Tea and Poetry

Good evening blogworld  Hope your week is going well.  It is definitely going fast over here.

This morning I woke up to the sound of rain!  I was surprised (since this is my spring break) and not surprised (this is South Texas).  It definitely made it difficult to wake up.  That and the fact that I was up WAY too late last night watching movies.

Speaking of movies…I have to say I am a horror movie lover most of all, but…I actually ADORED the movie The Proposal.  I am an English major (with aspirations to be a fiction writer), so her job as an Editor in Chief was awesome.   I laughed my butt off and it was a really cute movie overall.

That wasn’t the only movie I saw last night.  It was a movie splurge.  I also watched My Cousin Vinny and a TV movie called Wounded Heart (with Paula Devicq).  I gotta say that the latter was still good, but the fashion left something to be desired….the 90′s were good, but I am glad shoulder pads are out

Back to this morning…I had a glorious breakfast:

Vans brand waffles (which are new to me – and delicious) and some fruit.  I paired it with some lowfat milk and was good to go!

I had a fairly bumpy morning dealing with things I’ve needed to take care of, but after a little while I was back to my normal self.  Let me rewind a little to recap my shopping visit yesterday and the rest of Sunday

Ahh, glorious  The mug was filled with Earl Grey tea with one packet of Truvia (which I just started using).

This is how I spent my Sunday evening – drinking tea (in one of my favorite mugs) and reading about poetry.  I love being an English major.

My breakfast Sunday morning was lackluster, but it was still pretty good:

Whole wheat bread with almond butter (crunchy)

Yesterday, I finally got to go grocery shopping

I got to pick up my favorite fruit – strawberries  They have to be eaten within a day or so, so that’s why they were part of today’s breakfast.  In the bags next to the strawberries are bean sprouts (for stir fry), and random veggies (I got lettuce, cucumber, bell peppers).  Also got some sundried tomatoes to try.  Stocked up on Attune bars

Picked up a single serving of Myoplex.  I am trying out different protein recovery drinks to see what I like best and what works for me best.  It’s a long process, but once I figure it out, I will be happy.

I was thrilled to find this in the little refrigerated section of my HEB (Texas grocery chain).  I was convinced that they didn’t have three things I found here – the Myoplex single serving, Kombucha drink (in the pic below) and coconut water (also below).  I almost jumped for joy right there in the store.  Almost

Almond milk (never had this brand), yogurt, some new bars (I LOVE the KIND bars), string cheese, avocado, an Amy’s pizza, some Pirate’s Booty (my new addiction), organic milk, POM tea, cottage cheese, and some frozen cherries were purchased.  I think I see a Cherry Chocolate Bomb Shake in my future.

Some carby goodness:

Seven grain tortillas (for some burrito action later this week), some sandwich thins and (unpictured) whole wheat bread.

Broccoli, bell peppers, and cabbage (for stir fry).

My fridge is FULL

I also got to get some of this:

Endangered Species Chocolate.  This (if you can see the pic well enough) is Sea Turtle  Cue the awwww….go ahead, it’s okay…you know you want to.  This one has blueberries in it  Very cool.

I snacked on a piece of that as we prepared our dinner last night:

Amy’s Pesto Pizza.  I really like the Amy’s brand, but I need to try to watch what’s on the label because this one was way too high in fat and calories for such a small amount (even though a pizza is technically THREE servings.  We split it between the two of us).

An after dinner snack last night:

Okay, back to today:

Because of my late wake-up today, before I knew it it was time for James to come home.   Of course, that meant he was asking me what we were having for dinner (I hadn’t eaten breakfast not that long before!).  I usually have the week’s meal plan on the fridge, but because I hadn’t scheduled the whole week yet, I wasn’t sure what we were having.

I wanted homemade potato soup (using the potatoes I didn’t photograph), but it takes over 7 hours in the slow cooker.  That meant tonight should be easy and simple:

Grilled Cheese Sandwich (with Earth Balance and American cheese), mac and cheese, pineapple, and milk.  It was rather plain looking, but inside the sandwiches were some sun dried tomatoes that were marinated in olive oil.

Well, that’s it for the updates.  Time to go heat up some tea and get to work

Good night everyone