Meal Planning

SO its been RIDICULOUSLY hot in New England the past couple days... this is pretty much what I feel like doing!

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Anyway Happy Friday... I try to do my meal planning on Friday's so here we go....

I am a werido and I check the weather before I meal plan for each day, because I feel like the weather has a big effect on what I feel like eating that day.

Sunday- 79 Degrees, Partly Cloud.

                Eat: Stuffed Poblano Peppers

                http://www.preventionrd.com/2011/10/meatless-monday-stuffed-poblano-peppers/

                

                 Workout: 5 Mile run OUTSIDE. 

               

Monday - 79 Degrees, Partly Cloud

                Eat:  Santa Fe Summer BBQ Pizza

                http://www.iowagirleats.com/recipes/?recipe_id=6029937

                 Workout: Power Yoga in the AM

                 Wear: Floral Dress with Chambray top

Tuesday- 77 Degrees, Scattered Thunderstorms

                Eat: Buffalo Chic Tacos- Crockpot Style

                http://www.preventionrd.com/2011/07/buffalo-chicken-tacos-mr-ps-nachos/

                Workout: 3.5 Mile run in AM

                Wear: Kaki Pants with T shirt- Jean Jacket!?

Wednesday- 80 Degrees, Isolated Thunderstorms (Jon Golf)

                Eat: Lemon Chicken Pasta

               

                Workout: 3.5 Mile run in AM

                Wear:

Thursday- 77 Degrees, Isolated Thunderstorms (Jon Softball 6:00)

                Eat: Farmers Market Skillet

                http://iowagirleats.com/2012/05/14/farmers-market-recipe-collection-farmers-market-skillet/

               

                Workout: body sculpt class in AM then 2 mile run PM.

                Wear:

Friday- 78 Degrees, Scattered Thunderstorms

                Eat: HAPPY HOUR/Jess Comes to visit! 

               

                Workout: REST

                Wear:

Saturday- 84 Degrees with scattered thunderstorms. 

                Workout: RACE DAY! COLOR ME RAD in the morning

                Bring Jess to Boston.?!?

Work Breakfast: Fage Plain Greek Yogurt with Blackberries (9) and Hemp Plus Granola 

Work Lunch: Veggie Hummus Wraps 

AS you can see next week is suppose to me amazing weather! I can't wait to get some early morning runs in outside.

I am not tired... I am not tired... I am not tired.

One of my biggest motivations to

Girls weekend

My girlfriends and I plan two weekends in a year where we make a pledge to all get together. Once during the summer and for the holidays...

The past two years for our beach get together it as rained... but we make the most of it anyways!

How did we do it this year? A trip to Ikea! I needed a rug for my living room and everyone else wanted to look around, it was two of my friends first experiences! Can you believe that!?

I found my rug!

And some really ugly lamps...

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And some cute tables.. .

And I pretty much want to live in this room... 

Looked at some baby stuff for Ann...

And found this AMAZING work from home desk... can you imagine if that were your office?

We got to the beach a little bit on Saturday.. but it was chilly! So we just sat around in our sweatshirts and watched the waves roll in for about an hour or so... 

And did some yoga on the beach or attempted too! 

Then we made some fancy dinner plans...

I got goat cheese stuffed raviolis.. YUM

After the dinner... 

We can really eat and drink! 

Sunday morning was a BEACH day... So we got some beach time in before we all parted to get home and back to reality.. 

Summertime and the living is easy

Summer time and the living is easy... Kind of.

Summer to me is filled with fun stuff. Jon and I went on our first week long vacation, we have girls weekend, I am going on a saco river trip this summer, running in my first road race... so so so much fun stuff to do, which I am excited about but sometimes that can mean you miss a lot of workouts, and time to meal plan and time to clean your house, sometimes it can be stressful!

I had my girls weekend this weekend, which was so much fun. Two of my friends and I stayed up till 3am Saturday night drinking wine and talking. I was TIRED on Sunday. BUT I was happy because I ran 3 miles Saturday in the morning, I got a workout in even though I was busy!

My friend was dog sitting so we stayed at the condo in which she is staying at which was near the beach... we found this dog park in the morning so four of us took the pups to the park, while they walked in around I took a run.

I ran for 3.4 miles for a average of 10.0 minute/mile pace!! It felt great! I have been really improving my time lately, all of a sudden running is getting easier...

here are some pictures of the park

We found the cutest water fountain... they had a little water fountain at the base so the dogs could drink out of it... how cute is that?

After we treated ourselves to some Marylou coffee... I got the Almond flavor. WOW so good.... If we had these in Waltham I would be in trouble!

More fun pictures of girls weekend to come!

Vacation

IF you follow me on instagram you know that I was on Vacation last week. It was the first time I look a full weeks vacation in my career... and oh how I was disappointment to be home..

We started out the week in Wildwood, NJ and ended it in Philadelphia for a Phillies vs. Braves game, and some wings at one of my old favorite joints from when I lived there....

Here are a few snap shots from the trip!

Had to find the first Wawa in sigh... 

Wildwood NJ.... 

Were we spent most of our days.... 

We would go the the beach...

then we would get rained on... 

We ate alot of junk food but one night we found someplace that served us a decent meal.. my favorite vacation dinner? Swordfish. Yum.

Cheers... 

Boardwalk.. 

Fireworks...

Hotel In Philly (The Hyatt at the Bellevue).. This may have been one of my favorite hotels I have ever stayed at. We got a complimentary glass of wine when we came in. The hotel room was beautiful, clean, bed was amazing.  The complementary breakfast was amazing as well. To put the icing on the cake you get to use their gym facility which is fitness club in Center City Philadelphia. I swam in their pool and it was pretty awesome. Expect I had a really bad swim! I am used to swimming with all the older folks at my gym using the kick boards, the people at this gym where like the real deal! ha-ha and I had to share a lane, which I hate.

  Now it is pricey, I got my stay through this discount program rolled out at work just before I booked the vacation but I would recommend it! Oh and great location too..

Braves vs Phillies game (Go Phillies! ) I am an horrible girlfriend because Jon is a Braves fan... his birthday gift this year was the trip to Philly to see his first ever braves game! I was happy, Phillies won, but Jon was sad. He found it really cook to see Citizens Bank Park though. We want to take a beach vacation to south NJ again and go to Baltimore next year. My dream forever has been to visit Camden Yards for a Red Sox game.

Worlds best wings... and its a true story too.

Philly

How was your Fourth of July?