Tuesday morning began with a DELICIOUS treat!!!
A pancake gone wrong.
Man, I just have to get the hang of these things at some point! Goo! It totally crumbled. But, I gotta tell ya, I splashed some syrup on it, added some coconut and walnuts and enjoyed the heck out of it!
In the mix:
1/2 cup Egg Whites
1 mashed banana
1/4 cup almond milk
2 Tbsp. Greek yogurt
1 tsp. cinnamon
Splash of vanilla extract
Mix well, and put in a skillet sprayed with cooking spray, and cook on low for about 4 minutes each side. And then mess it all up because it's better that way anyway :)
Pancake was followed by the gym! I took a BodyWorks Plus Abs class, really becoming a fan of these things then conquered a 20-minute elliptical workout found here!
I have got to have a ton of variety and constant change in any elliptical or treadmill workout or I get bored to tears! This one changed every minute, so it flew by!
Pei Wei for lunch!
I love the pot racks here, I'm thinking about getting one for my kitchen!
Couldn't help myself, I munch on three of these orange slices while I waited. "For your drink" meant, take one, stick it in my soda, look to see if anyone's watching, then pick it back up and eat it off the peel! They were so fresh, I could stay away!
Lunch was Ginger Broccoli with tofu and veggies. I usually tell them to hold the rice and just do extra veggies instead.
I loved my fortune cookie! I feel like I'm taking many many small jumps these days instead of any big leaps…on the job front, on the fitness front, on the "where is my life going front," and sometimes they can feel more satisfying than the leap.
After spending a great part of the afternoon answering e-mails, following up with jobs, researching companies, I decided to do something fun for Finley. We went hiking!!!
I tell you what, he has really come to LOVE the water, and I couldn't be more pleased. He's a laker like his mama.
Sometimes I forget how much it can clear your mind to be out in nature. Just to walk through the forest, or to watch the water or just to be quiet and listen to the birds outside your window or the breeze. It's important to take these moments when we live in a world where the noise never stops, we're never really able to "shut off" for constant use of cell phones, computers, TV's…
After we explored Ferngully the park, it was time to get ready to relive my glory days.
Bloomington, here I come!!!!
It was somebody's birthday…..
The lady to the left! Deep throat downtown Rachel Brown! She turned a quarter of a century old today, and I wasn't gonna miss the opportunity to celebrate with her!
Rachel and I were on the dance team at IU together during college and then lived together senior year. She's still rockin' out in B-town in optometry school, so I headed south to partake in undergrad activities!
6.) See some old friends and make some new.
Rachel and I were on the dance team at IU together during college and then lived together senior year. She's still rockin' out in B-town in optometry school, so I headed south to partake in undergrad activities!
The EPIC.
The LEGENDARY.
Two dollar Tuesday.
The rules of such an occasion are as follows.
1.) ALWAYS start with a solid base of food (unless you want to puke a solid base of food up in your hair at the end of the night). I "never did that…."
I started with tomato basil soup, an salad (not pictured) with cranberries, pecans, bleu cheese, and chicken.
It doesn't hurt to add ice cream cake at the end like we did :)
2.) Play it cool for the first part of the night….
Take normal pictures
Act like an intelligent human being so the new people you meet don't think you're a fool by the end of the night.
Or do what I did and start off the night by asking your new friend if her boyfriend is "going back to Canadia after optometry school."
Yep, Canadia. It's kind of like Americ-cerica.
I'm lucky I have other friends who can help me make light of a tragedy such as this.
My conversation with Laura was as follows:
3.) Find a good prop that will be the center of many 2nd grade level jokes throughout the duration of the night.
Salt n' peppa shakers.
Can you please pass the right eye?? That was Rachel's :)
4.) Consume an enormous amount of alcohol for the sheer reason that it's TWO DOLLARS!!!!!
Yikes.
That may or may not be why most of my memories look about like this. Laughing at Rachel because she could NOT for the life of her get the toilet paper off of her sandal.
5.) Take ridiculously obnoxious pictures just because you can.
Pageant picture.
Dazzlers picture.
If you're not familiar with the dazzlers, they are Floyd Central's dance team that Rachel kicked ass on in high school. They are known for winning ALL THE TIME and smiles just about this big.
One of Justin's old teammates!
7.) Wake up with unbelievably awesome hair.
8.) And ALWAYS. ALWAYS. Check your text messages (with fingers crossed of course).
My only embarrassing one happened to be to my sister…
LOVE her response. It wasn't like, "Why?" or "What are you talking about?"
It was… Duh. Get him a cell phone. He'll figure it out.
She totally got that I missed him, and of course my boyfriend wouldn't text me back at 1AM on a Tuesday, but I just knew Finley would.
And there you have it folks. The makings of a successful TTT.
