I Walk In This World

Happy Sunday evening blog peeps.

I’m trying to wrap up this evening and realized I hadn’t posted Saturday blog life schtuff.

If you recall, I had the day to myself cuz Hubz was out of town.  I did a lot of blog reading and commenting, which was a fun indulgence for me.  If I missed your blog, post a comment on this post so I can find you in blog world!

I considered watching a movie, and decided to fully indulge in 5 epis of SATC (Sex and the City) DVDs instead since Hubz hates it and I had the house to myself.

Speaking of indulging…

I combined some of my favorite things in the culinary world, for dinner Saturday. 

Pizza.

Goat cheese.

Pesto.

HoppyAss India Pale Ale.

!Voila!

Whole wheat Boboli crust topped with pesto + goat cheese + NJ farmers market tomato

With a lovely spinach side salad and a Smuttynose IPA (as y’all know, one of my favs).  In the spirit oh honesty, I had 2 more of those naughty fellas thru the evening.  And a little advil before bed never hurt anyone.  Just sayin.

The full body shot.

During the afternoon, I did…

• a trip to Michaels to get prize gifts for guests that play the “game” at my sister’s wedding shower
• a trip to Target for some snacks for visitors this weekend and next weekend
• pick up dry cleaning
• grocery shopping

When I got home at 4:30pm, I realized I had NOT eaten lunch.  Wha???

As I unpacked all my bags from the afternoon shopping, I blended up a strawberry peach smoothie and enjoyed it in my new smoothie cup.  It’s fabulous, right?

Jungle feva…

The bldg we live in offers continental bfast 6 days a week, so Saturday a.m. I ran down to the Club Room and grabbed half a bagel and some crumb cake for Hubz.  It did the trick of getting him out of bed!

I fried up some eggwhites and peppers and spinach and spooned it onto the bottom half of that bagel.  Topped with some chz and HOT sauce and the other half of the bagel.  Adorned on the side by a small handful of cheeries (heh!) and COFFEE!

I mean, honestly, does it get any tastier than that?

So, I gotta wrap up the evening and figure out how to get my brain ready for going back to work Monday.  What are your Sunday evening tricks for getting back in the groove?

Presents!

Singing Happy Birthday

See what we think of the doggy birthday cake!

She likes it!

The presentation (and teasing) of the new birthday toy!

And she’s off!

Oh what great fun!  Happy Birthday little girl!

I gotta jet.  Off to Philly for some family QT and help with wedding tasks for sista.

Here was Din last night….whole wheat veggie pizza plus a beautious salad.  And a hoppy ass IPA (Victory Brewing Co’s Krazy Kat)

For exercise last night I did 20mins of heavy hiking (Inclines 8.5, speed 4) and then a series of leg workout stuff.

Off to Philly!  Ciao.

 Good morning blog friends!

I’ve got an enormously busy day today and a super SUPER fun surprise I hope to get to share with you guys in the next few days.  It has to do with my work and it may or may not involve a helicopter!!

Sunday was a Funday in the IWITW (um, that’s the acronym for my blog name apparently) household.  Hubz and I bid my sista farewell and then got some cleaning and paperwork done.  Did a big grocery shop (but still stayed under $100) and then spent the afternoon with Hubz’ brother Darren.  And of course I didn’t snap any pics.  Stupid Erin.  I won’t get started on how much I hate Sunday nights, but the day was fun.

We did share some fun Sunday night brick oven pizza.  The boys ate pizza.  I ate a ginorm salad with a side of pizza.  I ate this, plus 1 more slice and was very content to stop there.  And a glass or 2 of a pleasant New Zealand sauvignon blanc. 

• spinach and green leaf salad
• shredded carrot
• chopped cherry maters
• cuke
• shredded lf cheddar
• 3 hummus flava’d Dr. Krackers crackers
• tossed with my new fabulous homemade honey dijon dressing!

There may have been some camera shy Ben and Jerry’s Coffee Heath bar  to round out the evening while we watched West Wing (thebestshowever) on DVD. 

I spent mucho of the afternoon reading your blogs and enjoying the weather.  So even if I didn’t comment, I promise I did read!

There may have been a solid 40mins where I could have been found at the pool, solo, with my book and the sunshine.     Pure alone time heaven!

Lunch.

•  crockpot cauliflower and white bean poblano corn soup with HOT sauce
• carrot sticks
• toasty piece of whole grain panini with buttah

I swear.  The teeniest smidge of butter on toasty whole grain bread is one of my absolute favorite things to eat.  Real butter makes all the difference.  And just a smidge is all I need.  Yumz.

I made egg sams for Breks for Hubz and Sis before she had to jet back to Philly.

• half an egg fried in canola with mixed peppers, onions, and mushrooms
• whole wheat english muffin smeared with LC cheese
• HOT sauce
• COFFEE! 

OK, Erin has NO time to dilly dally…work demands my focus.

Ciao!

Since I have zero appetito, I thought I’d give it a boost by making a pizza, my fav food.

Din.

• whole wheat crust
• pesto
• goat cheese
• spinach
• fresh Jersey tomatoes   
• salad on the side with homemade honey dijon dressing

Well.  I ate!  All that salad and 2 slices of pizza.

Normally I’d eat WAY more than that tho.  So…whatever…the heck is going on…???

I did 20mins Level 10 on the elliptical plus tricep extensions, chair dips, curls, shoulder press, should extensions, etc.

Lunch at work was grizzly great.

• veggie sausage with avocado/LC cheese smash, on whole wheat
• carrot + cuke with garlic hummus
• blueberries
• sour cream and onion Popchips that I thought were fantastic!

I was a bizzy bee today at work….but I don’t like to talk about work.  I like to leave work at work, ya know. 

Breks was one of yesterday’s whole wheat blueberry muffins which was fab-u-luss.

Oh sweet lord are these good!

I gotta say, I’m not in love with any of this year’s SYTYCD dancers.  I think I was spoiled by Josh, Katie, and Twitch last year.  I’m just not connecting with any of them.  What about you guys?