Weekend Excitement: No Rest Again!

Wow it was yet another crazy weekend!  I don't know how to be mellow I guess.  LoL!

Friday, I was just itching to get out of the house.  I had had a long week and really just wanted a night out with Rob.  We decided to head down to the outlets to look for new cleats for him and running pants for me.  Rob wasn't successful but I got some new running gear.  I really want to go back and get this shirt.  I did get myself some really nice running tights from Under Armor.  They had the best options and I am really going to need them this winter!

After that, we decided to head to Tun Tavern for dinner since its right next to the outlets.  The food was ok but the beer was excellent.  I got apple stout and loved it!  It is seasonal so we got a growler of it to take home.  Yum!






Saturday was again a bit crazy.  I had to get (more) gifts for my friend Callista's baby shower.  Usually I am on top of these things but it snuck up on me!  I headed out and got back home to wrap them.  I had enough time to head over to the Irish festival with Rob for a bit (he was there with his rugby buddies selling shirts and recruiting). 

Then it was off to the baby shower and wish Callista well.  She is just the cutest pregnant woman ever.  She is only 5 months along but she is still tiny.  She looks lovely!  It was a nice party!

 I went back to the Irish fest for a bit to walk around with Rob.  We went to my two favorite shops (Historic Smithville is like a little old fashioned shopping area).  I got some good things!

Dutch Chocolate Coffee
Pumpkin Spice Coffee
Granulated Honey
Hawaiian Sea Salt
Horseradish Cheddar

We finally got home exhausted but went out to eat with Jess.  See, we go nonstop!  Finally, we got home, relaxed for a bit and crashed.

Today has been spent cleaning, cooking, and doing midterms.  I have two take home midterms due tomorrow.  I worked on them and whenever I needed a break, I did something around the house so it worked out well!  I started my day off with a nice hot cup of "pumpkin latte" coffee.  Pretty good!  But a lot of the pumpkin settled on the bottom.  I also tried my first version of savory oatmeal.

It was really good!  I loved the flavor.  I made my usual oatmeal but without the milk.  I used a little less water but I think next time I need to use the whole amount.  Anyway, I made an egg over-easy.  I added some tomatoes to the oatmeal, pepper, and olive oil.  I then topped it with the eggs, some of the horseradish cheddar and a sprinkle of the Hawaiian salt.  It was DELICIOUS!!!  The oatmeal still had a "this should be sweet" flavor but I will definitely do this again, especially since I'm trying to cut down on my fruit addiction.  LoL.  I can't wait to have it again tomorrow!

Anyway, we had quite a few things going on today.  Rob decided to bake up a storm because we had like 6 dozen eggs in the refrigerator.  Time to get cookin!  The first task was homemade pasta.  I convinced Rob to make Butternut Squash Ravioli.  We found recipes in my two cooking-from-scratch type cookbooks and got started.  We both worked on them together.

They were pretty good!  The pasta was a little too thick though but we don't have a pasta machine so I had to roll it out by hand.  I did the best I could!  They were still pretty darn good!

Next up was Angel Food Cake.  First, we had to make "medium peaks" with the egg whites... without a hand mixer.  You heard me right, we whipped up egg whites for about 45 minutes, taking turns between Rob and I, to get a nice meringue going!  I'm counting it as an upper body workout for today.  LoL

We didn't have cake flour so we used whole wheat.  We also didn't bake it quite long enough so it came out kind of strange.  It tastes really good though.  Its more moist than angel food usually is.  Still tasty! 

Now, I'm just relaxing with a glass of the apple stout (even better out of the growler!!!).  In other news, I'm feeling a lot better but I still have a lingering part of the cold.  I stopped taking the medicine I was using and I think that actually helped.  Tomorrow, I really need to work on getting in all my water.  I have been bad about that and I can feel it.

My eating was much better this weekend.  We ate out but I really felt like I controlled myself.  I didn't go crazy at any point and didn't have any ice cream (which was an issue last week because its in my freezer!  How did that get there?)  I think feeling better from the cold helps a lot.  When I am sick, I get pouty and cranky which leads to a lot of splurging!

Hopefully I can go for a little run tomorrow and see how it goes.  I think there will be a lot of sniffling and maybe some minor coughing but nothing terrible.  Half marathon is next weekend!

To end, some pictures of the cute kitties.  They were just being adorable today and the lighting was great in the apartment for photos!

Importance of Rest

I have felt great this week!  I mean, I do have a cold so not 100% but I have felt different this week.  I haven't been getting tired on my drives home, I haven't been cranky or unable to concentrate.  Actually, my concentration is really high which is good since its midterms week at school!  I have just felt really peppy and sharp this week and I think it has to do with last weekend.

Did you notice I didn't have a huge blog update about the five thousand things I did last weekend?  That is because I didn't do much of anything!  We just had Rugby and that was really it.  I got a lot of rest time last weekend and I didn't stress over things (been doing a lot of that lately). 

Also, this week, I got to bed by 9 a couple of nights.  Wednesday and last night, I got to bed late and I felt it all day yesterday and had a hard time getting up today.  Lesson learned.  I really need that extra hour of sleep!  Even if it means I'm antisocial!

This weekend, I just have one thing to go to (I will tell you what later).  I wanted to go to the Pennsylvania Renaissance Fair but I just won't have time with 2 take-home midterms due on Monday.  I might have to miss it (again) this year.  :(  But if that is what I have to do!  I also plan on maybe hitting the outlets with Rob.  He needs new cleats for rugby and I need some winter running gear.  I don't want to go crazy though.  Just a couple essentials!

That's all my babbling for today.  I still am not working out due to the cold being in my chest.  I am thinking about going for a bike ride tomorrow if it isn't too entirely cold out.  Rob and I might go to Smithville for their Irish festival too.  We'll see!  Like I said, take-home midterms to do! 

Anyway, to end, this is what I come home to every night.  They just love me so much!  (Spooky doesn't love anyone and hates the other kittens, hence why she is not in the picture, lol)

No More Cats!

Happy Friday!.  I have been up putzing around the house.  I took today off from work due to my terrible cold and I'm so glad I did.  I just feel crumby.  I get up and clean and sit back down for 20 minutes, repeat. 

Actually, today hasn't been spent doing much cleaning.  First, the cat's food bowl was swarmed by ants!  EEK!  So I took an hour or so trying to take care of that.  Then I managed to sweep.  But oh then Otto decided to try and kill me by slicing up my arm "playing". 

"I'm sorry Mommy"

The next hour was spent replacing all of his nailcaps (he learned to pull them off) and then sitting in the tiny bathroom with him squirting him with the water bottle every time he tried pulling one off.  He did get one off and I had to reglue it.  UGH!  Why do we own cats???

Now, its time to tackle the kitty litter all over the living room that they trek out of their kitty box.  We even have one of those little mats to collect the litter but they leap out of their box over it because they don't like walking on it.  Ha!  Prissy little things.

Hectic Labor Day

Yesterday was just hectic.  A good word for it.  I felt like I didn't get anything done!  I had wanted to get up early and work out but we had stayed up super late the night before.  I value my sleep so we slept in and got a solid 8 hours.  Rob and I decided we would eat breakfast at home since its faster and cheaper.  I had my usual omelet with some sort of oatmeal thing.  It was oatmeal pancakes again!  So convenient, I made enough to have all week. Rob's cereal looked so delicious so I took a picture of that too!

Then it was off to do errands and head back home for some cleaning and odds and ends. 

I just loved the chicken table runner but it was $40!  No way, even with 20% off.  We decided to pick up a pizza to make lunch quick and easy.  $5 for a pizza is cheaper than anything I can cook at home!  Anyway, we headed home with some boxes to unpack from storage and then all our plans were foiled...

That would be a screw in my tire.  Ugh!  At least we caught it before driving back and forth to school.  We had gotten the warrenty on the tires so we headed over to Sears.  It was a 2 hour wait!  We hadn't planned ahead to bring a second vehicle so we were stuck at the mall.  We decided that I would get my fitness minutes in by walking around.  Good thing I brought water with me and of course, we did some shopping too!

Oh how I love shoes!  Anyway, didn't really find much but had fun walking around.  Finally, at about 2 hours on the dot, the car was ready and we could head home.  This left us with just enough time for me to change before heading to a friend's house for a Labor Day Barbecue.

This was just some of the things she had.  It was potluck and turned out great!  She always has the nicest get-togethers.  Anyway, we hung out there until we decided we really needed to get home to clean before bed.  Ended up staying up a little bite late but at least got a lot of things put away.  I also pulled out my books for school

So we really didn't get much done yesterday.  I got no workout in like I wanted to.  Today is going to be tough on that end too.  I have work and school.  I have some time between the two but I will use that to brush up on my notes from class last week.  The plan is to work out when I get home tonight (late).  Gotta fit it in at some point, right?

And to end, some random pictures.  We got cute lights for our walk way and Spooky was being adorable at breakfast yesterday!  I will probably blog again at some point today.  Not sure about these daily blogs.  They are fun but I'm quickly realizing how much time they take up, which I don't have much of right now!  We'll see!