happy weekend!

my stomach hurts. badly. i think it was the long run i took in the humid air and a very full belly.
but this picture makes me feel better. a lot better.

so in lieu of the holiday weekend, and a tummy ache, i'm taking the day off of food posting and simply wishing you all a beautiful couple of days!
i hope it's filled with magical red, white and blue activities.

i know mine sure will be.

i'd eat my left leg

i came home from work this afternoon ravenous! i plum forgot to eat breakfast this morning before heading into work. i work up rather early and headed up for a run. i only ran about 1.5 miles and walked another half mile. it was only 7:45 and it was just too stinking hot! i'm a baby when it comes to the heat. i truly treasure the summer. just as long as i get to hang out by the pool or the ocean. other than that, blehhh to the heat. my hair can't handle the humidity, either. it seriously has a personality of its own.

the heated run took a lot out of me, because food just wasn't on the brain. the only thing on my mind was a cool shower and a cold drink from starbucks.

venti shaken iced passion tea

while this totally hit the spot, it didn't hold over my hunger pains. by 9:30 i was nibbling my fingers. sadly i didn't have any snacks to indulge in. so i had to wait until 2o'clock to actually put food into my grumbling belly. it was not pretty.

i started with some turkey and pickle wraps sans the actual wrap

a plump flat out wrap with turkey, muenster cheese, spicy mustard and a pickle, with a side of bbq chips

peeeeek a boooo

this whole ordeal filled me right up!

the rest of my day consisted of watching the finale of the biggest loser. holy moly! i was in awe over how incredible they all looked. i was hoping for darius to come out the big winner, but michael had the most to lose, and boy did he sure do it. i'll never quite understand what exactly goes on behind the doors of that mysterious ranch. bob and jillian are seriously miracle workers. it blows my mind to see the outcome. when darius ran the marathon and killed it, my heart tingled a little bit. oh! and not to forget how adorable ashley looked.

and as much as i want to believe the show is for real life, and doesn't use anything but healthy eating and exercise, i'm sort of skeptical about the whole thing. it does make for enjoyable tv nonetheless.

lovelies, it's a three day weekend ahead of us. how beautiful does that feel? i hope everyone has a red, white and blue memorial day! wave your flags, drink some tropical concoctions, eat a hotdog or two, chow down on pasta salad, hang out with friends and family and stay cool by the water!

smoooochies,

xoxox

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she has a $25 gift certificate to glassdharma. they are famous for their glass straws. check them out, check her blog out and enter to win!

it's a hot one!

what up home slices?

it's a friggin hot day out there. eh, 91 hot. yup, i ain't even kidding. it's kind of unreal. and i kind of love it. especially the part of soaking up the rays of golden sunshine and working on my tan. i aspire to be a tan mo'fo.

it's been a little bit. i apologize. i've been consuming my time with some pretty interesting ordeals.

such as attempting to make cous cousrunning on dunkin' cinnamon iced coffee with skim milk and sugar with clif on the side-holla, hoot

eating banana cream pie with peanut butter puffs
and just big bowls of peanut butter puffslove has been gooooood!

sunday night i went to dinner at rouge in rittenhouse square. it was an adorable place and a lovely evening. HOWEVER...while the company was just great, my meal sadly wasn't.

i went with what sounded like a delicious salad. but what was put in front of my face was anything but a delicious salad.

this is what it looked liked...mmmm? i'm going to need a side of fries, waiter!

or a side of fro yolove me some sweet endings!
green tea yogurt, fruity pebbles, kiwi, graham cracker crumbs....lurveeee

last night jen and i headed out to watch the phillies game and grab some beers and grub.
we drank some two dollar corona lights and shared a batch of broccoli bites
delishio!

i ordered the veggie wrapand it was filled with some massive veggs. and it tasted perfecto!

but the real fun wasn't the food. it was the three random guys that approached us. air force men. hubba, hubba. {well, sort of, but not really} they were no maverick or anything, but a good time nonetheless. we ended up chatting it up with them and bar hopping a little bit. it was completely random and probably completely unsafe. since we didn't know them from adam. but eh, ya live, ya learn, ya pick up strange men! i was totally smitten for the one. we were hitting it off, despite him not being my type at all. he asked my number, regardless of not living anywhere near me. um, and than he also told me he was married with three children. wait, back up, come again....

oh yeah. it was slightly disappointing. i wasn't really feeling the vibe after that. okay, maybe that's a lie. maybe i was still feeling a teeny tiny bit. ugh, i suck.

since last night turned into a way later night than planned, i was feeling very dead come 5:30 this morning. roughhhhh. but i survived it like the champ that i am.

and i luckily was finished at 12:30. i pretty much rushed out the door. but not before snagging a piece of sexy chicken pizzano really, that's what it's called; sexy chicken pizza
but i'm pretty positive nothing on this pizza is sexy. garlic, onions...oyyyy.

after a lay out sesh by the pool, i came in because i decided i hate sweating. i watched the finale of dancing with the stars. booooo you derek and nicole! i'm so over you both. you can't see, but i am totally sticking my tongue out.

i have the bachelorette and the biggest loser to also watch. i hate the bachelorette shows. i truly do. the awkwardness kind of freaks me out. but i always love the first episode because i enjoy 25 steamy men and their corny one liners. they make me giggle.

it's almost friday, pumpkins! and a holiday weekend!

happy sunday, lovahhhhs!
{how very carrie bradshaw of me, huh?}

i hope everyone has been having a very lovely weekend. it's been rather rainy and mucky here, sadly. however, the sun is starting to shine bright. what, what!

my sunday started off with a fabulous run and than to the park to watch my dad, uncles, brother and sister's boyfriend play hockey. they have this new sunday morning ritual of playing street hockey. they get so excited for it. it's rather cute. they play against a few of my uncle's students. it's kind of like the old men vs. the young boys. the old men act as though they are still high school boys, though. it was soooo muggy outside and they were all dripping sweat. it was totally gross.

i have no food documentation because i become a sort of kind of slacker during the weekend. unless of course there is something worth documenting. which there was not.

except for this fun package that was waiting for me yesterday afternoon when i got home from the gym...my cousin opened up an etsy shop a few months back. her stuff is simply darling!
and just look at her craft room...

Click on people's faces in the photo to tag them.

how could one NOT be creative in such a haven?

anyway, she recently added earrings to her crafty wonders. i fell in love and she sent me a pair...

look at those beautiesalso, since her shop name is baublegum crafting, she includes pieces of bubble gum in each package. adorable, right?

ohhh...i own this birdie, too!

which i just loveeeee.
she made bride and groom birdie wedding toppers for her sister's wedding. i can't wait to see what they look like.

go'head, check her out!

mmm, the rest of my day consists of some laziness. watching the phils {beat the red sox?}, a little reading and heading out to dinner in the city. i pretty much love it.

hope you have a charming sunday!

magical cake

where do i even start? mmm, how about the fact that it's BEAUTIFUL outside? i mean, simply and deliciously beautiful. i can't even get enough of it out there. i love nothing more than leaving work while the sun is still shining, jumping in my car, rolling the windows down, cranking up party in the usa and singing at the top of my lungs. i'm completely in love with it, thank you very much.

and we're offffff.....

yesterday morning started off with this yumminess:

this week is {was} my food week. meaning, i had to provide some type of tasty treat for the office. i have had this rainbow cake on my favorites list for gosh knows how long. food day was the perfect excuse to make it. since i finish at 12:30 on wednesdays, i took advantage and made it baking day!

colorful batter. . .

fresh out of the oven

sadly i forgot to spray pam in the cake tins. sadly it stuck and crumbled like my legs on mile five.howeverrrr, i still managed to dig the layers out put them on top of each other. i smeared some icing on just for kicks. i figured the sample version can be nibbled on by the family. regardless of the appearance, it tasted {tastes} great.

i ran back to the store, stocked on on some more ingredients and got right back to the kitchen. the work version turned out lovely. it was quite the hit today. i love the vibrant colors when you cut the cake. everyone thought it was so fun looking and they also told me it tasted wonderful. i was impressed with myself. i even made the icing. {not the icing pictured in the mess above} also! the whole thing is low in fat. yuppp, it's a healthy cake. how fantastic is that? magical and okay to eat? right on, baby! even better, it doesn't taste low in fat. holllllla for ya dollllla.

five exciting things on thursday:

{i watched the season finale of one tree hill-oh em gee}
{an inmate from prison came to the doctor's office-ball and chain attached to the feet}
{drinking soda for the first time in yearssssss}{receiving a card from kara in the mail}
{pay day}

today was a good day. better yet, today was a great day. still is a great day since it's not over yet. i like today. i think i'll like tomorrow better, though.

tell me why your thursday was great!

just call me miss cha cha

i'd be lying if i said i didn't think about being on dancing with the stars on an everyday basis. gosh, why am i a. not a famous celebrity asked to be on the show or b. a worldly ballroom dancer? life is rough being a regular 25 year old no body. sighhh. i am pretty positive my career at being a ballroom dancer has flown out the window at this point. but there is always a possibility for a. to happen, rightttt? RIGHTTTT? i'm still wishing on a star and throwing my pennies into a fountain for crying out loud! i am a dreamer, what can i say! one day i'll be in the right place at the right time and just instantly be discovered.

today was like any typical tuesday. went to work at 11 and came home at 7:30. it was totally standard and nothing out of the ordinary. {even though i'm not so ordinary...ba dum cha!}

i fell asleep terribly early last night. because sometimes i'm really tired and i just listen to my body. however, my body was ready to wake up at 4 am. i definitely didn't listen and fought falling back asleep. it was a major struggle but i did eventually crash once again. come 7am i wasn't ready to wake back up. but alas, i did. i had plans on going for a run but it was rainy and completely miserable outside. i convinced myself running in the rain might be fun so i geared up to do so. however, when little miss delaney arrived at my house and wanted me to play bracelets with her, i changed my mind on the run and stayed inside where it was dry and cozy.*

breakfast looked exactly like this...whole grain waffles with some auntie j drizzled on top

breakie of champs
or maybe that's wheaties?

and a cup of hot joedoes anyone else drink an excessive amount of cofffay?

by the time i got into work i was starving.
i snacked on half of this bad boy to hold me over until lunch...i really liked the taste of this bar!

thankfully it did the trick. but by 2 i was ready to dive into my frozen meal. because i'm really classy like that.

kashi goodness...

lunch is serveddddddthis meal was okay. nothing to write home about, but i ate it. i think there was too much of the sweet and sour sauce. the veggies, chicken and rice were amazing, however. i'd rate this dish a solid B.

i came home and devoured this...
toasted bagel with a hard boiled egg and some cumcumbers with vinaigrette dressing

i don't watch glee because i truthfully think it's just not a great show. despite what everyone else in america says about it. but NPH is guest appearing and he kind of makes me really giddy. therefore, i am tuning in. and he right now at this very moment is singing some piano man, and i love it. hey neil, lets do dinner...i'll sing broadway tunes all night long with you!



*the game of bracelets is really rather simple. delaney finds as many bracelets as she can in the house. we then put all of the on her wrists. we then take them all off. we do this again and again until she tires of it. true story.

i am off to paint my nails because by golly they feel naked. {they look it, too!}
sweet dreams, sexy ladies!

something in the works

what a weekend! holy moly, it's been busy and actually quite wild. i'm feeling nothing but exhausted. however, that just goes to show what a killer weekend it really was.

there will be a lovely recap coming up this week. but the pictures are on my friends camera-and i'm waiting for her to put them up. fabulous pictures from max brenner and atlantic city. i had a blast catching up with my college friends. max brenner was OUT OF THIS WORLD. and it was a really neat place in general. so much chocolaty goodness. wait until you seeeee! your peepers will be quite astonished.

my friday morning started with a quick yoga workout. i was totally exhausted and my heart just wasn't into it. i'm pretty sure every part of my body hurt afterwards.

i dove into this once i got into workcinnamon coffee {skim milk, two sugars} and a clif bar

i was looking so forward to my lunch

oh my goodness! this kashi meal was incredible. it had amazing flavor. there wasn't anything i didn't like about it.

the rest of friday afternoon was a blur. i hurried home, went for a mile and a half run, showered and drove to meet kristen at her hotel. it was SOOOOO nice seeing her and her family. i love them. they are such good people. kristen and i hopped in the car and headed into philadelphia to meet up with some cabrini folk.

after dinner, kristen and i got a last minute invitation to atlantic city. i'm never spontaneous. spur of the moment things make me wriggle. i strangely can't handle it. but i decided to push my organzied planner self aside, threw some things in a bag and said, WHAT THE HECK!

sadly i lost too much money and it makes me a little sick to even think about it. but all in all it was exciting. minus the not getting any sleep part. that was slightly rough.

saturday night i went to see the back-up plan. while jennifer lopez and alex o'loughlin were simply adorable in it, the movie itself was kind of painful. it definitely had it's "awwww" moments. but overall it was just no good. major disappointment. there were two parts where i'm pretty sure i thought about getting up and leaving. however, i wouldn't mind owning jennifer lopez's entire wardrobe in that movie.

sunday was another bus bus busy day. therefore, today was rather lazy. laney and i hung out in sweats, watched tv, danced, ate and napped. we also did some coloring and wrote kara a letter. very successful.

dinner was outstanding...sometimes mexican is just what the belly needs

tonight wraps up gossip girl and tree hill for the season. i truly miss my shows during the summer. but i also get relieved when i don't have to worry about them. like they let us off the hook for a little bit to catch up on life.

are you a spontaneous person??

always the bridesmaid

i am currently watching 27 dresses. i love this movie so much. but i can't help but wonder if this movie will be my life. alone, single and a closet full of fugly bridesmaid dresses. granted, she ends up with hottie james marsden...so i guess it's not all bad. but for reals, every time i turn around someone is getting engaged, married and popping out a kid. i ain't getting any younger, so i'd really like for my luck to turn around. kay, thanks!

now that i got the off my chest lets keep the ball rolling, shall we? it's just about the weekend. and what a good weekend it will be. the college friends and i are heading to max brenner in philadelphia friday night. it's supposed to be really yummy and very chocolate oriented. hubba, hubba.

also, my friends boyfriend graduates from law school...you, go boy! {that kind of news is something write on the blog about, loyal!} congrats to him. since i don't have my own boyfriend graduating law school, i'll mention hers.

this morning i woke up bright and early in hopes to go running. yeah, lets just say that didn't exactly happen. boy meets world was on and i couldn't resist watching it in bed. i also enjoyed a lovely breakfast...

iced coffee with a splash of coconut and a tasted bagel with strawberry jelly

up close and personal

i forgot how much i loved strawberry jam!

after a day of work i came home and made myself some lunch. i wasn't sure what i was hungry for so i settled for a pb&j sandwich with some sweet potato friesstrange combo, but it hit the spot

after my run i went for a short but sweet run. the weather was boootyful today and i couldn't pass it up. i ended up crashing after my run. i was just too tired to stay away. i'm still feeling really sleepy so i'm going to jump in the shower and call it a night.

but not before....

i believe. . .

i'll find a job doing what i want to do very soon

i believe. . .

the sister in 27 dresses is the most annoying thing, evahhhh

i believe. . .

it's okay to still curl into bed with my sister for snuggles

i believe. . .

people who tell me a watched pot never boils are stupid. because eventually, it will boil

i believe. . .

in being brutally honest most of the time, but once in a while a little white lie is okay to save someone's feelings

i believe. . .

the flyers are going to make history

i believe. . .

fake sick days are completely acceptable

i believe. . .

a trip to LA is way over due


what do you lovelies believe?

happy anniversary!

noooo, it's not my anniversary. it's my parents. yup, those crazy love birds have been married 31 years today. how wild is that? 31 years is a very long time. they have been through so much and i couldn't be happier to have them as parents. happy 31, and to 31 more years!

my alarm went off at 5:23 this morning...only to find my sister's boyfriend leaving her bedroom. yeah, she's naughty and i don't approve. or maybe i'm just jealous my parents were more strict with me and my boyfriend. he had to be out of the house by midnight. no exceptions.

{silly middle child syndrome}

my morning started with a pb&fluff sandwich

and a trip to DD for some much needed coffee...

large and in charge

because it's wednesday i got to leave work at 12:30. wednesdays rock, have i ever mentioned that? i was one starvin' marvin when i got home.

mini tacos from trader joes with some taco sauce

BAM!

ohhh, and before i left work i tried some of this

kugel? not exactly sure how this spelling goes. it's a jewish dish. a woman at work made it and i figured i needed to experience some. it tasted slightly like rice pudding except for noodles instead of rice. it was interesting.

i am so exhausted and plan on it being an early night. at least hoping for it to be an early night. for the life of me i can't fall asleep before 1am. it's terrible. i get anxiety and feel like there is always something for me to be doing.

i had a mish mash of a dream last night. a giant clif bar was chasing me all over the streets of what seemed to be vegas. i've never actually been to vegas but i assume that's what vegas would look and feel like. it was all very king kong-ish. {minus the ape and pounding of the chest and new york city....} i never ended up finding out what the clif bar wanted to tell me because i was running veryyyyy fast. apparently giant clif bars are scary and when they chase you, you should run. maybe he wanted to hand me free bars? which would have been loveliness because sadly i'm all out!

big game tonight for the philadelphia flyers!
do it, boys, do it up!