Life is for Living

The other day I came across an inspiring post on one of my favorite healthy living blog’s. Caitlin’s blog is the shit. She blogs vegetarian recipes and is constantly motivating and inspiring me. What inspired me on this particular day was a comment that she had written to someone that said “What are you waiting for? Life is for living!” Isn’t that the truth? I have been training for a 10k since August, but I was too nervous to sign up for the actual race. I have been following a training plan of running 3 times a week, and slowly building my mileage all the way up to 5 miles, but I was still too scared to sign up for the race. What if I don’t finish? What if I can’t run the whole time? What if it rains? What if my stomach bothers me? What if I can’t take the day off? WHAT IF?

Life is for living not what if’s? So I got the day off from work and signed up today.

The race is going to be awesome. It’s the Tuft’s 10k for women and it goes around the beautiful city of Boston and ends in the Boston common. What’s really cool is that I actually watched part of the race last year and never thought in a million years that I would be running it a year later. I am so incredibly excited!! I have been training for about 8 weeks and was hoping to get a 6 mile run in before I signed up, but I don’t even care now. Even if I have to walk I will have still run in a 10k race. Also I know I can run it all

Happy about my decision to live my life I came home tonight and made one of my favorites! Pizza!

I used 2 servings of TJ’s WW crust, pizza sauce, green peppers, jalapenos, 2 TBS of fresh parmesan cheese and some fresh basil. The I baked it for about 15 minutes at 400 degrees. I would skip the cheese next time because I couldn’t taste it, but other than that it was PERFECT!

Served with a spinach and tomato salad. I made a delicious dressing tonight. I combined a TBS of hummus, a TBS of nutritional yeast and some water to thin it out. Yummy!

As I was cooking my dinner I was also cooking my lunch for tomorrow. Call me crazy but I don’t really leftovers. Even though it’s time consuming I almost always make a different lunch while I am cooking dinner. Anyone else? Tomorrow it’s zucchini, peppers and beans mixed with taco seasoning. It’s going to be good!

Do you eat dinner at the table? If not, where? Do you ever eat at the table alone? I ask because I was curious about this! I never used to eat at the table because I didn’t have one! Now that I have mine I enjoy eating there even by myself. It’s so peaceful and I always have Lilo

Dessert Date

Last night, I told you I was gearing up for a healthy dessert. Well here it is!

How to make the best dessert ever: First you take your healthy brownie- i made mine with whole wheat flour and applesauce, but they weren’t amazing so I’m not going to share the recipe. Then you make your banana soft serve by blending 1 frozen banana and a small amount of almond milk. Place that on top of your brownie. Next you take 1 large tablespoon of peanut flour and combine it with 1 small tablespoon of water to make a peanut sauce. DELICIOUS!

Since I showed you my dinner date, I figured I would show you my dessert date too.

 

Nelly! My poor cats. They love meat and milk and I eat vegetables and bananas.

Weekend Recap and a Cute Dinner Date

Hello! How was everyone’s weekend? Mine was a lot of fun and was very busy!

Friday started off with a fun wine tasting at Boston Wine Exchange. It was my first time there and they were very nice and friendly. I had been wanting to stop by for a while because they do 5pm tastings a lot on Fridays, and it just so happens to be right by my work!

I tasted a prosecco, chardonnay and some red wine. I am much more a fan of white wine! After the tasting my friend and I were looking for somewhere to have a nice Friday night cocktail! I remembered that I had been wanting to try Rumba for quite a while so we walked on over there.

Here I am drinking a Between The Sheets martini. I’m pretty sure I was drunk after a sip. This drink was VERY strong. Much too strong for me but I managed to take it back like a champ. Rumba is nothing what I expected. I walked by it one day with a coworker, I am not sure if she had been there before but she made it sound better than it was. Basically Rumba is just a hotel bar with expensive drinks. I wouldn’t go back. Maybe it’s more fun in the summer?

My mom came down on Saturday to help me get my apartment finished and we went to ikea and went shopping at home goods, target, TJ maxx, etc. I  don’t get the ikea hype AT ALL. That place is craziness. I got a few deals on a framed picture and some vases but besides that I really don’t like the store. I bought a table there a few weeks ago, but accidentally got the wrong color! Since I don’t have a car I had to wait for my mom to bring me to get a new one. I like my table, but it sucked putting it together and it was probably the easiest thing in the store to put together.

Cute right? I have a red theme in my kitchen. I’ll show you my apartment soon before I mess it all up.

Here’s my veggie-rific dinner

I made kale chips, roasted asparagus and corn on the cob. I was feeling frisky trying some vegetables i don’t buy on a weekly basis, but really the only part of this meal I enjoyed was my beloved corn on the cob.

My dinner date

I am a crazy cat lady.. it’s the truth. For once, my apartment doesn’t face a building so my cats really like sitting in the windows. When I get off a stop early I always walk by and talk to my cats, in the window, on the third floor, I’m pretty sure my neighbors and the people at the gas station next door think I am nuts. I get a kick out of it because Lilo (pictured above!) always meows back to me. It’s SO cute!

I kept dinner a bit light because I spent a lot of the weekend overindulging and have a delicious healthy dessert of banana soft serve and a whole wheat brownie waiting for me.

What did you do this weekend?