I present my thesis tomorrow afternoon and then I’m done! I’ve got mixed emotions of here. 1) Excited (obviously) 2) Scared, Nervous, etc
I know I haven’t been present online very much lately but once I’m done I’ll catch up with everyone, I promise :)
L8er G8ters!
Wednesday night I couldn’t sleep at all and last night I went for the record. Not on purpose either time! I think my lack of sleep just caught up with me and I passed out in the middle of watching Dr. Oz. I woke up around 11:30 all disoriented thinking it was morning but it wasn’t of course. So I just went back to sleep. In total I think I slept about 14 hours last night (compared to 3 the night before!). Whew. I didn’t even finish editing my final project that’s due today but it’s a good thing I started it a little early.
Since I fell asleep before dinner yesterday I only ended up with 2 meals. I feel like I ate nothing!
Breakfast was a giant bowl of fruit – banana, strawberries, blackberries, and blueberries.
Followed by a big ol’ spinach omelet. Just an egg + 2 egg white and spinach. Nothing fancy. It came out looking a little weird though!
Then for lunch I had baked a batch of sweet potato fries and made a homemade granola bar.
I cut that into 4 bars by the way. It’s just oats, dates, and walnuts with a little bit of water to stick it together. And drizzled dark chocolate on the top :) They are still a bit crumbly so I’m going to work on the recipe a bit.
Waking up this morning, I’m now in full force, ready for the day! I whipped up a banana mango smoothie and had a piece of the homemade granola bar for breakfast.
Goals for today: Finish the project for my last class and finish my thesis presentation!
TGIF!
As I had said in my last post, I went home for my sister-in-law’s baby shower on Saturday! My niece is due in a month and I’m so excited! After a long afternoon of food and gifts, I snapped a quick shot of Nicole and I. I should have gotten a full length one because her dress was so cute! My beautiful SIL :)
I also spent some QT with the Bradster hehe
And because I have to go take my Nutritional Epidemiology final NOW I’m just going to throw in a few other pictures and make it a mostly wordless post!
I won those.
And made this with it.
Wish me luck! Only 1 week left :)
Home again this weekend! Back and forth a lot lately it seems. I really don’t think I can handle anything more than the 3 hours it takes to drive! Whew. But I’m super excited because tomorrow is the baby shower for my sis-in-law! Great excuse to be home right before finals :)
I started out the morning in Boston with a pretty substantial breakfast. Spinach and mushroom omelet, berries, and a muffin.
I had already decided to make the move back home easier that I was going to back some stuff up and bring it on the trip this weekend. And man do I have a lot of crap LOL. I hauled out a bag of winter clothes, shoes, tons of textbooks, and a bunch of little odds n’ ends. I was starving by the time I got home and made a HUGE salad.
It ended up being a very veggie day (after all that talk about being more of a fruit girl haha) because at dinner we had both asparagus and sweet potato too. Plus salmon and wild rice.
After all that rain, it ended up being a beautiful evening so my mom and I took Lena and went out for a walk.
Tomorrow I’ll show you what other exciting thing I accomplished today ;)
And a side note – my prayers are with everyone who has been affected by the tornadoes. I’ve only seems glimpses on the news and it is truly devastating.
After all that Easter candy, it’s only appropriate that I hope back into my go-to breakfast. Even though it is hot today (for once!), I whipped up a batch of oatmeal, and had some extra fruit on the side since the Peapod order just came.
As you can see, I iced my coffee. It was very necessary today.
As I was eating all my fruit for breakfast, I kept thinking how it is so much easier for me to eat fruit than to eat veggies. I even wrote about it last month. I am a fruit girl above all else. It really is nature’s candy!
I’m very excited for the berries of summer :)
But before I get there, I’ve got to finish this semester. Less than 2 weeks left!!!!!! OMG I’m so excited.
For today, head on over to read my guest post on Carrie’s blog Moves n’ Munchies!
Until later blends! Happy Wednesday :)
Today was a day where I could breathe just a little. I didn’t have to go to campus today for this first time in long time and it felt nice. Sometimes that’s the advantage of taking a few online classes – I stayed in my PJ’s until noon!
So after a few days in a row of having a breakfast like this:
I switched it up. Or I should say I switched back. To oatmeal of course.
Hello gorgeous! Bob’s Red Mill Steel Cut Oats (yes because I had time!) with a diced apple, cinnamon, and walnuts. Oooh baby.
And since I was feeling frisky, I busted out the ol’ baking supplies. An orange was screaming “zest me!” from it’s lonely spot in the almost empty fruit bowl and I happily obliged. Then sliced it up and put it in a jug of iced green tea. But anyway back to the baking……
I present to you: Christina’s Blueberry (& Orange) Muffins!
Makes 12 servings.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Mix dry ingredients (first 5) in a bowl. In a separate bowl, mix canola oil, applesauce, egg whites, yogurt, water and zest. Slowly add and mix dry ingredients to wet. Fold in blueberries. Spoon into greased or lined muffin tin. Baked for 20 minutes or until center isn’t gooey. Enjoy :)
The nutrition stats are pretty good too! I’ve developed a new love for Spark Recipes Recipe Calculator.
I also happened to make that crusted chicken again for dinner with some onion, leeks, and broccoli. It was a good day in the kitchen!
One more day til the weekend :) And just two days til I get to eat chocolate! Can you tell I’ve been counting down? ;)
