{"id":9798,"date":"2009-12-09T19:28:05","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T23:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=9798"},"modified":"2009-12-09T19:28:05","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T23:28:05","slug":"december-9th-2009-pull-it-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2009\/12\/december-9th-2009-pull-it-together\/","title":{"rendered":"December 9th, 2009: pull it together"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi gang!\u00a0 Last night I had a nice mug of tea while Scott and I watched some hockey.\u00a0 Then I read for a bit and crashed out.\u00a0 I had my alarm set for 7am this morning so I could get a nice run in but at 5am when I heard it thunderstorming outside (wha the what?!) I turned off the alarm.\u00a0 I figured the nasty weather had hit and I wasn’t going to be able to run.<\/p>\n

Imagine my surprise when I woke up at 7:30am to clear skies, sunshine, and spring like weather. Oh my!\u00a0 I took care of Rocky and then headed out for a decent 5 miles.\u00a0 It was so warm that I was hot in my hoodie and light running pants.\u00a0 Eep!\u00a0 It was a bit windy but nothing like what had been predicted.<\/p>\n

\"Chocolate<\/p>\n

I stretched and showered and woke up my loves.\u00a0 Then I made some oatbran!<\/p>\n

\"Coffee<\/p>\n

Same as yesterday and this used up the last banana in the house.\u00a0 Yikes!\u00a0 I did some stuffs around the house while waiting for the FedEx truck who showed up at 11am with one of my new packages from Nike!\u00a0 I bought a new winter jacket and a hat.\u00a0 Hopefully they work out.\u00a0 After that I was about to take Rocky for his walk but then it started pouring rain.<\/p>\n

By this point the temperature had started dropping and the wind has increased a great deal.\u00a0 I decided to make some lunch instead.<\/p>\n

\"Salad<\/a><\/p>\n

The last of the salad greens with some tuna salad on top.\u00a0 I made tuna salad for Scott’s lunch yesterday and I had the leftovers on my salad.\u00a0 Along with some cucumber, sunflower, and pumpkin seeds.<\/p>\n

\"Smoothie,<\/p>\n

Smoothie was a green goodness from Bolthouse Farms because I’ve got nothing and the “fresh fruit” I had today was a unsweetened blueberry applesauce cup.\u00a0 The salad was good but ended up sitting like a brick in my stomach. Ugh.<\/p>\n

Desperate times people.\u00a0 Desperate times.<\/p>\n

While we were eating lunch it started hailing, then freezing rain, and eventually snow.\u00a0 Nothing stuck around though and by the time I was done with kitchen clean up, the only weather condition was wind.<\/p>\n

I braved the elements and took Rocky out for a walk.\u00a0 Picking up dog poo in 40mph winds presents a whole new set of challenges.\u00a0 The wind was ridiculous and so our walk was short.\u00a0 When we got back home this sister spent the rest of the day shopping.\u00a0 I would love to tell you at this point that I’m done, but I am not.\u00a0 Almost though!<\/p>\n

There was one website, which shall remain nameless, that gave me the most trouble because it was the slowest to load.\u00a0 I had to go to the company website proper because I couldn’t find the products I wanted at other places, mainly Amazon. I know, shocker!\u00a0 I literally wanted to bang my head on the desk.\u00a0 Oy!<\/p>\n

I eventually got up and made some dinner.\u00a0 Scott had a choice between Asian soup or “Pad Thai”, he choose “Pad Thai”.\u00a0 Which I really should just call noodles in peanut sauce because it in no way resembles Pad Thai.<\/p>\n

\"Noodles<\/a><\/p>\n

Ta-da!<\/p>\n

Udon noodles were used because those are the only Asian noodles I have.<\/p>\n

The veggies were:<\/p>\n