My Wednesday Morning

I started my morning off with a nice little 7 mile run! I love how it starts to get light out towards the end of my runs... a pretty sunrise isn't a bad way to start a day, however, this post-run picture probably is....

please excuse my large pimple centered right in the middle of my forehead.

I'm leaving for Minnesota in the morning to see my best friend, so I wanted to be sure to get a decent run in before I left... I'm bringing my running stuff with me, just in case my early-bird ass wakes up with nothing to do... but running is for sure not a priority this long weekend.... eating cupcakes, celebrating a birthday and shopping, however, is!

Throughout my morning of "packing", making my non-showered body and hair work-ready and watching the Today Show... I managed to snap a photo of our onion....

Crazy right?! If you remember from this post... the growth on top was half of what it is now. And I'm pretty sure it grew about half an inch from last night... has ANYONE ever seen this happen?! My roommate and I are keeping it... seeing how big it grows... I'm going to suggest we name it soon.... maybe it will have a little onion baby soon.

I then proceeded to host an impromptu slide show of the onion's growth to my roommate... I apologized for being THAT annoying morning person who is all cheery and chipper... but she was okay with it... or so I thought... and am still thinking. But my slide show backfired when I realized I was a tad late... I had to scarf down my oatmeal....

SO good... thank you food blogs for introducing me to this concept... peanut butter is my love.

I'm off now to sit and do nothing at work... hereeeee we gooooo,

The Weekend Thang

(for some reason since getting home from work, I have been saying really annoying 1 word phrases.... i.e. THANG.... I would like to take the time and apologize)


I'm not one to do weekend recap posts, mainly because my weekends are typically boring and I usually forget to take pictures of my activities.
I figure a bunch of words that would attempt to describe my Friday night of pizza and beer with Bob then continue on about my Saturday morning consisting of an ugly 13 miles with my running group, followed by my typical weekend errands to Target, where I would complain about spending gobs of money on things like mascara, deoderant and dark chocolate, would be completely boring without pictures to showcase my said activities.
But since I already provided you all with a boring, wordy, recap of the first half of my weekend... I decided I'll just go with it and finish this post with details of the rest of my weekend... and say I've done the weekend recap business...

With that said...the rest of my Saturday was more boring than usual... so if you don't mind, I am just going to skip right on to my Sunday afternoon....

After watching my roommate clean out our back patio for spring wine night season...

I decided to sit on my butt even more and get some color. (This post is full proof that I have an addiction to being tan, and despite the recent removal of a suspicious mole on my back, the possiblity of having tan thunder thighs as opposed to white thunder thighs ovbisouly ranks much higher than my health on my list of importance)

I stayed out there for an hour or two - adjusting my chair every so often to stay in direct sunlight. After awhile, I knew it was probably time to head in when I found myself flush up against our fence, with no where to turn, and no sun to be seen.  We get some really good morning/early afternoon sunlight in our back patio... I'll have to keep that in mind next time I want to damage my skin even more lay out and get out there a little earlier than what I did yesterday. 

From there I took my smelly, pink body, threw on some clothes (and a hat) to make me look somewhat presentable for the fashion-minded individuals of my neighborhood, and headed down to the Short North to do some birthday shopping for some friends with April 17th birthdays coming up... 

...it was really crowded and really made me want to find a group of friends or a cute boy to take me to an outside cafe and drink wine while I sit and look pretty in a fun spring dress.... I am accepting applications if you or anyone else are interested in fulfilling this fantasy of mine...
Here is where my weekend comes to an end, or at least my weekend that has any worth of reporting back to you 9 followers (!!!!)

Hope you all had a fantastic weekend, and thank you for baring with me on my lengthy weekend recap of a bunch of nothingness.

Have a quick week! I know I will... I leave for Minnesota on Thursday!!!!

Cookie Fix

Last night, against my better judgement, I made cookies. I halved the batch since we all know from previous posts, that portion control is not one of my strongest characteristics. I've made these twice before, once time with peppermints, like the original recipe found here, and another time with peanut butter chips. This time around I chose butterscotch chips.

I like these cookies because not only are they really moist and almost cake-like, but they are also decently healthy for you - yogurt is used in place of eggs and only 1/4 cup of butter is used (for the full recipe).

 Minus the 2 cookies I probably ate in dough while baking, I only had 1 (with some ice cream of course) once they came out of the oven. I was very impressed with my self control - but it probably helped that I quickly tucked them away inside the freezer before I could begin to demolish the whole batch. My reason for doing so, is so that when I am crying to my roommate about wanting a cookie... I can just pop into the kitchen and grab a cookie.... frozen or thawed... both will satisfy my daily chocolate and cookie fix!



While I can't wait to get home and eat one... er... maybe 2 of these babies.... I think I'm secretly hoping that when my roommate gets home, she reads my blog... see's that I made cookies last night and that I put them in a clear plastic container with a blue lid and placed them on the bottom shelf of the freezer door and proceeds to eat them all .... but it's a toss up whether or not she'll  be able to find my secret hiding place..... if not, I just might have to share...

Anyone watch Teen Mom 2?? I can't wait to watch the reunion tonight on my DVR!!

It's ALIIIIVE!!!!!

Yes, the below object is an onion. 

I hate most onions. 
My roommate loves all onions. 
This onion is kinda freaking me out. 
Help.

Just a Few Handfuls....?

I had trouble falling asleep last night. I'll admit that I'm not the most patient person in the world, so when I wasn't asleep after only about 20 minutes, I decided that reading a few chapters in my current read would put my mind and body to ease... and eventually (and hopefully) to sleep. However, when that didn't work, and when watching the local news prooved to be unsuccessful.... the only logical thing in my mind was to have a little snack....

of Rold Gold's new Cinnamon Raisin bread flavored pretzel sticks....

which are amazing. So amazing in fact, that I just about polished off the entire bag.

Keep in mind that there were already a few handfuls missing and when I finally decided to stop for the (second time), there were still a couple, if not a few, handfuls still there.

So post-pretzel binge, there was no doubt in my mind that I was getting up this morning and following through with my planned 6 miles - I'm not lying when I say I love to run, because I do, however, I would be lying if I said that it never crosses my mind how many calories I burn while running. It's one of those things that is always in the back of my mind - and it occasionally tends to creep up towards the front - especially after mindlessly pounding hundreds and thousands of pretzels the night before. (okay, probably only like 25... but you should know by now that I like to exaggerate things)

But anyway, my shameful pretzel binge and shameful calorie self-chat led me to realize that I just can't buy that sort of stuff. Whether it be a box of animal crackers, a bag of flavor Goldfish, or flavored pretzel sticks... it can't be in my house, because it will be gone in one sitting.... which isn't good for me or for my wallet.

I know magazines, and more importantly, my mom, have always said that 100-calorie packs and single serving bags are a waste of money... but if I don't have a friend to share with...or better self-control, I think I might have to start buying differently...

Snack Wisely,

Does anyone else have problems with just a few handfuls?

Monday.

Today was as classic as Mondays come. 

It rained about 2 feet.

I don't think the wind got below 15mph.

It was annoyingly chilly.

The bottom of my jeans were damp and soggy all day.

I had to do laundry.

Even worse.... I had to do laundry AND pay for it. With quarters.

Besides my bedtime snack of a bowl of chocolate cheerios, the only good thing about today was finding my missing sock at the bottom of the stairs:

Nothing beats doing laundry and having every sock with it's other half. Success.

4 more days, 

Zilch, Nada, Zeero.

Ya know those "famous blogs" that everyone seems to read, and each post gets at minimum, like 63 comments and every now and then they'll have a post of just pictures that shows what they did and what they ate because they are too tired to actually put words with the photos??

Welp, since 3 - maybe 4 people read my blog on a consistant basis, and I get at maximum, like 1 comment per post, here is my version of the too tired blogger post: words (well, a neat and organized numbered list, naturally) MINUS the pictures... because, er, well....well because I am a terrible blogger learning blogger and have zilch from the weekend. So here it goes... brace yourself...

1. I ate pizza on Friday. At Harrison's on 3rd. I had a Magic Hat and did not get carded... I'm pretty sure I'm quite possibly could be considered a regular....awesome, right?!
2. Saturday morning was running group up in the 'burbs where I ran 10 miles - 5 of which were at a pace that was just a tad too fast for a "casual social run" (as they advertise on the group's website) but it was good to run at race pace... but word to the not-so-ware: don't let those 48 year old men fool you... they can be quite speedy and quite persistant on picking goal race times, sheesh!
3. The rest of my Saturday was boring.
4. I ate Chipotle for dinner. Last time I ate it was 11 months ago.... well, maybe 10 months and 28 days, but who's counting. I've been annoyingly complaining about Chipotle cravings for weeks now and my roommate finally held a knife to my favorite stuffed animal and forced me out the door.
5. I saw a rainbow on the way to Chipotle. 
6. I watched Butler and Brad Stevens advance to the National Championship.
7. Giving into my sweet tooth, (which I NEVER do, I don't promise!) I proceeded to hold a knife to my roommate's macbook charger cord and forced her to get self serve frozen yogurt.... it's true what they say....payback's a bitch, unless of course you get ice cream out of it...!
8. I got home and decided that taking the time to snap a picture of my delicious concoction of thin mint, peanut butter and chocolate frozen yogurt, topped with reese cup chunks, brownie pieces, oreos, butterfinger and probably some other kind of chocolate candy wasn't logical, and eating my ice cream was....typical.
9. Sunday morning consisted of church, First Watch with my roommate and our good long-lost suburban friend Kristi (Click here to see my breakfast.... my roommate so desperately wants to be like me that she ordered exactly what I got.... good choice Gill)
10. Thenn my Sunday went something along the lines of Kroger, 4 mile run, cleaning, vacuuming, aaaand now I'm watching the ACM's, and wishing that I could sing and play guitar or marry a country music singer.... after my stint with Brad Stevens is over of course. 

Sorry for the rambling.... but I think in some earlier post I totally warned you of my ability to go on and on and on about something really dumb and trivial.... I think I get it from my mom.

Have a quick week with quick days and no tornados,