I am having a wonderful day over here! How about yourselves?

It’s probably because this is the only day I have had off all semester and considering I have been teaching twenty first graders every day of it, I needed this break!

Last night was so relaxing and nice. Adam took great care of me since I was feeling off all day. He ran to Publix to pick up things for semi-homemade pizzas! This is something we did once a week this summer and we return to it often because it’s easy, inexpensive and SO yummy! We received a pizza stone as one of our wedding gifts and it is INCREDIBLE! If you love to make pizza and don’t have one. Please head to Bed, Bath and Beyond right now and purchase one. You will thank me, and provide a piece of pizza in gratitude. Or maybe just enjoy it yourself.

We used store bought pizza dough, we often use multi-grain dough but Adam said there was only one there and it didn’t look good. So we bought reagular pizza dough. We cut it in half and I took the smallest looking piece, although with dough it’s hard to tell! Next time I am going to make Jenna’s pizza dough though, we just needed something quick and easy!

Now before I show you my topping, I must say it is my FAVORITE pizza topping. Not even gonna lie, my former roomie Tristen and I would order this with black olives all. The. Time.

PINEAPPLE!!!!!

I know it’s not to far fetched at all. But I love it. I often get weird looks and never understand why. No Hawaiian pizza here, I don’t like ham! I just love plain, fresh, pineapple alllllll over my pizza. Yum! Yum! Yum!

I poured the pizza sauce on the dough then added some shredded Sargento mozzarella. I sprinkled the chopped pineapple onto the pizza and then sprinkled it with som thyme, oregano and little bit of S&P. I also brushed the crust lightly with EVOO. It looks drenched here but I assure you it is not! Just enough to add a yummy flavor to the crust. I wish their were scratch and sniff pictures because it smelled amazing while it was cooking! With the pizza stone it only takes 8-10 minutes to cook the pizza!

Then it ends up looking like this:

I wish I had better lighting in my house..but I had to stress how much I truly loved this pizza. L.O.V.E!!

I ate all but one piece, which I will be enjoying as I make a “leftover” lunch later.

I was going to wash it down with a beer..

..but decided to save it for the weekend and enjoy a Le Croix instead. Adam grabbed it and took a sip before I could warn him and all he could muster was “That’s NOT sweet at ALL!”. There’s a subtle sweetness to it, not much but it’s growing on me! It’s something a little different then water, and zero calories! I felt so good knowing I wasn’t wasting calories on a soda, or artificial sweetners. I may try and add some POM juice to it today to sweeten it a bit since I have just enough POM juice left!

A little (or a lot) of POM never hurt anybody.

Neither did pumpkin pie ice cream posing next to two cute punkin’ babes!

I took every advantage of yoga this morning on my day off! My throat felt better and while I shouldn’t push it much, I knew I could modify what I needed to and I just needed to be very aware of what my body was telling me the whole time.

Unfortunately this morning I started feeling queasy, but I realized I had been sitting around for over an hour without food in my tummy, I really needed to break. fast! I put together an (unpictured) smoothie since I needed something to settle my tummy but wanted something like. I used:

• One whole banana
• Handful of frozen strawberries
• Mangoes
• Plain yogurt
• Flax
• Amazing Grass

Love that grass! I didn’t use spinach like I normally do because I was feeling quesy and knew I needed something a little more simple. While it doesn’t add a taste to it, I just knew it would be harder to digest. I felt instantly better, especially after two ginger pills!

Class was led by Calvin, and if you read Ryan’s blog you probably read about her experience the other morning. As he walked in and began to teach, instead of getting more nervous since this was only my second class, I decided that it’s better for me to sit in a different spot (i.e. not the cozy corner) and have a different teacher then the previous class. I grow comfortable with familiarity and I want to be able to adapt to any situation in yoga. It turned out great! I was still feeling a little off so I just carefully listened to my body and felt when I should rest and when I should try. I rested a lot more then I did the first time, but it was still great. Feeling like I could tell what my body could handle and what I shouldn’t force it to do felt so great! It’s more important to rest then to push yourself. I want to be a pro right away and you can’t do that in yoga. You must rest. You must NOT force your body to do what it’s not ready for. Rest is something I think us Americans have a hard time doing. That’s why I love yoga. I can already tell even though I rested, I am going to hurt tomorrow! I love being sore though! I love to know my body was pushed just beyond what it could do and new muscles are beginning to form. I hope to be able to continue practicing at least twice a week. I can’t wait to see where I am in a year!

My tummy was grumbling all the way home so I made myself this:

I finally made pumpkin oats! I have to admit..I never…really..liked…oatmeal. Should I hide now before I get oats thrown at me? I have slowly started eating more and more. I LOVED THIS!! Soooo yummy. Cooked up:

• 1/3 cup soy milk, water, oats
• Splash of vanilla
• Saigon Cinnamon
• Pumpkin pie spice mix
• One packet of Sun Crystals

I tasted it before I poured it into my bowl and realized there was something missing..almond butter of course! I added it to my bowl..I think it loves me:

I went to move the spoon and it made an almond butter heart! I feel the love!

I am resting now, found out a meeting with a friend is cancelled because she is sick. Poor girl! I am going to use this day to work on my blog, right on this spot on my cozy couch. It’s going to be wonderful.

Smile, today is a great day!

Katy