Thank you all so much for your votes on the dress!\u00a0 It seems like dress #1 is in the lead and do you not just love it?!\u00a0 I love that dress!\u00a0 My smokin’ hot dress that I bought at the same time as the black ones looks very similar to dress #1 except it is red! RAWR! And does not have a pin conveniently placed between my nonexistent boobage but has some ribbon detailing instead.\u00a0 I think it’s also a little shorter as well.\u00a0 There are a few fancy-smanchy restaurants in town and I plan on going to at least one in that dress.<\/p>\n
I woke up Tuesday morning at 6am and stumbled my way through the basic morning routine.\u00a0 I was tired, whoo!\u00a0 After working for a bit and when it was finally light out, I went out for my run.\u00a0 I’m not quite sure how far I ran because I had to change my route a little bit due to an encounter with a shady dude in my hood.\u00a0 I think he was working on someone’s house but I wasn’t taking any chances of having to cross his path again so I changed up.\u00a0 I ran for about 35 minutes which is how long it takes me to do 3.5 miles.\u00a0 I don’t think I did 3.5 but whatever, I felt good after the run and that’s all that matters!<\/p>\n
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I had two glasses of CS<\/abbr>, stretched, and showered.<\/p>\n Basically you can expect to see a lot of pumpkin around these parts from here on out.\u00a0 Especially now that it seems to be popping up in stores more frequently!\u00a0 Yesterday was pumpkin cheesecake oatbran.\u00a0 So creamy glorious!\u00a0 The cheesecake part played by cottage cheese, who did a fantastic job. *claps*<\/p>\n After breakfast, I took Rocky out for his walk and yesterday was just straight up awesome weather.\u00a0 It was slightly cool with sunny and deep blue skies.\u00a0 I haven’t seen skies that color in quite some time.<\/p>\n Then I worked and worked and you know how that goes.<\/p>\n Lunch was pretty typical OHC HQ style!<\/p>\n Salad:<\/p>\n With a bit of yogurt ranch on top.<\/p>\n Smoothie!<\/p>\n And a Morningstar chick’n griller with a side of BBQ sauce!\u00a0 I pretty much squeal with excitement when I know I get to eat one of these things.\u00a0 The truth is I’m not a huge fan of fakeout meat products but this shiz is the bomb!<\/p>\n After lunch it was a bit more work and then I actually got some bloggy stuff done as well.\u00a0 Productive day!<\/p>\n We hit up MT<\/abbr> which is always nice for a workout.\u00a0 Thank goodness MT<\/abbr> is in my life!\u00a0 After class we had to make a pit stop at Sam’s and breezed right through it!\u00a0 When I can buy a fleece blanket, flannel sheets, serving trays, and blocks of cheese all at the same place, I’m a happy girl.\u00a0 Tuesday evenings are also the time to tap that place because no one is around.\u00a0 You can easily go about your business!<\/p>\n Of course our cashier sneezed\/coughed\/something all over our stuff. Ew dude.\u00a0 Ew.<\/p>\n I tried something new for dinner!\u00a0 We still had fish:<\/p>\n Flounder!\u00a0 And instead of using olive oil, I brushed this with coconut oil.\u00a0 Coconut oil is crazy good gang!\u00a0 It is solid white and you can use it for baking, saut\u00e9ing, or just mixing in things for a subtle coconut flavor.\u00a0 I scooped some out and gently heated it in the mirco, then I added:<\/p>\n And brushed all of that over the fish and baked the fish at 400 for about 3-5 minutes.<\/p>\n This rocked my world!\u00a0 It provided just a hint of coconut but not overpowering.\u00a0 Eating it, it was like, “Oh hey this is nice” but the flavor wasn’t so potent you would recognize it.\u00a0 But once you knew it was coconut oil, it was like, “Oh yeah, I can totally taste that now!”\u00a0 The oil was not cheap but a little goes a very long way.\u00a0 I can’t wait to use it in other stuff!<\/p>\n There was also some roasted brussels sprouts, leftover baked beans, and leftover baked potato.<\/p>\n Scott and I each had 1\/2 a potato leftover which worked out well for providing sides.\u00a0 I happily chowed down on everything!<\/p>\n By this point it was 9pm and I plopped down on the couch with my word search book and listened to the last bits of the Pens game via the radio.\u00a0 The game was on Verses last night and we don’t get Verses. *grumble*\u00a0 The Pens won and I headed up to bed to read for a while.<\/p>\n I crashed out at 10pm and was a little more excited about that than I should have been.<\/p>\n Wednesday:<\/strong><\/p>\n I got up at 6am ready to start my day!\u00a0 I was fully rested, mmm sleep was so awesome last night. :p\u00a0 I love sleep so much!\u00a0 I worked and finished up a project early this morning which left me terribly excited because that meant I was done for the day!\u00a0 And also the week!<\/p>\n Yup, here’s the deal with that, and no I didn’t quit my job (that’s totally for you Mara<\/a>. The bad thing is that while I love working from home and setting my own hours, the money is not that great and the reality is, this is not what I want to do for the rest of my life.\u00a0 My blog has helped me realize what my passion is and what I want to do.\u00a0 I promise it’s not to be a professional blogger. I have a lot of ideas but I need the time to plan and try to put some things into action.\u00a0 I also love my blog and I have big plans for it.\u00a0 Nothing outrageous, just more articles and things like that.\u00a0 But with my increase in work all of the sudden, that took up a huge amount of my time.\u00a0 Of course it would, it’s work, right?\u00a0 But it was also causing me to miss things that were important to me like connecting with friends, my training, staying on top of emails, and getting behind on the ton of other things I have going on this fall.\u00a0 Aaaahhhhh!<\/p>\n This was stressing me out.\u00a0 I hate not having time to do anything else but work.\u00a0 That’s not okay and that can make me very cranky.\u00a0 I believe that work should be a part of your life, not your whole life, if that makes sense.\u00a0 Unless it’s something you love doing, then by all means, throw yourself into it!<\/p>\n The best solution I came up with is to cut my hours down, so I can work on making my dream a reality.\u00a0 I work Monday through Wednesday, so if you don’t hear from me either commenting, or emailing if I owe you an email, that’s why.\u00a0 I’m working my buttis off, Thursday and Friday are all mine to work on the dream! Now more food and fun!<\/p>\n I ran but again have no idea how far I ran.\u00a0 I’m guessing it was just over 2 miles this morning.\u00a0 It was late so I only planned on doing a light run, my shins were also tight from MT<\/abbr> class last night so I don’t think they would have lasted for a longer run, to be honest.\u00a0 I showered immediately after my shortie, woke up the loves, and then made some breakfast.<\/p>\n Apple oats!\u00a0 Basic oats with a huge honeycrisp tossed in at the end.<\/p>\n Mmm mmm!\u00a0 After breakfast I walked Rocky and it was another awesome day in Cbus.\u00a0 By awesome, I mean we have been having weather in the 60s and 70s.\u00a0 Crazy!<\/p>\n I worked on some bloggy stuff afterwards and also wrapped up with work turning in projects and setting up next week’s project load.\u00a0 Then I made some lunch!<\/p>\n Salad:<\/p>\n Mmm mmm!\u00a0 Scott had breakfast burritos and there was a small bit of egg leftover so that went into my salad as well.\u00a0 Scrambled eggs are really not that odd of an addition!<\/p>\n![\"Coffee](\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/OHC-10-20-09_breakfast-300x225.jpg\" "\\"Coffee")
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<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n ).\u00a0 The good thing about what I currently do is that technically I am my own boss.\u00a0 I run my own company and I get to work from home.\u00a0 I am allowed to have as much time off as I want and can take meetings in my jammies.\u00a0 All of these things are awesome sauce!<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0 My passion always has been and always will be food.\u00a0 I love food!\u00a0 I want to become more involved in my local community with regards to food.\u00a0 Buy local, eat local.\u00a0 It’s something I feel really strongly about and something I am also very new to. \u00a0 It’s a brand new world to me and I am trying hard to embrace it the best that I can. \u00a0 I am trying to learn the ropes and to do my best to support local as much as possible.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n\n