Happy Thursday! Today is the 3 year mark since I ran my last full marathon! That’s much too long and I’m glad I have a plan to run another one in October of next year. My last marathon time was 5:24 (yeah, too slow) and I’m thinking I can only improve on that, so I…
Do you remember yesterday in my post when I said I wasn’t going to continue letting work get in the way of every day life? Well, yesterday was apparently not the day for that to start. It was a more challenging day with one of my kids and once I left, late, I then had…
This morning when I got up to work out, I noticed that it started raining again. Meaning the skies must have cleared specifically for the Portland Marathon yesterday. J — Last night I decided that I’m going to do a 10k in December. It’s fitting that I do this since I’ve only run marathons, half…
This weekend finally felt relaxing and like I had a decent little break from work. Definitely making a note to take a day off soon. I started out on Saturday by going to the farmers market for some more lovely fall veggies. I ended up finding a great butternut squash and can’t wait to make…
I mentioned in my “about” section that I work with teenagers. Most of the time this is really great because they’re amazing and funny and wonderful. The part I didn’t share is that all the teenagers I work with also have behavioral concerns… and I am the Behavior Specialist. Some weeks are more challenging than…
Reading my blog recipes you could probably determine two things: 1) I love berries. Seriously, they’re the best and I’ve blogged about this 🙂 2) I also love eggs. Whenever I have the chance to make a quiche I get excited. I think it’s such a versatile food that you can make with almost any…
I should start out by saying that pretty much every run I do from now through the end of winter will be on the treadmill. I know there are those out there who don’t consider that running, but oh well. I’m not a cold weather runner and same goes for the rain. I physically can’t…
Tonight I was reading the Chocolate Covered Race Medals blog and noticed that she had made peanut butter cookies. Well, this spurred a desire in me to do the same. The batch only makes 12-14 cookies depending on size, but it worked well. Ingredients: ¼ cup homemade peanut butter (see here) 2 tbsp butter ¼…
First off, the half-baked quiche and the fire truck are not directly related. Thank-goodness. The power outage on the other hand is the culprit. In the lovely northwest we’ve been having quite the significant rainfall. I believe we broke the record for September and last I checked we were at 4.72 (probably more with all…
I’ve been quite absent from blogging world this week. I’ll just say: it’s been quite a week. For a start, we’ll go with today: I wake up at 5am to get to the gym to go swimming followed by a long run on the treadmill. Get all my swimming gear on, get ready to head…
First off, I am exhausted. My weekend consisted of teaching from 8-5 on both Saturday and Sunday, plus a 45min-1hr drive each way. Not to mention the regular weekend errands that needed to be done. Needless to say, I did not get a workout in on either day. Boo. Monday and Tuesday I will be…
First off, if you read my last post you would know that I downloaded iOS7 last night. For the most part I really like it but there are a couple features I’m not fond of. First the new look of messages. It looks like I’m in grade school and using cartoon thought bubbles. To me…
It’s a lazy Thursday night around here while I wait for the new iOS7 to finish downloading. I’ve been exited for the update but hesitated and asked friends who had downloaded it before I made the leap. The reviews are split right down the middle. I have a feeling it’s something I like. So tonight…
Last night I was trying to think of something for dinner and didn’t want another salad just because it was easy. While trying to think something up I remembered that I bought some quinoa a couple weeks ago and haven’t yet used it. I also had some Parmesan cheese that I should eventually start using.…
Over the weekend I went to my parents and gathered some fruit. They have awesome fruit trees and I ended up bringing home probably about 20 apples. Well, naturally these come with fruit flies so I was going nuts! Yuck! So, what do you do with an abundance of apples and have a desire to…
This morning I woke up at a nice and early 4:45 am… thanks to my cat. Pushed her aside and went back to bed. Then I slept in until a whopping 5:30! So I pulled myself out of bed, not really wanting to workout, but knowing I needed to. Gathered my awesome workout gear… wait,…
I may have already posted a similar smoothie mix, but that’s ok, I love smoothies. This morning I started out my day by waking up REALLY early so I could get to the gym. I wanted to get there early because I knew today was our team meeting and we always eat too much for…
If you’ve seen some of my other recipes you would be safe to assume that I love eggs. Something about them is so delicious and an omelet is a great way to start the morning. I think the best kind of omelets are the one where you throw random items from your fridge in, but…
I love peanut butter. But really, who doesn’t love peanut butter? You can put it on toast, in sandwiches, eat it with apples (my personal favorite), or toss it in some stir-fry for peanut butter chicken (I should post about that sometime). What I dislike about peanut butter is all of the junk manufacturing companies…
So here I am 10 days into this no added sugar challenge. I’ve got to say, not so much of a challenge. I’ve read other people talking about their no sugar challenge, but they’re still making things that use some type of sweetener. I was under the impression that any added sweetener, whether it be…
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