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Celebration Wrap-Up

February 9, 2010 · 15 Comments

morning guys!

sorry for stiffin’ ya on the post last night. I got home from dinner and loaded the pictures onto my computer then completely passed out!

Anyway – my birthday was wonderful. THANK YOU ALL for your messages!! They totally made my day!

Speaking of my day – it started out beautifully. I was up at the butt crack of dawn, but rather than being upset about it, I decided to use my time to do my first yoga session as a 25 year old

I did a tough 40-minutes and then kick off my birthday eating with my favorite:

An egg white wrap

An apple

And Harrod’s coffee

It was the perfect breakfast to kick off my quarter-century

Mid morning I continued incorporating my favorite things with an apple and 100-calorie almond pack snack

Then Michelle and I headed down to the second floor to eat and chat for a nice birthday-break lunch! (Thanks Michelle!)

I had the usual (I promise this bread is almost gone so I won’t have to bore you guys anymore!)

But until then…

This was deli chicken with lettuce and mustard on toasted multigrain

And a delicious pear with a small bunch of grapes

Then I was back at my desk typing away when I started to hear a low singing. It took me a minute to realize it was “Haaapppyy Birrrthdayyy tooo yoooou!!”

My co-workers totally outdid themselves and surprised me with THE BEST cookies ever!

I work with the best people ever THANK YOU GUYS!!

And then – as if I wasn’t spoiled enough already – Mike totally outdid himself with the THIRD birthday meal he took me out to

Sadly – all our attempts at a birthday picture came out blurry

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Blurry picture or not, the night was still amazing!

I started off with yet another glass of white wine sangria

(The cherry was the best part!)

Mike went with the double chocolate stout (a decision he later regretted once the dessert plate came around!)

Then came the salads (which were SO good…I could’ve just eaten this and been happy!)

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Followed by the meats & veggies – which we got to cook ourselves in the sauce of our choice (we went with mojo which was a citrusy caribbean blend)

Complete with every version of dipping sauce imaginable!

Cooking away!

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Then came the DESSERT!

No words are needed…

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Heaven.

Last but not least was presents!

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I am one lucky girl.

A HUGE thank you goes out to Mike who made ringing in my 25th year THE BEST!

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It’s My Birthday!

February 8, 2010 · 20 Comments

it’s my birthday!

I’ll be back later tonight with a full wrap up of the day!

source: cookinglight.com

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Superbowl Sunday!

February 7, 2010 · 4 Comments

Evening Guys!

I hope everyone had a good night and celebrated watching the Superbowl in a fun way!

We watched with friends, food and TONS of fun

The pictures more or less speak for themselves, so here was the spread:

honey wheat pretzels

sugar snap peas and baby carrots

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celery & hummus

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chips galore and homemade guac!

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wine

pizza

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kettlecorn (which i went to TOWN on )

and last but not least, ambience (thanks greg )

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T’was a fun night!

And with that – I’m off to bed. Night everyone!

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A-OK

February 7, 2010 · 6 Comments

afternoon people!

I can’t believe I’m still going – I went to bed after midnight last night and was up at the God-awful hour of 6:30am!

I then proceeded to go on a seven mile run and get my nails done! Not that getting my nails done is tough work…but still

I still feel a-ok though so no complaints here!

By the time I got done with my nails (I‘m not very good when it comes to getting pampered – I get really impatient and feel like there are a million other things I could be doing with my time!) I was absolutely famished (note to self – don’t run seven miles and then go get your nails done without food!)

I actually packed an apple and a 100-calorie pack of almonds - but those are not exactly the easiest things to eat while someone is holding your hands!

I also figured I could make it until I walked the two feet home and make a really good meal, so that’s what I did

I loved yesterday’s lunch so much that I just couldn’t resist recreating it – can you tell I get on food kicks??

The sandwich was the same – toasted multigrain bread with santa fe and low sodium turkey, lettuce and mustard -

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Delicious.

On the side I used up the rest of my mixed berries from my birthday breakfast

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Along with some of the grapes I didn’t get to from today’s breakfast -

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It was a really yummy meal – and WELL worth the wait!

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Aaaand, despite being starving by the time it was over – I have to say I was very happy with the end results of my nails.

Ugh – my hand is terribly dry – those look like the hands of an 80 year old woman! Yikes. Time to moisturize!

With that – I’m off! Hope you all have fun plans for tonight!

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Perfect Punch

February 7, 2010 · 4 Comments

morning everyone!

Thank you all again for your happy birthday wishes! My ACTUAL birthday is not until Monday, February 8th (Meghann and I actually share the same birthday!) Mike is just spoiling me rotten ahead of time to make me feel extra special. What a guy, huh?

Anyway, knowing I had an impending ‘long run’ ahead of me I decided to stick with what I know works this morning for breakfast.

I jazzed up a simple egg white wrap with a slice of santa fe turkey – seriously, this stuff is additively good!

It packed a perfect punch to make my regular morning wrap feel extra special

I also threw some of the new grapes I picked up yesterday on the side of the plate

I love the pop! these guys have.

And last but not least – as always – was a cup of harrods coffee with soymilk

I’m now gearing up for my freezing cold run by sipping water with my coffee and watching Friends

What do you all have planned for the Superbowl?? Anything fun? And who are you rooting for?

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Completely Passed Out

February 6, 2010 · 5 Comments

evening everyone!

Thank you all for your birthday wishes! You’re all too kind!

I have a lot to fill you in on! I completely passed out this afternoon after lunch and ended up sleeping until almost 5pm! Needless to say I was a little behind when I woke up!

Despite that though I still managed to go for a 45-minute walk, do 40 minutes of yoga, do laundry, go out to birthday dinner #2 and go grocery shopping!

How’s that for making the second half of my day productive!?

So now, to catch you up!

Lunch was delicious – I toasted two slices of multigrain bread that I loaded up with santa fe turkey, low sodium turkey breast, lettuce and spicy mustard.

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I wasn’t joking about it being loaded!

It was delicious.

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On the side I tried my hand at another red pear. I’ve been having THE WORST luck with these guys – they’re always rotten every time I open them up!

But luck was on my side today and the pear was perfectly ripe and juicy!

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It was a wonderful lunch -almost as good as breakfast this morning

The real star of the day however was my birthday dinner #2 that Mike took me out to. (I’m totally spoiled, I know)

We headed over to a new place in Hoboken that we’ve been dying to try – Clinton Social

The meal was absolutely fabulous! I started with a glass of white wine sangria (my newest obsession, can ya tell??)

Then moved on to a mixed green salad that had perhaps THE BEST dressing I’ve ever had!

Followed that up with the pork chop milanese

And last but not least - DESSERT! Because let’s be honest, yesiwantcake

I ordered the apple crisp with cinnamon ice cream

And Mike ordered the brownie sundae

A perfect ending to a perfect night! Thanks for yet another amazing day Mike!

We’re curled up watching Harry Potter now, happy to be out of that freezing cold!

night all!

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Homemade Birthday Breakfast

February 6, 2010 · 12 Comments

gooood morning!

And what a good morning it has been!

First of all though, I loved Julie&Julia! If you haven’t seen it, I definitely recommend it to you. It was a definite feel-good movie. I think Mike had a bit of a different opinion…haha. So my other recommendation would be to see it with your good girlfriends (especially if your significant other is not quite as understanding and flexible as mine!)

Mike and I contemplated the age old question: eat in or eat out.

Ultimately we decided it hadn’t snowed enough to deter us from sucking it up and walking to the store to get what we needed to make a nice breakfast at home.

And boy am I glad we did! It was so delicious!

We picked up Bob’s Red Mill High Fiber Pancake & Waffle Mix for our pancakes and HOLY YUM!

These babies were absolutely amazing!

We also bought a berry mix to have on top of the pancakes

I warmed these up a bit so they were gooey and soft on top of the delicious pancakes.

Drizzled with a little sugar-free syrup. Perfection.

While I worked with the pancakes Mike took on the more manly task of eggs and meat

They both came out fabulous.

The meal was rounded out with some wonderful harrods coffee

mmm mmm good.

My final plate ended up looking like this:

Mike’s looked a little different:

Haha. Boys.

We’re currently still lazing around in bed watching Friends.

Yoga is later! YAY

Happy Saturday Everyone!

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Birthday Weekend, Night One

February 5, 2010 · 11 Comments

evening guys!

My wonderful boyfriend Mike treated me to an AMAZING dinner and dessert tonight to officially kick of my birthday weekend!

For dinner we headed over to charritos which is a cute little mexican place in town

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It’s so authentic right down to it’s menus!

There was sangria

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Hand-crushed guacamole!

Complete with chips and salsa

Shrimp fajitas with freshly warmed tortillas (served in the cutest container ever!)

Accompanied by a side of rice, refried beans and more guac!

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And finished off with a self serve frozen yogurt from OYO and Julie & Julia for our viewing pleasure!

Such a perfect night and the best way imaginable to kick off my birthday weekend!

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Garbage Disposal Salads

February 5, 2010 · 11 Comments

Afternoon Guys!

This day has been moving along swimmingly – oh swimming! I really need to take a tropical vacation soon – who’s comin’ with me?!

Mid-morning I snacked on the usual almonds & apple snack

Does a perfect job of holding me over every time. I’m seriously addicted to this snack!

Around 1pm, like clockwork, my stomach started growling and I knew it was time for LUNCH! I was actually really excited for lunch today too!

Behold, The Garbage Disposal Salad

Kristen Bell was our recent cover model for Health and in the issue she talked about how she loves to make Garbage Disposal Salads. When looking in my fridge last night for options, I remembered reading that and decided to throw one together for my own lunch today.

I’ve always been a fan of these types of “throw-everything-in-a-salad” kind of meals. It’s a great way to use up all your produce and any leftovers really!

So I pulled not only from my fridge at home, but also from my leftovers in the fridge at work and made this beauty for lunch today -

I put everything I had leftover in there which consisted of…

Mixed greens
Grapes
Hummus
Apples
Gardenburger

and probably more but I can’t remember!

I really love grapes and apples in my salad. I’ve never been much of a mandarin orange fan, but gimme grapes, apples or pears any day and I’ll gobble it up!

I finished it all off with a Joseph’s pita for good measure.

And actually as I’m typing this I’m also snacking on a blood orange which was the perfect cure to my after-lunch sweet tooth

Off to get this Friday over with!

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Fully Loaded

February 5, 2010 · 8 Comments

morning!

I’m fully loaded with some more memory and can continue blogging as usual

phew!

I was up and about really early this morning and out before sun rise for a run. The sun rise was actually really beautiful this morning – I so wished I’d had my camera to capture it!

It was a good 4-miler though I definitely wasn’t dressed warmly enough! I’m glad to have my run behind me though and can now just relax the rest of this Friday!

I came home and made a quick egg white wrap for breakfast while the coffee brewed