Humpday!

Hi all! I get so excited when it is wednesday! I feel like after work on weds. time just flies by until the weekend :) This will be brief since I have LOADS of work to do....yikes!!

Monday at work I made this sweet potato monster for lunch:

And tried one of these veggie burgers! OMG! I loved these. They had awesome flavor with actual whole black beans in them. So yummy!

For a snack at work I ate a pear.

Dinner was a leftover bang bang taco from Bonefish grill. The tacos had the shrimp cooked in some super spicy sauce, lettuce and tomatoes on them. I added some ranch to cool mine down some! I also had a carrot dipped in pb on the side.

Tuesday I woke up craving oatmeal! I was all out of milk though so I made it only with water!
Stove top oats made of:

1/2 c. oats

1 c. water

sprinkle of brown sugar

1 banana mashed

handful choc. chips

spoonful pb

This was SO yummy! I def. like having the banana mashed instead of sliced!

For lunch on Tuesday I had a meeting with my boss and his boss! I got a soup and salad combo. House salad with vinaigrette and pasta fagioli soup. I also had a roll on the side.

Snack at work:

I was VERY excited to try this bar after hearing so many rave reviews and it didn't disappoint! YUM!!


Then I forgot my camera at work!!!!!!!!!!! SO no dinner pictures which was a simple ham and cheese wrap anyways!

I waited to eat my breakkie at work this am so I could take photos for you :)

I had a banana nut muffin my roomie had made:

With a wild berry yogurt:

Tonight after work I am going straight to the GYM! I feel like I haven't been there in forever. I have just been doing yoga and workouts at home, but I am ready for a major sweat session.

After the gym fiance and I are planning on making a pizza tonight! yum :)

Weekend recap:

The Indy wine trail consists of 7 wineries throughout the greater Indianapolis area. When you visit a winery you can have your passport stamped. On Saturday Fiance and I went to the 2 remaining wineries that we needed stamps from!
At your final winery when you turn in your passport you get a free wine glass:I LOVE it! It says indy wine trail on the front and has the names of all the wineries on the back. While out and about fiance and I bought 3 bottles of wine which we desperately needed to fill up our brand new wine rack we got!! Yay! We bought this on sale at bed bath and beyond! :)


As I mentioned earlier we had been planning to go to bonefish grill for dinner. However, when I called to make reservations they said the were COMPLETELY BOOKED! We ended up making a reservation for Sunday night.

So instead dinner featured this new buy:
Fiance grilled up some skirt steak and we had pitas! Mine also had some sauteed carrot strips and onions as well as a tiny bit of mozz. cheese.

Sides were the kashi moroccan curry (which I REALLY liked, but fiance said: 'it just smells too weird to eat'...ha!) and a spinach salad with light italian dressing.Sunday morning I slept in....YAY! For breakfast I made a fruit bowl with a diced apple and bananaAnd an egg sammy with cheese and ham on a whole wheat bagel.Then we went out to run a bunch of errands and I FORGOT my camera! :( Sadly this is where my pictures end for Sunday. I ended up eating some veggie lo mein for lunch. Snacking on a kashi raspberry choc. bar and then having dinner at Bonefish! At Bonefish I got the bang bang shrimp tacos which were spicy, but really good!!! I have one leftover so you will probably see it in the next 2 days :)

This morning I made a bowl of oats topped with some pecans.

It is like almost 60 degrees out today....YAY!!!!!!!!! I can't wait for this week to be done:

Mon: 11-9, work

Tues: 11-9, work

Weds: 7:30-5:30, work.

Thurs: 7:30-4:30, work

5:30-8:30, class

Fri: 8-12:30, work

1:15-4:15, class

Then.....3 day weekend!!!!!!!! Yes, that's right president's day is a paid holiday for my office :)

Plus, Confessions of a Shopaholic comes out on Friday! omg. I LOVE these books. I have read the entire series twice and own all 5 books. EEK. I'm so excited and am hoping to go and see it with my sister this weekend!

Galoshes anyone?

Hi all! It is SUPER nice out today! The forecast says it will be 51 and mostly sunny today (yay yay yay yay!) Now it is kinda a super wet mess everywhere though since the snow is all melting. I seriously need some galoshes!

Thursday I had the worst headache EVER! It started about 1/2 hr. into my night class and was pounding all across my forehead and on my temples. Ugh...I was completely miserable through the remaining 2.5 hrs! When I came home I took some Aleve and made a super quick and easy dinner. Mac and cheese spirals and some roasted veggies. I drank a bunch of water and then just went to sleep since my head was still pounding!!!

Friday I woke up feeling LOADS better! I got to sleep in some since I didn't have to work :)

I made myself a bowl of stove top oats! My oats had:
1/2 c. oats
1/2 c. water
1/2 c. milk
1 banana sliced
sprinkle of brown sugar
toppings: choc chips, 1/2 choc chip clif bar
I ate this yummy bowl while finishing my homework that was due in my afternoon class! Nothing like working with a deadline only hrs. away...I love the pressure! I do my best work under crunch time which is why I think I procrastinate so much :)I wasn't super hungry for lunch before class so I finished the Clif bar from this morning and had a cheese stick on my way to campus.

About 1/2 way during class I had one of these guys which foodbuzz sent me awhile ago:

In class I had the Dark Choc. Raspberry Almond. It was fairly good. One thing that annoyed my was the inconsistency of toppings. It seemed all of the dark choc. chunks were on one end of the bar and I only tasted one large almond piece. The flavors were ok, but it was a little sweet.

I have now tasted all of these bars and I would say my favorite was the Toasted Coconut Banana Macadamia Nut. (Fiance agreed!)

After class I ran a few errands then came home to make an earlyish dinner. Since I didn't end up eating lunch I was STARVING!!!!!

I made a veggie pasta!

It had:

roasted zucchini and carrot strips

whole wheat pasta

extra virgin olive oil

italian seasoning

and topped with some freshly grated parm. cheese

On the side I had a spinach salad and a glass of red wine :)

This was a fab. combo! I ate every last bite AND had dessert:1 piece of whole wheat toast topped with my final bit of nutella (!!) and a sliced banana. Perfect!

I just lounged on the couch watching a movie and reading before heading to bed a little early. This week wore me out!!!!!!!!!

Breakfast this morning was a bowl of cereal with a sliced naner and a cup of coffee.

I'm just working a few hrs. this morning and then spending the rest of the day with fiance!! We are planning on going to 2 wineries on the Indy Wine Trail and going out to dinner at Bonefish Grill!

Have a wonderful Staurday :)

thurs.

Hi all!! It is FINALLY Thursday. I'm seriously living for the weekends lately. I really need to get back into school/super busy mode. When I am super busy I just go-go-go! When I have time to relax I become REALLY lazy. And lately I have been MAJORLY procrastinating all of my hw! OOPSIE!


Dinner on Tuesday was quick and simple. I made 1/3 cup of couscous and added 1/2 a sauteed green pepper, some crab meat and a handful of shredded cheese. YUM.
Wednesday I woke up bright and early for work. I think I only slept lie 5 hrs. Ugh. I had a bowl of kashi with a sliced banana for brekkie.Snack at work was a Kashi blackberry graham bar. This was my first time trying this kind of bar. It tasted very similar to a Nutri-grain bar. I liked the berry flavor, but I have never been a big far of these type of bars. They were ok, just not my fav.

Lunch was broccoli pasta salad. I mixed some leftover whole wheat lasagna noodles that I chopped up and mixed with some broccoli and a splash of italian and ranch dressings.

And a yogurt.I ended up having to work kind of late and didn't get home until later like 2.5 hrs. later than normal!! Fiance was nice enough to make turkey burgers for dinner while I just relaxed on the couch :)

The turkey burgers had diced onions, mustard, shredded cheese and s & p in them. I had mine on a whole wheat bun with spicy mustard and spinach.

I also had some of these chips on the side.

This morning I was running majorly late!! I had a waffle sammy for b-fast in the car. I had a mashed banana and some pb in between 2 cinnamon waffs. Sorry.....no time for a pic. It was arctic temps this am!! I was literally freezing off my toes and fingers while the car was warming up!! Luckily it will be like 40 tomorrow and even warmer this weekend!! Good-bye foot of snow that is covering the ground! :)

I gave a presentation this morning at work that went right through snack time! Afterwards my tummy was growling so I took a little bit of an early lunch.

I had a ham and spinach whole wheat pita with some canned peaches and a yogurt.

This was good, but didn't leave me very full!! I will def. be eating a snack later on. Plus I think some Starbucks is in order to warm me up since I have to trek across campus in below freezing temps for class tonight!


NEW OFFICE TONIGHT!!!

Danks!

Thanks (or as I often say Danks) everyone for all your comments about the reception room, and comments in general! :) Danks started as a shortened version of Danke! (which is how you say thank you in German) During college I studied abroad in Germany where we said 'Danke' ALL the time. I guess it just kinda stuck. Over time I of course shortened it since I like to abbreviate words all the time. And thus you have DANKS! ha.

I am totally envious of all you bloggers that live in states where it doesn't snow! I'm so sick and tired of winter! I don't mind it being cold and snow can be pretty, but I just hate having to clean off my car all the time(I have to park outside ALL the time) and drive super slow since the streets are completely full of snow/slush!!! This morning I woke up and it was once again snowing. We def. got a few more inches. UGH.

ANYWAYS, on to the eats!
Yesterday I snacked on a Kashi Raspberry choc. bar at work. This is def. becoming one of my favorites. I LOVE the layer of choc. on top. YUM!


When I got home I was starving. I had a piece of leftover veggie pizza (x2) and then just had a bowl of cereal since I was too tired to make anything else!

Last night fiance and I watched the office on dvr...it was as always pretty hilarious! I seriously love Dwight....he is completely insane and makes the show hysterical!

This morning I had oatmeal while doing laundry and catching up on the Real Housewives of OC! I made a nice warm bowl of stove top oats. I usually just make them the quick way, but these taste like 1,000,000 times better! My oatmeal had:

1/2 c. oats

1/2 c. milk

1/2 c. water

1 banana sliced

toppings: sprinkle of brown sugar, choc. chips and pb.

For lunch I had a sammy with turkey provolone cheese and spinach.

On the side I had a few pieces of celery and a carrot with pb.

Once again I am working until 9. I have a new kashi bar to have as a snack since I'm sure I will get hungry sometime this evening!!

And as I am ending this post the sun is actually starting to peek out from behind the clouds....YAY! Have a good evening :)

Snowy

Hi bloggies! Thanks so much for your get well wishes!! I am finally starting to feel a bit better after a miserable week! We got a snowstorm mid week that dumped 12 inches here in Indy!! Luckily I was too sick for work so I didn't have to venture out in the snowy mess too much. I could admire it from the couch :) This is the 6th largest snowstorm Indy has ever had and the most snow they have had in 12 years!!! Yikes! These are pics from Weds. afternoon when the snow FINALLY stopped and the sun was starting to come out:

Major icicles:

So after being a bum for the later half of the week I headed home with my sister to FINALLY see the finished room that my wedding reception will be in!! When we booked the place they were still building the new event center and just finished final details this month. Here is it all set up for a mayor's ball:

YAY! I'm so excited!! :) The room is at the Blue Chip Casino and Hotel which as I mentioned just got a MAJOR addition and facelift...everything is gorgeous and after seeing everything completed I am even MORE excited for August!! :)

When I got back to Indy on Sunday I made a few snacks to eat while watching the superbowl with fiance and one of his friends.

I drank a woodchuck cider throughout the evening.

The first thing I made was a cold veggie pizza! I LOVE THESE! I made a crust out of Pillsbury crescent rolls. I topped them with a mixture of reduced fat cream cheese low fat mayo and some ranch seasoning the topped with chopped carrots, broccoli and cauliflower...delish!
I also snacked on chips and guac. along with some chili cheese dip (unpictured!)

I wasn't really rooting for either team, but it was def. a good and overall exciting game!! I tried my best to stay up for the Office, but starting falling asleep so I DVRd it and can't wait to watch the rest tonight!!

This morning I woke up and had a nice filling breakfast of 2 whole grain waffles with light syrup and a sliced banana.

with coffee.

On my way to work I snacked on a choc. chip clif bar

I just ate 'lunch' a while ago at work. I had an apple and a ham and cheese sammy. I am already hungry so I am planning to eat a kashi bar to hold me over until 9!

I'm hoping that I feel even better over the next few days. With the amount of congestion and sinus issues I've been having I haven't been to the gym in about a week! I have done a little yoga and stretching at home, but it is hard when I have to stop and blow my nose like every 2 mins! So I'm hoping I'll be back to myself by the end of this week!!

I hope everyone had a good Monday :)

I'm sick

My throat is killing me and my nose is running like a faucet. Gross huh? Yea, I am pretty sick. I have been drinking tea and eating soup like crazy because the only time my throat doesn't hurt is when I am ingesting warm liquid. 

This is of course the worst week to get sick. I have 5 presentations at work and 1 in a class for school. Miserable. Yesterday I had to cut my 2 presentations a little short because after like 35 mins. I simply couldn't handle talking anymore.... it hurt so bad!! 

I will be taking a blogging hiatus until recovery since I just feel like laying around when I'm not at work (which I barely got through yesterday!)

I hope everyone is having a good week and staying healthy!!!

Happy...

...Humpday! This work week is happily flying by since I had monday off! Yesterday after work I snacked on this on my way to the gym:

This was my first time having the berry pomegranate flavor. These bars taste like 2 mini z-bars to me. The berry flavor was pretty good and almost reminded me of a breakfast muffin or something. Overall I give it a thumbs up and would eat it again.

At the gym I was finally able to try out my New Kicks! They were awesome! So much support and I felt like I was running on air. (well not completely, but you get the idea!)

Dinner was a healthy version of a burger and fries! Turkey burger with sweet potato fries!
turkey burgers (makes 4 patties)

-1 lb. turkey
-1/4 onion diced
-1 tbsp. mustard
-1 tsp. garlic salt
-2 tsp. italian seasoning
-pepper to taste

we cooked our on the grill and I topped mine with a slice of swiss cheese spinach and ate it on a whole wheat bun with some spicy mustard.

I loved this flavor combo! YUMO!

For brekkie this morning I tried the kashi cinnamon harvest cereal. It was DELISH! A perfect amount of cinnamon with great texture. I loved it! I don't know what happened...the photo is no where to be found. Possibly I simply forgot to take one?

Lunch was a work meeting at applebees. I had a soup and salad combo! French onion soup and oriental chicken salad. I love the bees!

Now I am just working away. I am totally behind from going to my seminar for 2 days last week and having monday off! I have a pecan pie larabar to eat soon to help me through the next few hrs. of work! Have a good weds!