I am a night owl. I have been my whole life. Mornings are the pits. Nevertheless, since starting school way back in the day, I’ve had to adhere to the standards of society and start the day before 10 am. Ideally, I would sleep until 9:15 am and then hang out for a bit in my sweats with coffee. Maybe in my next life?
Work has been exhausting this week! Monday was hectic and I started training a new supervisee. Tuesday I hosted a candidate, which meant being “on” all day/evening. At one point, I thought to myself, “what am I even talking about?!” I still have no idea – poor candidate. Then yesterday, I was helping with an event involving over a 100 people all day, who had a ton of questions. Oh and work into the evening as well. Since getting older, I’ve gone from pure extrovert to borderline introvert. That being said, it was tough having to be “on” for all of this time.
Hence my 9:30 pm bedtime on Tuesday. Why haven’t I ever done this before? I recognize there are benefits to going to bed early and even attempted to stick with a 11 pm bedtime in the recent months. But it hasn’t exactly stuck. I didn’t realize that even earlier could be better! Who knows if I will keep this up but it’s worth a shot.
Unfortunately, due to my hectic schedule, I haven’ t run at all this week. I’m hoping by the time I hit “publish” a run will have occurred – so can we all cross our fingers? There hasn’t even been an opprotunity to run at lunch since a traditional lunch break either wasn’t available or I was entertaining guests. This isn’t a normal week so I should stop whining… but I’m cold… and tired… and whiney…
OH! Some healthy stuff! I made my first smoothie this past weekend! I love the idea of making a smoothie every morning for breakfast but so far this hasn’t happened in my lifetime. Sunday I rounded up all of the ingredients and made a smoothie with strawberries, some oats, yogurt, almond milk, a banana and honey. It was tasty! Next time, I will blend the oats even more to make it less chunky but it was a yummy first attempt.
I also found this blender cup, Fitlosophy Blender Bottle, (I got the 16 oz) at Target the other day. I remembered on a whim I wanted to look for one and sure enough I found one on clearance. It has one of those round whisk balls in it and today I gave it a shot with the Click powder. Wowzers! It worked so much better than I could ever have imagined! It mixes it so well! No slimy chunks at the bottom or that come up through the straw! I also like that it’s now a one cup deal – any time I can do less dishes is a happy time for me. Over the last few days, I’ve found I only use a scoop and half of the powder and then a splash of chocolate/caramel creamer. This was a good choice.
Despite the 7 inches of snow that fell in about 4 hours yesterday morning, I’m staying positive! The weekend will be here soon, I will get a chance to run and on my walk to work yesterday morning I saw this! A frozen little “heart”! It brightened my morning.
Amy's Recipe for Disaster 