Today was a pretty relaxing Sunday. I started with a trip to the gym for 35 minutes on the elliptical and some leg exercises from Physical Therapy. Then, Eric and I went to run some errands where I got my first pumpkin spice latte in years! As I've mentioned, my stomach does not like caffeine, so today I tried a decaf one. I still think my stomach was not thrilled but I survived it and it was delicious. I was going to text Ash who drank pumpkin spice lattes with me all through college but then I remembered she is on Seattle time this month and she probably would not appreciate a text message at the crack of dawn on a Sunday morning!
The rest of the day was spent getting some work done and writing a million thank you notes. I actually am temporarily done with thank you notes for now. I am out of stamps and I think Eric needs to take a turn, haha. I am so supportive of his lack of time right now I know. Speaking of Eric, he made a ridiculously
good soup this afternoon. He says it was made with sweet potato, apple, onions, garlic, olive oil, honey and white beans. It both smelled and tasted amazing. I made myself a little side of
eggplant fries. I got the idea from
Meghann. Basically all I did was slice up my eggplant and cover it with egg whites and panko bread crumbs. This healthy dinner was just what my stomach needed because I've been snacking on not-so great food most of the day, oops!
I am looking forward to the leftovers of that soup for lunch the next few days!
Stay tuned this week for my first ever meeting with a stomach doctor tomorrow, and my first ever meeting with a running coach (to try to help my knee) on Tuesday.
On another note, I got a Blog Award today WOOOOOO!
I got this award from
Sneaker Teacher which is a huge honor because I LOVE her blog, and I really admire her because she just moved with her husband to Germany and she has been living out of a hotel room for months! Also, she is an amazing teacher with lots of great ideas. In order to accept this award I am supposed to answer a bunch of questions with only 1 word answers...um yeah- that alone was impossible for me, but here is how I did:
1. Where is your cell phone? bedroom
2.Your hair? curly
3. Your mother? caring
4. Your father? Social (and caring…haha)
5. Your favorite food? Icecream (haha is that cheating?)
6. Your dream last night? ?
7. Your favorite drink? water
8. Your dream/goal? book
9. What room are you in? living
10. Your hobby? blogging
11. Your fear? Losing (specifically losing kids at work but losing in general haha)
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? mom
13. Where were you last night? here
14. Something you aren't? OCD
15. Muffins? blueberry
16. Wish list item? purses
17. Where did you grow up? Lex
18. Last thing you did? write
19. What are you wearing? pink
20. Your TV? on
21. Your pets? none
22. Your friends? amazing
23. Your life? lucky
24. Your mood? happy
25. Missing someone? always
26. Vehicle? honda
27. Something you're not wearing? socks
28. Your favorite store? staples
29. Your favorite color? pink
30. When was the last time you laughed? Okay I have to break the 1 word rule (again)- I just laughed out loud because they were interviewing Matt Ryan and they asked him if he purposely wore a maroon tie as a tribute to BC and he was like “um….well, no (clearly just noticing he was wearing a maroon tie haha) but yeah…good game yesterday BC”
31. Last time you cried? ?
32. Your best friend? CKAT
33. One place that I go over and over? work
34. One person who emails me regularly? Caroline
35. Favorite place to eat? out
That was WAY too difficult for me...seriously! Anyway, now after that serious challenge I get to pass this blog on to 6 bloggers. It's hard to narrow it down to 6 and I KNOW I am going to leave out blogs I love, but here it goes...
SimplyFabulousNow- I just started reading her blog but I already love it. She is also a teacher and just got married so we have a few things in common.
DaretoTri- I have been reading this blog since the beginning because I need triathlon tips. However, now we share a common FRUSTRATION with the knee! Hopefully both of us will love our knees by the end of 2009...a girl can wish, right?
GirlWithTheRedHair- Honestly, I just love Amber. She writes about basically everything and even when it's completely random I am always like YES I totally agree with that haha.
PBandJenny- Jenny eats and posts a ton of delicious foods (obviously she has good taste with peanut butter in her name). She just did a crazy awesome post on all the things to add to oatmeal!
LisaYarns- Lisa is running her first 1/2 marathon on Halloween! So jealous :)
Yeah, that didn't even begin to touch all the blogs I read and love, so I guess I need to get some more awards so I can pass them on, haha :) Hope everyone had a great weekend!
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Thanks SO much Kelly! Great post. BTW, I have never tried the pumpkin spice latte and might have to grab one tomorrow after my swim... only if I get up for an early morning swim. Monday's are hard! LOL
ReplyDeleteI will get to this post tomorrow! THANKS again! You're a true doll!
Hahaha - aww, you are so cute!! Thanks so much for the award and I LOVE your blog, too!!!
ReplyDeleteThat really is too bad that your stomach can't handle caffeine. I don't know what I'd do without my pumpkin spice latte - I've been having at least one a week since they came out with them again!! Haha
I keep hearing all about the pumpkin spice latte and I think I will have to get over my hate of Starbucks to go try it out. I had a Pumpkin Pie Scream the other day at the local coffee shop and it was soo good..it basically was pumpkin pie in a frozen caffeinated form.. SO GOOD.
ReplyDeleteoh fun fun fun! thanks so much for the award girl :) though the questionairre sounds very tough!
ReplyDeletemmmmm the pumpkin spice lattes are so worth possible tummy issues :)!
Congrats on the award! And, I LOVE Staples too :) It's one of those stores where it's dangerous for me to go in because I want everything I see.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad your stomach slightly accepted the latte, and it was worth it. Thanks for the eggplant fry recipe, the sound great!
FYI the Fear of losing kids will NEVER go away especially when #12 comes true..
ReplyDeleteJust reading about the Pumpkin spice makes me want to go get one. YUMMY!!
Congrats on your Award...
congrats on the award. im glad you get to take a break from all the thank you cards. its gonna be worse for the wedding gifts!
ReplyDeleteYou probably have a much better way to use that money than anyone, as a teacher. I would hope a teacher would win that money, out of all professions!
ReplyDeletehaha yay!! i win most frequent emailer!
ReplyDeleteGreat list. Lexinton KY? I drove through once, and fell in love. Beautiful!! If I'm wrong - disregard :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for visiting my blog! I can't believe you've gone this long in your life without a pumpkin spice latte! It is definitely one of the highlights of fall for me.
ReplyDeleteI love reading these little questionnaires. Fun!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for the award!! :) Very sweet of you! Can't wait to pass it along!
ReplyDeletethanks for the award! i am hoping to get on top of this one this week, and not next month ;)
ReplyDeleteoh man i love pumpkin spice lattes. probably my favorite part about the cooler weather -- starbucks brings back pumpkin spice and gingerbread!