Psych Here I come!

Well yes I am officially a college student! I am so excited about my class!! My proff is awesome and very kind. I was worried cause I have a wedding to go to on June 12th, our finals are June 10th and Sean might have to leave before then cause he is in the wedding (the best man to be exact, it's his cousins wedding). So after class I introduced myself to my new proff (very Rory Gilmore of me) and told him of the possible dilemma. He was shockingly understanding and told me to have no fear I can just take it early if need be. So with that all assured and my first day out of the way I was flying!

I started my school day (I just love saying that) with a smaller than usual bowl of cereal. I am out of bananas shock I know and so I opted for a small orange and raisins and felt like going a bit light on the grains too. I had 1/2 cup twigs and flakes and 1/2 cup Kashi Sunshine and 1 cup skim.

After my lovely class with lecture included I was hungry hungry! I was able to come home before work so I whipped up a bowl of Fage 0% with an Apricot Cliff bar and also had a small apple:
For lunch I packed this veggiefilled meal; salad with Cuban black beans from TJ's, fire roasted salsa, 2 carrots, and pureed Butternut squash!

It was delish but didn't hold me long at work I was starved when I got home and a bit overwhelmed by the TO DO list so I poured a celebratory first day of school glass of Vino:

And quickly put together a meal of Soba noodles, kale, stir fried tofu and ate it with Seasoned Nori:

The most delish combo!! I will prob eat the left overs tomorrow night!

Well I am off to buy my text book holy geeze those things are expensive! And watch the tube and go to bed!

Good night ya'll!

C

Well call me baby tomato...'cause I gotta Ketchup!

Ok Ok I know this must seem like I am purposefully avoiding ya'll, but I am NOT I swear! I am not planning on taking the weekends off of blogging, I have just had a rough time with my computer due to the Internet/ cable problem. I have got it kinda fixed, we need a new splitter and that has not been purchased yet. So until it is I have to have Sean connect or disconnect the Internet or cable to go on the net. AHHHH!

So I am finally posting due to all the technical difficulties and not to mention I was SICK all weekend! I am pretty sure I caught the bug going round at my work, but on top of the flue like symptoms I was feeling I also get "sick" when I am super stressed out. So my weekend was pretty uneventful even though I had the glorious Monday off, I spent it on the couch and under a converter (rock) if you will. So let me rewind to Saturday (Valentine's Day) Lunch: Leftover Pasta with kale and a side salad

For Valentine's Dinner we had a whole special night planned.....but due to my sickness and "sickness" I was not really feeling up to having a 5 course meal and spending over $100 on dinner. So we cancelled our reservations and went to Whole Foods to do a more low key and less expensive dinner. We started with Vino: For this we kinda splurged; we never buy wine over $5.00 so for this special occasion we spent twice that!

the wine was VERY good and I love a Petite Sirah! I am now going to show you some pictures of my buys: Tomatoes:

Gouda!!!! I love Gouda I think it is the quintessential cheese to eat with wine. I had a lil piece.

Some mixed olives from the olive bar, I had 2:

The lovely Zucchini chopped them steam fried with S&P:

A lovely Quinoa Tabuoli Salad:

A pre made Tofu Salad:

And Sean made steak!!! Fillet Mignon cooked to perfection!!! I was not in the mood for meat so I made us two salads. Mine with Tofu, Tabouli, tomatoes and Zucchini, and Sean's with the same sans the tofu. I also made a Yam in the microwave but had no room for my half. I topped Sean's with cheese and zucchini:

the lovely steak:

Well that's it for V-Day wrap up. Now on to Sunday: bfast; cereal with banana, raisins and grapes with a spoon of PB:

I had a PB sandwich for lunch no pic, and for dinner we went out to eat at a cozy Mexican Restaurant and split the combo plate of rice, beans, a Chile Relleno, Cheese Enchilada a side soup and a beer. It was delicious!!

Monday's Eats:

bfast: Cereal with the usual and a small orange and a spoon of PB:

I had an apple whilst watching TV and being a total blob! I snacked a lot Monday so be prepared, I am pretty sure I did not take pictures of all my snacks too

Lunch was fab, leftover salad fixings from Sat, plus kale, and yam:

Some Annie's Cheddar Bunnie's

Some Annie's Gram Bunnie's with PB and raisins. I basically had this again for dinner I snacked so much all day I was not really hungry for a real dinner:

Finally to today!!! Tues bfast: Cereal

Mid morning snack; Annie's Gram Bunnie's raisins, almonds and a small apple:

Lunch was simple and filling; 2 carrots sliced and an AB sandwich with a heel and the last piece! Time to go shopping!

For dinner tonight Sean took me out again because I was too beet to cook and he had worked a long day. I start school tomorrow so after dinner we went to my campus to check out where my classroom is. I love the campus at night it is so pretty! I am so excited for school!

Ok onto this scrumptious drink!!! We went to urthcaffe.com/. Definitely one of my fave places to eat. Sean ordered the Spanish Latte blended! It is like a Coffee Ice Cream Shake!!! So good, I had to have a few sips!

I ordered the Half combo soup and salad. It was a Vegan Potato Leek Soup (my fave soup ever) and the Urth Salad with mixed greens, garbanzo beans, pine nuts, feta, tomato, heats of palm, and olives with the dressing on the side of course. I always ask for dressing on the side, I know some restaurants tip their noses to me for requesting this but hey it's my body and my calorie intake man, so lay off!!! The soup came with a nice hunk of crusty white bread, but I steered clear and had but a nibble.

well I am sorry for the delay in my posts and will try to make one in a day like before! I hope everyone had a wonderful V-day and I will be catching up on ya'lls blogs tomorrow after my first day of school!!!!!

Love

C

Valentine's Day!

Happy V-Day everybody!!! I am doing a recap of yesterday because my new TV was being funky so we had the cable shut down for while to get it fixed and I could not get on the Internet. So yesterday's eats started with a Japanese Bfast of Miso soup and Brown rice:
I loved it! It is fun and very healthful and filling! A way to switch up my oatmeal routine and try something new.

I found that it didn't hold me that long. I think it was more mental than a physical hunger. Eating rice for bfast just didn't feel like bfast so I snacked around 9:30 on a balance bar (no pic)

For lunch I brought my new fave thing to grill; an Almond butter sandwich!!! I put pumpkin butter instead of jelly and added a banana because I didn't have one with bfast:

When I got home from work I had this lil guy:

For dinner I had left over WW pasta with kale and marinara sauce with water chestnuts and beets on the side:

Quite a weird combo I must say but good! For dessert I had this rice pudding:

And some raisins and an apple:

Today I had a more traditional bfast; Cereal with a sliced banana and raisins with a small orange:

For lunch I had no time to prepare anything to bring to work, yes I worked on a Saturday! So I made a "through it together" lunch of a rice pudding, apple and a Larabar. A new flavor for me and I really liked it! Not too chocolaty and not too coconuty...just right!

I also had this new drink:

It was good, not the best texture, a bit grainy, but nice and really good for you!

I came home from work to this:

I LOVE my BF he is just the sweetest! We are going to dinner and maybe a movie depending on the time. I love going out to dinner on this holiday. Even though it is always over priced and crowded and sappy, I just love the idea of it!

Well I am off to get ready for this evening of romance (wink wink) Hope you all have a wonderful loving day!

xoxo

C

The HDMI scam

Well I am very angry at Time Warner Cable!! They have finagled me into getting an HD box with no HDMI input!!! I don't really get the whole dilemma all I know is with my new HD TV I needed a new HD box, so I drove to TWC to get the new box and when I set it up at home it was not working! So Sean called TWC and they said that the HDMI cable did not come with the box so we need to BUY one and then it should work. So Sean brought the cable home tonight and the when we looked at the box I picked up doesn't have a hook up for an HDMI cable~ ANYWAYS~ besides the point sorry to vent I am just livid. GRRRR.... but lets move on to the good stuff!

Bfast: Cereal with a small sliced banana and a shot of Craisins with a small orange on the side and hot water: Lunch today was simple; an Almond Butter and jelly sandwich on WW (I pressed it at work, I am obsessed) with a small apple and sugar free 90 calorie rice pudding:
When I got home from work I saw Sean left his dinner leftovers out....at first I was mad cause I hate when he doesn't clean up after himself. But then I decided he left me my afternoon snack! 2 lil slices of TJ's Margarita Pizza!

It was delicious! I haven't had pizza for a while and boy oh boy it was good!

For dinner I was not sure what I wanted to make. I have a lot of choices in the cupboards and fridge, but I ended up making the thing I was most craving....PASTA! I made some WW Angel Hair and then Steam fried some kale with garlic and topped it with Marinara sauce and sauteed onions. For an extra veggie I added a sliced beet! On top is a sprinkle of Parmesan!

It was also delicious and very filling. I love WW pasta! I love how much it sticks to my ribs and how much more texture and flavor it has!

I finished my laundry from yesterday and now Sean is home so I will prepare his plate of Pasta sans the onions, he dislikes them very much unless he can't tell they are there :)

For dessert I made a lil plate of raisins, Craisins and raw Almonds:

Well that's it for me today, no Shred, my cramps are killing me so I think I will cozy up with a tea and my heating pad and call it a night! I will do double Shred to make up for today on Friday. Tomorrow is Friday!!! Anybody have V-Day plans for Saturday? Sean and I are going to a Double Feature of "From Here To Eternity" and Casablanca" YEA! I love old flicks! Then we are going to dinner at a romantic restaurant! More on V-Day plans later. Good night!

C

Rainy Day Eats!

Happy Friday everyone! I want start this post with my boyfriends beautiful work. I am so proud of him! He works for a production company ( I am not naming it to protect the rights to this picture). He is the Lead man and Construction Coordinator for this show, his job is HARD work and he built this amazing set for a movie coming out soon and I wanted to share it with you:
OK enough bragging :) This morning I was missing my hot stove top oats and since I didn't have to go in to work until 1pm I made some!

Blueberry oats with Fage 0%, a 2 part shot of Craisins and raisins and a 1/2 shot of roasted peanuts! So delish!

This morning I received my very first BIG TV, a flat screen too! It's kind of a long story but to make it brief Sean's mom's boyfriend had a flat screen but bought a new one and liked it better so he gave Sean's mom his old one, but she already had one so we got her older 42" Samsung flat screen!!!!! Um ya for FREE! I feel like the luckiest girl in the world! Here it is with my BIG glass of skim milk this morning watching the Today Show with Joy Bauer, a wonderful nutritionist discussing better food choices while eating out:

Before I left to run some errands I had one of my home made larabars:

When I returned home I had a lovely lunch! A brown rice tortilla with turkey, lettuce, lite Munster, and red pepper hummus! On the side some baby carrots and sugar snap peas!

For dessert (yes I had dessert with lunch) I had the amazing Dragon Fruit crisps with some dried fruit and Roasted peanuts-can't get enough of these!Later in the day I wanted something sweet so I went for my stash of chocolate and had 2 squares of Ritter Sport with marzipan!

I had this for my afternoon snack- hmmmm I am now realizing how much I ate today....

For dinner I went nice and healthy with leftover Tofu, stir fried bok choy and brown rice:

And once again I had a little dessert of dried fruit and nuts!

Maybe it's the cold weather (by cold I mean 61 degrees) and the rain (much needed I might add) that makes me so munchie! But tomorrow is another day so I will try to eat more intuitively and less "grab it if it's there" type eating.

My 42" is calling my name so off I go to start my weekend with a nice movie in the comfort of my own theater- my living room!!

Goon night ya'll!

C