Mystery novels, foam, and loving galore!

 

  

It was a cold and foggy morning...

 No? Is that not how it goes? Okay, let's try again.

It was a warm and foamy morning...

 

Still nay? Okay, maybe I should nix the "write mystery novels with sexy private eyes for a living" idea.

Ah well, at least I have other ideas for my future...

Like personal nut butter Queen.

So, so, so good. Like eating healthy Nutella straight from the... packet?

Seriously. I could advise people on the best nut butters to buy. Stand near the nut butter section of Whole Foods with a little pin on my apron stating "Personal nut butter Queen." Grind their nuts for them... Hand them tubs of 365 Crunchy, Justin's, and DCD? Yes?

Or else I could settle for personal chef to the rich and famous, serving them divine bowls of oats and hand-crafted foamy lattés...

Oats, cinnamon, vanilla, large chopped banana, 365 Crunchy pb. Coffee with almond milk, steamed in my Nespresso... Mmmm. Best way to start a morning.

So as the opening line to my future mystery novel with a sexy private eye would suggest, It was cold and foggy this morning. I decided it was a good matinée to lounge on the couch, savoring a nice warm bowl of oats, drinking a foamy 'latté', and reading a good book.

Oh, and snuggling with this cutie:

By the way, this is what happens when you're trying to read the last sentence of a page:

Give me love, mommy!

How can you deny that face?

Doggy loved, it was time to get onto important matters. AKA, the loving of these two beauties.

Often I go for the volume tricks popularized by Carrie and Katie, but I've found they leave me with a very watery, unsatisfying bowl. I get enough volume with my banana, and it's so much more satisfying and thick.

How can you say no to that?

What is your dream career?
Voluminous oatmeal: yay or nay?

WIAW round 2 as a day in the life of me

Hello, Ruminators.


(Did that sound profound or what?)


You know that saying... It's better late than never? Well that's my philosophy on writing a WIAW post on Thursday! (Just go along with it)

I started out my morning... not so bright and early. Though I planned to wake at 6am and get out on the road for my run before 7am, that's not exactly what happened. It was more like this:

• 6am - alarm goes off. Open eyes. Grope around. Find iPhone and turn off alarm. Go back to sleep.
• 7am - Wake up. Roll over. Go back to sleep.
• 8am - Wake up. Jerk myself out of bed before I'm fully awake. Stagger out of room. Bathroom. Dress. Breakfast.

Inhale two bowls of PB puffins with almond milk.

• 9am - Drive up to the park/ hills near our house and run in the hot sun. Suffer tremendously.   
• 10:15am - Drive home, drenched. Cue breakfast numero dos.

Ginormous sliced banana, topped with almond butter and melted in the microwave. Mmmmmm.

Strawbs on the side.

•  11am - jet off to the train. 
• 11:25am - Buy ticket.
• 11:28am - Breathe.
• 11:29am - Get blown away by the train.
• 12pm - Arrive at my old treatment center where I still have nutrition and therapy meetings. Eat lunch in the park.

Déjeuner à l'air.

Salad: spinach, broccoli, 1/2 tomato, celery, 1/4 cold Kabocha squash roasted with cinnamon and nutmeg, Sabra artichoke and spinach hummus. 

 Oh my god guys, this was the most amazing lunch I've eaten ever. So, so, so good. The kabocha squash and hummus just elevated this bland salad to something out of this world. I'm swooning just thinking about it. Dare I say it... cold kabocha is even more delicious than hot. And combined with hummus... Oh my gosh. It's ineffable. So smooth and creamy and delicious. Mouthgasm.

Dessert was an unpictured banana walnut muffin made out of this stuff:

Oats, flour, cinnamon, vanilla extract, baking powder & soda, stevia, bananas.

•  12:30pm - Meet with my therapist. It was actually a little more fruitful than past meetings with her. We talked about my fears about going back to school and making friends, guilt, etc.
• 1:30pm - Meet with my nutritionist. Apparently I'm undereating given the amount of activity I'm doing. Also not eating enough carbs or protein. She recommended I get back on track with my meal plan, etc, which is freaky but I'm going to try. She also recommended I eat a little extra starch the two days before my race (Sunday) to rebuild by glycogen stores. Yes ma'am!
• 2:15 - Stock up on essentials at Safeway! Aka: spinach, Greek yogurt (Yay!), and bananas. What more could you want in life? Other than peanut butter, of course ;)
• 2:45 - Catch the train and carb up with an unpictured Kid Zbar in chocolate chip flavor.
• 3:45 - Get home and snack!

The usual: greek yogurt, pb, pumpkin butter, jam, cinnamon. Beautiful

• 4:20pm - Drive to Santa Cruz to go sailing with my uncle and aunt plus other people. Meet up with them and race in front of the Beach Boardwalk! 'We' came second - apparently the first time in 7 weeks they haven't won. It was kind of crazy and intense, with everyone yelling things, running all over the boat to tighten this rope and pull out the spinnaker - but fun to be out on the water and admire the sights.
• 9pm - Get home. Take funny photos of my windswept hair and Outfit of The Day.

Green and white striped tank top: J. Crew, Shorts: Target.

• 9:15pm - Make dinner - so late! I baked a quick Organics spinach cheese pizza with a salad with extra edamame on the side, and dark chocolate for dessert.
• 11pm - Fall asleep reading this book:

Light and fluffy - just what I need :)

How was your Wednesday?