time to stop being lazy!

GIVEAWAY: zesty

 So this is the first summer in about four years that i have not had a summer life guarding job! last summer i was a making a cool 12 bucks an hour! This summer i make 20 bucks a week for watching my lil sister in the morning. Yea i'd say its a downgrade. but since this summer has started i have been doing nada ZIP ZERO ZILCH. this is so not like me so i am going to come up with a list and try to do at least on thing every day for the rest of the summer.

1. clean up room
2. redo math placement test
3. bake veggie girl Blondie's
4. sell all clothes i have never worn
5. Do yoga every day
6. Find all roommates
7. crafts
8. get a tan
9. Find out what i need to bring down to FIU
10. have a spa day
11. email a health place if they need volunteers
12. get my dad to ask about babysitting to his employees (he is their boss.mwahahaha)
13. Buy an ipod touch???? 
14. Buy for dorm
15. Re do my blog and make it pretty
16. Sign up for SGBB over at oh she glows 
17. Operation beautiful
18. Make bread
19. make seitan
20. Make my roommates a gift or baking good
21. do yoga with zoey
22. learn to skim or at least get on a wave
23. make an easy college cookbook to bring with me
24. Play more poker with the boy
25. Get dressed up for a night out with the boy
26. Find out what classes i want to take
27. make hummus
28. go kyaking
29. make an article of clothing
30. Write a list of jobs i would love to do (not looking at wages)
31. Fix my bike and ride down town
32. Pick up trash on the beach
33. find a free yoga class
34. exercise on the beach .... but a fun way

What else should i do? i want to be more productive and not sitting on my comp for hours or watching tv for hours.

Alright on to the food...

 Last night i wanted pasta but there was no pasta in sight but there was

• 2 Bruschetta Tomato Basil Parmesan boca patties 
  
• marinara sauce
• ricotta chesse 

So i mixed them all up and munched down with a piece of rye bread from the too jays bakery 

and for some reason i got the munchies  so i munched on

• an ice bar
• spoonful of zoey's pb chocolate milkshake
• spoon of ice cream
• half a piece of toast with toasted marsh mellow
• ice tea
• a bite of pizza crust 

haha yea this is what happens when i cant make up my mind, i find humor in it.

YOGA

This morning i woke up and did another INTENSE yoga class from YOGATODAY.COM. it was the "transforming fear into courage and self confidence" lots of chaturangas, downward dogs, lots of arm strength. They also introduced hand and headstands( i can not do these yet but its something to work on) it was an hour long i really enjoyed this one a lot and cant wait to master it!  

this class like all their classes (all about an hour long) was $3.99. Compare that to DVD's you buy for $15 for 30min sessions

Brekkie 

was overnight oat bran

• 1/3 cup oat bran
• 1/3cup water
• 2/3 cup almond milk
• spoonful of okios Greek vanilla yogurt
• Tsp of vanilla
• sprinkle of sweetener
• 1/3 smooshed banana

All of those soaked overnight in the morning i added

• chopped up dried cherries
• 1 TBSP of melted WCW peanut butter
• colorful sprinkles for a nice touch and a lil crunch

At first i wasn't sure if i liked it but after adding he pb i fell in love. This is the perfect brekkie for a hot morning.

glorious 1/2 day

GOOD AFTERNOON!

This morning i did an INTENSE 25 min yoga class with yoga amazing podcast call sun salutations. My arms were shaking after 25min. doing this class i think i get really deep into downward dog and my shoulder pop like no ones busyness, i dealt with it though and I also downloaded 3 classes from yoga today!

1. transforming fear into courage and self-confidence- novice - 60:13
2. strengthening and toning- yogi - 62:32
3. balancing for core stability and will- yogi - 60:28

I can wait to try these classes they are downloading now!

i want to use HEAB a coupon but i do not know which classes i should download? help!

 For brekkie i made

squash pancakes

• 2 table spoon pre mix pancake mix
• 1 1/2 cups of spaghetti squash
• 2 egg whites
• dash of milk
• make it on a griddle like you would a regular pancake

that made these two large yummy pancakes. half had jam and half had cheese 

almost 4 hours later i got hungry so I just snacked on a banana choco PBU smoothie with...

(no pic looks like a smoothie you have seen on my blog)

• 5 ice cubes
  
• Jay Robb choco protein powder
  
•  banana
  
• 1/3 cup of pbu bc i wanted it really peanut buttery
  

I did not want to finish this smoothie it rocked my socks! seriously it was soo creamy and delicious. make it!!!

i just found out that Kailey at Peanut butter swirl  gave me this award!

i do not know if i pass it on or what but i will give this award to Jenny

squash pancakes?!?!

*this was supposed to be published  yesterday*

last night was a lot of fun me and the boy went to a party with his friends! i may or may not of already been pre-gaming with the boy before this ;) but at the party was a Foosball or (however you spell it) and we started betting if he won i would pay for a meal ....long story short i owe this boy 3 meals. But let me tell you they were pretty close games. 

This morning i woke up(it was 12:30) and wanted to make something up but what?! i looked in the fridge and i saw hamburger (no), lettuce(no) squash!!!!! so i grabbed the spaghetti squash and made a "pancake"  it was pretty awesome i might make on tomorrow if i feel vegtablely. On the side was a lil potato with a lil cheese and a slight dab of butter.

It was pretty awesome.

Today the boy and i hit up some stores with unbeatable deals.

1. Goodwill. the boy and i love thrifting( i do not like buying expensive clothing but i have no problem buying expensive food...hmmm odd?) I got a white tube dress($16...but wait it has a green tag so it dropped to $8!), and this white knee length hollister skirt($6)
2. Dollar store- everything in the store was 1/2 off haha so i got 2 candies, 2 "leather" string for jewelry making and 2 packs of yummy mints, and my sister one of those slap bracelets (5 cents)

I didn't get hungry for about 5hours!?!? very odd. But when i got hungry we were at the mall so we went to toojays! The boy and i love tojays very much. Bring me to a deli with soup and salad and i am a happy camper. There we got a bread appetizer. I had a slice of rye bread and dipped it in deli mustard. I ordered The vegetable pita that came with a side of fresh veggies.(no pic nervous about taking pics at restaurants)

• cucumber
• black olives
• onion
• tomato
• random salad veggies
• HUMMUS
• TABLEAU

and of course some of the boys fries :)

Then the boy and i got  white and black cookies.I normally am not a fan of caky cookies but these were amazing i had 3/4 of it.(this thing was a large cookie) and made the boy finish mine bc too much sugar/junkie food makes me feel ill.

I did not do yoga :( since we have been running around the town doing random things.

Giveaway: wing it vegan

curly top

camera cord is back in business

 I found my camera cord!

This is what i have been eating(not all of it just the highlights) since last time you saw the pics.

ICED COFFEE

All blended in a magic bullet

• coffee
• caramel sugar free syrup
• handful ice
• lil almond milk
• Cinnamon 
• whipped cream

I love this! since it is sooo hot over here this drink is very refreshing when i want a cold yummy drink without a heavy smoothie.

This is the apricot/coconut/pb oatmeal cookie.

Also very good will be making more oatmeal cookies in the future

I have been having a lot of salads. This one was AMAZING

LEFTOVER SALAD:

• romaine lettuce(no spinach left )
• tofu that was marinated in my dads home grown hot sauce (very spicy but sweet)
• lil steamed broccoli 
• yellow bell pepper
• roasted tomatoes
• grilled red peppers/onion
• raw corn (I'm in love with raw corn now)
• Hummus as dressing

I think that's all, i basically just looked in my fridge and added everything i could find that was a veggie. so i would call it leftover salad

sweet potato, and English muffin with toaster oven toasted marshmellows 

I love this sweet snack/dessert.

Oat bran with banana, WCW PB, Choco chip PB

Sweet/savory sweet potato fries:

• Half with mozzarella cheese, hummus
  
• Half with Cinnamon,lil sugar, WCW peanut butter

I love sweet potato fries/anything sweet potato. I think they are my fav veggie or tied with broccoli.

Some kind of smoothie with whipped cream ( yummmmmm)

This is a Pancake pizza

• pancake
• WCW peanut butter
• lil strawberry jelly
• coconut

This was fun to make i love bready goodness

Speaking of bready goodness...

These are the banana baked doughnuts i made yesterday. 

Banana doughnuts

The recipe can be found here

Review: these are DELICIOUS. But they are more bready and dense then regular airy,fluffy doughnuts. But for approx 160 cals these are great as a snack or brekkie paired with fruit.

Zoe liked it too as you can see he likes to ham it up to the camera.

I had one yesterday as a snack,today with brekkie,and later prob a snack with smoothie. I love it!

Thats all for right now

 have a great day!

Man o Man

This morning i did the Yogatoday.com free class of the week for hamstrings and such . I was going to have an off day but my legs were really tight so i wanted to stretch them out. This class was good lots and lost of leg stretches(obv) which i did need today so that was good

Observation: I really enjoy doing flows the best, not just concentrating on one muscle. it is a lot of fun, kinda reminds me of a weird dance.

Brekkie:

PB choco banana smoothie

• Advantage choco protein milk(like half the carton)
• A frozen banana
• Lil extra coco,and ice
• scoop of naturally more PB

I also enjoyed a small blueberry pancake with strawberry jam.

Today is a busy boring day but i really need get ahead of the game and get as much of this college stuff out of the way so when the time comes i can be done with it all.

To do list:

Make doughnuts 

Make flax and oat breakkie muffins

Finish math placement test

Housing note

finish thank you notes

Figure out meal plan for FIU

Do Loan Note for FIU

Send in that i finished loan counseling

buy camera cord

Another yoga class probably some where in there so i can d-stress from all this college stuff.

Heat warning

Man it is hot over here yesterday was a down poor of rain and today we have a heat warning. You know this girly is staying inside...until it is pool time

FOOD:

I made a Oatmeal cookie for brekkie yummmm

• 1/3cup oats
• 1/2 scoop whey vanilla protein powder
• 1 nice scoop of naturally more pb
• scoop of coconut
• 2 dried apricots diced
• 1/8 cup milk

Lunch stirfry:

• Broccoli
• sauteed tofu with honey teriyaki sauce
• lil cheese
• roasted red peppers and onion
• half English muffin with a dab of butter

It was very good i cant believe i haven't made one before, since it is so hot here i cant have a really hot brekkie or i get even hotter, no go for me.

YOGA

This morning i did 2 yoga amazing podcast.

1. Yoga for creativity- approx 25min. The teacher just did whatever moves he felt like doing, he was being creative and letting his body move. It was fun he even did the crow which i cant do YET.
2. Yoga for weight loss- this one was a lot of fun, it was Vinyasa flow,fast and sweaty. It was approx 25min ( this was a lot of fun)

After i was done i felt so good, and refreshed and calm. I started doing my to do list for collage and what needs to be done before i go to orientation in a couple of weeks. ekkk I'm starting to get nervous.

Question: When you can not do a pose do you just practice the pose over and over again or do you just keep doing classes and soon enough are able to do diff poses?

I am very sorry about no pictures, i have been tearing my room apart, but no worries whenever i make something really yummy i snap a pic so there will be pics up once i find the darn thing.

Giveaway: missy maintain

N her Shoes

i Run beacause i can

run to the finish

Yoga Fun!

Hey everyone !

I'm back but i can not find my camera cord to show you all my goodies so instead i will save that when i find my cord.

Today: i did a 30min core yoga class(podcast) it wasn't a flow but it was fun. I also think i had a lot of fun bc i bought a pink yoga mat from Target today! As well as

This is so very yum. I am falling in love with PB more and more 

PB loco chocolate chip cookie dough Peanut butter. I put this on half an English muffin and toasted it with marshmallows in the toaster over so they "roast" sooooooooo gooooooood. TRY THIS NOW!

I know most of you have do yoga and know the basic benefits from yoga but there are A LOT more benefits then flexibility, strength, calmness, posture. Some are...

•  Pulse rate. A slower pulse rate indicates that your heart is strong enough to pump more blood with fewer beats. Regularly practicing yoga provides a lower pulse rate.
  
• Organs. Yoga practice massages internal organs, thus improving the ability of the body to prevent disease. Additionally, an experienced yoga practitioner becomes better attuned to her body to know at first sign if something isn’t functioning properly, thereby allowing for quicker response to head off disease.
  
• Energy. Regular yoga practice provides consistent energy. In fact, most yogis state that when you perform your yoga correctly, you will feel energized after your yoga session rather than tired.
  
• Sexuality. Yoga can improve your sexuality through better control, more relaxation, and more self-confidence.  ;)
  
• Stress Reduction. The concentration required during yoga practice tends to focus your attention on the matter at hand, thereby reducing the emphasis you may have been putting on the stress in your life
  
• Self-acceptance. Focusing inward and realizing through your yoga practice that perfection is not the goal, self-acceptance begins to take over
  
• Hostility. Most yogis report a huge reduction in the amount of hostility they feel as well as a sense of control when anger flares. This calm effect is likely from the relaxation and meditation that is incorporated in their yoga practice that leads to an overall calming of the nervous system. Less hostility means lower blood pressure and stress and a healthier approach to life
  
• Triglycerides. Triglycerides are the chemical form of fat in the blood, and elevated levels can indicate a risk for heart disease and high blood pressure. A recent study shows that yoga can lead to "significantly lower" levels of triglycerides
  
• Vitamin C. Vitamin C helps boost immunity, helps produce collagen, and is a powerful antioxidant; and a yoga regimen can increase the vitamin C in your body.
  
• Migraines. Regular yoga practice has been shown to reduce the number of migraines in chronic migraine sufferers.
  
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Studies of people with OCD have shown that practicing yoga has lead to a reduction in symptoms–resulting in less medication or medication no longer needed.
  
• Reaction time. Research done in India shows that reaction time can be improved with specific yoga breathing exercises in conjunction with an already established yoga practice. The improvement was attributed to the faster rate of processing and improved concentration gained from yoga.
  

That is just a small list! in the link there are 77 benefits.

Reasons why i started yoga

• I wanted to stop "excersising" and just have fun 
• Need to be more flexible, i have never been able to do a spilt
• I like dancer,long toned muscles and yoga will create those.
• I have heard so many good things about yoga from fellow bloggers.
• I was curious if i would even like it, and i LOVE it! 

Yogadownload.com - alot of free 20min classes some have slides,some do not

Yogatoday.com- every week has a free yoga class,and they do there classes out side to do as well as cheap yoga classes. This free class is called "Happy hips and hamstrings"

go to Itunes podcast for free classes

• power yoga with Dave Farmer (no pictures so it confuses me but i can not wait to know the postures)
  
• YogAmazing-i did the core yoga class with him and it is a video, perfect for beginners

Today i found out what my favorite texture of food is.... Creamy. I L-O-V-E all things creamy. Greek yogurt, Peanut butter,fluff, creamy pies,whipped cream, smoothies, Frozen Yogurt, etc

What is your favorite texture of food?