Kick butt Wednesday

What a busy, wonderful day!

The most wonderful thing that happened today was I changed my name! Finally got around to it! It was so exciting! I don't even have my new SSC yet, because it will come in the mail in about a week. Then I can go to the DMV and do all the other changes. It was such a good feeling to do it! I am now Andrea Helen Brokish! Woo hoo!

For breakfast, I whipped up a delicious sugar-free vanilla latte with extra foam. Check out our kick-ass coffee "area"! I love it. I also had a small serving of granola with milk.

I did my strength routine while watching The Biggest Loser. I love that show - I cry almost every episode. I'm so emotional!

I was running errands all over the place today, so for lunch, I grabbed a chipotle vegetarian fajita burrito. Usually I only eat half, but I wolfed the whole thing down! :-O

I went to Lowe's and bought new pots - our herbs are growing out of their's! And new organic potting soil.

I went to Target and bought flat, rectangle tupperware for ice cream, some AWESOME clothes including a new dress and new kick-ass jeans, and cute earrings. By the end of that I was exhausted (shopping always wipes me out), but I still made it to the health food store to stock up on a bunch of stuff. I saved 10 bucks with my coupon! (I love coupons!)

Now I am so tired - I'm going to chill out for awhile, before working on some other stuff! I still would like to hem my curtain and finishing cleaning the bathroom, among other things.

For "dinner", I ate a larabar, a primal strip, and (gasp!) FOUR tofutti cutie ice cream sandwichs. They are about 1/2 of a real ice cream sandwich, but they are still 130 calories! Goodness.

I may start counting my calories in addition to blogging what I eat. I have a strong feeling I eat a lot of calories per day - too many. We shall see.

Here's to a great evening!

Kevy comes home tonight (late) and I can't fricken wait!

I've been slacking on the photos, but they seem so boring when it's stuff I eat all the time! I'll get back on it tomorrow. It's much more interesting that way, and helps me not to overeat.

Today is going pretty well... didn't get that much done, but bits and pieces here and there.

Breakfast: sugar-free vanilla latte, tiny scoop of granola and milk

Lunch: guacamole and chips (1 avocado)

Snack: spoon of sunflower butter; (later) 2 pancakes dipped in a bit of maple syrup

Dinner: veggie burger on bun with dab of mayo and ketchup, with onions; 2 glasses of juice

I talked to Meredith today. It was good to catch up. She's going to New Zealand in a couple weeks for 8 1/2 months!

I cleaned the entire extra bathroom - woo hoo! Gettin' ready for Ab and Pres to come - can't wait! Tomorrow I'm going to run a ton of errands - yay!

Monday

Well, I haven't blogged at all today. My food seemed slightly boring. I've already posted photos of all of it before.

Breakfast: Greek yogurt with a couple handfuls of granola; latte with 1/2 tbsp of hazelnut syrup
Snack: Lemon Larabar
Lunch: 2 avocados and salsa with chips (woah!)
Dinner: leftover coconut curry tofu with white rice
Snack: large helping cookie dough

Since I was so sore from surfing, I only did 15 min of eagle poses in yoga, but man that felt good. Tomorrow I'm going to sweat it out though - I need to cut back on this cookie dough! I've been craving it - could be the time of the month... I don't know.

Tonight I'm not feel too well emotionally because Kev is in Dallas and it's always weird the first night/day he's gone. I affirm that tomorrow I will wake up happier and ready to take on the day! I will also get out of the house...that helps too.

Abbey and Preston are coming to visit on Friday for nearly a week. There's so much to do before they arrive, I hope I can get it all done! :)

Surfing

Surfing was quite the experience. We were taught by a pretty cool hippie-ish guy who was super outgoing and super relaxed (he had us wait about a half hour while he talked to people and got a yerba matte and then he gave us free tshirts and water bottles). He talked for most of the lesson, but the actual surfing part was relatively short. We learned a lot, though we wished he would have stayed out with us longer. I was able to surf some small ones with him steadying the surf board behind me, but it was so damn hard. It requires so many muscles. It's great though...the feeling when you're getting up on the board and the water is rushing beside your board and you're such floating and it's pulling you.... ahhhh... very nice.

We hope to sorta get into surfing - not sure yet if we'll be super surfers one day, but we will start with a long board to share between us and see where it goes. I still love boogie boarding, though. It's a total different experience, which I didn't expect. I thought they'd be relatively the same feeling. But it's totally different. Let's just say I'm pretty sure I'll never be really scared on a boogie board again. A surfboard is so intense - it can give someone a gash in the head so bad you need stitches. Hope that never happens to me!

At the end of the day, we were so wiped. My knees hurt like hell from landing in the shallow water so many times right on them. Some skin on my toe rubbed off while on the board. And I stepped on something super sharp and cut my skin. My muscles are aching, and that's just tonight. I bet they'll hurt more tomorrow. But, it was worth it. I know you have to wipe out a thousand times before you really get it right, so we're on our way. :)

We were famished after surfing, because we only ate a larabar (each) for lunch. We went to our favorite Thai place in Carpinteria, and ate a TON of food. I got Pad Thai Tofu, Kev got Coconut Mushroom Soup (we had a soup like that on our honeymoon and it was divine), and we shared a fried noodle tofu appetizer. Yum! We ate every last drop.

We came home and were too tired to do anything so we've just been watching Friends all evening. Kev realized he has to pack a bag for his trip so he's doing that and I'm going to watch a bit of Grey's Anatomy before we both hit the sheets. We will sleep welllll tonight. What a day! It was an unforgettable day. I like days like that.

Happy Sunday!

Feelin' good.

For dinner last night we had leftovers. I had vegetable korma (the last of it!) with rice and a pita with Earth Balance and garlic on top. I also had two and a half glasses of wine! :-o Then Kev and I went on a video game spree, playing all of our fun video games! He's so much better than me, but it's fun anyway. Throughout that, we had the rest of our ice cream and then Kev made "shots" called b52's. I put shots in quotes because they're so sweet! Made with Kahlua, Bailey's, and Amaretto. Yum! Then we watched Friend's while I knitted and Kev worked out and worked on investing stuff. I had a couple spoonfuls of cookie dough! Man, it's not the lowest-calorie weekend, I tell ya.

This morning, I was in the mood for something "weird", so I looked up weird pancakes and got this recipe: http://www.recipezaar.com/Peters-Weird-but-Addictive-Railroader-Pancakes-303020 They looked normal, but they were super dense. (lack of baking powder) I had 2 and a couple bites of Kev's, with a tiny bit of Earth Balance and warm maple syrup. Yum!

Today we have our first ever SURF LESSON! I'm excited, but a little nervous too. I hope I can get up on my surfboard! I'm sure it will be a blast. Kev's leaving Monday evening for business in Dallas for 2.5 days. :( I'm more sad about that than I thought I'd be, but more solitude is usually good for me, as we saw last time.

I love weekends!

My hubby and I had an awesome Friday night. We got Super Smash Bros. for our Nintendo in the mail so we played around with it for awhile while we made our ice cream and stuck it in the freezer. I had my 'aperatif' of a glass of Pinot Grigio, which was surprisingly dry.

Then Kev made veggie burgers, but I decided to only have a half, because I wanted to save calories for the ice cream! The veggie burgers had avocado and onions, and were fabulous, as always when Kev makes them. Plus, it was my favorite kind of burger: Amy's Quarter Pounders.

The ice cream was, one word, INTENSE. It was very fatty, and thus, delicious. The oatmeal cookie chunks in it were divine! I could have eaten it all night long. In fact, I had one more bite after finishing my rather large serving!

This morning, Kev made French toast! It was perfect, because I didn't want granola but I didn't want waffles or pancakes either, and Kev didn't want eggs. Turns out French toast is exactly what I was craving. I had 2 1/2 slices with a little bit of maple syrup on top.

Today Kev and I went on a big shopping spree: garage sales (looking for a bookcase, no luck), Target (luck with a bunch of needed odds and ends), Pier 1 (a BEAUTIFUL candle holder I saw in an ad), Michael's (scrapbook stuff galore!!! made me sooo happy), and B&N (Kev took notes on investing and I looked at teaching books). For lunch (not pictured), we had a Tomato Caprese sandwich with potato chips. It was yummy: sundried tomatoes, cheese, and pesto on Asagio (sp?) bread.

I'm not in the mood to exercise, though it would probably make me feel good. I might do a 20-min walk in a bit while reading my new Self magazine!

Lunch

I ate a little too much food for lunch, but oh well. I had the leftover Vegetable Korma, with a pita topped with a clove of garlic and a little Earth Balance. Then, I caved and ate a large helping of cookie dough. Man, it's the dough that gets me - I think I could stand resisting actual cookies. Oh well. I'll have a super small helping of ice cream tonight and then none for awhile... I think I might have Chipotle for dinner and just eat half. We'll see.

I'm having a peaceful day. I edited Katie's (my lil sister-in-law) French homework which was fun, called my best friend Meredith (we've been playing phone tag for literally months, and didn't get in touch with her again), and now I'm here - about to upload facebook photos and visually revisit my wedding!

I'm also hoping to go through some "office" ish stuff on the desk (I cleaned it off though!) and write some thank-you notes. AND write in my journal. :)