October 20, 2013

I believe after this weekend, my streak of wearing makeup and wearing my hair down will come to an end.  I have nothing planned next weekend, so no reason to get gussied up – farewell to weekend # six of dressing up!  I cut my bangs by myself, not sure I got them very even – ha! My co-worker J got married over the weekend. ...

My breakfast was amazeballs you guys.  I took two of the leftover biscuits from our Stovetop Chicken pot pie.  I cooked up 1/2 a cup of egg whites, and then at work assembled my breakfast biscuits – 1 ounce of ham, 1/2 the egg white, baby spinach and 1/2 ounce of cheese, then put it under the broiler for the cheese to get all melty. ...

Happy Friday!  For some reason this week seems so long, and yesterday I woke up thinking it was Friday so that sucked.  I have a wedding to go to tomorrow and then twin fest on Saturday with my twin sister and our best friends that are twins.  We are meeting at Wildfire – holy moly they have the best burgers there.  I plan on making...

I really want to meet this kid.  He’s Marcia’s oldest son and just got his school pictures returned.  I would love for you to tell me in the comments what you think his thoughts were when this picture was taken! Is that not the coolest school picture ever?  I mean from the look on his face, to the stain on the front of his shirt. ...

So I got up early to go to my EKG.  I didn’t know how long it was going to take so I gave myself plenty of time.  I was in the parking lot by 7:30. That was the view I had when Tony was in the hospital when he got his artificial heart valve in 2007. Well, from registration to the end of the test,...

It was a chilly start to the day – 37 degrees – but a gorgeous one! I don’t know what it is about the brisk air, but it just makes me feel alive.  I heated up the other half of Tony’s breakfast from Sunday, and had strawberries and bananas on the side. I had strength and cardio on tap yesterday, but now that the strength...

Another weekend is in the books – as we get closer to the end of the year it seems like these weekends go by quicker each week.  I slept in until 9:30 Saturday morning – it was so nice!  I love to sleep.  Tony made me breakfast when I got up – savory french toast!  It was rosemary bread french toast and he put spicy...

For some reason yesterday morning before work went by really fast!  Normally I keep a pretty good eye on the clock, but I was enjoying my coffee, reading blogs, and the next think I knew it was 7:50 – and I need to leave at 8:05! So I threw shit in my bag to make breakfast nachos for breakfast – first time I’ve ever completely...

The final chapter in my #Living Well 2013 weekend in Chicago – and my favorite part of the whole weekend.  We ended our whirlwind tour at The Chopping Block, which is a cooking school in the Merchandise Mart.  What a beautiful cooking space! We met Jennifer Marx, who is a food and still life photographer in Chicago.  Food styling is one of my biggest challengers. ...

When I got back to my hotel room after dinner Friday night, there was a big canvas swag bag that among other things, had a yoga mat.  There was an optional one hour yoga session from 7:30 to 8:30 before breakfast. I saw a yoga studio the day before when I worked out so I just assumed that’s where it was going to be.  When...