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Splurge night
Sorry I went MIA last night, we had dinner with the in-laws and I just want to spend some time with Adam. The hubs comes first. 
Last night was definitely a splurge night.
I had to take a picture of the sky last night on the way to my in-laws house. Wasn’t it gorgeous?
I started out with a beer..that was wrapped in it’s own snuggie..
..and we ate wings!! Mmmmm..
Okay, yes I had more then two. I had some raspberry wings(we bought the sauce back home, so good!). I mostly had my favorite mild sauce with a little blue cheese.
Mild? No no..that would be hot with butter to make it mild..mmm hot butter.
I did eat at least three times this amount of veggies.
Then I splurged with a large scoop of vanilla ice cream and dark chocolate sauce.
Ummm..I threw a bunch of bananas on it.
That makes it totally healthy, yeah? 
It was a fun, relaxing night with my in-laws that Adam and I needed.
I woke up this morning and had some cereal.
I need to go grocery shopping tomorrow, so breakfasts will be more exciting soon!
I am now looking into finding a job and researching some stuff. Job searching is quite overwhelming but I trust the right thing will come along.
Don’t forget, today is the last day to enter the Oikos yogurt and tote giveaway!! The winner will be picked tonight and announced tomorrow morning!
Also, progress is being made on the new site, not sure on a debut date but I will let you know! I am so excited to reveal the new name and new site to you all very soon! YAY!
Katy
1 comment January 13, 2010
Snooze Queen
I tried waking up a little earlier this morning, per Angela’s “Early Rising Challenge” . She suggests waking up a little earlier each day. Well, I need to set my alarm and place it across the bedroom because I am a snooze queen! I think I even hit the snooze in my sleep and it’s my iPhone! I woke up 15 minutes earlier today though, I guess that’s a start?
I need one of these.
Meet “Clocky”:
The description on Amazon.com:
“Have trouble getting up in the morning? Let the MoMA Design Store Clocky Alarm Clock ensure you get up when you need to be on time for work, school or any other appointment. Clocky gives you one chance to get out of bed. OK to snooze once, after that Clocky jumps off your nightstand, wheels away around your room looking for a place to hide, beeping all the while. You have no recourse but to get up to silence his alarm.”
I may kick him after a while though. I saw this at the Museum of Modern Art store and thought it was pretty cute, although may scare the crap out of me when it jumps off my night stand! Or Leo, who sleeps right below my nightstand. Poor Leo, he wouldn’t see Clocky coming.
Once I awoke I had another repeat:
I know this makes for boring bloggie mornings but my stomach enjoys it just so darn much, forgive me?
Lunch was dee-lish!
I need to go grocery shopping soon but luckily found some good stuff for lunch.
Two large carrots, a large sweet potato, a cooked up all-natural hot dog and some organic frozen broccoli florets I sauteed with some EVOO, salt & pepper!
Mmmmm!
I’m off to do some more job hunting! Wish me luck, I need it!
Don’t forgot you have until TOMORROW to enter the giveaway! Good luck!!
Katy
4 comments January 12, 2010
Boring Bowl
Well, it’s almost noon and I am still in my P.J.’s the hubs is home working since his office is closed all week(his building is part of the UCF campus) which is great for me! I am going to run my three miles for the day and then probably head to one of our favorite coffee shops so I can blog, and he can work.
For breakfast, my cereal bowl.
I realized, cereal is to me what oats are to other bloggers.
Oats are to me, what cereal is to other bloggers. Great every once in a while. I hope that will change. But for now. My boring bowl of cereal will have to suffice.
Along with some coffee.
I am off to run my three miles and hopefully wake up. I feel so tired when I wake up! I don’t even drink a lot of coffee or tea in the morning. I just sip on my first cup and usually don’t finish.
Are you a morning person? I guess I’m not, oh how I wish I was!!
Katy
Add comment December 28, 2009
Happy Christmas eve
Happy Christmas Eve everyone!!
I am in such a good mood! It’s Christmas, I am getting to be with my most of my family (miss you Dad!!) and I am in a very nice hotel with my husband. Oh, and it also may be the endorphins kicking in!
I slept in until 10, and it felt delicious!! The bed is one of those beds that just steals you to sleep, it feels like a giant marshmallow cloud. Okay, that may be exaggerating but it really is pretty darn comfortable!
Adam went out early this morning and did a little grocery shopping for breakfast.
When I woke up with both headed straight to the hotel gym. I had three miles to get in!
They had super nice touch screen treadmills, sorry for no pictures! I was kind of dreading the “dread”mill. It wasn’t too awful, luckily I had a T.V. right in front of me so it helped the time go by. Unfortunately, the safety clip fell off TWICE so I had to restart both times. I got so frustrated, since I was already 10 minutes in the first time. I guesstimated how much I needed to run but definitely overshot, which I would rather have done to not risk being under 3 miles. With a 5 minute warm-up and warm-down 3.1 miles took me probably around 43 minutes. I definitely did more then 3.1 but I am not sure how much.
I wish I had a Garmin!!
Too late to add that to the Christmas list now.
When we got back I was super hungry!
It was a little after 11 and since we won’t head to my mom’s place until 2:30, this was pretty much brunch.
A bowl of H2H with some GoLean crunch. One of my favorite combos! My sweet husband is lactose intolerant so I had this with some Smart Balance lactose free milk.
I had a few pieces of fruit from this mix. No melon, YUM! I am not a huge melon fan. I prefer the good(more expensive) stuff. Thanks Adam!!
He also surprised me and got us each a Chobani.
I chose blueberry. Yumm!
I also sipped on some Tazo earl grey tea with a little bit of sugar(I forgot Truvia packets) and I ams till sipping on it!
I’m off to shower, and figure out what to wear for tonight.
At 2:30 I am heading to my mom’s and we’ll hang out there for a couple hours before heading to Christmas Eve service at my old church and then we have a family Christmas eve party where I will be surrounded by more family then I have been around in at least five years. So crazy, but it should be fun. Lots of pictures to come tonight!!
I hope you all are enjoying your holiday if you celebrate Christmas, if not I hope you enjoy this wonderful day anyway!
Katy
1 comment December 24, 2009
Addicted to Blogging?
I must admit it, I was so bummed last night not being able to blog. I just might be addicted to the internet and to blogging. I think that the latter is a great thing, especially since I am new and about to hit the one month mark! YAY! I love this community, I love writing and I love expressing myself through words, photographs and food. I am looking forward to continue learning more and to write better, more creative and interesting posts. I really just love the blog world! So thank you for joining me and being a part of it. My life has already changed so much for the better since writing and I really can’t wait to see what happens next!
Onto playing catch-up..
Friday night after posting we tore into that cupcake and split half of it..
I have no restraint and found myself digging in before even taking a pic, guilty as charged. It was sooo yummy! Hoping to dig into the other half tonight!
For breakfast, Adam made me two eggs over medium with half a toasted sandwich thin. It was good, but it’s hard for both of us to eat eggs first thing in the morning. Also, I had eaten so early (around 6:30) that by 11:30 (when we eat lunch at school) I was starving! It was nice to have something substantial and warm instead of a bowl of cereal!
When I got home, I was waiting for Adam to get home so we could meet his parents for dinner before we headed to the beach. I dug into a pomegranate Chobani with some MixMy Granola! Super yumm!
I think we are ordering more of this soon and considering I am officially in love, that would make Katy a happy girl.
Pictures at dinner were super blurry and it wasn’t super exciting so I will just recap for you. I wanted something light and we had headed to an Italian restaurant and wine bar down the street. I had some grilled shrimp which was listed as an appetizer and a house salad. To drink I had a light and refreshing pinot grigio. Love it! I was starving when we got to the beach house though. On the way we stopped at Super Target to pick up some necessities that included these..
After hanging out for a bit we headed out for a walk/run. It was fun to explore the town this way, it’s a really cute little beach town! We didn’t walk onto the beach that time but we walked near it and ran around the neighborhoods around it. I just mapped our walk/run and it totaled 1.41 miles.
A little later, we started watching our second movie we rented which was UP!
Okay, I wanted to cry within ten minutes but it was still cute and heart warming!
It was almost lunch time, but we hadn’t bought anything for lunch. So we snacked on some SmartPop popcorn we picked up at Blockbuster.
After the movie we headed out to the beach to walk it and see if we wanted to lay out..it was very breezy and a little too cold to lay out so we just walked, talked and took pictures..
Just mapped our second walk and it totaled 2.11 miles! That added up to 3.52 miles today! The sand was more flat and hard then mushy the way other beaches are my calves still started to hurt though! I really loved just being able to walk down to the beach.
On our way back, we picked up lunch at a cute local coffee shop, Flagler Avenue Coffee House. We ordered some sandwiches to-go and I took pictures as we waited.
This was on the floor right as you first walk in…(:
When we got home we dove into our lunches and they were delish! I ordered the veggie sandwich on a croissant with balsamic vinaigrette.
It also came with a side of multicolored corn chips and salsa. My sandwich had sprouts, shredded carrots, cucumbers, tomato and lettuce. YUM!! Especially on the buttery croissant which was totally worth the extra calories..I LOVE CROISSANTS!
After we ate we showered, packed up and headed home..but not before stopping at DD for a little iced pick-me-up.
Anyway, you can imagine my heartbreak to be without internet for 24 hours. It’s sad, I know..but we came home a night early so we could have a night-in at home this weekend. Where we stayed was more of a small house then a condo, which is what I assumed it would be, and I always feel a little awkward when staying in other people’s homes. I get over it after a day, but as much as I loved being by the beach, I didn’t feel as relaxed there as I had hoped. We had a wonderful 24 hours away and our continuing our staycation at home.
Also, I want to wish Ashley a very happy and healthy MARATHON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YAY! Kick butt girl, you’re going to do amazing. You inspire me to run with love always.
Love love love,
Katy H.
P.S.- Since there’s another Katy around the blog scene I am going to sign my posts Katy H. so when being referred to it doesn’t get too confusing!
2 comments November 21, 2009
Best 20 minutes spent today!
Those 20 minutes? I’ll get to that in a bit!
For breakfast, I had a boring cup of coffee and bowl of H2H. Sorry for the lack of picture but it wasn’t too exciting.
Today was “Walk to school day” so we joined the students at a park near the school and then some police officers closed the street down so we could all walk to school, in the street, together. It was SO my kind of thing. It’s super important that we promote exercise in all forms. Most of the students that go to this school live very close and their are plenty of crossing guards keeping it safe for them. It helps them with their exercise and also is pretty great for the environment to not be driving every morning when not needed. Love it!
For lunch:
- Mini-Tribe hummus
- Carrots
- Toasted Sandwich Thin
- String Cheese
- Pirate’s booty
I ate all of the carrots, most of the sammie-thin, and the string cheese but I didn’t touch the booty. Didn’t mean for it to sound the way but I am not changing it. I ate the pirate’s booty after school. We got out early since it was Wednesday and we get out an hour early on Wednesdays and we didn’t have a meeting(thank goodness). I headed home and immediately got into my gym clothes and left before I was even tempted to sit and not move the rest of the day. I needed to run!
Oh and those twenty minutes?? I RAN 20 MINUTES STRAIGHT! This may not sound like a big deal but I think that’s the longest I have ever ran at once ever. I mean a good, steady run. I didn’t overexert myself(except I did 30 seconds of sprints at the end) and I didn’t jog I stayed 5.0 and over for those 20 minutes and it was awesome. My body is going to be sore tomorrow since I did yoga yesterday as well. Tomorrow will be my rest day. I am super happy with my workout. I ran, on the treadmill, a total of 25 minutes at 1.0% incline since I have been told that’s the closest to actually running outside. That included a 3 minute warm-up and 4 minute warm down. I came in a total of 2.05 miles! It may not be much but I am proud of it.
I am now off to read some blogs and get ready for small group tonight! I’ll try and post later, we are having a “pre-Thanksgiving” dinner. Yummmmmmmm!
Katy
9 comments November 18, 2009
It’s coooold! YAY!
Today was great, yet draining! It’s slowly starting to settle in that I am SO CLOSE to being done. Sorry, I know I talk about it way too much but it’s very exciting. Also, it didn’t even hit 61 degrees here today! YAY! I love this weather..
For dinner yesterday, they bought us take out from a new BBQ restaurant. Four Rivers Smokehouse in Winter Park. It was SO good! Some of the best BBQ I have ever had..
Roasted corn that tasted exactly like cornbread..mmmmm caramelized corn. I will be roasting corn in the very near future, the best baked beans I have ever had, “corn bread salad”(the dressing had real cornbread in it), and my smoked brisket BBQ sandwich on a white bun. It was a biscuit or a bun for me, I chose bun because I LOVE BBQ sandwiches. This was so good. Like I have said, I don’t worry as much on Wednesdays on what is being served. I know it’s going to be good, and I allow myself to eat it.
I had my dinner with a cup of some “Arnold Palmer” which is half sweet tea, half lemonade..for all you non-southeners out there.
We didn’t have any dessert but it was fine with me, this was way decadent enough. My stomach was happy. Although some peanut M & M’s were passed around, and I grabbed a few. It was a fantastic dinner, but onto today..
Today I had to be observed by county reading specialists at school as I taught their phonics program which was nerve wrecking to say the least. Especially when the kids are used to routine and this broke up routine and you just never know with first graders.
To fuel for my busy day I ate a bowl of H2H and Puffins & flax! I didn’t take a picture because I just had a bowl of that yesterday! I wonder if you care about seeing some of the same pictures over and over again I wouldn’t mind posting them! You let me know.
For lunch:
Some All-Bran crackers, veggies, and some mini-Tribe hummus!
I also packed a strawberri Chobani because this seemed to be a pretty meek lunch. I was wrong, this filled me more then I thought. I had Kashi pumpkin spice bar as well. I love listening to my body and while this looked small to me, obviously my body thought it was the perfect amount! I haven’t been able to work out as much lately thanks to being sick, so I don’t need as much fuel. I can’t wait to get back into activity full-time. It shall be lovely.
When I got home, I was planning on eating my strawberry chobani and granola. Instead, I mixed it up and stuck it in the freezer. Growing up, I started freezing my yogurt. Then tart-yogurt got popular(and my mom lived a block over from a Pink Berry in NYC) and I love it even more! So this will be a nice treat. I probably won’t be able to find out until tomorrow night.
I decided to open a vanilla chobani and some MixMy Granola and some dark local honey drizzled on top.
Incredible good! The dried fruit was cold and chewy and the seeds and almonds were crunchy, it was just happiness in a snack.
I am off to catch up on my blogs and apply for a job or two ! Hope you are enjoying your evening!
Katy
Add comment November 12, 2009
Hello, Winter?
I think it’s coming..even for a brief moment. This year, “cold fronts” seem to come and go within two days. What. Is. The. Deal?
At least tomorrow will feel like Winter, and maybe Friday..Friday actually should feel like Fall..so yay!
Today was stressful again, I feel like the closer I get to being done the longer the days feel. In a week I will have mostly given the class back to the teacher..so YAY!
Graduation: T-Minus 38 days and counting!
Did you know that you can actually watch my graduation live on the internet? Not kidding. Not that you would want to. But it’s happening. It makes me laugh a little..
For breakfast I made a not-so-green-more-swampy monster:
- Spinach
- Stonyfield Strawberry yogurt
- Amazing Grass
- Mango
- Blueberries
- Strawberries
- Cranberry juice
- Almond milk
I really need a VitaMix, I am slowly killing my magic bullet with these smoothies and I would love to put more spinach into my smoothies.
Also burnt one half of my sandwich thins and we’re almost out. So I managed. 3/4 of the burnt one had smart balance, the other half had almond butter and honey.
For my (unpictured) lunch I brought some leftovers from last night..some of these leftovers:
Yummmm! I took one of my smallest tupperware containers and forgot to pack much more. I also snacked on a baggie of organic baby carrots. Since I was still a bit hungry I dove into this:
Yummm! This was my first time eating this, I LOVE the texture of the chewy and the crunchy. Perfect mix. I finally felt full and satisfied!
When I got home I showered and got ready for tonight. After that I needed major fuel, my stomach was reminding me so..
Enter: Cereal.
H2H and Puffins..such a yummy mix! I looooooove me some cereal. Sometimes that’s all I need to smile. I know, I am easily amused.
To celebrate the cold front coming tomorrow(high of upper 60′s) I had one of these babies:
Pumpkin spice Hershey Kiss! Yummm!
Some exciting news, I found out Adam is taking me to New Smyrna Beach for the weekend of the 20th, the weekend before Thanksgiving break! I am really excited to just get away! I will still be blogging, but we will be cooking up a storm I hope. He’s promised to work with me on some recipes and we’ll have two days to just get away. Much needed, and it starts my week off from school and I will be done teaching in my internship at that point!
The next few weeks are SO exciting. Just thinking about it gives me those excited butterflies in my stomach. I have a direction I am heading in that’s completely different then what I thought but it makes me so happy and just feels SO right. I know God has a total hand in this and I am just hoping/trusting that I will continue being led, because right now it’s a huge jumbled mess of dreams that have to get sorted and figured out. One day at a time! After I graduate I will elaborate more, but as I am still finishing up school in my internship I won’t talk much about it yet!
Well, on that note it’s off to our Wednesday night group. Sorry for the lame post tonight, Wednesdays are rough! I promise the posts will be much more exciting once internship is done and my schedule is freed up. Looking forward to writing about some topics that interest me as soon as I get some more time in my life!
Have a great night!
Katy
Add comment November 11, 2009
