Saturday, January 30, 2010
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Oh the joys of a day off!
I have class at 6am on Fridays which makes me quite tired by the time Friday evening roles around. After class on Friday, I went to yoga and a physical therapy appt. The PT proceeded to tell me that I should stop running for a few weeks (which seems virtually impossible) or my hip pain is just going to get worse. Ugh. I hate bad news.
To start my weekend off (and to make my PT mad), I went to my Saturday running group in Columbia City (my dream neighborhood). Afterwards I came home and cleaned the house before heading out to brunch with Elissa and Patti Ball (plus a friend!) to my favorite restaurant, Cafe Flora. Delicious!!
I spent the rest of the afternoon and evening doing homework at Fuel Coffee with my dear friend and classmate, Katherine.
Since I finished a load of homework, I figured I deserved a treat! Soooo, I went cross country skiing this morning and dropped Dashel off to Snowboard. I only went for about 2 hrs but boy was it nice to spend 2 hrs alone in the quiet of the mountains. We came home and I attempted a wierd pot pie type recipe topped with biscuits instead of crust. So far it's not looking so great!
Next up is chili from the most recent Cooking Light and more homework. I love having days off!!!
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Photos from Haiti
I am starting to feel a little helpless with the whole Haiti disaster and can't seem to figure out any good fundraising activities so I decided to attempt at selling some photos from Haiti. 100% of the money will be donated to Partners in Health (PIH.org), a healthcare organization working in Haiti, started by Paul Farmer!!
I am not a photographer (in any sense of the word) but don't know what else to do at this point. I am asking for $10 a photo (5x7) or whatever you think is fair. 100% of the money will be donated.
Here's the link!
Friday, January 15, 2010
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Drop it like it's hot...
For those of you that don't know, I am obsessed with becoming a break dancer. I primarily go to yoga just so when "my calling" happens, I'll be buff enough to step it up.
This video makes me feel like "my calling" should have happened at an earlier age...
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Back to school, back to school...
I have one more day of freedom before I am back in the real world. This whole "working" thing is a total breeze! Add on a few classes and 20 hours of clinical and it becomes a bit hectic.
To start prepping for a very long first week back, I decided to make some food ahead of time. We ordered a box of vegetables from Full Circle Farms using a couple of coupons making it a sweet deal. Usually it's $30 for a box of veggies which you can have delivered weekly or every other week. I bought a great coupon at Groupon which was $25 for $50 credit. I also had a $15 off coupon from the Chinook Book! What a steal!
The box included: beets, carrots, purple potatoes, lettuce, braising greens, mango, pears, oranges, avocados, onion, cucumber, cauliflower and grape tomatoes.
I steamed the beets and covered them in balsamic vinegar, salt and pepper to top salads. Made a couple of cups of quinoa, slices all of the veggies for hummus and roasting and ate all of the carrots in the process.
I also did an experiment tonight making homemade instant oatmeal...and it worked! I often don't have time to eat at 6am when I am running out of the house and have been relying on granola bars, yogurt, hardboiled eggs, fruit, etc. but sometimes I just want something warm.
Soooo, I blended up some oatmeal, flax seeds and sunflower seeds into a flour and combined it with regular non-blended oats (equal parts), a pinch of salt, a pinch of brown sugar, coconut, cinnamon, raisins and more sunflower seeds.
I now have instant oatmeal without all of the extra junk and it wasn't made with quick oats! Some ideas that I read about online included adding coffee creamer, vanilla pudding mix, dried fruit, almond extract and making it with apple juice instead of water.
So far it tastes great!
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