’mores flavors (weird combo – but the S’mores was actually delicious!) topped with cookie dough, mochi balls, oreo crumbs, and a bit of caramel sauce.

This thing was massive and literally kept me full for over 4 hours. So full that I wasn’t too hungry for a dinner.

I like how I come home for a “home-cooked meal”, and yet I still end up with yogurt messes 🙂

• Vanilla light n’ fit yogurt (all there was in the fridge)
• Spoonful of cottage cheese
• Blackberries
• Container of raspberries
• Bear Naked Banana Nut cereal sample (my dad receieved one in the mail!)
• Teeny bit of sunbutter leftover from this morn

The cereal was delicious! I’m glad that I have another sample for the future 🙂

Spending the night hanging with the sisters watching TV (this week’s episode of Glee – gotta love Tivo), some SNL, and snacking on this:

which I added salted raisins to (best idea ever). And this, which I bought while home last time:

Ooooh yes. I did have a giant loaded froyo and ice cream today. 😉

Tomorrow’s agenda includes sister’s gymnastics competition, and my two favorite loves while I’m home – Target & Whole Foods. Get excited guys.

On another note, I love my little sister.

She was walking around in this hot little number, I told her to pose, and this is what she whipped out.

Classy.

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