Monday, December 7, 2009

Ollie the other Reindeer.


Hello!  So, I've got one final down and two more to go.  Already I feel some weight lifted off my shoulders.  Plus no more annoyingly opinionated policy professors! 

For lunch today I had some leftovers from a couple nights ago.



I don't think I even got through 1/2 of this.  I really don't like leftovers.  Except for Thanksgiving of course.

So I had an apple with some PB.  Mmmm honeycrisp.



Before my class, we got some puppy photo shoot action going on.



Too cute?  Well that was the last time that'll hapen.  Those antlers got eaten up pretty fast :)

When I got home, I had a Kashi bar to get ready for the gym.



Gym was pretty good, I haven't been since we got the puppy so I'm pretty out of shape.  I had been planning on going, but I decided to really go for it when I saw this post about starting Couch to 5K on Four Fat Chicks.  We'll see how it goes.  I'm using a plan that seems better than the last one I used (and failed).

Dinner was chicken and vegetable soup (from scratch, mm hmm!) and grilled cheese.



I also made bread pudding!
It's really yummy!  I'm fighting the urge to go back for more.

I can't wait to finish out this week!  What's a good way of making time speed up?
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Finals are upon us...

Good morning and good luck to my fellow students!  I know that a lot of people are going into finals or their last week of classes.  Personally, I have a final at 9am (aka SOON!).  I have a cheat sheet for it, so I'm not too worried. 


For breakfast, I had a bowl of oats with brown sugar, vanilla, raspberries, craisins, and walnuts.



Hopefully that's enough brain food to get me through the day!  I feel like I have a million little errands I need to get through before the end of the week.  I hope I can get the bulk done today!  Happy Monday!
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Sunday, December 6, 2009

Merry/happy Tuba Christmukkuh!

Just like everyone else in the east, we got a good little snow yesterday.  It's pretty, but I'm not too crazy about being in it.  At all.




For lunch yesterday, I made a salad with tuna on top and some caesar dressing.



Then we walked down to the inner harbor (in the snow) to see Tuba Christmas.  It's a neat tradition that they have.  I'm not crazy about Christmas music, but I like this kind.  Anything classic or instrumental is fine.  Since it was snowing it got moved inside.  This was my attempt at a photo.  There are tons of tubas back there, I swear. 




For dinner we ate in the pavillion.  I got a pit beef sandwich with macaroni and cheese and green beans.  It was really, really good, but I didn't want to take a photo because we were with people who don't know about the blog.  I'm a wimp :(


This morning I had an egg/egg white ww english muffin with a little bit of cheddar cheese.



Today was a big shopping day.  It felt like we went all over the place.  I needed a new 2010 planner and a new clicker for the pup.  Plus the normal grocery shopping.  We went to Wegmans.  I LOVE WEGMANS.  Seriously, it's the best.  We decided that we wanted to try the food bars that they have there.  I was thinking about sushi and G was looking at the pizza, but we decided to try the Asian Wokery hot bar.  Bad choice.  No pic, but it wasn't anything special.  Next time we'll definitely go for the other stuff!


Dinner was a standby: Buffalo Sloppy Joes.



I like these, but it's really G that asks for them.  Every week.

We got all of our Christmukkah decorating done!  Including buying the candles.  I just need to get some gelt (or not, that's one more thing I don't need!).

 
 
 

I had also wanted to get some Snow Cookie Sleigh Ride tea because I've seen so many other bloggers talk about it.  And of course Wegmans had an entire display of Celestial Seasonings seasonal teas (did I mention I LOVE Wegmans?).  I'm drinking it now, by the way, and it's really yummy!  I need to try milk in it tomorrow.


Good luck with the starting work week!  I have 2 finals this week, so wish me luck!  Anyone else have a final in the morning?


Saturday, December 5, 2009

Baba's Mediterranean Kitchen



Like I said, dinner last night was awesome.  G had been wanting to find a place for kabobs because he misses the one that we go to back home.  Baba's Mediterranean Kitchen had gotten really good online reviews, so I decided we needed to give it a try and we really weren't disappointed.

We got carryout and it was prepared in about 15-20 minutes-- pretty fast for a Friday night.  The actual restaurant is really cute inside and has great atmosphere.  I saw people drinking a bottle of wine (BYOB) and they looked really cozy.  The kitchen is open-air and small.  It was neat to see them cooking.

Back home, we dug into our food.  I ordered the Med-ley Plate with olives and feta, dolmas, spanikopita, hummus, and falafel.




Everything on this was great.  The hummus is out of this world and so fresh.  I would go back just for that.  The falafel was a little dry, but that also might have been from it being carryout.

For dinner we both got the chicken kabob and rice.



I just can't eat that much meat in one sitting, so I only ate 2 of the pieces.  The sauce on this was really tangy and good and I really liked the rice. 

And the grand finale:  baklava!  This was really delicious and also fresh.



I will definitely be trying Baba's again.  The people there were really friendly and the rest of their menu looks fanstastic.  Definitely recommend it!

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Snowing!

Howdy, howdy!  It's starting to snow here, which I'm not really thrilled about.  We're going to the inner harbor later on for Merry Tuba Christmas.  G's sister and her boyfriend play in it every year.  We went last year and it was fun.  I guess the snow makes it more festive, but I don't like the cold!

Yesterday for a snack I had some hummus and pita chips.



Then for lunch I tried out the leftover fish on a salad.  Not the best idea; it was pretty bad.  But the french bread with smart balance on the side was good :)



Then some strawberry yogurt with walnuts.


I also made some gingerbread from the TJ's mix and that has been getting picked at throughout the past 2 days :)


We took Ollie on a long walk to Federal Hill.  We stopped and got him a doggie cookie.  Look how adorable!  And puppies need to have good eats, too!




Dinner last night was from Baba's Mediterranean Kitchen in Federal Hill.  It was really great!  I'm going to post a full review in my next post, but I had a lot of stuff that I had been craving!

Breakfast was a mediocre bowl of oats.  Not even detailing it, it wasn't anything special.

 
 
I need to finish up that cleaning now!  I did pretty well yesterday, but I need to finish it up before G's family comes over!  Any big weekend plans?  It's starting to get to that time of year with all of the fun holiday stuff!


Friday, December 4, 2009

Tidying up.


Hey everyone.  It's so hard to keep up with the blogging when school starts to get crazy!  Plus my field placement has been busy.  Yesterday we got to go to one of our patient's school to help make an education plan for him.  It's nice to be able to help people in so many different areas of their lives. 

I wasn't going to cook dinner last night because I was exhausted, but then I didn't feel like anything nearby our apartment, so I made chipper fish and butternut squash.






And I have a lot of this fish left, so it will be making repeat appearances.  This morning I had a ww english muffin with peanut butter.


I really have been wanting to try Whole Foods hot bar lately, but I've also felt really busy and not wanting to waste food.  We were sort of planning on eating out some time in the next couple of days, so maybe I'll get something good :)  But the BIG thing I need to do today is CLEAN!!  Our apartment is horrible right now, so I am getting down to it as soon as I post this!  And hooray!  It's Friday :)


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Wednesday, December 2, 2009

End of semester blues.


This has been a sadly busy week.  I always feel like I need a break after the holidays to actually get myself back on track before I dive right into work and classes.  I got my 2 papers done last night, but barely.  I just hope for a passing grade on them and that my professors are just as burnt out as I am.

This morning, I squeezed in some oatmeal with walnuts and dried fruit.  Plus my daily and increasingly NECESSARY coffee,  I also had an apple.

On my way home from my morning class I got a soy eggnog latte from Starbucks.  I wasn't impressed with it.. maybe because of the soy?  But the girls behind the counter were also talking about how they didn't know how to make them so who knows.  No picture.

Lunch was a turkey, hummus, and spinach wrap on a jalapeno cheddar tortilla.


Ans some apple sauce.  I'm really trying to up my fruit and veggie intake!



One of these truffle things that G made was also eaten.  They are a little bit (a lotta bit) addicting.  This is not good because I have not been feeling too great about the bod lately.  Oh well, I'll get on track :)

I'll be leaving for my second class soon.  I've been able to get a lot of work done during my classes, which is bad, but this end of semester stuff is driving me nuts!  Anyone else going through this??
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