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Halfway There

What a day! We’re so close to being done with all the cleaning stuff. Thank God!

After cleaning/organizing for most of the morning I was pretty hungry for lunch. I had gotten Barney Butter packets in the mail to sample so I was super excited because I’ve actually never even tried almond butter.

I had this spread on 1/2 a WW wrap. There was actually a good amount in this little packet.

On the side I also had some grapes, mango,and baby carrots.

This was a really great tasting lunch. As for the Barney Butter, I liked it but I didn’t love it. I’m interested to try other almond butters now though.

Well back to tackling that to do list! Hope you’re all having a great FRIDAY!

April 10, 2009 at 3:17 pm 8 comments

Disappearing Act

Sorry for disappearing for a few days. I’ve been pretty busy at night and have crashed out as soon as my head has hit the pillow. I have a ton of catching up to do and a to-do list a mile long, so let’s get into it.

On Wednesday morning I had brought oatmeal again but completely forgot my training started right at 8 so I wound having a clif bar while sitting in training for breakfast. This photo is from last weekend because I ate this in class I didn’t want to snap a picture.

Training went really well and made the first 4 hours of work fly by. I kind of assumed we were going to get treated to lunch like last time so didn’t bring anything. I wound up going to the Subway nearby. While I was in line waiting to order there 5 very annoying people in front of me singing the 5 dollar foot long song. It was so irratating but they did convince me to get a Veggie Delight Foot long.

He may have put a little too much vinegar on it but I loved it anyway. I ate this half and then on the other half just ate the green peppers and cucumbers, a foot long is a lot of food! On the side I also had a bag of baked lays.

Dinner that night was actually a brinner. I had 3 whole wheat pancakes, one with blueberries, one with chocolate chips, and one plain. I couldn’t decide how I wanted it so I had one of each. Perfect in my opinion.

Blueberry.

Chocolate Chip.

Plain.

All together.

Later that night my sister called asking us to come over so we went over there, by the time we left and got back I was exhausted so I put myself right to bed.

The next morning I had the oatmeal I had brought to work with me on Wednesday.

This was over-two-night oatmeal and it did not disappoint.

This is when I became a bad food blogger I had completely forgotten lunch and wasn’t hungry enough to want anything so I didn’t eat lunch. I believe this is the first time I’ve skipped a meal since starting the blog. It was something I used to do all the time and of course by 5 I was famished.

My Uncle Bobby was stopping by my parents house on his way down to my Aunt’s house in Virginia where he will be celebrating Easter, so Andrew and I headed over there to visit with him for the night. For dinner my mom made a great baked ziti! Yummy, the first time this year I’ve had any, it of course was delicious.

I definitely had a little more.

And I had 2 pieces of sourdough.

Hanging out with my family last night was a ton of fun and we didn’t wind up getting home until almost midnight, so I wrote out my to-do-list read for about 10 minutes and then fell right to sleep.

This is my first Friday off and I’ve decided to most of the time use Friday’s to be my big day to run errands and do things around the house, that way I still have 2 days of the weekend to enjoy. After watching the weather last night I saw that today and tomorrow are going to be rainy so when I woke up and saw sun at 6:30 I jumped out of bed, waking Andrew up, and asked him if he wanted to walk on the trail. He also wanted to before the weather turned crappy so we got up, got dressed, and got out the door. On our way out the door I snacked on a new bar.

I got this from Melissa at the blogger brunch back in March. Thank you Melissa this was delicious. The texture was a lot like a larabar and the flavor of the cranberries were perfectly sweet and tart, it was a really great bar!

Andrew was nice enough to snap some pictures for the blog of the trail for me today. The sun was still coming up as we were walking and we only ran into 3 other people on the trail, going that early in the morning was so nice!

Here’s the ramp at the marina for loading the boats into the water and taking them out.

In the back that big boat is the SeaStreak ferry that takes you right into NYC.

The rest of these shots are from on the trail.

There are some boardwalks to cross.

But most of it is gravel.

Most of it goes right along the beach.

Right across the bay is Brooklyn, I waved to all you Brooklyn Bloggers, did you see me?

I can’t wait till all those trees are green, we’re getting there.

Our walk lasted 1 hour and 21 minutes and I burned 599 calories, can we round up to 600? It sounds so much better.

After our walk we headed right out to grocery shopping the store was empty! Once again I rushed to put everything away and didn’t get a picture. Once everything was in it’s place we ate breakfast, I had a smoothie.