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\"\"<\/a>Hello my pretties!\u00a0 How was everyone’s week last week?\u00a0 Mine was busy!\u00a0 I came right home from Atlanta and had to hit the ground running when the week started.\u00a0 I had to do some catchup work and then there were a lot of business meetings and connections scheduled.<\/p>\n

Thursday I had my speaking gig with the local chapter of the PR Society of America to discuss the relationship between bloggers and PR reps.\u00a0 It was really interesting and I loved getting a chance to meet and talk with PR reps about their experiences with bloggers.\u00a0 There’s two sides to every relationship folks!\u00a0 More on that at another time, I hope to do an article about it.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, Scott and I attended a sausage making class put on by friend and fellow blogger, Rachel<\/a>!\u00a0 Actually it was a joint effort, as Rachel’s husband, Alex taught the session with Rachel providing assistance.\u00a0 I learned a lot and realized that I definitely need to be making my own sausage and grinding my own meat at home.\u00a0 Easy peasy!\u00a0 I didn’t get to take any pictures during the event but once I start doing my own, you can expect a post about that as well!<\/p>\n

After a quick trip back home to feed Rocky and eat a quick lunch, Scott and I headed back out to run some errands.\u00a0 We hit up World Market first!\u00a0 Man I love World Market!\u00a0 They have a bunch of fall stuff out now, everything from placemats to Halloween decorations.\u00a0 So fun!\u00a0 We walked out with three kinds of pumpkin beer (for an upcoming project! Stay tuned!), one of which being my absolute fave, and some wine.\u00a0 I also had some knick-knacks and some plates!\u00a0 They had a sale going on their white square plates and you all know how much I love square plates!<\/p>\n

Sunday was my long run day and man did it feel good to be out hitting some double digits!\u00a0 Last week I missed my long run because I was flying back from Atlanta.\u00a0 I don’t know about you, but I definitely am not of strong mind and body enough to crank out a double digit run after flying.\u00a0 I quickly realized that during my run, I had not eaten or drank enough water on Saturday.\u00a0 Whoops!\u00a0 It had occurred to me that this might be the case but I thought I was in the safe zone, but after about 5 miles I realized that I was not.\u00a0 I was able to still run 10.5 miles but man was I hungry when I was done.\u00a0 I slammed two glasses of chocolate soymilk to quiet my stomach and get some fuel moving through the body, and walked Rocky.\u00a0 After a very lovely shower, I had some yogurt with granola and a dab of pumpkin butter that Scott picked up at World Market.\u00a0 It was alight but super sweet.\u00a0 Thankfully I only added in a small spoonful!<\/p>\n

Since we had pumpkin French toast on Saturday, I didn’t want anything cakey or syrupy on Sunday.\u00a0 I opted for eggs instead!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Egg sandwich on quinoa flax bread with lettuce, tomato, onion, and bacon.\u00a0 The eggs and bacon were local.\u00a0 I’m lucky that my Whole Foods carries a lot of local products including eggs.\u00a0 When I can’t get to the farmer’s market to pick some up, I can swing by Whole Foods and get some.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Really simple breakfast yesterday with the addition of pineapple and a big glass of OJ.\u00a0 I loved this sandwich paired with the whole grain bread!\u00a0 I’ve done this before with sprouted bread and on occasion a big white flour bagel, neither of which fill me up or keep me full as long as this bread did.\u00a0 It was amazing!\u00a0 I don’t know if I can go back to the other versions now.<\/p>\n

Normally one a long run day I will be looking for a snack midway through the afternoon and have some extra fruit or whatever but not yesterday.\u00a0 I was good all the way till dinner!<\/p>\n

I prepped as much stuff as I could for dinner in the evening so that I wouldn’t have to worry about it later in the day.\u00a0 I had high hopes that we would be able to grill since we haven’t grilled in ages.\u00a0 Sadly that was dashed!\u00a0 Around dinner, the winds really picked up and the temperature dropped which made the air a lot cooler.\u00a0 That wasn’t the problem, it started getting really overcast and looked as if it was going to rain.\u00a0 There were thunderstorms in the forecast and I didn’t want to chance starting the grill only to have to stop because of rain.<\/p>\n

So we grilled inside instead!\u00a0 With a grill pan, no worries, I didn’t bring the grill inside. ;)\u00a0 On the menu was coleslaw and steak fajitas!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>As always, mayo-less coleslaw<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I used a skirt steak (local) and added a dry rub to it that consisted of:<\/p>\n