Here we go!
The Ballerina, The Bride, The Dog Father, The Meter Reader and The Photographer.
The walk home.
The classic post-trick or treat pumpkin dump!
I had the most fabulous run this morning!
But this fabulous run actually started yesterday – with an innocent homeschooling Halloween party where Mama went as a Dirty Hippy and Maxine went as a ballerina.
I don’t know that this was much of a stretch from how we dress day to day, but whatever.
There were lots of fun treats and goodies.
Including some Mama Averie inspired raw donut holes, available in both chocolate and pumpkin.
Lots of fun games and activities too.
Dark, dark, DARK. The mornings are so dark! Come on daylight savings time – Mama’s ready to set the clocks back!
On my bike first thing this morning to ride – in the dark yet again – to the gym to pay my respects to the treadmill. I even dug out my reflective vest to wear on the way there today too.
Flash photography: Friend or Foe?
Foe. Definitely foe.
If I’m going to run on the treadmill and be a rat on the wheel for 30 minutes, I feel like I have no choice but to run sprint intervals to keep things interesting.
I am a vegetarian. I do not miss meat. But I love still burgers.
Veggie burgers that is. I heart them.
It might be that veggie burgers are merely a vehicle for pickles, piles of lettuce and sliced tomato. Whatever the reason – veggie burgers rock my world.
On my 7 mile run today I tried to come up with something to make for dinner. I attempted to recall what was in my fridge – 3 miles from home – as I blew by the grocery store.
I shed my yoga pants this evening in honor of the ribbon cutting ceremony being held at the library. (There’s no better reason to shed your pants if you ask me.)
A new wing was unveiled at the library today! And it was named after me! Just a little “thank you” from the library to me for all the overdue fines I’ve paid.
I gave a speech after they listed all the new books, equipment and monuments they’ve purchased with my overdue fines. You’re welcome Library – it’s been my pleasure.
Brownies last night called for a very simple, cleansing breakfast this morning. Cleansing in both body and refrigerator. Who the hell bought all these damn apples anyway??
Speaking of cleaning, notice that barely in focus disaster of counter top back there? That mess was sponsored by yours truly from deserting the kitchen after birthday brownie dessert last night.
So! I’m sporting my stay at home mom outfit today and flashing you the international sign for “Get to Work”.
Yoga pants and inside shoes?
Check!
Toys to be picked up?
Packed in today’s magic basket of super snacks?
Whole Food Energy Bar from Vega that I was sent last week to review.
I liked this one better than the Vibrancy bar actually. I especially liked that at 220 calories, this sucker easily held me over all afternoon while Maxine and I ran errands and Ava spent the afternoon at her homeschooling class.
And I totally needed the energy to play along with Maxine’s latest Take-My-Socks-and-Shoes-Off-Everytime-I-Get-in-the-Car antics.
Today’s work out was my favorite ride-the-bike-to-the-gym, 10 minutes on the elliptical, 10 minutes on the stair climber, 10 minutes on the indoor track doing speed work, ride the long way home and wonder how on earth a 45 minute work out went by so quickly.
In honor of Z-Man turning the big 3-2 today, I whipped us up a big glass of birthday beet juice. You know you want beet juice for your birthday breakfast – don’t try to deny it!
I don’t have any romaine and given I want to save my red leaf lettuce for something like oh… say… salad, I rocked out with these beautiful beet greens instead.
We hit up the apple orchard again today after my friend Sharon saw my post from last week. I figured I’d better go before I had a chance to finish our 11 lb bag.
Before we left, her girls drank green lemonade and after they were done I was totally jealous that my kids will not.
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After juice but before we left I tried one of these Heart Thrive bars I picked up the other day.
Before I finished it I knew I was going to need something to drink after I was done. This sucker was dry!
I had a real breakfast crisis on my hands this morning:
Empty banana hammock.
No milk.
Well, I guess that’s not exactly true. There was rice milk that Ava drinks… but umm, in a word – no.
Surely I jest – of course this is far from a real breakfast crisis. But I realized I could remedy this situation with a well planned run this morning.
I took the last couple of bucks out of my wallet, stuffed them into my sports bra and planned my route so I would run about 3 and a half miles and end up at the my little neighborhood grocery store before the final half mile trek home.
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