Wow!! It's Sunday Already...Pictures of Blondies Included

Sunday, May 22, 2011

I guess time got away from me yesterday. I did end up doing 3.5 miles on the elliptical yesterday. That was nice. I needed a big calorie burn and my triceps were still a little sore from Bob's beating. Yikes!
We actually watched a movie last night for the first time in forever. We watched the Blu-ray of The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo. Very good. I had read the book already and it was very similar.
This morning I had planned to go to the community college track to calibrate the foot pod for my Polar RS300X heart rate monitor. The college is closed on Sundays. Boo! I did my run on the treadmill completing week 3 of the Galloway 5K training and logging 3.1 miles total.
One of our favorite restaurants, International Gourmet Buffet, had closed and in it's place the Sunset Bar & Grill opened. We decided to give it a try. And we decided to walk over there. 1.94 miles later we arrived. The food was pretty good. My husband got some ribs and I ordered the burger (no mayo, no cheese). My husband was very hungry because he ate all of his ribs, fries and green beans and finished the other half of my burger and fries. Good thing we were walking home.
I tried out a new recipe today: Vegan White Bean Blondies. JLITT had posted a link to the webiste with the recipe a while ago and I finally got around to trying it today. I also input it into the sparkrecipes.
Very tasty with a little rumminess.
Here's how they looked out of the oven:

This is how they look cut up so you can see the macadamia nuts and cacao nibs inside:

We are heading over to have dinner with my in-laws. Celebrating a belated Mother's Day.
Have a fabulous evening and a great Monday!

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Happy For Friday!

Friday, May 20, 2011

My triceps are still sore...Geez, Bob. I did do some dancing in my office and lot of stairs but it was pretty much a rest day for me. I think I'll hit the elliptical tomorrow.
Lots of running around at work that kept me pretty busy but not busy enough to keep me from eating peanut M&M's...pre-TOM is definitely getting to me this month. I had enough that I just called them lunch. Not the healthiest but not too bad.
I went to the chiropractor this afternoon. He wants me to do one more week of 2x/week, so I've got appointments next Wednesday and Friday. Then it will change to 1x/week for about a month. It's been about 4 hours and I'm just now feeling the soreness...just a little.
We went to Taqueria Tlaquepaque for dinner tonight. I had the chile colorado...very tasty. I totally forgot to take a picture...sorry.
Then we went over to Home Depot to pick up a motion sensor light. We even found a solar LED...how eco friendly. We live on the corner and people like to leave stuff in our side yard. Most recently, we got left a couple of shopping carts. I called Ace Hardware today so they could pick up theirs. I don't know who belongs to the other one. It just has a blue handle. Don't know what to do with that one. The city won't take it if it's on private property. GRRRRR.
At least it's not a couch or tires. Yes, these are some of the other gifts people have left us. Hopefully a light will deter some of this. Fingers crossed.
Have a great Friday night and enjoy the weekend.
Good luck to BAILEY7OF9 and WONDERWOMAN on your races tomorrow!!!

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We Made It to Thursday

Thursday, May 19, 2011

I actually got up feeling pretty good this morning. I fired up the treadmill and did W3D2 of the Galloway 5K for a total of 2.5 miles. The app is great. He gives a lot of information and really makes you feel good.
Work was busy but that's okay. At least the freezer is still working fine.
I stopped at Target on the way home to get some Friskies for the outside cats. They go through a lot of food. Malika also likes it but I try not to give her too much of the kitty-crack.
Since there were no pictures of dinner yesterday, here is what I had for dinner tonight.
Amy's Southern Dinner

Sweet potatoes, corn bread, beans and spinach. Pretty tasty.
I am looking forward to Friday.
I'm not sure yet if I'll to ST or elliptical. I'm sort of sore today from Bob's workout yesterday. I guess I'll see how I'm feeling in the morning.
Have a great night!!

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Sorry, No Food Pictures Today

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

For some reason I was too tired to workout this morning. I reset the alarm to 3:30 and went back to sleep. Much better.
Semi-busy day at work. Not quite as much walking around as yesterday. Perhaps a little dancing is in order after dinner ;-)
I did finally decide on a workout for today. I did Bob Harper's Super Strength. I had forgotten just how tough it was. Yikes!! I did have to do some of the modifications but I was happy I used 5lb weights throughout. I'm just hoping I won't be too sore to run in the morning.
We're having leftover arroz con pollo for dinner and I didn't think it needed another picture.
Have a great night!!! We're over the hump!!

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Arroz con Pollo and Minty Brownies

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Somehow I managed to drag myself out of bed this morning and start week 3 of the Galloway 5K training..I logged 2.54 miles. Not too shabby. Today I wore my other heart rate monitor bra and it gave me readings of over 200. That's not right. I think it's a combination of the bras and the technical shirts that I wear that makes it go buggy. Tomorrow I will use the regular strap and see what happens.
I'm trying to decide if I want to do the elliptical (which doesn't always agree with my back but torches a lot of calories) or to do ST which doesn't burn very many at all. Hmmmmm.
Busy day at work with lots of stair climbing. I've got nearly 15000 steps for today so far.
I came home and baked some whole wheat brownies and for fun added some multicolor mint chips. They are green, pink and yellow. I don't think they'll show up in the picture. They were in the clearance section at the grocery store and they are made by Guittard so I thought I'd give them a try.

My husband has taken them over to his friends house to share with the model car guys.
For dinner I made arroz con pollo. The recipe came from this past weekend's USA Weekend. I used chicken breast instead of thigh, used some chipotle chicken sausage instead of chorizo and used brown rice instead of white rice. It was very tasty but it took a really long time to cook because of the rice choice.

I guess I should head to bed soon if I'm going to do a workout in the morning. Maybe I'll figure out what I want to do in my sleep.
Have a good night. Enjoy Biggest Loser if you're watching it.

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